Write for your organization a 3–5-page impact report regarding the health concerns of a new immigrant population. Describe the population’s health concerns and issues, explain current pharmacological

 Write for your organization a 3–5-page impact report regarding the health concerns of a new immigrant population. Describe the population’s health concerns and issues, explain current pharmacological treatments, and explain how culture and traditional practices may affect use of pharmacology. Identify evidence-based strategies for the organization and nursing staff to use to educate the population and promote health and wellness. 

Imagine the county health department notifies your organization that a large number of immigrants are expected to be resettled in your area. The organization, wanting to be prepared to handle any health concerns of the population, tasks each department with readying for the influx of immigrants. Your supervisor asks you to prepare an impact report on the pharmacological needs of the population that can be shared with other departments.

Preparation

Complete the following as you prepare for your impact report:

1. Choose one of the global areas below as the area from which the population will be coming.
   • Sub-Saharan Africa.
   • India.
   • China.
   • Dominican Republic.
   • Guatemala.
   • Jamaica.
   • Bangladesh.
   • Saudi Arabia.
   • Pakistan.
   • Mexico.
2. Research the most common health concerns and issues for immigrants from your chosen global area, the pharmacological treatments that will likely be prescribed, and any cultural values or traditional practices that may impact patient outcomes.

Requirements

Once you have identified the population you will be using for this assessment, include the following in your impact report:

• Describe the health concerns and issues for the population.
• Describe current pharmacological treatment regimens for the main health concerns and issues.
• Explain any traditional beliefs and practices associated with the health concerns and issues. Does the population engage in culturally based methods of treating the health concern?
• Explain how cultural values and traditional practices might affect acceptance and use of prescribed pharmacological treatments. Be sure to consider the relationship between quality patient outcomes, patient safety, and the appropriate use of pharmacology.
• Identify evidence-based, culturally sensitive strategies the organization can use to educate the population about the correct use of the pharmacology treatments.
• Identify evidence-based, culturally sensitive strategies the nursing staff can employ with the population to promote health and wellness.

Write this assessment as an impact report formatted as other reports of a similar nature in your organization or an organization with which you are familiar. Include a title page and reference page and follow APA guidelines for your in-text citations and references.

Additional Requirements

• Number of pages: 3–5
• At least 3 current scholarly or professional resources.
• Times New Roman font, 12 point, double-spaced font.

FOR SURAYA ONLY

NEED RESPONSE TO THIS DISCUSSION IN APA FORMAT 2 PAGES WITH 2 REFERENCES

The article I chose was the Murphy article, “The journey to meaningful use of electronic health records”.  This article discusses how the importance of Information Technology (IT) and EHR became important to the public and the timeline in which President George W. Bush made for facilities to implement “Meaningful Use”.  Meaningful user is defined in the article and how Center for Medicare and Medicaid can and will reimburse for meaningful use.  The financial aspect of HITECH and some of the other acts are discussed an broken down regarding how they came to be and why they each are important. 

Meaningful use criteria the article mentions is “1. Improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and reduce

health disparities. 2. Engage patients and families. 3. Improve care coordination. 4. Improve population and public health. 5. Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information.”(Murphy 2010)  All of these relate to my practice other than Engaging patients and families.  This is not something we generally do in the corrections healthcare realm.   The offenders are allowed to view portions of their chart for brief periods of time every quarter.  The families are allowed to call and check on the offenders as long as there is a Release of Information signed by the offender on file.  Neither the offender nor the families get the chart upon release, however, they can go through an attorney and have their records requested, but there is usually a fee associated with this.  We are able to improve population and public health by being able to track the needed vaccines and assessments better, than hard charts.  There are several passwords protected portals we have to clear before we can get on the Electronic chart.  The security of the EHR is very important.  Care coordination has greatly improved with not only EHR, but there is a software called “CARES” in which all of the outside provider referrals are scheduled and approved through.  This will allow better tracking of the appointments that we send our offenders to, it will also allow us to run reports on how many appointments have to be cancelled or rescheduled due to security issues. 

For the most part, I do believe EHR has helped us provided and track the care we are obligated to provide, but I feel there are some, non-medical people who are going to have to make big changes in the way they do things.  Historically, the transfer officer relied heavily on the hard chart and now, everyone has electronic chart upon intake, there is NO information in the hard chart, but they REFUSE to take anyone to a different facility if there is no chart.  This is going to take some time to get adjusted, but I think eventually, it’ll happen.

I am not sure if we could be considered meaningful users since we do not meet the entire criteria for the meaningful use, but we do not get any financial incentives from CMS anyway.    

Reference

Murphy, J. (2010). Nursing informatics. The journey to meaningful use of electronic health records. Nursing Economic$, 28(4), 283–286. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

pharmacy manager State Law Requirements, assignment help

As a Pharmacy Manager, you must be able to explain state lawrequirements to your staff. While pharmacists are generally familiarwith the state laws, the Pharmacy Technicians may not be clear oncertain topics. Consequently, you will need to add content to yourpolicy/procedure explaining key laws that Pharmacy Technicians will needto know and apply on a daily basis. The transferable skills that youwill demonstrate with this assignment are information literacy, ethics,and professional responsibility.

In preparation for this:

1. Research and summarize your state laws regarding the duties of a Pharmacy Technician.
2. Explain how the state laws align with the ethical conduct requiredby pharmacy employers. Why are they important for demonstratingprofessional ethical practices? Discuss the consequences to the employerand customer of demonstrating unethical practices.

Write your findings in an APA formatted paper that is a minimum of2-pages in length. Be sure to include an APA formatted reference pagecontaining a minimum of 3 credible sources, with 2 being academic (suchas an academic journal). Use a minimum of 3 in-text citations withproper formatting.

• A note about credible sources: Credible sourcesare reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written byauthors respected in their fields of study. You want to identify sourceswhere the author of the article is listed, if they’ve referenced otherinformation, the sources should be cited so that you can check for theaccuracy of and support what they have written.
• Wikipedia is not considered a credible source. For more information on credible sources, please visit the Rasmussen Online Library.

You are encouraged to investigate the following resources:

• Board of Pharmacy in your state
• Rasmussen online library:
  • Health Policy Reference Center via EBSCO
  • Health Sciences and Nursing via ProQuest – Pharmaceutical News Index

Information Systems Paper Topic -Electronic Health Records

Information Systems Paper (graded)

See attachment for complete understanding

The assignment requires that you:

1. select a topic related to information systems in healthcare from the list provided in the guidelines,
2. research and analyze the topic, and
3. describe how you will apply your newly acquired knowledge to your nursing practice.

The Topic  for my paper is:

 Electronic Health Records

 Things to Avoid in Your Paper  In order to help you be successful, here is a list of the things I find often that will cost you points:

1. DO NOT USE I, we, you, let’s, our, us…… The paper is written in 3rd person.  This means we have to use things like….. “In the opinion of this writer, ….”  or  “This author is very interested ……..”
2. DO NOT USE questions within the paper, either.
3. USE THE APA TEMPLATE as the starting point for your paper.  This already has the title page template, the running headers and page numbers, and more already set up for you.  If you don’t use the template, you’ll need to very detailed and astute when you format.
4. After the title page, the first available line on page #2 starts with a header, centered, not bold.
5. USE SECTION HEADINGS within the body of the paper.  This is a requirement for proper APA formatting.
6. DO NOT make this paper an article review. 
7. Follow the structure discussed in the assignment.
8. Do NOT make the paper shorter or longer than stated in the assignment as this would cost points, as well.

AACN Essential Self Assessment

Week 2: AACN Essentials Self-Assessment and Patient-Centered Care

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Download the Week 2 Self-Assessment of the AACN Essentials (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Follow the directions on the form. Note your total score. Next, review this article:

Kramer, M., Schmalenberg, C., Maguire, P., Brewer, B., Burke, R., Chmielewski, L., … Meeks-Sjostrom, D. (2009). Walk the talk: Promoting control of nursing practice and a patient-centered culture. Critical Care Nurse, 29(3), 77–93. http://proxy.chamberlain.edu:8080/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edswsc&AN=000266533800011&site=eds-live&scope=site  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

After you have completed your self-assessment, answer the following questions:

1. If you are willing, please share your total score on the AACN Essentials Self-Assessment. If you do not wish to share your score, give a general description of your current KSA levels.
2. Candidly identify and share with your classmates areas where knowledge, skills or abilities (KSAs) are lacking?
3. Describe the relationship between the AACN Essentials and your new-found knowledge about Patient Centered Care. Are there opportunities for you to improve?

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