NSG 6435 Week 1 Discussion: Pediatric Health-Care Services

NSG 6435 Week 1 Discussion: Pediatric Health-Care Services

NSG 6435 Week 1 Discussion: Pediatric Health-Care Services

Week 1 discussion

Discussion: Pediatric Health-Care Services

This discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered .

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by Saturday, July 29, 2017 .

To support your work, use your course textbook readings and the South University Online Library . As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format .

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible . Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial postings . Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion . Cite sources in your responses to other classmates . Complete your participation for this assignment by Wednesday, August 2, 2017 .

Using your course textbook readings and the South University Online Library, perform research on the following:

Sources of pediatric primary care in the United States

Current status of pediatric health-care services in the United States

Barriers to health care for children in the United States

After completing your research, answer the following questions:

What are the sources of pediatric primary care in the United States? Are these sources sufficient for providing health-care services to the pediatric population? Why or why not?

Are there certain pediatric populations that lack access to health-care services? Why?

What are the barriers to children in accessing health-care services in the United States? Why do these barriers exist?

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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.