Opic: CDC Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative Discussion Paper

Construct a professional paper that outlines the advanced practice role – a nurse practitioner – to advance the CDC’s antibiotic resistance initiative.

Assignment Requirements

1. Introduction that identifies your advanced practice role and your view of how that role will be able to impact the antibiotic resistance dilemma.  Support your discussion with at least two references from the literature.
2. Review the CDC’s goals and identify one of the CDC’s key strategies that you will be able to promote/support in your advanced practice role. Support your discussion with at least two references from the literature.
3. Discuss three activities/actions that you will develop to support the promotion of the key strategy that you identified in item 2 above.  Each action/activity needs to be well designed and supported with at least one reference from the literature. For example, if you are a:
   • nurse practitioner student – what prescribing practices, patient education practices, monitoring programs, etc., will you engage with, and provide justification for your strategies, etc.

Instructions 

• Prepare and submit a minimum of a 6 page paper pages [excluding title and reference pages].
• Format consistent with APA style without an abstract page.
• Answer all the questions above.
• Support your position with examples.
• Please review the rubric to ensure that your assignment meets criteria.
• Submit the following documents to the Submit Assignments/Assessments area:
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    Do an online nationwide search for information about current job prospects in nursing.Compare opportunities in various regions of the country. Why do you think these opportunities are the same or different?