The relevency that it has on my nursing position, is that when we discharge post partum mothers or med surg patients from out of town it is useful to determine what other medications have recently been prescribed. This will avoid prescribing medications that can interact with a patients current medications. Also, this allows the prescriber to determine if the patient is a drug seeker..This assignment is designed to help students • Dev...
Assignment DetailsModule NUR 6055 Policy, Politics and Nursing BSc (Hons) Nursing, 09/13 cohort Assignment launch date: Assignment submission date: Assignment submission method: Maximum word count: Assignment brief 5th October 2015 15th January 2016 by 12:00 (twelve noon) Electronic 3,000 words Title Your critical analysis must address: Critically analyse a current issue relevant to health policy and your field of nursing The drivers for t...
SCENARIO:Shakira is a 7 year old girl living in a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory. She has 2 brothers and 2 sisters between the ages of 3 to 12 years. She is now cared for by different family members in communities scattered over a large area of the NT as her family frequently travels. Her mother Jasmine is 27 years old and has recently lost custody of her children as she was frequently found to be drinking in town and not c...
Case Study 1Mrs Walker is a 72 year old lady who lives alone and until recently was in her own home with a care package.Mrs Walker has a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia (4 months) and has deteriorated both physically and mentally over the last 8 weeks, she habitually paces up and down even though she has very poor balance and appears very pale and tired.Mrs Walker has been deemed to have ‘lost capacity’ by her Psychogeriatrica...
Questions:1. Do you think Gita Proudman handled the situation of the dying child appropriately? Was she following the CNO’s Ethics practice standards? Could the situation be handled any differently? Use evidenced based practices to guide your claims.2. In terms of the nurse-client relationship, did Gita breach these conditions? Did she cross the line by taking the dying child into an isolated room? Use ev...
Communication frameworkScenario 1You are working as a registered nurse on clinical placement in the local emergency department and your colleague asks you to go out to the waiting room to speak to the family of a young man who was brought into the emergency department after falling outside the nightclub where he had been celebrating his friend's new job. The young man sustained a serious head injury and is presently unconscious and is bein...
Assessment is a key component of nursing practice, required for planning and provision of patient and family centred care. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) in the national competency standard for registered nurses states that, “The registered nurse assesses, plans, implements and evaluates nursing care in collaboration with individuals and the multidisciplinary health care team so as to achieve goals and health outcomes....
Developing a Functional Fitness Program1. What are some of the key steps in developing a functional fitness program? 2. Describe the differences between the traditional model of medicine and a more contemporary model of medicine. 3. Which model is more conducive to the fitness therapy approach and why? 4. Explain the difference between dysfunction, disability and handicap. 5. What is the role of fitness therapy? 6. Explain "functi...
Assessment OverviewEDU10007: Contemporary Perspectives of Learning and Development for Early Childhood Assessment 3: Philosophical statement Word limit: 2000 (+/- 10%) Weighting : 40% Due date : 9am AEST Monday 6 June 2016 (Week 12) Print Assessment overview For this assessment you will reflect on your personal values and beliefs about children and early childhood education and write a professional philosophy statement. A professional philosophy...