How will you approach your studies? What types of resources are available to you, and how will you access and utilize them? Taking the opportunity to prepare these strategies, tools, and materials will help ensure you can “break ground” without incident and successfully move to the phase where you begin building your vision. To Prepare: Consider your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program. Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this week. The Assignment: Clearly identify and accurately describe in detail at least three academic resources or strategies that can be applied to the MSN program. Clearly identify and accurately describe in detail at least three professional resources that can be applied to success in the nursing practice in general or in a specialty. Clearly and thoroughly explain in detail how you intend to use these resources, and how they might benefit you academically and professionally.

Food and drug regulation

-Abortion clinic access

-Planned Parenthood funding

-Correctional health

-LGBTQ health

-Tobacco regulation

-Veterans health

-Medicaid

-Medicare

-Prescription drugs

-Managed health care

-Clean Air act

-Clean Water act

-NIH reauthorization

-Head Start

-Healthcare reform

• Develop an evidence-based management plan.
• Include any pertinent diagnostics. (Screening Chest Xray/EKG, LABS, referrals to cardiologist to eval cardiovascular disease, smoking cessation education, nutritional consult) 
• Describe the patient education plan. (lifestyle changes, weight management, AHA/DASH diet)
• Include cultural and lifespan considerations. ( Common in African American )
• Provide information on health promotion or health care maintenance needs.
• Describe the follow-up and referral for this patient