Discussion 4

Please choose from the questions below and specify in your discussion the question you choose to answer. Address the person to whom you are responding.

Set A

1. Telemedicine became the evolving process of delivering primary care and consultation during the pandemic, identify the barriers that telehealth and telehealth consultation need to overcome to become mainstream of clinical practice (MO 3).

OR

Set B

2. Explain why reliable data measuring the quality and cost-effectiveness of care delivered by APNs is important for expanding APN practice autonomy and reimbursement? (MO 6,7,)

OR

Set C

3. What foundational competencies do APNs need to possess to design an evaluation strategy, validate data, and interpret findings? (MO 5,6,7,9)

OR

Set D

4. Given a wide range of policy issues that could be affected by APNs, identify and briefly describe a policy area/ legislation you think would be addressed by strong APN leadership and why? What skills or competencies are needed in this role? (MO 4,)

OR

Set E

5. As a novice APN, provide an example of a Quality Improvement initiative that you envision yourself spearheading or in which you would participate.

Initial post due on Thursday, comments to a minimum of 2 peers initial posting, and other peers/facultys questions due on or before Sunday at 11:59 PM. We encourage interactive class participation.

All responses and succeeding replies should be substantiated by one current peer-reviewed article other than your book and should be within 5 years or less.