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 How does mentoring facilitate the networking process? Discuss this from the perspective of a mentor, and from the perspective of a mentee. PLEASE INCLUDE IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCE

Module 11 Discussion – Reflection

Initial Post

Describe how you achieved each course competency including at least one example of new knowledge gained related to that competency.

Describe how this new knowledge will impact your nursing practice.

Course Competencies

1. Explain principles of care for clients with oncological disorders.
2. Identify components of safe and effective nursing care for clients experiencing fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
3. Describe strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing care for clients with acid-base imbalances.
4. Select appropriate nursing interventions for clients with upper gastrointestinal disorders.
5. Select appropriate nursing interventions for clients with lower gastrointestinal disorders.
6. Evaluate responses to nursing interventions for clients with endocrine disorders.

Please reflect on the attached in one page 

Pick any Acute Disease (Asthma • Atelectasis • Basal/Squamous Cell Carcinoma • Bronchitis • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Emphysema • Cystic Fibrosis • Influenza • Legionnaires’Disease • Sleep Apnea,Obstructive • Pleural Effusion • Pneumonia • Pulmonary Emboli • Sarcoidosis • Tuberculosis (TB) )

Must use the sample template for your soap note, keep this template for when you start clinicals.

Late Assignment Policy

Assignments turned in late will have 1 point taken off for every day assignment is late, after 7 days assignment will get grade of 0. No exceptions 

Follow the MRU Soap Note Rubric as a guide

Use APA format and must include minimum of 2 Scholarly Citations.

Soap notes will be uploaded to Moodle and put through TURN-It-In (anti-Plagiarism program) 

No plagiarism! 

APA style 

answer questions in complete sentences

due Saturday

Electronic Record-Keeping in Healthcare

For this week’s assignment you will be taking an inventory of the information systems in your organization. To complete the assignment, you might need to contact other departments. Based on what you have learned so far in this course, create a 15-20 slide PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least three (3) scholarly citations using APA citations throughout your presentation. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

1. Differentiate between electronic health record (EHR), electronic medical record (EMR), and personal health record (PHR)
2. Differentiate between clinical information systems (CIS) and administrative information systems (AIS)
3. What systems are currently being utilized at your organization?
4. If you had to rate the information-technology status of your organization, what score would you give them?
5. Identify two strength and two weaknesses of the current information-technology being used.

Assignment Expectations-

Length: 15-20 slides in length, not including title, objective, or reference slides. Speaker notes are required to explain the information presented in the slides.

Structure: Include a title slide, objective slide, content slides, reference slide in APA format.  Title/Objective/Reference slides do not count towards the minimum slide count for this assignment.

References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your claims.

Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.

Format: Save your assignment as a Power Point document (.ppt or .pptx) or a PDF document (.pd

This week, you will submit summaries of quantitative and qualitative studies. The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with published research, research designs, and methodologies. For the assignment, you will select one quantitative research study and one qualitative study related to the field of nursing and write a summary of each study. Each summary must be accurate, succinct, and clear. These articles should be somewhat related to your PICOT questions.

Ensure the following questions are addressed in each summary:

1. What type of research is it (quantitative, qualitative, and design)?
2. What was the research question(s) or hypothesis?
3. What is the sample, the sample size, and sample attributes?
4. What was the setting of the study?
5. What were the researcher’s findings? (Identify one.)

You must submit the research study articles along with your summaries.

• Each summary should be between 150–250 words. 
• Use current APA format to style your paper and to cite your sources.

Write an answer to this and use at leat one reference but not the same that appear here.

Leadership in Nursing

Leadership in the nursing field entails influencing other nurse practitioners to improve patient care by offering high-quality care that significantly improves patient outcomes.  Leadership in nursing enables nurse leaders to motivate other practitioners towards better healthcare delivery approaches. Nurse leaders need to encourage other nurses to work closely together as a team in health promotion. Therefore, nursing leadership e tails creating a conducive environment that motivates nurse practitioners and supports health promotion.  

The healthcare facility where I offer patient care aims at always remaining relevant to the patient it serves through serving their care needs cost-effectively and efficiently. The facility promotes the continuous learning of the nurse practitioners and other health practitioners working in the facility. The learning ensures there is a constant improvement of healthcare services. It further ensures that we’ll inform all the healthcare staff on current and emerging trends in the healthcare sector. The practice ensures that the facility provides up to date care to its patients all times.

I work for a Private for-profit hospital that offers different types of care and health promotion approaches. The hospital has embraced information technology that it uses to improve the kind of care provided to patients while at the same time reducing the associated costs. Lowering the cost of healthcare services is one of the critical objectives of the facility; it ensures that the hospital receives an increased number of patients. 

The climate in the facility motivates nurse practitioners to offer quality care that improves patient outcomes. The nurse leaders continue to create a positive work environment for the nurse professionals, thus serves as a very robust buffer against opposing forces that have adverse effects on their work. The motivation offered to the nurse practitioners by the leaders enables the nurses to work to the best of their ability. The leaders further provide training and guidance to the nurses, which also plays a crucial role in improving patient outcomes. The facility’s structuring is divided into four crucial segments: the individual patient segment, the care team segment that includes the healthcare professionals from the doctors, the nurses, and other professionals that deliver healthcare to the patients, the patient, and their family. The third segment is the administration, which comprises the hospital leadership and the external environment that comprise the hospital’s political and economic environment.  

The health facility’s formal goals include improving the quality of care offered to patients, improving patient outcomes, and ensuring that healthcare services are provided to patients at a reduced and affordable cost. The healthcare facility’s informal goals entail ensuring the healthcare professionals serving in the facility have a good working relationship that fosters the coordination of care offered to patients. The goals play a crucial role in ensuring teamwork among the hospital staff, which is vital in improving the quality of healthcare provided to the patients (Weiss & Tappen, 2014).

The facility’s processes include detecting different health conditions patients have by carrying out a proper patient diagnosis. Another key process that the health facility engages in is carrying out the necessary treatment to the patient depending on the diagnosis given and, lastly, ensuring that the patients are provided with a good end of life. The facility aims to provide care that improves the quality of life of the patients served and ensures the patients’ healthcare needs are well addressed. 

An organization’s work climate is vital to nurse leaders and managers because it enables them to understand better the processes involved in the work and have a clear picture of their roles and responsibilities in healthcare delivery in the organization. The work climate enables nurse leaders to understand the social processes that affect the nurse professionals they lead. As nurse professionals portray, work-related attitudes enable them to develop an environment conducive to the facility’s nurse practitioners.

The health facility climate is also vital for the career growth and development of nurse professionals in the facility (Stanley & Stanley, 2018). It promotes their empowerment and also impacts their productivity and job satisfaction. The work climate further leads to increased loyalty to the nurse leaders, significantly impacting nurse retention in the facility. In advancing their expertise, nurse practitioners need to embrace technological advancement in their practice. Through this, the nurses can learn new and emerging approaches that improve patient care quality.   

Effective communication is another approach that nurse practitioners can utilize in improving their expertise in the nursing field. Through this, the nurses have more clarity and understanding of patient needs, and that the patients and nurse practitioners relate better with each other. In my health facility, nurse practitioners have continuously engaged in critical thinking to effectively promote their healthcare practices. Shared governance entails the framework of accountability, equity, partnership, and ownership. In healthcare practice, it involves the integration of crucial values and beliefs to improve patient care. Shared governance impacts the power structure of a healthcare organization by improving the structure of the health facilities. It promotes the job satisfaction of the health professionals, thus promoting job retention.

Understanding the health facility’s culture and real goals that nurse practitioners serve plays a crucial role in guiding the nurse practitioners in their duties. It offers a sense of direction and guidance to the nurse practitioners in the different activities they engage in. An organization’s culture sets expectations on the organization’s practices, how people behave within the organization, and how they work together as a team (Stanley & Stanley, 2018). Therefore, the nurse needs to understand the organizational culture and the facility’s goals they work in to achieve high-quality care. 

According to one of the staff nurses, the activities that empower the nurses include providing them with leadership development. Different ways of doing this include introducing training programs that effectively empower nurse professionals in their professional and personal attributes. Involving nurse professionals in decision making is also an effective way of empowering nurse practitioners (Backman, Sjögren, Lindkvist, Lövheim & Edvardsson, 2017). Different ways of doing this involve giving the nurses a voice in crucial decision making. It enables the nurses to develop a sense of belonging, making them feel part of the big team.

My first impression upon walking into a healthcare facility was a place where my health issues would be solved with a lot of care. I remember who the nurses welcomed me with a lot of politeness and care, and I was instantly assured that I was in the right place. The changes that would be made at a low cost include training the nurse professionals on how to win a patient’s trust. Expensive changes include increasing the number of staff to offer a better patient experience. Making a good first impression is vital in enabling a health facility to gain patient trust.   

References

Backman, A., Sjögren, K., Lindkvist, M., Lövheim, H., & Edvardsson, D. (2017). Characteristics of highly-rated leadership in nursing homes using item response theory. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(12), 2903–2913. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13353

Stanley, D., & Stanley, K. (2018). Clinical leadership and nursing explored: A literature search. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(9-10), 1730–1743. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14145

Weiss, S., & Tappen, R. (2014). The essentials of nursing leadership and management. F.A. Davis Company; 6th Edition.

When politics and medical science intersect, there can be much debate. Sometimes anecdotes or hearsay are misused as evidence to support a particular point. Despite these and other challenges, however, evidence-based approaches are increasingly used to inform health policy decision-making regarding causes of disease, intervention strategies, and issues impacting society. One example is the introduction of childhood vaccinations and the use of evidence-based arguments surrounding their safety.

In this Discussion, you will identify a recently proposed health policy and share your analysis of the evidence in support of this policy.

To Prepare:

• Review the Congress website provided in the Resources and identify one recent (within the past 5 years) proposed health policy.
• Review the health policy you identified and reflect on the background and development of this health policy.

By Day 3 of Week 7

Post a description of the health policy you selected and a brief background for the problem or issue being addressed. Explain whether you believe there is an evidence base to support the proposed policy and explain why. Be specific and provide examples.

By Day 6 of Week 7

Respond to at least two of your colleagues* on two different days by either supporting or respectfully challenging their explanation on whether there is an evidence base to support the proposed health policy they described.

The human body is made of 4 main tissues explain?