Reflecting on your population of interest once you graduate as a DNP in primary care answer the following questions:
1) Over past several years there have been discussions about eliminating or revising the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PRACA), discuss how any changes may impact your population of interest and recommend at least two policy related changes (based on evidence) you would advocate for to improve the health of your patients once you are a DNP in primary care?
2) Decades ago Loretta Ford pioneered the APN role and now we have over 300,000 NPs are licensed in the US. (she lives here in Florida and is still active in NP initiatives working with the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network). Because of the efforts of state and national NP organizations such as FNPN and AANP, we now have autonomous practice Florida, discuss advocacy roles of DNPs in primary care nurse practitioners (FNP or AGNP) or psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners? Describe how you would integrate primary care and palliative/EOL care or mental health into your practice?
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3) Identify the major stakeholders who are are important to your policy brief and how would you as a DNP make an effort to reach out to them and include their perspective?
