mini paper
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
NURS 610
Instructions for Mini-Paper
Purpose of Mini-Paper
The purpose of this assignment is to provide practice in formatting a scholarly paper according to
the standards set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (“APA
manual”). You will receive detailed feedback, after which you will be expected to apply that direction to
all of your subsequent assignments, including discussion postings, unless otherwise directed.
Supplementing your own copy of the APA manual is a PowerPoint presentation under Course
Resources on the Canvas home page that outlines the basic elements of APA format. As noted in the
presentation, the PowerPoint slides do not replace the APA manual, but serve to highlight the most
common APA elements that students are expected know. As noted elsewhere, relying on a template in
Microsoft Word is not a good idea, as some elements of that template are inaccurate.
Topic of Mini-Paper
The expectation of this paper is to compose a brief summary of the history of advanced practice
nursing, including the separate histories of nurse practitioners (NPs), certified nurse-midwives (CNMs),
certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). As this is only an
exercise, it is assumed that the body of your paper (excluding title page, abstracts, and references) should
not exceed more than three pages.
Required Elements
All of the content of your paper should be paraphrased; however, you must include at least one
citation from any of the five required sources. Also, you must have at least one citation/reference from
ALL of the references included below. The basis of this requirement is to give you practice in properly
formatting citations from a “regular” book (more about that below), an anthology (edited book), and
journal articles from printed publications and from the Internet.
Examples of Formatting
The information in this summary should be taken only from the following sources below. Please
review the format of each reference very carefully. The Buppert textbook is a “regular” book; that is,
Buppert is the sole writer of the entire book. The Saftner & Ruud citation and reference must be
formatted somewhat differently in that these authors wrote just one of the chapters in a textbook which is
an anthology, meaning it is an edited book. In other words, while Blair is the name that appears on the
cover of the book, Blair is the editor, which means that she did not write every chapter in the book, but
instead compiled chapters written by several different authors, although she did write some of the
chapters, either individually or collectively. Nagelkerk’s textbook is also an anthology. She, too, wrote
some of the chapters of the book that she edited. Review the Nagelkerk reference below very, very
carefully. Note that the reference is formatted just like the Lindeke et al. reference even though
Nagelkerk was the author of the chapter as well as the editor of the book. (FYI: The Kovner & Knickman
textbook required for this course is also an anthology.) These are the references you must use for this
assignment:
Buppert, C. (2021). Nurse practitioner’s business practice and legal guide (7th ed.). Jones and Bartlett.
Cukr, P. (1996). Viva la difference! The national needs the clinical nurse specialists and nurse
practitioners as separate roles. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 1(1). Retrieved from
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/Ta
bleofContents/Volume/No1June96/CNSandNPasSeparateRoles.html
Saftner, M. A., & Ruud, M. N. (2019). Overview of advanced practice registered nursing. In K. A. Blair
(Ed.), Advanced practice nursing: Core concepts for professional role development (6th ed., pp.
3-27). Springer.
Nagelkerk, J. (2006). Starting out: Deciding what job you want. In J. Nagelkerk (Ed.), Starting
Instructions for Mini-Paper
Purpose of Mini-Paper
The purpose of this assignment is to provide practice in formatting a scholarly paper according to
the standards set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (“APA
manual”). You will receive detailed feedback, after which you will be expected to apply that direction to
all of your subsequent assignments, including discussion postings, unless otherwise directed.
Supplementing your own copy of the APA manual is a PowerPoint presentation under Course
Resources on the Canvas home page that outlines the basic elements of APA format. As noted in the
presentation, the PowerPoint slides do not replace the APA manual, but serve to highlight the most
common APA elements that students are expected know. As noted elsewhere, relying on a template in
Microsoft Word is not a good idea, as some elements of that template are inaccurate.
Topic of Mini-Paper
The expectation of this paper is to compose a brief summary of the history of advanced practice
nursing, including the separate histories of nurse practitioners (NPs), certified nurse-midwives (CNMs),
certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). As this is only an
exercise, it is assumed that the body of your paper (excluding title page, abstracts, and references) should
not exceed more than three pages.
Required Elements
All of the content of your paper should be paraphrased; however, you must include at least one
citation from any of the five required sources. Also, you must have at least one citation/reference from
ALL of the references included below. The basis of this requirement is to give you practice in properly
formatting citations from a “regular” book (more about that below), an anthology (edited book), and
journal articles from printed publications and from the Internet.
Examples of Formatting
The information in this summary should be taken only from the following sources below. Please
review the format of each reference very carefully. The Buppert textbook is a “regular” book; that is,
Buppert is the sole writer of the entire book. The Saftner & Ruud citation and reference must be
formatted somewhat differently in that these authors wrote just one of the chapters in a textbook which is
an anthology, meaning it is an edited book. In other words, while Blair is the name that appears on the
cover of the book, Blair is the editor, which means that she did not write every chapter in the book, but
instead compiled chapters written by several different authors, although she did write some of the
chapters, either individually or collectively. Nagelkerk’s textbook is also an anthology. She, too, wrote
some of the chapters of the book that she edited. Review the Nagelkerk reference below very, very
carefully. Note that the reference is formatted just like the Lindeke et al. reference even though
Nagelkerk was the author of the chapter as well as the editor of the book. (FYI: The Kovner & Knickman
textbook required for this course is also an anthology.) These are the references you must use for this
assignment:
Buppert, C. (2021). Nurse practitioner’s business practice and legal guide (7th ed.). Jones and Bartlett.
Cukr, P. (1996). Viva la difference! The national needs the clinical nurse specialists and nurse
practitioners as separate roles. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 1(1). Retrieved from
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/Ta
bleofContents/Volume/No1June96/CNSandNPasSeparateRoles.html
Saftner, M. A., & Ruud, M. N. (2019). Overview of advanced practice registered nursing. In K. A. Blair
(Ed.), Advanced practice nursing: Core concepts for professional role development (6th ed., pp.
3-27). Springer.
Nagelkerk, J. (2006). Starting out: Deciding what job you want. In J. Nagelkerk (Ed.), Starting