Genres for Project Proposal

Echo Stone is a Pediatric Nurse at Clearwater Medical Center . Here are three genres that she either has to read or write for her career.

Name of Genre: Individualized Patient Care Plan
  • Author’s Purpose/Goal: Guide for patient’s healthcare needs; nurses utilize them to provide quality care
  • Intended audience: nurses and nursing students who receive training to write and understand them
  • Wider/secondary audience: doctors/ in the records
  • Context/ “rhetorical situation”: assumes readers know how to administer care, nurses may see the things doctors do not pick up
  • Surface-level conventions: uses medical terms
  • Content/information that’s included: definition/ explanation of the patient’s diagnosis, data that supports the diagnosis made, expected outcomes, interventions, ongoing assessment/evaluation for the next shift
  • Organization/ structure: Consistent, concise format
  • Affordances: promotes continuity of care
  • Constraints: None.
  • Short and long term goals for the patient

 Name of Genre: Drug handbook


  • Author’s purpose/goal: Administer drug safely and effectively
  • Intended audience: Nurses and doctors
  • Wider/secondary audience: Nursing students
  • Context/ “rhetorical audience”: Assumes reader knows how to do basic medical practices/administer patients
  • Surface-level conventions: Medical vocabulary
  • Content/information that’s included: Side effects, indications for drug, administration/handling
  • Organization/structure: Standard format, concise sentences/bullet points, easy to scan pages
  • Affordances: Recurring medical handbook found in health care settings
  • Constraints: Very systematic starting with name of drug, uses, side effects, etc.


Name of Genre: Charting & Documentation
  • Author’s purpose/goal: To write what they see and hear and give patient’s reports
  • Intended audience: Nurses and doctors
  • Wider/secondary audience: Nursing students
  • Context/ “rhetorical situation”: Assumes reader has common knowledge and experience
  • Surface-level conventions: Medical terms
  • Content/organization that’s included: Patient identification information- relates to patient’s immediate care and patient’s specific symptoms
  • Organization/structure: Concise and to the point-- designed to be quickly read by nurses and doctors on the next shift
  • Affordances: Leads to patient receiving right medication
  • Constraints:  Do not include own opinion-- everything relates directly to patient’s health




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