What risk assessment instruments would be appropriate to use with each patient, or what questions would you ask each patient to assess his or her health risks?

Discussion: Building a Health History
Effective communication is vital to constructing an accurate and detailed patient history. A patient’s health or illness is influenced by many factors, including age, gender, ethnicity, and environmental setting. As an advanced practice nurse, you must be aware of these factors and tailor your communication techniques accordingly. Doing so will not only help you establish rapport with your patients, but it will also enable you to more effectively gather the information needed to assess your patients’ health risks.
For this Discussion, you will take on the role of a clinician who is building a health history for a particular new patient assigned by your Instructor.

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With the information presented in Chapter 1 of Ball et al. in mind, consider the following:
• By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned a new patient profile by your Instructor for this Discussion.(I will upload my assigned patient by6/1) Note: Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your new patient profile assignment.
• How would your communication and interview techniques for building a health history differ with each patient?
• How might you target your questions for building a health history based on the patient’s social determinants of health?
• What risk assessment instruments would be appropriate to use with each patient, or what questions would you ask each patient to assess his or her health risks?
• Identify any potential health-related risks based upon the patient’s age, gender, ethnicity, or environmental setting that should be taken into consideration.
• Select one of the risk assessment instruments presented in Chapter 1 or Chapter 5 of the Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination text, or another tool with which you are familiar, related to your selected patient.
• Develop at least five targeted questions you would ask your selected patient to assess his or her health risks and begin building a health history.
By Day 3 of Week 1
Post a summary of the interview and a description of the communication techniques you would use with your assigned patient. Explain why you would use these techniques. Identify the risk assessment instrument you selected, and justify why it would be applicable to the selected patient. Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient.
Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the “Post to Discussion Question” link, and then select “Create Thread” to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Submit, you cannot delete or edit your own posts, and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Submit!
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

What technical communication issues does this novel(Catch the Rabbit) raise for us–twenty-first-century people?

Chapter 4: Catch the Rabbit
Explain the merits behind the motto “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time” (p. 83). Is this a good or bad policy? For what type of industry would this be good? Why? Would you like to work under such a motto? What would the motto mean for advancement or innovation?
Isaac Asimov wrote this novel in the 1940s. Like all science fiction, he uses contemporary items and situations, but makes them more useful or just bigger, stronger, and faster (or smaller, more efficient, and faster). For instance, on p. 84 Powell is reading a handbook. Apparently, this handbook is so important that he’d run naked from a burning building to save it. Is that necessary? Update Asimov’s science and technology (especially communication technologies) for a “real” twenty-first-century (2061 in fact) audience. Pull ideas from the entire book if you’d like. You aren’t supposed to find everything; instead, find enough for at least five pages. (Hint: consider customs as well as items–workday issues, food, drink, smoke, etc.)
Create a robot “personality” test and describe its purpose. What does it say about robots? Why is such a test important? You may want to consider this essay a persuasive appeal to anti-robot groups or legislators who distrust robots.
Explain why you think robots are constantly improving. What are the implications (economic, social, personal) and what do they parallel today? In other words, how are robots similar to computers? Think about the whole picture–economics, distribution, marketability, etc.
Interesting. Even in the future, redheads are fiery hot-tempered individuals. Analyze why redheads are considered so ill mannered. You may do a report that discusses Powell’s temper and how it’s directly related to (or supplemented by) his red hair. What are the implications of having red-headed engineers and scientists?

What technical communication issues does this novel raise for us–twenty-first-century people?

Write an essay on Dignity,on what does it depend – and how could be come up with a coherent explanation?

Mitchell suggests that the concept of “dignity” won’t do us a lot of good if we want to resist commodification of our bodies and their parts. But this begs a prior question: should we resist commodification of our bodies? Is it a good or a bad thing to be able to sell our bodies and/or their parts? It seems likely that your answer is “well, it depends.” On what does it depend – and how could be come up with a coherent explanation? Presumably, the limit cases are that we shouldn’t allow you to sell yourself into slavery (though some people do defend the permissibility of that), and selling something like plasma (that isn’t important to who you are, and that you’ll make more of). If that’s right, where do we draw lines? For example, what about cases like organ transplantation – should you be able to sell a kidney?

Write a discussion exploring various accrediting organizations and specific measures that pertain to quality.

Discussion: Measures of Quality
Health care quality is a nationally recognized topic that is addressed through public policies, licensure, and accreditation standards for health care professionals and organizations. Throughout history, numerous organizations have been involved in developing health care quality and safety initiatives.
The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed quality and safety indicators for various health care systems. These indicators seek to establish accountability for health care organizations through a reporting system, which is available to the public. For this Discussion, explore various accrediting organizations and specific measures that pertain to quality. In your research on accrediting organizations, consider how these quality measures affect quality outcomes, support ethical principles, and influence the delivery of clinical services.Select one specific quality indicator from the Week 2 Discussion and compare it with those outlined in this week’s Learning Resources.
Review the accrediting body standards that pertain to your organization focusing on those standards that require your organization to define its quality management program.Consider regulatory requirements at the state or national level that affect quality outcomes in your organization.How do the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) restricted reimbursements affect quality management or improvement efforts at my organization? How do these standards and regulations influence or support ethical principles and influence patient care and nursing practice?

Write a discussion on how do you define quality as it pertains to health care and the practice of nursing?

Write a discussion on how do you define quality as it pertains to health care and the practice of nursing?Some nurses may define quality as effective interdisciplinary teamwork that results in better patient-health outcomes, while hospital administrators may define quality as appropriately delegated responsibilities, completion of tasks, and effective patient flow. Due to the subjective nature of the term, quality is a topic of great debate.
In an effort to define quality in health care, standards have been developed to establish consistency and provide guidance. The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) outlines nursing-sensitive indicators that encompass measurement scales for quality of nurse professionals as well as quality of the services provided by nurses to patients. In this week’s Discussion, you evaluate the determinants of quality,m based on the NDNQI indicators and the theoretical underpinnings of these quality indicators. You apply nursing-sensitive indicators to your current setting and assess how each definition of quality contributes to the idea of quality overall.