Assignment 2: Week 2 Practicum Journal: Safe Prescribing

There is probably no greater responsibility that the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner assumes than the responsibility of prescribing medications. While someone can be harmed by psychotherapy, the level and intensity of the harm generally does not come to the same level of harm that can occur from improper prescribing. The PMHNP must understand his/her responsibility both at a state and federal level when it comes to prescribing medications.

In this Practicum Journal Assignment, you will explore the legalities associated with prescribing controlled substances, as well as what a DEA number is, how to obtain one, and, most importantly, how to prescribe controlled substances in your state.

Students will:

• Analyze roles of the Drug Enforcement Administration
• Analyze PMHNP responsibilities when issued a DEA number
• Analyze DEA number application procedures
• Analyze state requirements for safe prescribing and prescription monitoring
• Analyze PMHNP responsibilities for safe prescribing and prescription monitoring
• Analyze Schedule II-V drug levels

To prepare for this Practicum Journal:

• Review the Learning Resources.

In 2-3 pages:

• Describe the role of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as it pertains to the PMHNP.
• Explain your responsibilities when having a DEA number.
• Explain how you apply for a DEA number.
• Explain your state’s requirements for a safe prescribing and prescription monitoring program. Explain your responsibility as a PMHNP to follow these requirements.
• Provide an example of a drug you may prescribe from each of the Schedule II-V drug levels.

LINKS:

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/drug_of_abuse.pdf

https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/pract/pract_manual012508.pdf

The nursing process is a tool that puts knowledge into practice. By utilizing this systematic problem-solving method, nurses can determine the health care needs of an individual and provide personalized care.

Write a paper (1,750-2,000 words) on cancer and approach to care based on the utilization of the nursing process. Include the following in your paper:

1. Describe the diagnosis and staging of cancer.
2. Describe at least three complications of cancer, the side effects of treatment, and methods to lessen physical and psychological effects.
3. Discuss what factors contribute to the yearly incidence and mortality rates of various cancers in Americans.
4. Explain how the American Cancer Society (ACS) might provide education and support. What ACS services would you recommend and why?
5. Explain how the nursing process is utilized to provide safe and effective care for cancer patients across the life span. Your explanation should include each of the five phases and demonstrate the delivery of holistic and patient-focused care.
6. Discuss how undergraduate education in liberal arts and science studies contributes to the foundation of nursing knowledge and prepares nurses to work with patients utilizing the nursing process. Consider mathematics, social and physical sciences, and science studies as an interdisciplinary research area.

You are required to cite to a minimum of four sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the 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.

Grading for participation in postings (Possible points: 10)

Choose a mental health condition of interest to you.

1. Why did you choose this condition?
2. Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with this condition?
3. What percentage of the population has been diagnosed with this condition?
4. Are there any stigmas pertaining to this condition?
5. What education can be provided to remove the stigma(s)?
6. What words of encouragement or type of support would you give to an individual with this condition?

ENGL 1020: Composition/Analysis    

University of Memphis

Argument Revision Assignment 

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.” — Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966

“I don’t write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn’t work, or what simply is not alive.” — Susan Sontag

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” — Colette, Casual Chance, 1964

“By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.” — Roald Dahl

“The best advice I can give on this is, once it’s done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you’re ready, pick it up and read it, as if you’ve never read it before. If there are things you aren’t satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that’s revision.” — Neil Gaiman

Overview: 

As the above quotes from famous writers explain, successful writers are successful revisers. Writing courses often don’t build in time to allow for revision, leaving the false impression that effective writing can actually happen in a few days or weeks. Thus, your final and major project of this course asks you to take all that you have learned about writing processes, composing, and research in order to revise your researched argument.  You may use writing you produced in your first draft, but if the paper does not change significantly, then your essay grade will be lowered. Your goal for this paper should be to improve your argument and to improve your presentation (tone, sentence structure, organization) of that argument. This paper should be a minimum of eight pages and use a minimum of eight sources (five of which have to be academic/government). 

What is revision? Revision involves making global changes to your writing. It involves deleting, moving, and rewriting large parts (if not all) of your previous drafts. It often means doing new research, finding new ways to discuss your topic, and even starting fresh—only pulling words from your first draft when absolutely necessary (and even then those words might need to change). Revising is not the same as editing and proofreading. Editing and proofreading focus on sentences, words, and correctness. Revision focuses on making meaning and on the overall organization and development of your argument.

This is the culmination of all of our work this term and is worth 35% of the semester grade.

The Process: 

This assignment is going to ask you to complete a number of steps in order to improve your essay. 

1. Create a reverse outline of your argument. 
2. Create a revision plan and meet with your instructor to discuss it. 
3. Do new research. Find new sources to support your argument (the reverse outline should help you identify the type of research you need to do in order to support your claims). 
4. Rewrite and revise! 
5. Edit and proofread. 

Requirements: 

• Eight to ten full pages (excluding works cited)
• Must include eight sources, of which five must be academic or government sources 
• MLA format 
• Topic related to Memphis (unless you are out of the area, in which case you may argue a topic in your own area.)

ENGL 1020: Composition/Analysis

University of Memphis

Individual New Media Writing Assignment

Overview:  

When we produce an argument, many of the decisions we make are determined by the rhetorical situation. Thus, when the rhetorical situation changes, so will our argument. In this major Multimodal Composition, you will be revising your researched argument using one of the digital apps we learned during the New Media Group Project.  

Process:

1. Review the New Media Group Projects posted in eCourseware.  
    
2. Choose the app that you assess to be the most effective for conveying your researched argument.  Consider:
    
   1. Who is my audience?
       
   2. What is the most persuasive information I need to convey to be persuasive?
       
   3. Do I need a lot of charts and graphs? Consider Piktochart.
       
   4. Will my audience be most persuaded using video? Imovie.
       
   5. Will humor work best for my argument? Powtoon or Pixton.
       
3. Outline your researched argument draft for the most persuasive information.
    
4. Revise your argument into a Multimodal Composition using your chosen app. Consider:
    
   1. What tone is appropriate for the non-academic audience?
       
   2. How can I best combine text, images, and sound to construct a sound argument?
       
   3. What appeals can I make using linguistic, visual, aural, spatial and gestural modes?
       

Length: If you make a video, it should be 3-5 minutes.  If you make an infographic, it should be two pages.

You will need to include an MLA citation page in your presentation.

Caution: You are completely revising your argument for a new rhetorical situation.  It will not be adequate to cut and paste from your Researched Essay Draft. Your tone, structure, word choice etc. should change to reflect the new situation. Also, be sure to check how long you have free access, so your trial doesn’t end before you finish your project.  

Assessment: Per the syllabus, this project is worth 20% of your overall course grade.