Practice immersion assignment

You will be creating a case report in stages over four-course topics. Use an example from your own personal practice, experience, or own personal/family; however, simulated cases are not acceptable for practice hours and therefore not acceptable for this assignment. Examples might include a patient with Duchesne’s muscular dystrophy. Huntington’s disease, Down’s syndrome, sickle cell anemia, BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutations, or other genetic disorder that you and/or the organization in which you practice may specialize in treating.

 

General Requirements:

 

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

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·         Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.

·         This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.

·         You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Include the following:

·         Guidelines and reasons behind the FDA regulations for introducing new pharmaceutical agents (policy).

·         The role that money and grants play in scientific advances; the economics of health care (capitalism).

·         The role and involvement family plays into the health care decision.

Directions:

 

For this assignment (Part 1 of the Case Report), write a 1,000-1,250 word paper incorporating genetics information learned from assigned readings in Topics 1 and 2. Include the following:

1.      Describe the disease, its prevalence, and its incidence.

2.      Discuss the laboratory testing that is possible.