For this assignment please find an article that addresses an incident where the wrong dosage of medication has been given to a patient and write an essay about it. You must summarize what happened to the patient in the way of symptoms and side effects leading up to and including death. It must be as a result of a medication given by a medical professional. You must submit the article with your assignment to receive credit. Essays submitted without an article will receive a zero. 

Drug Article Directions:

• Typed paper – 12 pages summary doubled spaced; Times Roman 12pt.-Microsoft Word; 1 inch margins. 
• The drug article must be related to a drug which was given improperly due to dosage mistake.
• Paraphrase – Do not plagiarize
• Cite where article was retrieved and attach a copy of the original article to the summary. Post both as attachments. Do not provide any web links in place of the original article.  Original article and summary must be submitted together as attachments.
• ***Do not copy and paste article in the submission space. Any article summary submitted in this manner will not receive any credit.****
• May use newspaper, medical journals, magazines, peer review articles, etc.
• Dates when Drug Articles are due is listed on the course syllabus.  Please know that no drug article will be accepted via email or after the due date No exceptions. Listed below is a sample of how the medical article should look.  Do not use Wikipedia website. This is not an accepted academic website.

Assignment Details

Your First Job 

Directions

Identify and provide the listing for a hypothetical professional job opportunity for which you would like to apply. You may copy and paste the listing directly from an employment site such as Indeed, Simply Hired, or other types of job boards. Discuss in detail why you think this job is within your scope of practice. In response, write a cover letter and enclose your professional resume. This is your opportunity to showcase your talents, so be sure give potential employers enough information to convince them you are the right candidate for the position. Submit to the unit Dropbox.

To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section under Course Resources.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• Attend the seminar on My First Job presentation. If unable to attend, view the archived version.
• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above)
• consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors 

Your writing Assignment should:

• follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful
• display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics
• use APA 7th Edition format for organization, style, and crediting sources. Refer to the APA Progression Ladder. 

Identify a quality improvement opportunity in your organization or practice. In a 1,250-1,500 word paper, describe the problem or issue and propose a quality improvement initiative based on evidence-based practice. Apply “The Road to Evidence-Based Practice” process, illustrated in Chapter 4 of your textbook, to create your proposal.

Include the following:

1. Provide an overview of the problem and the setting in which the problem or issue occurs.
2. Explain why a quality improvement initiative is needed in this area and the expected outcome.
3. Discuss how the results of previous research demonstrate support for the quality improvement initiative and its projected outcomes. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years, not included in the course materials or textbook, that establish evidence in support of the quality improvement proposed.
4. Discuss steps necessary to implement the quality improvement initiative. Provide evidence and rationale to support your answer.
5. Explain how the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated to determine whether there was improvement.
6. Support your explanation by identifying the variables, hypothesis test, and statistical test that you would need to prove that the quality improvement initiative succeeded.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

Nightingale Case Study

Assignment Description:

Write a 1000-1500-word APA paper addressing each of the following points. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) outside sources and the textbook using citations in your essay. Make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page in correct APA do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Case Study: Mrs. Adams, a 68-year-old widow who was referred to case management upon discharge from the hospital based on her physician’s recommendation that she is not able to care for herself independently. Her diagnosis is diabetes, hypertension, and breast cancer. She is 5 days’ post-op from a right sided mastectomy.   Mrs. Adams apartment is located in a low-income area of the city where crime is prevalent.  Upon assessment by the Community Health Nurse, Mrs. Adams apartment was in disorder with minimal airflow or light. Her clothes appeared unchanged and she had no food in the apartment.  The small apartment also housed 3 cats and a small dog who Mrs. Adams considers family since the death of her husband 1 year ago. Mrs. Adams complains of pain and draining from her surgical site and a broken air conditioner. 

• Using Nightingale’s Environmental Theory, what actions would the nurse take upon the first assessment? What are the five essential components?
• What would be an appropriate plan of care be for Mrs. Adams? How would you prioritize the care plan?
• Apply Nightingale’s Environmental Theory to an area of your nursing practice?  What patient-population would benefit from this approach?  Support this practice change with at least one evidenced-based article.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1000 – 1500 words

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three (3) outside scholarly sources and the textbook are required for this assignment.

Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.

Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx)