Please read the instructions and answer the questions. Be aware that it is master level, APA format 6 edit, more than 3 updated references. 

Much of the ongoing debate over scope-of-practice (SoP) laws that govern the practice of nurse practitioners (NPs) across the country focuses on the cost of and access to health care and on whether these laws legitimately promote patient safety or are simply anticompetitive restrictions on NPs’ ability to compete with physicians. After completing the following CE activity at Medscape https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/506277_1 (sign for the free account), please answer the following questions:

Should an NP who is educationally prepared as an acute care NP work in an adult primary care setting? 

Is it within the scope for an FNP to diagnose and treat uncomplicated mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and ADHD?

Are there any restrictions for the FNP to treat patients with mood disorders and to prescribe them antipsychotics or SSRIs?

Select one of the below-listed topics to use for your final project. Submit topic choice and a minimum of three references related to your topic to your instructor for approval. References should be five years or less since publication and be listed in the current APA Style. No Blog sites, WIKI, or another school of nursing references, please.

1. Nurse managers must work with staff to foster respect of different lifestyles. As a future manager, how can you provide culture-centered leadership to influence your team members and care for a culturally diverse patient population? Please incorporate concepts of cultural humility, sensitivity, or competence and one cultural theory into your response.  
2. Use Kouzes and Posner model to show how the nurse manager on a 30-bed rehabilitation unit would decide the best approach to finding out the cause of increasing urinary tract infections (UTIs) on her unit over the past 6 months. 
3. Quadruple Aim of Healthcare
   1. What are the guidelines for the quadruple aim?
   2. What is the importance of achieving the quadruple aim?
   3. What outcomes may be seen from promoting the leader-follower relationship?
4. The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of an acute care hospital is interested in becoming a Magnet-designated hospital. The CNO would like to create a strategic plan for nursing excellence. If you were the CNO, what would the mission statement for nursing say? What would the vision statement for nursing say? What would be the core values of the nursing department? Create an Incivility Statement/Policy. 
5. You are assigned some risk management activities in the nursing facility where you work. In investigating incident reports filed by staff, you discover that this is the third incident this week in which a patient has fallen while attempting to get out of bed and sit in a chair. How would you begin to address this issue? Decide how you would start a more complete investigation of this issue. For example, is it a facility-wide issue or one that is confined to one unit? Does it affect all shifts or only one? What safety issues are you going to discuss with your staff, and how are you going to discuss these issues? Do these falls involve the same staff member? 
6. Analyze differences among research, evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence, comparative effectiveness research, outcomes research, and quality improvement. How do these practices affect nursing and patient outcomes? 
7. Review the educational program TeamSTEPPS. Identify two strategies you can incorporate into your practice. Present your rationale for selecting those and create an action plan to incorporate those strategies into your practice. 

 Your office has received a series of claim denials from one particular insurance carrier and you do not agree with the decision.  You should consider appealing the denial. Go back and review the patient’s insurance card and verification form  for coverage information. The explanation of benefits (EOB) letter from the health plan is the key to payment or denial status. If the coverage language supports payment, write an appeal letter describing the disorder and its medical nature, and reference the coverage policy paragraph that shows how your treatment fits coverage criteria.  You may have to investigate coverage on the insurance website.  

Signature Assignment Title: What Makes a Good Leader?

Choose one or more leadership topic(s) from your textbook or from a scholarly source from a previous discussion or assignment from this course and write about its application to nursing practice. Provide definitions, history/background, and major concepts of chosen topic.  Describe the topic’s function in nursing practice by examining at least three different nursing roles (for example, bedside nurse, public health nurse, CNO, unit manager, etc.). Discuss how the leadership topic can be used in your own practice. Discuss your personal growth in regard to your chosen leadership topic. Evaluate personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your career advancement.

Then, discuss the top three traits you feel makes a good nurse leader. Support your statements with examples from your practice experience and scholarly sources.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1750 to 2000 words in length

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three scholarly sources plus the textbook are required.

According to Creswell (2009), quantitative  research is a “means for testing objective theories by examining the  relationship among variables that can be measured and analyzed using  statistical procedures.” Qualitative research, Creswell posits, is a  “means for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups  ascribe to social or human problems.”

Consider  the phenomenon of pain. Ethics committees and institutional review  boards do not allow researchers to inflict equal doses of pain on  subjects to examine their physiological response. In quantitative  research, pain can be measured physiologically by blood pressure,  changes in blood chemistry, muscle contractions, and pain scales (which  are still subjective, but at least quantifiable). Researchers using a  qualitative perspective may ask participants about their experience of  being in physical pain, whether being in pain has changed them in any  way, or what they have learned from experiencing physical pain.

For  this Assignment, consider differences in how you might frame a research  question in order to explore it using quantitative or qualitative  research methods.

By Day 7

Submit a 2-page paper that  highlights one of the research questions you shared in your Discussion  post. Design a quantitative research question related to this problem  and a qualitative research question related to the same problem. Please  use the resources to support your answer.

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