Day: October 6, 2020

Scope of practice and perspectives of nurse practitioners and physicians and a policy intervention.

Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to compare and contrast the roles, scope of practice and perspectives of nurse practitioners and physicians and suggest a policy intervention

Instructions: Students are to include the following in their discussion:

Discuss the specialty adult geriatrics. Define the roles you will be addressing: physician and nurse practitioner.
Who regulates the scope of practice for the physician and the NP.
What is the scope of practice including the level of autonomy for the MD and the NP?
What are the barriers to practice? Identify implications from Consensus Document and in light of the Doctoral of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.
What policy change would you suggest? Indicate implications of IOM (National Academy of Medicine) Report Future of Nursing.

Instructions****
Online Discussion Board Assignment
be at minimum of 250 words. Each post should have 3-5 references from recent (less than 5 years old)
peer reviewed journals. Web sites are not acceptable references for scholarly work. You may
reference your text or other books but they do not count towards your grade.
****Use APA format for all
references used. You should read your classmates posts. You must comment on one other post. Your
comments to others are graded pass/fail. Any fail will result in a 1 point deduction from your total post
grade of 35 points.
Where appropriate please make sure to address how factors of race and culture, gender and sexual
orientation, religion, and socio-economic status influence the topic.

You are a regulatory associate at a private firm asked to assess the regulatory issues associated with a clients proposed vaccine and diagnostic kit against Lyme disease.

You will need to draft a 2-3 page written memo expanding upon the scientific and historical background of the vaccine and any regulatory issues you anticipate for the development of a vaccine and a diagnostic. (Re-writing this question and bibliography do not apply to page count) Hint: 1-2 paragraphs background, 2 pages for issues, and a 1 paragraph conclusion.

Please include any specific regulatory requirements for submission to the regulatory agency (ie-the company will need to submit xyz as part of their IND under Sec. 312.21 Phases of investigation). Our FDA class notes will be useful.

I have included in the Course Content section a few things that will assist you, including a patent and a couple papers. Please include at least 5 other sources, citing them as primary or secondary.

Question 2: Discuss the history of regulation of biotech crops in the United States, and by whom they are regulated. For full credit, please be specific regarding the agencies (and divisions within agencies), and specific guiding statutes and provisions that direct review. I strongly encourage you to provide an example of a specific product or products that illustrate your response. There is a 1-page limit (not including original question and references)

There are two parts to your initial post. In part one, you will be talking about what you normally do to make choices about food and nutrition. In part 2, you will be talking about what you may or may not change about making food and nutritional choices. You will also describe your thoughts about what problems you believe exist in the food/nutrition industry and why.
Part 1
    Pick a meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner
    Describe what you ate
    Talk about why you ate what you did — what factors influenced your eating choices?
    Do any current nutritional fads, promotions, or diet claims influence your choice of foods? If yes, talk more about these sources of influence. If no, talk about what does influence your nutritional/food choices. 
Part 2
Watch this TED Talk about food and happiness
Link (Links to an external site.) https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_and_spaghetti_sauce
Now for the Part 2 of this Discussion Board –
    After watching Maccolm Gladwell’s TED Talk and reading from your text and other materials in Module 3, will you to consider changing the way you will make nutritional choices? If yes, why? If no, why not? Provide specific examples from the video, other materials, websites,  and text to support/describe your answers.
    Finally, what do you think is the biggest problem area in the nutrition/food industry in the United States? Be specific and detailed in your description. There isn’t a right or wrong answer to this question!

Download the Data Abstraction Form see attached document  .  Now, find a mental health program that involves a policy response through SAMHSA here  (https://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-programs-resources/grant-programs-services.)and review a program that you find interesting. Using the form provided, assess the program. Please follow the guidelines in the form and below:
Part I. Respond to Q1: Choose one of the 4 intervention components:
    provision of information only
    behavioral intervention
    environmental intervention
    legislation/regulation/enforcement(for this assignment, you will choose this one)
Respond to the following questions: Part I: Q1, Q1b, Q2; Part II: Q1, Q1a
Although you are answering the questions, please write them in a narrative format, not a Q&A. Papers should be 2- 3 pages, double-spaced, 12 point font, and in APA 7th edition format. You will include the primary NCHEC Area of Responsibility and Competencies you are addressing in this assignment as a separate paragraph. Discuss the areas you are practicing for this assignment and the specific competency(ies) you are utilizing. Discuss the importance of these competencies as it relates to the profession of public health.
If you need more help on how to complete this assignment, please review this tutorial video I recorded to help you navigate this assignment! If you do watch this videoPlay media comment.( see attached), please complete this short survey on its effectiveness in order to give me important feedback about my teaching effectiveness. This is to help me help you (insert Jerry Maguire gif).