PURPOSE

To enhance your nursing practice by developing a greater understanding of the experience of chronicity.

GUIDELINES

1. Select a patient population (age group/developmental stage and a specific chronic disease) that experiences this concept.

2. Use two journal articles from current peer reviewed professional journals, from 2004 to date, and/or earlier foundational articles. One journal article will be provided in the informatics class. The second article must be submitted with the paper.

3. Summarize separately key ideas from each article. Summary should be brief but thorough.

4. Analyze the key ideas from the two articles discussing possible relationships between key ideas. Describe relevance of the concept to your patient population.

5. Discuss the application of the key ideas to nursing practice across the hospital setting.

6. Additional sources of literature and course content should be utilized for discussing the relevance of the concept to the patient populations and for application to nursing practice when applicable.

7. The chronicity paper checklist must be completed and handed in with the assignment.