Write an introduction to the Quality Benchmark Project.
Assignment:School of Nursing Quality Benchmark

Question Description
Please read the instructions and rubrics for the entire Quality Benchmark Project before starting this assignment. They will provide you with an overview of all three components.

Due: There is nothing to submit this week. You will work on your proposal over weeks 1 and 2. It is submitted at the end of week 2.

Step 1: By Sunday of week 2, write a two-page proposal identifying a significant quality issue that you will research for this project. Your paper should include a title page and a reference page. Be sure that you address each requirement. Use headings to differentiate each topic areas. In your proposal, provide the following information:

Write an introduction to the Quality Benchmark Project.
Describe the quality issue to be addressed.
Provide background information on the issue.
Examine previous attempts to address the issue.
Step 2: Save and submit your assignment to the assignment drop box in week 2.

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.