Nursing Theory, APA Please use the Order Rough Draft Paper to complete this assignment With the rough draft of your nursing comparison paper due this week, a focused review of the basics of APA Style is important. After you have reviewed the APA guidelines, share something you learned with your peers.

Nursing Theory, APA Please use the Order Rough Draft Paper to complete this assignment With the rough draft of your nursing comparison paper due this week, a focused review of the basics of APA Style is important. After you have reviewed the APA guidelines, share something you learned with your peers.

APA Style

American Psychological Association style is a widely used academic writing format by many fields of studies. It helps organize the basics of writing concepts to enable the reader to analyze, examine and internalize the information being portrayed in the research with ease. This review focuses on the basics of APA style and its importance in comparing grand theory and middle-range theory that I was assigned.

Lessons Learnt

The APA styles have enhanced my writing skills, especially in structuring sentences. For instance, I have constructed grammatically correct sentences with good punctuations that improve the excellent flow of information through my entire research work, thus providing good clarity and easy navigation between the sentences. APA formatting has also helped me focus on scholarly sources for good quality ideas that help me understand the scope of my study and find the appropriate research guidelines to apply to enhance good performance in my projects.

The APA formatting has helped me derive critical ideas that can be used to write quality academic studies. There are ways of paraphrasing information from original scholarly studies. Based on the research paper I was working on, an example is in the first paragraph of the introduction. I rephrased the statement, ‘grand theories are broad and essential in organizing knowledge for studies, thus applicable in nursing practice (Hjørland, 2017).’

Another form of generating ideas from a scholarly article using the APA style is through direct quoting and ensuring that you cite the scholars to help the reader or professor identify that the information is secondary and not your personal information. For example, in the major concepts, assumptions, and relationships category on Patricia’s Novice to Expert theory. I directly quoted the words of the author: ‘Novice nurses can acquire skills and knowledge at the beginner level and can complete treatment requirements and assigned orders through the help of experienced nurses (Ozdemir, 2019).’

Attached are references from the draft copy

Hjørland, B. (2017). Theories are knowledge organizing systems (KOS). KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, 42(2), 113-128. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Birger-Hjorland/publication/281676363_Theories_are_Knowledge_Organizing_Systems_KOS/links/5662edf108ae4931cd5ec16f/Theories-are-Knowledge-Organizing-Systems-KOS.pdf

Khademian, Z., Ara, F. K., & Gholamzadeh, S. (2020). The effect of self care education based on orem’s nursing theory on quality of life and self-efficacy in patients with hypertension: a quasi-experimental study. International journal of community based nursing and midwifery, 8(2), 140.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7153422/

McEwen, M., & Wills, E. M. (2017). Theoretical basis for nursing (5th ed.). LWW.https://dl.uswr.ac.ir/bitstream/Hannan/141162/1/9781496351203.pdf

Ozdemir, N. G. (2019). The development of nurses’ individualized care perceptions and practices: Benner’s novice to expert model perspective. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 12(2), 1279-1285. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nur-Gueven-Oezdemir/publication/335665343_The_Development_of_Nurses’_Individualized_Care_Perceptions_and_Practices_Benner’s_Novice_to_Expert_Model_Perspective/links/5d72b3d44585151ee4a14deb/The-Development-of-Nurses-Individualized-Care-Perceptions-and-Practices-Benners-Novice-to-Expert-Model-Perspective.pdf