Unit 5 Assignment: Theoretical frameworks

NU310-3: Examine connections among theory and nursing research.

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for you to understand how theoretical frameworks relate to and support nursing research and ultimately shape clinical practice and improve patient care.

After completion of this assignment you will be able to apply a theoretical framework to a clinical research problem.

Instructions:

You will create a brief (no more than 10 slides) presentation containing the following information:

1. Identify a clinical problem/topic that interests you or that you experience in your nursing practice.

2. Choose and present a theory (either grand theory or middle range theory) that would support and provide a framework to address the problem/topic.

3. Briefly discuss the theorist who created the theory and the history of how it was developed.

4. Present an example of how this theory has been used in nursing research.

The presentation should include:

Introductory slide (title, your name,).
Brief speaker notes for each slide.
Bullet points and colorful graphs or schematics.
Reference slide with 3-5 scholarly references.

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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.