Healthcare
Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic properties of the chosen drug
Assessment Description
Choose a drug that has been approved by the FDA within the past year.
Write a 1,000-1,250 word paper in which you:
Describe the drug approved by the FDA. Include the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic properties of the chosen drug.
Provide an overview of the disease state for which the drug is used.
Describe what is different about this agent compared to currently available therapies.
Discuss the potential risks associated with this agent and any monitoring parameters that are necessary.
Decide whether you would personally prescribe this agent or stick with currently available alternatives.
Patient education for management
The presentation must provide information about the incidence, prevalence, and pathophysiology of the disease/disorder to the cellular level. The presentation must educate advanced practice nurses on assessment and care/treatment, including genetics/genomics—specific for this disorder. Patient education for management, cultural, and spiritual considerations for care must also be addressed. The presentation must specifically address how the disease/disorder affects 1 of the following age groups: infant/child, adult, or elderly.
Format Requirements:
Presentation is original work and logically organized.
Followed APA format including citation of references.
Power point presentation with 10-15 slides were clear and easy to read. Speaker notes expanded upon and clarified content on the slides.
Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within 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 APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).
Descriptive statistics
This week’s writing assignment will consist of the following:
What is the significance of descriptive statistics? How can they be applied to your area of nursing? Give some examples. This response should be 150 words in length.
Please review the Assignment Rubric
CRITERIA OUTSTANDING VERY GOOD GOOD UNACCEPTABLE
Integration of Knowledge 25% of the total grade 100%The paper demonstrates that the author understands and has applied concepts learned in the course. Concepts are integrated into the writer’s own insights. The writer provides concluding remarks that show analysis and synthesis of ideas. 80%The paper demonstrates that the author, mostly, understands and has applied concepts learned in the course. Some conclusions, however, are not supported in the body of the paper. 60%The paper demonstrates that the author, to a certain extent, understands and has applied concepts learned in the course. 40%The paper does not demonstrate that the author has understood, and applied concepts learned in the course.
Topic Focus 25% of the total Grade 100%The topic is focused narrowly enough for the scope of this assignment. A thesis statement provides direction for the paper, either by a statement of a position or hypothesis. The topic is consistently well thought out, thorough offers insight into the topic, and includes cited evidence to support the topic. 80%The topic is focused but lacks direction. The paper is about a specific topic, but the writer has not established a position. The topic is somewhat well thought out, offers limited insight into the topic, but does not include cited evidence to support the topic. 60%The topic is too broad for the scope of this assignment
Public health leader
1.Please respond to the following question and submit for this week’s homework assignment: As a public health leader, formulate a plan for how you would deal with the alleged ethnic discrimination described in Case Study 23-A. Provide a rationale for your response.
2.Please respond to the following: Examine the potential major consequences to an organization if the staff is not culturally competent. Next, construct two strategies you would use to develop culturally competent staff and mitigate these potential issues.
Requirements: 2 pages
Chronic health condition
This paper should clearly and comprehensively discuss a chronic health disease. Select a topic from the list provided by your course faculty.
The paper should be organized into the following sections:
Introduction (Identification of the problem) with a clear presentation of the problem as well as the significance and a scholarly overview of the paper’s content. No heading is used for the Introduction per APA current edition.
Background and Significance of the disease, to include: Definition, description, signs and symptoms. Incidence and prevalence of statistics by state with a comparison to national statistics pertaining to the disease. If after a search of the library and scholarly data bases, you are unable to find statistics for your home state, or other states, consider this a gap in the data and state as much in the body of the paper. For instance, you may state something like, “After an exhausting search of the scholarly data bases, this writer is unable to locate incidence and/or prevalence data for the state of …. This indicates a gap in surveillance that will be included in the “Plan” section of this paper.
Surveillance and Reporting: Current surveillance methods and mandated reporting processes as related to the chronic health condition chosen should be specific.
Epidemiological Analysis: Conduct a descriptive epidemiology analysis of the health condition. Be sure to include all of the 5 W’s: What, Who, Where, When, Why.