Describe a situation when you served as an advocate for your patient. Discuss any legal ramifications in this situation. Describe the role of the Nurse Manager, describe the involvement of your facility ethics committee or other interprofessional team members. Analyze two methods or models that leaders and managers can use to improve the quality of decision making.
Examine changes introduced to reform or restructure the U.S. health care delivery system. In a paper, discuss action taken for reform and restructuring and the role of the nurse within this changing environment.
Include the following:
1. Outline a current or emerging health care law or federal regulation introduced to reform or restructure some aspect of the health care delivery system. Describe the effect of this on nursing practice and the nurse’s role and responsibility.
2 .Discuss how quality measures and pay for performance affect patient outcomes. Explain how these affect nursing practice and describe the expectations and responsibilities of the nursing role in these situations.
3. Discuss professional nursing leadership and management roles that have arisen and how they are important in responding to emerging trends and in the promotion of patient safety and quality care in diverse health care settings.
4. Research emerging trends. Predict two ways in which the practice of nursing and nursing roles will grow or transform within the next five years to respond to upcoming trends or predicted issues in health care.
Based on the information in Chapter 3, what is self-concept and self-awareness and how has your self-concept and self-awareness changed during your transition to the role of a student at University? Examine the work of Shapka & Keating (2005) to more fully understand the changes that take place during adolescence and reflect on your own process and support your findings with additional research (please note you might find some good references in the article by Shapka & Keating, 2005). Explain how these social psychological studies help you understand and improve your adaptation to colldge and future career.
Discuss disparities related to ethnic and cultural groups relative to low birth weight infants and preterm births. Describe the impact of extremely low birth weight babies on the family and on the community (short-term and long-term, including economic considerations, on-going care considerations, and co-morbidities associated with prematurity). Identify at least one support service within your community for preterm infants and their family. Provide the link for your colleagues to view. Does the service adequately address the needs of this population? Explain your answer using at least two evidence-based resources.
According to the Innocence Project, eyewitness testimony played a role in convicting 70 percent of the prisoners who were later cleared by DNA evidence. The Innocence Project’s website proposes best practices (video:https://youtu.be/xjabkaanCAA); to help stop misidentification of subjects in police line-ups.
Based on what you read in the text about how memory works and how false memories can be formed, do you think these best practices (video:https://youtu.be/xjabkaanCAA) would help reduce false identifications? Give your answer in your initial discussion post and explain why or why not. Can you think of other suggestions that would reduce false identification?
Write a literature review on what characteristics of Winston make him a heroic figure?
Scenario: During nursing school clinicals at the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit).
1. Give an example of a time that you observed a coworker or a colleague who was not following proper nursing protocol. What exactly was the situation and what did you do?
2. Briefly tell us how you believe your experience ad skills make you a strong candidate for this position.
Based upon the readings and other materials presented,discuss the potential ways felony disenfranchisement and voter identification laws affect perceived legitimacy of the criminal justice system. Then, analyze the split Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) that struck down portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Did the Court reach the right decision? why or why not? What implications has this ruling had in the state of Georgia? What possible remedies, if any, would you propose to address any issues or problems you identified?
In your post, compare the advantages and disadvantages of organization forms. Include why most large public health care organizations use the corporate form.
Complete the Bem’s Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; on the Moodle course site). What was your gender-role? In addition to submitting your results, contemplate and discuss the following:
a) Your results: do you agree/disagree with them? Why?
b) The BSRI items or the classification of people into four categories.
c) What did you learn from doing this activity?
