This guide is for NURS 718 Week 2 Discussion Board Forum 2, start to submission. The second forum: a comprehensive graduate-level thread during the research and technology briefs week, with replies to two classmates.
NURS 718 is Informatics, Technology and Trends for Transforming Health Care, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's DNP. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as NURS718; it is the same course.
| Course | NURS 718 Informatics, Technology and Trends for Transforming Health Care |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 2 |
| Points | 100 points |
| Length | Not set in the guide; a comprehensive thread and 2 replies |
| Replies | 2 classmates' threads |
| Sources | Course readings, including the research and technology briefs, and scholarly sources |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Canvas discussion thread; current APA |
What NURS 718 Week 2 Discussion Board Forum 2 asks for
Forum 2 is due in Module/Week 2 with Tan and Payton chapters 3 and 13 and the textbook's Research Brief I and Technology Brief I. The requirements are the same as Forum 1: a comprehensive thread on the provided prompt at the graduate level and replies to two classmates. Worth 100 points.
Where it fits in NURS 718
In the published schedule, Discussion Board Forum 2 is one of 8 graded written assignments in NURS 718. It follows Week 1 Discussion Board Forum 1 and comes before Week 3 Case Study 1.
How NURS 718 Week 2 Discussion Board Forum 2 is graded
Liberty grades Discussion Board Forum 2 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. Open the rubric before you draft and read across each row: the top column describes what full credit looks like, and the gap between columns tells you what costs points.
Course grades in NURS 718 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 718 Week 2 method, step by step
Read the prompt against the week's material
Copy the Discussion Board Forum 2 prompt into your notes and number each question inside it. Then skim the Module/Week 2 reading for the pages that answer each number, so the thread is built from Informatics, Technology and Trends for Transforming Health Care material rather than general opinion.
Take a position in the first two sentences
Graders read dozens of threads. State your answer to the main question at the top, then spend the rest of the thread earning it. A thread that warms up for a paragraph loses the reader before the course concepts arrive.
Build the body from course concepts
Each body paragraph should carry one idea from the Informatics, Technology and Trends for Transforming Health Care reading, put to work on the prompt. Define it briefly, apply it, and say what it changes. Repeating the chapter back is the most common reason threads score in the middle of the rubric.
Place the sources where they do work
Meet the source rule (Course readings, including the research and technology briefs, and scholarly sources) inside the argument, not in a closing sentence. Cite the textbook where you define a concept and a peer-reviewed article where you make a claim that needs evidence.
Connect it to practice
Show what the answer changes in a real setting: a unit, a team, an organization or a client. Graders in NURS 718 look for the line between the concept and its use.
Write replies that add something
Each reply (2 classmates' threads) should extend the classmate's thread: a counterpoint, a second source, or an application to a different setting. Quote the line you are answering so the reply reads as a conversation.
A structure for NURS 718 Week 2 Discussion Board Forum 2
Word targets are planning numbers for about 500 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Answer the main question of the prompt directly and state your position. | ~80 words |
| Concept | Define the course concept from the week's reading that the prompt turns on. | ~140 words |
| Application | Apply the concept to the case, setting or question in the prompt. | ~150 words |
| Evidence | Bring in the required sources where they support a specific claim. | ~100 words |
| Close | Restate the answer and what it means for practice or the field. | ~30 words |
A topic angle that works
The Week 2 chapters deal with how health information systems are structured and managed. Pick one claim from the research brief and test it against your own organization: does the evidence match what you see?
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.
Tan and Payton argue that a health information system succeeds when it adapts to the organization rather than forcing the organization to adapt to it.1 My hospital's experience with its EHR go-live supports that: units whose workflows were mapped before the build adopted the system within weeks, while the emergency department, whose workflow was not mapped, still runs parallel paper logs two years later.2 Adoption research describes the same pattern as task-technology fit.3
- States the textbook's claim.
- Tests it against real experience.
- Names the research concept behind it.
Mistakes that cost points on NURS 718 Week 2
- Ignoring the research and technology briefs.
- A thread with no citations.
- Replies without new information.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: Not set in the guide; a comprehensive thread and 2 replies
- Sources: Course readings, including the research and technology briefs, and scholarly sources
- Replies: 2 classmates' threads
- Every question in the prompt is answered, in order
- The thread is typed into the text box, not attached
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
What is the NURS 718 Week 2 reading?
Tan and Payton chapters 3 and 13, Research Brief I and Technology Brief I, plus one presentation.
How many points is NURS 718 Week 2 Discussion Board Forum 2 worth?
100 points in Liberty's published course guide for NURS 718, 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 718 Week 2 the same in every section of NURS 718?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for NURS 718. 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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