Topic:  Increase of unemployment rate of International educated nurses in Canada

Issue:  Nursing shortage

Instructions:

APA 6th ed. must be followed. (American Psychological Association (2010). Publication manual of the American psychological association (6th ed.) Washington, DC: Author.)

*The framework from pages 7 – 11 in the McIntyre textbook (McIntyre, M. & Tomlinson, E., & McDonald, C. (2014). Realities of Canadian nursing:

Professional, practice, and power issues (4th Ed.). New York: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.) will shape the paper. Within this paper you will choose and examine a nursing issue/problem, articulate why it is relevant to nursing, analyze the issue from a social, political, and economic perspective, identify the potential barriers to resolution, and strategies for resolution. In each section of your paper you will use evidence from the literature to support your argument. Students must review resources (such as evidence-based, scholarly literature, media, and professional standards) beyond assigned readings to establish a context for the issue.

Nursing Issue Paper

Within your paper incorporate the following headings:

• Situating the Topic
• Articulating the Issue
• Analyzing the Issue
  • Social and Cultural Analysis of the Issue
  • Political Analysis of the Issue
  • Economic Analysis of the Issue
• Barriers to Resolution
• Strategies for Resolution
• Conclusion
• References

Description of each paper section:

• Situating the Topic

In this section you will describe what is known about the topic and what assumptions/biases are held related to the topic.  Use literature and evidence to support what is known about the topic and to establish the issue.

• Articulating the Issue

In this section describe why this issue is relevant to nursing and health care, how nursing and others are involved in the issue, and who brought this issue up.

• Analyzing the Issue

Within this section you will respond to the questions in the categories below to enhance your understanding of differing aspects of the issue:

• • social and cultural
  • political and
  • economic

• Barriers to Resolution

In this section you will identify barriers that hinder the resolution of the issue

• Strategies for Resolution

In this section you will provide your rationale and creative recommendations (2) for implementing strategies to address and resolve the issue. Note: 1 based on your analysis of the literature and 1 to be new and innovative.

• Conclusion

You will provide a conclusion that summarizes the full paper

• References