The Christian perspective of the intrinsic worth and value of each person.

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This assignment will focus on introducing you to the question of human dignity and, in particular, the Christian perspective of the intrinsic worth and value of each person. You will have the opportunity to integrate this insight with scientific and philosophical approaches that inform judgements made in health care and contrast it with secular approaches to human value and worth. The logic of human rights will be made explicit as you engage with different concepts of “moral status.”

Based on your reading of the “Case Study: Fetal Abnormality” (attached) and topic Resources, complete the “Moral Status: Case Analysis” (attached) document, in which you will analyze the case study in relation to the following:

  • Christian view of the nature of human persons, theory of moral status, intrinsic human value, and dignity
  • Theory or theories used by individuals in the case to determine the moral status
  • How each theory used determines or influences recommendations for action
  • Moral status theory personal response
  • Integration of knowledge in health care (theories, multiple ways of knowing, evidence) and knowledge from other disciplines inform and support current or future professional health care practices and judgements

Support your response using only Chapter 2 from the textbook Practicing Dignity: An Introduction to Christian Values and Decision-Making in Health Care and the Topic 2 Resource “The Image of God, Bioethics, and Persons With Profound Intellectual Disabilities.”

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.

Submit a Personal Legislative Agenda detailing your strategy for moving your policy through the legislative process

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legislative agenda

                                        
Review the Personal Legislative Agenda and Action Plan Exemplar to demonstrate how you will construct your Personal Legislative Agenda for the state and federal proposed legislation.  
Review the Personal Legislative Agenda and Action Plan Exemplar to determine which approach might work best for advancing your policy initiatives at various stages of the legislative process. Submit a Personal Legislative Agenda detailing your strategy for moving your policy through the legislative process, using the Personal Legislative and Agenda and Action Plan Exemplar as your template. 
In your Personal Legislative Agenda, choose from the strategies provided in Advocacy Toolkit resource that best suite moving your policies forward. Be sure to connect the strategies to the appropriate sections of the policy model you selected in Module 2.

Give a brief description of the activities leading to achieving the objectives in your program proposal.

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Begin your initial post with a one-sentence summary of your proposal topic. Then, give a brief description of the activities leading to achieving the objectives in your program proposal. It should include your rationale behind their selection, their sequence, and your reasoning behind why these methods may work. This discussion will help you complete Milestone Five, which is due in Module Six. 

5-2 Milestone Four: Planning

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Follow rubric Verbatim

 What to Submit

The draft of your planning section should be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Any references should be cited in APA format. Use appropriate headings to identify each critical element.

Analyze the results and apply published research to the development of a proposed treatment

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 In this Portfolio Assignment, you will continue to analyze the results and apply published research to the development of a proposed treatment for any issues uncovered by the assessment. 4 PGS

Approaches to Disease Management: Hypertension

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You see a 3-year-old with hypertension (documented on three different visits) in your primary care clinic. From the perspective of a nurse practitioner:

  • Describe the workup, differential diagnoses, assessment, and management.
  • How would your plan of care be different if the child were 10 years old?
  • What risk factor counseling and advice would you include?

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 published within the last five years. 
  • in paragraph form, no bullet points or numbering.

SOAP note will be on a pediatric patient visiting a nurse practitioner’s pediatric primary care clinic.

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A SOAP note is a method of documentation employed by healthcare providers to record and communicate patient information in a clear, structured, and in an organized manner. This assignment will provide students with the necessary tools to document patient care effectively, enhance their clinical skills, and prepare them for their roles as competent healthcare providers.

Instructions:

SOAP is an acronym that stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. The episodic SOAP note is to be written using the attached template below.

For all the SOAP note assignments, you will write a SOAP note about one of your patients and use the following acronym:

S =Subjective data: Patient’s Chief Complaint (CC).O =Objective data: Including client behavior, physical assessment, vital signs, and meds.A =Assessment: Diagnosis of the patient’s condition. Include differential diagnosis.P =Plan: Treatment, diagnostic testing, and follow up

Click here to access and download the SOAP Note TemplateDownload Click here to access and download the SOAP Note Template

Submission Instructions:

  • **SOAP note will be on a pediatric patient visiting a nurse practitioner’s pediatric primary care clinic.**
  • Your SOAP note should be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspellings.
  • You must use the template provided. Turnitin will recognize the template and not score against it.

DNP Project Hours Log 

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COMPLETE the attachment after red part. Modify and fix as preferred. then read the following.

DNP Project Hours Log 

You must submit a minimum of 45 DNP Project Hours that you completed during this course. You can use the weekly activities of this course which are directly related to your DNP Project as hours for towards your 1000 hours total needed to successfully complete this program. 

The 45 hours must Submitted in order for you grade to be posted to pass this course. 

the clinical hours are activities related with your preparation before starting the DNP project at the end of the program, you always must describe these activities using the DNP Essentials and its activities

The Campaign for Nursing’s Future

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 Javier:

Week 8 Discussion

Since the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) issued “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” in 2010, the nursing profession has come a long way in implementing its recommendations. There have been many achievements, but four will be examined. First, advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) have greatly extended practice authority in nursing (Rehka, 2020). After the report was published, many states reformed their scope-of-practice regulations to enable APRNs to practice to the full extent of their education and training. Similarly, by 2023, over half of U.S. states will allow nurse practitioners with full practice authority (eliminating physician supervision). In rural and underserved areas, where they now provide primary care, APRNs’ role in addressing these healthcare access gaps has been particularly influential in this regulatory evolution.

Second, substantial progress has been made in the proportion of nurses with baccalaureate and higher degrees. The Campaign for Nursing’s Future, set in response to the IOM report, has an ambitious goal of 80 percent of nurses holding a BSN by 2020, as per Reynolds (2024). Although this goal was not 100% realized, the percentage of nurses with a BSN has substantially increased from just over 50% in 2010 to greater than 65% in many states. The advancement of education has been fostered by the development of unique academic progression pathways, including many RN to BSN programs and partnerships with community colleges and universities, allowing for seamless education transitions.

Third, nursing’s role in healthcare redesign and policy development has grown remarkably. Nurses now occupy more executive positions in healthcare organizations, serve on hospital boards, and participate in health system governance. Started in 2014, the Nurses on Boards Coalition has helped place thousands of nurses on corporate and non-profit boards. Furthermore, nursing has amplified its voice in policy-making by facilitating boards such as the American Academy of Nursing and increased recognition in federal advisory councils (Hassmiller et al., 2020). They have also been influential in nurses’ quality improvement initiatives and have aided in decreasing hospital-acquired conditions and readmission rates by implementing evidence-based practice.

Fourth, data collection and analysis on the nursing workforce have been substantially improved. In partnership with The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing conducts regular, comprehensive surveys of the nursing workforce to provide critical data on supply, demand, and demographic trends. Many states have set up nursing workforce centers that gather standardized data and thus provide a more accurate prediction of future needs. At the same time, these improved data systems have enabled targeted interventions to address nursing shortages in critical specialties and geographic areas, and they have assisted in fostering diversity to create a nursing workforce that more closely reflects the population it serves.

While presenting IOM achievements, DNP Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking has stood out. Aligning with nurses’ newfound assignments in healthcare remodeling, policy engagement, and management. Nurses are now taking up executive positions and being involved in health system governance, further strengthening quality improvement and healthcare’s strategic transformation delivery (DeNisco, 2023). DNP Essential VIII: Advanced Nursing Practice was also incorporated. This essential demands a push towards higher education levels as well as seamless academic pathways like RN to BSN programs to provide for advanced clinical competency. These skills are applied by DNP-prepared nurses during complex clinical situations and they also help to mentor future nursing professionals (DeNisco, 2023). Expanded leadership roles, implementation of evidence-based practice, advanced education, and more involvement in policy development have strengthened role-specific professionalism competency and reinforced nursing’s influence and accountability in healthcare.

References

DeNisco, S. M. (2023). Advanced practice nursing: Essential knowledge for the profession. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Hassmiller, S. B., Beauvais, A. M., & Shellenbarger, T. (2020). The Future of Nursing Report 10 years later: Where is nursing and what work remains? Nursing Education Perspectives, 41(5), 272-273.

Rekha, S. G. (2020). The future of nursing: leading change, advancing health (2020). IP J Paediatrics Nurs Sci, 3(3), 60-3.

Reynolds, L. R. (2024). Factors Impacting BSN Degrees in Community Colleges in Illinois and Exploring Community Colleges to Address Nursing Education Reform: A Mixed Methods Study (Doctoral dissertation, DePaul University).

Leadership in healthcare policy and administration

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The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark 2011 report about the future and goals of nursing served as a national call to action to strengthen the nursing profession’s role in transforming healthcare. Over the past decade, the nursing community has made measurable progress in key areas, including education, clinical practice, leadership, and workforce planning. While not every target has been met, the direction and impact of the changes demonstrate the profession’s commitment to long-term systemic improvement.

One of the report’s central goals was to get an 80 % of nurses holding a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). Although the target was not fully achieved by 2020, the number of nurses with BSN degrees rose substantially due to widespread implementation of RN-to-BSN pathways, bridge programs, and collaborative academic models (Campaign for Action, 2023). The increase in doctoral-prepared nurses, particularly those pursuing the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), also reflects a national trend toward advanced nursing education aligned with clinical leadership and evidence-based practice (AACN, 2021).

Equally significant is the increase of autonomous nurse practitioners (APRNs). Today, more than 25 states allow nurse practitioners to practice autonomously (AANP, 2023). This evolution in regulatory practice has helped close gaps in healthcare access, especially in rural and underserved areas, empowering APRNs to serve as primary care providers and manage chronic conditions more effectively.

Leadership in healthcare policy and administration is another area where nurses have increased their presence. Nurses are now serving on hospital boards, shaping institutional policy, and participating in health reform initiatives. These advancements reflect the implementation of DNP Essentials related to systems leadership, organizational transformation, and policy advocacy (DeNisco, 2023). Initiatives such as the Nurses on Boards Coalition have amplified the collective voice of the profession, ensuring that nurses are present where key decisions are made.

Moreover, improvements in nursing workforce data collection have enabled better planning and forecasting. Enhanced data systems have provided critical insights into geographic shortages, demographic shifts, and the need for diversity in the profession. These findings help inform policy decisions and ensure that resources are directed to the areas of highest need (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2021).

In conclusion, this beautiful and human profession has responded to the IOM’s vision with focused, measurable efforts. Although challenges such as faculty shortages and funding gaps persist, the profession continues to evolve through education, expanded clinical roles, leadership engagement, and strategic workforce development. These achievements not only validate the recommendations made over a decade ago but also reinforce the profession’s ongoing capacity to lead change and advance health.

References

American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (2023). State practice environment. American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Campaign for Action. (2023). Campaign maps show nurses’ progress in earning BSN degree. Campaign for Action.

DeNisco, S. M. (2023). Advanced practice nursing: Essential knowledge for the profession (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). The future of nursing 2020–2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity. National Academies Press.