English Comp II nursing paper topics

[j.cox]

Hi fellow nursing students! I'm in my last term before the "real" nursing classes at Concorde. I have a 10 page paper due in English Comp II and what I thought I was going to do my paper on is coming up with a lot of dead ends in my research... sites/databases I can't get access to. I'm seeking suggestions! It has to be a nursing topic of course. Thank you!

[neurodude, MSN, NP]

What exactly do you have to write? Do you have to research a disease or research the profession?

[j.cox]

Hi! The subject should be about the nursing profession. It seems everyone is writing about nurse burnout or the effects of under-staffing on nurses and patient care... along those lines. It's an English class so the focus is more on our research and writing skills. I was up crazy late last night studying and I thought maybe I should write about the effects of shiftwork on nurses! What do you think?

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Do what you are comfortable researching; use CINAHL as a source for your research topic.

[MKIVSupraRN]

Write about Nurse Bullying. You can find thousands of peer-reviewed nursing articles about it, then if you do it. you can use that paper and research for your capstone project at the very end of the nursing program.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Part of the reason you are assigned this is to see what interests you have in your profession. In my opinion, you can both position yourself well to begin thinking about being a nurse and have a more highly-developed sense of the profession (thus getting the jump in your classmates) by avoiding the trendy staffing, advanced practice, and (heavy sigh) "bulling/lateral violence" topics and putting some small effort into the underpinnings of nursing.

You could very easily do ten pages on a quick and dirty survey on the various ways prominent nurses have viewed nursing over the last century (or less). You owe it to yourself to Google "nursing theories" and spend half an hour clicking the names on the list. Each has a short description of what nursing is. As an example, my personal favorite is that nursing does things for people that they can't do for themselves--until they can. Famous names: Orem, Callista Roy, and others, and of course Nightingale.

You might also be interested in the classic stuff on progress from novice to expert by Patricia Benner. Knowing THAT would be a great way to jump start both your nursing education and your entry into practice (capstone), too.

You can thank me later, and you will:)

Welcome to nursing!