Category: Nursing

Discuss with practice, DMP, employer, team as appropriate.Are there any specific health beliefs about this medicine or group of medicines?

Botulinum toxin type A

Appropriate delivery route/ formulation, dosing frequency?
See the Electronic Medicines Compendium – www.medicines.org.uk

Clinical governance
Refer to information provided by your professional group and see Quality and
Clinical Governance under Editorial Resources section of

Homepage

Legal and Ethical Issues
See RPSGB fact sheet on unlicensed medicines
www.rpsgb.org.uk/pdfs/factsheet5.pdf
Are there any implications post Shipman?

Integrated Approach to Care
Discuss with practice, DMP, employer, team as appropriate.
See the NHS plan (and other DOH guidance) at www.dh.gov.uk
See specialist libraries/ by profession within http://www.library.nhs.uk

Patient aspects of medicine use

Are there any specific health beliefs about this medicine or group of medicines? For details of the Expert Patient programme see
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Expert-patients-programme-
/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Describe how transformational leadership style may influence the process of investigating this professional nurse colleague that reports to one of your unit managers.

Describe how transformational leadership style may influence the process of investigating this professional nurse colleague that reports to one of your unit managers.
Evaluate leadership and management attributes that support critical decisions for nursing practice.

Identify five leadership principles from your chosen book, summarizing each of them in two or three sentences.

5.2 Discussion: Leadership Book

Identify five leadership principles from your chosen book, summarizing each of them in two or three sentences.

Apply each principle to a specific situation in the healthcare environment in which a nurse manager/leader in a formal position could apply each principle.

Identify a healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy with an elected official. What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? What is your solution to this concern?

WEEK2 CCNR-506

Identify a healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy with an elected official. What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? What is your solution to this concern? Describe the model of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy concern and the rationale for selecting this model.

What nursing intervention would you recommend to improve the issue?How does this issue influence healthcare safety, quality, and/or health outcomes?

WEEK2 NR-505CC
Revisit the practice-related issue of interest that you identified in the week one discussion posting, and respond to the following:

Describe the practice-related issue and its impact on the nursing profession and/or healthcare delivery.

How does this issue influence healthcare safety, quality, and/or health outcomes?

What nursing intervention would you recommend to improve the issue?

As you conduct a review of literature to better understand the issue and your proposed intervention, what search terms might be most helpful?

Identify abnormal findings and treatment options for electrolyte imbalances is an expected function of a healthcare team.

Nursing 1

Identify abnormal findings and treatment options for electrolyte imbalances is an expected function of a healthcare team.
Course Competency(s):

Determine the cellular functions required to regulate homeostasis.
Content:
Instructions:
Content:
Select an electrolyte from the list below.
Electrolytes
• Potassium
• Sodium
• Calcium
• Magnesium
• Phosphorus

In the table below, include the following information for the electrolyte you selected.
Normal range of the lab value
Causes of excess (hyper) and deficiency (hypo)
Signs and symptoms of excess (hyper) and deficiency (hypo)
Treatment options for excess (hyper) and deficiency (hypo)

What is feasible to be implemented for the practice area?Do Magnet hospitals improve nurse retention rates compared to non-magnet hospitals?

Healthcare Improvement Innovation: Do Magnet hospitals improve nurse retention rates compared to non-magnet hospitals?

What does the research suggest is most effective?

What is feasible to be implemented for the practice area?

Describe the specific steps of the evidence-based intervention. This should be modeled after the evidence-based literature.

Whose input and support will this project require? How will you engage these key stakeholders?

What barriers do you predict to your success? How will you overcome these barriers?

Identify resources (human and material resources)

List any guidelines for the team, including project constraints, rules or procedures, technology considerations, what is out of scope, etc.

Critically analyze the intent of these standards concerning your organization and determine an outline of what policies, procedures, and guidelines should be put in place to address these forensic client/patient issues.

Managing the Forensic Patient
Critically analyze two areas:

Are there any gaps in the policies/procedures or guidelines in meeting these standards? Identify the gaps and indicate what steps should be taken to address them.

Assignment B: If you are not working in a healthcare setting that is not currently accredited by TJC, determine if they still have policies, procedures, and guidelines that address these or similar possible forensic issues? Or does your organization have no policies, procedures, and guidelines in place?

Critically analyze the intent of these standards concerning your organization and determine an outline of what policies, procedures, and guidelines should be put in place to address these forensic client/patient issues.

Write a briefing note that you might send to the manager of your risk management department titled Managing the Forensic Client or Patient (or choose a title appropriate to your setting).

Discuss the standards and how they might relate to your particular workplace setting. If you are not working in a health care setting describe how the intent of those standards might be applied in your workplace setting.

Describe strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients experiencing immunologic, infectious, and inflammatory disorders.

MDC1 REFLECTION

Describe how you achieved each course competency including at least one example of new knowledge gained related to that competency.

Describe how this new knowledge will impact your nursing practice.
Course Competencies

Select appropriate nursing interventions when providing multidimensional care to clients experiencing alterations in mobility.

Explain components of multidimensional nursing care for clients with musculoskeletal disorders.

Describe strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients experiencing immunologic, infectious, and inflammatory disorders.
Responses

Review how your classmates achieved each course competency.
Identify new knowledge others gained you had not considered.
Describe how this new knowledge could impact your nursing practice.