Category: Nursing

 What type(s) of infections does the pathogen cause? Are the infections associated with a particular body location or system?Are there typical “risk factors” associated with infections with this pathogen? For example, some pathogens target mainly children, some target immunosuppressed individuals.

Shigella (Pathogen )

Consider what makes your pathogen pathogenic!

What are the key virulence factors?

Are there typical “risk factors” associated with infections with this pathogen? For example, some pathogens target mainly children, some target immunosuppressed individuals.

What type(s) of infections does the pathogen cause? Are the infections associated with a particular body location or system?

Does it cause opportunistic infections?

What are the outcomes of infection? What makes this pathogen a health problem?

What are the typical host responses to your pathogen? ie) does it cause
inflammation? Immunosuppression? Septic shock? Are there long-term consequences (sequelae) for survivors?

Antibiotic and disinfectant resistance and susceptibility

What is known about the range of antibiotic/antiviral drug or disinfectant resistance of this pathogen?

What types of antimicrobial agents are effective against this pathogen?

Are specific sterilization and disinfection routines in place for dealing with this pathogen in healthcare settings?

Explain how EBP, research, and PI would be utilized to address the issue.Discuss which organizational culture considerations will be essential to the success of your work.

 

Briefly describe the issue and associated challenges.

Explain how EBP, research, and PI would be utilized to address the issue.

Explain the PI or QI process you would apply and discuss why you chose it.

Describe your data sources, including outcome and process data.

Explain how the data will be captured and disseminated.

Discuss which organizational culture considerations will be essential to the success of your work.

What trends do you see for each quality measure over the 5-year period? When comparing each quality measure, is the quality measure better than, worse than, or no different from the national benchmark over time?

Assignment

What conclusions can be drawn for each quality measure over the 5-year period?

What trends do you see for each quality measure over the 5-year period?
When comparing each quality measure, is the quality measure better than, worse than, or no different from the national benchmark over time?

Based on your examination of the data, which of the quality measures should you prioritize and why?

Develop a quality improvement metric and related measures to improve care processes, outcomes, and the patient experience relating to the identified area of opportunity.

Explain how you would monitor the metric and use collected data for improvement.

Identify at least two stakeholder agency reporting sources. How do these external reporting groups contribute to or hinder CQI?

Identify at least two stakeholder agency reporting sources. How do these external reporting groups contribute to or hinder CQI?

You are going to present data that have been collected to your administrative group. The focus is on outcome measures and the data collected are unplanned readmission rates at two different hospitals. What format would you choose to display your data and why? What information would you include with the data?

What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?

Focused SOAP Note for Schizophrenia Spectrum, Other Psychotic, and Medication-Induced Movement Disorders

What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?

What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?

Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses?

Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, and list them in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5 criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis.

Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.

What is your plan for psychotherapy? What is your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies?

What would you do differently with this patient if you could conduct the session again?

Discuss what your next intervention would be if you were able to follow up with this patient. Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion, and disease prevention, taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).

Explain the role of the community health nurse within the planned health promotion program.

Development of a Community Health Promotion Program

Describe your target community and provide the rational for the development of a community health promotion program.

Consider using a program logic model or similarly structured overview (as an appendix) to present the program goals, objectives and outcome data in detail.

Evaluate two selected health promotion approaches. Include rational for incorporating these approaches and provide an overview of each approach in the assessment, planning and evaluation phases of the planned health promotion program.

Summarize the strengths and limitations of these two approaches in relation to your health promotion program.

Explain the role of the community health nurse within the planned health promotion program.

 What is the body mass index (BMI) of this student nurse population and how does it compare with other populations?

Developing scientific principle

What are the physical activity levels of student nurses and how do
they compare with the general population?

What is the body mass index (BMI) of this student nurse population
and how does it compare with other populations?

Is there a relationship between participation in physical activity and
self-reported levels of self-esteem, life satisfaction, anxiety and
depression?

Is there a relationship between BMI, physical activity and mental
well-being indicators?

Identify two people, at two different levels (upstream, lateral, downstream) that you need to communicate with for your project and compare/contrast your communication with them based on each of the five rights of communication.

Davis Week 4
Communication in Project Management

The recipient of your communication may be upstream (higher on the organizational chart), lateral (an equal organizationally), or downstream (i.e. end user) in relation to the project. A student in a prior CGE course compared communication in project management to the five rights of medication administration…we need to give:

The right person
The right information
(via) the right route
(at) the right time
(in) the right dose

Identify two people, at two different levels (upstream, lateral, downstream) that you need to communicate with for your project and compare/contrast your communication with them based on each of the five rights of communication.