Should gaming qualify as a true addiction? If yes, at what point does gaming qualify as an addiction?

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Discussion Post Formatting Recommendations

Unit 3 Discussion: Gaming Addiction

Instructions for Discussion:

Gaming? Hobby, distraction, or addiction? Are people substituting gaming for other addiction substances?

In your Initial Post, answer one, some, or all the following questions. DEFEND YOUR ANSWER! What do you know that supports your assertion? Opinion without evidence has NO place in an academic environment! Uninformed, uneducated opinions will yield a low score on this discussion! No copy/paste plagiarism allowed. See Course Syllabus & Course Orientation for more detailed information regarding Discussion requirements.

Initial Post Prompt:

Should gaming qualify as a true addiction? If yes, at what point does gaming qualify as an addiction? (Hint: look at your textbook’s definition of a disorder).

Are the game makers responsible in any way? What else? Discuss

 

RUBIC

In order to create the best possible discussion posts, use this formatting guide for your Initial Post (and response post, if appropriate) for each Unit Discussion. This format is not required but will help you to formulate the best possible posts.

· Introduction o 1-3 sentences

· Purpose: To set up and state one’s claim

· Make your introduction interesting. How can you draw your readers in?

· What background information do we need to know to understand your claim?

· Supporting Evidence Paragraph #1 o Purpose: to prove your argument

· Topic Sentence: What is one item, fact, detail, or example you can tell the reader that will help them better understand your claim/position?

· Explain Topic Sentence: Do you need to explain your topic sentence? If so, do it here.

· State Evidence: Introduce your evidence (As Dr. Brown states “…”) (“To understand this issue we need to look at the following statistics…) and provide your supporting evidence (reasons, facts, examples, statistics, quotations, etc.) to prove/support/explain your position and topic sentence.

· Explain Evidence: How should we read or interpret the evidence you are providing to us? How does this evidence prove your point? Can be opinion based and is often 1-4 sentences.

· Concluding Sentence: End your paragraph with a concluding sentence that reasserts how the topic sentence helps us better understand and/or prove your claim.

· Supporting Evidence Paragraph #2, 3, etc. o Repeat above as necessary.

· Be sure to use appropriate transitions in your paragraphs and between paragraphs as needed ( Transitional Words and Phrases by The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)

· Counterargument Paragraph o Purpose: to anticipate your reader’s objections; make yourself sound more objective and reasonable. o Optional

· What possible argument might your reader pose against your argument/position and/or some aspect of your reasoning? Insert one or more of those arguments and refute them.

· End paragraph with a concluding sentence that reasserts your paper’s claim as a whole.

· Conclusion o Purpose: to reminder readers of your argument and supporting evidence and restate your claim and evidence. To illustrate to your instructor and peers that you have though critically and analytically about the issue.

· Your conclusion should tell us why we should care about your position. What is the significance of your claim? Why is it important to you as the writer or to me as the reader? What information should you or I take away from this?

· Your conclusion should create a sense of movement to a more complex understanding of the subject of your post.

· Your conclusion should serve as the climax of your post So, save your strongest analytical points for the end, and use them to drive your conclusion.

· Vivid, concrete language is as important in a conclusion as it is elsewhere–perhaps more essential, since the conclusion determines the reader’s final impression of your post. Do not leave them with the impression that your argument was vague or unsure.

· WARNING: It’s fine to introduce new information or quotations in your conclusions, as long as the new points grow from your argument. New points might be more general, answering the “so what” question; they might be quite specific. Just avoid making new claims that need lots of additional support.

• Would you request the order for a body restraint? Why, or why no

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Scenario: Safety
A 77, year old woman is hospitalized for management of her diabetes. She has a history of functional urinary incontinence and poor vision from the diabetes. The nursing staff observes her climbing over the side rails on numerous occasions at night en route to the bathroom. She is quite agitated during this time. The nursing assistant requests that you obtain an order for a body restraint at night to prevent her from falling out of bed.

• Should this patient be restrained to prevent injury?
• Would you request the order for a body restraint? Why, or why not?
• What other information is relevant to this case?
• What nursing interventions could be tried before considering a restraint?

You are checking blood pressures at a senior citizen health fair. After you check the blood pressure of an older woman, she asks you about starting an exercise program. She has not been exercising, but some of her friends have told her that she should start to exercise regularly.

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You are checking blood pressures at a senior citizen health fair. After you check the blood pressure of an older woman, she asks you about starting an exercise program. She has not been exercising, but some of her friends have told her that she should start to exercise regularly.

• What recommendations do you give her?
• What precautions do you include in your recommendations?

Practicum: Planning Learning Objectives

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Practicum: Planning Learning Objectives

The practicum experience allows you to develop and expand your advanced nursing knowledge and skills at the aggregate, organizational, or policy level. During week 1 you will submit two to three individual learning objectives that you wish to achieve during this practicum experience.  You should prepare a set of measurable learning objectives, using Bloom’s Taxonomy (See attached file). Your practicum objectives should reflect your interest in expanding knowledge. They are not to include activities related to your DNP project. These objectives will be identified during your mentoring course (NURS 8700P, 8700, 8701).  Practice experiences should be designed achieve specific learning objectives related to the DNP Essentials and specialty competencies (AACN, 2006).

Your practicum objectives should include the following:

1) Three learning objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

2) Description of how these objectives will expand your advanced nursing knowledge and skills at the aggregate, organizational, or policy level.

3) Relationship of the learning objectives to the DNP Essentials.

NOTE: Learning objectives must be submitted using APA style. Points may be deducted for lack of references, writing style, and APA format. Refer to the sample attached in the file area (See attached file >> very important)

Submit by tomorrow 8/29/18 before midnight

  Practicum Journal: Checkpoint for Certification Plan

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 Practicum Journal: Checkpoint for Certification Plan

Psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners currently have only one choice for certification, which is through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The ANCC offers the “psychiatric/mental-health nurse practitioner (across the lifespan)” board certification (PMHNP-BC). In many states, board certification is needed as a prerequisite to being granted an NP license. Even if board certification is not a requirement for state licensure, it may be a requirement to receive privileges in various hospitals and other health care facilities. It may also be required by malpractice insurance providers prior to issuing coverage to NPs.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

Evaluate progress on certification plans

Report your progress on the Certification Plan you completed in Week 4 (SEE ATTACHED WEEK 4 CERTIFICATION PLAN DONE)

 Assignment 

Write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you do the following:

1) What have you done to prepare for your certification?

2) Have you completed the scheduled tasks assigned on your timeline as you

noted in week 4 ? If not, what are your plans to stay on schedule?(SEE

ATTACHED WEEK 4 CERTIFICATION PLAN DONE)

 

INSTRUCTION

NB: for this Assignment (Journal Entries)

· Include references  immediately following  the content.

· Use APA style for your journal entry and references less than 5 years old.

. PLEASE INCLUDE INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION AND REFERENCES LESS

THAN 5 YEARS OLD

 

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Barton Associates. (2017). Nurse practitioner scope of practice laws. Retrieved from https://www.bartonassociates.com/locum-tenens-resources/nurse-practitioner-scope-of-practice-laws/

American Psychiatric Association. (2016). Practice guidelines for the psychiatric evaluation of adults. Retrieved from http://psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.books.97808904267

Assume the role as the Public Relations Director for Purple Cross of North Carolina.

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1. To complete this assignment:

· Read the case study above.

· Assume the role as the Public Relations Director for Purple Cross of North Carolina.

o The CEO directs you to interview the Telehealth Director regarding the use of Telehealth with Mrs. Smith. The CEO directs you to create one thought-provoking question for each of the following topics:

· Meeting the health needs of Mrs. Smith

· Decision-making process for technology selected for Mrs. Smith

· Benefits and risks in using Telehealth technology for Mrs. Smith

· Cost and staff involved in using Telehealth technology for Mrs. Smith

o Note: Your questions must be original; not copied or modified from any source, including your textbook. Your questions cannot simply rephrase the topic.

o For each question, the CEO requires that you provide your rationale. Describe how the question will yield a thorough response, and not simply a “yes” or “no” answer.

· Any cited sources to support your rationale statements must be identified, using APA formatting.

· Prior to submission, review your responses to ensure that they contain no spelling or grammatical errors.

2. Submit the Week 4 Assignment via Blackboard by clicking on the “Week 4 Assignment” link.

3. Include the proper file naming convention:

· CMP105_wk4_assn_jsmith_mmddyyyy.

For each topic, write your question and rationale.

Topic: Meeting the health needs for Mrs. Smith

Your question:

[Write your response here.]

Rationale:

[Write your response here.]

Topic: Decision-making process for technology selected for Mrs. Smith

Your question:

[Write your response here.]

Rationale:

[Write your response here.]

Topic: Benefits and risks in using Telehealth technology for Mrs. Smith

Your question:

[Write your response here.]

Rationale:

[Write your response here.]

Topic: Cost and staff involved in using Telehealth technology for Mrs. Smith

Your question:

[Write your response here.]

Rationale:

[Write your response here.

Consider your experiences with nurse Informaticists or technology specialists within your healthcare organization.

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ASSIGNMENT: Of course, humans don’t fare too badly in this regard either. And healthcare is a great example. As specialists in the collection, access, and application of data, nurse informaticists collaborate with specialists on a regular basis to ensure that appropriate data is available to make decisions and take actions to ensure the general well-being of patients.

In this Discussion, you will reflect on your own observations of and/or experiences with informaticist collaboration. You will also propose strategies for how these collaborative experiences might be improved.

Review the Resources and reflect on the evolution of nursing informatics from a science to a nursing specialty.

Consider your experiences with nurse Informaticists or technology specialists within your healthcare organization.

Resources for assignment

Wang, Y. Kung, L., & Byrd, T. A. (2018). Big data analytics: Understanding its capabilities and potential benefits for healthcare organizations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 126(1), 3–13. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2015.12.019.

Rutherford, M. A. (2008). Standardized nursing language: What does it mean for nursing practice? Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 13(1), 1–12. doi:10.3912/OJIN.Vol13No01PPT05.

Post a description of experiences or observations about how nurse informaticists and/or data or technology specialists interact with other professionals within your healthcare organization. Suggest at least one strategy on how these interactions might be improved. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain the impact you believe the continued evolution of nursing informatics as a specialty and/or the continued emergence of new technologies might have on professional interactions.

 

DUE 09/11/2019 BY 8AM

eadings pertaining to the e-portfolio, as well as research the topic.

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The student will read the assigned readings pertaining to the e-portfolio, as well as research the topic. The student will define an e-portfolio for the graduate student and for an advanced practice nurse. The PowerPoint slide presentation will include discussion of the importance and purpose of developing and using an e-portfolio as a graduate student, then identify and discuss items that should be in included in an e-portfolio per the grading rubric. The student will provide five (5) examples of items that would be included in an e-portfolio. The presentation will conclude with a summary and recommendations on how the student will use the e-portfolio as a graduate student and as an advanced practice nurse (APN) in the future.

 

Preparing the Presentation

  1. Must be a professional, scholarly prepared PowerPoint presentation of 8-10 slides including at least five scholarly references.
  2. You should have at least 8-10 slides, not including the title slide and reference slides.
  3. Speaker notes are present for each slide. It is important to note that if you could not give your presentation and someone would have to stand in for you, he or she would need to know what you were going to say. Use the speaker-notes section so that someone may step in for you and not miss a beat.
  4. Maintain the 6x6x6 rule for a professional PowerPoint presentation. No more than 6 lines per slide, 6 words per line, and 6 slides without a graphic.
  5. All aspects of the presentation must be in APA format as expressed in the 6th edition.
  6. Ideas and information from professional sources must be cited correctly.
  7. References may include one dictionary source, one textbook source, and four scholarly peer-reviewed journals published in the last 5 years. Total of six sources. No Wikipedia or CINAHL Nursing guide articles.
  8. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing.

Category

Points

Identify one professional journal and one nursing or health care conference where you might present your project. Discuss why each of your choices is the best option for you to disseminate your new knowledge. 

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Dissemination of EBP and research, such as presenting results at a conference or writing an article for a journal, is an important part of professional practice. Identify one professional journal and one nursing or health care conference where you might present your project. Discuss why each of your choices is the best option for you to disseminate your new knowledge.

As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult.

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What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis? How much of the drug should the patient receive? How often should the drug be administered? When should the drug not be prescribed? Are there individual patient factors that could create complications when taking the drug? Should you be prescribing drugs to this patient?

These are some of the questions you might consider when selecting a treatment plan for a patient. As an advanced practice nurse prescribing drugs, you are held accountable for people’s lives on a daily basis. Patients and their families will often place trust in you because of your position. With this trust comes power and responsibility, as well as an ethical and legal obligation to “do no harm.” It is important that you are aware of current professional, legal, and ethical standards for advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority. In this Discussion, you explore ethical and legal implications of scenarios and consider how to appropriately respond.

Scenario 1:

As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult.

Scenario 2:

A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you don’t have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway.

Scenario 3:

You see another nurse practitioner writing a prescription for her husband who is not a patient of the nurse practitioner. The prescription is for a narcotic. You can’t decide whether or not to report the incident.

Scenario 4:

During your lunch break at the hospital, you read a journal article on pharmacoeconomics. You think of a couple of patients who have recently mentioned their financial difficulties. You wonder if some of the expensive drugs you have prescribed are sufficiently managing the patients’ health conditions and improving their quality of life.

To prepare:

  • – Review Chapter 1 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text, as      well as articles from the American Nurses Association, Anderson and      Townsend, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Philipsend and Soeken.
  • – Select one of the four scenarios listed above.
  • – Consider the ethical and legal implications of the      scenario for all stakeholders involved such as the prescriber, pharmacist,      patient, and the patient’s family.
  • – Think about two strategies that you, as an advanced      practice nurse, would use to guide your ethically and legally responsible      decision-making in this scenario.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post an explanation of the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and the patient’s family. Describe two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your decision making in this scenario.

– This work should have Introduction and conclusion

– This work should have at 3 to 5current references (Year 2012 and up)

– Use at least 2 references from class Learning Resources

The following Resources are not acceptable:

1. Wikipedia

2. Cdc.gov- nonhealthcare professionals section

3. Webmd.com

4. Mayoclinic.com

Required Readings

**Arcangelo, V. P., Peterson, A. M., Wilbur, V., & Reinhold, J. A. (Eds.). (2017). Pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice: A practical approach (4th ed.). Ambler, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

  • Chapter 1, “Issues for the      Practitioner in Drug Therapy” (pp. 3–14)
    This chapter introduces issues relating to drug therapy such as adverse      drug events and medication adherence. It also explores drug safety, the      practitioner’s role and responsibilities in prescribing, and prescription      writing.
  • Chapter 59, “The Economics      of Pharmacotherapeutics” (pp. 1009-1018)
    This chapter analyzes the costs of drug therapy to health care systems and      society and explores practice guideline compliance and current issues in      medical care.
  • Chapter 60, “Integrative Approaches to      Pharmacotherapy—A Look at Complex Cases” (pp. 1021-1036)
    This chapter examines issues in individual patient cases. It explores      concepts relating to evaluation, drug selection, patient education, and      alternative treatment options.

**Crigger, N., & Holcomb, L. (2008). Improving nurse practitioner practice through rational prescribing. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 4(2), 120–125.

Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article explores issues relating to prescription drugs, specifically the frequency in which drugs are prescribed to patients. It also examines factors to consider before beginning drug therapy plans with patients.

**Philipsen, N. C., & Soeken, D. (2011). Preparing to blow the whistle: A survival guide for nurses. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 7(9), 740–746.

Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article examines issues that nurses encounter when reporting errors in medical settings. It also outlines the role of ethics and the responsibility of nurses to notify all individuals who are impacted by a medical error.

**American Nurses Association. (2001). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Nursing World. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/CodeofEthicsforNurses/Code-of-Ethics-For-Nurses.html

This article outlines ethical standards in the nursing profession and identifies nine provisions of care that must be adhered to by all nurses.

**Anderson, P., & Townsend, T. (2010). Medication errors: Don’t let them happen to you. American Nurse Today, 5(3), 23–28. Retrieved from https://americannursetoday.com/medication-errors-dont-let-them-happen-to-you/

This article examines factors that lead to medication errors as well as consequences of these errors on patients and nurses. It also recommends methods for avoiding and eliminating medication errors.

**Drug Enforcement Administration. (n.d.). Mid-level practitioners authorization by state. Retrieved from August 23, 2012, http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugreg/practioners/index.html

This website outlines the schedules for controlled substances, including prescriptive authority for each schedule.

**Drugs.com. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.drugs.com/

This website presents a comprehensive review of prescription and over-the-counter drugs including information on common uses and potential side effects. It also provides updates relating to new drugs on the market, support from health professionals, and a drug-drug interactions checker.

**Institute for Safe Medication Practices. (2012). ISMP’s list of error-prone abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations. Retrieved from http://www.ismp.org/Tools/errorproneabbreviations.pdf

This website provides a list of prescription writing abbreviations that might lead to misinterpretation, as well as suggestions for preventing resulting errors.

**Byrne, W. (2011). U.S. nurse practitioner prescribing law: A state-by-state summary. Medscape Nurses. Retrieved from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/440315

**Drug Enforcement Administration. (n.d.). Code of federal regulations. Retrieved August 23, 2012, from http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1300/1300_01.htm