What other policies and procedures are in place to maintain the privacy, security, and confidentiality of patient information?

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Mucor is a rare mold from the fungi species which is found growing in moist areas of the environment such rotting fruits, vegetables or plants. Pulmonary Mucormycosis commonly affects those individuals who are immunocompromised due to cancer or had organ or stem-cell transplant (CDC,2015). The infection-mucormycosis is commonly acquired when one inhales the spores affecting the lungs and sinus tracks or enters the skin through a cut, scrape or trauma (CDC, 2015). Other ways mucormycosis can be acquired is during natural disasters such as floods or hurricanes where matter containing spores is transported into areas of contact with individuals who get affected or construction sites where the spores are in dust or contaminated filters or equipment in healthcare facilities can lead to nosocomial mucormycosis.
Pathophysiologic Progression: Mucormycosis progresses when the spores enter the systemic circulation and causes ischemia, infarction or tissue necrosis in the affected areas (Mohinda, et.al., 2014). When the fungus travels from the trachea to the lungs it causes pneumonia-like symptoms such as cough, fever, chills and dyspnea.
Nursing interventions: Because the infection can rapidly progress and spread into the vital organs of the body such as the heart and brain, it is vital that the nurse include critical interventions which would include: a) close monitoring of hemodynamics and communicating any subtle changes to the physician. B) maintain an accurate respiratory status assessment, continuous pulse oximetry and use of supplemental oxygen as well as incentive spirometry to prevent atelectasis. c) Administering the antifungal medications as ordered such as amphotericin B or Posaconazole.
Lab test results: An elevated WBC of 15.2 indicates infectious process in this because of the associated symptoms of productive cough otherwise in some cases could be due to inflammatory process in the body. The ABG is abnormal and interpreted as Respiratory Alkalosis; PaO2 is 59 which indicates hypoxia as the necrotic tissue cannot perfuse adequately.An elevated HCO3 of 29 and PH of 7.50 which indicates alkalosis and the low Pco2 of 25 indicates hyperventillation in attempt to increase oxygen.The blood glucose level is elevated in this case 138 which indicates diabetes.
Medications 1) The drug of choice because of it efficacy and safety is Amphotericin B: dose- 5mg/kg/day. 2 Amphotericin B deoxycholate (1.5mg/kg/day) of is also used and is cost effective but higher risk of causing nephrotoxicity. 3. Posaconazole is also a drug commonly used: dose- 800mg/day (dose divided in two) and recommended to be administered with high fat food or acidic beverage to improve absorption in the body (Crum-Cianflone, N., 2015).
Treatments:1) Surgical intervention such as pneumonectomy (removal of necrotic part of the lung) and debridement of infected tissue would be a way of eliminating the fungus and stop any spread. 2)Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be used to treat mucormycosis by exposing the infected areas with high concentrations of oxygen to stop the growth of the mucor fungus and promote healing. 3)Transfusions of WBC and interferon- gamma treatments have been used although there is not enough research to support the effectiveness (Crum-Cianflone, N., 2015).
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Explain how key nursing leadership, management, and communication concepts facilitate collaboration with interprofessional teams.

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Professional Development Needs Assessment
Instructions Deliverable: Develop a Professional Development Needs Assessment. Scenario: You have been promoted to Nurse Manager. As you transition into your new role, Human Resources (HR) requires you to participate in a leadership and management training workshop. The first day of the workshop involves a self-assessment of your leadership and communication style and an examination of key characteristics of an effective nursing leader, culminating in an assessment of your professional development needs.
HR requires you to submit a Professional Development Needs Assessment so future training sessions are designed to meet those self-identified needs. Use the following subheadings to organize your Professional Development Needs Assessment:
Leader and Manager:
Differentiate between leadership and management. What job tasks require a manager? What situations require a leader?
Key Concepts:
Explain key nursing leadership, management, and communication concepts that facilitate collaboration and support interprofessional teams.
Explain how key nursing leadership, management, and communication concepts facilitate collaboration with interprofessional teams.
Leadership Self-Assessment:
Describe your personal leadership and communication style. Explain the strengths of your style that make an effective leader.
Skill Development:
Identify skills or areas for future professional development. What training do you need to be a successful leader in your new position?
Additional Requirements Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message. APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting. Length: The plan should be 3–4 pages in content length, double-spaced. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point. Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources.

 

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Utilize effective communication when performing a health assessment.

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Musculoskeletal system and pain.
Assessment of the Musculoskeletal System and Pain 1 This week’s graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcomes (COs). •
CO1 Utilize prior knowledge of theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines to explain expected client behaviors, while differentiating between normal findings, variations, and abnormalities. (PO 1) •
CO2 Recognize the influence that developmental stages have on physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual functioning. (PO 1)
• CO3 Utilize effective communication when performing a health assessment.
(PO 3) Fred is an 83-year-old male who is being admitted to the medical-surgical unit status post fall. He is alert and oriented and reports that while visiting a local casino with his wife Margaret earlier this evening, he tripped over a curb and fell landing on his right side. After receiving morphine in the emergency room prior to transfer to your unit, Fred is rating his pain at 6/10. He has multiple bruises from his jawbone to his knee as well as a slight rotation of his right leg. Past medical history includes: myocardial infarction (MI) x 2, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) with bilateral iliac stents, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), sleep apnea, and degenerative joint disease. Medications include: aspirin, Plavix, Lopressor, Lisinopril, and Metformin. After reviewing the above scenario please answer the following questions.
1. Based on the information provided, how will you prioritize your care, what assessments will you include and in what order? Please provide rationale for your response.
2. Considering this patient’s age, injury, past medical history, and list of current medications, what, if any, concerns do you have related to his potential need for surgery?
3. Should surgery to repair his right femur be required; what type of clearance and pre-op orders would you anticipate receiving related to his diet, meds, lab work, and so on?
Reading Jarvis, C. (2016). Physical examination & health assessment (7th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
• Chapter 22: Musculoskeletal System o 577–617 (Structure, Function, Subjective and Objective data, Documentation, and Critical Thinking)
• Chapter 10: Pain Assessment: The Fifth Vital Sign Please use Jarvis Book Please, make sure the Jarvis book is part of the paper. Also please be detail and you need to use an outside scholary reference along with the reading. Please Use APA format correctely.

 

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Identify interdisciplinary health professionals important to include in the health promotion. What is their role? Why is their involvement significant?

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The topic is STD and in young 15-24yrs;Describe the approved topic and associated population your group has selected. Discuss how this topic adversely affects the population. How does health disparity affect this population? Explain evidence-based approac
An important role of nursing is to provide health promotion and disease prevention. Review the 2020 Topics and Objectives on the Healthy People website. Choose a topic of interest that you would like to address, in conjunction with a population at-risk for the associated topic. Submit the topic and associated group to your instructor for approval.
Create a 15-20-slide PowerPoint presentation for your topic and focus group. Include speaker notes and citations for each slide, and create a slide at the end for References.
Address the following:
Describe the approved topic and associated population your group has selected. Discuss how this topic adversely affects the population. How does health disparity affect this population?Explain evidence-based approaches that can optimize health for this population. How do these approaches minimize health disparity among affected populations?Outline a proposal for health education that can be used in a family-centered health promotion to address the issue for the target population. Ensure your proposal is based on evidence-based practice.Present a general profile of at least one health-related organization for the selected focus topic. Present two resources, national or local, for the proposed education plan that can be utilized by the provider or the patient.Identify interdisciplinary health professionals important to include in the health promotion. What is their role? Why is their involvement significant?Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and public health content.
Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

 

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What are the similarities in the images of women who served as Civil War nurses?

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Women on the Civil War Battlefield
As we saw during the Revolutionary War, war often changes the gender roles of women in American Society. During the Civil War, American women expanded their roles of “Angels of the Battlefield” to establish the American nursing. Other women participated in the war as spies or disguised themselves as soldiers. This week as you read your textbook and examine the images provided, think about how the war impacted societies image of “true womanhood” and gender roles.
Look for similarities and differences between gender roles and gender images in between the North and the South. How did the war impact those attitudes? Steps to complete the Assignment: Read “Visual Sources: Women on the Civil War Battlefields” View a video segment from the PBS documentary: Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War. Watch Video Women Civil War Soldiers -Educational short Duration: (6:37) YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xSYh8xXJPM
Write a 400-600 word essay that responds to the following questions – be sure to use examples to support your answers and demonstrate your understanding of the readings. What are the similarities in the images of women who served as Civil War nurses? What attitudes toward women help explain these similarities? Male soldiers are issued official uniforms to designate their rank and military affiliation. What similarities do you notice in Divers’s and Tubman’s outfits?
How might this clothing have constituted a kind of informal uniform for women on the battlefield? The Civil War was fought between two cultures as much as between two economic and political systems. Do you detect patterns in the images and from the video of northern versus southern women? What do these differences tell you about the gender dimensions of the North-South divide? Taken as a group, do the images from the “women on the civil war battlefield” and video indicate that the women who participated directly in the war did more to maintain or to undermine standard gender roles?

 

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Discuss why the current nursing practice needs to be changed.

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TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FOR PRACTICE & POPULATIONS.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Identify a current nursing practice within your healthcare setting that requires change.

Describe the current nursing practice.
Discuss why the current nursing practice needs to be changed.

B. Identify the key stakeholders within your healthcare setting who are part of the current nursing practice.

Describe the role each identified key stakeholder will play to support the proposed practice change.

C. Create an evidence critique table (see “Sample Evidence Critique Table”).
1. Identify five sources from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, which adhere to the following standards:

Each source must be published within the past five years.
Each source must relate to the change identified in part A.
Each source must be listed in the table using APA format.

2. Identify the evidence strength of each chosen source, using the Strength of Evidence information in the study plan.
3. Identify the evidence hierarchy of each chosen source, using the Evidence Hierarchy information in the study plan.
D. Develop an evidence summary based on the findings from part C that includes each of the five sources used (suggested length of 1–2 pages for all sources).
E. Recommend a specific best practice based on the evidence summary developed in part D.
F. Identify a practice change model that is appropriate to apply to the proposed practice change.

Justify why you chose the practice change model.
Explain how to apply the identified model to guide the implementation of the proposed practice change.

G. Discuss possible barriers to successful implementation of the proposed practice change.
H. Discuss any possible ethical implications that may arise while planning or implementing the proposed practice change.
I. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format. Note: For definitions of terms commonly used in the rubric, see the Rubric Terms web link included in the Evaluation Procedures section.

 

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Satellite radio in cars. A recent survey conducted for the National Association of Broadcasters investigated satellite radio subscriber service and usage. The June 2007 survey, conducted by Wilson Research Strategies, consisted of a random sample of 501 satellite radio subscribers. One of the questions of interest was, “Do you have a satellite radio receiver in your car?” The survey found that 396 subscribers did, in fact, have a satellite receiver in their car.
a. Identify the population of interest to the National Association of Broadcasters.
b. Based on the survey question, what is the variable of interest?
c. Does the variable produce quantitative or qualitative data?
d. Describe that sample of interest.
e. What inference can be made from the survey results?

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Discuss how the goal of the community or organization aligns with your goal for the selected public policy issue.

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Nurse perspective -in Policy, Politics, and Global Health Trends
Paper is to be on California’s prop 8. – from a nurses perspective. writer can choose which stance they would take on prop 8 – yes or no. see attached files for instructions on paper. paper instruction file has the questions and also helpful links on prop 8. one of the sources must be: Nickitas, D. M., Middaugh, D. J., & Aries, N. (Eds.). (2016). Policy and politics for nurses and other health professionals: Advocacy and action. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. ISBN 978-1-284-05329-6
A. Prepare your reflection essay (suggested length of no more than of 3 pages) of the values and ethics of a public policy issue by doing the following:
1. Analyze a health or nursing profession public policy issue that impacts a group of people and requires a policy change.

a. Discuss why you selected this public policy issue. Note: If you select a local policy, be sure your discussion reflects how the policy will affect more than a single unit, department, or organization.
b. Discuss the relevance of the public policy issue to the health or the nursing profession, using two pieces of academically appropriate literature from the last five years.
c. Describe the financial impact of the public policy on an organization or on a community.

2. Analyze how your values impact your position on the public policy issue.

a. Discuss the ethical principle (e.g., autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice) or theory that underpins your perspective.

B. Develop a policy brief (suggested length of no more than 6 pages) for the public policy issue discussed in part A in which you do the following:
1. Identify the decision maker (name and title) who will receive the policy brief.

a. Explain why the public policy issue requires the decision maker’s attention, using relevant nursing research from the last five years to support your position.

2. Discuss the main challenges of addressing the selected public policy issue.
3. Discuss the primary options and/or interventions for the decision maker, including why they are tangible.
4. Propose a persuasive course of action for the decision maker, including ways to avoid the challenges identified in part B2.
5. Discuss how you will evaluate the success of your policy brief (top-down approach).
C. Create a plan (suggested length of no more than 3 pages) for working with an organization or a community to address the public policy issue analyzed in part A by doing the following:
1. Identify an organization or community that has expressed interest in your selected health or nursing profession public policy issue.

a. Summarize evidence supporting why the organization or community has expressed interest in the selected public policy issue.

2. Identify three CBPR principles you could use to work with the organization or community to address a policy change for the public policy issue.

a. Explain how you could approach and collaborate with the organization or community.
b. Discuss how the goal of the community or organization aligns with your goal for the selected public policy issue.
c. Discuss the action steps that need to be taken to achieve your goal from part C2b.
d. Discuss the possible roles/responsibilities of the community or organization members, including problem-solving and capacity-building roles.
e. Discuss key elements of developing a collaborative evaluation plan, using CBPR principles.
f. Discuss how you will evaluate the success of your community or organization plan (bottom-up approach).

D. Analyze (suggested length of 1 page) the strengths and challenges of the top-down and bottom-up approaches in achieving policy change(s) to support your selected public policy issue by doing the following:
1. Discuss the strengths of each approach to implement change for the selected public policy issue.
2. Discuss the challenges of each approach to implement change for the selected public policy issue.
3. Discuss which approach you would recommend as the most effective to address the selected public policy issue.

 

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Public Relations Strategy Design a case study format/presentation that will answer the following que

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Public Relations Strategy Design a case study format/presentation that will answer thefollowing questions:
1 What can Nike’s Corporate Responsibility team do toimprove Nike’s public image?
2 How have Nike’s attempts to date to address its critics beenunsuccessful?
3 What damage, if any has been done to Nike? Has Nikereacted appropriately? Has it overreacted? Underreacted?
4 Many of Nike’s competitors subcontract production toAsian factories similar to those used by Nike Why was Nike singled out byhuman rights and labor rights activists?
5 What responsibility does Nike have to the workers in thefactories of its subcontractors? What wage rates should it require them to paytheir workers?

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Describe at least one specific way in which you can apply what you have learned about honesty and deception.

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Faith Integration Week 4: Do any of the five possible exceptions to truth-telling discussed in the text justify Elmer’s strategy?
This case is reproduced from Hill (2008), pp. 150-151. Jensen’s Nursery is a small, 75-year-old family company. Currently, it is facing an extremely difficult economic situation. To meet payroll, CEO Elmer Jensen decides to advertise Easter lilies a full two week before they are expected to bloom. Hoping that this will draw in sufficient numbers of customers who will end up purchasing other garden items, Jensen’s advertisement comments on the company’s “renowned greenhouses that make plants grow better” and has a picture of a bumper crop of lilies from a decade earlier. When Elmer’s father was alive, the company established a loyal customer base. As competing nurseries have entered the area, however, this loyalty has waned. Elmer justifies his ad in three ways. First, the customers no longer deserve (or expect) complete truthfulness in advertising. Second, if the business fails, his aging mother would have to be moved from a private to a state nursing home. An excellent spring sale is essential. Finally, he is prepared to pay the government for any fines he might have to pay for false advertising, calculating that they will be less than the money he might make in sales.
1. Do any of the five possible exceptions to truth-telling discussed in the text justify Elmer’s strategy? Discuss each.
2. What do you recommend that Elmer do?
3. As you reflect on your past experience(s) with honesty and deception, what conclusions can you draw?
4. After reading the Hill text this week and exploring the topic of honesty and deception, what have you learned?
5. Describe at least one specific way in which you can apply what you have learned about honesty and deception.

 

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