APA format

1) Minimum 7 pages  (No word count per page)- Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum of three paragraphs per page

You must strictly comply with the number of paragraphs requested per page.  

The number of words in each paragraph should be similar

         Part 1: minimum 2 pages

         Part 2: minimum 2 pages

         Part 3: minimum 2 pages

         Part 4: minimum 1 page

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms

        The number of words in each paragraph should be similar

        Must be written in the 3 person

         All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraph

         The writing must be coherent, using connectors or conjunctive to extend, add information, or contrast information. 

         Bulleted responses are not accepted

         Don't write in the first person 

         Do not use subtitles or titles      

         Don't copy and paste the questions.

         Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

Submit 1 document per part

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4) Minimum 3 references (APA format) per part not older than 5 years  (Journals, books) (No websites)

All references must be consistent with the topic-purpose-focus of the parts. Different references are not allowed 

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question. Start your answer on the same line, not the next

 Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

Q3. Research is…………………………………………………. (a) The relationship between……… (b) EBI has to

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.doc

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The number of words in each paragraph should be similar

Part 1: Diversity and Health

1. Explain the relationship between the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence and healthcare diversity (Three paragraphs)

 2. Explain the relevance of  the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence  for advanced practice nurse (Three paragraphs)

Part 2: Psychopathology

Purpose: 

Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.

Case:

A 44-year-old white Australian man who was not religious was referred to outpatient psychiatric treatment. He had been playing with an Ouija board for two months when he started to believe that a spirit had entered his body through his rectum and was controlling him. He thought the spirit made him move and speak in a certain way.

He sought help from a local church, where he was told it was a psychiatric problem and that he was not really possessed. Two exorcisms at a local church failed to achieve any improvement. 

1. Discuss the relationship between mental illness and religion (Two paragraphs)

2. Is this (case) classified as psychopathology according to DSM5 criteria?  (One paragraph)

a. Explain

3. According to the case, indicate a possible diagnosis based on DSM5 criteria (Three paragraphs)

a. Explain the DSM5 criteria selected for the diagnosis

Part 3: Psychopharmacology

1. Serotonin (Two paragraphs: One paragraph for a and b; One paragraph for c and d)

a. Pharmacologic action

b.Drug class, it is most closely linked to (explain)

c. Expected outcomes

d.  potential side effects. 

2. Based on the above information (One paragraph)

a. Which condition would this neurotransmitter be considered for the treatment plan?

3. Norepinephrine (Two paragraphs: One paragraph for a and b; One paragraph for c and d)

a. Pharmacologic action

b.Drug class, it is most closely linked to (explain)

c. Expected outcomes

d.  potential side effects. 

4. Based on the above information (One paragraph)

a. Which condition would this neurotransmitter be considered for the treatment plan?

Part 4: Crisis Intervention

Case:

Suppose you are faced with a terminally ill client with AIDS who is in a great deal of pain. The client indicates to you in a calm, reasonable way that he/she is going to drive out to an isolated spot in a state park, drink a thermos of margaritas, take out her 9 mm automatic, make an audio tape telling her family how much she loves them and how she doesn't want to be a burden on them, and then kill herself. 

Suppose that you had run a five minute crisis intervention session.. With the following criteria in mind

According to the role of the counselor focused on Crisis Intervention

1. What did you do? (One paragraph)

a. How do you feel you did?

2. Explain if your moral view of AIDS and suicide affects session  (One paragraph)

a. Why

3. According to Tarasoff, explain the case. (One paragraph)