Facilitating Adherence and Patient Outcomes in Primary Care 2

Choose one or more topics from the list below.

For your assigned topic(s) you are to discuss the incidence and prevalence of the disorder, pathophysiology from an advanced practice perspective, physical assessment and examination, evidence-based treatment plan and patient education, as well as follow up and evaluation to assess the efficacy and outcomes of the evidence-based treatment plan for management of an episodic, acute, and chronic case involving the pathology(s) you are sharing. You will share your information on the topic(s) you are assigned in the Unit 3 Discussion as your discussion entry. THREE REFERENCES INCLUDED

Dermatologic System

Atopic Dermatitis

Psoriasis

Actinic Keratosis

Onychomycosis

Candidiasis

Skin Cancer Recognition

Herpes Zoster

Frostbite

Burns

Chemical

Thermal

Hematologic/Immune System

Lyme Disease

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (HIV)

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Anemias

Macrocytic

Microcytic

Normocytic

Sickle Cell

Polycythemia

Thalassemia

Leukemia

Lymphoma

Hodgkin’s

Non-Hodgkin’s

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.