Challenges in Medical Surgical UnitsTask: Working in medical surgical unit is quite challenging as nurses need to deal with different types of patients with various health issues. Sometimes nurses are required to work overtime due to excessive workload and still it becomes difficult to organize things properly. Due to lack of experience and knowledge nurses face challenges in Telemetry while working in medical surgical unit and hence, they requ...
The Importance of Creativity in LearningTask: One way that we learn is by being creative. Although the ways in which our creativity manifests may be different, everyone has a creative side that can be engaged to express our knowledge. Often expressing what we know or have learned through something other than writing an essay or taking a test can help us learn more and deeper. Further, every profession requires some degree of c...
Revised Career Plans Based on Future TrendsTask: Think way back to your Personal Philosophy of Nursing paper that you wrote in the very first RN BSN nursing course N3345 Transition to Professional Nursing. Answer these three questions in a short essay style paper (2-3 pages) plus a cover page (see grading rubric for specifics). 1. Describe how your 2, 5, and 10 year career plan may have changed since you started the RN BSN program based...
Understanding the Importance of Registered Nurses in Healthcare LeadershipIt is becoming increasingly important for registered nurses to assume a leadership role in a changing health care system. Hence, registered nurses must be able to assess and act to fulfill their own learning needs in order to work to their full scope of practice. To complete this assignment, consider an issue or trend in nursing or health care and choose one of the options...
TaskTask: As the final stop in your journey toward your Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, you will complete a capstone that integrates the knowledge and skills you have developed in previous coursework. Over the duration of the capstone course, you will create a proposal for change designed to address a specific healthcare-related need in the organization where you currently work or a place where you have previously worked, or an issue of ...
Select either a quantitative or qualitative research study that is of interest to you. Search terms such as "research" and "nursing" (or another discipline if not a nurse) will help you to narrow your search to an article written by researchers from within your specific discipline. Ensure that the study you select is a research study (avoid literature reviews or summaries of research articles). You should approve your choice of articl...
Assignment Overview1. Review the rubric(s) associated to the assignment. o Choose one local community for the entire duration of the assignment and discuss the issues, positive or negative, that affect the overall health of the individuals living within that community. A total of two submissions will be made on your chosen community with each submission identifying a separate health issue of the community. Some suggested issues include: substanc...
PurposeBefore any nursing plan of care or intervention can be implemented or evaluated, the nurse assesses the individual through the collection of both subjective and objective data. The data collected are used to determine areas of need or problems to be addressed by the nursing care plan. This assignment will focus on collecting subjective assessment data, synthesizing the data, and on identifying health/wellness priorities based on the f...
Assignment GuidelinesThe purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate utilization of epidemiology research related to the health of the community_ Assignment Guidelines Determine a specific population that you would like to have more information about, this should be the same population chosen for assignment 1 and the one you anticipate to use for assignment 3 and 4). Use the Athabasca University Library Databa...
Position on Ethical DilemmaQuestions – Answer all of the following questions: 1. Take a position on the ethical dilemma you have selected from the list provided above. Provide the reasons, ethical principles and values and laws that support your position. Describe why the position you take makes sense and has evidence to support it other than your feelings, personal preference, your opinion or what you were brought up to believe. 2. Ho...
Rationale for Methods of Collecting Outcome DataTask: An evaluation plan is a document detailing how to monitors and evaluate a program as well as how intended results can be used to improve decision-making. In other words, the evaluation plan clarifies the what, how, and why matters of a program. An evaluation plan is the same as a roadmap as it defines steeps required to assess the process and outcomes. The evaluation plan is useful in clarif...
PurposeEvidence Table Attached Files: • Appendix D.pdf • Appendix D1.pdf • Appendix D2.docx • Evidence Table Guidelines.docx Evaluation Criteria: This will be graded using the rubric in Appendix D1 of this Outline. Purpose: This exercise will help you find, analyze, summarize, and cite scholarly resources. Assignment Instructions: Step 1. Create a Word document using the columnar template provided in Appendix D2 of this Outli...
Approaching Jane During Her First Days on the UnitCase Study (Psychiatric Nursing) Jane is a 17 years old girl who lives at home with her parents. She is the oldest of three girl siblings. Her father is a judge in the supreme court and her mother is a school teacher. She and all of her sisters are conscientious students who maintain high GPAs throughout their schooling. Jane spends a large portion of her free time studying and reading books. She...
Challenges Faced by Nurses in Medical Surgical UnitsTask: Working in medical surgical unit is quite challenging as nurses need to deal with different types of patients with various health issues. Sometimes nurses are required to work overtime due to excessive workload and still it becomes difficult to organize things properly. Due to lack of experience and knowledge nurses face challenges in Telemetry while working in medical surgical unit and ...
Task:Task: This article is overall quite well done for what it is. It is interesting to note that the qualitative findings came as a component of a RCT for which the quantitative data will be published elsewhere. Had both sets of results been published together a mixed methods report would have resulted, but likely would not have been able to go into the depth for either methodology to answer the questions adequately. The authors note that they...