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Module 6 Discussion Question response LALC: Choosing the Family Nurse Practitioner Specialty Vs Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

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Choosing the Family Nurse Practitioner Specialty Vs Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Choosing a nursing specialty in the MSN program was both exciting and challenging. I was initially drawn to the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) role due to my background in intensive care and telemetry. The fast-paced, high-acuity environment of acute care aligned with my clinical skills and interest in caring for critically ill patients. However, after careful consideration, I decided to pursue the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track.
The decision wasn’t easy because it required stepping outside my comfort zone and adopting a different model of care. I had to compare my existing strengths with the opportunities for personal and professional growth presented by the FNP role. Fortunately, this transition is supported by the comprehensive curriculum of my MSN program and my dedication to lifelong learning.
Several key factors guided my decision. The FNP role focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and managing both acute and chronic conditions throughout a person’s life (American Association of Nurse Practitioners [AANP], n.d.). This extensive scope of practice aligns with my aim to deliver comprehensive and ongoing care in outpatient and community settings. According to research, FNPs are particularly well-placed to enhance access to primary care, especially in underserved and rural communities where provider shortages are prevalent (Buerhaus et al., 2015).
Additionally, the FNP role promotes long-term patient-provider relationships, which are associated with better health outcomes and higher patient satisfaction (Patel et al., 2020). I believe this continuity of care enables nurses to have a greater impact on individual and community health. Furthermore, the versatility of the FNP credential offers professional flexibility, allowing practice in various settings, including family practices, urgent care, and retail clinics (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2022).
To support my professional growth, I intend to join the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). AANP offers continuing education, policy advocacy, certification resources, and networking opportunities for nurse practitioners across the country. Student membership is affordable and provides access to scholarly journals, clinical guidelines, and discounts on conferences and certification materials (AANP, n.d.). This membership will be vital in helping me stay informed and engaged in the evolving NP profession.
References
American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (n.d.). About NPs and AANP membership benefits. https://www.aanp.org/membership
American Nurses Association. (2022). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (4th ed.). ANA Publishing.
Buerhaus, P. I., Skinner, L. E., Auerbach, D. I., & Staiger, D. O. (2015). Four challenges facing the nursing workforce in the United States. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 6(2), 40–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2155-8256(15)30762-4
Patel, M. R., Halterman, M. W., & Tieu, L. (2020). Impact of longitudinal primary care relationships on patient outcomes. Annals of Family Medicine, 18(5), 423–429. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2556

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Week 4 Discussion

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Think about a business project on which you have worked. How would you apply an enterprise analysis framework to this project? The BABOK® Guide talks about key performance indicators (KPIs) in Section 10.28 as tools that measure progress toward a strategic goal and aid in enterprise analysis. Discuss how using KPI milestones could also be used by business analysts as a communication tool during the evaluation stage. Why are strong communication skills important to today’s business analysts? In addition to peer-reviewed academic journal articles, back up all opinions with foundation knowledge from the BABOK Guide and in-class lessons.

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IHP 670 Module 8 Critique

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IHP 670 Module Eight Program Critique Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
You will complete five program critique assignments in the course to support your work as you prepare for your final project. These assignments ask that you critique a program described within an identified article located in the modules resources. These articles were chosen because they relate to the modules topics and demonstrate some common problems that programs encounter. In each assignment, you will have the opportunity to critique certain program components, such as resources, activities, outcome measures, use of feedback loops, assumptions, and external barriers. Once planners have identfied the details for each of the program components, they must step back and assess how those components can best operate within the programs environment. That involves considering concepts such as cultural competency, systems thinking, ethical practice, and others. You will focus on these different concepts, in turn, through the program critiques. As you develop your program critique skills, you will be asked to identify areas that could be or need to be improved and offer recommendations.
In this assignment, you will critique a health or healthcare program using the program critique reading in the Resources section of this module. The reading portrays example program decision-making relevant to module content. The selected program critique reading is the required reading for this assignment.
This assignment will help you predict the importance of a system-thinking approach in program planning. It will help you consider how to construct your program planning team. This activity will also help you understand the role of adequate communication when developing a program plan, design, and evaluation.
Findings from this assignment will help you analyze and improve your programs team development and communication aspects.
Prompt
Write a program critique that examines a health or healthcare program intended to meet a specific health need.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Systems Thinking: Explain how the program considers a systems-thinking approach in program planning. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What role does systems thinking play in making program planning more adaptive, transparent, and evidence based?
How does systems thinking help with team development and communication?
2. Stakeholders and Team Members Roles: Analyze the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and team members in the programs planning. Consider the following questions to guide
your response:
How did the inclusion of stakeholders help minimize the risks associated with the program?
What would you change in the given programs team-building efforts to make it more collaborative?
3. Communication Tools and Techniques: Determine whether the programs activities and resources use adequate communication tools and techniques to achieve the desired outcomes.
Consider the following questions to guide your response:
How did ineffective communication negatively impact the given program and its stakeholders?
What would you change to improve the communication with the stakeholders?
4. Summary and Recommendations: Summarize your findings from the program analysis, and share at least two recommendations about the appropriate use of systems thinking and
inclusion of stakeholders in program planning. Consider the following question to guide your response:
How would you use systems thinking to plan the activities for the given program differently?
Note that all the claims in your deliverable should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module
resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years. You are required to cite a minimum of two sources overall. Refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: NursingGraduate
located in the Start Here section of the course for additional support. If you need writing support, access the Online Writing Center through the Academic Support module of your course.
What to Submit
Your submission should be a 2- to 3-page Word document. Also include a title page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

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Interpersonal psychotherapy critique

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Objectives:

Critically appraise the therapy session and determine if the applicable principles are applied throughout the shown session.
Demonstrate yourability to evaluate your own reactions to the session.
Analyze how you feel this therapeutic modality may affect, enhance or apply to your future PMHNP practice.

Purpose:

IS NOT to evaluate the acting in the portrayals.
Is to demonstrate you can identify (include in your write-up) the principles of the applicable therapeutic modality.
Is to include how you felt the principles of the modality is or is not included in the therapeutic exchange.

Directions:

Review the video clip and critique the psychotherapy counseling session using the assessment tools below.
You can review the critique tool below and then click on the link below to download the MH708 Video Critique form-2.docx Download MH708 Video Critique form-2.docx. Complete the assignment and then upload completed assignment file for submission.
Please answer the questions directly on that form. Do not write long paragraphs
For Question 2, use this handout from Module 2 to pick out the communication techniques: TherapeuticCommunication handout.pdf
Video: https://youtu.be/5av_bUuN3_Q

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Module 6 Discussion question response CD

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Nurses can now specialize in specific fields. This happens after meeting education and experience needs. These steps allow focus on certain patients or areas. Within my MSN studies, I focus on mental health nursing. Upon meeting education and certification needs, I will practice as a PMHNP. A PMHNP is a nurse with advanced mental health education. (Chapman et al. 2018) state they perform similar duties to psychiatrists. This includes diagnosing patients. They also check physical health issues. Managing mental health problems is part of their role.
Choosing mental health as a specialty presented challenges. Many people hold negative views of those with mental illness. I worried that as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, I would face difficulties within mental health settings. My decision was influenced by the need to provide better mental health care. Given the increase in mental health issues and inadequate treatment for patients, I felt a professional duty. I saw a chance to enhance the mental well-being of Americans. Nursing groups are formed to improve care. They also fight for professional control. These groups state nursing’s core beliefs. (Cherry et al., 2019). Nurses benefit greatly from joining professional groups. Membership offers chances to connect with other nurses. It also grants access to learning tools. These include journals, meetings, online classes, and study materials. According to (Finley, 2019) mental health conditions impact nearly one in five Americans over age thirteen each year. This condition leads to annual costs of roughly $467 billion. These costs include both direct and indirect expenses. Many people with mental illness do not get professional help. Fewer than half of those affected receive treatment.
Professional Organization of Choice
The Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses (AAPPN) is the professional group I am exploring. This association supports advanced practice psychiatric nurses. It strongly advocates for the field. It also promotes career growth. Members gain power through many scholarship programs (AAPPN Membership, n.d.). Advancing core skills such as communication, evaluation, therapy, and drug oversight requires ongoing learning (Hodges et al., 2019). Advanced practice psychiatric nurses incur a membership fee. This fee yields significant advantages. The AAPPN provides a strong network. Members gain ongoing education. They also access important resources. The organization advocates for its members. It also supports the mental health field. The organization also shapes policy. This advances the field. Membership dues vary by category. Clinical members pay $250 annually. This is $62.50 per quarter. Out-of-state members pay $150 yearly. That equals $37.50 quarterly. Emeritus members pay $100 a year. This breaks down to $25.00 quarterly. Student members pay $50 annually. They pay $12.50 each quarter (AAPPN Membership, n.d.)
References:
AAPPN Membership. (n.d.). Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses. https://www.aappn.org/membership/Links to an external site.
Chapman, S. A., Phoenix, B. J., Hahn, T. E., & Strod, D. C. (2018). Utilization and Economic Contribution of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners in Public Behavioral Health Services.American Journal of Preventive Medicine,54(6), S243–S249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.045
Cherry, B., Caramanica, L., Everett, L. Q., Fennimore, L., & Scott, E. (2019). Leveraging the Power of Board Leadership in Professional Nursing Organizations.JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration,49(11), 517–519. https://doi.org/10.1097/nna.0000000000000805Links to an external site.
Finley, B. A. (2019). Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners meeting rural mental health challenges.Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association,26(1), 107839031988635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390319886357Links to an external site.
Hodges, A. L., Konicki, A. J., Talley, M. H., Bordelon, C. J., Holland, A. C., & Galin, F. S. (2019). Competency-based education in transitioning nurse practitioner students from education into practice.Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners,31(11), 675–682. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000327

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CSIA 485: Practical Applications in Cybersecurity Management & Policy Project #3: Presentation for Board of Directors

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CSIA 485: Practical Applications in Cybersecurity Management & Policy Project #3: Presentation for Board of Directors
Your Task:
Padgett-Beales Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has tasked you to continue supporting the Merger & Acquisition teams efforts to bring Island Banking Services security program into compliance with U.S. laws and regulations. The M&A team has provisionally accepted the draft cybersecurity strategy and draft implementation plan which you prepared previously. The M&A team has now requested that you contribute a set of summary slides for the M&A teams Decision Briefing (presentation) to the Padgett-Beale Board of Directors. This briefing is one of the final steps in obtaining approval for the M&A teams plan for integrating the newly purchased company Island Banking Services into Padgett-Beale as Padgett-Beale, Inc Financial Services (PBI-FS).

Before you begin developing your presentation, review your work products from Projects 1 & 2. As you do so, identify the most likely or most significant barriers to success (factors which increase the risk of failure). These can include barriers arising from external factors as well as issues arising from internal company sources. Consider culture and organizational conflict as well as legal and regulatory issues. For each factor, identify a countermeasure or compensatory action which the company could take to reduce the risk of failure. Select the five most significant barriers to success from your analysis. You will include these in your presentation slides.

Develop Your Presentation:
Using your prior work (Projects 1 & 2), develop a high-level summary presentation of your Cybersecurity Strategy and the Implementation Plan. You will need between 20-30 slides to fully address the requirements listed below; this slide count includes the slides for titles, section titles, and references. Remember to include speaker notes for the agenda slide, section title slides, and content slides. Your notes should be at least 20 words / one paragraph but no longer than 150 words / 3 paragraphs per slide.

Your presentation must include the following:

· Title Slide with title, your name, the date, and this course

· Agenda Slide

· Overview of the M&A effort (multiple slides use the assignment overviews / background sections to put together a summary that answers: who, what, where, why, how)

· Section Title Slide: Cybersecurity Strategy

· Content Slides: provide a summary of your proposed Cybersecurity Strategy (Project 1)

· Section Title Slide: Cybersecurity Implementation Plan

· Content Slides: provide a summary of your proposed Cybersecurity Implementation Plan

· Section Title Slide: Barriers to Success

· Content Slides: five separate slides one for each factor (identify each barrier to success and provide a recommended countermeasure or compensating action that the company could implement to reduce the risk of failure). This section will expand upon your barriers to success as discussed in Project #2.

· Section Title Slide: Summary & Recommendations

· Content Slide: present a recommendation that the strategy & implementation plan be approved by the Board of Directors for adoption and implementation by the company. Include 5 major business benefits of adoption and implementation. This may be new content (not previously included in projects 1 & 2).

· Section Title Slide: References

· Content Slides(s) that include reference list entries for your resources. Do not cite your own work for Projects 1 & 2.

Putting It All Together
MS Power Point .pptx format is the preferred delivery format; this application can be accessed via the Web or downloaded from UMGC under the universitys enterprise license for student use of Office 365. For more information see: https://www.umgc.edu/help/help-article-base.html?knowledgeArticleId=kA00W000000sZpeSAE&articleType=FAQ_IT__kav

If you are unable to use Power Point, you may use another presentation application to create your slides and speaker notes. After you have done so, print your presentation slides to PDF and deliver the assignment as a PDF document. If you deliver as PDF, you must make sure that your speaker notes are visible and accompany each slide.

Additional Information
1. Consult the grading rubric for specific content and formatting requirements for this assignment.

2. Your presentation should be professional in appearance with consistent use of fonts, font sizes, margins, etc.

3. You must include a title slide with the assignment title, your name, and the due date. Your reference list must be on a separate slide at the end of your file.

4. You are expected to write grammatically correct English in every assignment that you submit for grading. Do not turn in any work without (a) using spell check, (b) using grammar check, (c) verifying that your punctuation is correct and (d) reviewing your work for correct word usage and correctly structured sentences and paragraphs.

5. You are expected to credit your sources using in-text citations and reference list entries. Both your citations and your reference list entries must follow a consistent citation style (APA, MLA, etc.). To reduce visual clutter, you may put citations for sources into footnotes at the bottom of your slides (instead of putting citations at the ends of bullet points).

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PES Discussion Week 5

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Describe the seven key focus areas for diabetes management espoused by the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES).
Instruction:
Discussion posts must be a minimum of 350 words initial, references must be cited in APA format 7th Edition, and must include a minimum of 2 scholarly resources published within the past 3 years.

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8D Mkt NP

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Find a newspaper, magazine, or online article covering a nonprofit. Compare and contrast the article to a paid advertisement for that nonprofit. Remember to include a link to the article and the advertisement.
Submission, APA, 3 paragraphs

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Presentation Reflection

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Please answer the questions below.

Regarding your presentation assignment, what did you learn about the research project?
Would you have approached the assignment differently? Why or why not?

Submission Instructions:

Your initial post should be at least 500 words,formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
I inculded the research project.

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PowerPoint Presentation: Advanced Practice

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Develop a PowerPoint Presentation in regards to the issue of Advanced Practice.

Identify a current research problem related to advanced nursing practice that is of interest to you. Include WHY this is a problem. (Limit response to no more than 3 sentences). Develop a research question to provide information about the research problem.
Based on your research question, do you believe it will best be answered by a qualitative or quantitative study ? Support your decision as to why you believe the answers would best be provided by the type of study you have chosen.
Select a middle-range theory and identify the application of nursing theories to your research problem.
Conduct a literature review.
Based on your literature review answer the following questions:

If qualitative,

Identify the purpose of the study.
Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.
Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.
Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.
Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research.
Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged.
Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.”¯
Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations.
Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nursing.

If quantitative,

Identify the purpose and design of the study.
Explain what is meant by ‘blinding’ and ‘randomization’ and discuss how these were addressed in the design of the study.
Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed. “¯
Explain the sampling method and the recruitment strategy was used.
Discuss how the sample size was determined — include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.
Briefly, outline how the data was collected and identify any data collection instrument(s).
Define the terms of validity and reliability, and discuss how the validity & reliability of the instruments were/were not addressed in this study and why this is important.
Outline how the data were analyzed.
Identify the statistics used and the level of measurement of the data described by each statistical test — include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.
Briefly, outline the findings and identify any limitations of the study.
Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to briefly discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion an explanation of the term statistical significance and name the tests of statistical significance used in this study.

Submission Instructions:

The presentation is original work and logically organized.
Follow current APA format including citation of references.
The PowerPoint presentation should include 10-15 slides which are clear and easy to read.
Speaker notes expand upon and clarify content on the slides.
Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
Journal articles and books should be referenced according to the current APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).

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