Create a lesson about cultural diversity in the workforce. Explain how you would motivate your audience. Discuss potential barriers to learning.

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Week 4 Discussion

TASK

Post your initial response to one of the two topics below.

Topic 1

Staff Education

  • a. Create a lesson about cultural diversity in the workforce.
  • b. Explain how you would motivate your audience.
  • c. Discuss potential barriers to learning.

Topic 2

Patient Education

  • a. Create a lesson pertaining to caring for a patient with COPD who is from another culture.
  • b. Discuss potential barriers and solutions
  • c. Address learning evaluation methods.

Describe their views on how their role affects patient safety and improves the quality of patient care. Describe the human factors faced in the role and other challenges. Express insights gained from the interview.

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Informatics in the Clinical Setting

Conduct an interview with someone in an informatics role in a clinical setting. Then, in a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, discuss each of the following criteria:

  • Role description and education level required for the role.
  • Describe their views on how their role affects patient safety and improves the quality of patient care.
  • Describe the human factors faced in the role and other challenges.
  • Express insights gained from the interview.
  • Research and discuss the impact of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators and The Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals in your clinical setting. Describe how these governing agencies influence delivery of direct patient care.
  • Research, discuss, and identify the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) utilized in your clinical setting. Be sure to get the perspective of your selected informatics professional during your interview.

What are some of the ways that you can encourage both patient and provider engagement to ensure the pilot program success? What barriers or challenges would you anticipate?

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Telenursing and Telemedicine

Telenursing and telemedicine will only be successful if patients engage in the program. You have been asked by your manager to pilot a program aimed at improving transitions of care using the new telemedicine system recently implemented at your hospital.

  • What are some of the ways that you can encourage both patient and provider engagement to ensure the pilot program success?
  • What barriers or challenges would you anticipate?

How would you prepare for the following situation? How prepared are you in the event of a disaster? Describe your level of disaster preparedness using specific examples and references to your “go-bag” and preparedness checklist assignments.

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Family Disaster Plan Summative Assessment

For this paper you must cite and reference 2 sources. The paper should be 2–3 pages and written using current APA format. Your paper should address the following:

a. How would you prepare for the following situation? (provide realistic examples and details for safety and survival)

b. How prepared are you in the event of a disaster? Describe your level of disaster preparedness using specific examples and references to your “go-bag” and preparedness checklist assignments.

c. Reflect on how prepared you were before this class and compare it with how prepared you are now.

  • Have you acquired any new emergency items?
  • Do you plan to take any additional trainings or certification courses?
  • Have you shared your knowledge with friends and family?

Discuss ways in which the cost associated with dementia can be curtailed along with maintaining the individual’s quality of life.

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Elder-Specific Discussion

Choose one of the following topics and respond to the thread corresponding to the topic you select. Please include at least three scholarly sources within your initial post.

Note: As you are choosing a topic, please try to make sure that all topics are chosen by at least by one person. You can see this by noting if anyone has posted to the topic within the corresponding threads.

  1. Dementia in the elderly. Discuss ways in which the cost associated with dementia can be curtailed along with maintaining the individual’s quality of life. Dementia is not only Alzheimer’s disease, so consider multiple types of dementia within your answers (types of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies [DLB], mixed dementia, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and normal pressure hydrocephalus).
  2. Elder abuse. Include physical, emotional, sexual, etc. How, as an APRN, can you screen for and address elder abuse? What types of health promotion concepts can be used to help advocate for the personal safety of our elders? Are there screening tools available? In what unconventional locations within your community might an elder screening be performed?
  3. Fall prevention. What are specific geriatric risk factors that create an increase in fall risks? What can be done from a health promotion standpoint to decrease falls in the elderly? Define fall risk and what types of assessments are available in the outpatient and inpatient settings.
  4. Financials, levels of neglect in the elders. Consider financial risk, scams, family, and other pitfalls the elderly may find themselves in relating to their finances. Provide examples and ways to advocate for our patients and our communities as advanced practice nurses.
  5. Components of a well elder evaluation. Define a well elder evaluation. Make sure you address components that pertain to the home environment and the communities in which they live. How can an APRN assist in these evaluations and promote different aspects within your community?
  6. Functional status. Consider ADLs and IADLs. What is the difference? What types of assessment can be done and by whom to determine if an elder can care for themself at home? In addition, what types of services are available to help promote overall elder health not only in their homes but when living with family or in assisted living and nursing homes? What types of supportive services are available to assist the elderly in staying in their own homes?
  7. Cognition. Describe how cognitive functioning may change as we age. What are neuropsychological examinations, and when should these be requested? Describe what this type of testing can accomplish and how, as a provider, you would use these results. Discuss ways in which we can improve and maintain our cognitive health (for example, diet, exercise). Provide specifics.
  8. Polypharmacy. Consider medication compliance, risk of adverse effects, creatinine clearance <50ml/min. As an Advanced Practice Nurse, how can you address this growing problem? What type of surveillance will you put into place within your own practice, and how can you advocate to help address this concern within your own community?
  9. Pain assessment and treatment. Discuss specifics regarding pain within the elder population: perception of pain, pain assessment scales, etc. In addition, provide evidence-based cited information relating to the opioid epidemic within your state and what percentage of addicted individuals are elderly. What type of resources are available in your community to help those with substance abuse problems? Are there any services specific to the elderly?

 

 

Locate your state and identify the behavioral risk factor surveillance systems data specific to your state. List three areas of focus for your state and identify what has been accomplished.

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HealthPromoDB1

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html Links to an external site. is the nation’s premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. For this discussion:

Access the Centers for Disease Control.

Access the State by-state Listing of How Data Are Used Links to an external site.tab.

Locate your state and identify the behavioral risk factor surveillance systems data specific to your state.

List three areas of focus for your state and identify what has been accomplished.

 

Identify your state’s statistics and key health indicators, including how they influence health status. Discuss the direct and indirect burdens of health risk behaviors and disease (i.e., costs, morbidity, premature mortality, etc.) identified within your state.

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Health promoDB2

State health report cards identify key health indicators related to health outcomes, health behaviors, and quality of health systems. By examining these health indicators and how they might influence the health status of your specific patient population, you will be able to better address health risk behaviors and burdens of illness within your clinical setting.

Locate and review your state’s health report card. (florida)

Identify your state’s statistics and key health indicators, including how they influence health status.

Discuss the direct and indirect burdens of health risk behaviors and disease (i.e., costs, morbidity, premature mortality, etc.) identified within your state.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

 

How has your view of the role of the APRN changed prior to beginning the program? What has been your biggest revelation about the role of the APRN? What information would you like to share with others about the role of the APRN?

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RolesWK1DB2

Now that you have a little experience in learning about the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), have you worked with or have you received care from an APRN, what has been your experience with this?

How has your view of the role of the APRN changed prior to beginning the program? What has been your biggest revelation about the role of the APRN?

What information would you like to share with others about the role of the APRN?

 

Address your recommendations and implications for clinical practice. Provide a summary of study and discuss any limitations of the study.

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Recommendations and Conclusions

This part of your paper includes the summary of the project, main points and findings, the significance of the project to the advanced practice nursing profession, and recommendations for future research. Address the following:

Address your recommendations and implications for clinical practice.
Provide a summary of study and discuss any limitations of the study.
Suggest directions for future research.
Consider changes in theoretical constructs
Provide suggestions for public policy and/or changes in practice.
Tie the theoretical framework to the overall product.
Conclude with an overall wrap-up to the paper.

Your paper should be 4–5 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages. You must reference a minimum of two scholarly sources in your paper.

An important part of building evidence-based practice is the development, refinement, and use of quality diagnostic tests and measures in research and practice. Discuss the role of sensitivity and specificity in accuracy of a screenings.

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Discussion forum week 8

An important part of building evidence-based practice is the development, refinement, and use of quality diagnostic tests and measures in research and practice. Discuss the role of sensitivity and specificity in accuracy of a screenings.

Include 400 words in your initial post with two scholarly references less than 5 years old