[ORDER] GNRS-588 FAITH INTEGRATION PAPER

FAITH INTEGRATION PAPER

One of the Cornerstones of Azusa Pacific University is Service. Your Faith Integration paper (written in English) will focus on how you will incorporate your faith or worldview into your diverse community of service as a nurse practitioner. In this formal research paper, I want you to substantiate your thoughts with viable academic resources (minimum of two academic resources which one of the resources can be the Bible).

Challenge yourself to look at your career as a nurse practitioner looking through the lens of a cultural advocate and holistic health provider. Look at ways on how you can impact your patients or your colleagues on a cultural level and on a faith/worldview level.

For example, each week you have been challenged to reflect on faith and cultural views. Utilize what you already know and what you have learned to expand upon your outlook on how to treat patients that are from a different cultural than your own. Take one aspect of faith (what motivates you to make an impact in your world) and integrate it into your culturally diverse medical practice.

Guidelines:

• Create a thesis based on your interest in Focus on the “why” you want to write about this area of medicine and how your personal faith/worldview/perspective will help motivate you to make a difference.
• Make this paper You are permitted to use the 3rd person when writing this paper.
• Two or more resources are required to substantiate and support your thesis statement. One viable resource you can use is the Bible.
• The Faith Integration paper should include:
  • An APA formatted title page
  • Two or more pages of content
    • Font size: 12
    • Double spaced
    • Margins: 1”
    • Formal and professional language
  • One APA formatted resource page
    • Two or more academic resources
    • Include personal faith/worldview/perspective to support your personal connection

Examples of thesis statements:

• Focus on the increase of cases of Latino patients with latter stages of Come up with strategies on how to demonstrate the importance of preventative care. Include methods of approach that would include holistic care: language services, sensitivity to traditions, cultural norms, and personal beliefs. How would your personal culture, belief and traditions help you to convey this vital information?
• Share a personal experience (write in the first person) on your own personal growth since becoming a nurse/nurse practitioner and working with culturally diverse patients. Give an example on how you have grown as a person and how your personal faith/belief/worldview has changed. What challenges are you facing in becoming a culturally competent nurse? What ways assist you in becoming more culturally aware or sensitive? Does your faith/belief/worldview influence the way you treat your patients?
• Research the various methods/approaches/training modules that are available to healthcare providers to increase their cultural awareness and/or cultural sensitivity. Share your thoughts on the pros and cons of these methods/approaches/training modules. Based on your personal faith/belief/worldview, how can increasing your cultural knowledge help you understand your patients better? You can include methods on how to raise patient compliancy rates and patient satisfaction scores.

Each week you will submit a section of your paper for review.

• Week 7 – Submit one or two sentences stating your thesis or main idea for your Faith Integration paper. (10 points)
• Week 8 – Submit the title of your paper and two or more academic resources (that