About Child abuse
What biological, psychological environmental, sociocultural, behavioral, and health system facts are contributing to the violence?
What evidence-based intervention might be appropriate for addressing the problem?
Who might you collaborate with in resolving the problem?
How would you evaluate the effectiveness of your interventions?
Adversity and Depression Treatment Disparities
Discussion related to early life adversity's impact on the development of depression in later life. Student will research methods to improve treatment disparities among children and young adults who experience early adversity.
Read Stern, K. R. & Thayer, Z. M. (2019). Adversity in childhood and young adulthood predicts young adult depression. This is Module 8.
Research on your own to uncover methods to improve statistics found in the attached literature. Post for your peers what you find that could be useful to close the gap and offer potential improvement in the treatment disparity of adversity and its impact on development of depression.
For the Discussion (Include the corresponding number below as you respond in your initial post):
1. What did you take from the literature attached to the discussion board?
2. What literature did you find on your own that might be helpful for this population?
3. What resources and tools would you need to help implement helpful interventions in the primary care setting?
Case study of a patient hypertension/hyperlipidemia
Patient with obesity diagnosed with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Drugs currently prescribed include the following:
Atenolol 12.5 mg daily
Doxazosin 8 mg daily
Hydralazine 10 mg qid
Sertraline 25 mg daily
Simvastatin 80 mg daily
• Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.
• Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.
• Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements. Be specific when discussing drug therapy
Persuasive Ethics Research Paper
Your persuasive paper is due this week. Please pick a topic, and write a 5 page persuasive paper. 5 pages is approximately 2500 words. It is your responsibility to submit a 5 page paper. That does not include the cover page and references page. Shorter or longer papers will get a significant grade reduction. Please don't write about abortion, the death penalty, mercy killing or stem cells. Please use at least 2 ethical theories to analyze your position. Please use at least 3 outside resources. Please use the APA citation method. Include in text citations and a references page.
Submit your paper as an MSWord or .rtf file through the link below.
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH
Self-awareness is a key part of the psychiatric nursing experience. The nurse’s goal is to achieve authentic, open and personal communication that is therapeutic in nature. The nurse must be able to examine personal feelings, actions, and reactions.
1. Watch the TED talk “Lessons from a Mental Hospital” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHPNMIK-fY
2. After viewing please complete the following assignment:
Personal Reflection #1
Turn in your first personal reflection assignment following the guidelines below:
1) How do you feel about the mentally ill population?
2) What feelings, fears and vision do you have about working with psychiatric patients?
3) What do you hope to accomplish during this course?
4) What self-care strategies do you use or would like to use for your own mental health?
Make sure your paper is at least 2 pages double spaced. Include anything else that you want in order to personally reflect about this experience. This assignment is designed for you to think about how you feel about working with the mentally ill population
Fetal Abnormality
write a 750-1,000-word reflection that answers the following questions:
What is the Christian view of the nature of human persons, and which theory of moral status is it compatible with? How is this related to the intrinsic human value and dignity?
Which theory or theories are being used by Jessica, Marco, Maria, and Dr. Wilson to determine the moral status of the fetus? What from the case study specifically leads you to believe that they hold the theory you selected?
How does the theory determine or influence each of their recommendations for action?
What theory do you agree with? Why? How would that theory determine or influence the recommendation for action?
Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/wi-phi/wiphi-value-theory/wiphi-ethics/v/moral-status
Introduction to Nursing
Prepare a two to three page written assignment that includes the following:
Content:
Prepare a two to three page written assignment that includes the following:
Introduction to the assignment (sections of the assignment)
Describe the importance of the code of ethics in nursing
Identify the American Nurses Association Standards of Practice for the licensure you are obtaining (LPN or RN)
Conclusion (reflect on the criteria of the assignment)
Use at least two credible resources to support your findings. For example, one of the resources could be the ANA Standards of Practice, and another resource could be the ANA Code of Ethics. These resources must be integrated into the body of your paper using at least two in-text citations. Be sure to use proper APA format and style.
Format:
Two to three page written assignment
Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
Logical, original, and insightful
Professional organization, style, and mechanics in APA format
Healthcare Technology: Local, National, and Global Considerations
Imagine that you are a public health nurse, and you and your colleagues have determined that the threat of a deadly new strain of influenza indicates a need for a mass inoculation program in your community. What public health data would have been used to determine the need for such a program? Where would you locate public health data? What data will be collected to determine the success of such a program? How might you communicate this to other communities or internationally?
Nursing
For your writing assignment this week, you'll use your research skills to find an expression of racial injustice and the criminal justice system. You may select a work of visual art, a poem or spoken word performance, a music video, or other creative expressions. include a link to the artwork you've selected and composed a one-page response to the following questions:
What does this particular creative expression reveal about the enduring truth of racism in the American criminal justice system? How does the artist disclose these truths?
Discussion
Once you have selected a PICOT question discuss your strategies for conducting a systematic search/review of the literature in order to answer your question. Explain how you will critically appraise the literature you have selected to determine the best evidence for this assignment. ExpectationsInitial Post:
Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA format from within the last 5 years
My PICOT question is on a medical-surgical hospital unit (P), how does implementing hourly nursing rounding (I), compared to no scheduled rounding (C), affect patient safety (O), within 6 months of implementing (T)?
This a question from my instructor
If you’re hypothesis is that hourly rounding will improve Pt safety outcome, how will you measure it? What are you improving compliance of rounding ? Or Reduced falls From previous month? What percentage improvement are you using as a bench mark? 100% ?
Please fill in the outcome goal
