Total Points Possible:  60  Requirements:  For Week 6 of the course there will not be a case study given to you by the faculty. Instead you will be assigned a mental health disorder commonly seen in primary care and you will create a case study based on that disorder. You may create a case study either from a previous clinical patient experience or if you have not had a patient in clinical that represents your assigned topic you may research your disease using the week’s classroom material and...

Reflect back over the past eight weeks and describe how the achievement of the course outcomes in this course have prepared you to meet the MSN program outcome #4, the MSN Essential IV, and the Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies # 7. Program Outcome #4:  Integrate professional values through scholarship and service in health care. (Professional identity) MSN Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice Recognize that the master’s-prepared nurse applies re...

Requirements Complete the following case studies: 1. The patient is a 58-year-old woman with chronic pain due to inflammatory arthritis. She presents for her first appointment with you in a primary care office. She states that she is aware that she is asking for an early refill of her Oxycontin however she is traveling out of state and she is concerned that she may have a flare up on her trip. Apply the steps in SBIRT to this scenario Identify additional questions for this patient ...

Total Points Possible:  70 Requirements Part 2- Due By Thursday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5 Submit your First line treatment plan based on one dx from your differential list to the Case Study Submission area by 11:59pm MT Thursday night.  Solution: CC: " I have been having excessive thirst and polyuria for the past 3 months". From the above, the likely diagnosis for the patient was type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).  The rationale for this diagnosis is supported by the symptom...

Total Points Possible:  130  Requirements For Week 5 of the course the faculty will not be providing a case study. Instead you will choose from an area that you have an opportunity for improvement that was identified on your APEA predictor exam. You will research that area of content in relation to complaints and disorders that commonly occur in family practice. Please work up a case study that begins with a chief complaint commonly seen in primary care based on that body system. The case ...

Requirements:  Setting: large rural clinic; family practice clinic that employs physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.  You open the chart to review for your next patient, and you see it is Lorene M. Lorene is a 60 year-old African American female with a history of hypertension and known documented metabolic syndrome following lifestyle changes per her request. You note she is not due for a follow up at this time, so you look at the chief complaint. CC: Shoulder discomf...

Total Points Possible: 40 Requirements: Michelle continues to work in the bakery and her asthma has been well controlled on a low-dose inhaled corticosteroid inhaler, Singular 10mg daily, and Albuterol prn which she uses 1-2 times per week. Michelle presents to the clinic with an acute illness that developed 2 days ago and has a respiratory rate of 24, mild SOB with exertion, O2 saturation of 94%, and complaint of inspiratory and expiratory wheezing. She is able to speak and states her tempera...

Requirements:  Week 2: Case Discussion: Pulmonary Part One  Setting: A free medical clinic that provides health care for the under-insured. Your next patient, Michelle G., age 40, is a regular of the clinic and the last patient of the day. The chart states she is here for recent episodes of shortness of breath.  You enter the room and Michelle G is dressed in work clothes, standing up looking at a health poster on the wall. You introduce yourself and ask her what brings her to the clin...

Total Points Possible:  100 points  Requirements:  For Week 1 of the course there is no case study given to you by the Faculty. Instead you will be assigned two diseases to compare and contrast based on the first letter of your last name. This information will be posted in the Course Announcements under Week 1 Welcome as well as the "Assignment" portion of the Week 1 module and will change every session.  A comparison and contrast assignment's focus is to identify and explore similarities...

For complete assignment guidelines refer back to the Week 1: ePortfolio explore page. Upload Concept Map (as file upload) and to the ePortfolio Outcome Analysis and Planning section.  Solution: ......To access the  whole concept map click the icon below to purchase at $10