Purpose As a family nurse practitioner, you must possess excellent physical assessment skills. This alternative writing assignment mirrors the discussion content of the debriefing session and will allow the student to expand their knowledge of physical health assessment principles specific to the advanced practice role. Course Outcomes This assignment is guided by the following Course Outcomes (COs): Apply advanced practice nursing knowledge to collecting health history information and ...

This paper will be appraised on the quality of the information, inclusion of at least one evidence-based scholarly source, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, and organization based on the required components (see the paper headings and content details below). Scholarly sources: Only scholarly sources are acceptable for citation and reference in this course. These include peer reviewed publications, government reports, or sources written by a professional or scholar in the ...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 9 Lesson Scenario/Summary This week you will submit the second part of the course project. You completed Part I in Week 6 and will complete Part II this week. Hypothesis Testing is the use of statistics to determine the probability that a given claim is true. In Part II of this project, you will choose a data set, review claims and perform hypothesis testing and make a decision. You...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 9 (All Sections) Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions After reviewing data from a sample, an inference can be made about the population. For example, Find a data set on the internet. Some suggested search terms: Free Data Sets, Medical Data Sets, Education Data Sets. Introduce your Data Set and Cite the Source. What trends do you notice in your data...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 9 (All Sections) Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions After reviewing data from a sample, an inference can be made about the population. For example, Find a data set on the internet. Some suggested search terms: Free Data Sets, Medical Data Sets, Education Data Sets. Introduce your Data Set and Cite the Source. What trends do you notice in your data...

Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 8 Lesson Scenario/Summary You will complete a Course Project in this course that will span two weeks. The final project is due the Sunday of Week 7. The project is broken into two parts. You will complete Part I in Week 6 and Part II in Week 7. In Week 6, Confidence Intervals will be explored and in Week 7 Hypothesis testing will be explored. A confidence interval is a defined range of values such that ther...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 8 (All Sections) Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Find an example of a confidence interval in the news, scholarly source or medical journal. Summarize the article/study. Does the article/study include the sample size and the level of confidence used to create the confidence interval? Explain what the confidence interval means in context of the news article...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 6 (All Sections) Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Week 5 Graded Discussion: Log onto website where you can observe your service bill for the last 12 months (electric bill, cell phone bill, water bill, etc.). If you do NOT feel comfortable sharing this data, you can make up values. In excel, list the values of your bill for the last 12 months on one...

Week 4 Discussion: Discrete Probability Variables Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 4 (All Sections) Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Topic: Poisson Probability Distribution The Poisson Distribution is a discrete probability distribution where the number of occurrences in one interval (time or area) is independent of the number of occurrences in other intervals. Apri...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 3 (All Sections) Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Keep your eyes and ears open as you read or listen to the news this week. Find/discover an example of statistics & probability in the news to discuss the following statement that represents one of the objectives of statistics analysis: "Statistics and Probability helps us make decisions based on data an...