NUR 513 APA Assignment
NUR 513 APA Assignment Assessment Description
APA style is used for professional writing in nursing and health care. As a professional, it is important to be able to clearly
communicate your research or professional writing in an accurately formatted paper using the most current APA style. The
purpose of this assignment is to write a 500-750 word paper focusing on the proper application of APA style.
Data-based decision-making allows healthcare systems to generate real-time insights and predictions to optimize their
performance. They can test the success of different strategies and make informed decisions for sustainable evidence-
based healthcare provision and growth (Katkade et al., 2018). Clients require such information to choose healthy
behaviors, demand effective policies and services, and hold health institutions and governments accountable for allocating
and using resources for health.
The essay summary seeks topropose strategies for meeting the data needs of Vila Health. While Vila Health operating in a
community need to elucidate to stakeholders the type of clients it serves, and the results of its treatments, the usage of data
in making such decisions is critical.
Types of Internal Data Available within a Health Care System
Internal data is information, statistics, and trends that healthcare organizations discover through their operations. It includes
facts and figures that they pull from internal databases, software, customers, and reports (Mehta & Pandit, 2018). The data
include information systems such as a radiology information system, a cancer registry, or the patient financial system. The
internal data can be classified as electronic health records, administrative, claims, patient and disease registries, health
surveys, and clinical trials.
Refer to the resources in the Class Resources and Student Success Center for assistance with APA. Use the APA Style
Guide resource, located in the Student Success Center, to complete this assignment.
Include the following in your paper:
1. Describe the purpose of applying nursing theory to patient care.
2. Explain why nursing theory is meaningful to current practice.
3. Explain how a nursing theory can be applied before planning and providing care in current practice.
4. Discuss which theory best reflects your personal view of the essence of nursing and how it has been helpful to you for
planning and providing care to your patients.
You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last
5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.
Complete the “APA Writing Checklist” to ensure that your paper adheres to APA style and formatting criteria and general
guidelines for academic writing. Include the completed checklist as an appendix at the end of your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in
Class Resources if you need assistance.
Attachments
MSN-APA Writing Checklist-Student.doc
NUR 513 APA Assignment GCU APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific
instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to
the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the
paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
Topic is well defined.
Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
, The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the
paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized
to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA
style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by
an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally
published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject
discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the
required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of
an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature
review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly,
LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.
NUR 513 APA Assignment GCU
Writing is an interesting art through which wordsmiths utilize their skills to deliver meaningful content to the audience.
Academic writing, in particular, is unique since it demands strict adherence to predetermined standards to enhance a
piece’s appeal to a professional audience. My journey as a writer has been quite fulfilling, especially when I reflect on the
knowledge I have gained so far in matters pertaining to paper formatting and content presentation.
In 1929, a group of business managers, anthropologists, and psychologists collaborated to form the American
Psychological Association (APA) standards of writing to guide professionals in various domains including psychology,
neuroscience, sociology, linguistics, human geography, political science, economics, and cognitive science.
It is important to have a rough idea of the disciplines of writing in which the APA style is applicable to avoid employing it in
unwarranted pieces. Other notable styles of writing include Chicago, MLA, OSCOLA, and Harvard. The limiting scope of
the present piece only allows its author to focus on the APA Style of writing.
Effective Communication
First and foremost, it must be established that the official criteria for the recent version of the APA style is accessible from
the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. The third chapter of this manual offers
its readers some guidelines on how to communicate effectively through clear and concise writing.
Clarity and conciseness are largely dependent on the organization of the paper, writing style, bias, and grammar usage.
Each of these dynamics has a crucial role in creating a sense of connection between the writer and his/her audience. The
sixth chapter ‘Crediting Sources’ provides further guidance on how citations and references can be leveraged to enhance
both the credibility and relevance of a piece (APA, 2010).
This section acknowledges the challenge often faced by writers as they engage in personal communication: this kind of
communication involves the use of private content, which can only be included in the in-text citations, but not the reference
list.
Personal Communication
The two main types of communications in academic writing include personal and interpersonal, depending on the reader’s
ability to retrieve the primary data: the first includes pieces of information that cannot be retrieved by the reader while the
latter are retrievable. Personal communications include live speeches, personal interviews, emails, online chats, text
messages, unrecorded classroom lectures, letters, non-archived discussion group messages/bulletins, and memos
(Appelbaum, et al., 2018).
As highlighted earlier, personal communications cannot be included in the reference list, so it is important to incorporate
sufficient details inside the text. For example, email messages received from John Doe on September 8, 2020 will be cited
NUR 513 APA Assignment Assessment Description
APA style is used for professional writing in nursing and health care. As a professional, it is important to be able to clearly
communicate your research or professional writing in an accurately formatted paper using the most current APA style. The
purpose of this assignment is to write a 500-750 word paper focusing on the proper application of APA style.
Data-based decision-making allows healthcare systems to generate real-time insights and predictions to optimize their
performance. They can test the success of different strategies and make informed decisions for sustainable evidence-
based healthcare provision and growth (Katkade et al., 2018). Clients require such information to choose healthy
behaviors, demand effective policies and services, and hold health institutions and governments accountable for allocating
and using resources for health.
The essay summary seeks topropose strategies for meeting the data needs of Vila Health. While Vila Health operating in a
community need to elucidate to stakeholders the type of clients it serves, and the results of its treatments, the usage of data
in making such decisions is critical.
Types of Internal Data Available within a Health Care System
Internal data is information, statistics, and trends that healthcare organizations discover through their operations. It includes
facts and figures that they pull from internal databases, software, customers, and reports (Mehta & Pandit, 2018). The data
include information systems such as a radiology information system, a cancer registry, or the patient financial system. The
internal data can be classified as electronic health records, administrative, claims, patient and disease registries, health
surveys, and clinical trials.
Refer to the resources in the Class Resources and Student Success Center for assistance with APA. Use the APA Style
Guide resource, located in the Student Success Center, to complete this assignment.
Include the following in your paper:
1. Describe the purpose of applying nursing theory to patient care.
2. Explain why nursing theory is meaningful to current practice.
3. Explain how a nursing theory can be applied before planning and providing care in current practice.
4. Discuss which theory best reflects your personal view of the essence of nursing and how it has been helpful to you for
planning and providing care to your patients.
You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last
5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.
Complete the “APA Writing Checklist” to ensure that your paper adheres to APA style and formatting criteria and general
guidelines for academic writing. Include the completed checklist as an appendix at the end of your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in
Class Resources if you need assistance.
Attachments
MSN-APA Writing Checklist-Student.doc
NUR 513 APA Assignment GCU APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific
instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to
the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the
paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
Topic is well defined.
Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
, The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the
paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized
to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA
style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by
an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally
published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject
discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the
required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of
an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature
review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly,
LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.
NUR 513 APA Assignment GCU
Writing is an interesting art through which wordsmiths utilize their skills to deliver meaningful content to the audience.
Academic writing, in particular, is unique since it demands strict adherence to predetermined standards to enhance a
piece’s appeal to a professional audience. My journey as a writer has been quite fulfilling, especially when I reflect on the
knowledge I have gained so far in matters pertaining to paper formatting and content presentation.
In 1929, a group of business managers, anthropologists, and psychologists collaborated to form the American
Psychological Association (APA) standards of writing to guide professionals in various domains including psychology,
neuroscience, sociology, linguistics, human geography, political science, economics, and cognitive science.
It is important to have a rough idea of the disciplines of writing in which the APA style is applicable to avoid employing it in
unwarranted pieces. Other notable styles of writing include Chicago, MLA, OSCOLA, and Harvard. The limiting scope of
the present piece only allows its author to focus on the APA Style of writing.
Effective Communication
First and foremost, it must be established that the official criteria for the recent version of the APA style is accessible from
the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. The third chapter of this manual offers
its readers some guidelines on how to communicate effectively through clear and concise writing.
Clarity and conciseness are largely dependent on the organization of the paper, writing style, bias, and grammar usage.
Each of these dynamics has a crucial role in creating a sense of connection between the writer and his/her audience. The
sixth chapter ‘Crediting Sources’ provides further guidance on how citations and references can be leveraged to enhance
both the credibility and relevance of a piece (APA, 2010).
This section acknowledges the challenge often faced by writers as they engage in personal communication: this kind of
communication involves the use of private content, which can only be included in the in-text citations, but not the reference
list.
Personal Communication
The two main types of communications in academic writing include personal and interpersonal, depending on the reader’s
ability to retrieve the primary data: the first includes pieces of information that cannot be retrieved by the reader while the
latter are retrievable. Personal communications include live speeches, personal interviews, emails, online chats, text
messages, unrecorded classroom lectures, letters, non-archived discussion group messages/bulletins, and memos
(Appelbaum, et al., 2018).
As highlighted earlier, personal communications cannot be included in the reference list, so it is important to incorporate
sufficient details inside the text. For example, email messages received from John Doe on September 8, 2020 will be cited
