A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions with 2020 APA Update
A Writer's Help Guidebook SeriesFirst Edition| ©2020 Stephen Bernhardt; Nancy Sommers
A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction
A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction they need to complete writing tasks successfully. Students will find advice on how to think, read, research, and design and write papers, and projects and presentations like a nurse or health professional.
Coverage includes the following topics, all focused on the specific needs of writers in nursing and health professions:
- Writing process
- Conventions in the discipline
- Integrating and evaluating sources
- Documentation style required in the discipline--with plenty of models
- Sample student writing
ISBN:9781319370350
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A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction they need to complete writing tasks successfully. Students will find advice on how to think, read, research, and design and write papers, and projects and presentations like a nurse or health professional.
Coverage includes the following topics, all focused on the specific needs of writers in nursing and health professions:
- Writing process
- Conventions in the discipline
- Integrating and evaluating sources
- Documentation style required in the discipline--with plenty of models
- Sample student writing
Features
A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions was crafted by a subject matter expert currently teaching in the discipline, in collaboration with Writer’s Help authors Stephen Bernhardt and Nancy Sommers.
Designed with affordability and portability in mind, the writing guide is available as an ebook.
The guide features Editing Strategies, an appendix that offers trusted instruction to help students identify and fix common sentence-level trouble spots.
Practice activities, written by the contributing author, build students’ confidence with key writing and research topics.
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A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions with 2020 APA Update
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Stephen Bernhardt; Nancy Sommers
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A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions with 2020 APA Update
First Edition| 2020
Stephen Bernhardt; Nancy Sommers
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions
Thinking like a nurse or health professional
Questions nurses and health professionals ask
Kinds of evidence nurses and health professionals use
Ethics in nursing and health professions
Researching nursing and health professions
Using databases to find research publications
Primary and secondary sources
Evaluating online resources
Reading the nursing and health professions literature
Active reading
The range of articles in nursing and health professions
The structure of research articles
Hypotheses and hypothesis testing
The structure of evidence-based practice review articles
How to read a research study
How to evaluate a research study
Writing papers and projects in nursing and health professions
Considering your purpose
Understanding your audience and their needs
Forming a thesis, hypothesis, and research question
Planning, organizing, and drafting a paper
Revising and editing
Writing conventions in nursing and health professions
Phrasing for clarity, concision, and directness
Choosing vocabulary
Presenting data
Integrating, citing, and documenting sources
Avoiding plagiarism and recognizing intellectual property
Quoting and summarizing sources
In-text citations in APA style
Reference section in APA style
APA manuscript format
Genres of writing in nursing and health professions
Abstract
Annotated bibliography
Literature review
Best practice paper
Research proposal
Case study or observation report
Narrative, history, care and treatment plan, and clinical interview
Reflection on learning
Short-answer or descriptive response
Poster presentation or health science talk
Glossary of vocabulary in nursing and health professions
Practice activities
Practice activity: Planning a research study
Practice activity: Questions nurses can answer
Practice activity: Making ethical decisions
Practice activity: Primary vs. secondary sources
Practice activity: Evaluating online information
Practice activity: Locating and evaluating sources
Practice activity: Reading and evaluating research studies
Practice activity: Understanding results statements
Practice activity: Writing abstracts
Practice activity: Editing and citing in APA Style
Practice activity: Citing sources in APA style
Practice activity: In-text citations in APA style 1
Practice activity: In-text citations in APA style 2
Answers to selected activities
Sample student writing: Nursing and health professions
Case study analysis: Managing Blood Pressure
Clinical care plan: One Day With One Patient
Nursing practice paper: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Hypertension in One Client
Short answer: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
More help with documentation: APA style
APA-style reference list: Additional examples
Editing strategies
Subject-verb agreement
Pronoun agreement, reference, and case
Strong verbs
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Distracting shifts
Parallel structure
Clear, uncluttered sentences
Sentence emphasis
Commas
Apostrophes
Quotation marks
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A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions with 2020 APA Update
First Edition| 2020
Stephen Bernhardt; Nancy Sommers
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Nancy Sommers
Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and editor of Tiny Teaching Stories on Macmillan Learning’s Bits Blog.
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A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions with 2020 APA Update
First Edition| 2020
Stephen Bernhardt; Nancy Sommers
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