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health care

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Interview a fellow peer in your class who works in a different health discipline than you. Begin your interview with the following questions:

  1. What is your role as a health care team member?
  2. How do you define professionalism and how does professional responsibility influence your work?
  3. Do you consider leaders in your organization stewards of health care? Why or Why not?
  4. Is it important to you that leaders exercise professional advocacy and authenticity as well as power and influence when working with colleagues? Why or why not?

In 500-750 words, summarize your interview and share your impressions of your peer’s responses.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to LopesWrite.

educational program

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Create an educational program, event, or piece of literature (for example, a pamphlet) that incorporates best practices in health promotion and disease prevention for a diverse population. Then, explain how you developed your educational program, event, or piece of literature and address any barriers to disease prevention and health promotion for the population.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

 

  • Competency 3: Nursing Research and Informatics – Incorporate evidence-based practice interventions (for example, information systems and patient care technologies) as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients, promoting health across the lifespan.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Use valid, scholarly research resources relevant to the field of nursing to support information presented.
  • Competency 5: Communication – Communicate effectively with all members of the health care team, including interdepartmental and interdisciplinary collaboration for quality outcomes.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.
  • Competency 7: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention – Apply and incorporate a basic understanding of the concepts of health promotion and disease prevention as a means of improving health at the individual, population, and community level.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Develop an educational program, event, or piece of literature to address health concerns of a diverse population.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Explain how a specific educational approach to a health concern can overcome barriers to health promotion and disease prevention for a diverse population.
  • Competency 8: Diversity – Incorporate a holistic, caring, culturally appropriate nursing approach that contributes to the wellness and the health of individuals, groups, and vulnerable populations.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Describe barriers to health promotion and disease prevention for a diverse population.

Assessment Instructions

 

Part I

To prepare for the first part of the assessment, complete the following:

  1. Review the literature or use health assessments to determine health care needs of a diverse population in your community.
  2. Explore things that could influence success, such as cultural attitudes toward alternative forms of healing, religious beliefs, or other individuals.
  3. Examine the impact of current health promotion and wellness initiatives on health outcomes and health disparities.
  4. Review the literature to identify best practices.

Once you have identified a diverse population, develop an educational program, event, or piece of literature that promotes wellness and disease prevention. If you choose an educational program or event, be sure you outline the basic content of the program or event, as well as how you would structure it. If you choose a piece of literature, be deliberate in the points you highlight. Be sure that your choice is appropriate for the population.

  • For an educational program or event, prepare and submit an outline of the content and structure.
  • For a brochure or pamphlet, prepare and submit the brochure or pamphlet using a simple Word document or a Microsoft Publisher document, if you have that software available.

Part II

Explain how you developed your educational program, event, or piece of literature and address any barriers to disease prevention and health promotion for the population.

Complete the following:

  1. Explain why you chose the particular educational strategy. Why is it an effective strategy for the population?
  2. Describe cultural barriers to disease prevention and health promotion in the population. This might include things such as CAM, language, religious beliefs, and so on.
  3. Explain how your educational strategy can help overcome some of the barriers you described.
  4. Support your work with valid scholarly resources.

Additional Requirements (Part II only)

  • Format: Include a title page and reference page. Use APA format.
  • References: Cite at least three current scholarly or professional resources.
  • Font: Use double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.

barriers to receiving health care services

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Write a 5–6 page, APA-formatted report that explains the responses to a  global event, how issues of race, class, and gender may have affected  the response, and the role of international and altruistic organizations  in providing health care services related to the event. Describe  barriers to receiving health care services related to the event, and  explain the role of the professional nurse in providing health care  services related to the global event.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), natural disasters  kill approximately 90,000 people and impact another 160 million people  every year (2015). Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis,  hurricanes, and wildfires not only have an immediate impact on those who  live in and around the affected area, they also often have a  longer-term effect on the health and well-being of those impacted.  Developing countries are frequently unable to respond to natural  disasters effectively and efficiently because they lack resources,  infrastructure, and disaster-preparedness systems.

Poor health care systems in developing countries also make these  countries more vulnerable to epidemics such as the recent outbreak of  Ebola in Chad, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. According to a report  from Save the Children (2015), some developing countries have less than  one health care worker for every 2,000 people. Other diseases such as  malaria and pneumonia account for as many as 17,000 child deaths every  day (Save the Children, 2015).

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Nurses can provide critical skills during times of global events.  Whether by volunteering directly at the site of the event or by  recruiting, screening, and training other professional nurses behind the  scenes, nurses are crucial to global relief efforts.

References

Save the Children. (2015). A wake-up call:  Lessons from Ebola for the world’s health systems. Retrieved from  http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/%7B9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a%7D/WAKE%20UP%20CALL%20REPORT%20PDF.PDF

World Health Organization. (2015). Natural disaster profiles. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/topics/emergencies/en/

Preparation

Suppose that within your health care organization there is no  formal process or structure for health care professionals to volunteer  time and services in times of global need. You would like to develop a  proposal for establishing a process that would allow nurses and other  health care professionals to secure time off to work with a specific  worldwide organization, to provide health care services during global  events. As part of the proposal, you would need to provide background  research to support your request.

Conduct background research on either one of the following to support the proposal you would develop:

  • Choose one worldwide epidemic, such as the 2009 flu pandemic,  2009 mumps outbreak, 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus  outbreak, the recent Ebola virus epidemic, or another epidemic. Research  articles that focus on how the initial outbreak was handled; the role  of social attitudes and issues of race, class, and gender in responding  to the outbreak; barriers to people receiving proper health care; and  the role of nursing in providing health care services related to the  epidemic.
  • Choose one natural disaster, such as the earthquakes in Haiti,  Pakistan, or Nepal; Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar; the Indian Ocean  earthquake and tsunami, or any other natural disaster that brought a  worldwide response. Research articles that focus on the initial response  to the disaster; the role of social attitudes and issues of race,  class, and gender in responding to the disaster; barriers to survivors  receiving health care; and the role of nursing in providing health care  services related to the disaster.

Requirements

For this assessment, develop background research that would support  a proposal for an organizational process allowing health care  professionals to volunteer time and services when global events happen.  First, identify the global event you will be using in your research, and  then:

  • Explain how the local and national (meaning the nation in which  the event took place) communities responded to the event. Who responded?  How long did the first response take? How did health care providers  respond?
  • Explain how social attitudes, as well as issues of race, class,  gender, or other factors may have influenced the response to the event.  Be sure you consider not only the response of the home country, but the  global response as well.
  • Describe barriers to health care services for the people impacted  by the event. Some barriers may be obvious, and other barriers less  obvious; try to consider multiple aspects.
  • Explain the role of international health organizations and  altruistic organizations in providing health care services related to  the global event.
  • Explain the role of the professional nurse in providing health  care services related to the global event. Consider scope of practice  when working professionally out of one’s area of license—either  nationally or globally.

Additional Requirements

Complete your assessment using the following specifications:

  • Title page and reference page.
  • Number of pages: 5–6 (not  including the title and reference pages).
  • At least 4 current scholarly or professional resources.
  • APA format for the entire document, including citations and references.
  • Times New Roman font, 12-point, double-spaced.

health policy

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Forward the topic of the health policy paper to faculty at the end of Week One,

Health policy unfolds daily and drives clinical practice in the US. The student will investigate current policies or legislation underway for a specific health-related issue. The Student will develop a scholarly APA formatted paper supported by evidence. The policy paper rubric:

Introduction to population or problem (incidence, prevalence, epidemiology, cost burden etc)

Description of how the policy is intended for a specific population, program or organization

Specific legislators involved in the policy development and dissemination

Identify the role of the APRN in assisting with the policy or refuting the policy – this requires the evidence to support opinion, ideas and/or concepts.

Discuss how the policy influences clinical practice and is used to promote best outcomes

Examine how the policy can be used by the interprofessional team to ensure coordinated and comprehensive care for the specific population

Conclusion – summarize findings

APA format – use of primary peer-reviewed references as much as possible

Submission Details:
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

popular nontraditional health care practices

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Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200 word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the following:

  1. Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures.
  2. Explain how these practices affect wellness and prevention in different cultures.
  3. Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to use them over traditional medical practices. Propose reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health care options is rising.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

anxiolytic or hypnotic agents

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A graduate school nurse has to prepare a presentation for a freshman class of nursing students on anxiolytic and hypnotic agents. The learning objectives include a review of the states that are affected by anxiolytic and hypnotic agents and key nursing considerations for patients receiving these medications. (Learning Objectives 1, 2, and 5)

a.What are the definitions of the states affected by anxiolytic or hypnotic agents?

b.What are the key nursing implementation considerations for a patient receiving a benzodiazepine?

c.What should the nurse teach the students about the indications for zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem (Ambien)?

Case Study, Chapter 23, Antiseizure Agents

A patient had a tonic–clonic seizure and has been started on a phenytoin medication. The patient tells the nurse he is very upset about not being able to drive and has several questions about epilepsy. (Learning Objectives 1, 2, and 5)

a.What should be included in the patient teaching about the classification of generalized seizures?

a.How does phenytoin work?

c.What are the key implementation and rationale considerations for this patient who is receiving medication to treat generalized seizures?

Case Study, Chapter 26, Narcotics, Narcotic Antagonists, and Antimigraine Agents

A new graduate RN has been assigned to a medical–surgical unit. The new graduate RN is in the week of nursing orientation and is administering medications. The RN has to administer an antimigraine medication to an adult patient, a narcotic to an older adult in acute pain, and a narcotic antagonist to a third patient. (Learning Objectives 1, 2, 3, and 5)

a.What is the gate control theory of pain, and how does this block pain for a patient?

b.What are the key lifespan considerations for an older adult when administering narcotics?

c.What are the key nursing implementation considerations for a patient receiving a narcotic antagonist?

d.What are the key lifespan considerations for an adult when administering antimigraine medication?

Case Study, Chapter 30, Adrenergic Agonists

A patient is experiencing serious ventricular arrhythmias and shock following a heart transplant. The physician has ordered isoproterenol and dopamine to be administered to the patient. (Learning Objectives 2, 4, and 5)

a.What is the therapeutic action for isoproterenol?

b.What are the adverse effects of isoproterenol?

c.What is the therapeutic action for dopamine?

d.What are the adverse effects of dopamine?

e.What are the key nursing implementation considerations for patients receiving an adrenergic agent?

Case Study, Chapter 36, Adrenocortical Agents

A second-year nursing student has to prepare medication cards for clinical on adrenocortical agents. The specific medication cards that have to be prepared are for prednisone (Deltasone) and fludrocortisone (Florinef). Additionally, the student nurse has to prepare a patient teaching plan for mineralocorticoids. (Learning Objectives 1, 2, 4, and 5)

a.What are the physiological effects of the adrenocortical agents?

b.What are the key nursing implementation teaching points that need to be reviewed with a patient receiving an adrenocortical agent?

c.What are the most common adverse reactions for fludrocortisone (Florinef)?

d.What are the indications for prednisone (Deltasone)?

Case Study, Chapter 38, Agents to Control Blood Glucose Levels

A diabetes registered nurse educator is preparing an in-service presentation for student nurses on agents to control blood glucose levels for diabetes mellitus. The in-service will include a brief review of the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus. Drugs to be included in the presentation will include insulin, chlorpropamide (Diabinese), glyburide (Micronase), and metformin (Glucophage). (Learning Objectives 1, 4, and 5)

a.What alterations in metabolic pathways and changes to basement membranes occur with diabetes mellitus?

b.What are the key nursing implementation considerations for patients taking insulin?

c.What are the indications for chlorpropamide (Diabinese)?

d.What are the most common adverse effects of glyburide (Micronase)?

e.What are the therapeutic actions for metformin (Glucophage)?

f.What are the lifespan considerations for children who use antidiabetic agents?

PMHNP practice environment

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  • Describe the PMHNP practice environment for Texas, highlighting restrictions or limitations for practice.
  • Compare the PMHNP practice environment in Texas with a neighboring state or a state in which you would like to practice.
  • Describe a professional and/or clinical practice issue a new PMHNP will need to consider and address with the certification, licensure, credentialing, or relocation process.
  • Develop a checklist for passing the national certification exam, including a detailed timeline that includes academic preparation (study plan), registration, financial preparation, etc.

analyze and interpret information

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****PLEASE SEE GUIDELINES****

In this assignment, you will be expected to utilize a data set to analyze and interpret information. Select a data set that you find interesting

Part one – visit https://data.cdc.gov and select one of the data sets that you find interesting. In one paragraph, describe the dataset. The dataset you choose must contain at least 3 columns of quantitative data with at least 30 data values in each column. If it doesn’t, you won’t be able to complete some parts of this assignment.

Part two – in a Word document, using current APA formatting, complete the following:

1. Identify the variable names and whether they are the dependent or independent variables.

2. Create a histogram for two of the variables. Comment on interesting patterns you see. Is the data normally distributed? Why or why not?

3. Create a scatter diagram for any two of the independent variables and the dependent variable. You should have two scatterplots. Is there a strong relationship between the independent and dependent variables? Explain your answer. What can you hypothesize based on the relationship you see in the graphs?

4. Using statistical data, discuss the probability of other nurses seeing this as an issue in their practice. Discuss how sample size may affect these numbers.

5. Compute the mean, standard deviation and the estimated standard of the mean of one of the variables. Include the Stat Crunch output table in your document.

6. Using data in number 5, above, compute a 95% confidence interval (showing all the work) and describe the central limit theorem.

Part three – in 2-3-paragraphs please provide a written proposal to senior management, using the information in part one. Select three analyses to describe the data.

Your paper should be double spaced, 12-point font, and all references and citations should follow APA format.

Part four Create the histogram in the statistical software of your choosing and while verbally explaining the process and interesting patterns you see. Verbally explain whether your data is normally distributed. This process should be recorded while inputting, computing and discussing.

Create a scatter diagram in the statistical software of your choosing for one of your independent variables. Verbally explain whether there is a strong relationship. This process should be recorded while inputting, computing and discussing.

ethnic and cultural groups

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Describe the effect of extremely low birth weight babies on the family and community. Consider short-term and long-term impacts, socioeconomic implications, the need for ongoing care, and comorbidities associated with prematurity.

Explain how disparities relative to ethnic and cultural groups may contribute to low birth weight babies.

Identify one support service within your community to assist with preterm infants and their families and explain how the service adequately addresses the needs of the community, or a population in your community. Provide the link to the resource in your post.

Consider the following patient scenario:

A mother comes in with 9-month-old girl. The infant is 68.5cm in length (25th percentile per CDC growth chart), weighs 6.75kg (5th percentile per CDC growth chart), and has a head circumference of 43cm (25th percentile per CDC growth chart).

Describe the developmental markers a nurse should assess for a 9-month-old female infant. Discuss the recommendations you would give the mother. Explain why these recommendations are based on evidence-based practice.

Leveraging Quality and Safety Measures with Communication Technologies

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NUR3472CBE Section 01CBE Emerging Healthcare Technologies and Innovation (6 Months) – CBE – 2020 Winter Six Month 2

Deliverable 3 – Leveraging Quality and Safety Measures with Communication Technologies

Competency

Differentiate the impact of various communication technologies on safety and quality improvement

Scenario

You are a staff nurse voted as the nursing delegate to sit on the Emerging Innovations Steering Committee. In preparing for your first committee meeting you have read through the last year of meeting minutes and determined what the past nursing delegate had achieved and what future goals were set for this specific role. The meeting minutes from last month show the steering committee is currently looking at emerging communication technologies and how the hospital can leverage integration of cost effective healthcare technology. In preparation for the first meeting, you have created a list of best practices based on your scholarly research and create a list of action plans for leveraging these into practice. You have been tasked with creating a comparative analysis of two communication technologies and how they can be used to improve communication between healthcare teams and how it can influence patient outcomes. Before the next monthly committee meeting, they want you to send them a comparative analysis using a format of your choice (i.e. table) of two communication technologies that you feel best improve safety and quality healthcare.

Instructions

Write a comparative analysis table including the following:

Discuss the two selected communication technologies you have chosen with support from scholarly research
Describe the function of each technology
Analyze how it is used in the healthcare setting
Examine how the two selected technologies can be used to improve communication among the healthcare team.
Provide a specific practice example from the literature to support how each technology has been shown to improve communication among the healthcare team.
Discuss how each type of communication technology has been shown to improve patient outcomes underneath the table.
Identify evidence from the literature to support how each technology has been shown to impact patient outcomes
Deliverable 4 – Merging Ethics and Information Technology

Competency

Analyze ethical and nursing informatics practice standards within the context of healthcare delivery.

Scenario

You are a nursing manager of the education and innovations department at a large nonprofit academic medical center. You work at the flagship hospital and there are three additional campuses and several affiliated facilities throughout three additional states. Therefore, technology is heavily relied upon for consistent and reliable communication for interdisciplinary care. Recently, the CNO sent you a patient satisfaction survey highlighting how impressed this patient was with their nurse’s timeliness of answering their questions. The patient continued to share that the nurse used their personal cell phone to reach out to the patient’s provider to get clarification of the patient’s discharge instructions. The patient loved their quick response and wanted to highlight this as a best practice for all healthcare professionals.

You have just completed a technology usage assessment of the healthcare staff across departments and it has come to your attention that several nurses occasionally communicate with medical providers through text on their personal cell phones, using their phone’s messaging service. The nurses found that they are able to meet their patient needs more quickly. Your assessment also discovered that a nurse used their personal cell phone to take a picture of a patient’s foot ulcer. The picture was posted on social media as a reminder to diabetics the importance of managing their blood sugars. As the nursing education manager, it is your responsibility to ensure staff are following the hospital polices and your technology assessment has highlighted that the staff is in urgent need of HIPAA training and Smart Phone use.

Instructions

Use the scenario above to create a mandatory training for all staff using PowerPoint with voice over including the following:

Examine personal Smart Phone use and its implications in Healthcare
Identify and explain a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Smartphones in healthcare (including text messaging and pictures)
Discuss potential benefits to appropriate Smartphone use in healthcare
Examine judicious use of Social Media and its implications in Healthcare
Potential benefits to appropriate use of Social Media in healthcare
Identify a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Social Media (as reviewed by NCSBN)
Describe regulatory bodies and Ethical Frameworks used to protect Personal Health Information (PHI)
Investigate the role of HIPAA, HITECH, and Nursing Code of Ethics
Present possible legal consequences associated with unethical or illegal Smart Phone and Social Media u