Explain the relevance of the information sources


Assignment: Health Care Issues

Create a 3-5-page annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best practices addressing one of the health care problems or issues in the Assessment Topic Areas media piece faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Introduction

In your professional life you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and your plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing health care environment. Being adept at research will help you find the information you need. For this assessment, you will review the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues to research a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.

o Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.

• Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.

o Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.
o Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
o Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.

• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, and that is consistent with expectations for health care professionals.

o Summarize a health care problem or issue and describe a personal interest in it and experience with it.
o Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
o Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.

Instructions

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

For this assessment, you will research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 3. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking.

4. View the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues in the media piece to research. Write a brief overview of the selected topic. In your overview:

• Describe the health care problem or issue.
• Describe your interest in the topic.
• Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.

5. Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used.

• You will want to access the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide related to your degree for tips to help you in your search.
• Use keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.

6. Assess the credibility of the information sources you find.

• Determine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.
• Determine if the publication is current.
• Determine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.

7. Select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past three to five years that relate to your topic.

8. Explain the relevance of the information sources.

• Describe how the health care problem or issue is addressed in each source.
• Discuss what kind of contribution each source provides on your selected topic.

9. Analyze the scholarly literature or academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.

• The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic.

• List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography.

• Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.

• Follow the reference with the annotation.

10. In your annotation:

• Identify the purpose of the article.
• Summarize the source:

o What are the main arguments?
o What topics are covered?

• Include the conclusions and findings of the article.

• Write your annotation in a paragraph form. The annotation should be approximately 150 words (1 to 3 paragraphs) in length.

11. In a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper, summarize what you learned from your research.

• List the main points you learned from your research.
• Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.

Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

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