Week 2: Nursing’s role in leading change

Find an article related to nursing’s role in leading change in our current healthcare environment & complete an Annotated Bib, based on the attached instructions.Article must be < 5 years old.

An Annotated Bibliography includes a summary, assessment & reflection of an article. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the article. Your annotated bib assignment should include a paragraph for each of the following components (use these headings). See Annotated Bib Assignment grading rubric. See OWL website for examples and samples of annotated bibliographies*. 1.

Summarize: brief paragraph of the main points/topics

2. Assessment/Evaluation

a. Was this a useful resource – why or why not?

b. Is the information reliable?

c. Is this source biased or objective?

d. What is the goal of this article?

e. See OWL handout on “evaluating resources”*

3. Reflection: process of examining and interpreting experience to gain new understanding.

a. Was this article helpful to you?

b. How can you apply this information to your practice?

c. Has the information changed how you think about this topic? *

Owl Purdue Online Writing Lab https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/1/

Annotated Bib Assignment: • Find a peer reviewed article (<5 years old)

 Submit a 1-page Word document

 Title page not necessary; may be single-spaced; APA format for reference

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.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

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.