Assessment 1: Concept Map
Create a concept map of a chosen condition, disease, or disorder with glucose regulation or metabolic balance considerations – TOPIC: STROKE.
Write a brief narrative (2-3 pages) that explains why the evidence cited in the concept map and narrative are valuable and relevant, as well as how specific interprofessional strategies will help to improve the outcomes presented in the concept map.
Introduction
The biopsychosocial (BPS) approach to care is a way to view all aspects of a patient’s life. It encourages medical practitioners to take into account not only the physical and biological health of a patient, but all considerations like mood, personality, and socioeconomic characteristics. This course will also explore aspects of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment (the three Ps) as they relate to specific conditions, diseases, or disorders.
Create a concept map to analyze and organize the treatment of a specific patient with a specific condition, disease, or disorder with glucose regulation or metabolic balance considerations with glucose regulation or metabolic balance considerations. .
The purpose of a concept map is to visualize connections between ideas, connect new ideas to previous ideas, and to organize ideas logically. Concept maps can be an extremely useful tool to help organize and plan care decisions.
This is especially true in the biopsychosocial model of health, which takes into account factors beyond just the biochemical aspects of health. By utilizing a concept map, a nurse can simplify the connection between disease pathways, drug interactions, and symptoms, as well as between emotional, personality, cultural, and socioeconomic considerations that impact health.
Preparation
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
The assessment will be based on the case of a specific patient with a specific condition, disease, or disorder. Think about an experience you have had treating a patient with a condition, disease, or disorder
• What is the primary condition, disease, or disorder affecting the patient?
o What types of experience have you had working with patients with this condition, disease, or disorder?
o How does this condition, disease, or disorder typically present?
o What are the recommended treatment options?
o What, if any, characteristics of an individual patient should be kept in mind when determining a course of treatment.
• How have you used concept maps to help plan and organize care?
o What are the advantages of concept maps, from your point of view?
o How could concept maps be more useful?
• How can interprofessional communication and collaboration strategies assist in driving patient safety, efficiency, and quality outcomes with regard to specific clinical and biopsychosocial considerations?
o What interprofessional strategies do you recommend health care providers take in order to meet patient-centered safety and outcome goals?
Instructions
Develop a concept map and a short narrative that supports and further explains how the concept map is constructed. You may choose to use the Concept Map Template as a starting point for your concept map, but are not required to do so. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your evidence-based plan addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Concept Map scoring guide and the Guiding Questions: Concept Map (see below) document to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
Part 1: Concept Map
• Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.
Concept Map Template (see other attachment). You may choose to use this template for completing this component of the assignment.
Part 2: Additional Evidence (Narrative)
• Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your concept map.
• Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.
• Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.
• Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
• Length of submission: Your concept map should be on a single page, if at all possible. You can submit the concept map as a separate file, if you need to. Your additional evidence narrative should be 2-3 double-spaced, typed pages. Your narrative should be succinct yet substantive.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3-5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that supports your concept map, decisions made regarding care, and interprofessional strategies. Resources should be no more than five years old.
• APA formatting:
o For the concept map portion of this assessment: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Please include references both in-text and in the reference page that follows your narrative.
o For the narrative portion of this assessment: use the APA Style Paper Tutorial to help you in writing and formatting your analysis. You do not need to include an abstract for this assessment.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Design patient-centered, evidence-based, advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality patient outcomes.
o Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.
o Justify the value and relevance of the evidence used as the basis for a concept map.
• Competency 4: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional care systems in achieving desired health care improvement outcomes.
o Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.
• Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
o Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.
o Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Guiding Questions: Concept Map
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Concept Map assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, as an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.
Part 1: Concept Map
Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.
• Does your concept map fully illustrate the case study, the diagnostic and treatment connections for the condition in the case study, the specific metabolic or glucose-related aspects of the condition, and interprofessional strategies?
o Does your concept map contain all the relevant sections and connections that are present in the example concept map that is most closely related to yours?
• Does your concept map illustrate the desired high-quality outcomes of treatment in the context of your chosen case study?
• Did you use at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence as the basis for your concept map?
o Note: You will need to further discuss the value and relevance of this evidence in your narrative. However, be sure to cite where specific evidence or sources were used in your concept map.
o The evidence you cite should be no more than five years old.
Part 2: Additional Evidence (Narrative)
Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your concept map.
• Have you noted why the evidence you have presented in your concept map is valuable and relevant to the case study you are using as the basis for the concept map?
o Have you explained why each particular piece of evidence is appropriate to the case study you are using?
o Have you explained the linkage between the evidence and the specific metabolic or glucose-related aspects of the condition from your chosen case study?
o Have you explained why the evidence you have used is the best available? In other words, how is it linked to best practices, professional or regulatory guidelines, et cetera?
Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.
• What interprofessional strategies are most applicable to the context of the case study that you are using as the basis for the concept map?
o Why are these interprofessional strategies appropriate in the context of the case study and your concept map?
• What are the desired outcomes in your concept map (or for the case study that you are using)?
o How will the interprofessional strategies you deemed appropriate and applicable help to achieve the desired outcomes?
o What potential challenges might you need to address to best implement the interprofessional strategies and achieve the desired outcomes?
• Remember, the evidence you cite should be no more than five years old.
Address Generally Throughout Both Parts
Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.
• Is your concept map clearly presented?
• Are the links between the evidence and your diagnostic, treatment, or other care decisions clear and justified?
• Is your writing in both the concept map and the narrative clear and professional?
• Is your writing free from errors?
• Is your narrative submission 2–3 pages (not including the title page and reference list)?
• Are you communicating in an ethical way?
o Are you communicating honestly?
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
• Did you use 3–5 sources in your assessment?
o Are the sources you used no more than five years old?
• Are your sources cited in APA format throughout the concept map and narrative?
• Have you included an attached reference list?
• Did you use the APA Paper Template for the proper formatting and to include a running head and title page?
o No abstract is needed for this assessment.
