Category: Nursing

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to facilitate thinking about your personal beliefs in relation/comparison to the core concepts of Communication, Compassionate Care, Diversity, equality and inclusion, Ethics, Evidence-Based Practice, Health Policy, and social determinants of Health in nursing practice as outlined and defined by the AACN . As a senior level nursing student you may be asked to revisit this assignment so please keep your work.

Journal Entry (2 pages): 
1. Explain what most excited and/or concerned you throughout your pediatric clinical experience.
2. Discuss how your personal definition of family and family roles has changed or stayed the same.
3. How has your understanding of family and family roles influenced your assessment of children and their families?
4. Explain how your understanding of culture (both the culture of the provider and that of the child and his or her family) has changed and how it may have influenced the assessments you conducted during your practicum.
5. Assess how you did with accomplishing the goals and objectives you developed in Week 1 for the practicum experience.
6. Based on your practicum experience, refine your existing goals and/or develop new goals for your continued education and professional practice. Be sure to consider the NAPNAP Position Statement on Age Parameters for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Practice.
Use title page and references according to APA.

Statistical application and the interpretation of data is important in health care. Review the statistical concepts covered in this topic. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the significance of statistical application in health care. Include the following:
Describe the application of statistics in health care. Specifically discuss its significance to quality, safety, health promotion, and leadership.
Consider your organization or specialty area and how you utilize statistical knowledge. Discuss how you obtain statistical data, how statistical knowledge is used in day-to-day operations and how you apply it or use it in decision making.
Three peer-reviewed, scholarly or professional references are required.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Data analysis is key for discovering credible findings from implementing nursing studies. Discussion and conclusions can be made about the meaning of the findings from the data analysis.
Share what you learned about descriiptive analysis (statistics), inferential analysis (statistics), and qualitative analysis of data; include something that you learned that was interesting to you and your thoughts on why data analysis is necessary for discovering credible findings for nursing.
Compare clinical significance and statistical significance; include which one is more meaningful to you when considering application of findings to nursing practice
Integrates evidence from assigned reading OR lesson AND from at least one outside scholarly source. All sources are credited within the body of the post. Evidence supports the discussion.

Please discuss the importance of USPSTF Screening Recommendations in Primary Care.
Please include at least two scholarly references that are no older than 5 years.

Discussion Board #2Purpose: This assignment has students consider the impact of a security breach or an extended downtime on the workplace environment and the response to that occurrence.
Instructions: Students will select a topic, security, and privacy of electronic health records OR extended downtime/technology disaster and discuss why their selected topic is an issue or problem. Students will then describe the actual response to the incident or issue, address if appropriate, and suggest interventions/actions prevent the issue from reoccurring
Select a topic A OR BElectronic Security Risk/Breach in Workplaceidentify and define the issue, explain why an issue, and address its’ impact.
Discuss the ethical, HIPAA, and HITECH aspects of a security breach
Extended Downtime or technology disasterIdentify and define the issue, explain why an issue, and address its’ impact.
Discuss the issue of data security and consider how downtime/technology disaster would impact efficiency.
Based on topic (A or B) selected:describe a specific situation/incident that illustrates the issue (maybe hypothetical)
describe the response/outcome to the specific situation/incident (if hypothetical, what would have happened)
provide possible interventions and actions you suggest preventing the issue from reoccurring
Complete a minimum of two cross-posts to your peers. Your cross-posts should include integration of peers’ posts and add to the discussion with alternatives/suggestions for improvement, examples from the workplace. Ex: note one thing new your peer posted and post new (different from peer) information
Include a minimum of one scholarly, relevant reference (within five yrs.) in the initial post and one for each cross-post.
Crossposts to provide constructive, respective feedback to peers.
APA formatting of citations and references are expected for all references.
All posts have the correct spelling, grammar, and sentence structure.
The initial entry is due Wednesday. Responses are due Sunday.

Chapters 16,17,22
DQ#1 How is the practice of yoga related to health and illness?
For all DQs: Please abide by APA 7th edition format in your writing. Answers should be 2-3 Paragraphs made up of 3-4 sentences each, at least 250 words (more or less) in length.
AND, please use your assigned textbook as, at least,
one reference, or 10 points will be deducted.
Textbook: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Nursing Practice (5th Edition)
ISBN-13:9780133346503
ISBN-10:0133346501
Author:Karen Lee Fontaine RN MSN
Edition: 5
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc
Published: 2019

Intimate Partner Violence/Substance Abuse Project
Develop a handout on intimate partner violence or substance abuse.
Create a trifold educational flier for any of the issues discussed in this week’s readings.
For either format that you choose, you must include a reference page with at least three
citations using resources that are less than five years old.
Consider the following information when pulling your research together:
 Summarize the models of care that have evolved in caring for victims of intentional
violence.
 Describe the impact of substance abuse and addiction on individual people and their
families, communities, and nations.

Identify your specialty area of NP practice (mine is Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner).
Select a nursing theory, borrowed theory, or interdisciplinary theory provided in the lesson plan or one of your own findings. Address the following:
– Origin
– Meaning and scope
– Logical adequacy
– Usefulness and simplicity
– Generalizability
– Testability
Finally, provide an example how the theory could be used to improve or evaluate the quality of practice in your specific setting. What rationale can you provide that validates the theory as applicable to the role of the nurse practitioner.
*** For the previous order # 389035913, even though this is a separate assignment, you used Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring, maybe you can use the same one since you already read and researched about it.
Integration of Evidence: The student post provides support from a minimum of one scholarly in-text citation with a matching reference and assigned readings or online lessons, per discussion topic per week.
What is a scholarly resource? A scholarly resource is one that comes from a professional, peer-reviewed publication (e.g., journals and government reports such as those from the FDA or CDC).
– Contains references for sources cited
– Written by a professional or scholar in the field and indicates credentials of the author(s)
– Is no more than 5 years old for clinical or research articles
*** I will attach the references added by the professor for this week reading, since I have to use one of those and one additional source

Review the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality page QI Tips: A Formula for Developing a Great Aim StatementLinks to an external site..
Develop a personal Aim statement for something in your own life (work, school, or personal). The statement should include what, for whom, when, how much, and a full statement.
In a 1- to 2-page paper, elaborate on each component of the statement. You will be tracking your progress throughout this course for a final assignment related to your Aim statement.
Citation: National Institute for Children’s Health Quality. (n.d.). QI tips: A formula for developing a great aim statement. https://www.nichq.org/insight/qi-tips-formula-deve…