Identify your chosen nursing-related concept; describe the clinical problem and the significance of this concept to nursing in general and then specifically to your practice.

Concept Analysis Assignment

 

Directions: Learning teams will conduct a concept analysis and write an APA-style paper.  Read and become familiar with the eight steps of concept analysis outlined by Walker and Avant (2011). Teams will select a nursing-related concept and explore it in the literature.  Analyze the concept in detail and develop cases to represent a model, borderline, related, and contrary use of the concept.

 

Paper Guidelines & Grading Rubric (100 points)

Each learning team submits one group paper in APA format (see APA & Writing Resources) A minimum of 10 references.  At least five (5) should be contemporary resources (within 5 years); the remainder of references can be from seminal work, dictionaries, etc.  This assignment does not require an abstract or table of contents.  However, level headings, running head, and U-approved title pages must be included.  Please consult APA & Writing resources for a sample title page and U format requirements.

 

Refer to N Standardized Point Deductions and the Scholarly Writing Expectation for possible point deductions based on basic grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and formatting.  For this paper, you may use more than two direct quotes- include the page or paragraph number; otherwise, it is considered plagiarism.   Maximum of 10 pages, not including your U-approved title page or references.  Points will be deducted if the page limit is exceeded.

 

Walker, L. O., & Avant, K. C. (2011). Concept analysis. In Strategies for theory construction in nursing (5^th ed., pp. 157-178). Prentice-Hall.

 

Walker & Avant Steps:		Points Possible
1	Identify your chosen nursing-related concept; describe the clinical problem and the significance of this concept to nursing in general and then specifically to your practice. (This can be the introduction)	10
2	Define the aim of the concept analysis. “Why am I doing this analysis?”	10
3	Identify all the uses of the concept.	10
4	What are the defining attributes of this concept?	10
5	Identify a model case. Bold the defining attributes	5
6	Identify and describe a borderline case.	5
	Identify and describe a related case.	5
	Identify and describe a contrary case.	5
7	Identify antecedents related to the concept.	5
	Identify consequences related to the concept.	5
8	Define the empirical referents of the concept.	5
	Summarize the key points regarding the concept.	10
	Written Appearance	15