The Evolution of Nursing Essay 3

Nurses work together in many environments. Understanding the roles and responsibilities of each type of graduate nurse will foster cooperative relationships.

Directions:

Select and describe a specialty that has evolved in a different direction from that of advanced practice nursing (e.g., informatics, administration, and health policy; encourage students to identify others as well).
What key differences do you see in this evolution as compared with developed APN specialties?
Describe the future vision and goals each role and relate to emerging healthcare trends and needs.

Selected a specialty area and compared/contrasted to other APN specialties.
Described the future and goals of several AP roles and fully described how the roles are related to specific emerging healthcare trends and needs.
Paper was 5-7 pages, not including references page.
Text, title page and references page follow APA guidelines. No grammar, word usage or punctuation errors. Overall style is consistent with professional work.
Your paper must be presented in a single Word document. The paper must be between 5 to 7 pages in length, not including the title and reference list pages. The paper must use proper APA Publication Manual, 6th Edition formatting, including title page, running head, and reference list with properly formatted citations in the body of the paper.

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.