Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the Following Sections:
1. Application of Course Knowledge: Complete a management plan for the client that you created for the Week 6 Part 1 discussion. Include the following:
a. treatment plan based on one of the three differentials discussed in Part 1
b. appropriate diagnostic tests and expected results
c. medications and nonpharmacologic treatments
d. suggested consults/referrals
e. client education
f. follow-up
2. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectationsLinks to an external site.: a. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
b. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
c. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
d. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
e. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
3. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice. a. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer. Substantive posts contribute new, novel perspectives to the discussion using original dialogue (not quotes from sources).
b. Faculty Response: Respond to all questions posed directly to the student.
c. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
4. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
5. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
6. Tuesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion question(s) or topic(s), posted by the course faculty (not a response to a peer), by Tuesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
7. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.