Assignment 1: Evaluation and Management (E/M) Case Analysis Review the patient case scenario and assign: DSM-5-TR diagnoses ICD-10 codes Reimbursement (billing) code In a 2–3 page narrative, address: Justification for the billing code used Required documentation to support codes Missing documentation (identify at least 12 components) Legal/ethical issues with overbilling, upcoding, and fraud 2 strategies […]

Assessment 02 – Protected Health Information For this assessment, you will prepare a two-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care. Before you complete the detailed instructions in the courseroom, first select one of the settings below that will become the focus of your interprofessional staff update. After you […]

For this assessment, you must use the supplied template to conduct a root-cause analysis. The completed assessment will be the template, focusing on the specific safety concern identified in your previous assessment. Collapse All Introduction As patient safety concerns continue to be addressed in healthcare settings, nurses can play an active role in implementing safety […]

Assessment 01 – Nursing Informatics in Health Care For this assessment, you will write a 4–5 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes. Before you complete the detailed instructions in the courseroom, first review the focus of the new nurse […]

Identifying barriers and challenges that impact vulnerable and marginalized groups is an important first step, but advocates cannot stop there. What can be done to address the inequities, the challenges, and the barriers? How might an advocate use policy to enact change? The Allegory of the Orchard required you to consider the barriers and challenges […]

Required Readings  Inquiry and Leadership: A Resource for the DNP Project  Chapter 3: Evidence-Based Practice: Background and Models  Chapter 5: The Nature of Evidence  Chinn, P. L., & Kramer, M. K. (2011). Integrated theory and knowledge development in nursing (8th ed.). Elsevier Mosby.  Chapter 1: Nursing’s Fundamental Patterns of Knowing […]

The Quadruple Aim provides broad categories of goals to pursue to maintain and improve healthcare. Within each goal are many issues that, if addressed successfully, may have a positive impact on outcomes. For example, healthcare leaders are being tasked to shift from an emphasis on disease management often provided in an acute care setting to […]

For this assessment, you will develop a 3–5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue in a healthcare setting. You will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue. Collapse All Introduction The role of […]

Explain the four specialty roles of the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and the educational preparation necessary to have this certification. Describe the scope of practice of each of the four Advanced Practice Registered Nurse specialty roles. For this paper, please provide a minimum of two references published in the last five years. Also please […]

Uncle Joe is a 78-year-old male living in a nursing home for the past 10 years after his retirement. He has Alzheimer’s disease and has not slept enough at night. He has no recollection of his family, and all contacts that he had on the books about relatives were outdated. He was last visited 4 […]