assignments

Week 4 Evaluating a
Website for Credibility Exercise
Purpose
This exercise is intended to help you identify and evaluate
a website for credibility so you will be able to identify scholarly websites
that can be used for patient and professional resources. (This assignment is
ungraded but will help you have a clear understanding of a credible website.)
Course Outcomes
Through this exercise, the student will demonstrate the
ability to:
(CO#1) Demonstrate effective verbal, written, and
technological communication using legal and ethical standards for transferring
knowledge. (PO 3)
(CO #4) Analyze data from relevant sources to inform the
delivery of care. (PO 4)
Directions:
Review the lesson on Evaluation of a Website and view the
tutorial by the National Library of Medicine on evaluating website credibility.
Using these five criteria, examine the following websites to determine whether
the website is considered as credible for use in patient and/or professional
resources. You may e-mail this worksheet to your instructor for review.
1. Authority
2. Information
3. Objectivity
4. Ease of
Navigation
5. Privacy and
Security Policies

Websites to evaluate:
• American
Association of Critical Care Nurses www.aacn.org
• American
Society of Perianesthesia Nurses www.aspan.org
• The
National Kidney Foundation www.kidney.org
• The
Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov
• The Mayo
Clinic www.mayoclinic.org
• Help
Guide www.helpguide.org
• www.familydoctor.org
• The Joint
Commission www.jointcommission.org
• www.healthypeople.gov
• www.webmd.com

As you evaluate these websites using the five criteria,
think about what would make this website a credible or non-credible source for
use with patients and/or professionals. What do the letters HON stand for? And
what does it indicate on a website?

Week 6 SL Scavenger Hunt Assignment
Student Name
Instructions:
1. As you
complete the VLE (Second Life) Scavenger Hunt, please write your answers to the
questions on this worksheet.
2. Save it
as a MS Word document in the following format:
YourName_NR500_ScavengerHunt
3. Place it
in the Scavenger Hunt folder in your course page by the end on Week 6 on Sunday
at 11:59 pm MT.
4. Remember
if you need assistance when you are in Second Life, please contact the Support
Specialist in-world or email vle@whitemouseproductions.com
STATION 1 — Points Possible = 10
You are nursing educator at the Hospital Administration
Building, there have been repeated incidents of lateral violence. You have been asked to provide scholarly
evidence to support a policy document. Go to the information database in the
Administration Library and search for this article: The Bully Within and
Without: Strategies to Address Horizontal Violence in Nursing. To support your evidence-based practice, you
must cite the article in proper APA format. Be sure to include the doi
number.
STATION 2 – Points Possible = 10
Attend the meeting in the Conference Room.
Locate the Nursing Administrator. Click on her and write down the quote that
the Administrator tells you about nursing leadership.
STATION 3 – Points Possible = 15
Find the open patient room in the hospital ward and list out
at least 3 of the patient safety violations.
STATION 4 – Points Possible = 15
Locate the Classroom. Find the article written on the
blackboard and click on it. Write down the statistics for the ethnicity
characteristics of the study’s participants from Table 1 including the n
number. Then add a citation to the article in proper APA format
APA Citation:
STATION 5 – Points Possible = 10
Go to City Hall. Find the US Senator’s Office. Click on the
Senator to get the link to the list of current United States Senators. Locate your state and write down the names of
the two senators that represent your state.
STATION 6 – Points Possible = 5
Go to Urgent Care Clinic building and find the Electronic
Health Record for the patient that is being seen.
Write down the patient’s name.

STATION 7 – Points Possible = 10
Go to the Social Services Building and into the reception
area. Find the directory listing for the offices in the building. Locate the
Hmong language Interpreter and write down their name.

STATION 8 – Points Possible = 15
Acting as the town’s Visiting Public Nurse, go to the poor
area of town, locate two homeless men and then list out two recommendations
that you would give them to improve their overall health. You will need to support each recommendation
with scholarly peer-reviewed support in proper APA format. Do not state you
would give them a phone number or address of resources. Put some thought into
your response. Remember these two homeless men do not have money, phones, or
health insurance.

STATION 9 – Points Possible = 10
Visit the Forensics Lab – Find the microscope, get close to
it so it is easily visible, then take a photograph of it. Choose your snapshot camera icon from your
left toolbar. Then click on Save to Disk. Then from the highlighted green
dropdown bar choose 320 x 240 and then click SAVE. You will lose points if the picture is not
in the 320 X 240 size. Remember to save the photograph to your desktop to
easily locate it. Copy and paste your
photo in the box on the next page. If
the picture is too large or small or you are too far away from the microscope,
you will lose points.
Step 1
Step 2 Step 3

STATION 9 –
TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE = 100
Remember to: Save
these worksheet as a MS Word document in the following format: YourName_NR500_ScavengerHunt
Place it in the Scavenger Hunt folder in your course page by
the end on Week 6 on Sunday at 11:59 pm MT.

Week 5 Annotated
Bibliography Assignment
Evidence-Based Practice Assignment –
Searchable Clinical Questions Form
STUDENT NAME:
DATE:
DIRECTIONS: Please read the Evidence-Based Practice
Guideline-Searchable Clinical Questions Form Guidelines and Rubric located in
Course Resources, for instructions on how to complete this form. You may add
more rows to each table to fit your search.
1. CLINICAL QUESTION:
Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice
setting and formulate a clinical question, using the PICO (T) format. Please
type the question here:
2. Identify the PICO
(T) Terms:
3. SEARCH: PUBMED/MEDLINE
Go to MEDLINE at http://www.pubmed.gov and conduct a search
on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:
Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes
4. SEARCH: EBSCO/CINAHL
Go to the Chamberlain Library at
http://www.chamberlain.edu/library and enter EBSCO. Conduct a search on your
clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:
Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes
5. SEARCH: THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE
Go to The Joanna Briggs Institute via the CCN Library.
Conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in
the table below:
Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes

Week 7 Master’s-Prepared Role Electronic Presentation
Guidelines with Scoring Rubric
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to: a) demonstrate how the
skills outlined in the AACN Essentials are applicable to the role of a
master’s–prepared nurse (CO #5, #6) and b) present ideas in a clear, succinct,
and scholarly manner (CO #1).
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the
ability to:
(CO#1) Demonstrate effective verbal, written, and
technological communication using legal and ethical standards for transferring
knowledge. (PO 3)
(CO#5) Analyze the American Association of Colleges of
Nursing (AACN) Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing [AACN Essentials].
(PO 1)
(CO#6) Assess the roles of the master’s-prepared nurse. (PO
1)

Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. (MT) at the end of Week 7.
Total Points Possible: 215
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Discuss
the MSN specialty track (educator, executive, informatics, health policy, FNP)
that you have selected.
2. Demonstrate
how the skills outlined in the nine (9) AACN Essentials are applicable to your
selected master’s-prepared specialization.
3. Identify
three ways that a master’s-prepared nurse in your specialty would use the AACN
Essentials skills in nursing practice.
4. Provide
empirical evidence to support the three (3) ways a master’s-prepared nurse
would use the AACN Essentials in practice. A minimum of two (2) current
scholarly articles are required in this section of the presentation.
5. Concluding
statements summarize content.
6. 15-slide
presentation with speaker notes in APA format, not counting title and reference
slides.

PREPARING THE PAPER
1. This is a
PowerPoint presentation.
2. Review
the Creating a Professional Presentation located in Course
Resources/Miscellaneous Resources.
3. This
presentation is to focus on the specific role you have chosen in the MSN
program (e.g., educator, executive, informatics, health policy, FNP) and
identify the AACN Essentials that are applicable to your specific role.

Category Points % Description
Content 34 16% Clearly
describe the master’s-prepared role selected.
Content 34 16% Discuss
the AACN Essentials directly related to the selected role.
Content 34 16% Discuss
three ways a master’s-prepared nurse would use the AACN Essentials in practice.
Content 34 16% Content
of presentation is accurate.
Content 34 16% Concluding
statements are present.
Format & Grammar 9 4% Slides,
speaker notes, and references are consistent with 6th edition APA format.
Format & Grammar 9 4% Presentation
slides are professional in appearance and tone. Balance among space,
words/graphics, and color is effective.
Format & Grammar 9 4% Grammar, spelling, word usage, and
punctuation are consistent with formal written work.
Format & Grammar 9 4% Presentation
has 15 slides, not including title and reference slides.
Format & Grammar 9 4% Speaker
notes contain presentation content without repeating slides.
Total 215 100
A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above
requirements.