amily nurse practitioner

You need to answer the questions brief and right to the point

Disease:  Prostatitis

1. Population most affected (ex: Older Adults, Middle Adults, Young Adults, Teenagers, Child, Infants)

2. Age related milestone for your chosen population

3. Socio-Demographic/Risk factors for getting the disease/condition

4. Impact on Quality Of Life

5. Current/new/recent research/Evidence Base Practice that will benefit/support this patient with the specific disease (If there are none please state so)

6. Recommendation for treatment or Gold standards for treatment if any (can be tied into the current research as above) (If there are no gold standards then please state so, but there should be some recommendations)

7. Please tell what/how you (speak in the first person) as the FNP caring for this patient with this specific disease can make a difference in his/her care and incorporate patient care/self-help teaching that can help him/her minimize disease symptoms.

8. Red flags for this condition (what specific Sign/Symptoms require urgent/ER care) or when should you refer patient to specialist.

1. Think of a surprising or challenging practice situation in which you felt underprepared, unprepared, or uncomfortable.
2. Select an important nursing issue/topic that was inherent to the identified situation.
3. As a method of refection, use Carper’s Patterns of Knowing to analyze the situation. In a two- to three-page paper address the following:
4. Briefly explain the situation
5. Identify the nursing issue inherent in the identified situation
6. What do you think was the underlying reason for the situation? (Esthetics)
7. What were your thoughts and feeling in the situation? (Personal)
8. What was one personal belief that impacted your actions? (Ethics)
9. What evidence in nursing literature supports the nursing importance of the identified issue? (Empirical)
10. What new insights did you gain through this reflective practice opportunity?Application: Use Microsoft Word to create the written component of this assessment.
11. Length:
    1. The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) should be at least two but no more than three pages.
12. A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature sources must be used.
13. Submission: Submit your file to the Canvas course site by the due date/time indicated.

Best Practices in Preparing the Reflective Essay

The following are best practices in preparing this reflective essay.

1. Review directions thoroughly.
2. Follow assignment requirements.
3. Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.
4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing.
5. Because the paper is a reflective essay, first person is acceptable for this assignment.
6. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.
7. Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.
8. A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature sources must be used.
9. Abide by CCN academic integrity policy.

Rubric

NR501: Week 2 Reflective Essay