EACH critique will include a brief summary of the article and the course objective to which it is relevant and why.
First article critique should help you answer the following questions:
• What examples of advocacy do you see in your own nursing practice, or the nursing practice of other nurses that you work with or know about?
• What barriers do you think affects effective nursing advocacy. How could these barriers be mitigated or avoided?
• How could nursing schools prepare nurses more effectively to serve as advocates?

Second article critique should help you answer the following questions:
– Describe changes in the current U.S. health delivery system that you think will provide opportunities for nursing to improve health care.
– What challenges do you envision that nurse would face in the changing health delivery situation?
– How would these opportunities that you describe help to improve the status and visibility of nursing?
CRITERIA FOR EACH CRITIQUE
A) 2% — Relevant introduction that captures the interest of the reader
B) 6% — Completely answered each guiding question for the article critique
C) 1% — Closure, summarizes key point and action, bringing the letter to conclusion 1%
D) Grammar and syntax; follows APA format