Achievement of the Course learning outcomes

How do you think your achievement of the course learning outcomes will help you be a better-prepared working professional?

MSN571 CLOs: Describe and explore the role of the advanced practice nurse in pharmacotherapy.

Apply current theory of pharmacokinetics, pharmacology and pharmacodynamics to specific disease/patient conditions.

Differentiate the pharmacological actions of medications used to treat common disease entities.

Evaluate drug regimens to support appropriate and safe drug therapy.

Design individualized pharmacotherapy plans based on patient specific conditions.

Demonstrate a personal and professional value system based on ethical principles regarding medication usage.

Integrate the merit and applicability of medical and other research as it applies to pharmacotherapy.

Human immunodeficiency virus

The nurse is advising a clinic patient who was exposed a week ago to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through unprotected sexual intercourse. The patient’s antigen and antibody test has just been reported as negative for HIV. What instructions should the nurse give to this patient? a. "

You will need to be retested in 2 weeks." b. "You do not need to fear infecting others." c. "Since you don’t have symptoms and you have had a negative test, you do not have HIV)." d. "We won’t know for years if you will develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)."

Experiencing Nursing shortages

The United States and other countries are experiencing nursing shortages. To help ease the shortage, many resources are spent on recruiting foreign nurses. What are the reasons for these shortages? If the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into increasing nurse retention, would the need to recruit foreign nurses decrease? Why or why not? Choose one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and discuss how a community nurse can work toward achieving that goal

Communication approaches that can create conflict

Discuss two communication approaches that can create conflict. Discuss two communication approaches that can mitigate conflict.

Examples of Resource gaps

Present two examples of resource gaps identified in Sentinel Town® or Sentinel City® and potential solutions for each.

Clinical Assessment Worksheets for Pediatric patients 

In your clinical experience provide  3 Clinical Assessment Worksheets for pediatric patients. The first patient was diagnosed with pneumonia and the second had blood in the stool and the third one in NICU had difficulty breathing using endotracheal intubation

 

1-Tell us your patient’s story of their diagnosis (chronic or acute illness), how they presented with their
illness with timeline of events, what the pathophysiology is and how they are being treated. Be sure to
include their diagnosis, clinical manifestations, pathophysiology and treatment.

 

 

2-Tell us your patient’s story of their diagnosis (chronic or acute illness), how they presented with their
illness with timeline of events, what the pathophysiology is and how they are being treated. Be sure to
include their diagnosis, clinical manifestations, pathophysiology and treatment.

 

3-Tell us your patient’s story of their diagnosis (chronic or acute illness), how they presented with their
illness with timeline of events, what the pathophysiology is and how they are being treated. Be sure to
include their diagnosis, clinical manifestations, pathophysiology and treatment.

Major policy Issues affecting the nursing profession

If you were on the health policy and politics committee or policy meeting, what do you feel should be the next major policy issues affecting the nursing profession, nurses and the medical arena that needs to be debated in the political arena? Provide an example and your strategies and resolutions proposing to be approved with your topics?

Information on social media and your Future Career in healthcare

What were your main takeaways from the videos on the previous page? What surprised you from the videos? Think about your own information on social media and your future career in healthcare – will you be more careful with what you post after watching the video?

Payments to Employed nurse practitioners

When negotiating a salary, there are four methods commonly used for payments to employed nurse practitioners.  What are the pros/cons of each method?

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Unleashing the Power of the Nurse to Achieve Health Equity

After reviewing Unleashing the Power of the Nurse to Achieve Health Equity, use one of the following recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine for the nursing profession that would allow nurses  to help everyone achieve full health equity:

  • Permanently removing barriers
  • Valuing nurses’ contributions
  • Preparing nurses to advance equity
  • Diversifying the workforce

 

Read “Health Policy Analysis: A Simple Tool for Policy Makers” from the “Political Analysis and Strategies,” of Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care.

 

Use the 8-step policy analysis framework that the article and the textbook chapter presents. Use the framework to align with the recommendation you selected. For example, if the recommendation you chose was diversifying the workforce, you are going to use lack of diversity in the workforce as the problem and then work through all 8 steps to develop a policy analysis for the recommendation.

 

Use the following 8-step policy analysis framework and compose a policy analysis report on your selected recommendation:

 

  1. Define the Context
  2. State the Problem
  3. Search for Evidence
  4. Different Policy Options
  5. Project the Outcomes
  6. Apply Evaluative Criteria
  7. Weigh the Outcomes
  8. Make the Decision