Discussion: Nurse practitioner for the NP

Prepare a 2-3 page paper (not including the title page and referenced pages) on the topic of collaboration in the nurse practitioner for the NP working in primary care.

The paper should present how the student NP working in primary care forms a collaborative relationship with the client, family and other health care providers.

Describe two challenges you have faced in the student nurse practitioner role in your practicum with regard to forming a collaborative relationship with the client, family and other health care providers.

Discuss how you have overcome the two challenges you identified in your practicum in the student nurse practitioner role with regard to forming a collaborative relationship with the client, family and other health care providers.

Identify your specific behavioral strategies as a student nurse practitioner for overcoming challenges you have faced in your practicum with regard to forming a collaborative relationship with the client, family and other health care providers.

The paper should include examples to support and explicate each of the key points.

The paper should include a minimum of five evidence-based peer reviewed scholarly references no more than 5 years old (2010).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.