Develop a study guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder to share with your colleagues. Create a study guide for your assigned disorder.

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STUDY GUIDE FORUM

Abnormal brain development or damage at an early age can lead to neurodevelopmental disorders. Within this group of disorders, some are removable with appropriate and timely interventions, either pharmacological or nonpharmacological, while other disorders are chronic and need to be managed throughout the lifespan.

For this Assignment, develop a study guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder to share with your colleagues. In sum, these study guides will be a powerful tool in preparing for the certification exam.

TO PREPARE:
(1) Research the Autism Spectrum Disorder. Then, develop an organizational scheme for the important information about this disorder.

THE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTION:
(2) Create a study guide for your assigned disorder. Your study guide should be in the form of an outline with references, and you should incorporate visual elements such as concept maps, charts, diagrams, images, color coding, mnemonics, and/or flashcards. Be creative. It should not be in the format of an APA paper. Your guide should be informed by the DSM-5-TR but also supported by at least Three other Scholarly resources. The guide should follow the correct APA format for Parenthetical/narrative in-text citations and reference lists.

3) Areas of importance you should address, but are not limited to, are:

  • (a) Signs and symptoms according to the DSM-5-TR
  • ((b) Differential diagnoses
  • (c) Incidence
  • (d) Development and course
  • (e) Prognosis
  • (f) Considerations related to culture, gender, age
  • (g) Pharmacological treatment, including any side effects
  • (h) Nonpharmacological treatments
  • (I) Diagnostics and labs
  • (j) Comorbidities
  • (k) Legal and ethical considerations
  • (l) Pertinent patient education consideration

Answer all Assignment questions with correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation.

How Should Nurses Assure Policy Change For Advanced Practice Registered Nurses?” What Role Does The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Play In Addressing Workforce Shortages In Rural Communities?

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Nursing Question

How Should Nurses Assure Policy Change For Advanced Practice Registered Nurses?” What Role Does The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Play In Addressing Workforce Shortages In Rural Communities?

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges.

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Discussion w8

  • Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. (red)
  • Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. (blue)
  • Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples. (yellow)

-Use 2-3 from the provided resources and 2 or more outside scholarly journal articles resources with dois.

– Include “the purpose of this discussion…” and a conclusion.

Sacristán, J., & Dilla, T. D. (2015). No big data without small data: Learning health care systems begin and end with the individual patient. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6), 1014–1017.

Tummers, L., & Bekkers, V. (2014). Policy implementation, street level bureaucracy, and the importance of discretion. Public Management Review, 16(4), 527–547.

Klein, K. J., & Sorra, J. S. (1996). The challenge of innovation implementation. Academy of Management Review, 21(4), 1055–1080.

American Nurses Association (ANA). (n.d.). Advocacy. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advoc…

Discuss the Mind-Body-Spirit connection, providing research articles and/or writings of interest from the Medical Profession throughout time and the globe.

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Discussion Board 2

Nurses know the importance of the Mind, Body, and Spirit connection. No doubt that most of us have witnessed the “Hopeless case” recover or the patient who just received a poor diagnosis with months to live will die almost immediately. Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic knew this connection and believed it vital to a patient’s healing. Today the Mayo Clinic utilizes Mind-Body practices and even has a Mind-Body Initiative. The Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Brent Bauer, M.D., professor of General Internal Medicine, and Dr. Cindy Kermott, M.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine; and Dr. Martha Millman, M.D., wrote the book, An Integrative Guide to Good Health, that discusses how alternative and complementary techniques can enhance conventional medicine.

Discuss the Mind-Body-Spirit connection, providing research articles and/or writings of interest from the Medical Profession throughout time and the globe. What complementary techniques (not just diet and exercise) can be used in the Acute Care setting to enhance conventional medicine (such as meditation, aromatherapy, acupuncture and reflexology etc.). As AGACNPs how can you become knowledgeable enough to encourage alternative therapies for patients to assist them in both healing and preventative care?

How could you use Excel descriptive statistics for data analysis research? What are your plans for learning more about Excel and how will the information you learned about this software be of benefit in your future analysis of research data?

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Discussion Question

Using the Excel Sheet and descriptive statistics page; you will write up your analysis for the 20 participants.

This week, you learned about the statistical software applications used to analyze data for research analysis. For this week’s discussion, you will use Excel sheet provide to run descriptive statistics, create graphs and respond to the following:

  • How could you use Excel descriptive statistics for data analysis research?
  • What are your plans for learning more about Excel and how will the information you learned about this software be of benefit in your future analysis of research data?

Refer to this week’s readings and video tutorials before starting this two part discussion question assignment.

Step 1: Entering Data

Open a blank worksheet in the Excel program

You will now use Excel to view a sample dataset

Dataset Options

In many cases, researchers may have the data from their study in another software package like Microsoft Excel. However, if the data is not available in a software spreadsheet you can manually enter the data. Option 2: Manual Data Entry

In the Worksheet window, type “Age” in C1. Enter the numbers as shown in the dataset below. Enter the remaining data as shown below (set up your column labels i.e., variable). The measure reflects math anxiety and the study variables (cringe, uneasy, afraid, worried, understand) the math anxiety range is from 1–5 with low being the least and 5 the highest.

 Age  Cringe  Uneasy  Afraid  Worried  Understand
 28  5  3  4  4  3
 34  2  5  3  2  1
 25  4  4  4  2  5
 56  3  4  3  1  2
 23  5  4  3  3  4
 29  1  5  3   2  3
 30  3  3  5  2  5
 59  2  5  5  1  2
 45  4  2  5  3  3
 38  1  2  4  1  1
 33  3  2  4  3  2
 47  4  2  3  4  5
 24  1  5 3  4  4
 29  5  4  2  1  3
 53  3  1  5  2  1
 48  4  4  1  5  3
 27  2  5  4  3  4
 34  4  4  3  2  5
 26  4  5  2  3  2
 36  5  5  5  4  3

Step 2: Click on Excel tab for Add Ins; if you do not see statistics; you will need to open the file option; click on Add ins; click on ok; a box will open which will allow you to choose Statistics package; place a check mark in the box and click ok. How to Run Descriptive Statistics

Now that your data is in Excel, you will look at the descriptive statistics for this dataset. Select the data in all the columns except the top that has words for the columns; however you have the file already completed and a picture of the descriptive statistics..See end of page for a copy of the excel sheet and descriptive statistics output.

Discussion Question Part 1

How could you use Excel descriptive statistics for data analysis research? Write about your experience running descriptive statistics. Use the results in the Session Window to support your response. Then add to your discussion with the information you learn writing up your analysis.

Step 3: Excel and Graphs

You will now look at graphing. Select insert graph located at the top of the sheet; highlight the data you want to use for a chart; select the type of chart; select ok. Try using the histogram  feature for one of the variables and select “Ok”. You can create other Histogram graphs by choosing different variables. You can also choose from the other ten graph choices shown on the insert chart function.

Discussion Question Part 2

What are your plans for learning more about Excel and how will the information you learned about this software be of benefit in your future analysis of research data? Copy and paste your graph(s) in a Word document and attach to your discussion response.

 

Where did you find the article? How did you determine that it is evidence-based? How will you incorporate the findings of your article into your nursing practice?

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NURS 105R Professional Concepts in Nursing

Evidenced Based Practice Research Paper

Evidence-Based Practice is defined as “integrating best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care” (QSEN, 2003). https://qsen.org/evidence-based-practice/

Purpose of assignment: To introduce the concept of EBP to the novice nurse and prepare them to research EBP topics for implementation at the bedside.

Directions:

Review the power point titled “Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research”

Prepare to write a 2-3-page paper:

  • Locate one evidence based article about any of the topics we have covered in this course. Your paper will include:
    • Where did you find the article?
    • How did you determine that it is evidence-based?
    • A brief summary of the article
    • How will you incorporate the findings of your article into your nursing practice?

The mole on Leonard’s shoulder was a nevocellular nevus. What are the cellular composition and appearance of this type of mole before it underwent malignant change?

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Disorders of Skin Integrity and Function

Leonard works in the agriculture industry and raises beef cattle. At 60 years of age, he has spent most of his life working outdoors harvesting hay and tending to his herds. His wife was the first to notice a change in his skin. One day, after taking off his shirt, she noticed a significant change in the mole he had on his right shoulder. It not only was darker but was moist and appeared to have been bleeding at one point. Surrounding the mole, his skin was red. His wife remembered hearing stories of Leonard working on his father’s farm, spending long hours out in the hot sun even though his father had gone into the barn to work during the hottest part of the day. She insisted him go to the family physician to have it examined (Chapter 52, Learning Objectives 10 and 11).

  1. Leonard’s physician performed a biopsy on the lesion and told Leonard he suspected the growth may be malignant melanoma. What cells are affected in this form of skin cancer? How might his childhood exposures to the sun predispose him to this form of cancer?
  1. How do UVA and UVB rays contribute to the process of oncogenesis in skin cells?
  2. The mole on Leonard’s shoulder was a nevocellular nevus. What are the cellular composition and appearance of this type of mole before it underwent malignant change?

What part does negotiation play in patient education?

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 Patient education

What part does negotiation play in patient education?

explain why you do or do not adhere to the dominant cultural practices and beliefs of the ethnic group(s) with which you primarily identify.

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NUR505 Assign

Self-Assessment Paper

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a cultural self-assessment.

  1. You will read each of the boxes in Chapter 2 of your textbook (one for each domain of the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence), answer these questions as they relate to you.
  2. Remember to answer these questions from your personal perspective. At all times, explain why you do or do not adhere to the dominant cultural practices and beliefs of the ethnic group(s) with which you primarily identify.
  3. If you do not wish to self-disclose a specific area from the Organizing Framework, indicate so instead of just not addressing it; of course, this should not happen very often.
    Your paper should be formatted per APA, 7 edition and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions)

Demonstrate a systematic, evidence-based approach to the clinical assessment and management required by the critically ill woman and, act with initiative in decision making.

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A Casestudy on Severe Pre Eclampsia

This is an essay for a maternal critical care module.
The assessed Learning Outcomes of the case study are:
1 Possess an in-depth knowledge of the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of the critically ill patient.
2 Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills in the detection of clinical deterioration and care escalation, critically analysing the reasons for failure to rescue.
3 Demonstrate a systematic, evidence-based approach to the clinical assessment and management required by the critically ill woman and, act with initiative in decision making.
4 Incorporate a critical ethical, legal and professional dimension to the practitioner’s clinical practice.