Cultural factors in pain management: nurse practitioner perspectives and practices

¶ … experiencing pain is influenced by the cultural factors of the patient. Do you think that it is essential for the Nurse Practitioners to consider the culture of the patient's continuous pain when treating him or her? Write a paper of 3000 words using scholarly articles and in correct APA format. Attach the interviews with the file you submit.

Objective No. 1: Thesis Statement and Introduction of different religions and the clinical practices involved with the use of scholarly articles:

Provide a clear thesis statement with well-reasoned support

Provide a short orientation to the topic, covering the historical aspects with the help of scholarly articles. Mention different religious concepts like Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Jewish

Provide Scope of the Topic, with relevant statistical data from scholarly articles

Include previous research studies and their limitations

Include a paragraph of how different your essay is from the previous researches that you have gone through. Mention and compare at least 3 research studies with yours.

Objective No. 3: Conduct two interviews using 'Structured Interview Guide'; one with a nurse practitioner in your surrounding area and gain her experience and expertise on the topic, and the second one with a person who is culturally and religiously influenced. Analyze the information collected.

Take help from the 'structured interview guide' to establish specific and detailed questions for both interviews and then add those questions in your interview to help you with the whole process.

Conduct interview of a nurse practitioner and a person who is culturally and religiously influenced. Attach the interview with the essay for submission.

Write a summary of the information that you have gathered during the interview and analyze the facts with the research done in the literature review. Discuss the issues that you think are different in the present days.

Analyze how this issue would influence and is influencing the area of nursing profession and what changes are expected to be seen in the future in this profession (MAT, n.d.).

Objective No. 4: Conclude the essay by summarizing all the main points of the research. Mention the limitations in your research and give recommendations for future research.

Summarize the main points of the essay. Provide your own opinion in one paragraph and address the perspectives of both the nurse practitioner and the patient.

The conclusion of the essay should contain complete flow from introduction till the end.

Cover all the limitations that you faced during your work; research and conducting the interviews.

Give authentic recommendations that you think might help in the improvement of the issue and address both sides.

Objective No. 5: Correct APA format for references and citations

The references and citation method must follow the correct guidelines of the APA format. You can access the guidelines from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/

The references should not include Wikipedia or any other sources similar to it. No secondary data like websites should be used. Only Scholarly articles should be used.

The essay should not contain any plagiarism, grammatical or sentence and paragraph structural errors. This will result in the deduction or marks.

Follow the grade rubric attached in the file

Grading Rubric (Excelsior, 2013)

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Content:

Logical response to the title. Clear thesis statement defended logically

Scholarly work. Clear formation of thesis.

Evident scholarly work with minor requirements for the point. Unclear support for thesis

Supporting statements or thesis statements are incomplete or insignificant but the topic is addressed

Unclear thesis statement; irrelevant and inaccurate material

Not attempted

Organization:

Visible work with presence of introduction, body and conclusion. Requirement of length followed with a flow.

Logical and precise information throughout. Fulfills the required length

Flow of information followed with minor irregularities interrupting the organization. Meeting the length requirement

Awkward organizational style and unclear points in the paper. Length requirement not fulfilled accurately

Superficial and illogical writing. Length requirement not followed

Not attempted

APA format and References:

Correct and consistent use of the APA format. Accurate references including correct publication date and number. No plagiarism

Error free APA format. Use of more than three current and appropriate references. Correct citations and references without a hint of plagiarism.

Few errors in the APA format. Two current and appropriate references used. Few errors in citation and references. No plagiarism

Inconsistent use of APA format. One current reference. Several mistakes in citations and references. No plagiarism

No use of APA format. Incorrect citations and references. No plagiarism.

Not attempted

Sentence Structure and Grammar:

Sound paragraph and sentence structure, no grammar or spelling errors

Well established paragraph and sentence structure. Error free grammar and spelling

Some evident errors in paragraph and sentence structure and grammar/spellings.

Plenty of spelling and grammatical errors. Disorganized paragraph and sentence structure

Unclear writing

Not attempted