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many different types of writing in nursing, some that I found are
experiential narrative, argument paper, portfolio, concept or nursing
process
mapping, correspondence, research paper, and charting.
Narrative writing is
telling a personal story, an argument paper is trying to make a point
while also
stating another, the portfolio will be used to evaluate nurses,
concepts help
nurses view relationships among clinical data and to apply theory
(George). Correspondence is about writing
a letter
versus writing a memo, research paper is self explanatory, and charting
can
include communicating information, assisting evaluation, and providing
a legal
record (George). Weather you are going to be a nurse or not it is
important to know how to site sources; on Lynchburg College's web site
is dedicated to helping nurses cite sources in their writing.
They believe that all
citations must include surnames of the authors and the date of the
source
document. Also that direct quotes
should be kept to a minimum, if the quote is more than five lines then
you
should indent five spaces for each line. Your paper will look
more credible if the sources come from
published books and journal
rather than newspapers and magazines (Lynchburg). Writing is essential to
nursing for a number of different reasons. Patient care, issues
of nursing liability, and the learning of different nursing skills are
all depend upon writing as a tool and source of
communication(Romberger). Writing also occurs in the forms of
nurses' notes, clinical studies, and scholarly research
(Romberger). Much has been written about the role the writing
plays in the development of student nurses into professionals.
There is a bibliography on OWL which is an online writing lab site and
it is intended to be a starting place for people interested in using
writing in their courses or as a resource for those who are already
using writing in their courses but are looking for new ways to
implement its use. I found it useful with help in this project, so if you
teacher makes you do a writing project this site will help
(owl.english.purdue.edu).
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