The Importance of De-Prescribing: Safe Transitioning in Patient Medication Management

What is the importance of de-prescribing? How might you assist a patient to taper from a medication safely or transition to a new medication?

In this Assignment, you will use the following patient examples to write a 5- to 6-page paper on considerations you have for how you might de-prescribe. Support your answers with five (5) evidence-based, peer-reviewed scholarly literature resources outside of Required Learning Resources in this course.

 

 

The Role of Slavery in the Outbreak of the Civil War

 

You may refer to the textbook, primary source documents in the textbook, and lecture notes when composing your answer. Parenthetical citations (e.g.: (American Horizons, p.32)) will be fine. If you reference works from outside the class, please provide full citations.

Be sure to frame your response as an argument. You should have a thesis and should support your interpretation with evidence. Answer one of the following questions in no more than 5 pages. Your essay should be double-spaced with 12 pt font and 1 margins. Preferably you should save the file you upload to Moodle as a Microsoft Word document (.doc). If you do not have Word, please save the file in rich text format (.rtf). ** A paper that does not cite primary sources from Moodle cannot receive a grade higher than a “C.”

Slavery caused the Civil War. Defend or reject that statement. If you agree, explain what role slavery played in the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War. How did northerners and southerners view the institution and how did those views drive them to blows in 1861?
If you disagree, explain what did cause the Civil War. What forces or events in American life (other than slavery) drove people to divide and make war? war?

 

Exploring the Concept of the Afterlife: Immortality, Identity, and Belief

Let us examine the concept of the afterlife and how it plays into our lives.
After reading the “Death after Death” chapter, do you think being immortal is a good thing or a bad thing? Would our identity change drastically, if we knew we had no chance of death? Explain.
Why do you think people believe in spirits revisiting such as those in the video? Is there a need to believe? Are spirits another version of immortality? Why or why not?
In the depictions of death, or the ruler of the underworld, what similarities do you see between the stories/myths this week? Do you see any similarities from any other myths from last week?
Do you see these myths/stories as a representation of our questions about the afterlife? Are your own beliefs/questions depicted?