The nurse practitioner (NP) is working at a health clinic in a homeless shelter during the early evening. A 48-year-old African American man approaches the practitioner and asks to have his blood pressure taken, saying that he has not had it checked “in a while”. The man appears to be in some type of distress…
Weekly Clinical Experience 3 Describe your clinical experience for this week with a patient with diabetes · Did you face any challenges, any successes? If so, what were they? · Describe the assessment of a patient, detailing the signs and symptoms (S&S), assessment, plan of care, and at least 3 possible differential diagnoses with rationales.…
Advanced practice nursing in all specialties is guided by codes of ethics that put the care, rights, duty, health, and safety of the patient first and foremost. PMHNP practice is also guided by ethical codes specifically for psychiatry. These ethical codes are frameworks to guide clinical decision making; they are generally not prescriptive. They also…
Off-label prescribing is when a physician gives you a drug that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved to treat a condition different than your condition. This practice is legal and common. In fact, one in five prescriptions written today are for off-label use. —Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Psychotropic drugs are…
It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember. Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In…
Professional Role Development “Nursing research involves much planning and attention to details, yet novice and seasoned nurse researchers often overlook the day-to-day operations required to conduct research studies. Project management is a set of iterative steps that can facilitate the process of conducting nursing research” (Rew et al., 2020). As you begin working on your…
Choose a terminology related to the health area (Nursing), and develop the concept analysis step by step, following the example guide in the attachment Download example guide in the attachment . Submission Instructions: · Your post should be at least four pages ( excluding title page and references page), formatted, and cited in the current…
For your best training experience, what elements of BST were included? What did they do that made you enjoy the training? For your worst training experience, what elements of BST were missing? What did they do that made you dislike the training? In either case, to your knowledge, did they collect any measures to evaluate…
There has been much debate over whether or not being a leader and a manager is the same thing. What do you feel are the most important qualities that a manager must possess to be effective? What do you feel are the most important qualities for a leader to possess to be effective? Do you…
Research the role of the Nurse Practitioner. Select and describe an Advanced Nurse Practitioner role. Why are you becoming a Nurse Practitioner? Find one research article, expert opinion about the Nurse Practitioner role and summarize the article. What does the Institute Of Medicine (IOM) say about the need of Nurse Practitioners? Identify and describe the…