This guide is for NURS 716 Week 5 Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards, start to submission. Use the AGREE instrument to evaluate the external practice standard the course provides.
NURS 716 is Applications of Evidence-Based Care, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's DNP. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as NURS716; it is the same course.
| Course | NURS 716 Applications of Evidence-Based Care |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 5 |
| Points | 100 points |
| Length | Not set in the guide; check the Canvas instructions |
| Sources | The provided practice standard, the AGREE instrument and the textbook |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Current APA |
What NURS 716 Week 5 Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards asks for
You become familiar with the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) instrument to evaluate professional practice standards. An external standard is provided to you for the assignment. It is due in Module/Week 5, the same week as Forum 3, with Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt chapters 7 and 8. Worth 100 points.
Where it fits in NURS 716
In the published schedule, Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards is one of 9 graded written assignments in NURS 716. It follows Week 4 Discussion Board Forum 2 and comes before Week 5 Discussion Board Forum 3. The same week also has Discussion Board Forum 3, so plan the week's writing together.
How NURS 716 Week 5 Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards is graded
Liberty grades Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 100 points in the published guide. That is about 10% of the course's 1,010 points. The rubric rows are the real instructions. Draft against them, and you will rarely be surprised by the grade.
Course grades in NURS 716 use Liberty's point scale: an A is 940 to 1010 points of the course total. Missing the length or source minimum usually costs points on several rows at once, which is why the checklist below starts with them.
Timing in the published guide: Each course module/week begins on Monday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday. Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The NURS 716 Week 5 method, step by step
Read the article twice, differently
First read for the story, second read for the method. The critique is graded on the second read: design, sample, data collection, analysis and the honesty of the conclusions.
Describe before you judge
Open with an accurate, brief description of the study: purpose, question or hypothesis, design, sample and main findings. The critique only works if the reader trusts your summary.
Appraise each part of the study
Work through the study section by section and ask the questions the course uses: is the design suited to the question, is the sample adequate, are the measures valid, do the results support the conclusions?
Name strengths as well as weaknesses
Balance the appraisal. Strengths that are explained carry as much weight with graders as weaknesses, and a one-sided critique reads as careless.
Say what it means for practice
Close with usefulness: could the findings change practice, for which patients or settings, and with what caution?
Keep to the length and format
Hold to Not set in the guide; check the Canvas instructions and write in narrative form with current APA, not as bullet points, unless the instructions say otherwise.
A structure for NURS 716 Week 5 Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,100 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | The provided standard and the purpose of appraisal. | ~110 words |
| The AGREE instrument | Its domains and scoring. | ~180 words |
| Domain-by-domain appraisal | Each domain scored and justified. | ~510 words |
| Overall assessment | Recommend, recommend with modifications, or not. | ~200 words |
| Conclusion | Use of the standard in practice. | ~110 words |
A topic angle that works
AGREE II has six domains (scope and purpose, stakeholder involvement, rigor of development, clarity of presentation, applicability, editorial independence). Score each and quote the part of the standard that earned the score; rigor of development usually decides the overall rating.
Model paragraph with notes
An original paragraph written by our desk to show the register that earns full rubric credit. It is study material: learn the moves, then write your own.
Rigor of development is the standard's weakest domain. The document describes a literature search but gives no databases, dates or search terms, and it does not explain how the evidence was weighed against benefits and harms, two of the eight items in this domain.1 Its recommendations are linked to evidence ratings, which earns credit on item 12, but without a described search method the domain scores below 50%.2 This alone supports a rating of "recommend with modifications."3
- Names the domain and specific items.
- Quotes what the standard does and does not do.
- Links the score to the overall rating.
Mistakes that cost points on NURS 716 Week 5
- Describing the standard instead of appraising it.
- Skipping domains.
- An overall rating with no reasons.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: Not set in the guide; check the Canvas instructions
- Sources: The provided practice standard, the AGREE instrument and the textbook
- The summary of the study is accurate and brief
- Strengths and weaknesses are both explained
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
What instrument is used in NURS 716 Assignment 3?
The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE), applied to an external standard the course provides.
How many points is NURS 716 Week 5 Assignment 3 Evaluating Professional Practice Standards worth?
100 points in Liberty's published course guide for NURS 716, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 10% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is NURS 716 Week 5 the same in every section of NURS 716?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for NURS 716. Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term, so if your Canvas section shows different instructions, a different week or different points, follow Canvas and your instructor.
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