Herzing NU 626 Roles for Nurse Practitioners
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Unit 1 Discussion 1 Roles of Advanced Practitioners
Discussion Prompt
Based upon the importance of the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) being integral in the care of patients for wellness and in episodes of illness, there are multiple opportunities for nurse practitioners to care for a variety of patients in different roles.
For this discussion board, introduce yourself to the group in your post and share where you see yourself upon graduating from the Herzing University Master of Science in Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner Program.
What information did you use to decide to pursue an APRN? Is there specific information that helped you understand the role of an APRN?
How do you see yourself progressing in the role you have now into the APRN that you desire to become?
In responses to other students, discuss how the information provided helped you to better understand the role of the APRN, as well as what are some of your goals that you desire to pursue as an APRN.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 1 Discussion 2 Evolution of the APRN and Comparing Roles of the APRN
Discussion Prompt
Now that you have a little experience in learning about the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), have you worked with or have you received care from an APRN, what has been your experience with this?
How has your view of the role of the APRN changed prior to beginning the program? What has been your biggest revelation about the role of the APRN?
What information would you like to share with others about the role of the APRN?
In responses to other students, provide resources to refer patients, families, friends, and others to understand the role of the APRN as well as support or offer an alternate opinion to their information provided.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 2 Discussion 1 Prescriptive Authority for the APRN
Discussion Prompt
Review the requirements of your home state for prescribing privileges and compare them with another state of your choice. Are there similarities and differences with a focus on client safety concerns or initiatives. Are there variations in prescriptive authority among APRN’s?
In response to other peers, what are the variations in your state compared to your peer’s state? Provide scholarly literature related to safety concerns that may have been associated with prescribing privileges of an APRN.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 2 Assignment APRNs and State Regulations
Instructions
Develop a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the family nurse practitioner. Identify a nurse theorist that you align your current/ planned practice and how they provide the foundation for this philosophy development.
Describe the type of educational courses and professional requirements required for APRN professional certification and licensing within the state that you will practice.
Identify the precise application process for your certification exam, your state regulations for application for prescriptive authority/practice, and issues related to APRN practice within your state.
Evaluate and discuss APRN roles and prescriptive privileges and impact on client safety and care
Compare the differences between prescriptive authority, credentialing, and clinical privileges and how each of these impact client safety and care
Evaluate the development of the advanced practice nurse role from a global perspective.
Assignment Guidelines:
1200 – 1500 word paper (not including the cover page and references)
Required APA 7th edition for references and citations
Include a minimum of 6 scholarly references (does not include text or websites) and the majority of references must not be older than 5 years
Demonstrate analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information (see the rubric for specifics)
Unit 3 Discussion 1 Nurse Advocates
Discussion Prompt
Based on your experiences and readings, analyze the roles, empowerment of patients, and values needed to be an effective nurse advocate and policy player.
Discuss the APN role as a change agent.
Provide an example of a time that you have acted as an advocate or a situation that you are familiar with that involved an APN acting as an advocate.
Additionally, address how the APN role is implemented at an organizations, state, and national level.
The text discusses the limited evidence base for the credibility of advocacy, in your opinion does it work?
Why or why not? Support your thoughts with evidence.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 3 Discussion 2 Evidence-Based Policy
Research and evidence based practice are integral to advanced practice nursing. Describe how you will demonstrate/utilize these to set yourself apart as an “excellent” APN.
Provide an example of an evidence based policy that you would like to implement in your practice. How will you implement it?
Provide the details of working through organization structures in obtaining feedback from your staff and organization on how to implement it.
Explore the AHRQ website (Links to an external site.) and pick a quality care initiative that may impact quality client care in hospitals or areas of industry that deliver health care.
Read a few case studies in the “AHRQ’s Impact on Health Care” and pick 2. Compare and Contrast how the AHRQ research or evidence behind these case studies improves client care outcomes.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 4 Discussion 1 Information Technology and Data Mining
Discussion Prompt
Describe how using information technology and data mining can affect the quality of health care.
Using two Quality Performance indicators, provide a comparison and contrast example of how information technology and data have changed patient care outcomes.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 4 Discussion 2 Utilization and Case Management
Discussion Prompt
What is utilization and case management?
How is this related to managed care and quality care and control issues?
How does APNP clinical expertise and patient management skills provide a foundation for utilization and case management?
Provide an example of how case management improves patient care outcomes.
Use an EBP research article to support your case.
Provide detailed examples.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 4 Assignment Assessment Paper
Instructions
Describe and evaluate the differences between evidence based practice and research.
Describe the importance and application of health care information, data mining, and importance to application in patient care outcomes
Discuss how data mining and interpretation influences case management and utilization
Describe participation in managed care and the importance of quality care initiatives and performance indicators (remember to use AHRQ as a resource)
Parameters:
1000-1500 words not including the cover page and references (total, not for each topic)
Follow the APA 7th edition for references and citations
Include a minimum of 6 scholarly references (does not include text or websites)
Demonstrate analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
Unit 5 Discussion 1 Conflict in the Workplace
All of us have been involved in various kinds of conflicts related to our work environment. Using a situation that you were involved in, describe the conflict and how it was handled.
Was the outcome positive or negative?
How did the involved parties feel about the resolution, did they feel that they were heard, that their issues were resolved in an appropriate manner?
Based on what you have read in this unit, what could have been done to improve both the situation and the outcome?
Describe professional civility/incivility?
Analyze the impact professional relationships and patient care outcomes?
Synthesize and discuss the incivility literature evidence is available that supports that conflict resolution impacts work environments and patient care?
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 5 Discussion 2 Complimentary Therapy
Discussion Prompt
This discussion has two parts:
1A. Using the National Center for Complimentary and Integrated Health (NCCIH) at https://nccih.nih.gov/, provide research about a complementary therapy.
Provide a summary overview of the therapy.
What evidence is there about providing care for patients of all cultures.
Discuss how you would work with a patient to integrate the therapy into his/her care plan.
1B. Using transcultural care concepts, provide evidence-based practice guidelines that illustrate how linguistic challenges interfere with culturally competent care.
What are the safety concerns for APRN providers?
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 6 Discussion 1 Value of The APRN Model
Discussion Prompt
Outline and discuss a plan to promote the value of the APN model to the public.
Using the latest statistics and evidence, provide a compelling argument and a brief background to the public about why APNP care is essential.
Discuss how you would promote the value of utilizing an APN as a provider of services.
Use data from sources that illustrate how efficient, and cost containing APNPs are versus other health care provider roles. This is not an exercise that diminishes our other colleagues, but one that promotes the value of the APNP role.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 6 Discussion 2 Business Plan
Discussion Prompt
You have decided to open your own practice – you now need to gain start-up funding. Picture yourself in-front of a group of investors or your local banker –
What will you say to them to convince them that you have a good idea, that your services will be a valuable addition to the community, and that you have the business skills to successfully run a practice?
Discuss marketing, start-up funds, items needed for your practice, etc.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 6 Assignment The APRN as Entrepreneur
Instructions
Generate a professional Power Point presentation that sums the following areas:
Introduction to topic, include introducing yourself, why this is important (1 slide)
Develop a business plan to start or manage a practice (6-10), identify SWOT analysis, marketing plan, key stakeholders, reimbursement, insurance issues, a solid budget plan (expense and revenue sheet)
Construct an employment contract for an advanced practice nurse in your selected care setting. (3-4)) Be specific. What should APRN ask for salary, vacation, Health insurance, dental, vision, long and short term insurance, professional development/education fees, professional journals, any others?
Compare the legal, ethical, and contractual considerations for APRN in the employment setting (2-3 slides)
Parameters
Inclusive of references in presentation, and references then fully presented in final slide of presentation as a reference page (1-2 slides)
Use APA for formatting
Presentation should be minimally 25 slides, enough slides to appropriately cover material being presented
Presentation is to be designed as if you, the ARPN, were seeking funding for starting your own clinic.
Presentation to include:Contract portion is to be designed as if student/APRN was seeking a position. What would an APRN want in the contract? Provide details within the contract about salary, insurances, benefits, duties, etc.
Type of clinic, clientele serving, location
Mission/vision statement
DETAILED budget analysis. Expense and revenue reports
Insurance and reimbursement: Provide information on expected revenue. What would an APRN charge for certain visits (sick versus health check), what is expected pay from insurance types (private, Medicare/Medicaid?)
Contract portion is to be designed as if student/APRN was seeking a position. What would an APRN want in the contract? Provide details within the contract about salary, insurances, benefits, duties, etc.
MUST USE NOTES SECTION. NO AUDIO. Use the notes section to discuss content. Professor will be assessing analysis and synthesis of understanding of the content)
Unit 7 Discussion 1 Legal Issues, Ethical Considerations and Risk Management
Legal issues, ethical considerations and risk management (insurance) – In your opinion, what is the relationship among these topics as they relate to NP’s?
Define/describe what each of these are.
Describe how each of these are interrelated.
Provide an example of how ethics is interrelated into the legal issues of malpractice.
Provide a journal summary to support your ideas.
Please use ANA Code of Ethical Standards to guide the ethics discussion.
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
Unit 7 Discussion 2 APRN Professional Resume
Discussion Prompt
Upload your APRN resume to Canvas in week 7 Reflective Discussion.
This is a peer review activity.
Unit 7 Assignment Professional Resume
Creating a Professional APRN Resume
Instructions:
Creating a Professional APRN Resume
Create a resume related to your desired area of expertise and advanced practice role.
Follow professional guidelines in creating the resume
May include Herzing Career Services as a reference for formatting the resume
Additional details:
Students will be graded in DISCUSSION BOARD on feedback to minimally 2 peers
Attach a professional cover letter to resume
Resume can be no longer than 3 pages including cover letter
Resume is for an APRN seeking an APRN position
Unit 8 Discussion Reflection
Directions
Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:
Analyze nursing history to expand thinking and provide a sense of professional heritage and identity.
Understand other health professions’ scopes of practice to maximize contributions within the healthcare team.
Use leadership skills to teach, coach, and mentor other members of the healthcare team.
Articulate a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the advanced practice nurse.
Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.
For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to professional application.