Sepsis/Septic Shock Writing Assignment. – nursing homework essays

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Writing Across the Curriculum Assignment

NURS 2115 Spring 2020

 

Instructions for this assignment:

Step 1- Please choose one article on sepsis/septic shock.  The article should be from a scholarly source, should not be older than 5 years, and should not be one of the articles posted in the course.

 

Step 2- Compose a 2-3 page (excluding the title page and reference page) scholarly paper to include the following:

1. Summarize your chosen article in one-two paragraphs.
2. Summarize the following:
3. Etiology
4. Clinical manifestations

1. Appropriate medical management
2. Nursing interventions
3. Patient teaching to prevent sepsis/septic shock
4. Explain why sepsis/septic shock is the leading cause of death in noncoronary ICU patients.
5. Discuss how sepsis contributes to multi-organ failure.

 

Step 3- Ensure paper adheres to the following guidelines:

1. Word document
2. APA format
3. Arial or Times New Roman
4. Size 12 font
5. Includes a title page
6. Includes a reference page (minimum of 3 references)
7. 2-3 page scholarly paper (excluding title and reference pages)
8. Attach a copy of the article you summarized
9. Title page should include:
10. Writing Across the Curriculum Assignment
11. Title of the article you summarized

1. NURS 2115 Adult Health III
2. Date

 

 

Step 4- Submit your paper to Turnitin.com and print out the results.  Attach a copy of the results to your paper.  Ensure the results are 15% or less.  All quotes must be in quotation marks and include the page or paragraph number.  Anytime you copy word for word from an author, you must place those words in quotation marks and cite the page number—no exceptions.  Use no more than 2 of the exact same words in a row as your guide.  The Turnitin system gives the student and instructor a number of the percentage of the entire paper that has been copied/plagiarized material.  The instructor checks the citation to see if the information is indeed copied/plagiarized.  NO PLAGIARISM IS ACCEPTED.

 

Grading Criteria: This required assignment will count as your Writing Across the Curriculum for this semester. This also constitutes a portion of your clinical assignment/hours. Any student not completing will receive a clinical incomplete for this course.  Please see attached rubric.

Learning Outcomes assessed:

Evidence based practice: Use best current evidence, expert opinion, and clinical expertise as a basis for nursing practice and clinical judgment.

 

Patient education: Develop and implement health related education to patients that will facilitate their acquisition and reinforcement of knowledge and skills, adoption of new behaviors, and modification of attitudes.

 

 

Due Dates: See course calendar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing Across Curriculum Rubric:

 

Grading Criteria: This required assignment will count as your Writing Across the Curriculum for this semester. This also constitutes a portion of your clinical assignment/hours. Any student not completing will receive a clinical incomplete for this course. A score of 16 of 20 points will be considered satisfactory for this assignment.  You should have at minimum 3 references, current and within 5 years in APA format. Submit your paper to Turnitin.com and attach a copy of your results.

Category:	1 point	0 points	Total points:
Summarize article	1-2 paragraph summary of article included	Did not include 1-2 paragraph summary of article
Etiology	Etiology included	Etiology was not included
Clinical manifestations	Clinical manifestations included	Clinical manifestations were not included
Diagnostics	Diagnostics included	Diagnostics was not included
Appropriate medical management	Appropriate medical management included	Appropriate medical management was not included
Nursing Interventions and Care	Nursing Interventions included	Nursing Interventions were not included
Patient Teaching On the prevention of sepsis/septic shock	Patient teaching included	Patient teaching was not included
Explain why sepsis/septic shock is the leading cause of death in noncoronary ICU patients	Explained why sepsis/septic shock is the leading cause of death in noncoronary ICU patients	Did not explain why sepsis/septic shock is the leading cause of death in noncoronary ICU patients
Discuss how sepsis leads to multi-organ failure	Discussed how sepsis leads to multi-organ failure	Did not discuss how sepsis leads to multi-organ failure
Title Page	Included title page per directions	Did not include title page per directions
Reference Page	Reference page submitted, 3 current references within 5 years using APA format	Reference page was not submitted, 3 references not within 5 years, did not use APA format
Attach article	Article submitted	Did not include article
No more than 2 spelling errors	Included 2 or less spelling errors	More than 2 spelling errors
Correct subject/verb agreement	No errors in subject verb agreement	Errors in subject/verb agreement
Correct sentence structure	No errors in sentence structure	Errors in sentence structure
General layout of paper	Used Word document, Arial or Times New Roman, size 12 font, followed APA format	Did not us Word document, Arial or Times New Roman, size 12 font, did not follow APA format
Paper length	Paper was 2-3 pages in length	Paper was less than 2 pages or greater than 3 pages
Assignment submitted on time	Assignment submitted by due date	Assignment not submitted on time
Turnitin.com	Submitted paper to Turnitin.com and provided results	Did not submit paper to Turnitin.com and / or attach the results
Turnitin.com results	Should be 15% or less	More than 15%

 

                                                                                             Total Points __________/20

                                                                                              Pass or Fail

 

****A score of 16 of 20 points will be considered satisfactory for this assignment