Discuss results for your institution for the selected criteria from the nursing unit level perspective compared to the two (2) other local hospitals and state and national data.

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Develop plan for a change based on hospital data.

Go to the following website: HHS Hospital Compare website: (Links to an external site.)

Find data for three (3) area hospitals (one can be the hospital where you work and 2 other local hospitals- Cape coral-Fort Myers-Naples area, Florida). You will then compare this data to national and your state (Florida) data through the Hospital Compare site. You will need to explore this site to locate the comparison tables. You will need to click through several screens to get the required data. Select either the Survey of Patient’s Experiences OR the Timely and Effective Care tab to prepare your paper.

Your paper will focus on only the information within ONE TAB (Patient Care Experiences OR Timely & Effective Care).

Your paper will address the following information:

1. The purposes of the data collection by the U.S. government. Include information on the impact these scores have on hospital operations, finances, quality, safety.

2. Select one specific question (HCAHPS) or care issue from the collated results. Discuss results for your institution for the selected criteria from the nursing unit level perspective compared to the two (2) other local hospitals and state and national data. Include the data you found for this one question. Do not use all the hospitals in ONE system(i.e. You would not use Lee Memorial, Cape Coral Hospital, and Gulf Coast Hospital because they are all part of Lee Health). For example, can use Gulf Coast Medical center, NCH Hospital, and Physician Reginal. Did you identify a gap in practice that needs improvement and could improve the score?

3. Develop a concrete plan using Smart Goals from to improve the score you selected for change. This section should be the focus of your paper. YOU MUST USE THE INFORMATION (Plan-Do-Study-Act) (ATTACHED BELOW under files) TO DEVELOP PLAN

What are the five universal family characteristics that community health nurses must recognize? How can community nurses incorporate these into their practice>? Choose two of the five attributes of families as social systems and explain how they relate to family functioning.

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Family as a client

Complete the following case study. Your response should be a minimum of 250 words and include two peer-reviewed nursing or medical journals from the last five years.  You may use your textbook, but it should not substitute for one of your scholarly references.  Include a title page, in-text citations and a reference page in APA format.  Refer to the case study grading rubric for guidance. You must answer each question included in the case study.

Case Study:

The family as the unit of service has received increasing emphasis in nursing over the years. Today, family nursing has an important place in nursing practice, particularly in community health nursing. The community health nurse is reviewing the key concepts about the theoretical basis for family health. Answer the following question about family characteristics and the stages of the family life cycle.

  1. What are the five universal family characteristics that community health nurses must recognize? How can community nurses incorporate these into their practice>?
  2. Choose two of the five attributes of families as social systems and explain how they relate to family functioning.
  3. The community health nurse is sitting in a living room talking with a young mother about her new infant. Which stage in the family life cycle is this young mother with a new infant in? Support your answer.
  4. What are the six basic functions of a family?

Scholarly Writing:

    • Write in third person (Avoid I, me, my)
    • Times New Roman 12 font
    • Double-space with 1-inch margins on all sides
    • Indent the first line of each paragraph
    • Use APA formatting for citations and references (See APA Quick Start Guide)
    • Use upper and lower case
    • Accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation
    • Include page numbers

 

Explain something that you would have handled differently. What is an insight that you gained from watching the therapist handle the group therapy? Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member?   

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To prepare:
• Select one of the group therapy video demonstrations from this week’s required media Learning Resources.

The Assignment
In a 3- to 4-page paper, identify the video you selected and address the following:
• What group therapy techniques were demonstrated? How well do you believe these techniques were demonstrated?
• What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated?
• What did you notice that the therapist did well?
• Explain something that you would have handled differently.
• What is an insight that you gained from watching the therapist handle the group therapy?
• Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member?      •  How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?
• Support your reasoning with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources, and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Identify the age-group (grade school, middle school or high school) that you are interested in. Contact the school nurse/administrator/teacher at the appropriate school and choose an age-appropriate topic to present as a health-related educational offering based on community needs.

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Pediatric Nursing Teaching Plan

Instructions for Educational Offering

Upon completion of this assignment, the student will be able to:

  • Consult and collaborate with a community-based health care professional (school nurse)
  • Plan and write an outline of a health-related educational offering
  • Utilize the principles of growth and development in constructing a teaching strategy
  • Present a health-related educational offering to share with school age kids (handout, flyer, notecard, poster etc.)

Steps of Process

  1. Identify the age-group (grade school, middle school or high school) that you are interested in.
  2. Contact the school nurse/administrator/teacher at the appropriate school and choose an age-appropriate topic to present as a health-related educational offering based on community needs.
  3. Write a rough-draft of your educational presentation in OUTLINE FORMAT
  4. Write a teaching plan that includes rationales for strategies related to Growth &Development citing the developmental theorists

    Note: Each “teaching point” must have at least one corresponding teaching strategy on your Teaching Plan

 

  1. Finalize your outline so that it includes:
    • Subjects to be covered in presentation/educational piece
    • Order in which subjects will be addressed

 

  • Finalize you teaching plan so that it includes:
    • Each separate teaching point
    • Teaching strategy for each teaching point (same strategy may be used for more than one teaching point)
    • YOUR rationale for selecting strategy related to the needs and characteristics of age children you have chosen
    • Description of how your teaching project/activity is responsive to community needs
    • References in APA format

 

Describe your overall growth as to how you have grown professionally and academically from an RN to a BSN-prepared nurse. Provide some example to illustrate your narrative if necessary.

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Personal Growth, Acquired Knowledge, Competencies, and Applications

Instructions:

Reflect on your journey throughout the BSN program – specifically to your growth (academically and professionally) as well as the competencies in the areas that are tied to the program learning outcomes:

  • Professionalism
  • Ethical, legal & cultural considerations, sensitivity & practices
  • Evidence-based nursing practice and its utilization to promote, maintain, and restore health
  • Health maintenance and enhancement of patients, families, and communities
  • Leadership & Management

Compose an essay that must be a minimum of 700 words,

— describing your overall growth as to how you have grown professionally and academically from an RN to a BSN-prepared nurse. Provide some example to illustrate your narrative if necessary.

— discussing each of the areas of competency listed above to demonstrate how you have applied, are applying, or plan to apply your knowledge/competencies acquired from the BSN program to your practice.

This essay, along with the other pieces of work required to be in your ePortfolio, will be used to determine your level of achievements of meeting all the RN-BSN program learning outcomes. Therefore, refrain from any *fillers* in this essay but be clear, concise, direct, and specific to your reflection and examples.

 

 

Explain how interdisciplinary theories impact on the metaparadigm of nursing.

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Interdisciplinary theories

Explain how interdisciplinary theories impact on the metaparadigm of nursing.

 

Explain how the integrative-interactive paradigm impacts grand theories and the metaparadigm in nursing.

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Integrative-interactive paradigm

Explain how the integrative-interactive paradigm impacts grand theories and the metaparadigm in nursing.

Explain how the unitary-transformative theoretical approaches impact grand theories and the metaparadigm in nursing.

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Unitary-transformative theoretical

Explain how the unitary-transformative theoretical approaches impact grand theories and the metaparadigm in nursing.

Propose strategies for disseminating your evidence-based practice project proposal. Consider the necessary stakeholders who need to review or approve the proposal (both internal and external) and what methods you will use to communicate.

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Week 7DQ1-DQ2- 590

DQ1-

Propose strategies for disseminating your evidence-based practice project proposal. Consider the necessary stakeholders who need to review or approve the proposal (both internal and external) and what methods you will use to communicate.

DQ2
After implementation, dissemination of the evidence-based practice outcomes is essential for evaluating the success of the project for ensuring sustainability. Propose strategies that you could use for disseminating the outcomes of your evidence-based practice project proposal. Consider what information would need to be communicated, which stakeholders would need to be involved and the communication methods that would be needed.

Describe the critical role of health information exchange in patient care at an organization level (across all facilities), statewide level, and national level. How do the goals of each vary and how is quality of care enhanced?

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Week7 DQ1-DQ2 615

DQ1-Identify the principal barriers to health information exchange. What impact do these barriers have on health information exchange?

DQ2 Describe the critical role of health information exchange in patient care at an organization level (across all facilities), statewide level, and national level. How do the goals of each vary and how is quality of care enhanced?