Assignment: Illustrate the change process

Assignment: Illustrate the change process

Assignment: Illustrate the change process

Please do not use any of the Nurse Daniel information for your own topic, nursing intervention, or change project. Nurse Daniel serves as an example only to illustrate the change process. Please review the infographic as way to guide you in getting started with your assignment: Developing an Assignment with Integrity(Links to an external site.) View ashort tutorial with tips for completing this assignment: Evidence-Based Practice Change Process Assignment Tutorial(Links to an external site.) or by reading the transcript(Links to an external site.). Download the EBP Change Process form(Links to an external site.) during Week 1. The use of this specific form is REQUIRED Identify a clinical topic and related nursing practice issue you think needs to be changed. Locate a systematic review on your topic from the CCN Library databases. Be sure this involves nursing actions. Work through each step of the ACE Star Model as outlined on the assignment form (Star Points 1-5: Discovery, Summary, Translation, Implementation, and Evaluation). Respond to the instructions provided on the form. Follow the activities and thinking of Nurse Daniel in Weeks 1-6 in the ‘Illustration’ part of each lesson. He will be working through a clinical topic and nursing practice issue to demonstrate a change (ACE Star Model and systematic review). Work on a portion of the process each week, as the illustration unfolds.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

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The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.