The above titles are designed to be broad in scope. Therefore your answer should be narrowed down to an aim that should be clarified in your introduction. Define concepts and provide sources for them before applying them.
Bibliography
Purchase
Temple, J. (2012) Becoming a Registered Nurse. Making the Transition to Practice (Transforming Nursing Practice Series) due for release July.
Essential
Burton, R, Ormrod, G. (Ed) (2011) Nursing: Transition to Professional Practice. Oxford: OU Press.
Jasper, M. (2006) Professional development, reflection and decision making. Oxford: Blackwell
Recommended
Clark, T. and Holmes, S. (2007) ‘Fit for Practice? An exploration of the development of newly qualified nurses using focus groups’ International Journal of Nursing Studies 44, pp.1210-1220
Dimond, B. (2008) Legal aspects of nursing. 5th edn. Harlow: Pearson Education
Standing, M. (Ed) (2010) Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing and Interprofessional Health Care. Berkshire: OU Press.
Background
Billett, S & Henderson, A. (Ed) (2010) Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings (Professional and Practice-based Learning). Queensland: Springer.
Lauder, W., Watson, R., Topping, K., Holland, K., Johnson, M., Porter, M., Roxburgh, M. and Behr, A. (2008) ‘An evaluation of fitness for practice curricula: self-efficacy, support and self-reported competence in preregistration student nurses and midwives’ Journal of Clinical Nursing 17 pp. 1858-1867
Robinson, S. and Griffiths, P. (2009) Scoping review Preceptorship for newly qualified nurses: impacts, facilitators and constraints National Nursing Research Unit King’s College London Available at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/05/06/70/PreceptorshipReview.pdf
Roberts, D. and Johnson, M. (2009) Editorial ‘Newly qualified nurses: Competence or confidence?’ Nurse Education Today 29 (5) 467-468
Journals
British Journal of Nursing
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Nurse Education Today
Nurse Education in Practice
Nursing Times
Nursing Standard
Websites
Burdett Trust for Nursing www.burdettnursingtrust.org.uk
Department of Health www.doh.gov.uk
Care Quality Commission www.cqc.org.uk
Foundation of Nursing Studies www.fons.org.uk
Kings Fund www.kingsfund.org.uk
National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence www.nice.org.uk
Nursing & Midwifery Council www.nmc-org.uk
Patients Association www.patients-association.org.uk
Royal College of Nursing www.rcn.org.uk
Social Care Institute for Excellence www.scie.org.uk
The Foundation of Nursing Leadership www.nursingleadership.org.uk
General assessment criteria
The above titles are designed to be broad in scope. Therefore your answer should be narrowed down to an aim that should be clarified in your introduction.
Define concepts and provide sources for them before applying them.
Critique theories by comparing and contrasting them.
Enrich your synthesis with illustrations to underpin theories and your arguments.
Diagrams, Models Tables and Graphs should be appended to the essay. A maximum of three Appendices is permitted.
Structural Criteria
The essay should be double spaced with a 12 point font (Arial preferred).
The actual word count of your essay must be specified on your essay script.
Word counts over 1650 words will be penalised by 5 % for every 250 words over.
There should be a minimum of 10 different, academically credible references in your text. Non academic references such as CD Rom, Internet and serious Business Press sources can be included in addition to the ten academic references.
Must follow this mark scheme
Introduction –
Key Aims
Quality of Definitions –
Evidence of research
Quality of Analysis,
Synthesis & Evaluation
Quality of Illustration –
Application of case
or placement?
Overall Comments –
Creativity of appendices