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National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Presentation Speech

Introduction: 

1. Attention Getter/Hook- Get audience attention 

2. Credibility: Why are you a credible speaker on this topic? What is your connection? 

3. Thesis and preview: What is your position statement (for or against something) and summarize 4 points (4 Points are: Initiatives, Publications

Professional Development, Collegiality)

1. Transition to Body (one sentence)

Please incorporate this in formation in the introduction:

History and background of the organization:  Include mission and vision: Membership: Who are members?  Requirements to be a member. Benefits of membership.

• Mission: defines the purpose or current state of an organization. It identifies why the organization exists and what it is doing to achieve its vision.
• Vision: what an organization hopes to achieve in the future, perhaps in the next 5-10 years

 

 

 

 

Nurse Personal Communication Style

Use the template linked below to assess your own communication style.  Then, reflect about the following:

1. What are the positive aspects of your communication style?
2. What are some examples of how your strengths have benefited you in your communication with others?  How do you think these strengths will be beneficial when working as a health practitioner?
3. What can you do to strengthen these characteristics?  What can you do to develop new strengths that you will need as a health practitioner?
4. What are some of the aspects of your dominant style that may be potential trouble spots in one-to-one and team work communication?
5. What can you do to control or avoid those potential trouble spots?
6. Which communication styles do you communicate with most effectively, and why?
7. Which communication styles do you communicate with least effectively, and why?
8. What specific challenges do you face, or need to be mindful of, in your everyday communication?
9. What can you do to overcome these challenges now that you understand the importance of communication style?
10. Why is an awareness of personal communication style vitally important when working in health care?  (Consider for example, issues of patient safety, team work, caring for vulnerable people who are sick, in pain or dying, breaking bad news and working with patients across the lifespan and from different cultural groups).

Write an essay comprising the following:

Title page with your name, student number, unit code, unit title, assignment number and title, submission date and your word count;

An Introduction, describing the context for the assignment (role of professional communication, your personal communication as a health professional, self-reflection as a component of professional practice; cite 2 – 3 key references here) and then clearly stating what you will be writing about;

Assessment of Personal Communication Style, reporting the results of your self-assessment in words, accompanied by an appropriate graph or table.  Remember to acknowledge the source of the assessment tool you have used;

 Reflection on Communication in Health Practice, comprising your reflection on the points listed above.  Use appropriate subheadings to provide structure and focus. DO NOT use the reflection questions above as subheadings;

A Conclusion, demonstrating how you have addressed the key points of the assignment question;

APA formatted list of References, the sources you have cited in your essay.

Throughout your essay, it is essential to include APA-formatted in-text citations (references) to the academic literature to substantiate your analysis of your strengths and areas for development as a future health practitioner.  It is fine to use your text book as one of your sources but you are also expected to search for 5 – 10 peer reviewed, scholarly articles (not your Moodle learning guide, newspaper articles, Wikipedia or popular internet sources) to support your writing.

 

Shadow Health Focused Exam Abdominal Pain

Within the Shadow Health platform, complete the Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain. The estimated average time to complete this assignment is 1 hour and 25 minutes. Please note, this is an average time. Some students may need longer. This clinical experience is a focused exam. Students have one opportunity to complete this assignment and score at the Proficiency level. Upon completion, submit the lab pass through the assignment dropbox.
Students successfully scoring within the Proficiency level in the Digital Clinical Experience will earn a grade of 100 points. Students who do not pass the performance-based assessment and scoring within the Proficiency level will receive a failing grade (68 points).
Please review the assignment in the Health Assessment Student Handbook in Shadow Health prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

A 53-year-old woman presents to the primary care clinic with complaints of severe headaches  palpitations high blood pressure and diaphoresis

A 53-year-old woman presents to the primary care clinic with complaints of severe headaches, palpitations, high blood pressure and diaphoresis. She relates that these symptoms come in clusters and when she has these “spells”, she also experiences, tremor, nausea, weakness, anxiety, and a sense of doom and dread, epigastric pain, and flank pain. She had one of these spells when she was at the pharmacy and the pharmacist took her blood pressure which was recorded as 200/118. The pharmacist recommended that she immediately be evaluated for these symptoms. Past medical history significant for a family history of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Based on the presenting symptoms and family history of NF1, the APRN suspects the patient has a pheochromocytoma. Laboratory data and computerized tomography of the abdomen confirms the diagnosis.

Question 1 of 2:

What is a pheochromocytoma and how does it cause the classic symptoms the patient presented with? 

A 43-year-old female patient with known Graves Disease presents to the clinic with complaints of nervousness  racing heartbeat anxiety increased perspiration heat intolerance hyperactivity and severe palpitations

A 43-year-old female patient with known Graves’ Disease presents to the clinic with complaints of nervousness, racing heartbeat, anxiety, increased perspiration, heat intolerance, hyperactivity and severe palpitations. She states she had been given a prescription for propylthiouracil, an antithyroid medication but she did not fill the prescription as she claims she lost it. She had been given the option of thyroidectomy which she declined. She also notes that she is having trouble with her vision and often has blurry eyes. She states that her eyes seem “to bug out of her face”. She has had recurrent outs of nausea and vomiting. She was recently hospitalized for pneumonia.  Physical exam is significant for obvious exophthalmos and pretibial myxedema. Vital signs are temp 101.2˚F, HR 138 and irregular, BP 160/60 mmHg. Respirations 24. Electrocardiogram revealed atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response. The APRN recognizes the patient is experiencing symptoms of thyrotoxic crisis, also called thyroid storm. The patient was immediately transported to a hospital for critical care management.

Question:

How did the patient develop thyroid storm? What were the patient factors that lead to the development of thyroid storm?