Assignments that ask you to apply your growing knowledge about medicine and care practices can take different forms: a nursing care plan, a concept map, or a nursing process paper. For these practice papers, you offer your readers
a detailed client history and a nursing diagnosis of the client’s health problems
the interventions you recommend for the client
your rationales for the interventions
expected outcomes for your client
actual, observed outcomes
A concept map is both an assignment type and an important technique that students can use to understand how to approach a question that arises in nursing care, such as how to care for a client with a particular illness. Students create a visual diagram that shows the connections between the possible diagnoses, the client and medical research data that could support each diagnosis, and the plans for client care that follow from each diagnosis.
Sample: Nursing practice paper
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Statements of philosophy
Case studies
Research papers
Literature reviews
Experiential or reflective narratives
Position papers