Instead of America being a first world nation when it comes to healthcare, the effects created by COVID are now establishing us as a third world nation because of exposure, lack of resources, and staffing. What does that say about our system?

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Coronavirus and the Effects is Creating To Patients and Healthcare Professionals

Currently COVID-19 is killing people on a large scale. More than 7 million people across every state in the United States and its four territories have tested positive in the United States according to the New York Times database. Instead of America being a first world nation when it comes to healthcare, the effects created by COVID are now establishing us as a third world nation because of exposure, lack of resources, and staffing. What does that say about our system? It is unequivocal that this pandemic has led to a near total disruption of our social fabric. Global economics has been all but paralyzed. Under these circumstances, one can imagine the psychological toll is significant. This project will be explaining the two sides of it: the patient and the healthcare provider.

-Find at least 4 key points for each side: the patient and the healthcare provider

-Use ONLY peer-reviewed articles

Critically reflect on the skills of assessment in relation to patients who present with minor illness/injury, acknowledging the bio-psycho-social needs of the patient and their family were acknowledged and met.

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Emergency Care: Care of Minor Illness and Minor Injury

Minor illness

The below learning outcomes 1 2 and 4 must be met in minor illness and minor injury cases.

LO1  Apply knowledge of the pathophysiology of minor injury Apply your knowledge of the relevant pathophysiology and evidence based management relating to the minor illness you have chosen.

LO2  Critically reflect on the skills of assessment in relation to patients who present with minor illness/injury, acknowledging the bio-psycho-social needs of the patient and their family were acknowledged and met.

LO4  Examine the relevant evidence, clinical guidelines and healthcare policy which relate to therapeutic interventions you used to treat patient

Within this section you need to discuss a specific care episode you have been involved with relating to a patient presenting with a Minor Illness.

To preserve your word count and avoiding the need to tell the reader the story of what happened, running the risk the writing becoming too descriptive, we recommend that you place a description of the care episode within the appendices of your assignment and refer to it within the main body of your text.  You could “set the scene” within the main body of text however limit this to a couple of sentences.

Note this is not a critical reflection of how you performed when undertaking the assessment.  The work needs to critically discuss the application of assessment skills such as using a structured approach to the assessment e.g. SOAPE and symptom analysis tools such as SOCRATES.  What did the assessment process tell you about the patient’s condition and how did this help with the subsequent management.  Using a reflective model is NOT needed here and will result in the work being descriptive and not meeting the learning outcome.

It is imperative that you discuss the pathophysiology in depth what is happening down to cellular level  – what is going wrong and why, please do not discuss the normal pathophys as it can be taken that if you detail the abnormal (as in your case studies) then the normal is already known.  Guidelines and policies need covering i.e. NICE/JRCALC and specific ones to the presentation: Ottawa, local trust etc.  The assessment is essential: triage, consultation, symptom analysis tools and how these aid a structured approach.

Write a reaction to one of the following links on the NIDA website: amphetamines, cocaine, OR nicotine. What did you learn about amphetamines, cocaine, or nicotine that you did not know before?

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Amphetamines, Cocaine, or Nicotine

Write a reaction (100 words) to one of the following links on the NIDA website: amphetamines, cocaine, OR nicotine. What did you learn about amphetamines, cocaine, or nicotine that you did not know before? (10 points)

Write a 100-word response about the prevalence and risk factors associated with club drugs. (10 points)

Do you think these boycotts are effective? Why or why not? Have you ever considered boycotting a harmful industry or company? Is abstaining from certain foods more accessible for some people? Explain.

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Public Health

The current food system can be considered detrimental to the environment and to the health of people. This has resulted in more people getting involved in movements, such as going vegan, avoiding big brand products, and boycotting harmful industries and companies. Do you think these boycotts are effective? Why or why not? Have you ever considered boycotting a harmful industry or company? Is abstaining from certain foods more accessible for some people? Explain. What are some policies that the government can implement to reduce the unhealthful practices of food industries? What can governments do to keep these industries accountable? Do you believe that it is the government’s job to keep these industries accountable? What are some other ways we can make changes to the current food system? Do you believe that personal changes are enough?

Discuss how an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) within medical examinations can support learning, teaching and preparation for practice.

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Literature Review

Title: Discuss how an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) within medical examinations can support learning, teaching and preparation for practice.

References:

  • Harden R.M Stevenson M Downie W.W. Wilson, G.M 1975. Assessment of clinical competence  using objective structured examination. Br Med J 1, 447-451

Write 1 page reflecting on Social Cognitive Theory as a nurse practitioner. As you contemplate your future NP practice, how do you view your role in using this theory in practice? What are some barriers you see to implementing this theory in practice?

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Reflection on Learning

Write 1 page reflecting on Social Cognitive Theory as a nurse practitioner. As you contemplate your future NP practice, how do you view your role in using this theory in practice?

What are some barriers you see to implementing this theory in practice?

What are the typical causes and risk factors for your chosen pathology? Can you relate any of the typical risk factors to YOUR patient? Eg if the pathology normally affects males aged 50+, does your patient fall into this category?

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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

1.INTRODUCTION:
  • Brief overview of pathology- incidence statistics, population commonly affected, relative aggressiveness etc
  • Introduce your patient- age, gender etc (You may include other relevant information if you have it eg body habitus, smoking status, activity level)
  • How did your patient present to the hospital? Brief description of signs/symptoms
  • Signpost reader to key discussion points
2.ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY:
  • Make sure this is RELEVANT! In other words make sure that you discuss areas of anatomy which directly relate to your chosen pathology
  • Consider how the pathology might affect anatomical function
  • In the case of cancers, what is the normal path of metastatic spread? Discuss this in the context of the anatomical relations of the organ/tissue
3.AETIOLOGY:
  • What are the typical causes and risk factors for your chosen pathology?
  • Can you relate any of the typical risk factors to YOUR patient? Eg if the pathology normally affects males aged 50+, does your patient fall into this category?

How do you feel when you’re working with them? What do you admire about them? How are you able to contribute to the care of the clients? How do they teach? Boundaries? Respect? Communication?

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Letter to my best friend

Assignment:

This is a letter to your best friend, (or person really close to your heart) about the midwifery preceptorship you are currently “in” (in the present moment) It’s the MOST AMAZING preceptorship you could have ever imagined! An absolute dream! Exceeding your expectations!

You’re going to describe who and how it’s so fantastic! How do you feel when you’re working with them? What do you admire about them? How are you able to contribute to the care of the clients? How do they teach? Boundaries? Respect? Communication?

The whole picture! Describe it in AS MUCH detail as possible! Take your time! Brainstorm, re-write, whatever. The important thing is you write in the context of it is already a reality!

What are the sociodemographic, health and lifestyle characteristics of your sample participants? Describing your sample is the first part of your analysis and comes first in the report results. Think about why it is important to get a description of the sample before you present results from hypothesis testing.

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Socio-demographic and general health

Provides detailed help with:
• Assignment Instructions
• Setting out your report
• Mark scheme for the assignment
• Calculating a Sample Size for Proportions or t Tests

The required data set will be sent to you by email. Each student has their own dataset which will not be exactly the same as anyone else’s.
The SPSS file (which will be named with your own name) contains data from 500 individuals. All variables are fully explained in the “Variable View” window. Use these data to plan your descriptive and inferential analyses to address the assignment set out in the steps below. You will present the results in the form of a statistical report. You will find an outline and instructions for the statistical report in the file named ‘P44616 – Data Analysis and Interpretation: How to write a statistical report’ (Assignment Folder on Moodle).

Step 1:
Get to know your data. Look at the variables and see what they are measuring and what types of data you have to analyse.

Step 2:
Plan and describe how you will summarise the socio-demographic and general health of the sample (descriptive statistics). Think about the following points: What summary statistics will you use for which kinds of data? What data will you put in tables and/or graphs? How will you assess the suitability of each of these methods? What assumptions are they based on? How will you treat each variable?
What are the sociodemographic, health and lifestyle characteristics of your sample participants? Describing your sample is the first part of your analysis and comes first in the report results. Think about why it is important to get a description of the sample before you present results from hypothesis testings.

Step 3:
Develop a series of hypotheses that can be tested using the different types of statistical tests below. What would be the hypotheses? What tests will you do and why? Explain why the statistical techniques that you will use are appropriate. (Hint: weeks 3-10). If you decide to create new variables, describe how you will do so and why you chose each method of doing so. (Hint: see information in weeks 1-4)

• Select two categorical variables that are of interest to you and perform an appropriate univariate statistical test. Explain why the statistical test that you have used is appropriate, show the results and report your conclusion. Repeat this again using two new categorical variables or one new outcome (dependent) variable for the same potential explanatory (independent) variable.

• Select a variable with two or three categories and investigate how the values of another continuous (scale) variable differ between categories. You may choose to create a new variable with two, three, or more categories from an existing continuous or categorical variable. (Example: blood pressure and gender or blood pressure and BMI categorised as normal, overweight, obese.) Repeat this again with another pair of variables that will lead to a nonparametric test if possible. (Hint: explore the data to look for skewed distributions of a continuous variable).

• Perform a multiple linear regression analysis to find those independent variables (continuous and categorical) that are significantly related to systolic blood pressure at the 5% significance level.
Use Enter method to add potential risk factors.
Data Analysis and Interpretation: How to write your statistical report
Formatting for your report and word count
Reports should be typed in at least point 12 font using a standard legible font style such as Calibri, Times New Roman, Arial or similar. A size 10 font may be used for tables. Number the pages of your report and use 1.5 spacing.
Word count (excludes title page, reference list and appendices): No more than 3,500 words
Note that anything over the word limit will incur a penalty by loss of marks. Please state the word count at the end of your assignment – these will be checked.

Writing your report
An important part of the process of science is the communication of results to the wider scientific community in a more or less standard format. You need to learn this format, and how to write up the results of your studies within it.
These general guidelines aim to assist you in developing your report writing skills.
Your report should follow the general plan of a research paper in a Public Health journal. It should give the rationale for your research, methods, results and implications of your findings. These descriptions and explanations must be full, precise and concise. This is to allow efficient communication of your research findings and to allow other researchers to repeat your study. Therefore, you have to squeeze a lot of information into a short report which is nevertheless easy to read.

Is psychological health as important to our overall wellbeing as physical health? Why might someone hide a psychological health condition or refuse to seek treatment? What can be done to reduce the stigma surrounding psychological health conditions? What is the importance of spiritual health? What are you currently doing – or what would you consider doing – to cultivate your spiritual health?

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Various dimensions of psychological health

Discuss the various dimensions of psychological health. Is psychological health as important to our overall wellbeing as physical health? Why might someone hide a psychological health condition or refuse to seek treatment? What can be done to reduce the stigma surrounding psychological health conditions? What is the importance of spiritual health? What are you currently doing – or what would you consider doing – to cultivate your spiritual health?