Walden NURs4010 week 3 assignment

For this Application Assignment, select a disaster that could happen in your community. Write a 3- to 4-page paper outlining the disaster, how the professional nurse uses clinical judgment and decision-making skills to provide appropriate nursing care, other health care professionals that may be involved in a emergency or disaster response, and strategies for improving your community’s response to your identified disaster. Use the following guidelines and evaluation criteria and the headings below for each section. Use a minimum of three references from the professional nursing literature in the assigned course readings and other references in the Walden Library. If they are relevant, you may use one or two professional Web sites in addition to the literature references.

• Overview—20 points
  
  Begin this paper with a brief paragraph that provides an overview of the assignment and its purpose. There is no separate heading for this paragraph; the heading for this paragraph is the same as the title of the paper. This paragraph will be about 2–3 sentences. The last sentence in this paragraph is a sentence that begins "The purpose of this paper is to…”
• The Role of the Nurse—40 points
  
  Describe the disaster you selected and discuss how the professional nurse would use clinical judgment and decision-making skills during the disaster. Include a description of other healthcare professionals that may be involved in a response to your identified disaster and how the BSN nurse would collaborate with those professionals. This section will be 3–4 paragraphs.

• Nursing Strategies—30 points
  
  Outline your suggestions for how to improve your community’s response to your identified disaster. Include a minimum of two best practices that could be implemented. Discuss how each best practice could address the identified weakness in the current response plan. Support each selected best practice with references from the professional literature. This section will be 2–3 paragraphs.
  
  
• Summary—10 points
  
  End the paper with a 1-paragraph summary of the main points of the paper.

Format/Style

Proofread the paper as described in the tips for success in this course and correct any typos, grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, or APA format errors before submitting your paper. Up to 40 points can be deducted from the grade for this assignment for these types of errors, or for not using at least the minimum number of required references.

Total points for assignment = 100 points


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