CDC Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative Discussion Paper
Construct a professional paper that outlines the advanced practice role – as a nurse educator, a nurse leader, or a nurse practitioner – to advance the CDC’s antibiotic resistance initiative. The paper needs to be a minimum of six (5) pages [excluding title and reference pages] consistent with APA style without an abstract page. The paper is worth 40 points.
Please include the following:
- Introduction that identifies your advanced practice role and your view of how that role will be able to impact the antibiotic resistance dilemma. Support your discussion with at least two references from the literature.
- Review the CDC’s goals and identify one of the CDC’s key strategies that you will be able to promote/support in your advanced practice role. Support your discussion with at least two references from the literature.
- Discuss three activities/actions that you will develop to support the promotion of the key strategy that you identified in item 2 above. Each action/activity needs to be well designed and supported with at least one reference from the literature. [For example, if you are a nurse educator student – in what course(s) will you be able to promote your identified key strategies, be specific about what that would look like using example lesson plan(s), identify any active learning strategies you will utilize, etc., and provide justification for your strategies, etc.; if you are a nurse leader student – what program(s) and activities will you engage with relative to your organization, be that existing programs or creation of new programs, reporting mechanisms, development of collaborative committees, etc., and provide justification for your strategies, etc.; if you are a nurse practitioner student – what prescribing practices, patient education practices, monitoring programs, etc., will you engage with, and provide justification for your strategies, etc.
- The paper is to be formatted according to APA style
Estimated time to complete: 3 hours
Rubric
NU636 Unit 6 Assignment Rubric
| Criteria | Ratings | Pts | |
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| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFirst Prompt |
10 pts 5 Well-developed introduction, with a minimum of two references identified.
8 pts 4 An introduction, with a minimum of two references identified.
6 pts 3 An introduction, missing a minimum of two references identified.
0 pts 0 No introduction or references
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10 pts |
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| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSecond Prompt |
15 pts 5 Identified one key CDC strategy, with a minimum of two references identified.
12 pts 4 Identified one key CDC strategy, with only one reference identified.
9 pts 3 Identified one key CDC strategy, no reference identified.
0 pts 0 No key CDC strategy, no reference identified.
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15 pts |
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| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThird Prompt |
10 pts 5 Identified 3 activities/actions each supported with at least one reference.
9 pts 4 Identified 2 activities/actions each supported with at least one reference.
7 pts 3 Identified 1 activities/actions each supported with at least one reference.
0 pts 0 No activities/actions each supported with at least one reference.
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10 pts |
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| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA and Grammar |
5 pts 5 Paper is constructed in APA style and demonstrates graduate level grammar competency
4 pts 4 Paper is constructed in APA style and demonstrates less than graduate level grammar competency
3 pts 3 Paper is NOT constructed in APA style and demonstrates undergraduate level grammar competency
0 pts 0 Paper is NOT constructed in APA style and demonstrates less than graduate level grammar competency
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5 pts |
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| Total Points: 40 | |||
