NHS 8002 Unit 1 Discussion Collaboration Across Disciplines
Introduction to Discussion Participation
Discussions in your Capella courses serve several purposes: they help you connect with your peers and instructors; they give you an opportunity to apply information from your unit readings; and they give you practice blending your own experiences with scholarly research and analysis. Drawing on what you know is fantastic but you must validate your knowledge and experience with support from research and analysis.
When discussions ask you to describe your own experiences and opinions, it is absolutely appropriate and expected that you write your post in first person—using pronouns such as I, my, me, or our, is fine in those situations. However, most of the time, you are expected to write discussions and assignments in the third-person voice of an objective observer, using pronouns such as it, they, he, or she.
In your Capella courses, you are expected to reference scholarly sources to support your opinions, positions, or statements. In questions involving case studies, these references should be in addition to the case study itself. Whenever you reference a source to support your ideas or opinions, you must cite that source following the current APA citation style. This refers to the rules and standards for documenting the sources used. (The APA Style and Format Campus page is linked in Resources.) Correctly using references and APA style in your academic work demonstrates your academic integrity and critical-thinking skills. Failure to cite sources is violation of academic honesty.
Before completing your first discussion post, you may also want to review the Discussion Participation Scoring Guide to understand how your instructor will evaluate your discussion participation throughout the course. Refer to the Faculty Expectations message (FEM) for specific guidelines.
Instructions
Review the media piece Riverbend City: Interprofessional Collaboration (linked in Resources) before you respond to this discussion.
All health care fields have one thing in common: they exist to serve community needs. Quite often, it takes the combined efforts of several agencies to effect a needed change or resolve a potentially harmful situation.
In the media piece, you were asked to choose 10 participants for a roundtable discussion to develop an emergency response plan for Riverbend City. From the list of names:
Identify your top five names and explain your reasons for choosing them as participants.
Identify any agencies or organizations not on the list of options that you think should have been represented and explain why you believe they should have been included.
Describe the unique contributions you could make to this discussion from the perspective of your specialization.
In formulating your answers, consider the perspective of the Whole Community approach, as articulated in the media presentation and the readings.
Response GuidelinesDiscussions are a way to share your experiences and learn from each other. Weekly discussions allow you to give and receive feedback and support, as well as to engage in dialogue that will challenge, clarify, and expand your understanding of course concepts.
Read and respond to your peers’ discussion posts according to Faculty Expectations for Response Guidelines. As you read the posts, you may want to look specifically for differences or similarities in how you and your peers think about interprofessional collaboration. If there are areas in which you would like more insight, please ask questions.
Keep in mind that the objective of the response posts is to stimulate discussion, promote an exchange of ideas among learners, and most importantly to generate a sense of community among learners in the course room. With this in mind, please choose posts that has had few or no responses; in doing so, your responses will increase the sense of community among your fellow learners.
APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
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☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
☐ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ Topic is well defined.
☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.