Certification Plan

Begin to develop a plan to pass the Certification Exam. Compare your home state’s laws in regards to Advanced Practice Nursing Practice to an alternate state with a less or more restrictive practice environment.

To prepare:

· Consider the differences in certification exams options for your specialty

· Reflect on how to approach relocating licensure from one state to another

Write a 3-4 page paper which summarizes the following:

· Identify the certification exam you selected and explain why

· Outline your plan for passing the appropriate National Certification Exam

· Describe the NP Practice environment for your home state highlighting restrictions or limitations for practice

· Describe 3 strengths identified from the FHEA Exit Exam

· Describe 3 areas of weakness identified by the FHEA Exit Exam and develop a study plan for addressing these areas of weakness

http://www.aanpcert.org/index

Resources

http://www.aanpcert.org/index

http://www.nursecredentialing.org/

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nonpf.org/resource/resmgr/imported/NPPrimaryCareAcuteCarePracticeFINAL.pdf

https://www.ncsbn.org/boards.htm

https://www.bartonassociates.com/locum-tenens-resources/nurse-practitioner-scope-of-practice-laws/

http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/AdvancedPracticeNurses

https://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/USW1/201810_27/MS_NURS/NURS_6565/artifacts/Contact_Hour_Dynamic_Flyer-_CertificationReviewfor%20NP_02_17.pdf

Instructions

Overview/Description of Final Paper: The final written assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: APRNs, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator/executive. You will review all roles and then examine the specialty for which you were admitted, focusing on the scope of practice, core competencies, certification requirements, and legal aspects of practice for that specific role. You will also identify the practice environment and population you will be working with, as well as peers and colleagues. In addition, you will discuss your future leadership role and participation in professional organizations.

Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. The paper should be 8-10 pages excluding the title and reference pages, and APA format is required.

Criteria:  

• Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing:
  • Briefly define advance nursing practice and the roles in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and health information. Distinguish between ANP and the APN.
  • Describe the advance nursing practice role you aspire and briefly share the experiences and/or qualities you have that have influenced your decision. Include your personal philosophy.
• Selected Advanced Practice Role:
  • Identify the AP you interviewed and summarize the interview, which should/may include (if not in the interview, please address):
  • Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice/work.
  • Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role.
  • Identify required competencies (domains), including certification requirements for your selected role.
  • Describe the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work.
• Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role:
  • Determine your leadership style
  • Define Transformational Leadership and as it relates to your identified leadership attributes that you possess or need to develop
  • Apply the leadership style you will embrace in AP to one of the domains
• Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role

Based on your program of study, review the literature and address the following:

• FNP/AGNP:Medicare reimbursement for NPs is 85%for the same health care that MDs receive at 100% reimbursement? Please address questions below and state your position on this mandate.
• FNP/AGNP:What states have NP Full Practice Authority and which states have limitations or restrictions? How does this apply to your state? Please address questions below and state your position on this regulation.
• Nurse Executive: What is value based care and how will it impact decisions made at the executive level relative to nursing and AP nursing? Please address and state your position on the regulation.
• Nurse Informaticists:What law(s) was enacted to regulate health information? Please address questions below and state your position on this regulation. 
• Nurse Educator:What agency regulates nursing education?  Explain in detail.

For the above category chosen, address the following:

• Describe the current policy or trends and determine if it needs to change; if opposed to change state why
• Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest; support opposition
• Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy or keep the policy the same and the impact in healthcare quality.
• Conclusion-Summarize your role paper by highlighting key points made in your paper.

PURPOSE:

It is important to understand how middle-range theory can help you in your everyday environment as a nurse. In the previous assignment, you identified a practical problem that emerged from the evidence in the extant literature or professional practice. In this assignment, you will explore and apply middle-range theory to solve the specific problem that you identified in the previous assignment.

DIRECTIONS:

Consider the problem that you described in the previous assignment and the instructor feedback about that assignment.

Write a paper (1,000 to 1,500 words) that describes how middle-range theory can be applied to the identified problem. The paper should include the following:

1. A brief summary      of the problem.
2. A description of      a middle-range theory that could be applied to the problem. Is this      middle-range theory appropriate to your identified problem?
3. A brief      discussion of the middle-range theory’s origins.
4. A discussion of      how the middle-range theory has been previously applied.
5. A discussion of      the application of the middle-range theory to the identified problem. How      would your practice change by incorporating this theory?

Prepare this assignment according to guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Case Study, Chapter 23, Professional Identity and Image
Nursing care is frequently perceived by the public as simple and unskilled. Many male nurses live in fear of how their caring actions might be interpreted. Many nurses hold that stereotypes about the profession are true, just as the general public does. Public identity and image has been a struggle for nurses for a long time. The greater public clearly does not understand what professional nursing is all about, and the nursing profession has done a poor job of correcting long-standing, historically inaccurate stereotypes.

1. What are the common nursing stereotypes?

2. What was the role of the Center for Nursing Advocacy? Discuss the role of Truth about Nursing in addressing inaccurate or negative portrayals of nursing in the media and the process they use to raise public and professional awareness of the issues surrounding nursing public image?

3. What are some of the ways of changing nursing’s image in the public eye?

4. One of the most important strategies needed to change nursing’s image is to change the image of nursing in the mind of the image makers. What are some of the key ways for nurses to interact with the media?

Female Genitalia;male Genitalia.
   Midsagittal view of the female pelvic organs.

Summarize the ovulation cycle and identify the functions of the hormones produced.

An older woman who has stopped regular menstruation asks whether she can still become pregnant. What is the best response you can give this patient?

What is the name of the tissue that separates the anterior wall of the vagina from the bladder and urethra?

Name the four bones that form the pelvis

why it is important to teach mothers correct perineal care for their newborn infant daughters.

What possibility must you consider if in a child you observe vaginal swelling of the vulvar tissues accompanied by bruising or foul-smelling discharge?

Describe premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

Identify and explain positions other than the lithotomy in which a pelvic examination can be performed.

You are about to conduct a pelvic examination on an adolescent girl. What should you take time to do before carrying out the examination?

A 12-year-old girl is experiencing a vaginal mucus discharge. What can you tell this girl to decrease her anxiety?

A new mother is frightened by the appearance of blood-tinged mucus at her newborn daughter’s vaginal entrance. What response can alleviate this woman’s anxiety?

MC is a 28-year-old patient who presents to the urgent care for complaints of abdominal pain and cramping. Today she has noticed a yellow vaginal discharge. Her past medical history is noncontributory. She admits to having multiple sexual partners with unprotected intercourse

1-What additional questions regarding her vaginal discharge could you ask at this point?

2- Describe the stages of salpingitis.

3- What physical assessment findings on the vaginal examination and bimanual would you expect to see if the patient has salpingitis?

  Male pelvic organs
A 60-year-old man asks you whether it is still possible for him to become a father. How would you respond to this patient? What effect does aging have on male fertility?

Which part of the male genitalia is a soft, comma-shaped structure located on the posterolateral and upper aspect of the testis in 90% of males and provides for storage, maturation, and transit of sperm?

Differentiate between the external genitalia for a male and female fetus at both 8 weeks and 12 weeks of gestation.

Summarize the pros and cons of newborn circumcision.

The mother of a newborn you are examining voices concern that one of her son’s testicles has not yet “appeared.” What can you tell this mother to reassure her? What is the expected time for final descent of the testes into the scrotal sac?

Discuss how do you could effectively work with a child to evaluate the testicles.

You are performing a genital examination on a 12-year-old boy who seems noticeably embarrassed and nervous. What communication measures can be included to decrease anxiety and facilitate the examination?

A patient has an erection while you are performing a genital examination. What is the best response to decrease anxiety and embarrassment?

Describe the cremasteric reflex.

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