care of the older adult

  1. Course Competency:

    • Compare the care models for nursing practice specific to the older adult.

    Transferable Skill:

    • Information Literacy: Discovering informationreflectively, understanding how information is produced and valued, and usinginformation to create new knowledge and participate ethically in communities oflearning.

    Your nursing supervisor likes the topic you chose for the in-service presentation and wants you to start researching! To make sure you get the project on the right track, your supervisor has asked you to do the following:

    1. Using the Rasmussen Library, identify 2 resources pertaining to your topic.
    2. Prepare an annotated bibliography for each resource you identified.
    3. Each annotated bibliography will include:
    4. an accurate APA formatted reference
    5. an annotation consisting of the following elements:
    • 2 to 4 sentences summarizing the main idea(s) of the resource
    • 1 or 2 sentences to evaluate the resource
    • 1 or 2 sentences to reflect on the resource

    For information about making a research appointment with a Rasmussen librarian, evaluating the credibility of a source, or creating an annotated bibliography, consult the resources below.

    • Need assistance with research?

    Once you receive your graded submission, be sure to review the supervisor’s feedback. You want to make sure that your next submission shows that you made appropriate improvements based on the feedback.
    Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
    Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
    Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504 This assignment needs AP a format and author of the book.