NR 508 Week 3 -RX Writing Assignment

NR 508 Week 3 -RX Writing Assignment

NR 508 Week 3 -RX Writing Assignment

Prescription Writing Assignment

Purpose

Advanced Practice Nurses fought long and hard for prescriptive privilege so it is essential that you know how to write them accurately in order to minimize medication errors and adverse events.

Prerequisites

Prior to starting this assignment, student should read and familiarize themselves with the following resources:

RX Writing PowerPoint Presentation
Read Approved Abbreviations in your textbook on page 115 Table 10-2 & Table 10-3
Date: At the end of Week 3

Requirements:
Each week, faculty will present to you a case scenario and you will accurately write a prescription(s).
Each assignment is worth 50 points, regardless of the number of prescriptions that you are asked to write.
Prescriptions must be written or typed on the template provided and submitted.
Preparing the Prescription
Each prescription must be written on the corresponding PRESCRIPTION WRITING TEMPLATE.  Each prescription should contain only one (1) medication.  Appropriate abbreviation and units of measurement should be used.  Additionally, the following parameters should be set in the template before you begin:

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Criteria for Content

• Introduction includes general comments on ethics and leadership (such defining ethics in general, how ethics can impact leadership), identify the two ethical principles selected for use within this assignment, and the sections of the paper. A heading is not used.
• Section one contains a definition and explanation of each of the selected ethical principles. Scholarly references (no dictionaries are allowed to be used) are required. Following the definition and explanation of each of the required ethical principles, each principle should be applied to leadership, in general, within any healthcare setting.
• Section two identifies how the selected ethical principles either prevents or solves two different leadership concerns within healthcare. For example, nonmalificence relates to the leadership concern of high rate of medication errors. Scholarly support is required.
• Section three is a description of how the learner will incorporate each of the two selected ethical principles into their own leadership activities. This needs to be specific and can consider future leadership opportunities
• Summary is the conclusion of this assignment. It provides a review of key elements from your work. The summary also identifies the ideas and understandings you have gained regarding ethical principles and leadership from writing this paper.

Criteria for Format and Special Instructions

1. This assignment must be submitted to TurnItIn™, as required by the TurnItIn™ policy. A Similarity Index of “blue” or “green” must be obtained. A score in the blue or green range indicates a similarity of less than 24% which is the benchmark for CCN graduate nursing students. Any other level of similarity index level requires the student to revise the assignment before the due date and time. To allow sufficient time for revision, early submission of the assignment to TurnItIn™ is highly encouraged. The final submission will be graded by faculty. If a Turnitin™ report indicates that plagiarism has occurred, the Academic Integrity policy will be followed.
2. The textbook required for this course may not be used as a reference for this assignment.
3. The use of a dictionary to define or explain ethical principles or leadership is not allowed for this assignment.
4. Lesson information from this course may not be used as a scholarly reference.
5. A minimum of 6 (six) scholarly references must be used.
6. When presenting information from a published resource, past tense verbs are required.
7. Title page, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section or topic of the paper.
8. The paper (excluding the title page and references page) should be a minimum of 3 pages and not to exceed 5 pages. Points will be lost for not meeting these length requirements (too short or too long)
9. Ideas and information that come from readings must be cited and referenced correctly.
10. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal written work as found in the 6th edition of the APA manual.