Category: Nursing

The nursing process is a tool that puts knowledge into practice. By utilizing this systematic problem-solving method, nurses can determine the health care needs of an individual and provide personalized care.
Write a paper (1,750-2,000 words) on cancer and approach to care based on the utilization of the nursing process. Include the following in your paper:
Describe the different types of diagnostic methods utilized to identify possibility of cancer. Explain the numeric and Tumor, Node, Metastasized (TNM) method of staging of cancer after the confirmed diagnosis.
Describe at least three complications of cancer, the side effects of treatment, and methods to lessen physical and psychological effects.
Discuss what factors contribute to the yearly incidence and mortality rates of various cancers in Americans.
Explain what the American Cancer Society (ACS) might provide for education and support. What ACS services could a nurse recommend for these patients and why?
Explain how the nursing process is utilized to provide safe and effective care for cancer patients across the life span. Your explanation should include each of the five phases demonstrating the delivery of holistic and patient-focused care.
How does an interdisciplinary research approach (which includes liberal arts, science studies, mathematics, social and physical sciences), build on the foundational nursing knowledge related to cancer research?
You are required to cite a minimum of four sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.

All posts must be scholarly. Check APA 7th edition for correct direct quote citation, in-text citation, and references. Use of scholarly resources is required within the last 5 years (text or any article from a nursing journal, or governmental cite). (NO WEBSITES ALLOWED). Min. 300 words with reference (WITHIN THE LAST 5 YEARS).
Assignment below:
What are the leadership lessons learned from The Velveteen Rabbit? How do they compare to Chinn’s discussion of power and Johns’ (2001) discussion of transformational leadership? How does this relate to Holistic Nursing?

Select TWO of the SDGs that resonates most powerfully with your individual vision and passion? Answer the specific questions for ongoing reflection as outlined in the chapter 30. For example: SDG1 No poverty the questions for ongoing reflection includes the following:
How do I feel about the poor and economically disadvantaged?
What assumptions and judgments do I make about the poor that will prevent
me from being an effective global nurse?
What are my fears related to poor people?
Which implications of poverty can I alleviate with a nursing sensibility?
Is it my responsibility to address and work for no poverty for all?
What is the first step I can take toward realizing the SDG most important to me? With whom can I partner? When will I do this? How will I evaluate myself?

IntroductionIn this course, we are focusing on a patient safety issue of your choice and working through the steps of the EBP process. In this assessment, identify a tool or tools that could be used to evaluate the intervention.
ScenarioAs the Director of Clinical Operations and Nursing Excellence, it is your responsibility to ensure that the best practices and protocols are implanted throughout the medical center. To further your quest to address a specific patient safety issue, you need to investigate the best measurement tools that could be used to evaluate if the intervention was a success.
InstructionsWrite a two-page paper to explain the method and process of evaluating the proposed practice change.
Follow guidelines from previous assessments to write an introduction paragraph to provide organization for the paper.
Write in the third person, adhering to conventions of academic tone. Identify two instruments that could be used to assess and evaluate the proposed practice change. Identify instruments appropriate for determining the effectiveness of a specific intervention. Briefly describe the origin or originator of each instrument (including the inventor, creator, or company).
Explain the construct it measures, units or scales, type of measurement (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods).
If using a survey for either assessment or evaluation of the intervention, describe the scientific validity and reliability (alpha).
Identify the relevant studies from the literature where the instruments were used. Include a description of the results of the studies.
Describe how the studies differed or if there are similarities to your project.
Explain the rationale for why the instrument was chosen and provide supporting evidence from the literature.
Follow guidelines from previous assessments to write a summary paragraph to provide a closing for the paper.
Additional RequirementsTwo-page paper, not including the reference page.
Double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font.
Minimum of four resources.
Write in third person.
Include introduction and summary paragraphs.
Include a reference page in APA format.
Competencies MeasuredBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 3:Assess the quality of the research methods reported in peer-reviewed health care literature. Explain the origin of each instrument, the construct it measures, and the type of measurement, including validity and reliability if it is a survey.
Identify the literature where the instruments have been used including the results of the studies.
Competency 5: Interpret the results and practical significance of health care data analyses in the evidence based practice process. Identify two instruments that could be used to assess and evaluate the proposed practice change.
Explain the rationale for why the instrument was chosen and provide supporting evidence from the literature.
Competency 6: Produce original written work, in compliance with the Capella Writing Standards, which is a creative synthesis of information from credible sources. Introduce and summarize the paper in introduction and closing paragraphs to provide organization for the paper.
Write in the third person, adhering to conventions of academic tone.

Develop a patient-centered concept map for a chosen condition. This could be a disease, or a disorder based upon the best available evidence that has been individualized to treat your patient’s health, economic, and cultural needs. Write a brief 3–5 page narrative that explains why the resources cited in the concept map and narrative are valuable and relevant. Describe how you incorporated the patient’s individual culture, identity, abilities, and beliefs into the plan of care. Also, be clear about your specific communication strategies for relating information to the patient and their family.
The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your map and narrative address all of the bullets below, at minimum.
Part 1: Concept Map
Visit Healthy People 2030’s Browse Objectives page and select a topic.
Design a patient-centered concept map based upon the best available evidence for treating a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs.
Include objective and subjective assessment findings to support three nursing diagnoses.
Include interventions that will meet your patient’s individual needs.
Include measurable outcomes for each nursing diagnosis using SMART goals: (S)pecific, (M)easurable, (A)chievable, (R)elevant, and (T)ime-bound.
Part 2: Supporting the Concept Map
Analyze the needs of a patient, and those of their family, to ensure that the interventions in the concept map will be relevant and appropriate for their beliefs, values, and lifestyle.
Explain how you incorporated the patient’s individual culture, identity, abilities, and beliefs into the plan of care.
Consider how your patient’s economic situation and relevant environmental factors may have contributed to your patient’s current condition or could affect future health.
Consider how your patient’s culture or family should inform your concept map.
Apply strategies for communicating with the patient and their family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
Explain how you will communicate the proposed interventions and evaluation plan in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way. Ensure that your strategies:
Promote honest communications.
Facilitate sharing only the information you are required and permitted to share.
Enable you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and their family regardless of language, abilities, or educational level.
Explain the value and relevance of the resources you used as the basis for your patient-centered concept map.
Explain why your evidence is valuable and relevant to your patient’s case.
Include a critique of the resources you used and specify the level of evidence.
Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate for the health issue you are addressing and for the unique situation of your patient and the family.
Include how the evidence was used to plan your interventions.
Convey purpose of the assessment narrative in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
The suggested headings for your paper are:
Patient Needs Analysis.
Communication Strategies.
Value and Relevance of Resources.
Submission Requirements
Length of narrative: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages. Your narrative should be succinct yet substantive.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work. Be sure you are citing evidence in both parts.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
Please submit both your concept map and your narrative as separate documents in the assessment submissions area.
You must submit both documents at the same time. Make sure both documents are attached before submitting your assessment.
Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.
Design an individualized, patient-centered concept map, based upon the best available evidence for treating a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs.
Analyze the needs of a patient, and those of their family, to ensure that the intervention in the concept map will be relevant and appropriate for their beliefs, values, and lifestyle.
Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.
Explain the value and relevance of the resources used as the basis for a patient-centered concept map.
Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.
Apply strategies for communicating with the patient and their family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
Convey purpose of the assessment narrative in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

A very devout Jewish couple has decided to have a child and wish to undergo genetic analysis prior to conceiving. Their tests reveal that they both are carriers of the gene for Tay-Sachs disease.
How would you explain to this couple what a genetically recessive disease is and what their chances of having an affected child, unaffected child, and carrier child are?
What types of things would you encourage the couple to consider as they choose whether or not to conceive?
APA format. A MINIMUM 500 (maximum 600) word count with TWO peer-reviewed references with publication dates that are less than five years.

PROJECT TITLE: Increasing adherence to antidepressant medication in patients with depression using Mobile apps in an outpatient setting.

Patients diagnose with Depression greater than 6 months

Specify free mobile app that is free and easy to use
Ages 18 yrs – 35 years
This is an Evidence-Based Project
Quality Improvement
Use recent evidence based articles no less than 10 years older.
Improvement and implementation are the cornerstones of your DNP Project Plan. The ultimate goal of the DNP Leader is to implement a process that helps to improve the quality of care, quality of service, and/or the performance of a team. Evidence-based practice guidelines are often utilized to support quality improvement projects by navigating implementation frameworks; these frameworks add structure to systems and strengthen the foundation of DNP Projects.
Review the Implementation Science article below.
Identify the model you would like to use, evaluate and appraise your model.
Describe your selected implementation model by identifying key aspects/concepts, background, and other distinguishing characteristics.
Give an example of why and how you plan to utilize the model/framework to better understand the need to improve a process, patient outcomes, team/project environment, and/or population health.
Implementation Models:
Nilsen, P. (2015). Making sense of implementation theories, models, and frameworks. Implementation Science: IS, 10(1), 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-015-0242-0
Making sense of implementation theories, models.pdf Download Making sense of implementation theories, models.pdf

Here are the instructions for the assignment; a scholarly paper must be uploaded for a grade:
Submit a 2-3 page scholarly paper (excluding the title page, references, and appendices).
Include a diagram of the implementation framework in the appendix.
APA 7th edition format.
Implementation Framework
Implementation Framework
Criteria Ratings Pts
Implementation Framework is appropriate for the selected DNP Project Topic
30 to >24 pts
Very thorough and detailed; Criteria met without need for changes
24 to >15 pts
Overall good but lacks some pertinent information and details; Meets criteria with areas for improvement
15 to >0 pts
Lacks several pertinent details; Minimally meets criteria
/ 30 pts
A full explanation of the Implementation Framework is provided.
30 to >24 pts
Very thorough and detailed; Criteria met without need for changes
24 to >15 pts
Overall good but lacks some pertinent information and details; Meets criteria with areas for improvement
15 to >0 pts
Lacks several pertinent details; Minimally meets criteria
/ 30 pts
A diagram of the Implementation Framework is included and depicts the alignment with the DNP Project.
25 to >20 pts
Very thorough and detailed; Criteria met without need for changes
20 to >12.5 pts
Overall good but lacks some pertinent information and details; Meets criteria with areas for improvement
12.5 to >0 pts
Lacks several pertinent details; Minimally meets criteria
/ 25 pts
4. Grammar/ Spelling • APA, Scholarly writing
15 to >12 pts
Very thorough and detailed; Criteria met without need for changes
12 to >7.5 pts
Overall good but lacks some pertinent information and details; Meets criteria with areas for improvement
7.5 to >0 pts
Lacks several pertinent details; Minimally meets criteria
/ 15 pts
Total Points: 0
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Instrument and Metrics for QI Plan
Overview
The purpose of this assignment is to explore and select tools and outcomes measures that can be used in a QI project. In the previous Gap Analysis assignment each group developed a needs assessment for their assigned case scenario. (The completed assignment is attached). For the Instrument and Metric for QI Plan Assignment, you will continue to build upon this work by selecting a psychosocial tool and discussing methodology to measure outcomes.
Knowledge and Skills to be Developed
This student will meet the following module objectives by completing this assignment:
• Identify appropriate outcome measures for analysis of a Quality Improvement project
• Select appropriate nurse sensitive outcome measures
• Propose outcome assessment strategies and evaluation methods
Task List
• Complete the Instrument & Metrics assignment.
• Using the information your group developed from the previous Gap Analysis assignment, select a psychosocial tool that can be used for measurement in your QI project. *If you are in the Children’s Hospital group, you may not use HCAHPS survey as your tool.
• Answer questions on the Instrument and Metrics template (attached). Type your answers in the text boxes for each question.
o Articles for reliability and validity may be older than 5 years. Many times this information comes from when the tool was developed.
• Include a copy of the tool you selected at the end of the document.
• This assignment should be submitted with an APA title page. A reference page and in-text citations are NOT required with this assignment.
Instructions:
1. Please see the attached completed assignment on GAP Analysis for Headache management in a Primary Care Clinic
2. Answer questions on the Instrument and Metrics template provided (attached).
Please, let me know if you have any questions

Develop a proposal in which you evaluate the two specific products you selected in Week 4. Your goal is to persuade the directors of the health care workplace to implement your chosen informatics solution.

Address the following details in your proposal:
Brief desсrіption of the administrative or clinical issue
A concise overview of the two products, including an evaluation of all relevant features of each product
Select one product for implementation and provide a clear explanation about why you chose it
Two suggestions of how the chosen product could be implemented
Two suggestions for how the chosen product would be evaluated after implementation
A future trend in this area

Develop your proposal as a presentation using one of the following formats:
18- to 20-slide presentation with detailed speaker notes
Include a minimum of 5 peer-reviewed references, in a separate document if necessary, APA
The two programs selected are Cerner and Epic and choosing EPIC as the progam of choice

Mr. Perez is a 76-year-old Mexican American who was recently diagnosed with a slow heartbeat requiring an implanted pacemaker. Mr. Perez has been married for 51 years and has 6 adult children (three daughters aged 50, 48, and 42; three sons aged 47, 45, and 36), 11 grandchildren; and 2 great grandchildren. The youngest boy lives three houses down from Mr. and Mrs. Perez. The other children, except the second-oldest daughter, live within 3 to 10 miles from their parents. The second-oldest daughter is a registered nurse and lives out of state. All members of the family except for Mr. Perez were born in the United States. He was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 18 in order to work and send money back to the family in Mexico. Mr. Perez has returned to Mexico throughout the years to visit and has lived in Texas ever since. He is retired from work in a machine shop.
Mr. Perez has one living older brother who lives within 5 miles. All members of the family speak Spanish and English fluently. The Perez family is Catholic, as evidenced by the religious items hanging on the wall and prayer books and rosary on the coffee table. Statues of St. Jude and Our Lady of Guadalupe are on the living room table. Mr. and Mrs. Perez have made many mandas (bequests) to pray for the health of the family, including one to thank God for the healthy birth of all the children, especially after the doctor had discouraged them from having any more children after the complicated birth of their first child. The family attends Mass together every Sunday morning and then meets for breakfast chorizo at a local restaurant frequented by many of their church’s other parishioner families. Mr. Perez believes his health and the health of his family are in the hands of God.
The Perez family lives in a modest four-bedroom ranch home that they bought 22 years ago. The home is in a predominantly Mexican American neighborhood located in the La Loma section of town. Mr. and Mrs. Perez are active in the church and neighborhood community. The Perez home is usually occupied by many people and has always been the gathering place for the family. During his years of employment, Mr. Perez was the sole provider for the family and now receives social security checks and a pension. Mrs. Perez is also retired and receives a small pension for a short work period as a teacher’s aide. Mr. and Mrs. Perez count on their nurse daughter to guide them and advise on their health care.
Mr. Perez visits a curandero for medicinal folk remedies. Mrs. Perez is the provider of spiritual, physical, and emotional care for the family. In addition, their nurse daughter is always present during any major surgeries or procedures. Mrs. Perez and her daughter the nurse will be caring for Mr. Perez during his procedure for a pacemaker.
Explain the significance of family and kinship for the Perez family.
Describe the importance of religion and God for the Perez family.
Identify two stereotypes about Mexican Americans that were dispelled in this case with the Perez family.
What is the role of Mrs. Perez in this family?
Submission Instructions:
Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.