Professional Paper APA FORMAT

Item Instructions

Type your answers below

Approved Paper Topic (from Week 1 Assignment):

Clearly state the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competency topic that was approved as your topic in Week 1 Assignment.

Professionalism

Page numbers in Hood textbook on your topic:

Clearly state page numbers in Hood textbook that correspond to the selected topic.

Chapter 1: pp. 6-13

Reference for Journal Article:

Create a reference for the article selected using correct APA format including: authors, year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, line spacing, and hanging indent.

Michiko, T., Yoshikazu, Y., and Rieko, K. (2014) Nursing Professionalism: A National Survey of Professionalism among Japanese Nurses. International Journal of nursing practice, 20: 579-587

Quotation with Citation:

Type a quotation (10–25 words) from selected article using correct APA citation including quotation marks, authors’ names, year, page numbers, and parentheses. Do not use words or ideas the authors cited from another source.

Michiko, Yoshikazu and Reiko (2014, 579), “health-care providers demonstrate professionalism by attitudes, knowledge and behavior that reflect a multifaceted approach to the regulations, principles and standards underlying successful clinical practices.

Paraphrased Area and Citation:

State location in article of area to be paraphrased (paragraph and page number). Type appropriately paraphrased version using correct APA citation including authors’ names, year, and parentheses. Do not use words or ideas that the authors cited from another source.

Location: (Pg. 579, paragraph 1)

Health-care providers display professionalism by embracing regulations, principles and standards of clinical practices in their behavior, knowledge and attitudes (Michiko, Yoshikazu and Reiko, 2014, 579).

Professional Paper Outline:

Develop outline for professional paper including introduction, 2 main topics, and conclusion (all with excellent subtopics as required on Template). Excellent detail and depth used.

Introduction

· Professionalism refers to the standard of behavior expected of a member of a certain profession and that behavior is guided by the profession’s goals and qualities.

· Professional nursing is important since it increases a patient’s chance of survival.

Professionalism and education

· It has been noted that professionalism increases with increase in the level of education of the nurse.

· Nurses holding degrees or higher education have been shown to increase patient survival rate by 5% in the first month of hospital stay and that increase also applies to the chance of rescue.

Improving professionalism

· Policy modification to allow nurses autonomy to disperse their duties to the best of their abilities is one of the ways to improve professionalism.

· Improving working conditions for the nurses would give them incentive to be as professional as possible.

· Increasing education requirements for nurses or having training programs would go a long way to improve professionalism.

Conclusion

· Professionalism is vital for the efficient care of patients and for this virtue to improve, the various factors affecting it must be addressed and conscious steps taken towards change.

· Professionalism is either present or absent but its presence or absence makes a huge difference when it comes to the delivery of care.