hello 1st visit to site

[jaybird1]

Hi

Just registered on the site and started as a student this January. My 1st assignment is describe the role of nurse in today's society- thought I might discuss the last decade and changes in healthcare- good idea or am I way off mark ? have not much of an idea being a mature student and not written an essay since school-over 20 years ago...:innerconf

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Welcome to the site

Moving this to the UK forum for further input

[scattycarrot, BSN, RN]

I think you might be biting off alot trying to discuss the last decade and changes in healthcare and unless your writing a dissertation, your word allowance will be swallowed up quickly. The key to writing good papers is to focus on a particular subject or area. If you try and write too broadly, you won't be answering any question in sufficient depth to please any tutor.

So, what I suggest is this and this is a good method to use when you are given any assignment is to brainstorm. Get a big piece of paper and write 'nurses role' or similiar in the middle and just write down things coming off of there that you think of....eg, I am thinking of expansion of nurses role, eg NP or perhaps, heathcare policies affecting nurses abiltity to carry out their roles, or public view of nurses role and is it correct, or how nurses view their own roles, or has the increase in bachelor level nursing changed the nurses role, etc...and so on. I am sure there are lots more. Once you have done that, ideas should start flowing and you might come up with a more focused plan of attack. Once you have done that, put together a essay plan and run it by your tutor before you even write a word. USE your tutors, thats what they are there for. I assume they have given you some guidance on essay writing and on this assigment?if so , refer back to the guidance often. If this is your first essay in a while, have you got your essay structure and referencing all figured out. If not, then I would do some reading around that before you start or your university or college should have a learning assistance program that might be able to help you. As I said about the tutors..utilise all the help thats out there. I got my BSC last year after not studying for something like 8 years and I did really well but only because I used the tools available to me and asked my tutors for guidance.

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

Hi Welcome to all nurses