Safety Goals Guidelines: Speak Up Depression DQ 11

1. Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.

a. Select a Speak Up brochure from The Joint Commission website.

b. Write a short paper reviewing the brochure. Use the Grading Criteria (below) to structure your critique and include current nursing or healthcare research to support your critique.

1. Include the following sections

a. Introduction of brochure (3 points/6%)

i. Includes brochure title

ii. Identifies date published

iii. Describes individuals or groups

iv. Brochure properly cited, included on reference list, and submitted with assignment

b. Summary of article (10 points/ 20%)

i. Main topics discussed

ii. Includes information to promote communication between patients and healthcare providers

c. Evaluation of brochure (20 points/40%)

i. Supported by evidence from a recent (5 years) scholarly, nursing journal article

ii. What was done well, and what could have been improved in the brochure?

iii. Why did this topic interest you?

iv. Was the information provided in the brochure beneficial? Could you incorporate it in your patient education?

v. Was the information presented clearly?

vi. Did current nursing or healthcare related research support the information presented in the brochure?

vii. What population or individuals does this article apply to (i.e., who will benefit the most from this brochure)? Who else can use this information?

viii. Will this information increase patient safety? Defend your answer.

d. Conclusion (5 points/10%)

i. Restates main ideas

ii. Includes supporting information from body of paper

iii. Summarizes the benefits of following the brochure’s advice to a person at risk

e. APA style and structure (2 points/4%)

i. Adheres to APA 7th edition formatting guidelines for title page, margins, in-text citations, and references

ii. Section headers are required

a) Introduction

b) Summary of brochure

c) Evaluation of brochure

d) Conclusion

iii. Paper is no longer than three (3) pages, excluding title page, reference page, and copy of brochure

a) Extra pages will not be read or contribute to the assignment grade

f. Clarity of writing (10 points/20%)

i. Proper use of Standard English

ii. Shows original thought

iii. No spelling or grammar errors

iv. Information presented in a logical progression

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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.