Part 1 – Assignment # 2a
Ethics Paper (Grade Value 20%)
Research and Evidence-based practice are essential to nursing and the care we provide patients. It is important for us to know how to identify issues, evaluate the problem through evidence/research, and use our education to inform practice. This paper is designed to help you with this process. Please reach out if you have any questions- I am happy to help you structure your ideas J
• In a 2-3-page paper, state one nursing ethical concern you have. Relate this ethical concern to the ER setting and look up scholarly articles supporting this issue.• Please review the ANA ethical awareness article listed in Module 1.• Is there a solution to this concern? If not, what should be done?• Provide a minimum of three peer-reviewed references.• APA 7th edition
Writing Resources and Tips
• APA resources• Purdue Owl• APA style: apastyle.apa.org• Professional Writing Resources• Grammarly• Research Articleso Find an article you enjoyed, and structure your paper the same way.• More Tips• Avoid as many “that’s” as possible”; and contractions (don’t, can’t)• Avoid personal pronouns (I, you, she, he, it, we, they, me, etc. Use researcher’s names and year instead) …i.e., Jones et al. (2014) stated…• Structure your paragraphs with purposeo Paragraph 1- Intro 4-5 sentences▪ Are there statistics for to support the ethicalproblem with the context of the ED? ▪ What is the gap? Meaning, what don’t we know, or what needs to be addressed?▪ Last sentence, “the purpose of this paper is to describe the ethical issue of…” and list the things you will talk abouto Paragraph 2- dedicated to the first item you will talk about. You can introduce your ethical principle and what ED ethical issue you will addresso Paragraph 3- dedicated to the second item you will talk abouto Paragraph 4- dedicated to the third item you will talk abouto Conclusion Paragraph 5- summarize what you talked about and make recommendations based on the data you reported in paragraphs 2-4.
GRADING RUBRIC
• Overall content of paper (8 pts)o ED nursing-related topico Overall flow of the content presentedo Followed assignment guidelines• One of the ethical principles, listed below, is included and thoroughly addressed/defined and applicable to nursing field(7pts)o Beneficenceo Non-maleficenceo Justiceo Autonomy• Grammar/spelling and APA format (5 pts)