What is the community’s issue or concern? What is the source of the environmental hazard? What are the potential harmful effects of the environmental hazard?

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Environmental Health

Case Study on Environmental Health

Directions:  Carefully read the following case study.  Thoroughly complete the questions related to the case study.  Remember that discussion questions should be complete and thorough when answered.

Caleb is a community health nurse who works in a rural farming community. In Caleb’s community, there is a rise in unexplained respiratory illnesses and cancers. The county in which Caleb works received a grant to help prevent and reduce these illnesses in this community.

As part of the grant, Caleb is required to visit each farmhouse in the community to educate the farmers about the increase in disease in the area. Caleb teaches the farmers that the illnesses are most likely caused by pesticide use. In addition, Caleb teaches the farmers and their families the importance of protection against the pesticides, including proper pesticide storage and handling; the importance of wearing goggles, heavy-duty gloves, and a respirator when working around the pesticides; and the necessity of performing hand hygiene on a regular basis throughout the day.

Questions to answer on the environmental health case study

  1. What is the community’s issue or concern?
  2. What is the source of the environmental hazard?
  3. What are the potential harmful effects of the environmental hazard?
  4. Identify the key areas to assess to include: household, work, community
  5. Which resources have been identified or contacted to assist with resolution of the issue?
  6. What goal does the community wish to achieve regarding the environmental hazard?
  7. Identify appropriate prevention interventions to assist the community with resolving their concern.
  8. Which nursing roles were implemented?
  9. Were the goals achieved? How?
  10. Were the prevention measures adequate? Explain your answer
  11. Were the interventions adequate? Explain your answer.
  12. Were the interventions effective?  Explain your answer.
  13. Were they efficient? Explain your answer.

Briefly describe the personality disorder you selected, including the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria. Explain a therapeutic approach and a modality you might use to treat a client presenting with this disorder. Explain why you selected the approach and modality, justifying their appropriateness.

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Week 10 Therapy for Clients With Personality Disorders

Succinctly, in 1–2 pages, address the following:

Briefly describe the personality disorder you selected, including the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria.
Explain a therapeutic approach and a modality you might use to treat a client presenting with this disorder. Explain why you selected the approach and modality, justifying their appropriateness.

Next, briefly explain what a therapeutic relationship is in psychiatry. Explain how you would share your diagnosis of this disorder with the client in order to avoid damaging the therapeutic relationship. Compare the differences in how you would share your diagnosis with an individual, a family, and in a group session.

Support your response with specific examples from this week’s Learning Resources and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Succinctly, in 1–2 pages, address the following: • Briefly describe the personality disorder you selected, including the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria.–

Evaluate the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1 using best practices found in the literature.

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Preliminary care coordination plan

For this assessment, you will evaluate the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1 using best practices found in the literature.

Introduction
NOTE: You are required to complete this assessment after Assessment 1 is successfully completed.

Care coordination is the process of providing a smooth and seamless transition of care as part of the health continuum. Nurses must be aware of community resources, ethical considerations, policy issues, cultural norms, safety, and the physiological needs of patients. Nurses play a key role in providing the necessary knowledge and communication to ensure seamless transitions of care. They draw upon evidence-based practices to promote health and disease prevention to create a safe environment conducive to improving and maintaining the health of individuals, families, or aggregates within a community. When provided with a plan and the resources to achieve and maintain optimal health, patients benefit from a safe environment conducive to healing and a better quality of life.

This assessment provides an opportunity to research the literature and apply evidence to support what communication, teaching, and learning best practices are needed for a hypothetical patient with a selected health care problem.

You are encouraged to complete the Vila Health: Cultural Competence activity prior to completing this assessment. Completing course activities before submitting your first attempt has been shown to make the difference between basic and proficient assessment.

Preparation
In this assessment, you will evaluate the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1 using best practices found in the literature.

To prepare for your assessment, you will research the literature on your selected health care problem. You will describe the priorities that a care coordinator would establish when discussing the plan with a patient and family members. You will identify changes to the plan based upon EBP and discuss how the plan includes elements of Healthy People 2030.

Instructions
Note: You are required to complete Assessment 1 before this assessment.

For this assessment:

Build on the preliminary plan, developed in Assessment 1, to complete a comprehensive care coordination plan.
Document Format and Length
Build on the preliminary plan document you created in Assessment 1. Your final plan should be a scholarly APA-formatted paper, 4–6 pages in length, not including title page and reference list.

Supporting Evidence
Support your care coordination plan with peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2030 resources. Cite at least three credible sources.

Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes. How was the success of the program or policy measured? How many people were reached by the program or policy selected? How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?

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Assessing a Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

Program/policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs/policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve.

Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives.

Nurses can play a very important role assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this Assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.

To Prepare:
• Review the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
• Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation or choose one of interest to you.
• Review community, state, or federal policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described.

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)

Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:

•Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
•How was the success of the program or policy measured?
•How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
•How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
•At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
•What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
•What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
•What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific and provide examples.
•Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
•Would you recommend implementing this program or policy in your place of work? Why or why not?
•Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.

Develop a 2- to 3-page role description for a graduate-level nurse to guide his/her participation on the implementation team. The role description should be based on the SDLC stages and tasks and should clearly define how this individual will participate in.

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The Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and Implementation

Assume you are a nurse manager on a unit where a new nursing documentation system is to be implemented. You want to ensure that the system will be usable and acceptable for the nurses impacted. You realize a nurse leader must be on the implementation team.

To Prepare:
•Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and reflect on the scenario presented.
•Consider the benefits and challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health information technology.

The Assignment: (2-3 pages not including the title and reference page)
In preparation of filling this role, develop a 2- to 3-page role description for a graduate-level nurse to guide his/her participation on the implementation team. The role description should be based on the SDLC stages and tasks and should clearly define how this individual will participate in and impact each of the following steps:
• Planning and requirements definition
• Analysis
• Design of the new system
• Implementation
• Post-implementation support
• Use APA format and include a title page and reference page.
• Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

Resources :

Explain each component in the four phases of emergency management. Describe the policies and procedures that your practicum has in place for emergency preparedness and disaster planning.

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Organization’s emergency responses

The purpose of this assignment is to understand how your practicum organization’s emergency responses coordinate with local, state, and national emergency responses. (Miami Med Group, a Community Health Clinic)

In a 900-1,200 word essay address the following:

  1. Explain each component in the four phases of emergency management.
  2. Describe the policies and procedures that your practicum has in place for emergency preparedness and disaster planning.
  3. Describe local, state, and national emergency preparedness resources or plans.
  4. Describe how your practicum organization’s responses coordinate with local, state, and national emergency responses.
  5. Describe emergency services that should be made available to the population in an emergency.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

 

Considering the four phases of emergency management, what are the priorities for each phase for the event you selected?

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Emergency management

Choose a recent event (within 2 years) for which an emergency response was activated within your state (Florida). The event selected can be man-made, mass causality, natural disaster, or infection outbreak.

Considering the four phases of emergency management, what are the priorities for each phase for the event you selected?

 

According to the organization (Miami Med Group, a Community Health Clinic) where you are completing your practicum, what is the role of a public health nurse in emergency preparedness and disaster planning?

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Emergency preparedness and Disaster planning

According to the organization (Miami Med Group, a Community Health Clinic) where you are completing your practicum, what is the role of a public health nurse in emergency preparedness and disaster planning?

 

Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and reflect on the scenario presented. Consider the benefits and challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health information technology.

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The Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and Implementation

Assume you are a nurse manager on a unit where a new nursing documentation system is to be implemented. You want to ensure that the system will be usable and acceptable for the nurses impacted. You realize a nurse leader must be on the implementation team.

To Prepare:
Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and reflect on the scenario presented.
Consider the benefits and challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health information technology.

The Assignment: (2-3 pages not including the title and reference page)

In preparation of filling this role, develop a 2- to 3-page role description for a graduate-level nurse to guide his/her participation on the implementation team. The role description should be based on the SDLC stages and tasks and should clearly define how this individual will participate in and impact each of the following steps:

  • Planning and requirements definition
  • Analysis
  • Design of the new system
  • Implementation
  • Post-implementation support

Use APA format and include a title page and reference page.
Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes. How was the success of the program or policy measured? How many people were reached by the program or policy selected? How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?

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Assessing a Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

Program/policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs/policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve. Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives.
Nurses can play a very important role assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this Assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.

Review and complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation or choose one of interest to you.
Review community, state, or federal policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described.

Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:
Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
How was the success of the program or policy measured?
How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific and provide examples.
Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
Would you recommend implementing this program or policy in your place of work? Why or why not?
Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.