RUA Evidence Based Paper Rubric Overview
*Please see the below requirements and layout for your RUA paper. This follows directly from your grading rubric.
*Each highlighted in yellow and bolded caption should be a heading for each section of your paper.
***Note to writer: My lowest score from previous exams are from the Topic Physiologic Adaptation. I had to choose a specific topic under that topic, which is Basic Care & Comfort.
I will attached the chart for you to see and I will also attach the link to the NCLEX-RN Test
Test Plans | NCSBN
So the paper will be on “Basic Care & Comfort” and the topic from Basic Care & Comfort is “ Evaluate side effects of client tube feedings and intervene as needed (diarrhea, dehydration)”
Beginning of your written paper with headers:
Introduction
1) Offer a detailed description of the statement of purpose for the paper.
2) Identify your priority concept (topic) again as well as your subscale (Basic Care & Comfort) from the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends: Longitudinal Performance Table drawn from one (1) of the four (4) main categories of the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint.
3) Provide a detailed description of the relationship between the subscale (Basic Care and Comfort) from the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint and the priority concept (topic) Evaluate side effects of client tube feedings and intervene as needed (diarrhea, dehydration) you chose.
Importance
1) Describe the importance of the priority concept (topic) to professional practice/nursing
2) Describe the health of the patient population that your topic effects.
3) Include the potential negative effect to professional practice if the priority concept (topic) is unresolved or not addressed.
4) Include the potential negative effect to the patient population if the priority concept (topic) is unresolved or not addressed.
Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions
1) Identify patient populations that may be negatively influenced by the priority concept (topic) if unresolved or unmanaged.
2) Summarize any potential healthcare disparities/inequalities related to diverse populations regarding your topic.
3) Identify any needed healthcare resources to support evidence-based practice related to the priority concept (topic).
4) Propose an evidence-based solution for the priority concept (topic) related to healthcare disparities.
5) Identify three evidence-based practice interventions related to the topic and prioritize the identified interventions in order. 6) Provide rationale for these interventions and their ordering.
(Be specific. What will you as the nurse do to address this problem? Prioritize it in order of importance and the rational)
7) Discuss two patient education considerations related to the priority concept (topic).
Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges
1) Identify at least one (1) ethical and one (1) legal implication for addressing the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
2) Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of an ethical dilemma related to the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
3) Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of legal consequences related to the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
4) Identify one (1) anticipated challenge to the success of preventing the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
5) Identify one (1) anticipated challenges to the success of resolving the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach
1) Identify all the parties who will be involved in the implementation of the priority concept (topic) interventions 2) including a minimum of two (2) interdisciplinary members outside of nursing.
EX. At least two of them cannot be nurses. This can be a social worker, physical therapist, case manager, or educator in the school system. A tech is still part of nursing.
3) Discuss the role of each member in the intervention implementation for the priority concept (topic).
4) Discuss the benefit of including the identified interdisciplinary members from disciplines outside nursing to promote evidence-based professional practice.
Quality Improvement
1) Provide at least one (1) benefit in patient outcomes from addressing the priority concept (topic) within the clinical environment.
2) Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to promote improved patient outcomes in the clinical environment.
What do you want to happen?
3) Provide at least one (1) benefit to the nursing profession that will result from addressing this priority concept (topic) in clinical professional practice.
4) Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to increase professional nurse knowledge promoting improved clinical professional practice.
Conclusion
1) Provide a thorough recap of the purpose to promote increased evidence-based professional practice knowledge related to the priority concept (topic) deficiency.
2) Summarize resources identified to support improved evidence-based professional practice related to the priority concept (topic).
3) Include a complete statement describing why addressing the priority concept (topic) matters and to whom.
APA Format, Grammar, and Punctuation
1) References are submitted with paper.
2) Uses current APA format and is free of errors.
3) Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.
4) At least three (3) scholarly, peer reviewed, primary sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook, are provided. Each section should have a cited source to support information provided. (1-2 paragraph)
