MN581 FNP II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 1 assignment

Please upload the preceptor contact form to the Dropbox as
soon as possible. Your faculty will use this form to contact preceptors in Unit
1 and 2 for welcome calls and information. Please ensure that email addresses
and phone numbers are correct and if possible directly to the preceptor. Office
managers are not appropriate contacts for faculty. The Preceptor Contact Form
can be found in Course Documents. This is a mandatory Assignment.

MN581 FNP
II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 2
assignment

Assignment: Age Appropriate Health Maintenance Screening and
Associated Tools

This Assignment includes ten different pediatric cases that
require further evaluation with a developmental testing tool. Selecting the
correct tool is vitally important in getting accurate data that promotes early
identification and intervention. A template is available to you as an Excel
spreadsheet in Course Documents, and is specifically designed for this
Assignment.

After you have selected the standardized developmental
testing tool that is appropriate for each of the following cases, address the
following:

Does the tool measure the domain(s) of concern?

Is the tool “age appropriate?”

Does the tool address cultural considerations?

Who is to administer the test?

Is the reliability and validity of the tool acceptable? How
did you assess these measurements?

How much time is involved in using the tool?

Is the language of the tool applicable to the patient and
family?

Helpful tip: It is recommended that you keep all of your
course work in a virtual (or physical, or both) portfolio for easy access in
clinicals as well as future pediatric encounters.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as
displayed above);

consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Documents) to make
sure you have included everything necessary; and

utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Submit your Assignment to the Unit 2 Assignment Dropbox
before midnight on the last day of the unit.

MN581 FNP
II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 5
Assignment

Assignment: Midterm Clinical Evaluation – 25 points

For the Midterm Clinical Evaluation in Week 5 you will be
required to schedule a preceptor call with your instructor and preceptor
utilizing the faculty directions in the course Announcements. Failure to
schedule or complete this preceptor call could result in failure of the course.

Grading will follow the rubric and will be a collaboration
between your faculty and preceptor. Any area of clinical concern will require
faculty and student conference as well as implementation of an individual
learning plan.

You can find the rubric located in Course Resources.

MN581 FNP
II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 6
Assignment

Assignment: Collaboration paper

This Assignment is specific to a particular pediatric
primary care practice and is mostly based upon student observation and
experience. This should be a formal paper and should be 3-5 pages in length
(excluding title page and reference page). You must use APA formatting
including header, title page, content, in-text citations, and reference page.

For full points the following must be addressed adequately
in your paper:

From your observations and experiences in your pediatric
clinical rotation, provide an example of multidisciplinary collaboration.

From your observations and experiences in your pediatric
clinical rotation, provide an example of how multidisciplinary and family
collaboration affects patient outcomes.

Discuss how you have been able to promote communication and
collaboration among health care professionals, patients, and family/caregivers.

Discuss a particular case where collaboration among health
care professionals and family members affected patient/family satisfaction.

In your clinical practicum, what are some barriers that you
have observed to collaboration among health care professionals, patients, and
families?

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; and

use APA 6th edition formatting.

Helpful tip: It is recommended that you keep all of your
course work in a virtual (or physical, or both) portfolio for easy access in
clinicals as well as future pediatric encounters.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as
displayed above);

consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Documents) to make
sure you have included everything necessary; and

utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Submit your Assignment to the Unit 6 Assignment Dropbox
before midnight on the last day of the unit.

MN581 FNP
II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 7
Assignment

Assignment: Interpretation of Common Diagnostic Labs in
Pediatric Primary Care

Nurse practitioners routinely order labs for a variety of
reasons. Some labs are recommended as part of a certain wellness check. Some
labs are tested at birth and repeated at regular intervals. Many labs are
ordered to rule in or rule out a diagnosis or just to add to an objective data
base along with physical examination, vital signs, image studies, etc. Some of
the labs can be done at the point of care (POC) such as an Accu-Check®. Most
all labs require a venous blood sample but may require different additives that
are in the collection tube. Other samples include arterial blood, urine,
sputum, spinal fluid, or exudate.

In Course Documents, you will find the “Unit 7 Assignment
Template” that you will use to complete this Assignment. It is organized to
include information about a common lab test that you will be completing in
pediatric primary care. Please fill in the requested information. It is highly
recommended that you keep this information with you during clinical as a
reference.

Helpful tip: It is recommended that you keep all of your
course work in a virtual (or physical, or both) portfolio for easy access in
clinicals as well as future pediatric encounters.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as
displayed above);

consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Documents) to make
sure you have included everything necessary; and

utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Submit your Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight
on the last day of the unit.

MN581 FNP
II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 9
Assignment

Assignment: Analysis of Current Evidence Based Practice
Guidelines for the Treatment of OM

This Assignment requires a current, evidence based practice
guideline that is specific to the child in the following scenario. Once you
find the appropriate guideline, you will be ready for analysis and
evaluation.

First, carefully review the case. Then, using the Internet,
find a current (no older than 4 years old) relevant evidence based practice
guideline for the treatment of otitis media for this particular pediatric
patient.

Please use APA formatting, including title page and
reference page. This Assignment should be between 3-5 pages, excluding title
page and reference page. There should be a minimum of three current (within the
last 5 years) peer-reviewed references including the authors of the guideline.

Make sure to address the following in your paper:

Briefly explain your search strategy. For example, how did
you find the correct guideline?

Who developed the guideline?

Is this a revision of a previous guideline or an original?
What is the date of publication?

Explain the concept of “systematic review of current best
evidence.”

How was conflict of interest managed in the development of these
guidelines?

How is quality of evidence defined?

Explain differences among strong recommendation,
recommendation, and option

What are “key Action statements?”

For this particular child, what are the specific treatment
recommendations including any diagnostics, medications (include exact dosage,
frequency, length of treatment), follow-up, referral, prevention, and pain
control.

Case:

A 5-year-old male is brought to the primary care clinic by
his mother with a chief complaint of bilateral ear pain for the last three
days. The mother states that the child has been crying frequently due to the
pain. Ibuprofen has provided minimal relief. This morning, the child refused
breakfast and appeared to be “getting worse.”

Vital signs at the clinic reveal HR 110 bpm, 28 respiratory
rate, and tympanic temperature of 103.2 degrees F. The mother reports no known
allergies. The child has not been on antibiotics for the last year. The child
does not have history of OM. The child is otherwise healthy without any other known
health problems.

After your questioning and examination, you diagnose this
child with bilateral Acute Otitis Media.

Helpful tip: It is recommended that you keep all of your
course work in a virtual (or physical, or both) portfolio for easy access in
clinicals as well as future pediatric encounters.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as
displayed above);

consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Documents) to make
sure you have included everything necessary; and

utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Submit your Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight
on the last day of the unit.

MN581 FNP
II Clinical – Children and Adolescent Health Focus

Unit 10
Assignment

Final Clinical Evaluation- 300 points

This unit will contain the mandatory preceptor final
evaluation in RxPreceptor. Your preceptors will receive an automatic email from
the RxPreceptor system during Week 8 and then weekly until Week 9 to complete
evaluations. Once it is complete you will review it and upload to the Unit 10
Assignment 1 Dropbox for grading. Grading will follow the scale below and will
be a collaboration between your faculty and preceptor. Any area of assessment
with a score of 2.4 or below will receive an entire evaluation score of 0
points as failure in any area of assessment constitutes a failing evaluation.

Final evaluation will be worth 300 points and follow the
grading rubric below.

Score of 4 to 5 all 300 points awarded

Score of 3 to 3.9 = 240/300 points awarded

Score of 2.5 to 2.9 = 210/300 points awarded

Score of 2.4 and below = 0

Students must also complete both the evaluation of their
preceptor and site for credit. The evaluations provide faculty an overview of
your clinical performance and experiences with your preceptor and clinical
location. The final clinical evaluation is required to pass the course.

Failure to complete all clinical hours or all associated
RxPreceptor documentation (clinical time log, patient encounter log, preceptor
evaluation of student, and student evaluation of preceptor) will result in
failure of the course.

Upload a copy of your evaluation of the preceptor and clinical
site to the Unit 10 Assignment Dropbox. The form can be found in RxPreceptor.