Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.

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Assignment: Evidence-Based Capstone Project, Part 6: Disseminating Results

The dissemination of EBP results serves multiple important roles. Sharing results makes the case for your decisions. It also adds to the body of knowledge, which creates opportunities for future practitioners. By presenting results, you also become an advocate for EBP, creating a culture within your organization or beyond that informs, educates, and promotes the effective use of EBP.

To Prepare:

  • Review the final PowerPoint presentation you submitted in Module 5, and make any necessary changes based on the feedback you have received and on lessons you have learned throughout the course.
  • Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.

To Complete:

Create a 5-minute, 5- to 6-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation of your Evidence-Based Project.

  • Be sure to incorporate any feedback or changes from your presentation submission in Module 5.
  • Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you selected this dissemination strategy.

By Day 5 of Week 11

Submit Part 6, your revised PowerPoint presentation of your Evidence-Based Project.

 

Compare and contrast the three main types of managed care plans

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Paper details:

Compare and contrast the three main types of managed care plans. Describe how managed care plans attempt to ensure utilization control.

Discussing the role of the preceptor and the faculty

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Topic: The role of the preceptor and the faculty. Discussing the role of the preceptor and the faculty.

What is ultimate reality? What is the nature of the universe? What is a human being?

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This first week’s assignment, the Worldview Analysis and Personal Inventory, will help you explore some foundational concepts that are going to be very important throughout this class. Realize that this is not a science or clinical course. Rather, it incorporates philosophy and theology. In order to understand the role of ethical and spiritual decision making in healthcare, it is important that you, the healthcare professional, first understand your own philosophical and theological beliefs.  You will be introduced to the concept of a worldview and you will begin to intentionally assess and refine your own thinking so that you can eventually define most of your own worldview.  In particular, you will need to understand scientism, modernism and postmodernism as they relate to this course.  You will also need to be aware of how these “isms” can lead to reductionism about human beings and the marginalization of spirituality and religion.   Holistic nursing (caring for the whole person) involves the integration of science and religion/spirituality.  Thus, it is helpful for healthcare professionals to understand the role spirituality plays in their own worldview.

Throughout this course, we will be referring to questions that will help illuminate a person’s worldview.  They are:

  • What is ultimate reality?
  • What is the nature of the universe?
  • What is a human being?
  • What is knowledge?
  • What is your basis of ethics?
  • What is the purpose of your existence?

The assignment is to be submitted as one paper, with three sections (the worldview questions make great subheadings).  Don’t forget to include an introduction and conclusion.

Also, since your paper for this week is about you, please feel free to write in the first person where appropriate.  Please note, that when discussing the worldview questions, I would like for you to discuss your beliefs.

Here are a couple of additional hints for all of your papers in this course:  When writing your papers, use section headings and subheadings that follow the outline of the assignment requirements.  Each paper should have an introduction that includes both your thesis as well as a brief overview of the paper’s contents in light of the assignment requirements and your thesis.  Finally, make sure that unless the assignment calls for a different number, any paper at this level should have at least 3 academic references.  The Bible is of course a great resource, but is not considered an academic source.

Read the case studies below (endocrine or musculoskeletal), choose one case study to and discuss the pathophysiology of the condition.

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Case Study 1
Sharon Munroe, 26 year old caucasian female, has a history of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) for the past 6 years. Medical history includes, cessation of menses several years ago, 20 kg weight gain over the past 5 years, increasing hirsuitism, acne and 2 previous miscarriages and infertility.

Discuss a personal nursing philosophy.

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Discuss a personal nursing philosophy. Apply what you have learned about nursing theory in this course. Identify a nursing philosophy that best matches your personal philosophy. Discuss a nursing framework or theory that fits that philosophy including how it fits your personal philosophy. Identify a possible situation in which that framework or theory would be a poor fit and discuss why it is a poor fit for that situation. While it is an important skill to be able to match a theory with a situation, it is also critical to understand when a theory or framework does not fit a situation.

The doctor diagnosed the client with major depressive disorder. What medication do you think is likely to be prescribed for this client and why? What are some important teachings you would give this client when administering the first dose?

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You are a nurse at an outpatient clinic and are presented with a 68-year-old female client. She is experiencing the following symptoms: decreased appetite, disturbed sleep pattern, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, disordered thought process, anhedonia, guilt, and low self-esteem. The doctor diagnosed the client with major depressive disorder.
• What medication do you think is likely to be prescribed for this client and why?
• What are some important teachings you would give this client when administering the first dose?
• When following up with the client 2 months later. What are some changes you may expect to see with the client? If the client is not displaying the expected outcomes, what are some possible alternatives for the client?

Select ONE of the Required Assignment Topics below for the focus of your assignment: Hypertension or Anxiety or Depression or Time Management or Smoking Cessation

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The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate the skills of the professional nurse as an educator. You are to prepare a patient scenario based on the required assigned topic. You will choose an already developed and reliable mHealth app to use in the education of your patient.
Required Assignment Topic
Select ONE of the Required Assignment Topics below for the focus of your assignment:
• Hypertension or
• Anxiety or Depression or
• Time Management or
• Smoking Cessation

• Write a patient scenario using the Required Assignment Topic.
o Make sure to include a disease process, diagnosis, OR identify a patient with a desire to maintain good health and prevent illness and who would benefit from an already developed and reliable mHealth app.
• Describe in detail content planned for teaching this patient in the scenario.
o Include the nurse’s assessment of learning needs and readiness to learn.
• Identify a mHealth app that could benefit the patient.
o Describe the app including the mHealth app name, purpose, intended audience, mobile device(s) upon which it will operate, where to download or obtain it. Add any other information you believe would be pertinent to this situation

What is naloxone, its brand name, and its intended use?  List 5 medications that naloxone can reverse. What medication class do these medications fall under?

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What is naloxone, its brand name, and its intended use?

List 5 medications that naloxone can reverse. What medication class do these medications fall under?

What are 3 key points for a nurse to understand about naloxone?

What are 5 signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose?

What will happen to a client that is administered naloxone following an opioid overdose?

Why do many facilities implement a standing order for naloxone whenever an opioid is prescribed?

Utah Naloxone is a non-profit organization that provides free naloxone kits to the community. Why would this be important?

How does providing free naloxone kits to the community provide an opportunity for risk reduction?

Why is it important for nurses to educate on risk reduction?

Why is risk reduction important at the community level?

Create a one-page, colorful, lay term, pamphlet regarding education on opioids and naloxone. Include resources to obtain naloxone, how to use, when to use, and what to do after use.

In one paragraph, discuss your own thoughts, feelings regarding providing free naloxone kits to the community?

What are some of the particular needs of older adults? Are they different for rural population as opposed to urban ones? Immigrant populations? What kinds of variations are there within the aging population?

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Identify the Issue – What are some of the particular needs of older adults? Are they different for rural population as opposed to urban ones? Immigrant populations? What kinds of variations are there within the aging population?

Impact – What kind impact does an aging population have on economic structures, healthcare systems, the role of caregivers? What other structures/systems are influenced by a growing number of older adults?

Preparation – How can nations begin to prepare for the large shift in the number of older adults in their population? Discuss national efforts, state and city-level efforts. How can individuals prepare for the needs of the older adults in their families?