MN556 Primary Care Across the Adult Age Continuum III
Unit 1 Assignment
Providing cost effective care without limiting access
Providing cost effective care is a professional aspect of the Advance Nurse Practitioner’s role when caring for clients. Diagnostic testing can aid in therapeutic decision making, but contributes substantially to the cost of medical care. Testing is necessary in most cases, and if used improperly can cause significant cost and not lend much to diagnostic accuracy.
Write a 3–5 page APA formatted paper on the need to provide cost effective care without limiting access to care.
Discuss:
Why this is an important aspect of providing care to patients
How care can be made more affordable without limiting access to necessary care
How to maintain cost effectiveness and still get the needed information for a diagnosis without ordering unnecessary diagnostic exams
Assignment Requirements
The finished Assignment should be a 3-5-page descriptive and critical/evaluative essay, excluding the title page and references. The viewpoint and purpose of this Assignment should be clearly established and sustained.
Before finalizing your work, you should:
be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above)
consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary;
utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors; and
review APA formatting and citation information found in the KU Writing Center, online, or elsewhere in the course.
Your Assignment should:
follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
use APA 6th edition format for organization, style, and crediting sources including:
properly formatted header
12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman font
use of in-text citations
title page and reference page
use of headings (if applicable)
Submit the Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit.
To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Course Resources.
 
MN556 Primary Care Across the Adult Age Continuum III
Unit 2 Assignment
Obtaining Services Within Your Community
The purpose of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act) as described in the current law, is to “assure that individuals with developmental disabilities and their families participate in the design of and have access to needed community services, individualized supports, and other forms of assistance that promote self-determination, independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion in all facets of community life…”
Investigate resources within your community that assist individuals with developmental disabilities and their families with assuming self-management and support for daily living.
Discuss:
What is the availability and eligibility of these resources and services?
How do these services assist with developing their competencies and talents and help them gain control over life circumstances?
Choose a disability and discuss services offered in your area that helps to improve the life circumstances of these individuals
Explain the importance of these services to the family as a whole and how these services aid with care for these individuals
The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000. (2000). United States Government, Public Law 106–402106th Congress
Assignment Requirements
The finished Assignment should be a 5-page exploratory essay, excluding the title page and references. The viewpoint and purpose of this Assignment should be clearly established and sustained.
Before finalizing your work, you should:
be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above)
consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary;
utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors; and
review APA formatting and citation information found in the KU Writing Center, online, or elsewhere in the course.
Your Assignment should:
follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
use APA 6th edition format for organization, style, and crediting sources including:
properly formatted header
12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman font
use of in-text citations
title page and reference page
use of headings (if applicable)
Submit the Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit.
 
 
MN556 Primary Care Across the Adult Age Continuum III
Unit 6 Assignment
Assignment: Managing Specific Medical Emergencies in Primary Care
Using the groups below and according to your last name, you will create an age appropriate, evidence based plan of care for a client that might present to a primary care setting with one of the specific emergencies listed below. Be sure that you:
Discuss the importance of being proficient in managing medical emergencies in a primary care setting
Discuss how an evidence based plan of care is beneficial in an emergency situation
Discuss appropriate subjective and objective information that you may find in this emergency
Develop appropriate differential diagnoses, choose correct diagnostic exams, and develop an evidence based management plan for this patient.
Remember when creating a plan that this is an emergency situation so base your plan accordingly.
Groups are as follows according to your last name:
A-H: Group A
I-P: Group B
Q-Z: Group C
Group A: Address Burns/Chemical Exposure for an infant less than 1 year of age
Group B: Sexual Assault of an older adult of Hispanic descent
Group C: Cardiac arrest in a pregnant female
Assignment Requirements
The finished Assignment should be a critical evaluation. The viewpoint and purpose of this Assignment should be clearly established and sustained.
Before finalizing your work, you should:
be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above)
consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary;
utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors; and
Your Assignment should:
be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
Submit the Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit.
MN556 Primary Care Across the Adult Age Continuum III
Unit 9 Assignment
Managing Chronic Disease in the Primary Care Setting
Caring for clients with a chronic illness will mean multiple visits and careful managing of their plan of care to include medications, screening exams, and referral. More than 75% of all health care costs in the United States due to chronic illness. The impact that this has on the healthcare system is staggering. With the population aging and more chronic illness occurring, it has never been more important to properly manage this epidemic through the use of cost-effective, evidence based care where it begins: In the primary care setting.
In a 4–5 page APA paper with a minimum of three APA references,
Discuss the impact of chronic disease on health care as a whole.
Examine how evidence based plans of care can reduce the health care cost burden placed on Americans and discuss cost effectiveness achieved by the use of evidence based plans of care.
Discuss the role that advanced practice nurses play in caring for patients with chronic illness from the standpoint of health promotion, medication management, and symptom management, and the importance of this role.
Assignment Requirements
The finished Assignment should be a 4-5 page descriptive and exploratory essay, excluding the title page and references. The viewpoint and purpose of this Assignment should be clearly established and sustained.
Before finalizing your work, you should:
be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above)
consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary;
utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors; and
review APA formatting and citation information found in the KU Writing Center, online, or elsewhere in the course.
Your Assignment should:
follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
use APA 6th edition format for organization, style, and crediting sources including:
properly formatted header
12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman font
use of in-text citations
title page and reference page
use of headings (if applicable)
Submit the Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit.