week 2/ discussion forum/student posted

 

Exploring the rate of seasonal-pattern depression in an Inuit Community

Methodology:  Quantitative

Design:  Ethnography

Rationale:  To assess the rate of seasonal-depression in an Inuit community above 70 degrees N.

2. Democracy in America

Methodology:  Qualitative

Design:  Grounded theory

Rationale:  To review “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville and translated and edited by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.

3. The relationship between compassion fatigue and burnout among critical care nurses

Methodology:  Qualitative

Design:  Correlation

Rationale:  To evaluate the literature related to emotional distress among healthcare professionals in the Intensive Care Unit, while emphasizing the prevalence of compassion fatigue and burnout.

4. Two drugs for Alzheimer’s show promise

Methodology:  Quantitative

Design:  Quasi-experimental design

Rationale:  The combination of two approved drugs for Alzheimer’s, acamprosate and baclofen, together open up the possibility for a therapeutic approach for the disease.

5. Evaluating technology with student success

Methodology:  Quantitative

Design: Case Study

Rationale:  To show measurements used to monitor student success and describe strategies used to promote online discussion as a key component of effective online courses.

6. Factors that influence weight control among women

Methodology:  Qualitative

Design:  Survey

Rationale:  To investigate the influence of work hours and employment on weight gain and weight loss with middle-aged women.

7. The meaning of living with brain injury and stroke 10 years after the injury

Methodology:  Quantitative

Design:  Survey

Rationale:  To indicate that rehabilitation following an ABI should consider if clients’ use everyday technology influences their activity and participation and adopt appropriate interventions.

8. Exploring the beliefs of healing among Aborigines

Methodology:  Qualitative

Design: Observational

Rationale:  To give insight on the beliefs of the Aborigines.

References

Account Respecting Beliefs of Australian Aborigines. (1896). The Journal of American Folklore, 9(34), 199-203. doi:1. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/533404 doi:1

Au, N., Hauck, K., & Hollingsworth, B. (2013). Employment, work hours and weight gain among middle-aged women. International Journal of Obesity, 37(5), 718-24. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2012.92

Chumakov, I., Nabirotchkin, S., Cholet, N., Milet, A., Boucard, A., Toulorge, D., Cohen, D. (2015). Combining two repurposed drugs as a promising approach for alzheimer’s disease therapy. Scientific Reports, 5, 7608. doi:10.1038/srep07608

Drescher, S. (2001). Democracy in America. The Journal of American History, 88(2), 612-614. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224908446?accountid=87314

Fasse, R., Humbert, J., & Rappold, R. (2009). Rochester institute of technology: Analyzing student success. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 13(3), 37.

Haggarty, J. M., Cernovsky, Z., Husni, M., Minor, K., Kermeen, P., & Merskey, H. (2002). Seasonal affective disorder in an arctic community. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 105(5), 378-384. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.1o185.x

Lindén, A., Lexell, J., Lund, M. L., Arbetsterapi, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för samhällsmedicin och rehabilitering, & Umeå universitet. (2010). Perceived difficulties using everyday technology after acquired brain injury: Influence on activity and participation. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 17(4), 267-275. doi:10.3109/11038120903265022

Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and enter your  location into the location box. ____Queens NY

Choose one of the topic areas.

• My Health
• My Climate
• My Air
• My Water

Then, click on the boxes under the Map Contents menu to add data into the map on specific topics. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.

• Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement, “I didn’t know _____.”
• How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns?

I. Purpose
The purpose of this experiential learning activity is to apply nursing leadership knowledge and skills to plan for organizational change with system-wide impact. (CO 2, 3, 5)

III. Requirements
Description of the Assignment

This assignment provides the opportunity for the student to:

Create an evidence-based plan for system-wide change guided by a selected organizational change model
Engage in high-level decision-making processes common in the nurse executive role
Use reflective practice knowledge and skills in making high level decision making and change management
IV. Preparing the Assignment
Address all components of the Advanced Communication in Systems Leadership paper as outlined under “Assignment Directions and Criteria”.
The paper is graded on quality and completeness of information, depth of thought, organization following outline provided, substantive narrative, use of citations, use of Standard English, and writing conventions.
Format:
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (current ed.). Washington, DC: Author. Is the source used for this paper
Required elements
Title page, reference page
Use Microsoft Word
Page numbers, running head, doubles-spaced, times new roman, 12pt font, 1″ margins, level 1 headings
Paper length: 7 maximum, excluding reference page and title page
Scholarly sources
Minimum of four (4) scholarly resources no older than 5 years (See: What is a Scholarly Source under APA resources)
Proof-reading
Use spell check and grammar check and correct all errors
Compare final draft to detailed outline directions to ensure all required elements included
Submitting the paper

DIRECTIONS AND ASSIGNMENT CRITERIA

You will use the following headings for your paper:

Approach to the organizational mandate
Purpose of the paper
Overview of the tasks, potential challenges, and implications of a reduction in workforce
Part II: Reduction in Workforce-Deciding
Using Human Resources (HR) metrics Table 1
Approach, choices, rationale
Challenges presented (including role of ethics)
Using HR metrics with Relative Information Table 2
Approach, choices, rational
Challenges presented
Conflicts raised
Negotiation used
Part III: Reduction in Workforce-Planning the Change
Overview of reorganization plan including timeline
Plan for change and application of Kotter’s or Rogers’ change model
Anticipated conflict (three areas) and the benefits of using a change model
Healthy work environment
Describe department and system-wide implications, impact, and conflict
Strategies for addressing morale and motivation of remaining workforce
Summary/Conclusions
Restatement of purpose
Overview of tasks
What was learned
attachment
NR534Week6_PlannedChange_RIF_02_21_19nhsMAR19_JAN20.docx

• Write a letter to the editor of an academic or professional journal. The length and format of the letter is dictated by your choice of journal.
  Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
  Advocating for new policies is an important aspect of the master’s-prepared nurse. For new policies to be compelling they need to be supported by evidence. Supporting data can be used to illustrate why new policies and interventions are needed to help address a specific health issue. Compelling data can help sway the stakeholders and gain support for your policy.
  SHOW LESSAnother aspect of advocacy is disseminating new policies and interventions outside of the immediate care environment. This can be done by reaching out to professional organizations as well as academic and professional journals. A letter to the editor is one strategy for disseminating information to a wider audience, and to potentially enlist support throughout the wider professional community.
  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
  • Competency 1: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes.
    • Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
    • Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
  • Competency 2: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes.
    • Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
  • Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.
    • Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
    • Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
  • Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
    • Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
    • Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
  • Competency Map
    CHECK YOUR PROGRESSUse this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
• Toggle DrawerContextNurses have the opportunity to use their skills and develop programs to keep individuals and communities healthy. Health is complex however, and the nurse needs to possess strong advocacy skills to successfully support a cause or interest. The American Nurses Association’s code of ethics (2015) describes the responsibility of a nurse to include working through and with appropriate stakeholders to advocate for the health of people in and out of the work environment. To be an effective advocate, there are several important abilities a nurse must possess, including problem solving, communication, and influencing others. One way a nurse can advocate to a broader population is through effective letter writing, both to legislators and through the media, such as with editorials and research articles.
  Reference
  American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/CodeofEthicsforNurses/CodeofEthicsForNurses.html
• Toggle DrawerQuestions to ConsiderAs you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
  SHOW LESSAssessment 3 will build upon the work you have done for your previous two assessments. For this assessment, you will be writing a letter to the editor of an academic or professional journal as a means to advocate for adoption or development of policies that will improve the quality of care and outcomes around your chosen health care issue and vulnerable population.
  • Looking at your health care issue from a prevention standpoint, what are the relevant levels of prevention?
    • What would be the benefits and challenges of applying a specific level of prevention to your chosen issue and population?
    • How might one or more approaches to prevention improve the care and outcomes?
      • How could your policy be leveraged, or revised, to support the relevant levels of prevention?
  • What are relevant strategies that you could use to help advocate for the policy you are proposing?
    • How could these strategies help you advocate for your policy proposal?
    • How does evidence from the literature support the benefits of your proposed policy?
      • How does citing evidence help lend credibility to your advocacy?
  • What academic or professional journal would be the best forum to advocate for your policy?
    • Why is your chosen journal an appropriate forum?
    • Which advocacy strategies would be most effective in this forum?
    • How will you craft your message to best appeal to the likely audience of your chosen journal?
• Toggle DrawerResourcesMSN Program Journey
  Please review this guide for your degree program. It can help you stay on track for your practicum experience, so you may wish to bookmark it for later reference.
  • MSN Program Journey | Transcript.
  • Suggested Resources
    The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6026 – Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II Library Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.
    Advocacy
  • Allen, D. D., Lauffenburger, J., Law, A. V., Vanderveen, R. P., & Lang, W. G. (2012). Report of the 2011–2012 standing committee on advocacy: The relevance of excellent research: Strategies for impacting public policy. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 76(6), 13–25.
  • Jansson, B. S., Nyamathi, A., Heidemann, G., Bird, M., Rogers Ward, C., Brown-Saltzman, K., . . . Kaplan, C. (2016). Predicting levels of policy advocacy engagement among acute-care health professionals. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 17(1), 43–55.
  • Kung, Y. M., & Rudner Lugo, N. (2015). Political advocacy and practice barriers: A survey of Florida APRNs. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 27(3), 145–151.
  • Standing up for somebody: What is advocacy and why do we do it? (2014). The Queensland Nurse, 33(3), 28–29.
  • SHOW MORE
• Assessment InstructionsScenario
  Throughout this course, you have focused on a specific health issue occurring within a specific population. You researched position papers regarding this health concern, and you developed a health policy proposal to positively impact the health of the affected individuals. It is now time to reach a greater audience regarding your policy proposal.
  Instructions
  Develop a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed academic or professional nursing journal based on the policy proposal that you created for Assessment 2. Choose from one of the journals on the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals (in the Resources) and go to that journal’s Web site to find out the requirements for submitting a letter to the editor, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.
  The goal of your letter is to be informative about the policy that you developed for Assessment 2, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy document to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
  • Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
    • Look back to the data or scenario you used in Assessment 1 to address this criterion.
  • Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
  • Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
  • Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
  • Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
  • Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
  • Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).
  • Additional Requirements
    The submission requirements for your editorial will depend on the journal you choose. To find out the requirements, go to the journal’s Web site. There should be a section regarding submissions that will address how to format letters to the editor, and whether there is a word count limit (there usually is a limit).
  • If the journal does not have submission guidelines for the number of resources required, use 3–5 sources.
  • To be sure that your instructor knows the submission and formatting requirements for your letter, include the journal’s guidelines on a separate page at the end of the document you submit for this assessment.