Description

Requirements 

Discussion Criteria

1. Application of Course Knowledge: The student post contributes unique perspectives or insights gleaned from personal experience or examples from the healthcare field. The student must accurately and fully discuss the topic for the week in addition to providing personal or professional examples. The student must completely answer the entire initial question.
2. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: The student responds to a student peer and course faculty to further dialogue.

• Peer Response: The student responds substantively to at least one topic-related post by a student peer. A substantive post adds content or insights or asks a question that will add to the learning experience and/or generate discussion.
  • A post of “I agree” with a repeat of the other student’s post does not count as substantive post. A collection of shallow posts does not equal a substantive posit.
  • The peer response must occur on a separate day from the initial posting.
  • The peer response must occur before Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT.
• Faculty Response: The student responds substantively to at least one question by course faculty. The faculty question may be directed to the student, to another student, or to the entire class.
  • A post of “I agree” with a repeat of the faculty’s post does not count as a substantive post. A collection of shallow posts does not equal a substantive post.
  • The faculty response must occur on a separate day from the initial posting.

3. Integration of Evidence: The student post provides support from a minimum of one scholarly in-text citation with a matching reference and assigned readings or online lessons, per discussion topic per week.

• Whet is a scholarly, resource? A scholarly resource is one that comes from a professional, peer. reviewed publication (e.g. journal and government reports suds as those from the FDA or CDC).
  • Contains references for sources cited
  • Written by a professional or scholar in the field and indicates credentials of the authors)
  • is no more than S years old for anal or research ankles
• What is not considered a scholarly resource?
  • Newspaper anion and layperson literature (Lg., Anders Digest, Healthy
  • Life Magazine, Food, and Fitness)
  • Information from Wikipedia or any wiki
  • Textbooks
  • Website homepages
  • The weekly lesson

o Articles in healthcare and nursing-oriented trade magazines. such as Nursing Mede Incredibly Easy and RN Magazine (Source: What is scholarly article.docx; Created06/09 CK/CL Henn:02/17/11. 09/02/II nn/dm)

• Can the lesson for the weak be used ass scholarly source?
  • Information from the weekly lesson can be cited it a posting; however, it is not to be the sole source used in the post.
• Are resources provided from CU acceptable sources (e.g. the readings for the week)?
  • Not as a sole source within the post. The textbook and/or assigned (required articles for the week can be used, but another outside source must be cited for full credit. Textbooks are not considered scholarly sources for the purpose of this discussions.
• Are websites acceptable as scholar’? resources for discussions?
  • Yes, if they are documents or data cited from credible websites. Credible websites usually end In .gov or edu. however, some .org ….. Continue

4. Professionalism in Communication: The post presents information in logical, meaningful and understandable sequence, and clearly relevant to the discussion topic. Grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation are accurate.
5. Wednesday Participation Requirement: The student provides a substantive response to the graded discussion question(S) Or topic(S). posted by the course faculty (not a response to a Peer).
6. Total Participation Requirement: The student provides at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic. one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.

Preparing the Assignment

For many students enrolled in NR501. this is an initial course for nursing theory. So, let’s have a debate. Is nursing theory Important to the nursing profession? In particular, is it important for nurse practitioners? Does theory inform nurse practitioner practice? If you believe that it is important. Explain why it useful. If you do not believe that it useful, explain why nursing theory is not necessary to the profession.