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Advanced practice registered nurses are registered nurses with a level of nursing practice that employs skills, experience and knowledge in nursing care. They have attained a Masters or post Master’s degree and have a specific role and serve a specific patient population ("APRNS in the U.S", 2016). With the education and certification, APRNs can assess, diagnose, prescribe medications and order laboratory and diagnostic tests. APRNs can be divided into 4 different areas of specialty: Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Certified registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), and Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM). A Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner is a ...

Ray WA, Chung CP, Murray KT, Hall K, Stein C. Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain. JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain Wayne A. Ray, PhD1; Cecilia P. Chung, MD, MPH2; Katherine T. Murray, MD2,3; Kathi Hall, BS1; C. Michael Stein, MB, ChB2,3 [+] Author Affiliations JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

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(McLesky, Chapters 11) Identify and explain the tiers of Response to Intervention (RtI). When is this process implemented and what is its significance for educators and students? RTI is designed to give quality education o all students. The program offers intensive instruction to students, focusing on their needs and giving struggling students a chance to excellent. It gives student the best chance possible in attaining success in the education while at the same time offers educators a tool to aid their achievement of educational goals. The tiers are as follows:

Tier 1 - core instructional interventions

Tier 2- Targeted Group Interventions Tier 3- In tier ...

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Research refers to the systematic investigation of facts or it is simply a search for knowledge. With the help of research, researchers can establish or confirm different facts, reassure the results of previous works or studies, give solutions to problems, or develop new theories for further research. Research can be of two types: Basic research and Applied Research. Basic research is also known as pure or fundamental research. It is mostly driven by the interest or curiosity of a question. For example, what were the factors behind the start of the universe? Or what is the ...

Movie Review

CSU Chico Movie Review Dad’s in Heaven with Nixon was a touching documentary about the history of the director’s family. It center’s around the director, Tom Murray, and his brother, Chris. More poignantly, it centers on the two brothers and their family as they travel life, maneuvering the ups and downs that come with Chris’ autism diagnosis (Murray, 2010). Today, as an adult living with autism, Chris is not what many would consider the “typical” story. He paints glorious cityscapes, which were first widely promoted by the Murray’s family friend and art connoisseur, Gloria Vanderbilt ( ...

Introduction

The connection between Colonial America, Atlantic trade and slavery helped in the development and growth of America’s colonies. Without slavery, it would have unmanageable for European colonists to develop the New World (Morgan 6). It is also inconceivable that colonists and settlers could have managed to settle and develop America without slave labour. Slave labour is the essential reason American was able to produce major consumer goods that became the basis of global trade of tobacco, cotton, rice, etc. (Dodson). Slavery and the Making of America is a documentary made by PBS that discusses the role played by ...

Curriculum Strategy

Poor children have been faced with poverty as a risk factor in their success academically. Some children who come from poor backgrounds are affected in their school readiness. The poverty should not be an obstacle to the normal learning of a child from an early age. Children come from diverse backgrounds, with diverse cultures, this makes them unique and hence when performing an assessment to them one should be acknowledged. The adequate assessment and analysis of the activity of the child, the right chosen method for the child’s learning will help to avoid the problems in the future ...

Cochlear implants are very instrumental in ear care. These developments are enabled by advances in technology; hence, allowing medics to offer the world of sound, music, and speech to people who would otherwise spend their entire or large part of their lives in soundless cocoons. As research indicates, the United States has had more than 30,000 cochlear implants on people across all age groups since 1999 (Ear Surgery Information Center, 2016). However, this eminent success in cochlear implant surgery has not really watered down the discourse surrounding the effects and implications of cochlear implants. Particularly, there has been ...