Discuss how these four (4) factors can contribute to patients and families displaying aggression (400 words).

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Workplace violence in nursing
Nurse not showing empathy and not being genuine in listening to patient and forcing their assumption or opinion on the patient

Negative body language: staring, invading personal space; defensive body posture such as arm crossed

No active listening by nurse; constantly interrupting, talking over the patient and raising voice and defensive tone and Sarcastic remarks

Instruct the person to calm down and use of physical force

Using the literature to inform your response, discuss how these four (4) factors can contribute to patients and families displaying aggression (400 words).

Using the literature to inform your response, identify and discuss two (2) strategies or behaviors that could have been used to de-escalate Ben in his situation.

Within your answer, provide an evidence-based rationale for the use of each strategy/behavior, with support from the literature. (300 words per strategy/behavior)

Explain how these affect nursing practice and describe the expectations and responsibilities of the nursing role in these situations.

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Health Care Delivery Models and Nursing Practice   

Examine changes introduced to reform or restructure the U.S. health care delivery system.

In a 1,000-1,250 word paper, discuss action taken for reform and restructuring and the role of the nurse within this changing environment.
Include the following:

Outline a current or emerging health care law or federal regulation introduced to reform or restructure some aspect of the health care delivery system.

Describe the effect of this on nursing practice and the nurse’s role and responsibility.

Discuss how quality measures and pay for performance affect patient outcomes.

Explain how these affect nursing practice and describe the expectations and responsibilities of the nursing role in these situations.

Discuss professional nursing leadership and management roles that have arisen and how they are important in responding to emerging trends and in the promotion of patient safety and quality care in diverse health care settings.

Research emerging trends. Predict two ways in which the practice of nursing and nursing roles will grow or transform within the next five years to respond to upcoming trends or predicted issues in health care.

Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.

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Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet

Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.

Consider the role of the nurse informatics in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA).

Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.

The Assignment: (1 page not including the title and reference page)

Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:

Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.

Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.

Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.

Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.

How might you apply what you have learned about critically reading research articles in the future?

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Reflection assignment

1.How has your understanding of statistics evolved since the beginning of the course?

2.What are the next questions you want to find answers to now?

3.How will the knowledge you have gained in this course inform your personal and professional life?

4.How might you apply what you have learned about critically reading research articles in the future?

5.What is the purpose of the Institutional Review Boards (LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFik0of3iUM)? Why is it important to have regulations surrounding research involving human subjects?

Analyze your selected health concern and the associated best practices for health improvement.

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Description

Complete the following:

Identify a health concern as the focus of your care coordination plan. In your plan, please include physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs. Possible health concerns may include, but are not limited to:

Stroke.

Heart disease (high blood pressure, stroke, or heart failure).

Home safety.

Pulmonary disease (COPD or fibrotic lung disease).

Orthopedic concerns (hip replacement or knee replacement).

Cognitive impairment (Alzheimer’s disease or dementia).

Pain management.

Mental health.

Trauma.

Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.

Document Format and Length

Your preliminary plan should be an APA scholarly paper, 3–4 pages in length.

Remember to use active voice, this means being direct and writing concisely; as opposed to passive voice, which means writing with a tendency to wordiness.

In your paper include possible community resources that can be used.

Be sure to review the scoring guide to make sure all criteria are addressed in your paper.

Study the subtle differences between basic, proficient, and distinguished.

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least two credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications that support your preliminary plan.

Grading Requirements

The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Preliminary Care Coordination Plan Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Analyze your selected health concern and the associated best practices for health improvement.

Cite supporting evidence for best practices.

Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.

Describe specific goals that should be established to address the health care problem.

Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.

Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Write with a specific purpose with your patient in mind.

Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and current APA formatting requirements.

Identify two leadership theories/models/approaches and critically review and discuss their application to a healthcare setting of your choice.

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Identify two leadership theories/models/approaches and critically review and discuss their application to a healthcare setting of your choice.

Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities.

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VARK analysis pager

Learning styles represent the different approaches to learning based on preferences, weaknesses, and strengths. For learners to best achieve the desired educational outcome, learning styles must be considered when creating a plan. Complete “The VARK Questionnaire,” located on the VARK website, and then complete the following:

Click “OK” to receive your questionnaire scores.

Once you have determined your preferred learning style, review the corresponding link to view your learning preference.

Review the other learning styles: visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic, and multimodal (listed on the VARK Questionnaire Results page).

Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.

Examine how awareness of learning styles has influenced your perceptions of teaching and learning.

In a paper (750-1,000 words), summarize your analysis of this exercise and discuss the overall value of learning styles. Include the following:

Provide a summary of your learning style according the VARK questionnaire.

Describe your preferred learning strategies. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.

Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities. Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners.

Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?

Cite to at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Identify and discuss ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns relating to the problem.

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This week you will identify the focus of your project and anticipate the ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns that may arise.

The influence of culture in the Philadelphia Hispanic community and the utilization of Hospice within the Latino community.

For this assignment, you will write in the order of the headings:

Define the problem.

Identify the problem to be addressed and the setting in which it occurs.

Summarize and briefly discuss your proposal to address the problem.

Identify and discuss ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns relating to the problem.

Explain why you chose the problem.

 

Describe priorities that a care coordinator would establish when discussing the plan with a patient and family member, making changes based upon evidence-based practice.

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Final Care Coordination Plan

In this assessment, you will evaluate the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1 using best practices found in the literature.

To prepare for your assessment, you will research the literature on your selected health care problem. You will describe the priorities that a care coordinator would establish when discussing the plan with a patient and family members. You will identify changes to the plan based upon EBP and discuss how the plan includes elements of Healthy People 2030.

For this assessment:

Build on the preliminary plan, developed in Assessment 1, to complete a comprehensive care coordination plan.

Document Format and Length

Build on the preliminary plan document you created in Assessment 1. Your final plan should be a scholarly APA-formatted paper, 5–7 pages in length, not including title page and reference list.

Supporting Evidence

Support your care coordination plan with peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2030 resources. Cite at least three credible sources.

Grading Requirements

The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Final Care Coordination Plan Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Design patient-centered health interventions and timelines for a selected health care problem.

Address three health care issues.

Design an intervention for each health issue.

Identify three community resources for each health intervention.

Consider ethical decisions in designing patient-centered health interventions.

Consider the practical effects of specific decisions.

Include the ethical questions that generate uncertainty about the decisions you have made.

Identify relevant health policy implications for the coordination and continuum of care.

Cite specific health policy provisions.

Describe priorities that a care coordinator would establish when discussing the plan with a patient and family member, making changes based upon evidence-based practice.

Clearly explain the need for changes to the plan.

Use the literature on evaluation as a guide to compare learning session content with best practices, including how to align teaching sessions to the Healthy People 2030 document.

Use the literature on evaluation as guide to compare learning session content with best practices.

What aspect of the TEACH values discussed in the lesson do you think would most benefit your work environment if adopted?

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Transformational leaders influence those around them and therefore have the potential to alter the culture of a unit or organization. address the following topics:

– Summarize your general beliefs of what makes a good leader.

– Regarding the transformational leadership skills discussed in our required article reading, how do you think your leadership style is perceived by others?

– What aspect of the TEACH values discussed in the lesson do you think would most benefit your work environment if adopted?