Assignment: Professional Portfolio A professional Portfolio is a collection of documents that provides evidence of your education, skill sets, accomplishments, goals, competencies, professional background, your dedication to life-long learning, and anything else that validates your commitment to your profession. A professional Portfolio is a tool to help you prepare and plan your career as well as assist you in role acquisition. Once you complete your Portfolio, much of what you need for the next phase of your career will already be collected! Additionally, this Portfolio assignment will promote a process of self-reflection and self-awareness which are necessary components to acquiring a new professional identity. Once completed, you will be able to identify your strengths and accomplishments which will help you develop confidence as you transition from the role of a registered nurse to that of an advanced practice nurse. Directions Below is a list of documents/artifacts that you will need to include in your portfolio. The following format should be used: Title Page (APA format) Table of contents Personal Philosophy: Write a brief page on your philosophy of advanced practice nursing in primary care. NP Role definition: Write a brief paper that includes your definition and characterization of the NP role in the current U.S. healthcare environment. Resume: Develop a resume that is no more than three pages and includes contact information, at least three professional goals, all undergraduate degrees and certifications, all previous formal education, recent continuing education or training, employment history, and accomplishments such as awards or publications. NP job description: Describe your ideal NP position with details of duties and responsibilities (look at NP job descriptions on the Web for structure), work environment, patient population, interdisciplinary team members, salary requirements with expected benefits, scope of practice (i.e. independence vs. collaboration), and hours. Cover Letter: Write a cover letter for the above position you just described. Make sure your cover letter includes a career goal, a paragraph that explains why you are a perfect fit for this job and how your background, training, and education qualifies you for this job. Recommendations: Obtain three letters of recommendation and include these with your resume. Documents: Provide (copies) of the following professional documents: nursing license, certifications, malpractice insurance, academic transcripts, a completed application for the nurse practitioner certification examination (ANCC or AANP), recent professional activities such as committee work, volunteer work, published works. Evidence of professional association memberships. National Certification: Describe step by step what you will need to do to become nationally certified as an NP (ANCC or AANP). Include a list of the requirements needed for you to apply for national certification as a Family Nurse practitioner or Adult Nurse Practitioner. What is the minimum score on the certification exam to pass? How will you prepare for the exam? (Be specific on what you plan to do such as attend a national review course.) Scholarly work: Include an exemplar of a scholarly paper (3 to 5 pages in APA format) on the relevance of evidence based practice in primary care (you may use a previously submitted Assignment). Clinical Judgment: Include an exemplar of a case study that demonstrates your critical thinking skills, diagnostic skills, utilization of evidenced based practice, and clinical judgment, pharmacological management, follow up plan, and how you would promote preventive care for this patient (you may use a previous Assignment). Plan for Lifelong learning: Describe a plan for how you will meet continuing professional development, practice hours, and continuing education as required by your State Board of Nursing and your credentialing organization. Specifically, do you plan on using online CEUs, publishing, attending national seminars and conferences?

Homework is to be presented as a short (50‐100‐word) paragraph response for each question. The assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document electronically to the instructor.Which dosage forms are most appropriate for administering drugs to pediatric patients? Adults?What are the processes involved in disintegration and dissolution?Give a definition of pharmacokinetics.Examine the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, and explain why they occur in this order.What determines the absorption ability of a drug?Give a definition of the term pharmacodynamics.Compare the different ways drugs can interact with the body, depending on their mechanism of action.What relationship is there between drug response relationships, serum‐concentration profile, and drug manufacturing?How does an adverse effect of a drug occur? What are the causes of some drug‐drug interactions?APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Please, read carefully each topic and answer the topic individually with no plagiarism(checker will be use) or from other sources such as course hero, etc. Topic 1Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:How should a health care leader interface with local, state, or nationally elected officials to create a dialogue concerning local health care challenges?When an innovative response to a healthcare challenge is proposed, what happens if it is perceived as a threat to the existing system? Topic 2Assignment ContentSelect a health care facility or service (e.g., hospital, physician practice, long-term care facility, ambulance service, pharmacy, or skilled nursing facility).Identifyand readone recently proposed or enacted state or federal legislation that has an impact on your selected health care facility or service.Writea 700- to 1,050-word policy brief on the effects the legislation will have on your selected facility or service and on the state’s population. Use the following structure when putting together your policy brief:TitleExecutive summary (175 to 260 words)RecommendationsIntroductionState recommendation againBodyOverview of problemReview of relevant researchApplication of research resultsPolicy implicationsConclusionCite3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).Formatyour assignment according to APA guidelines.Topic 3 Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:Why is an understanding of child mortality essential to describing advancements in health care outcomes? Topic 4Read the IHI Triple Aim Initiativepage on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s website and watch“Design of a Triple Aim Enterprise.”Writea 700- to 1,050-word paper that evaluates the impact of implementing Triple Aim goals nationally. Determine whether the three dimensions of Triple Aim would be achievable:Improving quality and satisfaction for the patient experience of careImproving the health of populationsReducing the per capita cost of health care