Discuss the purpose and importance of financial ratios and financial analysis. What are the limitations of financial ratio analysis? If we divided the users of financial ratios, such as short-term lenders, long-term lenders, and stockholders, which ratios would each prefer and why?
Written Assignment NUR2203 Nursing the Surgical Patient: Task overview
Assessment
Nursing the Surgical Patient
Assignment Objectives
1. Demonstrate the use of research evidence for nursing practice applied to the care of a surgical patient
2. Augment skills in clinical decision making and reasoning through synthesising and analysing information required to care for a surgical patient
3. Apply appropriate assessment, problem solving, planning, prioritising of interventions to care for the selected client scenario chosen
4. Demonstrate the nurses role in monitoring and implementing prioritised nursing interventions in response identified patient needs
5. Demonstrate the ability to communicate specific patient care issues succinctly according to scholarly writing and referencing conventions
Standard 1: Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice.
RNs use a variety of thinking strategies and the best available evidence in making decisions and providing safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred and evidence-based frameworks.
Standard 4: Comprehensively conducts assessments. RNs accurately conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments. They analyse information and data and communicate outcomes as the basis for practice.
Standard 6: Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice.
RNs provide and may delegate, quality and ethical goal directed actions. These are based on comprehensive and systematic assessment, and the best available evidence to achieve planned and agreed outcomes.
Standard 7: Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice.
RNs take responsibility for the evaluation of practice based on agreed priorities, goals, plans and outcomes and revises practice accordingly
(NMBA 2018) Registered Nurse standards of practice Retrieved from: http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-GuidelinesStatements/Professional-standards/registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx
Length
2000 words +/-10% (including headings) (word length includes in-text referencing and excludes your reference list)
Case Study
Sarah Brown a 66 year old retired teacher has been admitted for an open right hemicolectomy. Sarah presented to her GP with a three month history of generalised abdominal pain and occasional diarrhoea. A colonoscopy found a mass in the ascending colon. Initial pathology of the biopsy showed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon. Please refer to the following pre and post-operative assessment data to answer the assignment questions.
Pre-operative clinical data
A 45-year-old female patient presents the family practice with fever, cough and rhinorrhea. On initial evaluation, she is found to be in moderate respiratory distress, with decreased air movement and scattered bilateral wheezes and crackles on lung examination. Her oxygen saturation is 87% on room air, and rises to 95% with 2 Liters via nasal cannula.
Medications: Lisinopril 10 mg PO QD
Medical Hx: HTN
Surgical Hx: C-section x 2
Denies Use of Tobacco, Drugs and Alcohol
Discuss at least 5 questions that you would ask the patient. List your top 3 differential diagnoses. Elaborate and your management and planning for the patient.
Post a substantive 2-paragraph response to,
What clearing Technique/Strategy can you use during the health assessment of a patient to encourage adherence to a treatment plan.
Uses evidence to support a claim and give credit to the source. Uses course learning resources and seeks additional scholarly resources to support ideas. Displays sentence, paragraph, and essay skills. Writes in a scholarly, well-organized manner using own words by synthesizing evidence/resources.
Readings
In your Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders textbook, read the following:
Chapter 14, “Advocacy,” pages 153159.
Use the Capella University Library to read the following:
Balcazar, H., Rosenthal, L. E., Brownstein, N. J., Rush, C. H., Matos, S., & Hernandez, L. (2011). Community health workers can be a public health force for change in the United States: Three actions for a new paradigm. American Journal of Public Health, 101(12), 21992203.
Fox, H. L. (2015). The promise of organizational development in nonprofit human services organizations. Organizational Development Journal, 31(2), 7280.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Examine how leaders can use advocacy skills to become change agents.
Examine how leadership skills and roles influence the development of community coalitions.
eview the six stages of advocacy practice as outlined in your Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders textbook.
In your initial post, consider the application of these stages of advocacy practice in the role of the community health worker as a change agent, or in the role of the leader in the organization for which you developed a strategic plan in this course. In addition, discuss how you see the stages of advocacy practice being used in your agency or in an organization from your readings or in your community. Explain why you think advocacy practice is important in policy or change initiatives.
Your essay will address the following:
Explain which leadership style you find to be the most effective: transactional, transformational, autocratic, democratic, liberal, or servant. As part of your explanation, include a detailed description of the leadership style and why you find it to be the most effective.
Include examples of leaders who have successfully utilized this leadership style to increase the performance of their followers.
After reading Chapter 3, complete the following and upload the Word document to this file by Sunday at 11:59pm. To gain the full points for the assignment, be sure to answer the question in full. There is not a word count for this assignment.
1. Draw the general organization of the nervous system. You can create this utilizing Word or other computer programs such as Paint. Do not copy and paste any graphics from online. Identify the primary structure and function of each component.
2. What events occur at the neuromuscular junction that cause muscle to contract?
3. Describe how a nerve impulse is transmitted along its axon.
Discuss the relationship of particular cognitive-affective understanding to a particular psychological disorder.
You are to investigate any classifiable/diagnosable psychological disorder of interest, in a complete and encompassing manner with respect to the cognitive and affective influences, attributes, and features that define the disorder. Include a description of the current understanding of how the disorder is manifested symptomatically, as well as the disorders etiology, treatment options, and future research directions, all with attention paid to cognitive and behavioral considerations.
Select any product/brand and Discuss how the change in technology has affected positively and negatively on the marketing of that product.
*Give a synopsis with the findings from both a pro-nature AND a pro-nurture perspective.
*Explain why you favor pro nurture.
*Choose a feature from your own development (a trait, talent, behavior). Discuss the development of this feature, using the idea of nature-nurture co-action and how this particular feature of your personality has influenced other people.
