Identify why an infectious disease may or may not be contagious or communicable and how that impacts environmental health.

POST 1:

Identify why an infectious disease may or may not be contagious or communicable and how that impacts environmental health.

POST 2:

Evaluate the impact of disaster preparedness and community preparation in the health of a community. Describe how you have prepared and planned of a disaster would happen.

As a nurse advocate, how would you represent your patient?

Case Study
You are a nurse caring for a patient who has an extensive history of peripheral vascular disease, resulting in frequent surgeries for the purpose of revascularizing her lower extremities with the intent of avoiding amputations, if possible. This is your patient’s third surgery this year; the patient has been brought to your step-down unit for postoperative recovery. While implementing the surgeon’s orders, you note several conditions that require the surgeon’s immediate attention. Upon calling the surgeon, they indicate that they will address these issues tomorrow.
PROMPT: Apply the nursing process to make ethical decisions in this situation.
Answer the following questions.
What are the ethical problems within the case study?
As a nurse advocate, how would you represent your patient?

Identify a clinical problem that impacts patient care.

Identify a clinical problem that impacts patient care. Students will utilize the clinical health care environment to explore and discuss their topic in the clinical setting. They must then locate the corresponding facility policy and/or procedure that addresses their chosen clinical topic.

Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

• Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
• Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
• Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
• Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
• Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style

Describe what the appraisal reveals about the state of the science.

Describe what the appraisal reveals about the state of the science.

Discuss the history of private health insurance and manage care and how it involved into a healthcare industry?

Discuss the history of private health insurance and manage care and how it involved into a healthcare industry?
Identify the key federal laws that protect individuals who are enrolled in private insurance.
Briefly discuss consumer-driven healthcare and the empowerment of the healthcare consumer.
Explore the opportunities which have emerged for nurses within the private insurance market.

Compose a 500-800 word summary of Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Compose a 500-800 word summary of Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that addresses the following:
definition, etiology, clinical manifestation, symptoms, diagnostics, appropriate in patient or out patient management, potential complication, nursing interventions and care, expected medical management, patient teachings
You should have at minimum 3 references, current and within 5 years in APA format.

Demonstrate knowledge of methods to gather and organize information for a study.

Critique study objectives, questions, and hypotheses in research reports.
Demonstrate knowledge of methods to gather and organize information for a study.
Identify research problems generated from the practice setting.
Critique research problems and the purpose for a study.
Critique literature reviews for relevance, currency, and multidisciplinary sources.

Quantitative Research Critique – Assignment Directions

Review Polit & Beck (2020), Box 5.3 – Guide to a Focused Critical Appraisal of Evidence Quality in a Quantitative Research Report, to assist you in analyzing one of two articles listed down below.
Mitchell et al. (2018) – African Americans & Cardiovascular Risk.pdf

Describe a nursing conceptual model or theory and its applicability to the issue.

Prompt: For this milestone, use evidence-based resources to address the following critical elements:
I. Concepts and Solutions
a. Assess the potential of interprofessional collaboration to provide beneficial opportunities for the issue.
b. Articulate the main points of a conceptual framework or theory from outside of nursing and its applicability to the issue. c. Describe a nursing conceptual model or theory and its applicability to the issue.
d. Evaluate nursing metaparadigm concepts as they inform the clinical practice solutions of the issue.
e. Propose at least two evidence-based recommended solutions to the issue.

Discuss the need for nurses to be advocates for patients for whom they care.

Discuss the need for nurses to be advocates for patients for whom they care.
Share your personal reflections on your service-learning experience (Feeding the hungry).
Discuss how you can be a “world changer,” advocating for a vulnerable population (the Hungry) in your community.