NRSE 4550 RUBRIC: M5 A10 WA: APPLYING NURSING RESEARCH TO PRACTICE (40 pts)

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Criteria

Levels of Achievement

Accomplished Needs Improvement Not Acceptable

Introduction 7 to 7 Points

 Clearly states the purpose of the paper.

 Provides a comprehensive overview of topic or questions.

 Engages the reader.

 Organized and has easy follow.

2 to 6 Points

 Overview is provided, but key points/ideas are missing.

 Purpose statement is not clear.

 Does not engage the reader.

 Somewhat disorganized but still comprehensible

0 to 1 Points

 Does not provide an overview of the paper or is

absent.

 No purpose statement.

Body

Key Requirement 1: Identifies a best new

practice to implement

5 to 5 Points

 Student clearly identifies a new best practice for his or her workplace

 Provides explanation and examples as to why this practice was chosen.

3 to 4 Points

 Student identifies a new best practice for his or her

workplace

 Does not provide explanation or examples as to why this

practice was chosen.

0 to 2 Points

 Does not provide a new best practice for his or her

workplace.

Key Requirement 2:

Describes the steps to

implementing the best new practice (from your

workplace)

7 to 7 Points

 Clearly describes the steps to implementing this change.

 Shows that research has been done on how to implement this change in the workplace.

3 to 6 Points

 Partially describes the steps to implementing this change, but

misses steps or has omissions.

0 to 2 Points

 The steps to implementing an evidence based new best

practice in the workplace are not addressed.

Key Requirement 3:

Supports the

implementation of this

best new practice

through the literature

8 to 8 Points

 Student thoroughly supports the implementation of the new best

practice with current research

articles.

3 to 7 Points

 An overview on why implementing this new best

practice is provided, but it is

not thoroughly supported by

the literature.

0 to 2 Points

 Student does not support the implementation of the

new best practice with

current research articles.

Conclusion 7 to 7 Points

 Summarizes paper and reflects on what the reader has learned from the paper.

 Demonstrates persuasive thought and is well organized.

2 to 6 Points

 Merely summarizes the introduction or contains new ideas not present in the paper

contents.

 Somewhat disorganized but still comprehensible

0 to 1 Points

 Simply restates the introduction or is absent.

 Disorganized to the point of distraction.

 

 

NRSE 4550 RUBRIC: M5 A10 WA: APPLYING NURSING RESEARCH TO PRACTICE (40 pts)

Last updated: 06/07/2017 © 2017 School of Nursing – Ohio University Page 2 of 2

 

Criteria

Levels of Achievement

Accomplished Needs Improvement Not Acceptable

Stylistics 6 to 6 Points

 APA Citations are appropriate.

 Formatted correctly.

 Reference page is complete and correctly formatted.

 At least 4 references provided: Two (2) references from required course

materials and two (2) peer-reviewed

references. *References not older than five years.

 More than 600 words excluding title and reference pages.

3 to 5 Points

 APA Citations are appropriate and formatted correctly.

 Reference page is formatted correctly.

 References are not professional or is not formatted correctly.

 Missing 1 professional

reference.

 At least 600 words or more excluding title and reference

pages.

0 to 2 Points

 No citations are used or citations are made but not

formatted correctly

 Reference page is missing.

 Less than 600 words excluding title and reference pages.

Peer-reviewed references include professional journals (i.e. Nursing Education Perspectives, Journal of Professional Nursing, etc. –), professional organizations (NLN, CDC, AACN, ADA, etc.) applicable to population and practice area, along with clinical practice guidelines (CPGs – National Guideline Clearinghouse). References not acceptable (not inclusive) are UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases. *All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information) Note: You will have three (3) attempts to submit a written assignment, only the final attempt will be graded. For each attempt you will receive a SafeAssign

originality report. This will give you a chance to correct the assignment based on the SafeAssign score. Click here to view instructions on how to interpret SafeAssign originality report.