Week 3: Conflict is common in healthcare settings. Common team sources of conflict include hierarchical relationships, authority differentials, poor communication, negative or disruptive behaviors, and multigenerational interprofessional teams. Include the following sections Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail, cite relevant scholarly source:

1. Describe a conflict you have encountered in your nursing practice. Identify the stakeholders involved and their roles.

2. Analyze how the conflict was resolved. Which conflict resolution style was used?

3. Evaluate the efficacy of the resolution. Was the conflict resolution style used to address the conflict the most appropriate option? Why or why not?

4. Identify and describe your preferred mode of conflict resolution.

Clinical Reflective discussion regarding Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Instructions:

Choose Significant Patient Encounters: Reflect on significant patient encounters during your AGACNP clinical rotation. Focus on cases that left a lasting impression, presented challenges, or offered profound learning experiences.

Reflective Writing: Write a reflective essay detailing your experiences. Include:

Patient cases or situations encountered.

Personal emotions, thoughts, and reactions during those moments.

Lessons learned, including medical insights, patient care, and the development of your skills and knowledge.

Challenges faced and how they were addressed.

Analysis and Future Applications: Analyze the impact of these experiences on your professional development. Discuss how these encounters have influenced your clinical decision-making, patient care approaches, and future goals as an AGACNP.

Add references to your posts, and be aware that TURNITIN IS ON.
The purpose of the discussion is to elevate the level of knowledge regarding disease symptom management.
Discussion Questions: DEVELOP YOUR POINTS BY ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS OR REPLAYING AGREE/DISAGREE TO PEERS POINTS. BE CONSICE.

a. add
amantadine.

b. increase
the dose of levodopa.

c. discontinue the carbidopa.

d. add
entacapone.

2. A patient who takes levodopa and carbidopa for Parkinson’s
disease reports experiencing freezing episodes between doses. The primary care
NP should consider using:

a. selegiline.

b. apomorphine.

c. modified-release
levodopa.

d. amantadine.

3. A 65-year-old patient is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
The patient has emphysema and narrow-angle glaucoma. The primary care NP should
consider beginning therapy with:

a. ropinirole
hydrochloride.

b. selegiline.

c. carbidopa/levodopa.

d. benztropine.

Based on the reading assignment ( McEwen & Wills, Theoretical Basis for Nursing, Unit II: Nursing Theories, chapters 10 and 11), select a middle-range theory.

After studying and analyzing the approved theory, write about this theory, including an overview of the theory and specific examples of how it could be applied in your own clinical setting.

The following should be included:

An introduction, including an overview of both selected nursing theories

• Background of the theories

Philosophical underpinnings of the theories

Major assumptions, concepts, and relationships

Clinical applications/usefulness/value to extending nursing science testability

1. Comparison of the use of both theories in nursing practice
2. Specific examples of how both theories could be applied in your specific clinical setting
3. Parsimony
4. Conclusion/summary