Essay 3: Cultural competency in nursing.

For this assignment, you will select a topic/concept and/or culture of your choosing related to cultural competency in nursing. You will create and submit a PowerPoint presentation on the topic/concept/and/or as culture with a minimum of six (6) slides and no more than ten (10) excluding title slide and reference slides. Slides must contain speaker notes.

Review the entire rubric to understand the full assignment criteria here.

In the Submissions area below, click the Upload button to browse the files on your computer to locate the document you wish to attach. Select the document, and then click Open. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the document you wish to upload into the Submissions area. Verify your submission is correct, and click the X next to the document if you would like to remove and attach a different file. When you are ready to submit the file you must click the Submit button.

The Week 5 Presentation is a PowerPoint assignment and must be submitted in PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) format. Assignments submitted in any other format, including Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), will not be accepted and will receive a zero grade.

This assignment will be submitted through Turnitin, which checks the originality of your submission against other sources. Make sure to review your Similarity Report to help ensure that you are not plagiarizing. It may take 10-15 minutes for your report to process. Remember that you can re-submit your assignment until the deadline passes. To access your Similarity Report, navigate to your course home page, select the Course Tools dropdown in the top navigation, and then click Assignments. From there, click on the number of submissions, and then the similarity number. For more information, click here for a guide on using Turnitin.

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.