NR581NP-19702 Discussions Week 5: Discussion

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Issues in Healthcare

Preparing the Discussion

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

General instruction:

Locate a news story or other resource from the last six months regarding an issue in healthcare and answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.

Include the following sections:

  1. Application of Course Knowledge
    1. Summarize the issue and provide a link to the news story or resource.
    2. Discuss how the issue may impact nursing practice at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of the healthcare system.
    3. Analyze how healthcare policy impacts the issue.
    4. Propose one potential policy change that could help address or mitigate the issue.
  1. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
    1. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
    2. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
    3. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
    4. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
    5. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice. 
    1. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
  3. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.

Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.