What are some of the challenges for nurses in practice settings as they attempt to implement these recommendations?

Discuss:Writing Intensive Component Course

Question Description
Purpose: To revise a paper that provides evidence to the reader that the writer is able to identify recommendations for oral hygiene care nursing intervention in critically ill patients requiring ventilation in an effort to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. In addition, the writer demonstrates the ability to grapple with the challenges in arriving at evidence-based interventions and the difficulty of adopting these interventions in the practice setting.

The paper will be 8 pages’ narrative (2000 words) plus a title page and a reference page. Use APA format (1 inch margins on all sides, double space, Times New Roman,12-point font).

Title page: Refer to your APA Manual and view how to format a title page APA-style. Owl Purdue Writing Lab can also be a helpful resource – scroll down to Title Page and an example is provided https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Reference page: Refer to your APA manual to see a sample of proper format for your reference page, Owl Purdue Writing Lab can also be a helpful resource https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Please note APA style regarding how initials and authors’ last names are placed, where periods are placed, where commas are placed, how journal name and volume are italicized, how the issue number is not italicized but instead is placed in parentheses, and the listing of the doi number.

Directions: Read the THREE citations listed below the following questions.. Within your 8-page paper I want you to discuss the following questions:

Focusing solely on oral hygiene care for critically ill patients as a measure to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, how do these reports confirm or call in to question the use of oral-hygiene as an effective nursing intervention?
What do we know about effective nursing interventions for this patient population?
What do we not know? What are some remaining unanswered questions?
Summarize the challenges of identifying clear-cut recommendations for practice.
What are some of the challenges for nurses in practice settings as they attempt to implement these recommendations?
Citations to Review in Preparation for Completing Revised Assignment

Clicking on the references below will take you to the MSU,M library electronic resources page—you will be asked to enter your Star Id# followed by your password. At that time you will be able to access the journal articles.

Berry, A. M., Davidson, P. M., Masters, J., & Rolls, K. (2007). Systematic literature review of oral hygiene practices for intensive care patients receiving mechanical ventilation. American Journal of Critical Care, 16(6), 552+.
Cason, C. L., Tyner, T., Saunders, S., & Broome, L. (2007). Nurses implementation of guidelines for ventilator-associated pneumonia from the centers for disease control and prevention. American Journal of Critical Care, 16(1), 28 http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/content/16/1/28.full
Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.mnsu.edu/ps/i.do?p=EAIM&sw=w&u=mnamsumank&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA171139136&sid=summon&asid=d44b56f239c673383bc52be332a2a2b8

2.Faug, H., Huixu, X., Worthington, H., Furness, S., Zhang, A. & Chunjie, L. Cochrane Data Base of Systematic Reviews, Oral hygiene care for critically ill patients to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. Cochrane Oral Health Group, doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008367. pub3
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008367.pub3/abstract;jsessionid=CEF7E825E9077438DEE1815112F599A5.f04t02

Discussion:Writing Intensive Component Course

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.