Week 1 Discussion: Basic Statistics Data Used in Everyday Life

Week 1 Discussion: Basic Statistics Data Used in Everyday Life

Week 1 Discussion: Basic Statistics Data Used in Everyday Life

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Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • OpenStax Textbook: Chapter 1
  • Lesson 1 Reading
  • Minimum of 1 scholarly source

In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your outside reading(s).

Initial Post Instructions

  1. Present two different types of data, or variables, used in the health field. Examples could be blood pressure, temperature, pH, pain rating scales, pulse oximetry, % hematocrit, minute respiration, gender, age, ethnicity, etc.
  2. Classify each of your variables as qualitative or quantitative and explain why they fall into the category that you chose.
  3. Also, classify each of the variables as to their level of measurement–nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio–and justify your classifications. Week 1 Discussion: Basic Statistics Data Used in Everyday Life
  4. Which type of sampling could you use to gather your data? (stratified, cluster, systematic, and convenience sampling)

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Follow-Up Post Instructions

Respond to at least one peer. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.

Your responses to other students can explain additional analyses that could be done with the variables they selected. Consider confounding variables, discrete or continuous data, the effects of outliers, etc.

Writing Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references

 

BOOK

Title: Introductory Business Statistics

Authors: Alexander Holmes, Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

Publisher: OpenStax

Publication Date: 2017-11-30

APA Citation

Holmes, A., Illowsky, B., & Dean, S. (2017). Introductory business statistics.  OpenStax. https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics. Week 1 Discussion: Basic Statistics Data Used in Everyday Life

 

Week 1 Discussion: Diversity in Nursing

Week 1 Discussion: Diversity in Nursing

Week 1 Discussion: Diversity in Nursing (Graded)

Directions

  • Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
    • Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
    • Integrate outside scholarly sources when required
    • Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
    • Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
  • Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers. Week 1 Discussion: Diversity in Nursing
  • Best Practices include:
    • Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
    • Enter the discussion often during the week to read and learn from posts.
    • Select different classmates for your reply each week.

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Discussion

Diversity is part of nursing. As you begin this course, answer the below questions:

  • Discuss what transcultural nursing means to you.
  • Why did you decide to take this course?
  • Explain what you would like to learn in the next 8 weeks.
  • How do you hope this course will help you in your nursing practice?

 

 

BOOK

Title: Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care

Edition: 8th

Authors: Margaret Andrews, Joyceen S. Boyle, John Collins

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

APA Citation

Andrews, M. M., Boyle, J. S., & Collins, J. W. (2020). Transcultural concepts in nursing care (8th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. Week 1 Discussion: Diversity in Nursing

 

MSN 5550 Health Promotion: Prevention of Disease

MSN 5550 Health Promotion: Prevention of Disease

Case Study Module 8
Instructions: Read the following case study and answer the reflective questions. Please provide
rationales for your answers. Make sure to provide citations/references for your answers in APA
format.
Deadline: Due by Sunday at 23:59 p.m.
CASE STUDY: Active Labor: Susan Wong
Mrs. Wong, a first-time mother, is admitted to the birthing suite in early labor after spontaneous rupture
of membranes at home. She is at 38 weeks of gestation with a history of abnormal alpha-fetoprotein
levels at 16 weeks of pregnancy. MSN 5550 Health Promotion: Prevention of Disease
She was scheduled for ultrasonography to visualize the fetus to rule out an open spinal defect or Down
syndrome, but never followed through. Mrs. Wong and her husband disagreed about what to do (keep
or terminate the pregnancy) if the ultrasonography indicated a spinal problem, so they felt they did not
want this information.

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Reflective Questions
1. As the nurse, what priority data would you collect from this couple to help define relevant
interventions to meet their needs?
2. How can you help this couple if they experience a negative outcome in the birthing suite? What
are your personal views on terminating or continuing a pregnancy with a risk of a potential
anomaly? What factors may influence your views?
3. With the influence of the recent Human Genome Project and the possibility of predicting open
spinal defects earlier in pregnancy, how will maternity care change in the future? MSN 5550 Health Promotion: Prevention of Disease

evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.

evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.

Write a 4-5 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.
Scenario
For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state’s nurses association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization.

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You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who ask you to prepare a 4–5 page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position.
One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justify means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization. evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.
Preparation
To successfully prepare for this assessment, you will need to complete these preparatory activities:
• Review assessment resources and activities.
• Conduct independent research on the nursing knowledge and skills necessary to interact with health information and patient care technology.
• Focus your research on current resources available through peer-reviewed articles, professional websites, government websites, professional blogs, wikis, job boards, and so on.
• Consult the Library Research Guide for help in identifying scholarly and authoritative sources.
• Interview peers in your network who are considered information technology experts.
• Ask them about how information technology advances are impacting patient care at the bedside, at the organizational level, and beyond.

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Proposal Format
The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the following headings in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading:
Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist
• What is nursing informatics?
• What is the role of the nurse informaticist?
Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations
• What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
• How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team?
IMPACT OF FULL NURSE ENGAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
• How does fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact:
• Patient care?
• Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)?
 In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources.
• Workflow?
• Costs and return on investment?
Opportunities and Challenges
• What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role?
• How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology?
Summary of Recommendations
• What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember? evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.
• This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation.
Additional Requirements
• Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old.
• APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.

Interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

Interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

Prepare a 2-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

Introduction

As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) activity. The activity will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.

Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities. Examples include:

  • Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).
  • Provision of EHR incentive programs through Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
  • Release of educational resources and tools to help providers and hospitals address privacy, security, and confidentiality risks in their practices. Interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

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Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care providers and patients.

At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy, security, and confidentiality best practices such as:

  • Keeping passwords secure.
  • Logging out of public computers.
  • Sharing patient information only with those directly providing care or who have been granted permission to receive this information.

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Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.

Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care. Interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for the interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.

Preparation

To successfully prepare to complete this assessment, complete the following:

  • Review the infographics on protecting PHI provided in the resources for this assessment, or find other infographics to review. These infographics serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize evidence-based information.
    • Analyze these infographics and distill them into five or six principles of what makes them effective. As you design your interprofessional staff update, apply these principles. Note: In a staff update, you will not have all the images and graphics that an infographic might contain. Instead, focus your analysis on what makes the messaging effective.
  • Select from any of the following options, or a combination of options, the focus of your interprofessional staff update:
    • Social media best practices.
    • What not to do: social media.
    • Social media risks to patient information.
    • Steps to take if a breach occurs.
  • Conduct independent research on the topic you have selected in addition to reviewing the suggested resources for this assessment. This information will serve as the source(s) of the information contained in your interprofessional staff update. for help in identifying scholarly and/or authoritative sources.

Instructions

In this assessment, assume you are a nurse in an acute care, community, school, nursing home, or other health care setting. Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook. The post states, “I am so happy Jane is feeling better. She is just the best patient I’ve ever had, and I am excited that she is on the road to recovery.” Interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of your organization’s social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriate corrective action.

You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takes swift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.

Based on this incident’s severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:

  • Educate staff on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
  • Prevent confidentiality, security, and privacy breaches.

The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:

  • Social media best practices.
  • What not to do: Social media.
  • Social media risks to patient information.
  • Steps to take if a breach occurs.

You are asked to select one or more of the topics and create the content for a staff update containing a maximum of two content pages. This assessment is not a traditional essay. It is a staff educational update about PHI. Consider creating a flyer, pamphlet, or one PowerPoint slide (not an entire presentation). Remember it should not be more than two pages (excluding a title and a reference page).

The task force has asked team members assigned to the topics to include the following content in their updates in addition to content on their selected topics:

  • What is protected health information (PHI)?
    • Be sure to include essential HIPAA information.
  • What are privacy, security, and confidentiality?
    • Define and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care.
    • Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
  • What evidence relating to social media usage and PHI do interprofessional team members need to be aware of? For example:
    • How many nurses have been terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States?
    • What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team members who have violated social media policies?
    • What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriate social media use?
    • What evidence-based strategies have health care organizations employed to prevent or reduce confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches, particularly related to social media usage?

Notes

  • Your staff update is limited to two double-spaced content pages. Be selective about the content you choose to include in your update so you can meet the page length requirement. Include need-to-know information. Omit nice-to-know information.
  • Many times people do not read staff updates, do not read them carefully, or do not read them to the end. Ensure your staff update piques staff members’ interest, highlights key points, and is easy to read. Avoid overcrowding the update with too much content.
  • Also, supply a separate reference page that includes two or three peer-reviewed and one or two non-peer-reviewed resources (for a total of 3–5 resources) to support the staff update content.

Additional Requirements

  • Written communication: Ensure the staff update is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Submission length: Maximum of two double-spaced content pages.
  • Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point.
  • Citations and references: Provide a separate reference page that includes 2–3 current, peer-reviewed and 1–2 current, non-peer-reviewed in-text citations and references (total of 3–5 resources) that support the staff update’s content. Current means no older than 5 years.
  • APA format: Be sure your citations and references adhere to APA format. Consult the Evidence and APA page for an APA refresher. Interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.

 

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Please follow this format for your paper and include these 9 sections. Remember to include Bold Headers listed below before each section. Deductions will be given if they do not appear. Do not number them in your paper! 

  1. Introduction;

The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on how this writer’s personal philosophy of nursing has changed based on newly acquired knowledge from the readings and discussions throughout this course. This will be a summary analysis of the following questions: As an art and a science, how has your personal nursing philosophy unfolded? Have there been ideas that have challenged your personal values or assumptions? Have there been ideas that have caused you personal conflict and may lead to deconstructing those dispositions in a critical manner? What actions have you taken that illustrate your personal nursing philosophy?

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Describe your own definition of the concepts involving the meta-paradigm of nursing and finally, has your first written philosophy of nursing changed? If so, In what ways?

2. As an art and a science, how has your personal nursing philosophy unfolded?3. Have there been ideas that have challenged your personal values or assumptions?

4. Have there been ideas that have caused you personal conflict and may lead to deconstructing those dispositions in a critical manner?

5. What actions have you taken that illustrate your personal nursing philosophy?

6. Describe your own definition of the concepts involving the meta-paradigm of nursing.

7. Has your first written philosophy of nursing changed? In what ways?8. Conclusion- In conclusion, this writer reflected on how this writer’s personal philosophy of nursing has changed based on newly acquired knowledge from the readings and discussions throughout this course. A summary of the following questions were answered: As an art and a science, how has your personal nursing philosophy unfolded? Have there been ideas that have challenged your personal values or assumptions? Have there been ideas that have caused you personal conflict and may lead to deconstructing those dispositions in a critical manner? What actions have you taken that illustrate your personal nursing philosophy? Describe your own definition of the concepts involving the meta-paradigm of nursing and finally, has your first written philosophy of nursing changed? If so, In what ways?9. ReferencesThis paper should be 2 pages in length, in APA format REQUIRED, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, and double-spaced with 1″ margins. If outside sources are used, they must be cited appropriately. Personal Philosophy of Nursing
Due date October 26, 2022NO PLAGIARISM

annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology

annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology

Write a 4-6 page annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology to enhance quality and safety standards in nursing.

 

Preparation

To successfully complete this assessment, perform the following preparatory activities:

  • Select a SINGLE direct or indirect patient care technology that is relevant to your current practice or of interest to you. Direct patient care technologies require an interaction, or direct contact, between the nurse and patient. annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology.  Nurses use direct patient care technologies every day when delivering care to patients. Electronic thermometers or pulse oximeters are examples of direct patient care technologies. Indirect patient care technologies, on the other hand, are those employed on behalf of the patient. They do not require interaction, or direct contact, between the nurse and patient. A handheld device for patient documentation is an example of an indirect patient care technology. Examples of topics to consider for your annotated bibliography include:
    • Delivery robots.
    • Electronic medication administration with barcoding.
    • Electronic clinical documentation with clinical decision support.
    • Patient sensor devices/wireless communication solutions.
    • Real-time location systems.
    • Remote patient monitoring.
    • Artificial intelligence.
    • Telehealth.
    • Telestroke.
    • Tele-icu.
    • Tele-psychiatry.
    • Tele-genetics.
    • Workflow management systems.
  • Conduct a library search using the various electronic databases available through the Capella University Library.
  • Scan the search results related to your chosen technology.
  • Select four peer-reviewed publications focused on your selected topic that are the most interesting to you.
  • Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
    • Analyze current evidence on the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team.
    • Integrate current evidence about the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team into a recommendation.

Notes

  • Publications may be research studies or review articles from a professional source. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not considered professional sources.
  • Your selections need to be current—within the last five years.

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An Evidence-based Recommendation for Selected Technology Implementation

Prepare a 4–6 page paper in which you introduce your selected technology and describe at least four peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of your selected technology to enhance quality and safety standards in nursing. You will conclude your paper by summarizing why you recommend a particular technology by underscoring the evidence-based resources you presented. Be sure that your paper includes all of the following elements:

  • Introduction to the Selected Technology Topic
    • What is your rationale for selecting this particular technology topic? Why are you interested in this?
    • What research process did you employ?
      • Which databases did you use?
      • Which search terms did you use?
      • Note: In this section of your bibliography, you may use first-person since you are asked to describe your rationale for selecting the topic and the research strategies you employed. Use third person in the rest of the bibliography, however. annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology
  • Annotation Elements
    • For each resource, include the full reference followed by the annotation.
    • Explain the focus of the research or review article you chose.
    • Provide a summary overview of the publication.
      • According to this source, what is the impact of this technology on patient safety and quality of care?
      • According to this source, what is the relevance of this technology to nursing practice and the work of the interdisciplinary health care team?
      • Why did you select this publication to write about out of the many possible options? In other words, make the case as to why this resource is important for health care practitioners to read.
  • Summary of Recommendation
    • How would you tie together the key learnings from each of the four publications you examined?
    • What organizational factors influence the selection of a technology in a health care setting? Consider such factors as organizational policies, resources, culture/social norms, commitment, training programs, and/or employee empowerment.
    • How would you justify the implementation and use of the technology in a health care setting? This is the section where you will justify (prove) that the implementation of the
      patient care technology is appropriate or not. The evidence should be cited from the literature that was noted in the annotated bibliography.

      • Consider the impact of the technology on the health care organization, patientcare/satisfaction, and interdisciplinary team productivity, satisfaction, and retention.
Additional Requirements
  • Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Length:4–6-typed, double-spaced pages.
  • Number of resources:Cite a minimum of four peer-reviewed publications, not websites.
  • Font and font size:Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • APA: Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for all bibliographic entries. annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology

Importance of Nursing-sensitive Quality Indicators Assignment

Importance of Nursing-sensitive Quality Indicators Assignment

Prepare an 8-10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.

Introduction

The American Nursing Association (ANA) established the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) in 1998 to track and report on quality indicators heavily influenced by nursing action.

NDNQI® was established as a standardized approach to evaluating nursing performance in relation to patient outcomes. It provides a database and quality measurement program to track clinical performance and to compare nursing quality measures against other hospital data at the national, regional, and state levels. Nursing-sensitive quality indicators help establish evidence-based practice guidelines in the inpatient and outpatient settings to enhance quality care outcomes and initiate quality improvement educational programs, outreach, and protocol development. Importance of Nursing-sensitive Quality Indicators Assignment

The quality indicators the NDNQI® monitors are organized into three categories: structure, process, and outcome. Theorist Avedis Donabedian first identified these categories. Donabedian’s theory of quality health care focused on the links between quality outcomes and the structures and processes of care (Grove et al., 2018).

Nurses must be knowledgeable about the indicators their workplaces monitor. Some nurses deliver direct patient care that leads to a monitored outcome. Other nurses may be involved in data collection and analysis. In addition, monitoring organizations, including managed care entities, exist to gather data from individual organizations to analyze overall industry quality. All of these roles are important to advance quality and safety outcomes.

The focus of Assessment 4 is on how informatics support monitoring of nursing-sensitive quality indicator data. You will develop an 8–10 minute audio (or video) training module to orient new nurses in a workplace to a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator critical to the organization. Your recording will address how data are collected and disseminated across the organization along with the nurses’ role in supporting accurate reporting and high quality results.

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Preparation

This assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. To successfully prepare for your assessment, you will need to complete the following preparatory activities:

  • Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose from the following list:
    • Staffing measures.
      • Nursing hours per patient day.
      • RN education/certification.
      • Skill mix.
      • Nurse turnover.
      • Nursing care hours in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
      • Skill mix in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
    • Quality measures. Importance of Nursing-sensitive Quality Indicators Assignment
      • Patient falls.
      • Patient falls with injury.
      • Pressure ulcer prevalence.
      • Health care-associated infections.
        • Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
        • Central line catheter associated blood stream infection.
        • Ventilator-associated pneumonia.
        • Ventilator- associated events.
      • Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.
      • Restraint prevalence.
      • Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.
      • Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment (air) cycle.
      • Falls in ambulatory settings.
      • Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health records.
      • Hospital readmission rates.
      • RN satisfaction survey options.
        • Job satisfaction scales.
        • Job satisfaction scales – short form.
        • Practice environment scale.
  • Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.
  • Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:
    • What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?
    • What challenges have you experienced?
    • How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?
    • What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How effective is this process?

Instructions

For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.

The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.

As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality indicator data.

You determine that you will cover the following topics in your audio tutorial script:

Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator

  • What is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators?
  • What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
  • Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?
  • Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?
    • Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of care and patient safety.
  • Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care? Importance of Nursing-sensitive Quality Indicators Assignment

Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data

  • According to your interview and other resources, how does your organization collect data on this quality indicator?
  • How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?
  • What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and high-quality results?
    • As an example, consider the importance of accurately entering data regarding nursing interventions.

After completing your script, practice delivering your tutorial several times before recording it.

Additional Requirements

  • Audio communication: Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.
  • Length: 8–10 minute audio recording. Use Kaltura to upload your recording to the courseroom, or provide a working link your instructor can access.
  • Script: A separate document with the script or speaker’s notes is required. Important: Submissions that do not include the script or speaker’s notes will be returned as a non-performance.
  • References: Cite a minimum of three scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
  • APA: Submit, along with the recording, a separate reference page that follows APA style and formatting guidelines. Importance of Nursing-sensitive Quality Indicators Assignment

Health Promotion Assignment

Health Promotion Assignment

Topic 1: Healthy People 2030

Healthy People is an initiative of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) that addresses health challenges and set projections every 10 years, with the main purpose of improving health indicators nationwide. After completing your readings select three objectives/topics (health problems) of Healthy People 2030 that you consider relevant for your community or region. Of those relevant topics define the one you consider the most crucial or concerning to you. This topic will be from now on the one that will be used for all your class discussions and assignments. It will be “your selected health problem”.

  • Describe your selected health problem. Why is the selected topic important?
  • Will this problem lead to secondary conditions or complications?
  • What criteria are used to understand the risk of developing such conditions or complications? Health Promotion Assignment

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Topic 2: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent organization of experts in health promotion that recommends strategies to improve health indicators. Review this source at https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/ and determine the recommendations and expectations for your selected health problem.

  • Describe your findings and discuss the strengths or benefits of this source. Would you modify something about it, particularly the information concerning to your selected health problem? Health Promotion Assignment

M2 Discussion Skin & Breast

M2 Discussion Skin & Breast

Skin & Breast

 

This discussion contains 2 parts:

  1. KM is a 38-year-old white woman with a 6-year history of psoriasis. Her family history includes allergies and asthma and her mother with psoriasis. KM returns today for an increase in symptoms, and she wants to improve the appearance of her skin. Please discuss the following:
    • What is the underlying cause of psoriasis?
    • What are the common signs and symptoms of this disease?

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  1. Define, Compare and Contrast the following conditions:
    • Fibrocystic breast disease
    • Fibroadenoma
    • Malignant breast tumor

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in proper current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.