Assignment: Asthma And Stepwise Management

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Assignment: Asthma And Stepwise Management

Asthma is a respiratory disorder that affects children and adults. Advanced practice nurses often provide treatment to patients with these disorders. Sometimes patients require immediate treatment, making it essential that you recognize and distinguish minor asthma symptoms from serious, life-threatening ones. Since symptoms and attacks are often induced by a trigger, advanced practice nurses must also help patients identify their triggers and recommend appropriate management options. Like many other disorders, there are various approaches to treating and managing care for asthmatic patients, depending on individual patient factors.  One method that supports the clinical decision-making of drug therapy plans for asthmatic patients is the stepwise approach, which you explore in this assignment. Assignment: Asthma And Stepwise Management

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To Prepare

· Reflect on drugs used to treat asthmatic patients, including long-term control and quick relief treatment options for patients. Think about the impact these drugs might have on patients, including adults and children.

· Consider how you might apply the stepwise approach to address the health needs of a patient in your practice.

· Reflect on how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease.

The Assignment

Create a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting to present different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following:

· Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice, as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.

· Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.

· Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.

Assignment: Asthma And Stepwise Management

Electronic Record-Keeping in Healthcare

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Electronic Record-Keeping in Healthcare

For this week’s assignment, you will be taking an inventory of the information systems in your organization. To complete the assignment, you might need to contact other departments. Based on what you have learned so far in this course, create a 15-20-slide PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/ questions:. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least three (3) scholarly citations using APA citations throughout your presentation. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment. Electronic Record-Keeping in Healthcare

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  1. Differentiate between electronic health record (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR), and personal health records (PHR)
  2. Differentiate between clinical information systems (CIS) and administrative information systems (AIS)
  3. What systems are currently being utilized at your organization?
  4. If you had to rate the information-technology status of your organization, what score would you give them?
  5. Identify two strengths and two weaknesses of the current information technology being used.

Electronic Record-Keeping in Healthcare

Adolescence: Contemporary Issues And Resources

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Adolescence: Contemporary Issues And Resources

Research the range of contemporary issues teenagers face today. In a 500- to 750-word paper, choose one issue (besides teen pregnancy) and discuss its effect on adolescent behavior and overall well-being. Include the following in your submission:

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Describe the contemporary issue and explain what external stressors are associated with it.

Outline assessment strategies to screen for this issue and external stressors during an assessment for an adolescent patient. Describe what additional assessment questions you would need to ask and define the ethical parameters regarding what you can and cannot share with the parent or guardian.

Discuss support options for adolescents encountering external stressors. Include specific support options for the contemporary issue you presented.

Adolescence: Contemporary Issues And Resources

 

Informatics in Healthcare

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Informatics in Healthcare

Beginning in Module 1 of this course, you have been researching a healthcare informatics topic of your choice. Present the findings in a recorded presentation between 7 and 12 minutes in length. The presentation should include a PowerPoint and an oral presentation of the slides. There is no slide number requirement. Answer all questions thoroughly within the allotted time. PowerPoint allows you to record directly on each slide. Be sure to include a title slide, an objective slide, content slides, and a reference slide in APA format. Use the appropriate APA-style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources using APA citations to support your claims. This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level. Use a recording platform of your choice and either upload as an mp4 or share the link directly to the video in the Dropbox. Informatics in Healthcare

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  • Discuss your topic and its relationship to your current (or future) practice. Discuss why the topic is important in healthcare informatics.
  • What research have you found on the topic? Describe how each scholarly article relates to the topic and your current (or future) practice. Describe what conclusions you have drawn based on your research on the topic.
  • What ethical or legal issues does this topic present?
  • Create a plan for implementing a change (or justify the need for no change). Who needs to be involved? What training programs are needed? Is there a need for on-going training? Discuss how you would evaluate the success of the change (or the continued success of what you are currently doing). What is the cost to implement or maintain this change? Who will be financially responsible? How feasible is this change?
  • Finally, identify how changes in public policy and technological advances in the future could impact this topic. What would those changes mean for the healthcare industry?

Informatics in Healthcare

Assessing A Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

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Assessing A Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

Program and policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs and policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve. Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives. Assessing A Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

Nurses can play a very important role in assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.

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To Prepare:

  • Review the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
  • Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation, or choose one of interest to you.
  • Review community, state, or federal policy evaluations and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described. Assessing A Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)

Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
  • How was the success of the program or policy measured?
  • How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
  • How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
  • At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
  • What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
  • What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
  • What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific, and provide examples.
  • Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
  • Would you recommend implementing this program or policy at your place of work? Why or why not?
  • Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.

Assessing A Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

Analysis Of A Pertinent Healthcare Issue

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Analysis Of A Pertinent Healthcare Issue

The Quadruple Aim provides broad categories of goals to pursue to maintain and improve healthcare. Within each goal are many issues that, if addressed successfully, may have a positive impact on outcomes. For example, healthcare leaders are being tasked with shifting from an emphasis on disease management often provided in an acute care setting to health promotion and disease prevention delivered in primary care settings. Efforts in this area can have significant positive impacts by reducing the need for primary healthcare and by reducing the stress on the healthcare system. Analysis Of A Pertinent Healthcare Issue

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Changes in the industry only serve to stress what has always been true, namely, that the healthcare field has always faced significant challenges and that goals to improve healthcare will always involve multiple stakeholders. This should not seem surprising, given the circumstances. Indeed, when a growing population needs care, there are factors involved, such as the demands of providing that care and the rising costs associated with healthcare. Generally, it is not surprising that the field of healthcare is an industry facing multifaceted issues that evolve over time.

In this module’s discussion, you reviewed some healthcare issues and stressors and selected one for further review. For this assignment, you will consider in more detail the healthcare issue/stressor you selected. You will also review research that addresses the issue/stressor and write a white paper to your organization’s leadership that addresses the issue/stressor you selected.

To Prepare:

  • Review the national healthcare issues and stressors presented in the resources and reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study.
  • Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected.
  • Identify and review two additional scholarly resources (not included in the Resources for this module) that focus on change strategies implemented by healthcare organizations to address your selected national healthcare issue/stressor. Analysis Of A Pertinent Healthcare Issue

The Assignment (3–4 Pages):

Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue

Develop a 3- to 4-page paper, written to your organization’s leadership team, addressing your selected national healthcare issue/stressor and how it is impacting your work setting. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization).
  • Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor is being addressed in other organizations.
  • Summarize the strategies used to address the organizational impact of national healthcare issues and stressors presented in the scholarly resources you selected. Explain how they may impact your organization both positively and negatively. Be specific, and provide examples.

Looking Ahead

The paper you develop in Module 1 will be revisited and revised in Module 2. Review the assignment instructions for Module 2 to prepare for your revised paper.

Analysis Of A Pertinent Healthcare Issue

IOM Future Of Nursing Report And Nursing

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IOM Future Of Nursing Report And Nursing

Review the IOM report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” and explore the “Campaign for Action: State Action Coalition” website. In a 1,000-word paper, discuss the influence the IOM report and state-based action coalitions have had on nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing workforce development and how they continue to advance the goals of the nursing profession. IOM Future Of Nursing Report And Nursing

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Include the following:

  1. Describe the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”
  2. Outline the four “key messages” that structure the IOM Report recommendations. Explain how these have transformed or influenced nursing practice, nursing education and training, nursing leadership, and nursing workforce development. Provide examples.
  3. Discuss the role of state-based action coalitions. Explain how these coalitions help advance the goals specified in the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”
  4. Research the initiatives on which your state’s action coalition is working. Summarize two initiatives spearheaded by your state’s action coalition. Discuss the ways these initiatives advance the nursing profession.
  5. Describe barriers to advancement that currently exist in your state and explain how nursing advocates in your state overcome these barriers.

You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must have been published within the last 5 years, be appropriate for the assignment criteria, and be relevant to nursing practice.

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

IOM Future Of Nursing Report And Nursing

Accountability Care Organization

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Accountability Care Organization

This assignment will be at least 1500 words. Address each bulleted item (topic) in detail, including the questions that follow each bullet. There should be three (3) sections in your paper, one for each bullet below. Separate each section of your paper with a clear, brief heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Include a “Conclusion” section that summarizes all topics.

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This week, you will reflect on accountability in healthcare and address the following questions:

  • Briefly define an Accountability Care Organization (ACO) and how it impacts health care providers:
    1. How do ACOs differ from the health maintenance organizations (HMOs) of earlier years?
    2. What role does health information technology (HIT) play in the newer models of care?
  • What is the benefit of hospitals partnering with primary care providers?
    1. How do bundling payments contain healthcare costs?
    2. How does pay for performance (P4P) improve quality care?
  • Briefly discuss the value-based purchasing program.
    1. How do value-based purchasing (VBP) programs affect reimbursement to hospitals?
    2. Who benefits the most from value-based reimbursement, and why?
    3. How does the VBP program measure hospital performance?

Accountability Care Organization

 

Medicare And Medicaid Programs

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Medicare And Medicaid Programs

Consider how people qualify to receive Medicare and/or Medicaid and write a paper that addresses the bullets below. There should be four (4) sections in your paper, one for each bullet below. Separate each section of your paper with a clear, brief heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Start your paper with an introduction and include a “Conclusion” section that summarizes all topics. This paper should consist of at least 1750 words and no more than 2000.

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This week, reflect on the Medicare and Medicaid programs to address the following:

  • Describe the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) and explain how the QIO improves policies and healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries.
  • Briefly define the qualifications for Medicare and Medicaid benefits. How can qualifications be modified to serve more people who are considered a vulnerable population?
  • Discuss the impact (including at least two positive and two negative aspects) that the ACA has had on benefits and coverage for Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
  • Describe your role(s) as a healthcare leader as it applies to the practice of advocating for cost-effective care for vulnerable populations.

Medicare And Medicaid Programs

Foundational Neuroscience

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Foundational Neuroscience

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, it is essential for you to have a strong background in foundational neuroscience. In order to diagnose and treat patients, you must not only understand the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders but also how medications for these disorders impact the central nervous system. These concepts of foundational neuroscience can be challenging to understand. Therefore, this discussion is designed to encourage you to think through these concepts, develop a rationale for your thinking, and deepen your understanding by interacting with your colleagues.

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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.

Compare and contrast the actions of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and ion-gated channels.

Explain how the role of epigenetics may contribute to pharmacologic action.

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. (This is your opportunity to share one of your clinical experiences with us!)

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