Your nursing director has approached you regarding a concern related to a patient care policy within your organization. The director seeks assistance in collecting evidence-based information to support the revision of this policy. Several individuals have been tasked with the initial step of locating evidence-based scholarly articles for this purpose. You have been asked to locate a minimum of two scholarly articles, although the director welcomes the inclusion of up to four articles. To ensure consistency, the director has requested that you submit your findings using APA style, as there is potential for future publication. Your submission should include a title page, a brief description of the sources where the articles were found, a summary of each article, and a reference list.
Directions
For this activity, you can focus on any patient care policy you have used, experienced, or questioned in your nursing practice. To complete the activity, you must create an APA style formatted paper. All the components of a scholarly paper should be included: title page, text, and reference page. A template is provided, but you are not required to use it. You can create your own document, but it must meet the requirement of APA style formatting as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
You will need to locate and read at least two scholarly articles to summarize and describe the process of locating the references. For the first article, you must include a direct quotation within your summary. The direct quotation must be cited correctly. For the second article, you must paraphrase a portion of the content and include the correct citation for paraphrasing. Finally, the references must be listed and correctly formatted.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Scholarly Articles: Identify at least two scholarly articles that have been published within the last five years.
Search Strategy: Describe your search strategy for where you located the articles as the introduction paragraph of the paper. Consider including the following:
The browser, if one was used, for searching for articles
The library, if one was used, for searching for articles
The database you used for searching for articles
The keywords you used for searching for articles
The number of articles that were available for the topic
Article One: Summarize article one to accurately represent the content with a correctly cited direct quotation.
Article Two: Summarize article two to accurately represent the content with a correctly cited paraphrase.
What to Submit
Using the Module Two Activity Template, submit your completed activity. Your submission should be a 3- to 4-page Word document with separate title and reference pages that are not part of the page count. Follow APA style standards for formatting and citing your sources
