When you reflect back from your very first days in clinical to now, do you see improvements? What areas/how? Do you feel like anything can be changed in regards to your clinical/lab experience this semester?

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End of Clinical Reflection

1. When you reflect back from your very first days in clinical to now, do you see improvements? What areas/how?

2. Do you feel like anything can be changed in regards to your clinical/lab experience this semester?

3. Is there anything you can do as an instructor better or improve upon?

Write an essay on the impact of patient feedback on improvement of quality of care.

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Impact of patient feedback on improvement of quality of care

Write an essay on the impact of patient feedback on improvement of quality of care.

Create a cover letter, resume, and portfolio that best represent your knowledge, skills, and abilities as a professional in the field of nursing. Create a Career Planner, which includes these elements, that you can use as you pursue your next professional role.

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NURSE PRACTITIONER PROFESSIONAL CAREER PLANNER

For this Assignment, you will create a cover letter, resume, and portfolio that best represent your knowledge, skills, and abilities as a professional in the field of nursing.

Create a Career Planner, which includes these elements, that you can use as you pursue your next professional role.

TO PREPARE

  • Review the Career Planner Guide. This document contains the requirements for the Assignment as well as resources to consult.
  • Seek out other resources on cover letters, resumes, and other professional resources, as needed. Career Planning and Development site has information on many topics of relevance

What errors in decision-making did you make as you completed the simulations? Was there a common error in your decision-making? If you did not make any errors, what best informed your decision-making?

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NSG/486: Public Health: Health Promotion And Disease Prevention Wk 1 – Solve the Outbreak Simulation

To prepare you for the public health nurse’s role in preventing communicable disease outbreaks in the community, complete this assignment’s simulations.

Follow these steps to complete the simulations and take notes about what errors in decision-making you make as you complete the scenarios:

  1. Access the Solve the Outbreak page on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
  2. Select the Level 1 section on the simulation screen and complete 10 interactive outbreaks of your choice using the information and questions provided in it. Use the right and left scroll feature to access all of the simulation options listed.
  3. Select the home button on the upper left corner of the simulation screen.
  4. When you have completed all 10 outbreaks, select the Scores tab on the bottom of the home screen.
  5. Take a screenshot of your scores screen that shows all of the outbreaks you have completed and the score received for each. This may require more than 1 screenshot.
  6. Think about why you chose your answers and how the hints provided in the simulations showed you why another choice was more accurate.
    Submit your screenshot(s) to show proof of completion

Inter professional collaboration is essential when conducting an outbreak investigation.

Solve the Outbreak assignment, respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • What errors in decision-making did you make as you completed the simulations? Was there a common error in your decision-making? If you did not make any errors, what best informed your decision-making?
  • How could a SWOT analysis of the agencies, organizations, or communities involved in the outbreak simulations have potentially prevented the outbreaks that you investigated? Provide at least 1 example.
  • Identify 1 or 2 additional community professionals that might have helped solve the outbreak investigation in 1 simulation of your choice more rapidly if they had been included in the investigation. How would they have assisted?

Discuss how nurse managers and nurse leaders contribute to the re engineering of health care.

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Nurse manager and re-engineering

Discuss how nurse managers and nurse leaders contribute to the re engineering of health care.

Decide if you want to make change within an agency, at the local, state or federal level. Find the decision maker appropriate to that level.

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Community and Population: Advocacy Letter

  1. Choose a topic that interests you.
  2. If you are unsure what to advocate for or against, look at professional organizations for inspiration:
    1. APHA
    2. ANA
    3. Maryland Public Health Association
  3. Look for advocacy groups that are working on the issue. We don’t have to recreate the wheel.  See what strategies the advocacy groups are supporting. For example: Brady and Gifford non-profits focus on gun policy.
  4. Decide if you want to make change within an agency, at the local, state or federal level. Find the decision maker appropriate to that level. Click here to find your elected official.
  5. If you are writing to a legislator, look at that person’s website to see their position on the issue. Please do not ‘preach to the choir’—that is, if they already support the issue, it does no good to throw more facts at them.
  6. If you are addressing a national issue, and your legislator aligns with your proposed action, consider looking at the committee that would hear a bill about your issue.
    1. If there is a proposed bill that has not been active, you can ask the chair of the committee to bring it back up in committee.
    2. Click here to check for federal bills.
  7. If you are addressing a state issue, the Maryland General Assembly meets January- April of each year.
    1. You can see if state bill on your issue was unsuccessful in 2018, and ask your legislator to re-introduce it in 2019.
    2. Click here to check for state bills.
  8. For evidence to support your proposed action, use the One Search through HS/HSL for the broadest results. If you are still having trouble finding articles, the premier journal for public health research is called The Nation’s Health.
  9. Reminders from the rubric:
    1. Include your ‘Ask’ clearly and concisely in the first paragraph. In busy offices, staff may not read the entire letter.
    2. In the same vein, keep the letter one page. References can be on a second page.
    3. Include your credentials. All of you are BSN Candidates (and add whatever other credentials you have). This adds a professional weight to your voice.

As always, let me know of any questions.

Post a brief statement of your proposed EB practice change, be sure to address how you will implement your EBP project considering. Identify institutional preferences and how you will address this issue.

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Nursing Research Discussion Board

Post a brief statement of your proposed EB practice change, be sure to address how you will implement your EBP project considering,

  • 1) Understanding the differences
  • 2) Considering your resources
  • 3) Establish your patient-centered goals
  • 4) Identify institutional preferences and how you will address this issue.

What other subjective data would you obtain? What other objective findings would you look for? What diagnostic exams do you want to order? Name 3 differential diagnoses based on this patient presenting symptoms?

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Female genitourinary and musculoskeletal

Once you received your case number, answer the following questions:

  1. What other subjective data would you obtain?
  2. What other objective findings would you look for?
  3. What diagnostic exams do you want to order?
  4. Name 3 differential diagnoses based on this patient presenting symptoms?
  5. Give rationales for your each differential diagnosis.
  6. What teachings will you provide?
  7. Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
Case 3
Chief Complaint
(CC) 		“My back hurts so bad I can barely walk”
History of Present Illness (HPI) A 35-year-old male painter presents to your clinic with the complaint of low back pain. He recalls lifting a 5-gallon paint can and felt an immediate pull in the lower right side of his back. This happened 2 days ago and he had the weekend to rest, but after taking Motrin and using heat, he has not seen any improvement. His pain is sharp, stabbing, and he scored it as a 9 on a scale of 0 to 10.
Drug Hx Motrin for pain.
Family Hx Father hypertension
Mother DM
Subjective He is having some right leg pain but no bowel or bladder changes. No numbness or tingling
VS temperature: 98.2°F, respiratory rate 16, heart rate 90, blood pressure 120/60
O2 saturation 98%
General well-developed healthy 35-year-old male; no gross deformities
HEENT Atraumatic, normocephalic, PERRLA, EOMI, sclera with mild icterus, nares patent, nasopharynx clear, poor dentition – multiple carries.
Lungs CTA AP&L
Card S1S2 without rub or gallop
Breast
  • INSPECTION: no dimpling or abnormalities noted upon inspection
  • PALPATION: Left breast – no abnormalities noted. Right breast – denies tenderness, pain, no abnormalities noted.
Lymph no bruising, fever, or swelling noted, no acute bleeding or trauma to skin.
Abd benign, normoactive bowel sounds x 4; Hepatomegaly 2cm below the costal margin.
GU Bladder is non-distended.
Integument intact without lesions masses or rashes.
MS No obvious deformities, masses, or discoloration. Palpable pain noted at the right lower lumbar region. No palpable spasms. ROM limited to forward bending 10 inches from floor; able to bend side to side but had difficulty twisting and going into extension.
Neuro DTRs 2+ lower sensory neurology intact to light touch and patient able to toe and heel walk. Gait was stable and no limping noted.

Provide a written assignment of 3,000 words providing a brief description of an education package linked to an area of professional practice, (together with appendicised lesson plan, assessment details, and evaluation detail – see templates).

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Educational package

Provide a written assignment of 3,000 words providing a brief description of an education package linked to an area of professional practice, (together with appendicised lesson plan, assessment details, and evaluation detail – see templates). This is followed by a substantial critical rationale for the development of the education package and the theoretical principles underpinning the learning, assessment and evaluation of the package.

Do you think there is a correlation between care coordination and the quality of patient care delivered? Do you think care coordination can reduce hospital readmissions, improve quality of life, and curb health care expenditures? Provide examples.

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Discussion

Do you think there is a correlation between care coordination and the quality of patient care delivered?
Do you think care coordination can reduce hospital readmissions, improve quality of life, and curb health care expenditures? Provide examples.
Support all responses using at least one scholarly source other than your textbook.
Use national guidelines and evidence-based research when applicable.
Students may enhance responses with an example, either from personal experience or from the media, which illustrates and supports ideas.
All sources must be referenced and cited using the correct APA format (including a link to the source).