With due consideration to the roles and responsibilities of the Registered Psychiatric Nurse outlined in the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives and the Children First Act, outline in essay style, what actions must be taken and why, in this hypothetical scenario.

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Children First

Scenario For this exercise you are expected to assume the role of the Registered Psychiatric Nurse. You are assigned to a Community Mental Health Team as a staff nurse. As part of your role you provide 1:1 support to service users. One day, Mary, attends for her appointment and discloses to you that her boyfriend, John, is having “a tough time of it” and as a result, she is not coping very well at present. She reports his behaviour has become unpredictable and that he regularly uses drugs and has become aggressive towards her. Mary reports that last week John hit her and “started to throw things around the flat”. Mary reports she is having difficulty sleeping because she is afraid of John and has no energy during the day owing to the lack of “sleep. She reports John takes most of her money to buy drugs which leaves her with very little each week to feed her 6-month old baby, Sarah.

With due consideration to the roles and responsibilities of the Registered Psychiatric Nurse outlined in the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland 2021) and the Children First Act (Government of Ireland 2015), outline in essay style, what actions must be taken and why, in this hypothetical scenario.

Contrast the advantages, applications, and legal implications of telehealth. Discuss how informatics can improve delivery of care in community and home-based settings.

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Telehealth

Write a 1-page reflection (TNR 12pt font, double-spaced) about telehealth. Address the following:

  1. Contrast the advantages, applications, and legal implications of telehealth.
  2. Discuss how informatics can improve delivery of care in community and home-based settings.
  3. What do you see in your future practice as far as telehealth is concerned?
  4. Include a list of at least 3 websites you used to help you investigate telehealth.

View the videos posted below about the various applications of telehealth. You may use these resources in addition to any other credible sources to write your reflection paper.

 

Review the demographics of Texas and of San Antonio. What are the major ethnic groups in the state and in San Antonio? Identify key cultural values of which Janice will need to be aware.

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Case Study

Assume that you are Janice Herbert, RN the nurse who will be interviewing mothers who have experienced fetal or infant loss.  Recognize that you have never worked with this culture, yet you do have some skills with the language.

Completely and fully answer the following questions. 

Remember to focus on respect, understanding diversity, advocacy, culture, and social justice in your answers.
Janice Herbert, RN, relocated from Maine to San Antonio, Texas because of a change in her husband’s job.  She began to work for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District as a maternal and infant nurse.  Her job included conducting all interviews for mothers who had experienced loss of an infant for the health department’s fetal infant mortality review program.  These interviews were conducted as part of a surveillance data collected to help the county understand contributing factors to fetal and infant death.  Her husband wondered whether she was ready for the job, because a large portion of the population in San Antonio is Mexican American.  Janice responded that she felt confident taking on the job as she had taken Spanish in college, and she had been brushing up on her Spanish.  However, her husband pointed out to her that when she was working in Maine, she had not had any Hispanic/Latino patients.

  1. To help prepare for the job, she where should she start?
  2. Review the demographics of Texas and of San Antonio.  What are the major ethnic groups in the state and in San Antonio?
  3. Identify key cultural values of which Janice will need to be aware.
  4. Demonstrate cultural understanding of death within this culture.
  5. How would she conduct a cultural assessment of the community? How will this impact her visits with the mothers?
  6. How will Janice’s increased understanding inform her responsibilities in the job?
  7. Prepare a dialog of how you would schedule to meet the families, develop rapport with the families, and how you would begin the conversation relative to fetal and infant loss.
  8. What resources would you coordinate to refer for the family to receive support?

 

Plans for individual learning differences: How you plan to adapt your teaching to meet individual learning needs of various students. Explain how individuals with different learning styles will be supported by your teaching strategies and activities.

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Teaching Plan

Select one class period from your course syllabus and develop a teaching plan for your chosen class. Following the assignment guidelines below, develop and submit your teaching plan for the class period during week 6 and deliver a mini presentation explaining your teaching plan during week 7.

Assignment Guidelines

Your teaching plan should serve as a road map of what you think students need to learn as well as how you will effectively deliver your instruction and evaluate what the students learned during the class period. Your teaching plan should guide your teaching presentation during week 7 (see guidelines for the presentation in week 7). While there are many formats for a teaching plan, the following sections should be included in your plan:

 

The subject or topic that you plan to teach: Your topic should be selected from one of the class periods listed in your syllabus that you developed for an undergraduate nursing course.
Level of instruction: The placement of the course in the nursing program curriculum (i.e., freshman, junior, sophomore, senior; beginning, mid-program, or end-of-program level)
Method/mode of delivering your teaching presentation: Form of audio-visual delivery, PowerPoint presentation, or similar method
Learning objectives: Include 4–5 outcome statements that define what you expect the students to learn or accomplish by the end of the class period. Your learning objectives should be clear and measurable, and appropriate to the information you are teaching, and the level of instruction.
Content outline: Develop an outline of the central points and/or skills you plan to cover. Your content should be logically structured.
Teaching strategies and learning activities: List the approach, techniques, and methods you will use to drive your instruction and engage your students to reach the learning objectives (e.g., lecture, active learning, discussions). Provide a rationale supporting your selected teaching strategies, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
Plans for individual learning differences: How you plan to adapt your teaching to meet individual learning needs of various students. Explain how individuals with different learning styles will be supported by your teaching strategies and activities.
Evaluation process: List the methods you plan to use to assess student learning and evaluate the effectiveness of your teaching strategies (how you will determine if students met the outcome objectives).
Include formative (questioning, discussion, games, etc.) and summative (assignment, test, presentation, etc.) evaluation strategies.
Include at least one written assignment and develop a rubric that clearly describes your expectations for the assignment. Your rubric should:
List the criteria that will be assessed (a breakdown of the assignment parts).
Include some type of scale that measures the levels of quality for the criteria being assessed (e.g., from excellent to poor, from exceeds expectations to does not meet expectations).

Topic, course level, and method/mode of delivery are identified.

4+ outcome statements defining student expectations are included and appropriate for the teaching plan.

Teaching plan outline includes central points and/or skills to be covered that are appropriate for the teaching plan. Techniques selected meet the needs of the teaching plan. Rationale for selected strategies, including advantages and disadvantages of the selected strategy as it relates to the teaching plan, is included.

A plan for how your teaching will adapt to multiple learning styles as well as an explanation on how individuals with different learning styles will be supported by this plan is included and appropriate.

Evaluation plan is included and contains both formative and summative assessments. One written assignment with directions is included

One fully developed rubric is included and is suitable for the assignment developed; includes an appropriate scale for measure of level of quality.

Select two essential psychomotor skills for a clinical course or courses in nursing. Discuss how you might collaborate with an LRC learning resource center person to facilitate student performance with the skills you selected.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Select two essential psychomotor skills for a clinical course or courses in nursing. Discuss how you might collaborate with an LRC learning resource center person to facilitate student performance with the skills you selected.

Provide a high quality and safe nursing care in adult nursing.

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High quality and safe nursing care

Provide a high quality and safe nursing care in adult nursing.

Outline assessment strategies to screen for this issue and external stressors during an assessment for an adolescent patient. Describe what additional assessment questions you would need to ask and define the ethical parameters regarding what you can and cannot share with the parent or guardian.

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Contemporary issues teenagers face today

Research the range of contemporary issues teenagers face today. In a 750-word paper, choose one issue (besides teen pregnancy) and discuss its effect on adolescent behavior and overall well-being. Include the following in your submission:

  1. Describe the contemporary issue and explain what external stressors are associated with this issue.
  2. Outline assessment strategies to screen for this issue and external stressors during an assessment for an adolescent patient. Describe what additional assessment questions you would need to ask and define the ethical parameters regarding what you can and cannot share with the parent or guardian.
  3. Discuss support options for adolescents encountering external stressors. Include specific support options for the contemporary issue you presented.

APA Reference style.

Check for detail instruction on the attached document.

 

Outline assessment strategies to screen for this issue and external stressors during an assessment for an adolescent patient. Describe what additional assessment questions you would need to ask and define the ethical parameters regarding what you can and cannot share with the parent or guardian.

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Research the range of contemporary issues teenagers face today.

Research the range of contemporary issues teenagers face today. In a 750-word paper, choose one issue (besides teen pregnancy) and discuss its effect on adolescent behavior and overall well-being.

Include the following in your submission:
1. Describe the contemporary issue and explain what external stressors are associated with this issue.

2. Outline assessment strategies to screen for this issue and external stressors during an assessment for an adolescent patient. Describe what additional assessment questions you would need to ask and define the ethical parameters regarding what you can and cannot share with the parent or guardian.

3. Discuss support options for adolescents encountering external stressors. Include specific support options for the contemporary issue you presented.

4. APA Reference style.

5. Check for detail instruction on the attached document.

Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of the policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population. Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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Write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal.

The length and format of the letter is dictated by your choice of journal.

Ultimate List of Nursing Journals

Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Advocating for new policies is an important aspect of the master’s-prepared nurse. For new policies to be compelling they need to be supported by evidence. Supporting data can be used to illustrate why new policies and interventions are needed to help address a specific health issue. Compelling data can help sway the stakeholders and gain support for your policy.

Another aspect of advocacy is disseminating new policies and interventions outside of the immediate care environment. This can be done by reaching out to professional organizations as well as academic and professional journals. A letter to the editor is one strategy for disseminating information to a wider audience and to potentially enlist support throughout the wider professional community.

Professional Context
Nurses have the opportunity to use their skills and develop programs to keep individuals and communities healthy. Health is complex, however, and the nurse needs to possess strong advocacy skills to successfully support a cause or interest. The American Nurses Association’s (2015) code of ethics describes the responsibility of a nurse to include working through and with appropriate stakeholders to advocate for the health of people in and out of the work environment. To be an effective advocate, there are several important abilities a nurse must possess, including problem-solving, communication, and influencing others. One way a nurse can advocate to a broader population is through effective letter writing, both to legislators and through the media, such as with editorials and research articles.

Reference
American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/CodeofEthicsforNurses/Code-of-Ethics-For-Nurses.html

Scenario
Throughout this course, you have focused on a specific health issue occurring within a specific population. You researched position papers regarding this health concern, and you developed a health policy proposal to positively impact the health of the affected individuals. It is now time to reach a greater audience regarding your policy proposal.

You are going to write a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed nursing journal. Choose from one of the journals in the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals and go to the journal’s Web site to find out the requirements for submitting an editorial, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.

Instructions
For this assessment, you will write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal. Your goal is to be informative about the policy that you developed for your previous Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assessment, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your assessment submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC] to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Look back to the data or scenario you used in your previous assessment to address this criterion.
Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
Justify why the developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of the policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).
Example assessment: You may use the Assessment 3 Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Submission Requirements
The submission requirements for your editorial will depend on the journal you choose. To find out the requirements, go to the journal’s Web site. There should be a section regarding submissions that will address how to format letters to the editor, and whether there is a word count limit (there usually is a limit).

If the journal does not have submission guidelines for the number of resources required, use 3–5 sources.
To be sure that your faculty knows the submission and formatting requirements for your letter, include the journal’s guidelines on a separate page at the end of the document you submit for this assessment.

Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes.
Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.

Competency 2: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes.
Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.

Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.
Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.

Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references.

After studying and analyzing the approved theory, write about this theory, including an overview of the theory and specific examples of how it could be applied in your own clinical setting.

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Week 5 Nursing Theory Comparison Paper Rough Draft

The purpose of this assignment is to draft and submit a comprehensive and complete rough draft of your Nursing Theory Comparison paper in APA style. Your rough draft should include all of the research paper elements of a final draft, which are listed below. This will give you an opportunity for feedback from your instructor before you submit your final draft during week 7.

Based on the reading assignment (McEwen & Wills, Theoretical Basis for Nursing, Unit II: Nursing Theories, chapters 6–9), select a grand nursing theory.

After studying and analyzing the approved theory, write about this theory, including an overview of the theory and specific examples of how it could be applied in your own clinical setting.
Based on the reading assignment (McEwen & Wills, Theoretical Basis for Nursing, Unit II: Nursing Theories, chapters 10 and 11), select a middle-range theory.

After studying and analyzing the approved theory, write about this theory, including an overview of the theory and specific examples of how it could be applied in your own clinical setting.