• Describe the components of the healthcare delivery system, including public health services and public health nursing (CO 1, 2)
• Provide one example from your current or past nursing practice and how it relates to the care of clients in community-based settings (CO 1, 2)

Instructions: 

• You must cite and reference the course materials in your initial discussion post.

• Required Textbook Readings:
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapter 1. Carolyn Williams authors the Chapter. (MO 1.1, 1.2)
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapter 2. Joanna Dieckmann authors the Chapter. (MO 1.1, 1.2)
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapter 3. McKimm Mitchell & Stanhope author the Chapter. (MO 1.1, 1.2)

Create a draft for a PowerPoint presentation on Ibuprofen

• Drug pharmacology, pharmacokinetics
• Brand name
• Generic name
• Dosing
• Indications for use
• Side effects
• Contraindications
• Pregnancy class
• You must also perform a cost analysis of the drug.
• Provide a patient case study on a patient in which you would utilize the drug you have selected and include at least two peer-reviewed evidence-based studies related to the drug.
• Describe the appropriate patient education. 
• What is your role as a Nurse Practitioner for prescribing this medication to this patient on your case study presentation?
• Describe the monitoring and follow-up.

Submission Instructions:
Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles within your work. 

I need help locating additional research articles.

Find a credible scholarly or government resource published within the past 5 years that provides you with at least two facts (ex. costs, morbidity, mortality, safety, or other related statistics) for why your clinical problem is important (provide statistics).

Find a clinical practice guideline that relates to your question. It must have information that relates to the role of the nurse. Use the most recent clinical practice guideline version, preferably published within the past five years.

Find a research based article published within the last five years from a discipline other than nursing (medicine, social work, physical therapy, etc.) The article must support at least three statements that are relevant to your question and to nursing practice. 

Based on your assigned readings and lecture materials this week, engage with your peers and me by initiating a thread or responding to another peer’s thread or one of my threads. You should post a minimum of three times.

• Is there something you are learning this week that you are excited about?
• Can you apply any of the concepts this week to the career you are interested in pursuing?
• Do you have any questions about the concepts you are learning this week?
• You are not required to initiate a thread, however, everyone must post at least once by 11:59 PM ET Thursday. There is no minimum or maximum word count. You will be graded on the relevance of your post to the topic and the application of the concepts.
• When responding to your peers, you should extend, refute/correct, or add additional nuance to their posts. 
• All replies must be constructive and follow proper netiquette. Click here to go to the Academic Continuity Guide for Students and read the Course Communication Guidelines (Netiquette)Links to an external site..