1. What are some of the factors that determine health behaviors? Identify a health behavior that you struggle to perform? Which theory of health behavior change best relates to your inability to achieve this healthy behavior?
2. When designing an intervention to change behavior, what factors should be considered and why?
As a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, it is essential for you to have a strong background in foundational neuroscience. In order to diagnose and treat clients, 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.
Post a response to each of the following:
Summarize the ovulation cycle and identify the functions of the hormones produced
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An older woman who has stopped regular menstruation asks whether she can still become pregnant. What is the best response you can give this patient?
What is the name of the tissue that separates the anterior wall of the vagina from the bladder and urethra?
Name the four bones that form the pelvis
why it is important to teach mothers correct perineal care for their newborn infant daughters.
What possibility must you consider if in a child you observe vaginal swelling of the vulvar tissues accompanied by bruising or foul-smelling discharge?
Describe premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
Identify and explain positions other than the lithotomy in which a pelvic examination can be performed.
You are about to conduct a pelvic examination on an adolescent girl. What should you take time to do before carrying out the examination?
A 12-year-old girl is experiencing a vaginal mucus discharge. What can you tell this girl to decrease her anxiety?
A new mother is frightened by the appearance of blood-tinged mucus at her newborn daughter’s vaginal entrance. What response can alleviate this woman’s anxiety?
MC is a 28-year-old patient who presents to the urgent care for complaints of abdominal pain and cramping. Today she has noticed a yellow vaginal discharge.
Her past medical history is noncontributory. She admits to having multiple sexual partners with unprotected intercourse
1-What additional questions regarding her vaginal discharge could you ask at this point?
2- Describe the stages of salpingitis.
3- What physical assessment findings on the vaginal examination and bimanual would you expect to see if the patient has salpingitis?
Research an article defending the position on the advancement of healthcare informatics and technology in healthcare.
Discuss relevant socio-cultural aspects of his or her life—for example, possible historical influences (e.g., World War II). Discuss these with a focus on etiology.
Diagnostic information: Provide a possible diagnosis, framed against the diagnostic possibilities from the course readings. Use books, journals, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for reference, to help you build your diagnostic summary. Explain signs and symptoms identified and their coherency with the person’s context (physiology, risk factors). Discuss bias, assumptions, confounds, and other considerations sound clinical diagnostic practices require.
Compare and contrast of at least two theoretical orientations: Find at least two empirical supports for your diagnosis and evaluate them against each other (find these in professional journals from the UMGC library).
Summary and conclusions: Here, provide a synthesis of data and your conclusions based on a close analysis of the case.
Your paper should be written as a coherent essay. You may include additional insights in your analysis, but you must address these key issues. [More details on the assignment guidelines will be presented in class.]
Health promotion and health education work together with the same goal and depend on each other. Health education provides the tools, sources, experiences for health promotion of patients by helping them increase their knowledge and have control over diseases, avoid complications, reduce and reverse the effect of illness and understand the influence of internal and external Social Determinants Of Health; directing the patients to choose healthier ways towards wellness (Falkner, 2018).
The nursing process uses the assessment to identify the problem and learn needs, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate with open-ended questions or have a return demonstration the patient’s understanding of materials to ensure that the correct information is received or if there are still some questions/concerns (Falkner, 2018). In that way, achieving health education/health promotion of patients.
A contemporary issue that families experience today is not having access to health care services due to low incomes as well as high health and/or not being able to afford health insurance. Other issues are barriers in language and cultural differences where patients may not be receiving complete care. (Healthy People, 2020).
Before addressing any problem, the nurse process should be followed as a model.
Identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
1.) Research the internet to find how much money the US spends on healthcare. In your own words, share the information you found. (You must include your reference).
2.) Why do you think the cost of health care is so high in the US? What do you think can be done to address this issue?
Write a paper discussing how you would use the self-efficacy theory to empower your patient? What does the theory state?
Your supervisor met with you and let you know you are over the budgeted dollars for agency nurses for your unit. What are some tactics you could implement to decrease agency usage? What departments in your health care facility could you partner with?
