Discussion: Gap in A Nursing Education Program
Discussion: Gap in A Nursing Education Program

Question Description
C. Summarize your project by doing the following:

1. Describe the gap your proposal will address.

2. Describe recent internal organizational trends leading up to the gap described in part C1.

3. Explain the specific organizational background causes of the gap identified in part C1.

4. Identify the nurse or nursing student audience that will be the target of your proposal.

a. Describe the characteristics of your target audience (e.g. education level, educational setting where the target audience will receive your proposed solution).

b. Discuss how your proposal will help the professional development of the target audience identified in part C4.

D. Explain your proposed solution (suggested length of 3-5 paragraphs) to address the gap identified in part C1.

E. Explain the intended outcomes of your proposed solution.

F. Provide an evidence summary synthesizing literature to support the solution you described in part D.

G. Provide a final reference list for your evidence summary, in APA format, that includes at least five scholarly, peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five years.

Note: This reference list refers specifically to your evidence summary from part F.

H. Explain your proposed implementation plan, including the following:

1. a plan of action

2. a timeline

3. needed resources and personnel

4. the proposed change theory

5. barriers to implementation

I. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

J. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

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.