Question Description

In this assignment, you will be completing a comprehensive health screening and history on a young adult. To complete this assignment, do the following:

Select an adolescent or young adult client on whom to perform a health screening and history. Students who do not work in an acute setting may “practice” these skills with a patient, community member, neighbor, friend, colleague, or loved one.

Complete the “Health History and Screening of an Adolescent or Young Adult Client” worksheet.

Complete the assignment as outlined on the worksheet, including:

1. Biographical data
2. Past health history
3. Family history: Obstetrics history (if applicable) and well young adult behavioral health history screening
4. Review of systems
5. All components of the health history
6. Three nursing diagnoses for this client based on the health history and screening (one actual nursing diagnosis, one wellness nursing diagnosis, and one “risk for” nursing diagnosis)
7. Rationale for the choice of each nursing diagnosis.
8. A wellness plan for the adolescent/young adult client, using the three nursing diagnoses you have identified.

Format the write-up in a manner that is easily read, computer-generated, neat, and without spelling errors. Use correct acronyms or abbreviations when indicated.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Question Description

Health Policy Presentation 

The purpose of this assignment is for you to identify an issue of concern for your role as an advanced practice nurse and to formulate a potential policy change to address that issue. There are many potential issues which can influence your practice setting or other issue which may negatively affect the patients with whom you work. All of the course reading will help you to identify a topic for this assignment. You can think about the issue as related to your health promotion project of prevention of venous ulcers for diabetic. The policy you consider may be in reaction to the health promotion issue or something larger that is still related to that issue. There are hundreds of possible issues, but here is a list of a few to consider: please use ARHQ.gov, CDC.gov, and CMS.gov as the other references..I need you to follow the rubric and guideline here very strictly. power points of at least 25-30 not including reference pages. I would like to use one of the two topic

• Legislative issues affecting advanced practice nursing
• Barriers to practice

As you begin to work on the possible policy change: the following ideas and steps should be considered:

• Definition and description of the issue
• Exploration of the background of the issue
• Stakeholders
• Issue statement or statement of clarity
• Possible methods of addressing the issue
• Goals and options for changes
• Risks and benefits of the changes
• Evaluation methodology
• Recommendation or solution

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU USE THE RUBRIC AS YOUR HEADING TO ENSURE THAT YOU MEET REQUIREMENTS>>>>

Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Identify the type of legislation, such as state, federal, scope of practice, reimbursement, loan repayment, or others.	20
Review of the literature consists of a minimum of 3–4 peer-reviewed articles and 6–7 other outside sources.	30
Describe the current policy or health policy issue and specify how it would impact nursing or healthcare.	10
Describe the specific aspects of the proposed policy or policy change.	20
Identify the individuals who would benefit from the policy change and explain where support for the change would be found.	20
Describe the impact of the policy change on nursing practice and health care.	10
Provide an analysis of the policy from your point of view and how this will influence your practice.	20
Uses good writing skills, appropriate grammar, and application of APA formatting throughout paper, citations, and references.	10
Total:	140

Question Description

Review the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Write a 750-1,000 word paper discussing the influence of the IOM report on nursing practice. Include the following:

1. Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are significant to nursing practice.
2. Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN-prepared nurses.
3. Explain why it is important that a nurse’s role and education evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population.
4. Discuss the significance of professional development, or lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health-illness continuum.
5. Discuss how nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Case Study—Shortage of Nurses

Writing Assignment

Read the Businessweek Case: A Critical Shortage of Nurses from chapter 2 in your text book. Use the Argosy UNIVERSITY ONLINE library for additional research, and do the following:

• In 1-2 paragraphs, summarize the case and your research that relates to the case.
• Based on your research, explain at least three trends which you believe are contributing to the nursing shortage. Justify your response.
• Based on your research, explain at least three HR trends and practices which might help hospitals recruit and retain enough NURSES. Justify your response.
• Explain the skills and knowledge an HR Manager needs in a hospital and how these skills and knowledge can be used to help attract and retain nurses.

Write a 3-page paper in Word format. APPLY current APA standards for writing style to your work. Utilize at least three outside resources, one of which may be your text book, in formulating your response.

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your DOCUMENT will be named SmithJ_M2_A2. doc.

By Wednesday, April 22, 2015, deliver your ASSIGNMENT to the M2: Assignment 2 DROPBOX

BUSINESSWEEK CASE: A Critical Shortage of Nurses

The United States is facing a severe nursing shortage. Already, an estimated 8.5 percent of U.S. nursing positions are unfilled—and some expect that number to triple by 2020 as 80 million baby boomers retire and expand the ranks ofthose needing care. Hospital administrators and nurses‘ advocates have declared a staffing crisis as the nursing shortage hits its 10th year.

So why aren’t nurses paid more? Wages for registered nurses rose just 1.34 percent from 2006 to 2007, trailing well behind inflation. The answer is complicated, influenced by hospital cost controls and insurance company reimbursement policies. But another factor is often overlooked: Huge numbers of nurses are brought into the United States from abroad every year. In recent years nearly a third of the RNs joining the U.S. workforce were born in other countries.

Critics say this is a short-term solution that could create long-term problems. The influx of non-U.S. nurses allows hospitals to fill positions at low salaries. But it prevents the sharp wage hike that would encourage Americans to enter the field, which could solve the nursing shortage in the years ahead. “Better pay would signify to society that nursing is apromising career,” says Peter Buerhaus, a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University. “It’s a critical factor in building the workforce of the future.”

The U.S. market for nurses is a reflection of how labor markets can change with globalization. With new technology and the increasing movement of workers, labor markets are no longer local or even national. Supply and demand don’t work quite as they did in the past. Shortages in one market aren’t corrected with higher prices if supply comes from another.

Pay isn’t the only issue. Difficult working conditions and understaffing also deter qualified people from pursuing the profession. But average annual wages for registered nurses (one of the most highly trained categories) is now just under $58,000 a year, compared with a $36,300 average for U.S. workers overall. And it’s clear that qualified American nursessee that as not enough: 500,000 registered nurses are not practicing their profession—one-fifth of the current RN workforce of 2.5 million and enough to fill current vacancies twice over.

Hospitals insist the U.S. shortage is too severe to address simply with money. Carl Shusterman, an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles, says he has 100 hospital clients that have 100 vacancies apiece. With two- to three-year waiting lists to get into nurse-training programs in the United States, pressure to import nurses won’t abate, he says, adding, “Even if we could train more nurses and pay them more, we’d still need to import them.”

Raising pay has successfully attracted nurses in the past, however. To remedy a shortage that developed in the late 1990s, hospitals started hiking wages in 2001—and added 186,500 nurses from 2001 to 2003. Some advocates draw adirect link between wages and recruiting. A 2006 study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research concluded, “Increasing pay for nurses is the most direct way to draw both currently qualified and aspiring nurses to hospital employment.”

While nurses‘ advocates say better pay is critical, they also argue that working conditions must improve if the United States is to cultivate an enduring nursing workforce. “You will draw in some people with a good pay raise, but you won’t necessarily get them to stay,” says Cheryl Johnson, a registered nurse and president of the United Association of Nurses, the largest nurses‘ union in the United States. “Almost every nurse will tell you that staffing is a critical problem. The workload is so great that there’s not time to see how [patients are] breathing, give them water, or turn them to prevent bedsores. The guilt can be unbearable.”

Whatever mix of better wages, better working conditions, and foreign workers hospitals employ, solving the nursing shortage in the long run will require solutions on several fronts. “Nurses are getting more organized, but major change isn’t going to happen overnight,” says Suzanne Martin, a spokeswoman for the United Association of Nurses, noting that other groups “would prefer to keep things as they are.”5253

SOURCE: Excerpted from Moira Herbst, “A Critical Shortage of Nurses,” BusinessWeek, August 29, 2007, downloaded from General Reference Center Gold, http://find.galegroup.com.

Questions1.

Which trends described in this chapter are contributing to the nursing shortage?

2.

What HR trends and practices described in this chapter might help hospitals recruit and retain enough nurses?

3.

Imagine that you are an HR manager working for a hospital. In general terms, suggest how you might support the hospital’s ability to attract and retain nursing talent. Which HRM topics will you need to explore further to develop your ideas?PageGo to the specified printed page numberActivate the following .

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Clearly and concisely summarized the case and research that relates to the case in 1-2 paragraphs.	10
Identified, explained, and justified at least three trends affecting the NURSING shortage.	25
Identified, explained, and justified at least three HR trends and PRACTICES which might help hospitals recruit and retain enough NURSES.	25
Explained the skills and knowledge an HR Manager needs in a hospital and how these skills and knowledge can be used to help attract and retain nurses.	25
APPLIED current APA standards for editorial style, expression of ideas, and format of text, citations, and references. Supported assertions with examination of evidence by using appropriate sources (at least 3). Demonstrated a thorough and complete understanding of the concepts.	15
Total:	100

Select a nurse that historically contributed to the advancement of the profession. Write a 2-3 page paper that responds to the following questions. Identify the nurse and his/her background and complete the following:

Question Description

Select a nurse that historically contributed to the advancement of the profession. Write a 2-3 page paper that responds to the following questions. Identify the nurse and his/her background and complete the following:

1. Provide a brief description of the major social issues occurring at the time this nurse lived
2. Describe two contributions made to nursing
3. Discuss how these two unique contributions influenced nursing as we know it today
4. Minimum length 2-3 pages not including cover or referencing. APA formatting with referencing and in text citation.

You may use your textbook, readings and the following for background information.

ANA Hall of Fame

American Association for the History of Nursing

Museum of Nursing History – Slide Show Gallery

Strout, K. (2012). Wellness promotion and the Institute of Medicine’s future of nursing report: Are nurses ready? Holistic Nursing Practice 26(3), 129-136.

This assignments must have accurate spelling and grammar and use APA Editorial Format for sources and reference.