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 Purpose 

The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to explore the roles and competencies of the advanced practice nurse (APN). 

Activity Learning Outcomes 

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to: 

1. Examine roles and competencies of advanced practice nurses essential to performing as leaders and advocates of holistic, safe, and quality care. (CO1) 
2. Explore the process of scholarship engagement to improve health and healthcare outcomes in various settings.

Requirements: 

1. The  Roles in Advanced Nursing Practice paper is worth 150 points and will be graded on the quality of the content, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric. 
2. Submit the paper as a Microsoft Word Document, which is the required format at Chamberlain University. You are encouraged to use the APA Academic Writer and Grammarly tools when creating your assignment. 
3. Follow the directions below and the grading criteria located in the rubric closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q & A Forum or emailed to your faculty. 
4. The length of the paper should be 3-6 pages, excluding title page and reference page(s). 
5. Support ideas with a minimum of 2 scholarly resources. Scholarly resources do not include your textbook. You may need to use more than 2 scholarly resources to fully support your ideas. 
6. You may use first person voice when describing your rationale for choosing the CNP role and your plans for clinical practice.  
7. Current APA format is required with both a title page and reference page(s). Use the following as Level 1 headings to denote the sections of your paper (Level 1 headings use upper- and lower-case letters and are bold and centered): 
   • Roles in Advanced Practice Nursing (This is the paper introduction. In APA format, a restatement of the paper title, centered and not bold serves as the heading of the introduction section) 
   • Four APN Roles 
   • Rationale for Choosing CNP Role 
   • Plans for Clinical Practice 
   • Role Transition 
   • Conclusion 

Directions: 

1. Introduction: Provide an overview of what will be covered in the paper. Introduction should include general statements on advanced practice nursing roles, general statements on the role transition from RN to APN, and identification of the purpose of the paper. 
2. Four APN Roles: Describe the role, educational preparation, and work environment for the four APN roles (CNP, CNS, CRNA & CNM). Provide support from at least one scholarly source. 
3. Rationale for Choosing CNP Role: Describe your rationale for choosing the CNP advanced practice role versus one of the other roles. 
4. Plans for Clinical Practice: Discuss your plans for clinical practice after graduation. Explain how your understanding of NP practice has changed after researching the four ANP roles. 
5. Role Transition: Discuss your transition from the RN role to the NP role. Describe two factors that may impact your transition. Discuss two strategies you will use to support a successful transition from the RN to your NP role. Provide reference support from at least one scholarly source. The textbook is not a scholarly source. 
6. Conclusion: Provide a conclusion, including a brief summary of what you discussed in the paper. 

INtroduction-  

Provides an overview of what will be covered in the paper. Introduction should include:  

1. general statements on advanced practice nursing roles 
2. general statements on the role transition from RN to APN 
3. identification of the purpose of the paper. 

Four APN roles-  

Describes the role, educational preparation, and work environment for the four APN roles  

1. CNP 
2. CNS 
3. CRNA 
4. CNM 

Provides support from at least one scholarly source. 

Rationale for choosing CNP role-  Describes the student’s rationale for choosing the CNP advanced practice role versus one of the other roles.  

Plans for clinical practice-  Discusses the student’s plans for clinical practice after graduation. Explains how student’s understanding of NP practice has changed after researching ANP roles. 

Role transition- 

Discusses the student’s transition from the RN role to the NP role.  

1. Describes two factors that may impact the transition.  
2. Discusses two strategies student will use to support a successful transition from the RN to your NP role.  Provides reference support from at least one scholarly source. The textbook is not a scholarly source. 

Conclusion-  Provides a conclusion, including a brief summary of what was discussed in the paper. 

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Please answer the following Discussion Question. Please be certain to answer the four questions on this week DQ and to provide a well-developed and complete answer to receive credit. Also, please ensure to have read the assigned chapters for the current week. 

Case Study, Chapter 25, Professional Nursing Associations

We are fortunate as professional Registered Nurses to have a vast array of choices to us. With that being stated we also have a professional duty to be active members of our professional associations to further evolve our careers on that of our profession.

Please answer the following:

1. Explain how professional associations enhance the nursing profession.
2. What professional associations do you know the most about and describe.
3. What professional organization do you plan in participating in and why?

Leadership Discussion Question:

It is critical to synthesize all of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of nursing into an integrated whole that moves nurses from task completers to an overall demonstration of compassion and caring.

Thinking of nursing first as a job of caring and making a difference, as well as the work of giving medications on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces, reminds us of the synthesized whole of nursing work.

Write a reflection about this thought. Incorporate elements from this module’s objectives, as well as what you have learned in this course about leadership. You may include personal experiences and professional opinions if you wish.

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook

Assessment Discussion Question:

In general, what findings in the physical assessment of a healthy older adult do you expect to be different than that of a healthy 35-year-old?

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

Note: You must review the Module Assignment in Week 9 for your initial post in this Discussion. You will develop interview questions for that Assignment, and this Discussion requires you to reflect on how you might apply your learning from this week to those questions.

• Research and find one peer-reviewed article related to an ANA functional area that you would like to further develop as a nurse informaticist.
• The Library recommends the following:
  •  Navigate to the Nursing Research databases. 
  •  Select a database with which to start. You can try more than one.
  •  Perform a basic search with one of the functional areas that are listed in the text. You don’t necessarily need to use the exact wording of the functional areas. For example, “Development of Systems, Products, and Resources” might be expressed as “systems development.” Look at your initial results to see if the wording fits your topic.
  • Add a second concept in Box 2 to focus your search. It helps to keep concepts separate, especially when multiple boxes are provided. Try: informatics.
  • Refine your results depending on what you find. Don’t be afraid to try alternate words or combinations of words to get a sizeable hit list, then you can apply limits.
  • To apply limits, scroll down in the left column to limit by date (last 5 years) and limit the results to peer-reviewed scholarly journals only. It helps to do this after you know you have performed a successful search and identified possible synonyms and sub-topics.
• Use the Annotated Biobibliography template in the Resources to write an annotated bibliography entry, focusing on how the chosen article applies to developing your functional area as a nurse informaticist.

By Day 3 of Week 8

Post your annotated bibliography entry directly in the Discussion thread (i.e., do not upload the Annotated Bibliography template). Your article analysis should focus on how the chosen article applies to further developing your functional area as a nurse informaticist. Then, explain how learning from the article might influence your questions for your Module Assignment interview. Be specific.

Individuals with psychiatric mental health disorders are frequently  stigmatized not only by society as a whole, but also by their friends, family, and sometimes healthcare providers. In your role, however, you  have the opportunity to become a social change agent for these  individuals. Consider how you might make a positive impact for your clients and advocate for social change within your own community. 

Assignment:

Provide an explanation of how you, as a nurse  practitioner, might become a social change agent for psychiatric mental health. Include how you might advocate for change within your own community.

** No plagiarism

** Four references required

** 2 pages required

CASE STUDY  

K.Y. is an employee-health nurse practitioner for a large corporation. Her role is to advocate for her clients by helping them improve their quality of life, both for the present and the future, through the identification of risk factors, health promotion, and other nursing interventions. The majority of the employees She sees are middle-age adults.

Her clients come to see her for a variety of reasons, including stress, mental illness, and on-the-job injuries. K.Y. assists her clients by providing education about healthy lifestyle choices, referrals to community resources, and counseling.

QUESTION FOR THE CASE  Make a summary of the typical biological changes in the middle-age adult. 

Then, continue to discuss the 3 topics listed below for your case:

1. Discuss how you would advise young adults in selecting contraceptive methods. Do you have any personal, religious reservations, or discomforts that would interfere with your ability to advise clients and ask them how they would address these personal conflicts?
2. Have students develop a smoking cessation plan for a client.
3. Evaluate the impact of poverty on older adults. Make sure to include the impact on their physical and mental health and health promotion recommendations.

 The influence of leadership can be far-reaching in practice and improving patient outcomes even when not in a formal role. Describe advocacy strategies that you can use as a leader to create positive change in your current workplace. In response to peers, describe a time when you provided leadership and the outcome. Was there anything that you would do differently? 

Purpose

The purpose of this activity is to deepen learning through reflective inquiry. This activity will allow for expansion in self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals.

Preparing the Assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of this assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. It is each student’s responsibility to save and maintain all artifacts required in the e-Portfolio (Links to an external site.).

1-Write a brief 2 paragraph reflection addressing the questions posed in the Reflect section of each weekly module. 

Week 1

o What were the most important concepts you learned in week 1?

o Why are these concepts important?

o How will they prepare you for your future role as a DNP-prepared nurse?

o In what ways do you feel prepared for your new role? In what ways do you feel unprepared?

Week 2

o Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

o What do you value most about your learning this week?

o What else do you need to explore to further grow as a DNP practice scholar?

Week 3

o Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

o What personal values, if any, were challenged this week?

o What values can you reaffirm or want to reconsider after this learning?

Week 4

o Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

o What concepts, theories, models, tools, techniques, and resources in this week did you find most valuable?

o What issues had you not considered before?

Week 5

o Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

o How might you use this information in your future role as a DNP practice scholar?

o What topics, if any, had you not considered before?

Week 6

o Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

o What knowledge do you still need to demonstrate competency in the weekly concepts?

o What skills do you need to continue developing to apply these concepts?

Week 7

o Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

o What are the core values and best practices that define the roles of the DNP practice scholar?

o How will this knowledge improve your effectiveness as a DNP practice scholar?

o What skills do you need to implement these best practices and how will you develop them?

Reflection on Learning

Requirements:
1. Addresses all aspects of the weekly reflection
2. Assesses own learning
3. Assesses value of the learning experience

Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for weekly reflection.

Writing Organization and Mechanics

Requirements:

-Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.

-Presents information using clear and concise language in an organized manner (0-1 errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation).

Please answer each week separated 2 paragraphs and use 3 or more sources no later than 5 years. 

summary of teaching plan

Learners must develop an introduction essay with the expectations of the course using the following prompts. The essay must have a maximum of 2 pages or at least 5 paragraphs.

MUST ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS THAT ARE NUMBERED. IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WRITING AN ESSAY WITH ALL THE INFO I GAVE YOU AND ELABORATE IS VERY BASIC NO NEED FOR REFERENCES OR RESEARCH JUST IMAGINATION FROM WHAT I GAVE YOU HERE.

** 1) What is your professional or career goal and why is this course important?

– my goal is to become an advance registered nurse practitioner and become more knowledge about Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Transcultural Consideration (this is the name of the class)

** 2) Describe your language proficiency entering this course.

– my language proficiency is very good my first language is Spanish however I am fluent in English

**3) What is your knowledge or work experience background that prepares you for
this course?

my knowledge and work experience about this topic is basic however I do have some experiences since I used to work in a hospital and know I work in a private practice which makes me have more interactions with the patients.

4) Describe your strengths and weaknesses as a student

strength

• Creativity
• Discipline
• Patience
• Respectfulness
• Determination
• Dedication
• Honesty
• Versatility

weaknesses

• Self-criticism
• Insecure
• Extremely Introverted
• Extremely Extroverted
• Creative Writing
• Too detail oriented
• Financial Literacy
• A Particular Software
• Too sensitive
• Presentation Skills

*** 5) What are your expectations of the course based on the described objectives?

I think is a nice course to learn because it opens the door to a new work of rules, habits and ethics that we should have to be in this profesion.

extra INFORMATION ************

I am 28 years old just in case and I am hispanic