Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to discuss healthcare policy of the APN profession and how Transformational Leadership can help to influence policy changes. This week’s assignment focuses on the APN as a Health Policy Leader, one of the nine NONPF NP competencies. Students will analyze how health policy may affect NP practice and how Transformational Leadership…
Requirements: Discuss your state NP community in terms of scope of practice. Include the your state’s scope of practice for NPs including: Level of independence of practice Prescribing authority Any limitations of practice Process for obtaining licensure in your state Certification and education requirements for licensure. If you live in a restricted or reduced practice state, how…
Requirements: You are a family nurse practitioner working in an outpatient primary care office of a large hospital system. The practice has been operating for over 15 years, and many of the administrative and clinical staff were hired when the practice opened. You have been in the practice for less than 3 months. In that…
Purpose This assignment will focus on developing a health policy analysis presentation that includes a problem statement, background, landscape, options and recommendations from the week’s readings. The health policy analysis presentation is based upon an identified healthcare issue in one’s local community. Activity Learning Outcomes Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to: Employ…
Requirements: The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was formed to ensure quality of patient care and measurement of patient outcomes with set standards. Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a performance measurement tool used by millions of health insurance plans. There are 6 domains of care: Effectiveness of Care. Access/Availability of Care.…
Requirements: You are a family nurse practitioner employed in a busy primary care office. The providers in the group include one physician and three nurse practitioners. The back office staff includes eight medical assistants who assist with patient care as well as filing, answering calls from patients, processing laboratory results and taking prescription renewal requests from patients…
Requirements: Using the readings from this week as well as outside reliable resources to: Identify and describe practice barriers for APNs in your state and discuss these barriers on a state and national level. Identify forms of competition on the state and national level that interfere with APN’s ability to practice independently. Identify the specific lawmakers by name…
Requirements: In order to prepare for this assignment, read the lessons as well as the assigned readings BEFORE attempting the self-assessment. Please use the following hyperlink to access and complete the survey: Week 7 Post-TANIC Self-Assessment SurveyLinks to an external site. FAILURE TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF ZERO (0) FOR THE…
PART 1: The medical application selection for this assignment is contingent upon the month of your birthday. Use the table below to identify the Medical App for this assignment.Your Birth MonthMedical App for Assignment January, FebruaryMediCalc March, April, MayLexicomp June, July, AugustCDC Milestone Tracker September, OctoberICD10 ConsultNovember, DecemberGoodRx Use the Google Play Store for Android devices or the Apple iTunes App Store for…
Requirements: Post a written response in the discussion forum to EACH threaded discussion topic: This week we learned about the potential benefits and drawbacks to clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). Create a “Pros” versus “Cons” table with a column for “Pro” and a separate column for “Con”. Include at least 3 items for each column.…