What steps/process should a nurse take to get involved in patient advocacy?

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Reflection on Advocacy

Define advocacy

How can nurses get involved in advocacy?

In your personal, professional or educational life, how could you as a nurse/nursing student practice advocacy?

What steps/process should a nurse take to get involved in patient advocacy?

How do you speak out for your patient?

Instruction:

  • Each question should have a paragraph with at least twelve complete sentences and should be clear and concise.
  • Make sure to cite all article in your answers. No copy and paste from the articles is allowed.
  • This reflection should have a minimum of 2 pages.
  • Please use articles within 5 years (2015-2020) to answer the above questions. Minimum of 3 Articles should be from CINAHL Plus

 

 

What have you learned about conflict management, how will you incorporate the concepts from this course into your practice

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Week 5 Assignment – Conflict Management Reflection

  1. Please answer the questions systematically and in order in essay format.

2 Format: APA, 12pt font, Times New Roman, Double Spaced, place name in the header, no reference needed, minimum 1 page.

Write a 1 page paper on your reflections of the course. What have you learned about conflict management, how will you incorporate the concepts from this course into your practice, and what information do you still need to learn about conflict management?

 

 

What resource could you use for a conflict with a manager, director, boss, or someone in a position of authority over you?

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Initial Post: Search online for different resources that you could use or suggest to someone else who is experiencing different types of conflict. Cite the website or source. Answer the following:

#1 What resource could you use for a conflict with a manager, director, boss, or someone in a position of authority over you? Why is this is a good resource?

#2 What resource could you use for a conflict with a spouse, significant other, close friend, or family member? Why is this is a good resource?

#3 What resource could you use for an internal conflict you are experiencing by yourself (or if someone else is experiencing internal conflict? Why is this is a good resource?

Explain the differences in roles related to Certified Professional Mid-Wife (CPM), Certified Nurse Mid-wife (CNM), Certified Mid-Wives (non-nurse who follows same criteria as a CNM, CM, APR-Ns, and PAs)

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Your post should include how the ANA guidelines, competencies, and code of ethics address these issues and topics. Also include a brief explanation about the differences in roles related to Certified Professional Mid-Wife (CPM), Certified Nurse Mid-wife (CNM), Certified Mid-Wives (non-nurse who follows same criteria as a CNM, CM, APR-Ns, and PAs) and how each of these roles might impact the way you work. Be specific and provide examples.

Write and post the summary of the pharmacodynamics of the herbal and submit a PDF of the article to the dropbox.

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for a scholarly article about an herbal supplement.The article must have been written within the last five years.Write and post the summary of the Write and post the summary of the pharmacodynamics of the herbal and submit a PDF of the article to the dropbox. of the herbal and submit a PDF of the article to the dropbox.
Identify a drug-herb interaction with the supplement for example garlic with plavix increases blood clotting time include this kind of example in your summary look for herbal and medication intreaction

Describe the three types of alterations in sodium, chloride, and water imbalance and examine prevention strategies

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Describe the three types of alterations in sodium, chloride, and water imbalance and examine prevention strategies (isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic).

Explain why a quality improvement initiative is needed in this area and the expected outcome.

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Identify a quality improvement opportunity in your organization or practice. In a 1,250-1,500 word paper, describe the problem or issue and propose a quality improvement initiative based on evidence-based practice. Apply “The Road to Evidence-Based Practice” process, illustrated in Chapter 4 of your textbook, to create your proposal.

Include the following:

1) Provide an overview of the problem and the setting in which the problem or issue occurs.

2) Explain why a quality improvement initiative is needed in this area and the expected outcome.

3) Discuss how the results of previous research demonstrate support for the quality improvement initiative and its projected outcomes. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years, not included in the course materials or textbook, that establish evidence in support of the quality improvement proposed.

4) Discuss steps necessary to implement the quality improvement initiative. Provide evidence and rationale to support your answer.

5) Explain how the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated to determine whether there was improvement.

6) Support your explanation by identifying the variables, hypothesis test, and statistical test that you would need to prove that the quality improvement initiative succeeded.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

What is the aim of the pre-requisites for person-centred care reflective paper?

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Developing Professional Nursing Mandatory item 1:Pre-requisites for person-centred care: reflective paper (40%)Student ResourceBooklet Please read your unit outline carefully before reading this information. What is the aim of the pre-requisites for person-centred care reflective paper? The aim is to be able to demonstrate through either your own practice or observing the practice of others, the role the pre-requisites(see fig. 1)have and how they affect person-centred practise and outcomes. How do I best prepare to undertake this assessment task? Please ensure you have accessed the resources associated with Module 1: ‘A Person-centred Framework for Developing Professional Nursing Practice’inthis unit as this contains some of the theoretical background to person-centered nursing and associated frameworks that forms the basis of this assessment task. This assessment also requires you to demonstrate capacity around the reflective practice. If this is an area that you self-identify as struggling with, please refer to previous units of study where reflective practice models and principles have been provided. A rubric is provided to guide your preparation of this assessment task. Writing your reflective paper Please be aware that this written assessment differs from a traditional essay. However, you are still required to argue your position drawing upon relevant knowledge that is substantiated with applicable scholarly literature. As a third-year nursing student, it is expected that have good academic skills and a good knowledge of Academic Integrity. If this is an area that you self-identify as struggling with, please refer to the following resource.
To aid this process a template has been developed to guide the areas of focus for your paper. The template provides suggested word counts. With a limited word count, it is imperative that you communicate succinct, high impact, substantiated point

Discuss how age, gender, or race might affect your disease or condition.

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The title here must match the title on your title page. Your introduction follows the title of your paper (note that the title is not bolded). Note also that there is no heading that says Introduction. The paragraph or two that follows the title on the first page of your text is assumed to be your introduction. You should start your introduction with a powerful statement or two to stimulate interest. You should identify that the purpose of your paper is to explain the pathophysiological processes of a selected health condition, predict clinical manifestations and complications of the health condition, and correlate lifestyle, environmental, and other influences that will occur in your patient due to a change in their level of wellness. (See the “Purpose”  and “Course Outcomes: in your guidelines.) Remember that formal papers are in third person, so no you, I, me, or we until you make a recommendation about your article. In this introduction, you should introduce the disease process that you are writing about in a paragraph of at least 200 words. You should include a description of the disease and the epidemiology of the disease.  Epidemiology includes the overall incidence (who gets it) and distribution (where is it seen most often) of your chosen disease topic. An APA formatted citation for where you have found your information should be included.  (e.g., “The literature review by Hubert and VanMeter (2018) . . . .” or “Hubert and VanMeter (2018) described posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in nurses, specifically psychiatric nurses, as occurring most frequently.) [Do not quote more than one or two short passages (just several words) if any. Summarize—do not paraphrase or change words in the original (that’s called paraphrasing plagiarism)]. [1-2 well developed paragraphs here should be your minimum here.]

Etiology

This section should include common causes of the disease or condition. Next, discuss the risk factors for the disease or condition. Next, discuss how age, gender, or race might affect your disease or condition. Next discuss how the environment might contribute to your disease or condition. Finally discuss how lifestyle choices might contribute to or reduce your disease or condition. Be sure to properly cite your sources. Summarize information only. (Do not copy it word for word to avoid plagiarism.) {You might say something like this:  Hubert and VanMeter (2013) described pain as a subjective symptom in patients. Phantom pain was specifically identified as “pain that is perceived by the person as occurring in the lost limb and usually does not respond to usual pain therapies.” (Hubert and VanMeter 2013, p. 57). [This is about as much as you should ever quote—note the format of the APA citation—and it matches its reference in the reference list below]. [2-3 well developed paragraphs should be your minimum here]

Pathophysiological Processes

In this section, you will need to discuss and describe changes that occur at the cellular, tissue, and/or organ level that contribute to the disease or condition process. Describe any adaptations that the cells undergo or specific body responses to the disease/condition. Try to relate the disease processes to what the nurse might see during assessment (signs and symptoms of the disease). [2-3 well developed paragraphs should be all you need here.]

Clinical Manifestations and Complications

 In this section, you will need to describe in detail the physical signs and symptoms that are important in considering the presence of the disease. Identify any signs and/or symptoms that contribute to the diagnosis of the condition. Identify and discuss complications of this disease or condition. Discuss the implications for the patient if their disease or condition is left untreated. [2-3 well developed paragraphs should be your minimum here.]

Diagnostics

Include a list of the common laboratory and diagnostic tests that are being used today to determine the presence of the disease. This can include biopsy. Discuss the significance of test findings for these diagnostic tests. How are these tests telling us what is wrong with the patient? Are the tests always conclusive that one has the disease or condition or are these tests just giving us information that could potentially lead to a diagnosis?  [2-3 well developed paragraphs should be all you need here.]

Conclusion

The conclusion should briefly say what was included in the paper. Remember that the introduction is a preview, and this section should contain a summary. In a well-defined and clearly stated way, explain your basic disease or condition, the important points that you should take away when treating patients with this disease process, and how you can educate patients to help prevent this disease or condition (or live well with it.) Your conclusion should reflect your introduction and the main points of your paper. [1-2 well developed paragraphs should be all you need here. ]

 

 

What type of pain does this patient describe?

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Case Study Description

J.P. is a 15-year-old African American adolescent who lives with his mother and father and was diagnosed with sickle cell disease 3 years ago. He is in the 10th grade. He is a honor roll student and is on the track team of his school. J.P. presents to the emergency department with deep muscle pain in both his legs, related to sickle cell crisis. Rates his pain at 8/10. He is 5 feet 6 inches and weighs 140 lb. On admission his vital signs are T: 37°C, P: 80 beats/min, R: 18 breaths/min, BP: 140/68 mmHg

Writing Prompts

What other assessments should be included for this patient?
Identify the various types of pain.
What type of pain does this patient describe?
What standards of assessing pain will be applied to this patient’s plan of care?
What teaching should the nurse consider from the problems list?
What interventions should be included in the plan of care for this patient?