CDC Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

Construct a professional paper that outlines the advanced practice role – as a nurse practitioner – to advance the CDC’s antibiotic resistance initiative. The paper needs to be a minimum of six (6) pages [excluding title and reference pages] consistent with APA style without an abstract page.  The paper is worth 40 points.

Please include the following:

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.

( Identify your role and how the role can impact antibiotic resistance and support with a minimum of two references.)

• 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.

(Identify one of the CDC strategies that you can promote or support and justify with a minimum of two references).

• 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.

(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. This means that each activity needs to have a discussion that gives detail) 

• The paper is to be formatted according to APA style.

(MINIMUM of SEVEN references so far. References must be scholarly and current-2017 and on or they will not count.)

Your Turnitin Similarity Index should be around 25% or less. Anything above 35% will not be accepted and you will receive a zero for the paper. You can submit to the dropbox to view your originality score then revise and resubmit if needed. I see the last submission when I open up the speedgrader application and that is the one I grade, so don’t worry about multiple submissions. 

Make sure you use the CDC Antibiotic Stewardship information when constructing your paper. This is not random…it is based on this initiative https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/core-elements/outpatient.html (Links to an external site.)

Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship | Antibiotic Use | CDC (Links to an external site.)

Background. Improving antibiotic prescribing in all health care settings is critical to combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Approximately 60% of U.S. antibiotic expenditures for humans are related to care received in outpatient settings. 8 In other developed countries, approximately 80%–90% of antibiotic use occurs among outpatients. 9,10 During 2013 in the United States …

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