Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to enhance the student's clinical reasoning, confidence and learning of multiple pharmacological agents through facilitated discussion.
Description
You will create a PowerPoint Grand Rounds presentation on the topic assigned to you by the faculty member. In Week 7, you will lead a discussion based on your presentation as well as interact with peers in discussions related to their Grand Rounds presentations.
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:
1. Describe the most commonly prescribed drugs use in primary care for the chose condition.
2. Utilize clinical guidelines, research articles or other materials to support your findings.
3. Identify any practice barriers, issues, or problems (including cultural diversity andhealthcare literacy).
4. Discuss best practices for optimal outcomes.
REQUIREMENTS:
Create a narrated PowerPoint presentation related to a common condition in primary care. Your professor will assign you the condition that you are to present. Please use the Kaltura feature available in your classroom to record and submit your presentation. Additional instructions on Kaltura can be found under Course Resources.
In a Kaltura narrated PowerPoint presentation of 15 slides or less, students present a narrated case using a fictional patient who presents to clinic with assigned medical condition. Students will describe the most commonly prescribed drugs for your assigned condition. Provide evidence by sharing clinical guidelines, research articles, or other scholarly materials to support your findings. You will identify barriers to practice or additional issues related to the condition and the use of pharmacologic treatment, including potential issues related to cultural diversity and healthcare literacy. The length of your presentation should be between 8-12 minutes total.
Read the following article and incorporate evidence from it as a part of your presentation: Dreischulte, T., & Guthrie, B. (2012). High-risk prescribing and monitoring in primary care: how common is it, and how can it be improved? Therapeutic advances in drug safety, 3(4), 175-184.
Finally, you will describe the expected outcomes for medication management, including expectations for follow up care. Citations should be provided at the bottom of slides, and a full reference list should be included in APA format on the final slide. You will create five multiple choice or true-false questions created from your presentation content.
Include the questions in the presentation, but DO NOT give the answers.Instead, provide the answers to the questions you have createdin a comment to the Assignment; this allows your instructor to see the correct answers.
You will post your Kaltura presentation that you have created to the discussion area, without the answers to the multiple choice questions.
Participating in the Discussion: You will be required to respond to at least three other students, who have no responses to their posting.** In your post, you will discuss a drug that could be prescribed for the condition DIFFERENT than those presented. Come up with a different treatment plan from the Walmart or Target $4 RX list, and offer reasons for the change or if the drug is not on the list, why? Use references to support your responses. You should also answer the presenter's five questions.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.