Identify a time when the media or the Internet influenced you either with accurate information or inaccurate information.

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Overview: We all learn about medical information on the news and in media. At some point, we have all heard about health-related information in the media or looked up symptoms on the Internet; however, how do we know if our search is accurate? How do we know if what we hear is true?

Instructions: For this assignment, you will write a transcript for a presentation in which you provide a critical analysis of a time in which you were influenced by inaccurate information, or you found accurate information through the media that helped you or someone you know. Your audience can be informal, such as a friend or family member, or formal, such as a coworker or attendees at a conference presentation. Include the following.

1) Identify a time when the media or the Internet influenced you either with accurate information or inaccurate information.
2) Explain the following regarding the selected topic: Where did you learn about this topic? For example, did you see this in a movie, book, or other media, or did you search for information yourself on the Internet? & What specific symptoms or prevention methods did you identify?
3) Find one or more additional sources to support how you determined if the information was inaccurate or accurate.
4) Explain how you determined if you found either inaccurate or accurate information about the topic locating resources and evaluating the credibility of the main source.
5) Use the Media Misinformation Source Evaluation Form [DOCX] attached to evaluate the credibility of the article chosen.

Questions and answers DO NOT have to be written in APA format. However, resources must be cited in APA format and answers should be thoroughly explained with use of resources wherever possible.

How do they help health care organizations drive safety and quality throughout the organization?

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  1. Introduction: Safety and Quality Dashboards
  2. What are safety and quality dashboards?
  3. How do they help health care organizations drive safety and quality throughout the organization?
  4. Introduction: Metric Selection
  5. How do health care organizations determine what to measure? Be sure to consider:

-External Factors—regulators, payors, the health care industry.

-Internal Factors—self-identified improvement areas. For example, one organization’s safety and quality dashboard may highlight patient falls because its rate of falls is higher than the national average. This may also have resulted in

Increased costs to the organization.

  1. Introduction: CQI Tools
  2. What is continuous quality improvement (CQI)?
  3. What CQI tools do we use to obtain, measure, and report data?
  4. Introduction: Quality Improvement Team’s Role
  5. What is a quality improvement team?
  6. Why is a quality improvement team important to health care organizations’ achievement of safety and quality objectives?
  7. What is this team’s role in addressing reported measures?
  8. Quality Director: Dashboard Metrics
  9. Which dashboard metric is of most interest to the quality director?

B)What does this metric mean?

  1. Why is this metric important?
  2. Quality Director: 3 Recommendations
  3. What three recommendations would have the most impact on addressing this metric?
  4. Which quality models could increase quality of patient care and outcomes for this metric?
  5. Patient Safety Officer: Dashboard Metrics
  6. Which dashboard metric is of most interest to the patient safety officer?
  7. What does this metric mean?
  8. Why is this metric important?
  9. How can the patient safety officer help to improve this metric?
  10. Risk Manager: Dashboard Metrics
  11. Which dashboard metric is of most interest to the risk manager?
  12. What does this metric mean?
  13. Why is this metric important?
  14. How can the risk manager help the organization improve this metric?
  15. Senior Leadership: Dashboard Metrics
  16. What is senior leadership’s role (CEO, President, Senior VP) in driving safety and quality improvement initiatives?
  17. What are next steps given the dashboard findings and the quality director’s improvement recommendations?
  18. Conclusion: Safety and Quality Dashboards
  19. Which regulatory agency(ies) may be concerned about the findings in this dashboard?
  20. Why would regulators be concerned about these findings?
  21. In summary, why are safety and quality dashboards important for monitoring key metrics in health care organizations?
  22. Cite References in APA format

 

 

 

Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.

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One method that supports the clinical decision making of drug therapy plans for asthmatic patients is the stepwise approach, which you explore in this Assignment.

To Prepare

  • Reflect on drugs used to treat asthmatic patients, including long-term control and quick relief treatment options for patients. Think about the impact these drugs might have on patients, including adults and children.
  • Consider how you might apply the stepwise approach to address the health needs of a patient in your practice.
  • Reflect on how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease.

By Day 7 of Week 3

Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.
  • Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
  • Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.

 

Describe and analyze the two problems presented in your case study. What is a priority problem that occurred, and why?

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Community nursing focuses on supporting the health and well-being of individuals, families, groups, communities, populations, and systems outside of the hospital setting. The purpose of the case study is to demonstrate your ability to critically analyze current literature and apply your knowledge of community nursing to your nursing practice.
Part 1: The Case Study (3 pages, double spaced)
Select a topic from the list below that will allow you to demonstrate your knowledge regarding community nursing:
Practice setting: Client Homes/Lodges/Facilities
Health promotion and diversity
Communicable disease control
Write out a story about a situation related to your chosen topic. The situation should:
Be nursing focused; the story should revolve around the practical nurse and their care/interaction with others.
Describe people involved
Be written to protect patient confidentiality if it is based on a real-life scenario.
Be written in chronological order.
Include important background information
Provide dialogue if needed
Present the situation without any analysis attempt; there should be no literature referenced in your case study.
Part 2: The Case Study Analysis (5 pages, double spaced)

Describe and analyze the two problems presented in your case study. What is a priority problem that occurred, and why?
Present solutions to the two problems and how they could be implemented. What would you do as the LPN in the case study and why? Your solution should be written from an LPN perspective, keeping in mind the LPN scope of practice, roles, and responsibilities.
The analysis of the two problems and the solutions should include literature support. Remember, this is NOT a care plan assignment. You need to be looking at the problems holistically and applying all related knowledge to provide appropriate patient care for the case study.

How do your personal values concur with the values and mission of the PLU School of Nursing?

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How do your personal values concur with the values and mission of the PLU School of Nursing? See our mission and values on the nursing website, www.plu.edu/nursing.

What are the causes of medication errors by nursing students?

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Question:What are the causes of medication errors by nurses?

What are the causes of medication errors by nursing students?

What could you implement in your practice to ensure a medication error does not occur?

Analyze how at least three specific innovative, cost-reduction strategies or ideas would reduce waste in your clinical setting?

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Analyze how at least three specific innovative, cost-reduction strategies or ideas would reduce waste in your clinical setting? What challenges to implementation would you anticipate as a nurse in a leadership position?

Describe the current healthcare economic concepts that contribute to rising health care costs in the United States and measures being implemented to reduce costs while maintaining quality.

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Describe the current healthcare economic concepts that contribute to rising health care costs in the United States and measures being implemented to reduce costs while maintaining quality.

 

 

Explain the impact you believe the continued evolution of nursing informatics as a specialty and/or the continued emergence of new technologies might have on professional interactions.

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In this Discussion, you will reflect on your own observations of and/or experiences with informaticist collaboration. You will also propose strategies for how these collaborative experiences might be improved.

To Prepare:

Review the Resources and reflect on the evolution of nursing informatics from a science to a nursing specialty.
Consider your experiences with nurse Informaticists or technology specialists within your healthcare organization.

Hospice organization
Post a description of experiences or observations about how nurse informaticists and/or data or technology specialists interact with other professionals within your healthcare organization. Suggest at least one strategy on how these interactions might be improved. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain the impact you believe the continued evolution of nursing informatics as a specialty and/or the continued emergence of new technologies might have on professional interactions.

use: Referance-cite page #
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2017). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Chapter 25, “The Art of Caring in Technology-Laden Environments” (pp. 525–535)
Chapter 26, “Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge” (pp. 537–551)