o Your topic is “How Secondary Traumatic Stress (caring for a patient who dies) [must be secondary NOT post-traumatic stress as a patient who had a severe morbidity] affects the nurse’s ability to continue to work ([professional] compassion fatigue)”. Add how they coped if mentioned.
▪ You can use articles related to:
▪ Nurses working with traumatic birth or maternal mortality
▪ Nurses working with COVID patients
▪ Nurses working Oncology
▪ Nurses working Palliative or Hospice Care
▪ Nurses working Emergency Department
▪ Nurses working ICU
▪ Nurses working in OR
▪ but it must be Secondary Traumatic Stress (witnessing/ caring for someone else dying) and it has to be from the professional’s perspective, not the spouse, family or friend.
o 4-6 pages
o Minimum of 3 current (5 years or less) evidenced based articles (fact sheets and blogs are not evidenced based articles, but can be used as a 4th source, as can your textbook)
▪ Full Articles must be submitted with the paper, these can of course be PDFs
o No abstract is needed.
o APA format is necessary, use the APA 7th edition guidelines. The citations and reference page must be done in correct APA style. The library has at least 2 librarians versed in APA style, make sure you tell them you need help with an APA paper when you make your first phone call. The writing center can help. So can the free website Purdue Owl. Do NOT rely on Microsoft’s APA style, it makes many mistakes. The APA site might help, but frequently sites their book. Website for APA style: http://www.apastyle.org/ (http://www.apastyle.org/)
o The APA paper is due before the fourth exam, or preferably before school starts. Email it to me with the articles.
o Do not send your paper as a PDF. I can’t make comments on a PDF
o It is worth 2 points AFTER you achieve a passing grade and will be the only
additional points offered.