Category: Nursing

What Professional approach would you take in a similar situation if you were the registered nurse? Discuss appropriate professional behaviour, supported by the NMC code, Key ethical principles, legislation and policies and guidelines relevant to professional nursing practice.

Developing Professional Practice in Adult Nursing
Question 1:

Consider the current NMC Code, relevant legislation, policies and guidelines and ethical principles and identify, discuss and analyse the appropriateness of behaviours of the nurses involved in the scenario.

Question 2:

What Professional approach would you take in a similar situation if you were the registered nurse? Discuss appropriate professional behaviour, supported by the NMC code, Key ethical principles, legislation and policies and guidelines relevant to professional nursing practice.

What type of lifestyle option would best suit Mr. Lam’s current needs?Describe the services within this facility that might be beneficial to Mr. Lam.

Geriatric Nursing: Extended Care

What type of lifestyle option would best suit Mr. Lam’s current needs?

Describe the services within this facility that might be beneficial to Mr. Lam.

What can be done to prevent rehospitalization of Mr. Lam?

Examine the context of one’s thought, feelings or actions.How will you integrate nursing research related to your topic?

Provide a written account of Professional nurse’s integration of theory with practice or the application of the course content. Make a connection between previously known content and new information. Reflect on one thought or subject of your choice during this semester that may be influenced by your continued learning and obtaining your BSN degree.

Examine the context of one’s thought, feelings or actions. Explore consequences of event, one’s decisions and actions. Ask yourself, how will this advanced training influence the reactions or thought process as a BSN compared to the RN.

How will you integrate nursing research related to your topic? These are just a few suggestions on what you may write about.

 

 

Describe the human factors faced in the role and other challenges.Describe their views on how their role affects patient safety and improves the quality of patient care.

Informatics in the Clinical Setting

Conduct an interview with someone in an informatics role in a clinical setting. Then, in a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, discuss each of the following criteria:

Role description and education level required for the role.

Describe their views on how their role affects patient safety and improves the quality of patient care.

Describe the human factors faced in the role and other challenges.

Express insights gained from the interview.

Research and discuss the impact of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators and The Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals in your clinical setting. Describe how these governing agencies influence delivery of direct patient care.

Research, discuss, and identify the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) utilized in your clinical setting. Be sure to get the perspective of your selected informatics professional during your interview.

Explain the differences among emergency hospitalization for evaluation/psychiatric hold, inpatient commitment, and outpatient commitment in your state.

Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies
2–3 pages, address the following:

Explain your state laws for involuntary psychiatric holds for child and adult psychiatric emergencies. Include who can hold a patient and for how long, who can release the emergency hold, and who can pick up the patient after a hold is released.

Explain the differences among emergency hospitalization for evaluation/psychiatric hold, inpatient commitment, and outpatient commitment in your state.

Explain the difference between capacity and competency in mental health contexts.

Select one of the following topics, and explain one legal issue and one ethical issue related to this topic that may apply within the context of treating psychiatric emergencies: patient autonomy, EMTALA, confidentiality, HIPAA privacy rule, HIPAA security rule, protected information, legal gun ownership, career obstacles (security clearances/background checks), and payer source.

Identify one evidence-based suicide risk assessment that you could use to screen patients.

Identify one evidence-based violence risk assessment that you could use to screen patients.

What design and methods were used? Are they rigorous and systematic? Are the conclusions statistically significant or clinically significant given the findings?

Qualitative Critique

Prompt:

Choose one of the two provided articles located in the module Reading and Resources folder. Start by filling out the provided worksheet. Then, using the worksheet as your guide, write a critique to dig deeper into each section and identify the specific examples of each element (e.g., what is the research question? Does the author justify the importance of the research?

What is the research question? Does the author justify the importance of the research?

What design and methods were used? Are they rigorous and systematic?

Is the study valid and reliable? (For qualitative research, this section of your critique should consider the study’s trustworthiness and rigor.)

Are the conclusions statistically significant or clinically significant given the findings?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the research article? Did the author succeed or fail in the purpose of the study? Recommend areas for improvement or suggest direction for future research.

Who would be the ideal candidate(s) from whom to elicit information during the requirements gathering and analysis phase of the database project? Explain why.

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DQ1

Who would be the ideal candidate(s) from whom to elicit information during the requirements gathering and analysis phase of the database project? Explain why.

DQ2

Typically, a patient staying in a hospital receives medications that have been ordered by a particular doctor. Because the patient often receives several medications per day, there is a 1:M relationship between patient and order. Similarly, each order can include several medications, creating a 1:M relationship between order and medication.

Identify different entities from this scenario.

Create an entity-relationship diagram illustrating 1:1 and 1: many relationships.

Compare your ERD with another classmate’s and discuss the differences each of you had.

Can you further explain this – how does the model do this? Also, how will the two models in the PICOT statement help the patient? It seems the intervention would be referral to a counselor or provider compared to doing nothing. Thoughts?

Discussion

Carol, interesting post. You mention that “the Iowa model allows patients from low-income families to access critical medical services despite rising costs”. Can you further explain this – how does the model do this? Also, how will the two models in the PICOT statement help the patient? It seems the intervention would be referral to a counselor or provider compared to doing nothing. Thoughts?

Describe the importance of goal-setting and objective-setting in your agency. Outline the critical factors that precede goal setting. How does a nurse manage or /chief executive officer practice goal-setting and strategic planning within your agency?

Respond to each prompt with a minimum of 2 supporting references per prompt. Use prompts as headings to separate answers.

Prompt 1
Describe and demonstrate how to apply the Wise Forecast Model©.

Prompt 2
Describe the importance of goal-setting and objective-setting in your agency. Outline the critical factors that precede goal setting. How does a nurse manage or /chief executive officer practice goal-setting and strategic planning within your agency?

Prompt 3
Reflect upon your biggest take away from the Peace and Power book and how could you use it to improve community health?