Benchmark – Informing Policy

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Benchmark – Informing Policy

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the process of putting a new policy into place.

Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper according to the instructions provided below.

Review news stories and articles regarding a recent (within the last year) health-related policy (not the Affordable Care Act). Benchmark – Informing Policy

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Introduce this policy in your paper and discuss the following:

  1. How the governmental policy process informs the development, implementation, and assessment of policy within the realm of health care.
  2. The impact of your chosen policy on health care consumers, organizations, and systems.
  3. The impact of your chosen policy on health care providers.

Now imagine you are adapting this policy to the health care organization at which you work (or where you wish to work). Describe the organization and discuss the following:

  1. The stakeholders involved in policy formation and their impact on health care policy formation and structures.
  2. The response you expect from those stakeholders.
  3. The specific impact this governmental policy will make (positive, negative, indifferent) and why?

Incorporate two or three peer-reviewed scholarly resources in your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is 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. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

MPA Health Care Management

4.5: Analyze how governmental policy processes inform the development, implementation, and assessment of policy within health care.

MS Health Care Administration

1.1: Analyze the impact of various stakeholders on health care policy formation and structures.

1.3: Examine measures of current and pending legislation and the impact on health care consumers, organizations, and systems.

Benchmark – Informing Policy

Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

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Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

Competing needs arise within any organization as employees seek to meet their targets and leaders seek to meet company goals. As a leader, successful management of these goals requires establishing priorities and allocating resources accordingly. Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

Within a healthcare setting, the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients are often in conflict. Mandatory overtime, implementation of staffing ratios, use of unlicensed assisting personnel, and employer reductions of education benefits are examples of practices that might lead to conflicting needs in practice.

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Leaders can contribute to both the problem and the solution through policies, action, and inaction. In this Assignment, you will further develop the white paper you began work on in Module 1 by addressing competing needs within your organization.

To Prepare:

  • Review the national healthcare issue/stressor you examined in your Assignment for Module 1, and review the analysis of the healthcare issue/stressor you selected.
  • Identify and review two evidence-based scholarly resources that focus on proposed policies/practices to apply to your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post regarding competing needs. Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

The Assignment (4-5 pages):

Developing Organizational Policies and Practices

Add a section to the paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following:

  • Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.
  • Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.
  • Due to the nature of this assignment, your instructor may require more than 7 days to provide you with quality feedback.

Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

 

Environmental Factors And Health Promotion Presentation

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Environmental Factors And Health Promotion Presentation

The growth, development, and learned behaviors that occur during the first year of infancy have a direct effect on the individual throughout a lifetime. For this assignment, research an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants and develop a health promotion that can be presented to caregivers. Environmental Factors And Health Promotion Presentation

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Create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint health promotion, with speaker notes, that outlines a teaching plan. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice over or a video. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for references at the end.

In developing your PowerPoint, take into consideration the health care literacy level of your target audience, as well as the demographic of the caregiver/patient (socioeconomic level, language, culture, and any other relevant characteristic of the caregiver) for which the presentation is tailored.

Include the following in your presentation:

  1. Describe the selected environmental factor. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
  2. Create a health promotion plan that can be presented to caregivers to address the environmental factor and improve the overall health and well-being of infants.
  3. Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
  4. Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. At least three scholarly resources are required. Two of the three resources must be peer-reviewed and no more than 6 years old. Environmental Factors And Health Promotion Presentation
  5. Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.

Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.

Refer to the resource, “Loom,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on recording your presentation.

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, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Environmental Factors And Health Promotion Presentation

Leadership Models And Theories

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Leadership Models And Theories

Leadership models and theories help define approaches for creating effective behaviors within specific situations or environments. Examine contemporary leadership models and theories and in a 1,000-1,250-word paper, explain why these models or theories are effective tools for leaders who serve in health care organizations. Include the following: Leadership Models And Theories

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  1. Discuss the correlation between effective leadership and organizational performance in health care.
  2. Discuss why it is important for regulatory professionals to practice good leadership. Outline effective strategies for regulatory leadership and explain why these are essential in health care.
  3. Describe how the concept of stewardship from servant leadership relates to a Christian worldview. Explain how stewardship relates to professional responsibility, how it can be applied in a health care setting that serves diverse populations, and the potential benefits for stakeholders and the organization overall.
  4. Distinguish between informal and formal leadership. Explain how informal leaders influence others and how this impacts a health care organization.
  5. Select one additional theory or model that you think would be effective for a health care leader to employ. Provide an overview of the model or theory and explain what aspects would be effective and why.

A minimum of three academic references from credible sources are required for this assignment.

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

Leadership Models And Theories

The Role Of Health Education In Health Promotion

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The Role Of Health Education In Health Promotion

Health education is a role played by health care providers either in their line of duty or planned activity to educate an individual or community about a certain disease so that they take precautions to avoid its negative consequences (Arnold, 2018). Health education can thus be used as an effective tool for the eradication of diseases and health promotion. The Role Of Health Education In Health Promotion

Health education plays a role in promoting health as it is tailored for a specific target; thus, it provides information that deals with their problem directly. In providing this education, persons engaged in health education provide information that includes factors that lead to exposure to a certain disease, how to overcome or avoid infections, and actions to take in case of infection. They also offer tools to support behavior change.

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The nursing process is a problem-solving process used by nurses to promote wellness. Nurses provide individualistic health education, which is an integral part of the nursing process as it helps them in the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient’s health problems (Stone, 2017). The nurse, through the nursing problem, determines the educational needs of a patient and makes plans to meet those needs by providing health education to the patient.

Families may experience contemporary issues in their lives today. An example of such is when one family member is battling a disability or any chronic illness like hypertension. The family may then expect the needs of their patient to be met as part of efforts to promote their wellness and state of wellbeing. As part of a health education plan, nurses may take steps and undertake activities that help the patients overcome or manage their conditions. This can be achieved by educating the family about the condition and the self-care practices that they ought to adopt in managing their conditions. The Role Of Health Education In Health Promotion

Health education is, therefore, a critical tool in helping promote a state of healthiness and wellbeing and helping populations overcome their healthcare issues (Levin & Stillman-Lowe, 2019). It has given individuals and communities information on how to care for themselves and take charge of their health by avoiding infections or in managing already existing conditions.

Respond the above post using 200-300 words APA format with a reference  in discussion supporting the post

The Role Of Health Education In Health Promotion

Discussion-Foundational Neuroscience

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Discussion-Foundational Neuroscience

For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources and reflect on the concepts of foundational neuroscience as they might apply to your role as the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in prescribing medications for patients.

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Post a response to each of the following:

  1. Explain the agonist-to-antagonist spectrum of action of psychopharmacologic agents, including how partial and inverse agonist functionality may impact the efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments.
  2. Compare and contrast the actions of g couple proteins and ion gated channels.
  3. Explain how the role of epigenetics may contribute to pharmacologic action.
  4. Explain how this information may impact the way you prescribe medications to patients. Include a specific example of a situation or case with a patient in which the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must be aware of the medication’s action.

Discussion-Foundational Neuroscience

Case Study #8 Health Promotion

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Case Study #8 Health Promotion

Instructions: Read the following case study and answer the reflective questions.

Please provide rationales for your answers with at least 150 words in 5 sentences

Make sure to provide citations/references  at least 3 and less than 5 years for your answers Case Study #8 Health Promotion

in APA format.No plagiarism

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. 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?

Case Study #8 Health Promotion

 

 

Lab Assignment: Assessing The Abdomen

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Lab Assignment: Assessing The Abdomen

A woman went to the emergency room for severe abdominal cramping. She was diagnosed with diverticulitis; however, as a precaution, the doctor ordered a CT scan. The CT scan revealed a growth on the pancreas, which turned out to be pancreatic cancer—the real cause of the cramping.

Because of a high potential for misdiagnosis, determining the precise cause of abdominal pain can be time consuming and challenging. By analyzing case studies of abnormal abdominal findings, nurses can prepare themselves to better diagnose conditions in the abdomen. Lab Assignment: Assessing The Abdomen

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In this Lab Assignment, you will analyze an Episodic note case study that describes abnormal findings in patients seen in a clinical setting. You will consider what history should be collected from the patients as well as which physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted. You will also formulate a differential diagnosis with several possible conditions.

To Prepare

Review the Episodic note case study your instructor provides you for this week’s Assignment. Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your Episodic note case study.

  • With regard to the Episodic note case study provided:
    • Review this week’s Learning Resources, and consider the insights they provide about the case study.
    • Consider what history would be necessary to collect from the patient in the case study.
    • Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to gather more information about the patient’s condition. How would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
    • Identify at least five possible conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the patient. Lab Assignment: Assessing The Abdomen

The Assignment

  1. Analyze the subjective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.
  2. Analyze the objective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.
  3. Is the assessment supported by the subjective and objective information? Why or why not?
  4. What diagnostic tests would be appropriate for this case, and how would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
  5. Would you reject/accept the current diagnosis? Why or why not? Identify three possible conditions that may be considered as a differential diagnosis for this patient. Explain your reasoning using at least three different references from current evidence-based literature.

Lab Assignment: Assessing The Abdomen

Contemporary Nursing Practice

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Contemporary Nursing Practice

  1. Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
  2. Compare and contrast the differentiated practice competencies between an associate and baccalaureate education in nursing. Explain how scope of practice changes between an associate and baccalaureate nurse.

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  3. Identify a patient care situation and describe how nursing care, or approaches to decision‐making, differ between the BSN‐prepared nurse and the ADN nurse.
  4. Discuss the significance of applying evidence‐based practice to nursing care and explain how the academic preparation of the RN‐BSN nurse supports its application.
  5. Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective patient outcomes.

Contemporary Nursing Practice

Qualitative Research In Nursing Practice

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Qualitative Research In Nursing Practice

Which method of research provides the best evidence for nursing practice? Is there a place for both quantitative and qualitative research in evidence-based practice? How do these research methods improve patient outcomes? Qualitative Research In Nursing Practice

Return to and reflect on your thoughts and postings from Week 1’s Discussion on the respective characteristics, strengths, and limitations of quantitative and qualitative research. Consider the uses of each type of research in the health care field. Also reflect on the amount of quantitative versus qualitative research that exists in the health care field in particular. There is an impression among some researchers that qualitative research is inferior to, easier than, or not as rigorous as quantitative research.

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In this Discussion, you consider the idea of rigor, or thoroughness and scope of study, with regard to qualitative research. You examine the methods of qualitative research outlined and recommended in this week’s Learning Resources and how they aim to create standards of rigor by which to assess qualitative studies. You also have the opportunity to assess an article of your choice in terms of rigor and recommended methods of qualitative data collection. Qualitative Research In Nursing Practice

To prepare:

  • Consider your readings about and understanding of quantitative and qualitative research. If you had to choose, which type of research (quantitative or qualitative) do you think is more rigorous and why? Do you think it is useful to make such generalizations and comparisons?
  • Locate an article describing a qualitative research study related to a health care topic.
  • Formulate a research question to address the problem and that would lead you to employ correlational statistics.
  • With information from the Learning Resources in mind, critically analyze your selected study. Ask yourself: How rigorous was the study in terms of the researchers’ efforts, the data collected, and the conclusions drawn? What might the researchers have done to improve the rigor?

Post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

  • Do you think there is one type of research (quantitative or qualitative) that is inherently more rigorous than the other? If so, identify which one and why. If not, discuss your reasoning.
  • Post a brief summary of your research article analysis and the correct APA citation for the article.
  • Outline how the study’s qualitative data collection and analysis did, or did not, promote rigor, provide scientific or systematic scaffolding, and/or generate a more thorough analysis of the research topic.

Qualitative Research In Nursing Practice