Application Paper #2 Guidelines
The purpose of this assignment is to promote an understanding of knowledge of advanced nursing that comes from use of an explicit grand nursing theory. Apply a grand nursing theory to your story of a nursing situation. It is recommended that you continue to work with the nursing story you shared at the beginning of the course, although it is acceptable to develop the story of a different nursing situation for use in this assignment.
1. Select a grand nursing theory from the list of nursing grand theories in the table of contents from your Smith text.
2. Study the chapter on that particular theory in the Smith text. You will need to delve into the theory and really develop a deep understanding of the theory, as well as its strengths and weaknesses. Superficial reading will not allow you to complete the paper adequately.
3. Search the literature for other primary and secondary source material, with an emphasis on primary sources. Reading in depth and broadly will help you to better understand the theory.
4. Using the concepts and conceptual relationships that make up the theory, re-interpret your nursing story in the language of the theory you have chosen; that is, find all the dominant themes of the theory within the nursing situation you have described.
5. Re-write your nursing story in the language of the theory, accurately using the concepts and their interrelationships and the language of the theory in a two page narrative.
a. Introduce the work by naming the theory you will apply to your nursing situation and stating your purpose for the paper
b. In the body of the paper, analyze your nursing story, explicitly using the distinctive language of the theory to answer these four questions:
i. What is the UNIQUE FOCUS of nursing what is nursing about, what is the unique nursing take on health care situations, as expressed in this theory of nursing?
ii. What do nurses DO when they are nursing – what are the activities of nursing, from the perspective of this theory?
iii. Why do nurses do what they do what is the PURPOSE of nursing, from the perspective of this theory?
iv. What is CREATED in and through nursing what is the product of nursing, from the perspective of this theory?
c. Conclude your analysis with a sentence or two that describes insights gained into the nursing situation through the experience of viewing it through the lens of a grand nursing theory.
6. Review general and specific assignment guidelines and refine your paper as needed.
7. Submit your paper electronically as requested by your faculty member, on or before the deadline.
Application Paper #2 Grading Rubric
Evaluation Criteria/Grading Rubric
Element Quality Assessment Score
Focus of paper appropriate to assignment (4 pts. Possible) Outstanding
4
Satisfactory
2-3
Marginal=
1 Unsatisfactory
0
Appropriate sources from literature used to support paper (4 pts. Possible) Outstanding
4
Satisfactory
2-3
Marginal
1 Unsatisfactory
0
Content reflects depth of understanding of selected topic (8 pts. Possible) Outstanding
7-8 Satisfactory
4-6
Marginal
1-3 Unsatisfactory
0
APA style used in all aspects of paper (except where specific guidelines indicate another format) (4 pts. Possible) Outstanding
4
Satisfactory
2-3
Marginal
1
Unsatisfactory
0
Comments:
Required Readings:
Smith, p. 292
Smith, Chapter 17 (pp. 293-308)
Smith, Chapter 18 (pp. 311-332)
Smith, Chapter 19 (pp. 333-348)
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