NR631 Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience I
Week 3 Assignment
Literature Review
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide learners with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills learned throughout the program, and to provide learners with the opportunity to communicate a scholarly project in a professional manner.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcome (CO):
CO 2: Develop an evidence-based foundation to lead organizational change using current knowledge, standards of practice, and research from current literature. (PO 4,5)
Medication reconciliation at admission, transfer, and discharge has been designated a required hospital practice to reduce adverse drug events. However, implementation challenges have resulted in poor hospital adherence. This study aimed to assess the processes required to carry out medication reconciliation: the health professionals involved, the tasks and time devoted to medication reconciliation in general hospital settings. Adverse drug events (ADEs) are the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and represent a significant financial burden to health care institutions at an estimated cost of $5.6 million per hospital per year. Approximately one-quarter of patients experience an ADE after hospital discharge. At least 58% of these ADEs are preventable due to incomplete drug information received by hospitals, prescribing or dispensing errors, and overuse or underuse of medications. In fact, at admission, 60-70% of medication histories contain at least one error, such as omitting a particular medication. The most commonly omitted medications are cardiovascular, pain, anti-infectious, and central nervous system medications, such as anti-depressants and sleeping pills. After discharge, failure to obtain a complete and accurate pre-admission medication history is also responsible for most ADEs.
Requirements
Review any previous literature review you have completed related to your CGE project topic. If you have not previously completed a scholarly literature review on your topic (i.e., your topic may have changed), then you will create a new literature review with this assignment. Complete a database search on your project and compile the results, adding any new or relevant scholarly sources to your review. Focus on the most relevant articles or studies that address your problem or concern or discuss resolutions to the problem. Include any studies that do not support your projected resolution or take a different approach. In addition, search for systematic reviews about the problem or concern. Write a review of the literature or update your existing literature review using the following outline.
Comprehensive review of the current evidence-based literature from nursing and related disciplines as appropriate
Application of evidence-based literature to project
Analysis of the literature: whether it supports your resolution; alternative solutions; how existing literature affected your proposal
Using this outline will ensure that you are in compliance with Chamberlain’s reuse/repurpose policy. Be sure to reacquaint yourself with this policy or reach out to your instructor if you have any questions.
Preparing the Paper
Paper length: 5-8 pages, excluding reference and title pages
Minimum number of scholarly articles or studies: 15
Note: The required sources must meet the criteria of scholarly sources by Chamberlain University definition.
You may use other nonscholarly sources (i.e., web pages) but those will not count toward the 15 required.
APA format, current edition
Correct reference citation format
Reference page
Late Assignment Policy
Students are expected to submit assignments by the time they are due. Assignments submitted after the due date and time will receive a deduction of 10% of the total points possible for that assignment for each day the assignment is late. Assignments will be accepted, with penalty as described, up to a maximum of three days late, after which point a zero will be recorded for the assignment.
In the event of an emergency that prevents timely submission of an assignment, students may petition their instructor for a waiver of the late submission grade reduction. The instructor will review the student’s rationale for the request and make a determination based on the merits of the student’s appeal. Consideration of the student’s total course performance to date will be a contributing factor in the determination. Students should continue to attend class, actively participate, and complete other assignments while the appeal is pending.
This Policy applies to assignments that contribute to the numerical calculation of the course letter grade.
Evaluation Methods
The maximum score in this class is 1,000 points. The categories, which contribute to your final grade, are weighted as follows.
| Graded Item | Points | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion (50 points, Weeks 1–7; 25 points, Week 8) | 375 | 37.5% |
| Shared Governance Model Paper (Week 3) | 200 | 20% |
| Management of Power Paper (Week 5) | 200 | 20% |
| Executive Summary (Week 7) | 225 | 22.5% |
| Total | 1,000 | 100% |
No extra credit assignments are permitted for any reason.
All of your course requirements are graded using points. At the end of the course, the points are converted to a letter grade using the scale in the table below. Percentages of 0.5% or higher are not raised to the next whole number. A final grade of 76% (letter grade C) is required to pass the course.
| Letter Grade | Points | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| A | 940–1,000 | 94% to 100% |
| A- | 920–939 | 92% to 93% |
| B+ | 890–919 | 89% to 91% |
| B | 860–889 | 86% to 88% |
| B- | 840–859 | 84% to 85% |
| C+ | 810–839 | 81% to 83% |
| C | 760–809 | 76% to 80% |
| F | 759 and below | 75% and below |
NOTE:To receive credit for a week’s discussion, students may begin posting no earlier than the Sunday immediately before each week opens. Unless otherwise specified, access to most weeks begins on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. MT, and that week’s assignments are due by the next Sunday by 11:59 p.m. MT. Week 8 opens at 12:01 a.m. MT Sunday and closes at 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday. Any assignments and all discussion requirements must be completed by 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday of the eighth week.
Students agree that, by taking this course, all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site.
Participation for MSN
Threaded Discussion Guiding Principles
The ideas and beliefs underpinning the threaded discussions (TDs) guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of TDs provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The TD’s ebb and flow is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the TDs generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. TDs foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.
Participation Guidelines
Each weekly threaded discussion is worth up to 25 points. Students must post a minimum of two times in each graded thread. The two posts in each individual thread must be on separate days. The student must provide an answer to each graded thread topic posted by the course instructor, by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT, of each week. If the student does not provide an answer to each graded thread topic (not a response to a student peer) before the Wednesday deadline, 5 points are deducted for each discussion thread in which late entry occurs (up to a 10-point deduction for that week). Subsequent posts, including essential responses to peers, must occur by the Sunday deadline, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
Direct Quotes
Good writing calls for the limited use of direct quotes. Direct quotes in Threaded Discussions are to be limited to one short quotation (not to exceed 15 words). The quote must add substantively to the discussion. Points will be deducted under the Grammar, Syntax, APA category.