Category: Nursing

Determine the scope of the problem, consider, select, and discuss appropriate qualitative and quantitative data points for your project, using the examples above.

Assignment 2

Gather as much information about Hospice in a Spanish Community. Consider both qualitative and quantitative data. Examples of these include:

Leader and peer interviews

Patient/customer surveys

Quality improvement (QI) reports from the facility

Benchmarking studies/baseline data. If baseline data is available:

What are the goals?

Are current practices meeting the organizational goals?

Are the prescribed practices followed?

Determine the scope of the problem, consider, select, and discuss appropriate qualitative and quantitative data points for your project, using the examples above.

Apply any relevant key quality improvement tools to your problem.

Review and aggregate the information you collected on the selected problem.

Determine the level of risk and frequency of the problem. This will provide you with the scope and significance of the problem.

You must cite two scholarly references other than the text to support your responses.

Format your assignment as one of the following:

Minimum 875-word paper; your paper must be organized using APA Level I headings for the assignment requirements noted above.

What assumptions held by policymakers, members of the community or health care providers underlie current policy? Provide compelling evidence that proposed changes to a health care system will produce the intended outcomes.

Ldng the Future of Hlth Care Advocating for Lasting Change

What types of policies are applicable to the changes you are proposing? For example, federal, state, and municipal governments; community agencies; and service providers, including health care organizations.
Why are specific policy changes and funding needed?

What assumptions held by policymakers, members of the community or health care providers underlie current policy?
Provide compelling evidence that proposed changes to a health care system will produce the intended outcomes.

How are existing policies affecting current and future outcomes?
How will your proposed changes bring about the desired change?
What evidence do you have to support your conclusions about the efficacy of the proposed changes?

Provide broad budget estimates to fund specific capital or human resource outlays that are important to the success of a proposed change.
What resources are needed to implement and sustain your proposed changes?

What data and information do you have that supports your budget estimates?
Outline a plan for leading transformational, evidence-based change in an organization.

What is your vision for change?

How will your proposed changes affect your organization?

How will you address barriers to change?

What changes in organizational culture are needed to support and sustain change?

How will you ensure ongoing and effective communication?

Who are the key individuals in your organization who are accountable for implementing and sustaining the change?

What evidence supports your plan?
Assess the potential future for wellness, health, and improved overall care and the role of visionary leaders in achieving the desired goals.

Explore the website of HealthyPeople.gov. Use it as a guide when examining the potential future for wellness, healthy people, and improved overall care.

What is your vision for a healthy community?

What are the risks and benefits inherent in your vision?

What leadership style will be effective in driving change to accomplish health and wellness goals?
Cultivate stakeholder interest in and support for the proposed changes to a community health care system.

Who are your stakeholders?

How might they influence your proposal for change?
Articulate your vision for change clearly and concisely.
Anticipate and address stakeholder concerns and acknowledge potential risks.
What objections might you anticipate and how would you counter them?
What evidence supports your claims?
Develop slides that augment a multimedia presentation.
Refer to the presentation design tips below.
Argue persuasively to obtain policy and financial support from policymakers for a proposed community health care change.

Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently and convincingly.
Address the anticipated needs and concerns of your audience.
Rehearse your presentation before making your final recording.

Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.
Integrate relevant and credible evidence from 3–5 peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications.
Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
How or why does particular evidence support a claim?

Will your reader see the connection?

Did you summarize, paraphrase, and quote your sources appropriatel

Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.

Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy

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 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 [DOC] 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).

Attached is Assessment 2 paper as well

Explain the roles and responsibilities of the lone worker in a home based setting in relation to the safeguarding, protection and welfare of children.

HND CHILDMINDER LEVEL 3

Summarise current legislation and guidelines relating to:

The health and safety of children

The safeguarding, protection and welfare of children

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Explain why it is important to take a balanced approach to risk management

Explain the principles of safe supervision in the home based setting and off site

Describe procedures for:

Storage of medication

Administration of medication

Record keeping with regards to medication

Carry out a risk assessment of own home:

Indoors

Outdoors
Summarise ways to maintain a safe and healthy environment for children in relation to:

Preparing formula feeds

Sterilization of feeding equipment

Preparation and storage of food

Safe disposal of waste

Care of pets

Explain procedures to follow in the event of:
Accidents
Incidents

Emergencies

Explain the terms:

Safeguarding and duty of care

Child protection

Summarise regulatory requirements for safeguarding children within a home based setting.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of the lone worker in a home based setting in relation to the safeguarding, protection and welfare of children.

Describe signs, symptoms, indicators and behaviours that may cause concern relating to:
Domestic abuse
Neglect
Physical abuse

Emotional abuse

Sexual abuse

Describe actions to take if harm or abuse is suspected and/or disclosed

Explain the roles and responsibilities of the home based childcarer in supporting equality, diversity and inclusive practice.

Evaluate the impact of own attitudes, values and behaviours when supporting equality, diversity and inclusive practice.

Discuss children’s well-being in relation to current frameworks

Plan to meet the needs of a child aged between 0 and 7 years in relation to:

Diet

Personal physical care needs

Rest and sleep provision

Personal hygiene routines

Plan to meet the needs of a child aged 7 years or older in relation to:

Diet

Personal physical care needs

Rest and sleep provision

Personal hygiene routines

Explain strategies to encourage healthy eating

Identify reasons for special dietary requirements

Identify typical partnerships established by a home based childcare.

Discuss benefits of working in partnership

Describe how partnerships with parents/carers are established and maintained.

Explain how working in partnership with parents/carers supports the home learning environment.

Explain the boundaries of confidentially.

Identify areas of learning and development in relation to current frameworks

Explain factors which influence children’s development

Explain the difference between sequence of development and rate of development

Describe key milestones in development for children from birth to 12 years in relation to:

Physical development

Social and emotional development

Cognitive development

Speech, language and communication development.

Explain how children’s learning is influenced by:

Positive relationships

Environment

Describe factors that influence children’s behaviour.

Outline strategies for managing children’s behaviour.

Identify the rights of children in relation to play as detailed in the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child”.

Explain the innate drive for children to play

Discuss how play is necessary for the development of children.

Explain the benefits of balancing child-initiated and adult-led play activities

Identify how children’s play needs and preferences change in relation to their stage of development.

Discuss the need for an inclusive approach when planning play activities.

Explain what can be learned about children by observing them at play

Explain how observations are used:

To play for individual children’s needs

For early intervention

To review the environment

During transition

When working in partnership

Discuss how early intervention supports children’s development.

Explain how to work with others to plan next steps in relation to the needs and interests of children

Explain the learning that you accomplished. Include at least specific learning activity or assignment that contributed to your achievement of that outcome, and explain how it supported your learning.

Synthesis and Reflection of Learning

Reflect upon the learning that you have accomplished throughout the previous weeks, and assess your achievement of each of the five course outcomes.

CO 1: Discern leadership approaches that facilitate achievement of health outcomes through interprofessional collaborative practice within micro-, meso-, and macro-level systems.

CO 2: Appraise the role of the MSN-prepared nurse to lead safe, efficient, ethical, high-quality, person-centered healthcare across complex systems.

CO 3: Integrate communication modalities that convey cultural humility, value the diverse nature of individuals, and cultivate healthful work environments.

CO 4: Apply change and leadership theories to plan sustainable, evidence-based quality improvement within an atmosphere that supports care for self and others.

CO 5: Recognize individual strengths and opportunities for enhancement regarding leadership characteristics reflective of a MSN-prepared nurse.

For each course outcome, explain the learning that you accomplished. Include at least specific learning activity or assignment that contributed to your achievement of that outcome, and explain how it supported your learning.

Conclude with your plans for continued professional development of leadership competency within your future MSN role.

Include current, peer-reviewed scholarly support (outside of class resources) to validate your work.

How will you use the concepts in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate the final MSN Practicum Project and your future growth (as a Nurse Educator)?

Reflection Essay

Now that you have completed this course (Curriculum Development), how will you use the concepts in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate the final MSN Practicum Project and your future growth (as a Nurse Educator)?

Describe the course of the patient’s illness, including when it began, character of symptoms, location where the symptoms began, aggravating or alleviating factors; pertinent positives and negatives, other related diseases, past illnesses, surgeries or past diagnostic testing related to present illness.

Describe the course of the patient’s illness, including when it began, character of symptoms, location
where the symptoms began, aggravating or alleviating factors; pertinent positives and negatives, other
related diseases, past illnesses, surgeries or past diagnostic testing related to present illness.

Evaluate a financial plan of your local city agency or program. Title this section Financial Plan.

The Audit Analysis San Antonio TX

The Audit Analysis

You are preparing for a challenging City Council meeting. You need to be able to give the other council members and mayor an accurate “city of affairs” to make sure significant cuts can be made in the appropriate areas, and other critical areas can continue to be funded.

Select an agency or program from your local city to analyze the financial plan to respond to the following questions in a 4–5 page paper:

Evaluate a financial plan of your local city agency or program. Title this section Financial Plan.

Propose one issue for improvement for the budget of the agency or program. Title this section Improvement.

Develop a budget proposal for the improvement issue. Title this section Budget Proposal.

Justify your recommendations.

Distinguish the similarities and differences between the federal, state, and local budget submission process. Title this section Federal, State, and Local Submission Process.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Include a short introduction (include background information of agency or program information) and use the questions as section headers.

Include at least four references; at least two references must be peer-reviewed.

Include the URL of the location of your city’s financial plan and any other documentation you used for your budget analysis.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Describe how you will utilize knowledge and strategies obtained throughout the curriculum to prepare for Course Predictor & promote your NCLEX-RN preparation.

NCLEX Live Review & Reflective Activity

Students area required to attend the NCLEX Live Review hosted by Campus Academic Team (or as directed by course faculty).

The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student with an opportunity to assess their performance on previous Content Mastery Series Assessment as well as NR446 Module Assessments, reflect on areas of opportunity and identify strategies to promote NCLEX-RN success. All previous assessments provide the student with identified areas of strengths and areas of opportunities.

The analysis will allow the student the opportunity to identify and prioritize trended learning needs and learning strategies to improve knowledge and performance.

Based on individual performance on ATI Content Master Series (CMS) and ATI Capstone Assessments (NR446), prioritize the top five (5) concepts (topics) of greatest opportunity.

For each identified topics, identify two (2) learning strategies that you plan to address.

Reflection: Using at least 200 words, describe how you will utilize knowledge and strategies obtained throughout the curriculum to prepare for the Predictor and/or NCLEX-RN. Include one statement of advice you would share with another student to help prepare for the ATI NCLEX Predictor.

Total Possible Points: 50

NOTE: The Late Assignment Policy applies to this assignment. This assignment requires correct grammar and punctuation. The assignment can be entered directly into Canvas dropbox. A file upload is not required.

Rubric

NR452 NCLEX Review 2021

NR452 NCLEX Review 2021

Criteria Ratings Pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConcepts Identified

Required Criteria:

1) Learning Needs:

• Identify 5 concepts (topics) of opportunity.

2) Learning Strategies for each identified concept:

• Identify a minimum of two learning strategies that you plan to implement to address your learning need.

25 pts

Satisfactory

Includes all 2 requirements for this section.

0 pts

Unsatisfactory

Includes less than 2 requirements for section.

25 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeNCLEX Review Reflection

Required criteria:

1) 200 word minimum

2) Describe how you will utilize knowledge and strategies obtained throughout the curriculum to prepare for Course Predictor & promote your NCLEX-RN preparation.

3) Include a statement of advice to share with student to hep prepare for predictor and NCLEX.

4) Attend entire NCLEX review session

25 pts

Satisfactory

Includes no fewer than 4 requirements for this section.

0 pts

Unsatisfactory

Did not attend Live Review and/or Includes less than 4 requirements for this section presented.

25 pts

Total Points: 50

Describe the pathophysiology of bronchiolitis and identify the most common organism causing this infection. What laboratory testing can confirm your suspicion?

Apply the foundations of pediatric nursing when caring for clients with health alterations.

This assignment will help to identify the normal growth and development by topic for each age group.

In the final column of the assignment you need to observe a child and apply the information you gathered and document your findings in comparison by the particular age of that child.

Competency

Apply the foundations of pediatric nursing when caring for clients with health alterations.

Scenario

You are working in a large urban pediatric clinic after-hours.

A mother brings her 6-month-old daughter, Vivi Mitchell, to the clinic for rhinorrhea, congestion, fever, and cough. Upon assessment, you identify the child has wheezing upon auscultation and on inspection, you identify retractions.

The child is in less than 10th percentile of weight and has a cardiac history of Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA).

Born at 36 weeks gestation.

Mother states this child doesn’t go to day care but her two other children ages 2 and 3 do attend daycare.

T- 102.1 HR 140 RR 40 BP 83/58 Pulse ox 96%

A swab for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is positive.

Doctor orders – Nasal bulb suction and saline drops PRN, Tylenol 15mg/kg Q4 PRN for fever, Albuterol nebulizer in office and push po fluids as tolerated.

After the albuterol neb treatment, respirations are 36 and oxygen saturation is 100%.

Wheezing has diminished. Mom is an ER nurse and the doctor feels comfortable that she has a nebulizer at home and can return to pediatric afterhours or ER if needed.

Client is discharged with these orders:

methylprednisolone 0.4 mg/kg oral BID for 3

Albuterol Q4 hours for 24 hours, then Q 6 hours for 24 hours, and Q6 as needed.

Call if needed prior to the Q4 dose.

Manage fever with Tylenol and continue hydration and nasal bulb suction Q6 while awake.

Return for re-evaluation in 3 days

Instructions

In a two to three-page APA formatted paper, provide reponses for these questions and requests for information:

Criteria:

Describe the pathophysiology of bronchiolitis and identify the most common organism causing this infection. What laboratory testing can confirm your suspicion?

Describe the pathophysiology of PDA and why the history of PDA is significant in this scenario.

What risk factors place Vivi Mitchell at a greater risk for the development of bronchiolitis?

What are the characteristic signs/symptoms of bronchiolitis?

Vivi Mitchell been prescribed the following medications; acetaminophen, albuterol nebulizer, corticosteroids.

Provide the rationale for why each medication has been included as part of her medical management and explain any potential contraindications related to these medications.

You are designing Vivi Mitchell’s plan of care. Identify two priority nursing diagnoses to include in your plan.

For each nursing diagnosis, identify two SMART goals, and two interventions for each goal.

What short and long-term possible complications should the nurse anticipate?

What client education is appropriate for Vivi Mitchell as she is discharged from the after-care clinic?

Include a minimum of 2 scholarly sources