Category: Nursing

Question 1 .Consider the various nursing theories you have studied this week.
Post a substantive response to the following. You must include references and in-text citations.
• Which of the nursing theories do you think would affect you most in your professional life? Provide an example and explanation.

Question 2. Theorist’s View of Health
Based on your chosen theory in the previous discussion, what is the theorist’s view of health in terms of person, health, environment, and nursing? You must include references and in-text citations.

As a health care professional, you may be asked to make difficult decisions throughout your career. Visit the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Case Study webpage (provided at the weblink below) and choose a case study to analyze. Then write a reflection in which you address the following:

Using what you have learned about utilitarianism outline how a utilitarian would have resolved the ethical dilemma in the case study you chose.
Explain whether you agree with this resolution and justify your rationale.
http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/CaseStudies/default.aspx

Unit: Nursing WorkforceDue Date: Wed,1/28/20Grading, Deliverable Length: 500–750 words
(6 paragraphs total + table and intro to topic)View objectives for this assignment
Assignment Objectives
Develop a plan to implement a change in nursing practice in a clinical setting and assess the impact of the change for stakeholders.
Reading Assignment
Leadership and Management for Nurses: Core Competencies for Quality Care: Chapters 3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, & 20

Written communication in nursing incorporates the use of evidence or research published in the literature from scholarly references. Scholarly references are defined as work that is peer-reviewed and published in a professional journal. Using published research to support the viewpoint of nursing, especially in cases being made for change, will enhance the argument.

An annotated bibliography is a list of resources you anticipate using to support your argument. Developing an annotated bibliography will help you organize your research. To create a purposeful annotated bibliography, the following information should be included: the specific citation, a brief summary or paragraph about the article, and how it pertains to your research question.

Assignment Details

This is a 3-step project:

1-Identify a change.
2-Find 6 articles.
3-Write an annotated bibliography for each article.
Please read the detailed instructions below carefully.

Step 1: Write 3–4 sentences answering the following questions:

Identify and describe a recent change that occurred in your workplace. It could be a change in the levels of staffing; a change in policy, such as time off or tuition reimbursement; a change in use of equipment or supplies; a change in charting or computerized medical records; and so on.
Describe the change in 4 sentences.
1 of the sentences should address the rationale for the change.

Step 2: Begin researching scholarly articles from the library from the past 5 years that are related to the change issue identified in Step 1.

Complete a 6-column table of the references you found, including the following:
Author(s) last name, first initial.
(Year).
-Title of article.
-Title of Publication,
-Volume #(Issue #),
-Pages of the article.
A minimum of 6 scholarly references are needed to complete this assignment; you may find more.
EXAMPLE

Change Issue: Low Census Staffing Policy
Currently, when the patient census is low, staff go home based on tenure; the same staff are continually going home, resulting in a lower paycheck for these nurses. The proposed change is to rotate all staff to leave when the census is low, regardless of tenure, so the burden of potentially lower pay is shared among the entire staff and not the same few.
Author Last Name, First, Ini

Currently, when the patient census is low, staff go home based on tenure; the same staff are continually going home, resulting in a lower paycheck for these nurses. The proposed change is to rotate all staff to leave when the census is low, regardless of tenure, so the burden of potentially lower pay is shared among the entire staff and not the same few.

Write a discussion about the barriers in healthcare of Puerto Ricans.

1. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states in the Appendix at the end of Flow in “About the Book,” that “By random mutations, some individuals must have developed a nervous system in which the discovery of novelty stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain” (6). In other words, creativity may have been developed in human beings as a biological imperative to enable us to feel pleasure when we discover something new. He believes that creativity makes us better-adapted to a constantly-changing environment.

Please describe a time in your life when you were confronted with something new or a changing environment. Did it give you pleasure, as Csikszentmihaly suggests, or did it make you uncomfortable or cause stress? Or both? Please explain in a few sentences. Did anything good come out of the situation (regardless of the way you felt about it)?

What four types of food does Turner suggest we eliminate?

Why should cancer patients reduce their sugar intake?

What does Turner suggest we should eat more of?

What are the three ways to take control of your health according to Turner?

How does Shin Terayama take control of his health?

Communicable Disease and Infectious Disease.
Text and Materials:

Nies, Mary A., McEwen, Melanie (2015). Community/Public Health Nursing. Promoting the Health of the Populations. (6th ed).
ISBN: 978-0323-18819-7

Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.).
2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

Read chapter 25 of the class textbook and review the PowerPoint presentation under Lectures. Once done answer the following questions;

1- Discuss the principles related to the occurrence and transmission of communicable and infectious diseases.
2-Describe the three focus areas in Healthy People 2020 and the objectives that apply to communicable and infectious diseases.
3-Identify and discuss nursing activities for the control of infectious diseases at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention.
4-Identify and discuss a communicable and/or infectious disease that it was believed to be eradicated and have reemerged now. For example; measles.