Asthma is a respiratory disorder that affects children and adults. Advanced practice nurses often provide treatment to patients with these disorders. Sometimes patients require immediate treatment, making it essential that you recognize and distinguish minor asthma symptoms from serious, life-threatening ones. Since symptoms and attacks are often induced by a trigger, advanced practice nurses must also help patients identify their triggers and recommend appropriate management options. Like many other disorders, there are various approaches to treating and managing care for asthmatic patients depending on individual patient factors.   Photo Credit: Photo Library / Getty Images One method that supports the clinical decision making of drug therapy plans for asthmatic patients is the stepwise approach, which you explore in this Assignment. To Prepare Reflect on drugs used to treat asthmatic patients, including long-term control and quick relief treatment options for patients. Think about the impact these drugs might have on patients, including adults and children. Consider how you might apply the stepwise approach to address the health needs of a patient in your practice. Reflect on how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. By Day 7 of Week 3 Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following: Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient. Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient. Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. 

The year is 2010 and you are a healthcare administration leader for a large HSO that delivers healthcare in an urban setting across a network of several hospitals, acute care centers, community clinics, and independent physician offices. The PPACA has just been signed into law and the board has called an urgent meeting to go over the provisions of the PPACA and to determine how it might affect the HSO and associated network. After meeting for several hours, the board has proposed that you write a brief on the implications of the PPACA on the HSO, including outlining recommendations on what the HSO will need to do to adhere to PPACA guidelines. For this Assignment, consider how the implementation of the PPACA might affect HSOs. Think about what recommendations a healthcare administration leader might make to ensure that PPACA implementation is ensured for a HSO. Be sure to research and identify three peer-reviewed resources to support your work. The Assignment: (3 pages) Describe two policy recommendations you might make for your health services organization and explain why these recommendations are important for PPACA implementation. Explain what steps you might recommend as a healthcare administration leader to ensure that your health services organization will address the implications of PPACA.

Assignment Prompt Infographics are visual representations of information. They can include numbers, text, images, or any combination of the three. Just as in traditional writing assignments, infographics  can take on any of the various rhetorical modes — informative, instructive, descriptive, persuasive, etc. Infographics provide a quick way to convey a lot of information. For example, this infographic from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conveys data related to NPs  much more concisely than another paragraph inserted here could have (https://www.aanp.org/all-about-nps/what-is-an-np-2): Students will create an Infographic on the topic of Advanced Practice Nursing. You will create an infographic that is easily understood by the lay public or general population. The infographic should provide information useful to communicating the "What, Why, When and How" of APN. Student will select a platform (tool) for building their infographics. There are plenty of great infographic platforms out there. Most are free, but may require that you do set up an account. Check out Infogr.am, Easelly, Piktochart, and Visme. Create the Infographic using one of the above platforms. Post completed infographic in PDF format Students are not required to purchase a membership to any third party sites. If you cannot download a PDF without purchase, please submit a screenshot(s) of your final product for grading.