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 Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.

1. Reflect on your learning experience in this course. Which concepts stood out to you and made an impact? How do you envision using these concepts in your future nursing practice as a master’s prepared nurse?   
2. Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve Program Outcome 1: Provide high quality, safe, patient-centered care grounded in holistic health principles. 
3. Describe how course assignments or activities will help you achieve ONE of the sub-competencies from the advanced-level nursing education competencies from AACN Essentials Competency 1.3 Demonstrate clinical judgment founded on a broad knowledge base.

• 1.3d: Integrate foundational and advanced specialty knowledge into clinical reasoning.
• 1.3e: Synthesize current and emerging evidence to influence practice.

Case Scenario:

Patient Overview: A 45-year-old patient, Jamie, presents with muscle weakness, difficulty walking, numbness in the limbs, and occasional blurred vision. The patient’s symptoms have worsened over the past few months. During the examination, the healthcare provider notices a delayed reflex response in the lower extremities and decreased coordination.
Jamie mentions a family history of neurological disorders, specifically Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Diagnostic Findings:

• MRI shows demyelination in regions of the central nervous system.
• Electromyography (EMG) results suggest slowed peripheral nerve conduction velocity.
• Blood tests show elevated levels of specific autoantibodies.

Correlation is the process of establishing a relationship between two or more factors. Correlation is an important concept that can be misused. One misuse is saying that factor A is caused by factor B just because correlation is found. Cause cannot be implied simply from correlation. Find two examples in scholarly articles within the last 10 years that use correlation analysis. One of the articles must use correlation to imply causation correctly and one article should not have justification to imply cause.

– Summarize both articles in at least 500 words.

– Explain why cause was appropriate in one article and not in the other.

– What would be needed for the second article to justify a statement of cause? 

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric (attached) prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

Assignment Instructions

As you may recall, nutrients are divided into the following six (6) categories:

• Carbohydrates
• Lipids (Fats)
• Proteins
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Water

For this assignment, you will need to develop an informative PowerPoint presentation that could be used to teach your classmates about a variety of nutrients from the nutrient categories (above).

1. Your PowerPoint presentation should:
2. Have a title slide.
3. Contain at least 6 content slides.
4. Reflect proper spelling and grammar.
5. Cite at least 2 credible references and present the sources in APA format on a References slide.
6. Choose five (5) specific nutrients from within the nutrient categories listed above. You may choose either:
7. a mixture of five (5) macro and micro nutrients
8. For example, you can use 2 macronutrients (such as lipids and carbohydrates) and 3 micronutrients (such as specific vitamins and minerals)
9. five (5) different vitamins or minerals
10. For example, 2 vitamins (such as A and D), 2 major minerals (such as sodium, calcium, and potassium), and 1 trace mineral (such as zinc).
11. For each of the nutrients you selected, create content slides that address the following:
12. Explain the function(s) of the nutrient within the body.
13. Describe how the nutrient is metabolized (where primarily digested, absorbed, and transported) within the body.
14. Identify the current Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for the nutrient for an average adult.

For information about creating PowerPoint presentations and assessing the credibility of resources, consult the resources below.

• Writing Guide: PowerPoints
• PowerPoint FAQ 
• How do I know if a source is credible?
• PowerPoint & APA: citing sources and creating reference lists in PPT 

 Congratulations on completing all weekly seminars. Do you feel that these weekly seminars will help you succeed in this program? (DNP )

Compare independent variables, dependent variables, and extraneous variables. Describe two ways that researchers attempt to control extraneous variables. Provide an example of how this is applied using a peer-reviewed, primary research article.

Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include one reference. Refer to “RN-BSN Discussion Question Rubric” and “RN-BSN Participation Rubric,” located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and participation posts, respectively.

You are designing an executable population-based change project addressing identified practice-related problems or questions. This strongly emphasizes collaboration between advanced practice nurses and community agencies and includes working with an agency using practice data to provide answers, which are responsive to the needs of clinicians, administrators, and policy makers for improvement of programs or practices.

This section of the change project should include a discussion of key concepts.

1. Clarify the issue under study.
2. Propose solutions or interventions based on the literature review.
3. Compare other views on the problem and solutions.
4. Address the APRN role in the intervention and discuss implications for clinical practice.
5. Discuss the implications of your change project.

Some important things to consider and address:

1. Does your intervention have a clear connection to your research problem?
2. What are the specific methods of data collection you are going to use, such as surveys, interviews, questionnaires, or protocols?
3. How do you intend to analyze your results?
4. Provide a justification for subject selection and sampling procedure.
5. Describe potential limitations. Are there any practical limitations that could affect your data collection? How will you attempt to control the limitations?
6. How will your change project help fill gaps in understanding the research problem?

This section should be 6–7 pages in length, not including the cover or reference page. You must reference a minimum of 5 scholarly articles.

Identify chronic illness and its relationship to rehabilitation.

INSTRUCTIONS ATTACHED

Part A
Tiffany, a 21-year-old college student, is having trouble sleeping, cries frequently, and has recurrent thoughts of suicide. An antidepressant is prescribed. Like many such drugs, this antidepressant has anticholinergic side effects.

1. What side effects might Tiffany experience in the first week of treatment?
   

Part B
Maria, a 9-year-old girl, told the clinic physician that her “ear lump hurt” and she kept “getting dizzy and falling down.” As she told her story, she pointed to her mastoid process. An otoscopic examination of the external acoustic meatus revealed a red, swollen eardrum, and her throat was inflamed. Her condition was described as mastoiditis with secondary labyrinthitis.

1. Describe the most likely route of infection and the infected structures in Maria’s case.
2. Explain the cause of her dizziness and falling.