Inquiry Paper Guidelines

Week 5 assignment

Inquiry Paper Guidelines

The purpose of this paper is to present the story of your inquiry process thus far on the road to developing your DNP project. An inquiry essay differs from other traditional academic essays in that its purpose is not to argue for a specific idea, but rather to illustrate your inquiry and thinking process, and to demonstrate your understanding of how theoretical and process models guide your DNP project development

COURSE OUTCOMES

This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:

CO2: Identify practice problems at the microsystem, mesosystem and macrosystem levels of health care systems (PO #3).

CO3: Assimilate nursing’s ways of knowing and the development of nursing science (PO #3).

CO7: Analyze the implementation of selected theoretical perspectives into evidence-based practice. (PO #5)

CO11: Summarize scientific knowledge to determine the nature and significance of a clinical problem (PO #3)

This assignment is worth 275 points.

Submit your completed application under the DROP BOX tab by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 5 as directed.

REQUIREMENTS

1. To complete this application, you will need to access to the following databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and the Joanna Briggs Institute. You may access these databases through the Chamberlain College of Nursing Online Library. The PDF tutorials for database searches are in the “Need Help?” box on every library page. To ask for assistance from a librarian, use one of the contact methods in the “Ask A Librarian” box at the top right of every page.

2. When clicked, it reveals a list of “Tools” or PDFs on how to do conduct various searches of the required databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane, and JBI) through the portals (EBSCO and OVID) provided.

3. The Inquiry Paper is worth 275 points and will be graded on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric.

4. Create your manuscript using the version of Microsoft Word required by Chamberlain College of Nursing. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx”

5. Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q & A Forum.

6. The length of the paper will be about between 5-7 pages excluding title page and reference pages.

7. A minimum of 5 scholarly references (not your text books but primary sources of theory and research).

a. The textbook required for this course may be used as a reference for this assignment but does not count towards the required minimum number of scholarly references.

8. APA format and effective writing is required for the paper. Use your APA manual or Purdue Owl to check and correct your formatting. Use Grammarly, Tutor Source, the grammar and spelling check on your Word Processor and criteria for effective writing (available through the Writing Call and Coaches) to assure that your paper well written.

PREPARING THE PAPER

The following are best practices for preparing this paper:

1. Outline your paper at the beginning of the term and begin adding notes to the content headings as you read critically and begin to synthesize and as insights occur in your mind. Following your outline will help you establish and maintain context throughout the paper.

2. Review your studies, discussion and exercises from week 1 forward in this class. Keep the MEAL plan in mind as you begin drafting paragraphs.

3. Create purposeful structure throughout your paper and in your paragraphs, having a sense of introduction, development and conclusion. Your outline and notes will facilitate this purposeful structure.

4. Be sure that your content is original and appropriate to the topic as assigned. Validate your ideas with substantiated thinking and appropriate use of valid sources. In other words, provide evidence and examples to illustrate your statements.

5. Assure proper conventions and content: Check the usage, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, format, citing and so on using tools such as Grammarly, Word Spell and Grammar Check, APA manual, Purdue Owl, Listening to the Writing Calls, Contacting your faculty or using a writing coach if necessary.

6. An effective conclusion should include the main ideas and major conclusions. Do not add new information in the conclusion.

DIRECTIONS AND GRADING CRITERIA

Category Points % Description

Introduction 20 7% Introduces your topic for practice change and it’s general area of either (a) clinical outcomes, (b) safety and quality, (c) leadership or (d) health policy.. Tell the reader what the purpose of the paper is and present a preview of what the paper will include.

Assessment and resulting project topic and PICOT questions 30 11% In weeks 1 and 2 you began articulating your interest in being a doctoral prepared clinical leader for practice change. From your existing clinical expertise, reflection, study and beginning organizational assessment within your planned clinical site; you derived and and described a clinical problem. In this section of the paper, describe the background and development of this clinical practice issue that you propose to address. Complete the section by stating the practice problem in two distinct sentences (problem and etiology), stating why this statement format is important; and then state the problem in PICOT format and tell your reader about the purpose of using this format to describe the problem.

l Reflection on Nursing’s Metaparadigm, Theory and Ways of Knowing as frameworks guiding practice and study 45 17 Introduce your reader to nursing’s metaparadigm and discuss how your chosen theory and the Ways of Knowing have guided development of ideas you have for practice change.

Use examples from the theorist’s work that relate to your study of nursing phenomenon.In other words, describe your practice problemand explain the ways in which the theory applies to your topic. Use relevant examples to illustrate and support your ideas. Describe your practice problem within the context of nursing’s meta-paradigm and the theoretical insights you now have brought to bear on your

Development and Discussion 45 17 Tell your reader where you stood on your clinical concern before you studied it in light of theory, ways of knowing and the literature. What values, background and other factors influenced your thinking? Then summarize oneliterature that influenced your thinking on this issue. Describe the author’s purpose, what their main argument was and which of their ideas you found most influential. Which ideas supported your original thinking and which advanced your understanding beyond what you originally thought? In other words, show readers how what you have learned both validated or challenged your own thinking. Complete this section by stating what you anticipate next regarding your progress in developing a practice change project.

Conclusion 20 7% Includes the main ideas and major conclusions. Summarizes the benefits of the selected theory for an eventual DNP Project.

Clarity of writing 75

27% Demonstrates (a) Appropriate use of language, (b) setting and maintaining context, (c) organization given a sense of overall introduction, development and conclusion as well as paragraphs organized by main point with supporting evidence and analysis and (d) support for a position and development of ideas.

References 20 7% A minimum of five scholarly resources used including at least one ‘primary’ source written by the theorist. The course textbook may be used but does not count towards the required minimum number of scholarly references.

APA format 20 7% 1. All information taken from another source, even if summarized, must be appropriately cited in the manuscript and listed in the references using APA (6th ed.) format.

2. Correct APA (6th ed.) format for document setup

3. Correct APA (6th ed.) format for title and reference pages.

Total: 275 pts 100%

A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

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