Analyzing a Current Healthcare Problem or Issue

The topic of my assignment is:

• Palliative and End-of-Life Care
• Description: Care focused on providing relief from symptoms and improving the quality of life for those with serious illnesses.
• Interventions: Pain management, spiritual support, advanced care planning.
• Keywords: Hospice care, advanced directives, quality of life.

There are 5 points I must hit for my paper.

1) Topic Identification

• Summarize the healthcare problem or issue, including a description of its professional relevance.
• Describe your interest in the problem or issue.
• Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.

2) Discussion of Research

• Describe your process of applying library research skills to identify the journal articles relevant to the healthcare problem or issue you are researching.
• Identify the keywords you used to select the articles.
• Describe the criteria you used to select the resources, including the names of the Capella library databases that you used.
• What was the process like to locate relevant articles?
• Assess the credibility of the information sources.
• Determine whether each resource is from an academic, peer-reviewed journal.
• Determine whether the publication is current (published within the last 35 years).
• Determine whether information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
• Assess the relevance of the information sources.
• Is the information relevant to your topic? For example, did you select an article about a health system in Japan and how is that applicable to your topic of a U.S. healthcare issue or problem?
• Explain how the healthcare problem or issue is addressed in each source. Discuss what kind of contribution each resource provides.

3) Annotated Bibliography

• List each full reference in APA format, followed immediately by its annotation.
• Present your three current, annotated references in alphabetical order, according to the reference citation.
• Double-space each reference and format it with a hanging indent.
• Provide the full APA reference citation, including the author, date, title, publisher or publication, and any additional information required by APA style.
• Write the annotation (summary) for each citation in paragraph form, using approximately 150 words (or 13 paragraphs) for each annotation. Make sure to cite the article in your summary. Include the following components for each annotation:
• Identify the purpose of the article.
• Summarize the article.
• Include the conclusions and findings of the article.

4) Summary

• In a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper, summarize what you learned from the process of developing the annotated bibliography.

5) Reference page in APA style format.

I attached an example of what the paper should look like upon completion. Thank you very much!