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NU 601 Week 2 Assignment 2: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography Instructions

An important part of the concept analysis is review of articles related to the concept you will focus on. An annotated bibliography is a method you can use to summarize and assess the articles that you plan to use for your concept analysis paper.

Grief is the concept of focus in week 2. You are required to write an annotated bibliography of two articles related to grief. One article must have an empirical referent of grief. For example, your required reading, Martincekova, L. & Klatt, J. (2017). Mothers’ Grief, Forgiveness, and Posttraumatic Growth after the loss of a Child (PDF). OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying,75(3), 248-265. contains three empirical referents—the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, the Enright Forgiveness Inventory, and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory.

Paper Instructions

  1. You will write an annotated bibliography (summary and assessment) of two articles related to the concept of grief. The annotated bibliography of each article should be two to three paragraphs long. The Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliographies website contains a useful guide to writing annotated bibliographies. The Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliographies Samples provides annotated bibliography examples. You should follow these suggestions related to summarizing and assessing articles:
    • Summarize: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how the degree of detail of your summary.
    • Assess: Is it a useful source? (Source: Purdue OWL: Annotated Bibliographies, retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/)
  2. You need to write your annotated bibliography in your own words. Do not use the abstract of an article as your annotated bibliography.
  3. The articles you select must be at a graduate level. They must be from academic/professional level journals. You cannot use articles from introductory nursing journals (e.g., Registered Nurse Journal or American Journal of Nursing).
  4. You are required to write your annotated bibliography according to APA Manual 7th edition guidelines. The Owl Purdue Annotated Bibliographies Samples website includes an example of an annotated bibliography for a book, Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America. New York: Henry Holt.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

NU 601 Week 2 Group Assignment 1: Grand Theory Group Presentation Team Work Plan

Instructions

By now, your group should have a work plan for the Grand Theory group presentation. In other words, the group should know how you will divide the tasks associated with the presentation and the group members responsible for various tasks should be chosen. Refer to the Grand Theory Group Presentation Instructions (Word), if needed. Select one group member to post the team work plan.

Please refer to this Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Week 1 Blog Post 1: Forever Mark

Instructions

According to Levine, Nursing is a human interaction. The nurse enters into a partnership of human experience where sharing moments in time—some trivial, some dramatic—leaves its mark forever on each patient (Alligood, 2010, Nursing Theory: Utilization & Application, p. 183). Has a patient ever left a mark forever on you? Please explain in a blog post that is three-to-five sentences long.

Please refer to this Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Week 1 Discussion 2: Applying Florence Nightingale’s Theory to Your Life

Initial Post

Please respond to the following prompts:

  • Choose one patient care problem (for example, adolescents at the end of life) and describe two ways you can apply Nightingale’s theory to the concept of environment.
  • View the trailer of An Inconvenient Truth (2:30 minutes), which is a movie by former Vice President Al Gore. How can you use Nightingale’s theory to address this major environmental problem?

Your initial post should contain two to three paragraphs with three to four sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for the citations and references.

MNP 643 Unit 4 Discussion

Unit Four Discussion

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Note: This is a Post First assignment. You are required to post your original post before the discussion board opens for your review.

Initial Discussion

Adults and children respond to medications differently. Some potential safety concerns are required when prescribing psychotropic medications for children and adolescents. You were to evaluate a 14-year-old Caucasian female diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The mother asked you to prescribe a medication that worked well for a neighbor’s child who was also diagnosed with ADHD but seeing a different provider. You know as PMHNP that the drug she is requesting is off-label medication for ADHD.

In a 2-3 page paper,

  • Describe how you would proceed with the mother’s request
  • Explain the circumstances, in which you would prescribe an off-label drug to a pediatric patient.
  • Describe any legal or ethical issues involved with prescribing off-label medication to the pediatric population.
  • Provide the description and names of at least three off-label psychiatric drugs that require extra care and attention when used in pediatrics.
  • Discuss patient teaching for the family.
  • Provide evidence-based references to support your rationale.

Respond to at least two peers post on two different days

MNP 643 Unit 3 Discussion

Unit Three Discussion

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Initial Discussion

Scenario one:  You see your colleague, another PMHNP prescribe an Ativan for her 72-year-old mother who was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, but not a patient at the clinic.

Scenario two: You were asked by a friend to prescribe a non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic for the management of his social anxiety since he is going to present at a conference next week

In a 2-3 page paper, select one of the scenarios and:

  • Describe the decision you would make regarding the scenario selected, provide the rationale.
  • Discuss at least two strategies that would guide your decision making as a PMHNP
  • Discuss the ethical and legal implication involved in the scenario selected
  • Provide evidence-based references to support your rationale

Respond to at least two peers post on two different days . One must be a different scenario from the one you selected.

MNP 643 Unit 2 Discussion

Unit Two Discussion

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Initial Discussion 

You were called as a PMNHP to evaluate and treat a 34-year-old female hospitalized in the local mental health facility.  The client has a long history of depressed mood and anhedonia, but has never been on a psychiatric medication. You diagnosed the client with a major depressive disorder and decided to start the client on a medication for stabilization.

In a 2-3 page paper,

  • Discuss what would guide your decision in selecting a drug for this client?
  • Describe the medication you would prescribe, provide the rationale.
  • Discuss medication education on the medication selected, including pharmacological actions, therapeutic indications, precautions/side effects, dosage and clinical guideline, and any laboratory interferences.
  • Refer to grading rubric to include references required.

Respond to at least two peers post on two different days

MNP 643 Unit 1 Discussion

Unit One Discussion

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Initial Discussion: 

In a 2-3 page paper,

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics describes the relationship between drugs and the body. It is important to consider factors that might influence a patient’s Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamics processes such as gender, genetics, age, ethnicity, and behaviors.

  • Think of a patient you have encountered in the past. How would the differences in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics factors alter the patient’s anticipated response to a psychiatric medication?
  •  Consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
  • What would be your plan of care for the patient based on the factors that influence the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics?
  • Describe the difference between drug agonists, partial agonist, and drug antagonists. Also, include how people might respond differently to medications?

MNP 643 Medication Algorithm

Signature Assignment (Psychopharmacology Treatment Algorithm)

Using your learning experience from your clinical experience, preceptor input and evidence-based literature, develop a pharmacology treatment Algorithm of a patient with a DSM diagnosis. You can use your readings to change and add to your work, but it must be an original and not a copy of an algorithm from someone else. This is an algorithm developed specifically for this client to demonstrate your critical thinking throughout the treatment planning.  The following areas must be covered in the assignment.

  • Overview of your initial patient clinical assessment including: Chief compliant, medical history, psychiatric history, psychosocial, mental status examination.
  • Using the information from the assessment, reading materials and textbook, develop an  evidence-based algorithm for four treatment stages, tailored to this individual. The information must include interview questions needed to guide decision-making at the different stages, length of treatment in trial/initiation period, dosage titration schedule and duration of time the client should stay on the medication, factors that might influence the effectiveness of the medications, necessary labs and test, and patient education. Include pertinent side effects profiles that would warrant a change in the medication being prescribed and a brief reasoning for your decisions.
  • Stage 1:     initial visit
  • Stage 2:     non-responder to stage 1
  • Stage 3:     non-responder to stage 2
  • Stage 4:     non-responder to stage 3
  • It must be in an APA format not less than 5 reference.