1. The Paper work…
What does it look like?
APA made easy…
 APA Family Assessment
 Teaching Learning Project
 Final Clinical Evaluation
D.B. Hiott MSN, RN

2. The APA Title Page…
 Note: Running
head: THEN TITLE
ALL CAPS
 Page 1
 Title
 Name
 University
 New Times Roman
 12 point font

3. Table of Contents…or
Abstract
 Note the words
Running head are
not present
anymore
 The Running head
is the title is in all
caps from here on
out.
 Page number to
right
 Table of contents
or abstract

4. The first page…
 Note the Running
head
 Page number to right
 The title is on the
first page, centered,
double spaced
below
 Heading, centered,
bolded
 Double spaced
 Remember to indent
paragraphs

5. Another APA page…
 In APA the margins
are 1 inch all the
way around the
paper.
 The Running head
is on every page
 The page is
numbered
 The paper is
double spaced
consistently even
the headers

6. Citations…a few tips
 Citations in APA are
within the body of the
paper
 They come at the end
of a sentence in
parentheses author
name and year,
example (Hiott, 2012).
 “Quotes need a page
number in addition,
example” (Hiott, 2012,
p.6).
 The period follows the
citation.

7. Things to remember!
 Don’t let APA drive  Keep the tense the
you crazy… same throughout
the paper!
 Watch the tricky
words, they’re,
their, there…
 Spell and grammar
check, it’s quick
and easy 

8. Directions for the
Reference page…
 Running head
 References centered
 Page numbered
 Note unique indentation
of references
 Utilize APA manual for
specific formats
 Owl of Purdue
http://owl.english.purdu
e.edu/owl/

9. APA Everyday…
 If you have APA
papers due several
times a week it
may be useful to
invest in a
referencing and
formatting tool.
 PERRLA
 Reference Point

10. A Teaching Learning Project
 Includes:
 Overall goal
 Learning objectives
 Domain
 Content
 Teaching strategies
 Evaluate teaching
methods
 Teaching learning
principles
 Evaluate objectives

11. Who, what, where and how
are you teaching? Map it
out…
 State objectives.
 Identify domains:
cognitive, affective,
psychomotor…
 Identify content
 How was content
delivered?
 Did it work?
 Principles behind
teaching.
 Did you meet the
objectives?

12. The Teaching Learning Project…
What it looks like…

13. Teaching Learning …

14. Teaching Learning…Sources
and individual group member
participation…

15. Needs Improvement…
 To address
unacceptable or unsafe
behaviors, attitudes,
dress, planning,
assignment completion,
clinical conduct or
nursing practice.
 A tool to assist the
student in strengthening
areas of weakness.
 A warning that failure or
dismissal may be
imminent if
improvements do not
occur.
 Review the student
handbook for safe and
unsafe behaviors.

16. The Clinical Evaluation…
You are almost there…

17. Clinical Evaluation…
 Examples from the
clinical
environment
illustrate the
completed
competencies.

18. The Finish Line…
 The final clinical
evaluation
 Dated
 Signed
 Reviewed with the
instructor