Requirements: You are a family nurse practitioner working in an outpatient primary care office of a large hospital system. The practice has been operating for over 15 years, and many of the administrative and clinical staff were hired when the practice opened. You have been in the practice for less than 3 months. In that short amount of time, you have witnessed several of the clinical staff engaging in heated arguments with each other, sometimes in patient areas. You overhear an argument occurr...

Points 200 Purpose This assignment will focus on developing a health policy analysis presentation that includes a problem statement, background, landscape, options and recommendations from the week’s readings.  The health policy analysis presentation is based upon an identified healthcare issue in one’s local community.  Activity Learning Outcomes Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to: Employ strategies to impact the development, implementati...

Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to have students research the measurement tools of NP performance.  Through the use of quality patient outcomes, student will l ist and discuss three different patient interventions and how  they would specifically measure the outcomes and h o w these primary care interventions result in improved patient outcomes and cost savings for the practice .  In addition,  students will discuss how these interventions result in improved patient ratings .  Activi...

Requirements: You are a family nurse practitioner employed in a busy primary care office. The providers in the group include one physician and three nurse practitioners. The back office staff includes eight medical assistants who assist with patient care as well as filing, answering calls from patients, processing laboratory results and taking prescription renewal requests from patients and pharmacies. Stephanie, a medical assistant, has worked in the practice for 10 years and is very proficien...

Requirements: Using the readings from this week as well as outside reliable resources to: Identify and describe practice barriers for APNs in your state and discuss these barriers on a state and national level. Identify forms of competition on the state and national level that interfere with APN’s ability to practice independently. Identify the lawmakers at the state level (i.e., key members of the state’s legislative branch and executive branch of government) Discuss interest gro...

Part 2: Application For the initial post, address the following:  How did you go about selecting topics for the position papers?  Reflect upon the research skills you have developed throughout this class. What key takeaways have you learned regarding research strategies?  Compare your experiences with revision and feedback to those detailed in the Stewart (2016) and Teller (2016) articles. Which stance do you lean towards and why? Did you incorporate changes into your final essay based...

Instructions This week, you will complete the final draft of your Pro-Con Position Paper. Review the template provided and consider the feedback from your instructor and peers as you make edits and finalize your work. The final draft should apply the following:  An APA formatted title page  An attention grabbing introduction to draw in the audience  A well-written thesis that acknowledges both pro and con topics  A formal tone, avoiding both 1 st  (I, me, my, we, our, us, mine) and 2...

Part 2: Application Prior to beginning work on this reflection, refer to the feedback you have been given by your instructor and peers over the past weeks plus any additional experiences you have with the writing process covered in the course. Reflection is an important part of the writing process. Examine how the writing process has been going for you with your essay up to this point. Then, explain the results of your paper review with your peers. 1. Detail the 3 most significant issues ...

Instructions For this assignment, you will submit a draft of your paper to your instructor for review. The essay draft should follow one of the two organizational patterns from the Week 5 lesson. Use the Pro-Con Essay Template (in Required Resources) to complete your draft. Writing Requirements (APA format)  Length: 4-5 pages (not including title page or references page)  1-inch margins  Double spaced  12-point Times New Roman font  Title page  References page (minimum of 5 scho...

Part 1: Research & Review Review the two articles in Required Resources on the uses of logical fallacies and rhetorical appeals in the healthcare field. The Krishen and Bui (2015) article discusses the active use of logical fallacies to manipulate obese consumers into making better health choices through two oppositional approaches: fear tactics and positive reinforcement. The Giachino, Stupino, Peratulo, and Bertoldi (2017) article presents a study of fear tactics applied through...