Decide on a career that you would like into the future, either in the state of Iowa or in another. Look into this career, and if applicable view any of criteria needed or boards that certify you.

Future Professional Career

Decide on a career that you would like into the future, either in the state of Iowa or in another. Look into this career, and if applicable view any of criteria needed or boards that certify you.

 

Does prolonged wearing of PPE gowns for direct nursing care of civid-19 patients negatively influence nurses’ health and professional practice?

Nurses’ health and professional practice

Does prolonged wearing of PPE gowns for direct nursing care of covid-19 patients negatively influence nurses’ health and professional practice?

Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks. Analyzes usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration. Provides specific examples of utility in the context of a specific health care setting.

Communication in the health care environment

For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan.

Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015). As health care organizations and nurses strive to create a culture of safety and quality care, the importance of interprofessional collaboration, the development of tool kits, and the use of wikis become more relevant and vital. In addition to the dissemination of information and evidence-based findings and the development of tool kits, continuous support for and availability of such resources are critical. Among the most popular methods to promote ongoing dialogue and information sharing are blogs, wikis, websites, and social media. Nurses know how to support people in time of need or crisis and how to support one another in the workplace; wikis in particular enable nurses to continue that support beyond the work environment. Here they can be free to share their unique perspectives, educate others, and promote health care wellness at local and global levels (Kaminski, 2016).

You are encouraged to complete the Determining the Relevance and Usefulness of Resources activity prior to developing the repository. This activity will help you determine which resources or research will be most relevant to address a particular need. This may be useful as you consider how to explain the purpose and relevance of the resources you are assembling for your tool kit. The activity is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates course engagement.

Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
Identifies necessary resources to support the implementation and sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration. Organizes resources logically for ease of use.

Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
Analyzes usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration. Provides specific examples of utility in the context of a specific health care setting.

Competency 3: Analyzes the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality, identifying those that may be most valuable for reducing patient safety risk or improving quality with medication administration.

Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs. Uses persuasive, engaging language to present compelling reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit use by its target audience.

Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
Present reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.

Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings. Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers .

Community health plans

Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1–2 paragraphs).
Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess(2–3 paragraphs).

Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers (2–3 paragraphs).
Your paper should be 2 pages in length, not including the cover and reference pages. Use APA throughout.

How do you plan to learn from your mentor working alongside them? As a student what have you understand about community nursing and how will you work with multidisciplinary team collaboratively?

Student to identify learning and developments needs

Outline what you plan to achieve working in the community in the next three months in adult care looking after pt with wound, elderly, frail living in own homes, independly, ensuring medication are taken, safety is paramount incident.

How do you plan to learn from your mentor working alongside them? As a student what have you understand about community nursing and how will you work with multidisciplinary team collaboratively?

Explain in detail how you will commit to the demands and responsibilities of a nursing program

Nursing program

Explain in detail how you will commit to the demands and responsibilities of a nursing program

Does maintaining nurse patient ratios, limiting overtime, and providing staff with mental health support, reduce burnout and improve the quality of care?

Prevention of burning among nurses

PICOT Question:
Does maintaining nurse patient ratios, limiting overtime, and providing staff with mental health support, reduce burnout and improve the quality of care?

Do you believe that Mr. Snowshoe being Aboriginal played a part in the way he was treated within the prison system? Or, do you think that mental health was a stronger determining factor in his treatment?

Discussion Board

Question: Do you believe that Mr. Snowshoe being Aboriginal played a part in the way he was treated within the prison system? Or, do you think that mental health was a stronger determining factor in his treatment?

Explain your answer using 2 nursing ethical articles and an ethical theory to defend your answer.

Explain your ethical concerns and suggest ways to reduce the deaths of prisoners in solitary confinement. Your position needs to be supported by ethical reasoning and evidence-based practice. Read the story about Eddie Snowshoe published in the Globe and Mail. Here is the link:

If you had to design a new nursing curriculum, how should the teachings of Florence Nightingale and/or her Environmental Model be included as part of our nursing discourse, if at all?

Nursing Theory short answer questions

Question #1: If you had to design a new nursing curriculum, how should the teachings of Florence Nightingale and/or her Environmental Model be included as part of our nursing discourse, if at all?

You are preparing a teaching plan for this patient. What are the points that you would include based on the scenario? What are the nursing responsibilities for this patient? What instructions should be included for follow-up visits and signs of potential complications?

Obstetric Case Study

M.S. is a 46 y/o African American who presents to the prenatal clinic alone for her second visit. Her last LMP was 07/22/20. This is pregnancy number six. She had deliveries at 34.3, 36.2, 38.5 and 37.6 weeks and a spontaneous abortion with a dilatation and curettage at 8 weeks in 2006.  She reports mild contractions that started the previous evening. She took Motrin twice to stop the pain and had good results. She has no vaginal bleeding and feels the baby moving; She also reports nasal stuffiness, and not feeling like eating breakfast on most mornings; her antepartum course has been significant for prenatal labs with an elevated glucose challenge test followed by a normal glucose tolerance test and a brief hospitalization @ 22 weeks for dehydration due to gastroenteritis.

Her Gyn history: she was diagnosed with HPV in 1994, and has no fibroids or ovarian cysts; her past medical history is significant for hypothyroidism, and her medications include Synthroid 88 mcg, prenatal vitamins; she gets a rash from sulfa containing medications, and a family history is significant for a maternal grandfather with CHF and a paternal aunt with post-menopausal breast cancer; her social history is significant for a 15 pack-year history of smoking cigarettes ending prior to her first pregnancy; no alcohol or drugs; her review of systems is significant for generalized fatigue and constipation.

Physical exam: she is alert and in mild discomfort with contractions; vital signs are stable; there is murmur loudest over the left lower sternal border; her abdomen is soft, gravid and non-tender; fundal height is 30 cm, NST reactive, vaginal exam is 2 cm/40% /-2; the fetal heart rate has a baseline of 130’s with accelerations and no decelerations; there are 30 second contractions every six minutes; extremities have no edema. Terbutaline was ordered and she has not had any contractions for 24 hours. Pt was sent home with instructions.

  1. Calculate her EDD/EDB. – Show calculation
  2. What is her gestational age?
  3. Document her pregnancies. Use the 5-digit and the 2-digit methods.
  4. List 3 NANDA diagnoses (include related to and AEB). List two interventions for each nursing diagnosis with rationales (cite source).
  5. What are risk factors for this patient?
  6. Is this pregnancy progressing normally? – include supporting data
  7. List the medications the patient is taking.
    1. Are these medications appropriate? If no, which ones? Provide rationale.
    2. What are the nursing responsibilities for each medication?
  8. You are preparing a teaching plan for this patient. What are the points that you would include based on the scenario?
  9. What are the nursing responsibilities for this patient?
  10. What instructions should be included for follow-up visits and signs of potential complications?