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Week 2: Discussion No unread replies.No replies. Back to Week at a Glance THE PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION AND EVIDENCE-BASED RATING SCALES Assessment tools have two primary purposes: 1) to measure illness and diagnose clients, and 2) to measure a client’s response to treatment. Often, you will find that multiple assessment tools are designed to measure the…
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Guiding Questions Mentor Interview This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Mentor Interview assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all…
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PRACTICUM OBJECTIVES This course includes a 160-hour practicum as part of the clinical hours that are required for the DNP credential. The Practicum Experience enables you to explore key issues related to your specialty practice and to refine your leadership skills as you work with others at your practicum site. To guide you through…
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ADVOCACY AREA In the first two Discussions, you identified a vulnerable or marginalized population for whom you can determine an issue that could be addressed through engaging in policy advocacy. Now it is time to present this advocacy area with evidence to support and defend your selection. For this Assignment, you will explain and…
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FOCUSED SOAP NOTE AND PATIENT CASE PRESENTATION, PART 1 Psychiatric notes are a way to reflect on your practicum experiences and connect them to the didactic learning you gain from your NRNP courses. Focused SOAP notes, such as the ones required in this practicum course, are often used in clinical settings to document…
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PRACTICUM EXPERIENCE PLAN (PEP) As you establish your goals and objectives for this course, you are committing to an organized plan that will frame your practicum experience in a clinical setting, including planned activities, assessment, and achievement of defined outcomes. In particular, your plan must address the categories of clinical reasoning, quality in your clinical…
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For this assignment, you will be preparing a paper for submission to a conference or journal for publication, as well as submitting the paper to your instructor. The topic requirements are outlined below. NOTE: This assignment does not require that you actually submit the paper for publication, but it does require that you prepare a…
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For this assignment, you will compose a reflection paper that responds to the prompts below. The career you will use to answer the prompts is Nursing Home Administrator (NHA). 1. Appraise effective leadership strategies that you can implement in health care delivery. (some examples: promotion from within, employee training, communication network, delegation, performance goals,…
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Northeast Colorado Telephone Systems (NCTS) manufactures routers for commercial use and is planning to enter the residential market. You and your classmates are employees of NCTS and have been tasked with ensuring that risks associated with entering the residential market are managed. You have been asked to present information on risk management elements to the…
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This week gives you a basic foundation of pharmacokinetics and the principles behind it, as well as a general disease state knowledge of medications (i.e. this is a prostate cancer drug, etc). There are calculations mixed in this week (i.e. 15 mL = how many teaspoonfuls, etc). Also, begin to think as the prescriber instead…