NURS 3100 Course Assignments
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NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 1 Assignment 1
Assignment 1: Technology Contingency Plan
NURS 3100 Course Assignments Medical Professionals Learning online will put you in contact with a number of new technologies. Some of the tools you will use will be easy to understand and fun to engage with, but you may also encounter technology that you find frustrating. Technology can and does enhance learning and can cause many distractions. In this Assignment, you will view the Creating a Technology Backup Plan media in this week’s Learning Resources and complete the Technology Contingency Plan worksheet.
To prepare
View the Creating a Technology Backup Plan video (Laureate Education, 2014), provided in this week’s Learning Resources.
View the Assignment 1 Rubric to guide you in completing your Assignment.
Access the Technology Contingency Plan worksheet in this week’s resources.
Assignment Directions
Complete the Technology Contingency Plan worksheet.
By Day 7
Submit your Technology Contingency Plan worksheet.
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NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 1 Assignment 2
Assignment 2: Journal: Observe, Process, Reflect
Glasses and PenThe objective of the Journal Assignment is to provide you with a private place to think on the page; “thinking on the page” is a phrase used to describe writing as a form of thinking. Some of us process our thoughts out loud as we describe them to others. In an academic environment, you will be asked to record your ideas in writing (“thinking on the page”) to show the new knowledge you’ve acquired through reading and listening to the resources and completing the assignments. The Journal is not formal writing, and only you and your Instructor will see the Journal Assignment. These assignments are meant to be free writing, but you should revise them before submitting them.
As you write, think about the audience you are writing to and the difference between personal writing and scholarly writing. Your journal writing falls into the category of personal writing and should be approached in that way. Think of the Journal as an academic reflection space.
To prepare
Review the Week 1 Assignment 2 Rubric provided in the Course Information area.
Think about your feelings as you prepare to return to school for your BSN.
Think about the material you encountered in the course this week and consider one aspect of the classroom resources (Assignments, Discussions, or assigned readings) that surprised you. Be sure to think about why the material interested you as a thinker.
Set a timer (on the stove, a clock, or your phone) and write for 10 minutes without stopping.
You may find it helpful to use the following format as a guide for your Journal writing:
Observe. Describe the week’s content and resources as if you are writing to someone who has not seen, heard, or observed them.
Process. Answer the question, “What does this content or topic mean?”
Reflect. Answer the question, “What is the value of understanding this material?”
By Day 7
Submit a minimum 150-word Journal Assignment. Journal about one aspect of the classroom resources (Assignments, Discussions, or assigned readings) that surprised you. Make sure to describe why the material interested you as a thinker. You can also include your thoughts about returning to school, including your excitement, anxieties, and concerns.
This Assignment is for you to share your feelings. There are no rules, and your writing will not be graded.
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 2 Assignment 1
Assignment 1: Journal: Time Management (Observe, Process, Reflect)
Glasses and PenReturning to school to earn your next degree is a wonderful goal, and balancing family, work, and school can seem daunting. Often when focusing on one task, you lose track of others. That is why it is important to have a plan for stepping out of your other roles and into your new role as a student. We all have multiple roles in life. Being engaged in your classwork requires you to plan, prioritize, and create a space for learning.
For this assignment, you consider how to address distractions you might encounter as a student at Walden.
To prepare
Review the Week 2 Assignment 1 Rubric provided in the Course Information area.
Complete the Time Management Tracking Table listed in the Time Management Tool Kit.
Read or view at least one additional resource listed in the Time Management Tool Kit based upon your specific needs.
Set a timer (on the stove, a clock, or your phone) and write for 10 minutes without stopping.
By Day 7
Submit a minimum 150-word Journal Assignment. Journal about one aspect of the classroom resources (Assignments, Discussions, or assigned readings) that surprised you. Additionally, journal about one or both of the options below:
Option 1
What concerns do you have about managing distractions and obtaining the support you need to be successful? Include how you plan to make certain that you have support and how you will take personal responsibility for your success.
OR
Option 2
What study rituals are you putting in place, and how will these rituals help you focus and decrease distractions? Share your plan to develop rituals to help you transition into the role of student.
This Assignment is for you to share your feelings. There are no rules, and your writing will not be graded.
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 2 Assignment 2
Assignment 2: Improving Writing: The Grammarly Report
Grammarly is a writing enhancement platform that helps make you a better writer by correcting more than 250 grammatical mistakes while also catching contextual spelling errors and poor vocabulary usage. All you have to do is submit your work, and Grammarly will work its magic!
For this Assignment, you will practice using Grammarly by submitting your Week 1 Discussion posts to the Grammarly platform.
To prepare
Review the Grading Rubric for Week 2 Assignment 2 provided in the Course Information area.
Review the following documents to guide you (found at the end of the submission instructions):
Grammarly Report Instructions (PDF)
Copy and Paste (PDF)
Review the tutorial Grammarly: Accessing Grammarly (University, n.d.-f) from this week’s Learning Resources.
Access the Grammarly Student Login website and follow the instructions for creating a free student account. (A link to Grammarly is found at the end of these instructions.)
Access your Discussion posts from Week 1. You may find it helpful to copy and paste it into a word processing document (such as in Microsoft Word).
Submit your Word Document that contains the Week 1 Discussion to Grammarly.
Note: Submit your work to Grammarly no later than Day 4 due to occasional turn-around delays from Grammarly.
Document: Grammarly Report Instructions (PDF)
Grammarly Assignment
Once you receive your Grammarly Report regarding your Week 1 Discussion post, upload your Grammarly Report for grading using the Assignment submission link.
Please save your Assignment using the following naming convention: WK2Assgn2+last name+first initial.
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 3 Assignment 1
Assignment 1: Impact of Nurses On Health Care Quality
Nurses need to stay abreast of current issues and trends in our field. Use this opportunity to develop or enhance your expertise on your chosen topic.
This Assignment introduces you to the Library. The Library is invaluable for discovering nursing and health care-related databases and professional articles. Practice and refine your paraphrasing skills.
To prepare
Review the Week 3 Assignment 1 Rubric provided in the Course Information area.
Review the AWE Checklist and Additional Resources for your Assignment:
1000 AWE Level Assignment Template
TOP Ten BSN Reference and Citations
Complete SafeAssign and Academic Integrity Online Tutorial, provided in this week’s Learning Resources.
Use the 1000 AWE Level Assignment Template found in the Resources for this week to complete your Assignment.
Explore this week’s Writing Resources and Program Success Tools, specifically:
Use Google Scholar to search for articles related to the topic you selected. Link Google Scholar to the Library using the instructions provided.
Search for articles on your selected topic using the Nursing Databases of the Library.
Use the Library to research the impact of nursing on healthcare quality as viewed through the Magnet professional practice model. Select one current (published within the last 5 years) research article on this topic to address. This week’s Library Learning Resources will guide you through your database search.
Article Response Assignment
Write a one-page summary and response to the article you selected from the Library. A template is provided in the Learning Resources to guide you in formatting your paper.
As you reflect on the findings in your chosen article, consider how the findings compare to your own professional nursing experience with Magnet, or, if you have no personal experience with Magnet, your thoughts concerning Magnet:
Paraphrase and integrate information from the article into the paper.
Include an introduction, body, and summary (conclusion).
Consider factors or principles from the article that hold for or resonate with you.
Utilize this week’s Writing Center Course Resources to guide you through paraphrasing and referencing evidence from your article. Review the AWE Checklist, Week 3, to see where you should concern about your writing abilities. The Week 3 Assignment Rubric will keep you on track. Use Grammarly to check your writing for errors before submitting your Assignment.
Have fun writing your first paper!
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 3 Assignment 2
Promise to Practice by Walden’s Code for Academic Integrity
As a nurse, the Nurses Code of Ethics is a foundational guide as you practice your professional obligations with integrity and ideals. This assignment allows you to build on those nursing ethics pertaining to your academic work and writing.
As a university student, you are bound by Walden’s Code of Conduct. An important aspect of the Code of Conduct is maintaining academic integrity, including avoiding plagiarism. Here you will familiarize yourself with a portion of Walden’s Code of Conduct called Academic Integrity. You are asked to acknowledge that you have read the Academic Integrity expectations of the Code to uphold the HIGHEST standards in your student practice as you already do in your nursing practice.
To prepare
Go to the Student Handbook found at https://catalog.waldenu.edu/
Click on Student Expectations and Responsibilities and
Choose the Code of Conduct and click on it. Scroll down the page, and please review number 4, Academic Integrity, and the following topics that are covered:
Plagiarism
Student Misuse of Their Own Scholarly Work
Cheating
Providing False Information
Copyright Violation
Assignment:
Fill in the attached template document Promise to Practice With Academic Integrity by typing your initials and name into the provided blank spaces.
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 4 Assignment
Assignment: Quality Nursing (Part 1 of 2)
Welcome to Part 1 of this assignment!
Quality Nurses use Quality Indicators (QIs) for several purposes. QIs highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) QIs include Prevention, Inpatient, Patient Safety, and Pediatric Quality Indicators (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.). You will use these quality indicators within your Assignment.
This Assignment also takes you back to the Library. The Library is invaluable for discovering nursing and healthcare-related databases and professional articles. Continue to practice and refine your writing skills. Learn how to use APA in-text citations and references. Use the Grammarly program. It is an invaluable writing tool to enhance your work.
In subsequent weeks, you will continue working in this substantive area.
To prepare
Review the Week 4 Assignment Rubric provided in the Course Information area.
Review the AWE Checklist and Additional Resources for your Assignment:
2000/3000 AWE Level Assignment Template
TOP Ten BSN References and Citations
Review this week’s Writing Resources and Program Success Tools. Revisit the Writing Resources and Program Success Tools from Weeks 1 through 3 as needed. Focus on the QIs at http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/.
Choose a QI related to a nursing topic of interest to you. Think about how following and measuring this crucial health data improve effectiveness and efficiency in your nursing practice. Consider any points that relate your selected topic to the journey ahead in your nursing career.
Find two articles in the Library to support your scholarly opinion in your paper.
Assignment
Use the Writing Center guidelines titled Writing a Paper and Scholarly Writing: Overview to do the following:
Draft a 2- to 3-page paper describing your selected QI in general, and then describe how this QI can improve the quality, safety, and outcomes of your patients and their families.
Describe the current data available and leadership’s goal for improvement.
Draft a solution using 2 sources from professional and scholarly literature to support your proposal.
Use the 2000/3000 AWE Level Assignment Template in the resources for this week to complete your Assignment.
Use in-text citations to support your paper. Use essay-level writing skills, including transitional material and organizational frames.
Before you submit your final paper for grading, submit it to a Safe Assign Draft in Academic Integrity. Use the Originality Report (University, n.d.-c) information to revise your paper. Paraphrasing and citing your sources in-text will decrease the similarity score. Go to Academic Integrity to learn how to interpret your originality score. Revise your paper before submitting it to the Week 4 Assignment within the course.
Safe Assign provides feedback to students on their use of source material using the world’s largest content comparison database. Safe Assign highlights original writing and instances of proper citation. Later in Week 6, you will learn the importance of understanding plagiarism and the concept of originality. Safe Assign is also found in Academic Integrity.
By Day 7
Submit both your revised paper and the Safe Assign report.
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 5 Assignment
Assignment: Maintaining Academic Integrity by Avoiding Plagiarism
In Week 3, you reviewed the Academic Integrity portion of Walden’s Code of Conduct and signed a Promise to Practice According to Walden’s Code for Academic Integrity. As a nurse, you are empowered by practicing with the HIGHEST standards in your nursing and academic writing practices.
This week, you will learn about plagiarism and ways to strengthen your academic writing integrity. As a future nurse scholar-practitioner, you want to have the skill set to propose changes for quality and safety in healthcare successfully. Your integrity in collecting and sharing this evidence is foundational to successfully supporting your propositions to change practice.
You want to be adequately prepared to propose quality and safety changes in healthcare successfully. Your integrity in collecting and sharing this evidence is foundational to successfully supporting your propositions to change practice.
According to the Writing Center (2017), plagiarism is when an author represents someone else’s intellectual property as his or her work. Authors are most commonly at risk of plagiarizing when they fail to adequately cite the source material from which they took words and ideas. Plagiarism can occur in many forms, ranging from a lack of citations to incorrect paraphrasing or direct copy and pasting of a source’s phrasing into another author’s own paper. (para 1)
Key ways to avoid plagiarizing are as follows:
Paraphrase your sources. Paraphrasing means rewriting your source’s content into your own words and NOT using direct quotes or cutting and pasting from sources.
Synthesize the reading material. Throughout your program, focus on synthesizing more than paraphrasing. Thus, by graduation, you will be at the point where you can collect all pertinent sources for evidence, read and think about the material, and then synthesize those readings into your OWN words. Again, this process does NOT include the use of direct quotes.
Write with the same level of integrity as you practice your nursing obligations. Cheating is taken seriously at and consequences include expulsion from the program. As a BSN student, avoid plagiarism in your assignments in the following ways.
Do not use direct quotes.
Understand that academic writing is about putting forth scholarly opinions in your own words. Provide proof of those opinions by paraphrasing and synthesizing material from scholarly research and professional experts. Throughout the program, focus on synthesizing more than paraphrasing so by graduation, you will be at the point where you can collect all pertinent sources of evidence, read and think about the material, and then synthesize those readings into your own words. This process does not include the use of direct quotes.
Give credit to someone else’s ideas and writings by citing and referencing in APA style.
Upload all of your assignments to Safe Assign Drafts before submitting them for grading.
To Prepare:
Read the Writing Center’s section on Plagiarism found at http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarism
The Writing Center has developed a Plagiarism Checklist to assist students in double-checking their work and scholarship practices to avoid plagiarism. Download the plagiarism checklist below and use it for each assignment to establish good academic integrity practices! http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarismchecklist
Read the Writing Center’s section on Paraphrasing and watch the video on Paraphrasing.
Read the Writing Centers section on Synthesizing and watch the video on Synthesizing.
Assignment:
In this Assignment, a) describe how you will avoid plagiarism in your submitted assignments, and b) discuss how paraphrasing and synthesizing professional literature strengthens your future nurse scholar-practitioner practice.
NURS 3100 Course Assignments – Week 6 Assignment 1
Assignment 1: Quality Nursing (Part 2 of 2)
Welcome to Week 6, the final week of this 2-part assignment!
Quality As you learned in previous weeks, your nursing practice’s effectiveness and efficiency are improved by following and measuring Quality Indicators (QIs). In Week 4, you learned how quality, safety, and outcomes are vastly improved by monitoring and adjusting nursing practice for QIs.
You have learned many new skills as well! You learned to utilize the Library, Grammarly, and Safe Assign; to cite articles using APA in-text citations; and summarize your colleagues’ work. Pat yourself on the back!
In this Week 6 Assignment, you revisit your paper one last time. This Assignment allows you to thoroughly review your paper and incorporate your instructor’s feedback that you received in Week 4. You will also learn more about the Safe Assign program.
When it comes to writing, practice makes perfect. Enjoy the practice!
To prepare
Review the Week 6 Assignment Rubric from the Course Information area.
Review the AWE Checklist and Additional Resources for your Assignment:
2000/3000 AWE Level Assignment Template
TOP Ten BSN References and Citations
Review your Week 4 Assignment (Quality Nursing: Part 1) and the feedback that you received from your instructor (both within the paper and in the grade book comments).
Review the Week 5 Summary (Quality Nursing: Part 2) of your assignment by your fellow student.
Review Q. How Do I Proofread or Revise? (University, n.d.-k) from this week’s Writing Resources and Program Success Tools.
Use the 2000/3000 AWE Level Assignment Template to complete your Assignment.
Assignment: Revision of Quality Nursing Paper
Revise your paper as needed to reflect the feedback that you received from your instructor within the paper and in the grade book comments.
Compose a paragraph about what you learned from writing and rewriting the Week 4 and Week 6 Assignments. For example, did you learn how to become a more organized writer; are you more adept at accessing Library resources; do you have a better understanding of how to cite resources using APA Style? This paragraph should be inserted before the conclusion paragraph (see the Assignment Template in your Week 4 Learning Resources for assistance in placement).
Do not submit your revised paper to the SafeAssign Draft area of the course this week unless you have made major revisions to your paper. SafeAssign will recognize your Week 4 draft and give you a high SafeAssign Score. Thus, if you are satisfied with your assignment’s integrity, submit it for grading.
Week 6 Assignment 2
Assignment 2: Journal: Observe, Process, and Reflect
Glasses and PenAs mentioned in Week 1 Assignment 2, the objective of the Journal Assignment is to provide you with a private place to think on the page. As a reminder, the Journal is not formal writing, and only you and your Instructor will see your Journal Assignment. Although these assignments are meant to be free writing, you should revise them before submitting them.
As you write, think about the audience you are writing to and the difference between personal writing and scholarly writing. Your Journal writing falls into the category of personal writing and should be approached in that way. Think of the Journal as an academic reflection space.
To prepare
Review the Week 6 Assignment 2 Rubric from the Course Information area.
Review the information about how to complete Journal Assignments.
Think about the feelings you have experienced while completing your first BSN course.
Reflect on your goals and think about how you plan to achieve them.
Think about the material you encountered in the course this week and consider one aspect of the classroom resources (Assignments, Discussions, or assigned readings) that surprised you. Be sure to think about why the material interested you as a thinker.
Set a timer (on the stove, a clock, or your phone) and write for 10 minutes without stopping.
You may find it helpful to use the following format as a guide for your Journal writing:
Observe. Describe the week’s content and resources as if you are writing to someone who has not seen, heard, or observed them.
Process. Answer the question, What does this content or topic mean?
Reflect. Answer the question, What is the value of understanding this material?
This Assignment is for you to share your feelings. There are no rules, and your writing will not be graded.
By Day 7
Submit a minimum 150-word Journal Assignment. How do you feel about completing your first BSN course? What are your goals, and how do you plan to achieve them?