Community Nursing Discussion Day 7
What do determinants of health care include for a community?
NP Professional Challenges
Write a 215-word message in which you address the following:
Describe the challenges faced by NPs with regard to professional relationships.
What types of professional relationship challenges do you anticipate having as an NP?
How will you deal with these challenges?
Prescription Drug Abuse
Use selected health policy issue as the basis for completing this assignment.Policy issued selected: (Prescription drug abuse)
Research a professional organization with influence over the health policy issue.
Locate at least one academic article focusing on the professional organization’s efforts to effect change on the health policy issue.
Contact the organization and ask at least two specific questions regarding the health policy issue that neither their website nor the article answered.
Prepare a marketable visual presentation (i.e., flyer, pamphlet, poster, etc.) on the organization. Include the following in your presentation:
1.The role and mission of the organization
2.The benefits of the organization to its members and the APRN community as a whole.
3. How will networking with this organization and with others in the industry help drive change in the area of your selected health policy issue?
4. Based on the article you selected and your research on the organization, how can the organization be used as a guiding coalition to address your health policy issue.
Other instructions: Please read carefully instructions above. US based. I don’t need a paper. What i need is find a professional organization with influence over Prescription drug abuse health policy. Then Locate at least one academic article focusing on the professional organization’s efforts to effect change on the health policy issue. then Contact the organization and ask at least two specific questions regarding the health policy issue that neither their website nor the article answered. Then lastly Prepare a marketable visual presentation (i.e., flyer, pamphlet, poster, etc.) on the organization. In the marketable visual presentation should include:
1. The role and mission of the organization
2.The benefits of the organization to its members and the APRN community as a whole.
3. How will networking with this organization and with others in the industry help drive change in the area of your selected health policy issue?
4. Based on the article you selected and your research on the organization, how can the organization be used as a guiding coalition to address your health policy issue.
Diabetes And Drug Treatments
Diabetes is an endocrine system disorder that affects millions of children and adults (ADA, 2011). If left untreated, diabetic patients are at risk for several alterations including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, neuropathy, and blindness. There are various methods for treating diabetes, many of which include some form of drug therapy. The type of diabetes as well as the patient’s behavior factors will impact treatment recommendations. In this Assignment, you compare types of diabetes including drug treatments for type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.
To prepare:
· Review this week’s media presentation on the endocrine system and diabetes, as well as Chapter 46 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text and the Peterson et al. article in the Learning Resources.
· Reflect on differences between types of diabetes including type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.
· Select one type of diabetes.
· Consider one type of drug used to treat the type of diabetes you selected including proper preparation and administration of this drug. Then, reflect on dietary considerations related to treatment.
· Think about the short-term and long-term impact of the diabetes you selected on patients including effects of drug treatments.
Write a 2- to 3- page paper that addresses the following:
· Explain the differences between types of diabetes including type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.
· Describe one type of drug used to treat the type of diabetes you selected including proper preparation and administration of this drug. Include dietary considerations related to treatment.
· Explain the short-term and long-term impact of this diabetes on patients including effects of drugs treatments.
– This work should have Introduction and conclusion
– This work should have at 4 to 6 current references (Year 2012 and up)
– Use at least 2 references from class Learning Resources
The following Resources are not acceptable:
1. Wikipedia
2. Cdc.gov- nonhealthcare professionals section
3. Webmd.com
4. Mayoclinic.com
Required Readings
**Arcangelo, V. P., Peterson, A. M., Wilbur, V., & Reinhold, J. A. (Eds.). (2017). Pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice: A practical approach (4th ed.). Ambler, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Chapter 36, “Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis” (pp. 591-609)
This chapter examines the causes, pathophysiology, and diagnostic criteria of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It then outlines the process of selecting, administering, and managing drug therapy for both disorders. - Chapter 46, “Diabetes Mellitus” (pp. 785-806)
This chapter begins by identifying the causes, pathophysiology, and diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus. It then examines the process of selecting, administering, and managing drug therapy for patients with diabetes mellitus. - Chapter 47, “Thyroid Disorders” (pp. 809-822)
This chapter explores the causes, pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, and administration of drug therapy for patients with thyroid disorders, including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules, subclinical thyroid disease, and thyroiditis. It also discusses the mechanisms of prescribed drugs, as well as proper dosages and potential adverse reactions.
**Ben-Zacharia, A. (2011). Therapeutics for multiple sclerosis symptoms. The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 78(2), 176–191.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article covers the diagnosis, treatment, and management of multiple sclerosis and explores methods for treating other health issues that arise from multiple sclerosis.
**Kargiotis, O., Paschali, A., Messinis, L., & Papathanasopoulos, P. (2010). Quality of life in multiple sclerosis: Effects of current treatment options. International Review of Psychiatry, 22(1), 67–82.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article examines the process of evaluating and diagnosing patients who present with symptoms of multiple sclerosis and explores treatment and rehabilitation methods.
**Peterson, K., Silverstein, J., Kaufman, F., & Warren-Boulton, E. (2007). Management of type 2 diabetes in youth: An update. American Family Physician, 76(5), 658–664.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article outlines the process of diagnosing, treating, and managing youths with or at risk of type 2 diabetes. It also suggests methods for body weight management and reducing cardiovascular disease risks.
**Drugs.com. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.drugs.com/
Required Media
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.
Behavior
1. Why is the subject of workplace health and safety of concern to nurses?
How are these concepts related to patient safety and patient outcomes?
2. What action is suggested when you are faced with an angry or hostile coworker?
3. Why is substance misuse among nurses a serious concern? What is the most appropriate way to handle a suspicion that a coworker may be involved in serious substance misuse?
4. What is the most common physical injury experienced by LPNs and nursing assistants? How can a nurse manager help staff avoid physical injury at work?
5. Describe several examples of sexual harassment in the workplace. Discuss methods of dealing with these instances.
6. Review the policies and procedures on the following safety issues in your current clinical rotation. Compare with other students in the class. What are the similarities and differences? What might this mean in terms of workplace safety?
• Latex allergies
• Needlestick injuries
• Violence
3. Go to the ANA website and explore the sections on workplace and patient safety under the heading “Professional Nursing Practice.”
Which concepts discussed in these sections are particularly important to the beginning RN? Why?
4. Interview one of the staff nurses on your unit. Explore his or her feelings and concerns related to the following topics. Based on the comments, develop strategies to address the concerns.
• Substance abuse among nurses
• Emergency preparation
• Quality of work life within the organization
Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management
6th Edition
Sally A. Weiss MSN, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEFRuth M. Tappen EdD, RN, FAAN
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-3663-7
Servant Leadership
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT 8
Topic: Serving Others and the Community – Part 2
Benchmark – Servant Leadership Analysis
Details:
Analyze your volunteer experience by writing a 1,000-1,250 word reflection focused on your volunteer experience. Examine how volunteering enabled you to practice the principles of servant leadership. Reference and address the following in the paper.
1. Summarize your servant leadership volunteer opportunity by sharing the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the experience.
2. Which of Greenleaf’s principles of servant leadership did you implement and learn the most about through completing the servant leadership experience? Provide examples in your discussion.
3. Both Greenleaf and the biblical passages referenced in the various Topic Materials focus on the idea that power comes from giving it away and that taking the role of a servant can make one a leader. Discuss whether or not your servant leadership volunteer opportunity helped you to find yourself as a leader in this way. Provide supporting examples.
4. Use examples from your servant leadership volunteer opportunity to discuss the idea that serving others as a leader might influence change or produce a positive impact for the greater good.
5. Think about your personal leadership skills and style and discuss what your learned about yourself as a servant leader from completing the volunteer opportunity.
6. Looking forward, how will you use what you have learned about the principles of servant leadership in your workplace, organizations with which you are involved, and in your personal life?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide
RESOURCES
Electronic Resource
1. Drew Dudley “Everyday Leadership” – TED Talks
View “Drew Dudley ‘Everyday Leadership’ – TED Talks,” located on the YouTube website (2013).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2UnsOuKxo
2. Servant Leadership – Joe Schmitt
View “Servant Leadership – Joe Schmitt” located on the YouTube website (2014).
Reflective Journal Week 7
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Unit 6 Discussion 1 – Research Theory Peer Review
Note: You are required to complete this discussion before submitting the unit assignment.
For this discussion, complete the following:
1. Describe the background of your study.
2. Demonstrate how answering your research question will advance scientific knowledge base.
3. Discuss the implications and contributions of your study to your specialization.
4. Be sure to include in-text citations from the academic literature on your chosen topic.
Once you have received feedback from other learners, complete the unit assignment based on your revised discussion post.
Readings
Use your Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design text to complete the following:
Review Chapter 3, “Designing a Qualitative Study.” Focus on the subsection, “The Design Structures of a Plan or Proposal.”
Read Chapter 6, “Introducing and Focusing the Study,” pages 127–146.
a. Focus on the following subsections:
1. “Introducing and Focusing the Study.”
2. “The Research Problem Statement.”
Review Percy, Kostere, and Kostere’s 2015 article, “Generic Qualitative Research in Psychology,” from The Qualitative Report, volume 20, issue 2, pages 76–85.
Library Search
Use the library to conduct a brief literature review related to your chosen topic, in preparation for describing the background and addressing how the research question will advance the scientific knowledge base. You will use this literature review in the unit discussion.
Read the Transcript – Qualitative Research Proposal
This illustration help to guide you as you develop the various components of your course project. Boxcars are added to the train as you progress through the course. Each boxcar provides information regarding the development of
individual components of a research proposal.
INTRODUCTION – Advancing Scientific Knowledge, Implications, and Contributions
When choosing a topic for the development of a qualitative study, it is essential that the topic meet the criteria of advancing scientific knowledge within the academic discipline. The issues that need to be addressed are the following:
Will the study advance the scientific knowledge base?
Is the study grounded in the discipline?
Does the study address something that is not known, something that is new or different from prior research, something that extends prior research, or something that fills a gap in the existing literature?
What are the theoretical and practical implications of the study?
How does the study contribute to the discipline?
OBJECTIVES
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
1. Identify components of scientific merit (advances the knowledge base, contributes to theories, and meets the hallmarks of good research).
2. Critically evaluate the individual components of scientific merit of research studies.
3. Demonstrate how answering a specific research question will advance scientific knowledge base.
Reflective Journal Week 6
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Nutrition/ Core Nutritional Science Assignment/No Plagiarism/Deadline Close
Nutrition/ Core Nutritional Science Assignment/no plagiarism/deadline close
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DNT 200 — NUTRITION FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
STUDY GUIDE 6: ENERGY METABOLISM AND WEIGHT CONTROL
Directions. Using Chapters 7, 8, and 9 of your textbook as a reference, answer the following questions. Please include the questions with your answers. Be sure to put your name on your document. Your answers should be thoughtful, complete, and in Standard English. Credit will not be given for answers copied from online sources.
2. Your friend Tiffany is taking a nutrition course at another local community college. She is having difficulty understanding the unit about the energy yielding pathways of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Help her by discussing how the basic units of carbohydrate, protein, and fat are utilized in energy pathways to produce energy. Be thorough. Include their differences and similarities?
3. Tina W. is a 44 year old white female who has tried a number of weight-loss programs to include very strict diets. She has never exercised in her previous weight loss attempts. She takes several cardiac medications, none of which she can remember. She is 5’9” and weighs 195 pounds. Her lowest body weight was 135 pounds, when she was 30 years old. (She was able to maintain that weight for two years.) Her blood pressure is high, at 160/90. Tina mentioned that she tried numerous diets as a teenager when she weighed 170 pounds for 3 years.
a. Using the formulae in your text book, calculate Tina’s:
1. BMR (Hint: Be sure to read note b in the BMR column of Table 8-1). What is the meaning of your calculation?
2. Estimated Energy Requirements. Assume a sedentary activity level. What is the meaning of your calculation?
Show your work for both questions.
b. What types of exercise would you be likely to discuss with Tina?
c. What would be the goals of her treatment?
4. Determine your BMI. Is your BMI in a healthy range? If not, why not? Do you believe that measuring body fat percentage may more accurately reflect your body composition? Briefly discuss each body composition measure (e.g. skinfold calipers, bioelectrical impedance analysis, etc.) and discuss why measuring body fat is important in assessing a client’s overall health status.
5. Select one fad diet from any popular publication or online source. Using the ‘How To H9-1’ Box for Identifying a Fad Diet or Other Weight-Loss Scam (Highlight 9, page 291) of your textbook, evaluate the diet.
6. List and briefly explain the four main components of energy expenditure?
7. Kristin B. , like many Americans is overweight. Kristin is 43-year-old and a mother of two. She has gained 40 pounds since the birth of her youngest child five years ago. She is 64 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds with a BMI of 29.2. Her waist circumference is 37 inches. Kristin can’t figure out why it is so hard to lose weight and keep it off.
Kristin decides something must be wrong with her to be such a dieting failure. Maybe she just doesn’t have sufficient willpower or maybe she has abnormal metabolism. She feels tired most of the time and has very little energy. She is very busy with her children and has a demanding job as a middle school teacher. Kristin tries to cook healthy meals for her family but is often too tired or stressed to bother, so she stops to get some fast food on her way home. To make matters worse, her seven year-old son recently came home from school and said the kids were teasing him for being fat.
Kristin’s father recently died from complications of type 2 diabetes. At her last medical checkup, her blood pressure was mildly elevated but all of her laboratory blood tests were normal.
Kristin decides it is time to make some changes for her entire family but she doesn’t know quite where to start. She hopes she can help her son by finding a diet that works for him. Complicating the problem is the fact that Kristin’s husband doesn’t have a weight problem. Knowing that you are studying nutrition, Kristin decides to ask you for advice.
a. Based on her health history and physical measurements, describe how you would determine the seriousness of Kristin’s weight gain in relation to her health.
b. Using the information in chapter 9, what would you estimate to be a reasonable amount of weight for Kristin to lose over the next six months?
c. What are some advantages for Kristin of keeping a food and exercise record? What other habits besides food intake and physical activity may be especially useful for Kristin to record?
d. You advise Kristin to limit her daily caloric intake to 1,400 kcalories. Use Table 9-3 to plan one day of meals and snacks to meet her nutritional needs within this calorie level. Use the chart below (one row is already completed):
Pattern (e.g. fruit, vegetables, grain, etc.) – from Table 9-2
check attachment for table
TEXTBOOK: Understanding Nutrition, 15th edition. The publisher is Cengage
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