Assignment: MSN FP6026 Capella Univeristy Substance Addictions and Alcohol Abuses Paper

Assignment: MSN FP6026 Capella Univeristy Substance Addictions and Alcohol Abuses Paper

Question Description
Develop a 4–6-page position about a specific health care issue as it relates to a target vulnerable population. Include an analysis of existing evidence and position papers to help support your position. Your analysis should also present and respond to one or more opposing viewpoints.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Assessment Instructions
SCENARIO
Pretend you are a member of an interprofessional team that is attempting to improve the quality of health care and the outcomes in a vulnerable population. For the first step in your team’s work, you have decided to conduct an analysis of current position papers that address the issue and population you are considering.

In your analysis you will note the team’s initial views on the issue in the population as well as the views across a variety of relevant position papers. You have been tasked with finding the most current standard of care or evidenced-based practice and evaluating both the pros and cons of the issue. For the opposing viewpoints, it is important to discuss how the team could respond to encourage support. This paper will be presented to a committee of relevant stakeholders from your care setting and the community. If it receives enough support, you will be asked to create a new policy that could be enacted to improve the outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population.

The care setting, population, and health care issue that you use for this assessment will be used in the other assessments in this course. Consider your choice carefully. There are two main approaches for you to take in selecting the scenario for this assessment:

You may use one of the issues and populations presented in the Vila Health: Health Challenges in Different Populations and Vila Health: Resources for Topical Research media pieces. For this approach, you may consider the population in the context of the Vila Health care setting, or translate it into the context in which you currently practice or have had recent experience.
You may select a population and issue that is of interest to you and set them in the context of your current or desired future care setting. While you are free to choose any population of interest, the issue you choose should fall within one of the following broad categories:
Genetics and genomics.
Sickle cell, asthma, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis.
Immunity.
Type 1 diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), congenital neutropenia syndrome.
Chronicity.
Arthritis, any type of cancer or lung or heart disease, obesity.
Addiction.
Abuse of alcohol, prescription drugs, tobacco, illegal substances.
Emotion and mental health.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, eating disorders, psychosis.
Note: If you choose the second option, contact the FlexPath faculty for your section to make sure that your chosen issue and population will fit within the topic areas for this course.

INSTRUCTIONS
For this assessment you will develop a position summary and an analysis of relevant position papers on a health care issue in a chosen population. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

Explain a position with regard to health outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Explain the role of the interprofessional team in facilitating improvements for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that could support a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that are contrary to a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Communicate an initial viewpoint regarding a specific issue in a target population and a synthesis of existing positions in a logically structured and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Example Assessment: You may use the assessment example, linked in the Assessment Example section of the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Length of submission: 4–6 double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title and reference pages. Your plan should be succinct yet substantive. No abstract is required.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your initial position on the issue, as well as a minimum of 2–3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that express contrary views or opinions. Resources should be no more than five years old.
APA formatting: Use the APA Style Paper Template linked in the Resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided to help you in writing and formatting your analysis.
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6026 – Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II Library Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

Assessment
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). Community health assessment for population health improvement [PDF]. Retrieved from https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20707
Vila Health: Resources for Topical Research | Transcript.
This interactive simulation will make the most sense if you view it after Vila Health: Health Challenges in Different Populations (listed under Pathophysiology, below).
Genetics and Genomics
Haeusermann, T., Greshake, B., Blasimme, A., Irdam, D., Richards, M., & Vayena, E. (2017). Open sharing of genomic data: Who does it and why? Plos ONE, 12(5), 1–15.
Wolf, S. M. (2017). The continuing evolution of ethical standards for genomic sequencing in clinical care: Restoring patient choice. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 45(3), 333–340.
Cheek, D. J., & Howington, L. (2017). Patient care in the dawn of the genomic age. American Nurse Today, 12(3) 16–22.
Lea, D. H. (2009). Basic genetics and genomics: A primer for nurses. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 14(2). Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANA…
Pathophysiology
Vila Health: Health Challenges in Different Populations | Transcript.
This media piece should be viewed before Vila Health: Resources for Topical Research (listed under Assessment, above).
Population and Public Health
Edmonds, J. K., Campbell, L. A., & Gilder, R. E. (2016). Public health nursing practice in the Affordable Care Act era: A national survey. Public Health Nursing, 34(1), 50–58. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phn.122…
Thew, J. (2016). What a nurse knows about population health. Retrieved from http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nurse-leaders/wh…
Course Resources and Templates
APA Style Paper Template [DOCX].
APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].
APA Module
Guiding Questions: Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations [DOC].
Nursing Masters (MSN) Research Guide.
Finding Position Papers.
OPTIONAL RESOURCES
Position Papers
The following are examples of position papers. You may find these helpful throughout this assessment. Even if you are not writing on one of these topics, the following are good examples of the types of resources you should be looking for to support your work in this assessment.
Bryant, R., Porter, J. S., & Sobota, A. (2015). APHON/ASPHO policy statement for the transition of patients with sickle cell disease from pediatric to adult health care. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 32(6), 355–359.
Chiang, J. L., Kirkman, M. S., Laffel, L. M. B., & Peters, A. L. (2014). Type 1 diabetes through the life span: A position statement of the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care, 37(7), 2034–2054. Retrieved from http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/37/7/2034
The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. (2015). Position paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine: Medical management of restrictive eating disorders in adolescents and young adults. The Journal of Adolescent Health, 56(1), 121–125.
Jacobs, M., Alonso, A. M., Sherin, K. M., Koh, Y., Dhamija, A., & Lowe, A. L. (2013). Policies to restrict secondhand smoke exposure: American College of Preventive Medicine position statement. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 45(3), 360–367.

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My personal worldview has been shaped by a variety of experiences; from childhood to adulthood. I was raised in a catholic church by my mother, who was an immigrant from the Philippines. Because of the spanish influence in the Philippines, many cultural and religious influences are present from Spain like Catholicism, rites and rituals, some mysticism and superstition, and a strong sense of loyalty to family. These influences laid the foundation for my mother’s upbringing and her raising of me. Although my mother tried to do right by raising me in her faith, her actions spoke differently. I never felt connected to Christianity as the example I had (my mother) was decidedly not what the catholic church was teaching. It made me uncomfortable how someone could be so hypocritical in their life. Additionally, it never resonated with me to be catholic or Christian; to this day I still grapple with the idea that in Christian faith, the only way to “heaven” is to surrender to Jesus Christ.

Despite my feelings on Jesus being the way and the life, I always wanted to find a connection to the divine, I knew and I felt within me that divinity was present around and in me, but didn’t know how. I knew that my experiences from childhood (witness to domestic violence) was for a purpose in service to children and others in the same situation, that is why I choose to work in pediatrics now. As I grew into an adult, I found yoga and a connection to the divine that was so fulfilling and enlightening. As I dived deeper into yoga practice and philosophy I found that there were many similarities between the foundation of catholic faith and the principles of yoga. For example, in Christianity, “I am” is how God defines himself. In yoga and traditional Hindu tradition, “all is ma” meaning all is divine. With what I experienced in my childhood, hearing that all is divine, that everything is god, no matter how painful and horrible, that if we remove our own attachments of bad and good and SURRENDER to what is, we experience the divine, and maybe even love it.

 

Since finding my connection to the divine through yoga, I have finally found the words and the worldview that people will find a way to connect themselves to divinity, in a way that makes sense to them. All people have a right to spiritual enlightenment, a right to a fulfilling life of what their experiences have led them to, a right to care and love despite where they are or who they are or were. DeNisco (2019) describes that spirituality is a component of holistic health and that it can be a large influence on the physical health of the person when they are well and when they are unwell (p. 672). In this, I see all my patients in this light and my practice is in service to those along their journey to fulfilling those rights. My hope is to be a leader in love and service to my patients and support them in their spiritual journey as they navigate the physical world across the spectrum of health and disease.

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