Create a 3-5 page
annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best
practices addressing one of the health care problems or issues in the
Assessment Topic Areas media piece faced by a health care organization that is
of interest to you.
Introduction
In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and your plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing health care environment. Being adept at research will help you find the information you need. For this assessment, you will review the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues to research, which will be a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.
Instructions
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.For this assessment, research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 3. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach (L: marcos.limeiraseg@gmail.com / P: Marquinhosjp2!)to aid your critical thinking.
1.View the Assessment Topic Areas(L: marcos.limeiraseg@gmail.com / P: Marquinhosjp2!) media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues in the media piece to research. Write a brief overview of the selected topic. In your overview:
oSummarize the health care problem or issue.
o Describe your interest in the topic.
oDescribe any professional experience you have with this topic.
2. Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to health care issue or problem.
o Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
oRefer to the NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Library Guide to help you locate appropriate references.
oUse keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.
3.Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find.
oDetermine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.
oDetermine if the publication is current.
oDetermine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
4. Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
o Identify the purpose of the article.
o Summarize the information.
o Provide rationale for inclusion of each article.
o Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
o Write your annotated bibliography in a paragraph form. The annotated bibliography should be approximately 150 words (1–3 paragraphs) in length.
o List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography.
o Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.
5. Summarize what you have learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
o Summarize what you learned from your research in a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper.
o List the main points you learned from your research.
o Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Additional
Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.
In your second assessment, you will create a 3-5-page annotated bibliography (note – the content of the paper is to be 3-5 pages in length, further you will include a title page and reference page). Specifically, you are asked to select and research a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization. As a reminder, you will use this same topic for the third assessment. A few important reminders:
Nursing shortages are among
the major healthcare problems. The number of people in need of healthcare
services is increasing, overloading healthcare providers. As a result, nurses
have to work overtime to fill the gap leading to mental and physical harm. For
instance, I experienced the effects of a nursing shortage in a healthcare
facility that required its workers to work consecutive shifts in 12 hours,
leaving the nurses exhausted and with little or no personal time. Therefore,
most of the causes of the nursing shortage originate from the harsh working
conditions, which result in burnout and mental and physical health issues. In
turn, the nurses decide to quit their job. Also, students are discouraged from
pursuing the nursing profession due to fear of burnout. The experience inspired
me to research the various causes and possible solutions for nursing shortages.