01 Apr Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper focusing on your selected disease or disorder, its impact on population health, and what you can do to mitigate some of its effects
Pathophysiology is the foundation of health and disease. Collaboration with healthcare members from other professions and organizations is essential for individual and population health. In your role as an advanced practice nurse, you will be required to employ critical thinking to underlying pathophysiology of disease processes to mitigate morbidity.
In this week’s assessment, you will select a disease or disorder that impacts one of the body systems covered this week (musculoskeletal, neurologic, or psychiatric). The disease or disorder will be the subject matter of your paper. You will use critical thinking skills to evaluate the impact that the disease or disorder has on population health.
Assessment Deliverable
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper focusing on your selected disease or disorder, its impact on population health, and what you can do to mitigate some of its effects. In your paper:
· Explain how the pathophysiology of this disease process impacts population health.
· Discuss your role as an advanced practice nurse in education, administration, or informatics in mitigating the morbidity of this disease process.
· Identify two healthcare professions or organizations with whom you will collaborate to decrease community morbidity for this disease process.
· Formulate a plan for how collaboration with each profession or organization will decrease morbidity.
Rubric
· Pathophysiology impacts population health
30% of total grade
· Role in mitigating morbidity
25% of total grade
· Collaborators
10% of total grade
· Collaboration plan
25% of total grade
· Analyze alternative
5% of total grade
· APA, Grammar, and Writing Mechanics
3% of total grade
· Supporting evidence