Case Assignment: Association of Nurses

Case Assignment: Association of Nurses

Case Assignment: Association of Nurses

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Question Description
PART1 – Scholar Practitioner

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 or professional accrediting agency that provides the foundation for this philosophy development.
Secondarily, identify variations in prescriptive authority among APNs.
Compare prescribing privileges from the state within you will practice and compare to another state.
Discuss similarities and differences with a focus on client safety concerns or initiatives.
Students are expected to:

Post a response to each classmate. No more than 100 words include in-text citations and at least 1 reference APA style. Please be respectful.

Helen’s response:

Personal Philosophy

I believe that all human beings are whole. Therefore the whole human being walks into my clinic but some disturbance has caused illness. This disturbance may be an emotional issue that has caused stress and that stress has led to disease. This is an example and there are many root causes of disease. So, I think in a way that seeks out the root cause of the discomfort so that the effect can be modified.

Nurse Theorist

Martha Roger’s theory of Unitary Human Beings depicts nursing as an art and a science. Nurses promote health and well-being (Nursing Theory, 2018). When there is a change in the pattern and the organization of human energy fields, observable events manifest (Nursing Theory, 2018). Roger’s theory describes human beings as indivisible with an energy field that can be identified by a pattern and can’t be predicted from its parts (Nursing theory, 2018). People have the capacity to participate in change. Rogers describes health as an expression of the life process. Health includes characteristics from environmental and human fields (Nursing Theory, 2018). Therefore health and illness are part of the same continuum. Multiple events in a person’s life demonstrate the extent to which the person is healthy (Nursing Theory, 2018).

Comparison of Prescribing privileges

Louisiana (LA) is one of 15 states with reduced practice authority (American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2017). NPs in the state of Louisiana must have a collaborative agreement with a physician in order to have prescriptive authority (Louisiana State Board of Nursing (LSBN), 2018). Additionally, in the state of LA, NPs must complete 500 hours of work in the clinical specialty for which the applicant was educated immediately prior to applying for prescriptive authority (LSBN, 2018). Additionally, the NP must have 45 contact hours in pharmacology, and 45 contact hours in physiology/pathophysiology or a 3 hour college course in each (LSBN, 2018). In contrast, the state of Arizona voted into law full practice authority for NPs in 2001 (Arizona Nurse Practitioner Council, 2017). The State Board authorizes NPs to prescribe and dispense within the population of focus in the NP is licensed in the state and submits evidence of 45 contact hours in pharmacology or clinical management of drug therapy (Arizona State Board of Nursing, 2017).

References:

American Association of Nurse Pratitioners. (2017). State practice environment. Retrieved from https://www.aanp.org/legislation-regulation/state-…

American Nurse Practitioner Council. (2017). What year was the Arizona Nurse Practice Act modernized to give NPs full practice authority? Retrieved from https://arizonanp.enpnetwork.com/nurse-practitioner-news/57821-arizona-nurse-practice-act-aprn-scope-of-practice-proposed-revisions-for-aprn-consensus-and-aprn-multistate-compact-models-

Nursing Theory. (2018). Science of unitary human beings. Retrieved from http://www.nursing-theory.org/theories-and-models/…

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

 

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: 
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.