Select one of the articles found under Additional Resources and examine how the information presented may impact your nursing practice and help you understand the stigma associated with obesity.

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Obesity Bias

What would you say to the nurse who told Mrs. L, “I am sure that delaying your lunch until we get you settled won’t hurt you a bit?” How can the nurse who made these statements improve her biases: “Isn’t it sad that all she can seem to focus on is her lunch? She needs to be on a strict diet.”

Also,
Select one of the articles found under Additional Resources and examine how the information presented may impact your nursing practice and help you understand the stigma associated with obesity.

Additional Resources:

• Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review.
FitzGerald C, Hurst S.BMC Med Ethics. 2017 Mar 1;18(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s12910-017-0179-8.PMID: 28249596 Free PMC article. Review.
• Exploring unconscious bias in disparities research and medical education.
van Ryn M, Saha S.JAMA. 2011 Sep 7;306(9):995-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1275.PMID: 21900142 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
• Avoiding unconscious bias.
Rimmer A.BMJ. 2016 Aug 10;354:i4366. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i4366.PMID: 27511864 No abstract available.
• Cultural sensitvty, unconscious bias and quality of health care.
Kale S, Hong CS.J Fam Health. 2017 Mar;27(2):28-31.PMID: 29727105 No abstract available.
• The Efficacy of an Antioppression Curriculum for Health Professionals.
Wu D, Saint-Hilaire L, Pineda A, Hessler D, Saba GW, Salazar R, Olayiwola N.Fam Med. 2019 Jan 7;51(1):22-30. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.227415.PMID: 30412265

Compare and contrast this culture with your own culture. Provide examples of the historical, socioeconomic, political, educational, and topographical aspects of this culture.

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 Diverse and Culturally-Specific Approaches to Healthcare.

For this assignment, you will examine the role of the nurse as a culturally diverse practitioner. Identify your target audience (i.e. staff nurses, pre-licensure nursing students, etc.) and create a PowerPoint presentation.

A nurse educator is preparing an orientation on culture and the workplace. There is a need to address the many cultures that seek healthcare services and how to better understand the culture. Choose a culture that you feel less knowledgeable about and address the following prompts by including two to three examples of each bullet point:

• Compare and contrast this culture with your own culture.
• Provide examples of the historical, socioeconomic, political, educational, and topographical aspects of this culture.
• Report the appropriate interdisciplinary interventions for hereditary, genetic, and endemic diseases and high-risk health behaviors within this culture.
• Determine the influences of their value systems on childbearing and bereavement practices.
• Name their sources of strength, spirituality, and magico-religious beliefs associated with health and health care.
• Outline health-care practices, including acute versus preventive care; barriers to health care; the meaning of pain and the sick role; and traditional folk medicine practices.
• Identify cultural issues related to learning styles, autonomy, and educational preparation of content for this culture.

Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.

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Ubiquitous and the Pharmacological disorders

USE AS REFERANCES-at least 2
The following guidelines will be helpful for this week:
JNC 8 Guidelines for the treatment of hypertension in adults
ACC/AHA national cholesterol treatment guidelines
ACC/AHA/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS Focused Update of the Guideline for Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, and
the ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure
These disorders are ubiquitous and the pharmacological principles that direct their treatment can be extremely valuable in any capacity as an APN.

The Case Study for this week’s paper is the below. The instructions will ask you to discuss patient factors such as behavior, age, and ethnicity. Since these factors are not provided, you can create your own and discuss how they would affect this patient’s clinical picture and treatment.
Patient AO has a history of obesity and has recently gained 9 pounds. The patient has been diagnosed with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Drugs currently prescribed include the following:
Atenolol 12.5 mg daily
Doxazosin 8 mg daily
Hydralazine 10 mg qid
Sertraline 25 mg daily
Simvastatin 80 mg daily

 

1.Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.

2. Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.

3. Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan, and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.

DESCRIBE A LEADER WHOM YOU HAVE SEEN USE BEHAVIORS AND SKILLS, OR A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE SEEN THESE BEHAVIORS AND SKILLS USED IN PRACTICE.

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LEADERSHIP THEORIES IN PRACTICE

TO PREPARE:

(A) REVIEW THE RESOURCES AND EXAMINE THE LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND BEHAVIORS INTRODUCED

(B) IDENTIFY TWO TO THREE SCHOLARLY RESOURCES, IN ADDITION TO THESE MODULES READINGS, THAT EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS IN CREATING HEALTHY WORK ENVIRONMENTS.

(C) Reflect on the leadership BEHAVIORS PRESENTED IN THE THREE RESOURCES YOU SELECTED FOR REVIEW.

THE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS ARE :

(1)WRITE TWO KEY INSIGHTS YOU HAD FROM THE SCHOLARLY RESOURCES YOU SELECTED.

(2) DESCRIBE A LEADER WHOM YOU HAVE SEEN USE BEHAVIORS AND SKILLS, OR A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE SEEN THESE BEHAVIORS AND SKILLS USED IN PRACTICE.

(3) BE SPECIFIC AND PROVIDE EXAMPLES

(4) THEN, EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THESE SKILLS WERE EFFECTIVE AND HOW THEIR PRACTICE IMPACTED THE WORKPLACE.
ANSWER ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION. PROVIDE THREE REFERENCES. WRITE CLEARLY AND CONCISELY WITH NO GRAMMAR OR SPELLING ERRORS USING CURRENT APA MANUAL WRITING RULES AND STYLE.

(5) RESPOND TO TWO CLASSMATES BY EXPLAINING HOW THE LEADERSHIP SKILLS THEY DESCRIBED MAY IMPACT YOUR ORGANIZATION OR YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP, or by identifying challenges YOU SEE IN APPLYING THE SKILLS DESCRIBED. PLEASE GIVE TWO REFERENCES EACH FOR THE CLASSMATE RESPONSES. HYPOTHETICAL RESPONSES ARE OKAY.

How successful is CBT in improving the mood of adolescents with a diagnoses of depression.

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Improving the mood of adolescents

How successful is CBT in improving the mood of adolescents with a diagnoses of depression.

Identify and describe a relevant capital purchase this unit may require, including the need, the return on investment, benefits, etc.

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An operational budget presentation

Assessment Description

The purpose of this assignment is to create an operational budget presentation identifying key components of budgeting and possible capital purchases that may be required.

Scenario: You have been asked to create an operational budget for a 20-bed nursing unit and present it to the senior leaders of your organization.

Create a presentation of 10-12 slides, including comprehensive speaker notes that detail the budget.

Provide the key components of budgeting, including the cost of staff, activities, services, and supplies.

Identify and describe a relevant capital purchase this unit may require, including the need, the return on investment, benefits, etc.

Use at least three references, including your textbook.

How do you define “excellence” in leadership? Do a mirror test and reply on your findings of answering the question: are you doing your best? how could you improve your performance?

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Discussion of self improvement

How do you define “excellence” in leadership? Do a mirror test and reply on your findings of answering the question: are you doing your best? how could you improve your performance?

2. How will you continue to enhance your leadership skills?

what is your personal vision for your leadership goals? what actions will you take to achieve your goals? this is an example of your preferred future.

3. If you had a magic wand and could make the nursing profession how you want it to be, what would it look like?

How will you use the information in your professional practice? Has this course changed your views of leadership? What are some ways that you could support your leadership as you move forward professionally?

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Reflection paper

Assignment – Reflection of this course paper- This paper allows you to reflect back on the past 7.5 weeks and write about how this class helped you to grow professionally and how you will apply some of the concepts you have learned about into your professional practice. No more than 2 pages in length.
How did this course help you professionally? (write about learning different types of leaderships)
What was your favorite assignment in the course? (servant leadership)
How will you use the information in your professional practice? Has this course changed your views of leadership? What are some ways that you could support your leadership as you move forward professionally?
Discuss anything that you would change, add to or delete from this course

Provide two strategies a nursing leader can apply to reach a successful resolution to the conflict.

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Workplace conflict

• Consider the healthcare work environment and identify two specific sources of conflict.
1. nursing burnout
2. workplace bullying
• Provide two strategies a nursing leader can apply to reach a successful resolution to the conflict.

Identify any other relevant population characteristics in relation to this population e.g. ethnicity; deprivation; gender

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Human life

How to present this is your assignment:-
State who your target population is ‘ In a life stage
Identify the how many peFe are in population within your local geographical area; with possible trends
Identify any other relevant population characteristics in relation to this population e.g. ethnicity; deprivation; gender