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...
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...
Identifying Clinical Issue of InterestIs there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”? When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with an...
An Argument for Socialized MedicineA.An Argument for Socialized Medicine As a public health nurse and leader, you are a part of a group developing a socialized approach to the provision of health care in the United States. Submit an argument for socialized medicine. Include in your presentation the following key elements: a.The value of healthcare for the populations served. b.Ethical issues address in the distribution of healthcare. ...
Summary of the chosen ethical issueYou have to make an audio/visual presentation of your chosen ethical issue (the problem), and your stance opposing the issue . You may not be personally in opposition of this issue, however, it is your job to convince us of a supporting position. Include evidence why you you are taking an affirmative stance with this issue. Your presentation should include both audio and visual components. T...
Task:Task: Write a summary of what you learned from this discussion board. Of course, feel free to have longer and more involved discussions. Total minimal posts over a discussion board for each student is four posts. All discussion board responses should be substantial, and further the scholarly conversation. For example, responding to a classmate with, “Great post. I totally agree...
Accessing the Canadian Nurses Association Code of EthicsAccess the Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics by googling: "Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics". On page 2 the opening statement is, "The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses (herein called the Code) is a statement of the ethical values of nurses and of nurses' commitments to persons with health-care needs and persons receiving care" (CNA, 2...
Scenario 1: Incompetence among PeersStep 1: After reading all Required Reading Assignments, choose one of the following topics (scenarios) for your post (remember this is not a political discussion). Scenario 1: Incompetence among Peers The nurse caring for clients to which she was assigned finds significant differences in the assessment findings from the preceding nurse in both assessment and documentation. This has been true for the ...
Assignment For this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue in a health care setting. You will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue. Health care organizations and professionals strive to create safe environments for patients; however, due to the complexity of th...
What is PICO(T) and why is it important in evidence-based practice?Create a 3-5-page submission in which you develop a PICO(T) question for a specific care issue and evaluate the evidence you locate, which could help to answer the question. PICO(T) is an acronym that helps researchers and practitioners define aspects of a potential study or investigation. It stands for: P – Patient/population/problem. I – Intervention. C...
Assignment DescriptionFor this assessment, you will develop an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan. Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015...
Understanding Leadership in NursingTask: Leadership plays a vital role in nursing. In nursing it is studied as a way to increase the knowledge, skills, and abilities that nurses need to facilitate clinical and administrative outcomes while working with people across a variety of situations, settings, and sites (Huber, 2018, p.1). Huber, (2018) defines leadership a process of influencing people to accomplish a common goal; and define...