Based on last week’s reading, you now have an idea of the role of the APRN, and legal/professional issues in prescribing. As a future nurse practitioner, you have the authority, based on your state nurse practice act, to prescribe medications for the patients for whom you will provide care, and the responsibility of prescriptive authority is more than just simply writing a prescription correctly.

Important Links:

https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/BillSummaries/2016/html/1424

http://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-19-2014/No2-May-2014/Barriers-to-NP-Practice.html

https://floridasnursing.gov/new-legislation-impacting-your-profession/

https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/advocacy-resource/position-statements/nurse-practitioner-prescriptive-privilege

Discuss the role of advanced practice nursing in safe prescribing and 3  prescribing barriers for APRNs.

 Write your evidence-based change project status report, which gives you an opportunity to share your progress. The report should provide evidence of your critical thinking and ability to apply research and project management principles in the clinical setting.


The requirements of this assignment include:

1. Identify obstacles and steps taken to manage and stabilize successful implementation of your change project thus far.
2. Discuss the project implementation to date, the resources used, and continued support needed.
3. Identify expected project outcomes and any timeline adjustments needed.
4. Discuss a summary of the project, the main points, and the findings, the significance of the project to the nursing profession, and any recommendations for future research.

You will submit a written paper using the format of the APA (6th ed.), including cover page, proper headings and references. The report should be at least 4 pages in length, not including the cover page and references.

 Develop a 1- to 2-page executive summary that describes the issue or opportunity that you are analyzing. Your executive summary should include the following:

• Describe the healthcare issue or opportunity you selected.
• Describe the stakeholder groups impacted by this issue/opportunity.
• Explain which stakeholder groups would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue or opportunity you selected and why. Be specific and provide examples
• Describe the healthcare product or service that you propose to address the identified gaps/opportunities and explain why

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length: 2 pages (not including title page or references page)
• Use standard essay writing process by including an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
• 1-inch margins
• Double spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Title page
• References page (minimum of 2 scholarly source)
• No abstract is required
• In-text citations that correspond with your end references

 Women in Colonial America 

• Pick two colonies (New England, Middle, or Southern colonies) and explain how women’s roles differ in the two colonies of your choice.
• Describe what legal rights women held during the colonial period.
• Analyze how Native women’s lives were different from colonial women’s lives.

Comment 1

Linear correlation is a measure of dependence between two random variables. A linear correlation tells the strength of the relationship between the two variables. The results of the linear correlation analysis may be a positive correlation, a negative correlation, or no correlation. The conclusion of cigarettes cause the pulse rate to increase is not valid. The linear correlation does not give the results of the relationship between the two variables.  Correlation does not  imply causation in this sample. In a causal relationship the variables have an effect on each other and increases when one another do. In this study the only variables shown are smoking and heart rate. It shows no other variables to
consider such as gender, age, any health factors, or brands of cigarettes. Health factors along with other considerations may cause an increase in the pulse rate by itself. This sample does not give any indications of linear correlation between the two variables. There is no evidence in the statement “cigarettes cause the pulse rate to increase” to make it true without more evidence of both variables. Further research must be performed for the statement to valid. The research should include age, gender, health factors, and brands of cigarettes.

Comment 2

It seems like that the conclusion “Cigarettes cause the pulse rate to increase” is just not taking into consideration other variables and the heart rate can only increase so much. At that point, it would not matter how many more cigarettes a person smoked, the heart rate would not increase at the same rate. The linear correlation would change as the persons heart rate increases and the more cigarettes they smoked. The change in heart rate between the first and second cigarette will not be the same as the change in heart rate between the ninth and tenth cigarette. Identifying the associations between variables is the goal for correlational analyses. If the hypothesis is “Is there a relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked and pulse rate?”, then there is more room to talk about the relationship and arrive at a conclusion that yes, there is a relationship between the variables whether it is positive or negative. A better conclusion might be: There was a statistically significant correlation between the number of cigarettes smoked and pulse rate. This statement also needs to be backed up with results from a test like the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. Then the conclusion would be statistically relevant (Grove & Cipher, 2017).