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The IOM published report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” makes recommendations for lifelong learning and achieving higher levels of education.

In 1,000-1,250 words, examine the importance of nursing education and discuss your overall educational goals.

Include the following:

1.  Discuss your options in the job market based on your educational level.

2.  Review the IOM Future of Nursing Recommendations for achieving higher levels of education. Describe what professional certification and advanced degrees (MSN, DNP, etc.) you want to pursue and explain your reasons for wanting to attain the education. Discuss your timeline for accomplishing these goals.

3.  Discuss how increasing your level of education would affect how your competitiveness in the current job market and your role in the future of nursing.

4.  Discuss the relationship of continuing nursing education to competency, attitudes, knowledge, and the ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics.

5.  Discuss whether continuing nursing education should be mandatory. Provide support for your response.

You are required to cite to a minimum of three 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.  

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance. 

Friday 11 

Question one 

Evidence Based Practice on Managing Hypertension

Hypertension can lead to more serious cardiac disorders such as CHF so interventions to prevent it from progressing are important. Here is a Cochran’s Report below that analyzed Research on management of hypertension with recommendations on interventions that are effective. In 100 words, Review the summary and share some of the findings and recommendations to earn credit. link https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005182.pub4/full

Question two

Evidence Based Practice Integration to Nursing Practice

Research using Cochrane Systematic Reviews or Guidelines from the AHRQ. This is the type of source/database you should use when asked to provide EBP or research. Explore the sites, look over an area related to Cardiac/ CHF or respiratory disorders that interests you and in 100 words, share an EBP intervention from the site that nursing could use and share a link to the article or guideline. Replying with EBP from the sites will count as one substantial post for the week.Link 

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/about-cdsr

Question three

Scholarly Sources for Academic Work and Practice

Class for your academic undergraduate work you should be using assigned readings and other scholarly sources designed for the health care professional. Posts that use consumer web sites, patient ed sites or news stories designed for the layman do not earn credit. It is important that you understand what constitutes a scholarly source. GCU has a wonderful tutorial on evaluation sources.

To earn credit for one substantive reply post for the week:

1. Visit GCU’s evaluating resources library guide , https://libguides.gcu.edu/EvaluatingSources

2. Review the site. In 100 words Briefly discuss two things you learned. 

Question four

 Evidence Based Practice Guidelines CHF and other Cardiac Complexities

Class here is a link to research from 2019 that seeks to reduce readmission rates for CHF patients. The article has links to EBP in the reference section that may be useful for your study this week. The Clinical section of the American College of Cardiology also provides EBP on common cardiac disorders. In 100 words,review the article and site and share something new that you learned. 

https://sigmapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/wvn.12336

Question five

Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease

1. Research scholarly sources designed for health care professionals, and provide a ONE risk factor for Alzheimer’s.

2. State the risk factor

3. State whether it is a modifiable risk factor.

4. Summarize why it is a risk factor.. ie the physiological impact

5. Include your reference/source with the required doi or url/ web link

Question 6

 Types of Stroke

 In 100 words describe one type of cerebrovascular accident/stroke (CVA)  the cause and related physiology. In short, what occurs within the body to cause the stroke? Use our text and other scholarly sources to research your answer (Include the reference in your reply). Posts that use consumer web sites like Mayo Clinic and Web MD will not earn credit.

Research the range of contemporary issues teenagers face today. In a 500-750-word paper, choose one issue (besides teen pregnancy) and discuss its effect on adolescent behavior and overall well-being. Include the following in your submission:

1. Describe the contemporary issue and explain what external stressors are associated with this issue.
2. Outline assessment strategies to screen for this issue and external stressors during an assessment for an adolescent patient. 
3. Describe what additional assessment questions you would need to ask and define the ethical parameters regarding what you can and cannot share with the parent or guardian.
4. Discuss support options for adolescents encountering external stressors. Include specific support options for the contemporary issue you presented. 

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

1. Write a 2 page assignment.
2. Choose a primary nursing research article of interest from a refereed nursing journal. Attach a copy of the article.
3. Begin your critique by identifying the:
   • article’s title
   • author(s)
   • date of publication
   • name of the journal or other publication in which it appeared
   • Where and when was the article published?
   • In your introduction, you should also briefly describe the purpose and nature of the study and, if applicable, its theoretical framework.
   • If the paper was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, consider the credibility of the publication in which it appeared.
4. If you are reviewing a research study, organize the body of your critique according to the paper’s structure. Start with a brief description and analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the research design and methodology. For example:
   1. How does the method reflect other studies of the same topic? (sample, data collection, setting).
   2. What makes this method feasible?
   3. How realistic is it? How does the method address questions of validity?
   4. How does the researcher overcome the limitations of the method?
   5. Are there large limitations or minor ones?
   6. How will these limitations affect your ability to use this data to answer your research question?
5. Describe the results by answering:
   1. How were the results interpreted?
   2. How were they related to the original problem (author’s view of evidence rather than objective findings)?
   3. Look at DISCUSSION. Were the author(s) able to answer the question (test the hypothesis) raised?
   4. Did the research provide new factual information, a new understanding of a phenomenon in the field, a new research technique?
   5. How was the significance of the work described?
   6. Did the reported observations/interpretations support or refute observations or interpretations made by other researchers?
6. Describe the significance of the research by answering:
   1. Did the research make a significant contribution to human knowledge?
   2. Did the research produce any practical applications?
   3. What are the nursing implications of this research?
   4. How do you evaluate the significance of the research?
7. Utilize at least 5 cited sources to substantiate your findings or critique.
   • Follow APA style rules.

PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW IN APA FORMAT

INCLUDE AT LEAST 2 REFERENCES AND 2 CITATIONS

EACH ANSWER MUST HAVE AT LEAST 2-3 SENTENCES

THANK YOU

1- What is Policy?

2- Explain each of them:  Public policy—

Private policy—

Health policy—

Social policy—

Organizational policy?

3- Who was F

lorence Nightingale, and what was her contribution to the Nursing Field? 

4- Who was Lillian Wald?

5- Who was Margaret Sanger, and in what way she helped to the developments of Nursing Field?

6_ what is  (ICN), and what they do?

7- What is s (NLCA) and they do?

Jeanne Blum, RN, is a nurse on a LDRP unit. Recently, the policy and 

procedures manual for Jeanne’s unit included the premature rupturing of membranes of a laboring patient 

as a practice acceptable for nurses to perform. Jeanne 

and some of her coworkers shared their concern over 

lunch about this new responsibility.They felt uncomfortable with the possibility of cord prolapse and 

other potential medical complications resulting from 

this practice. Jeanne gathered data from her state and 

many others states and noted that her hospital was 

not in compliance with her professional organization

practice standards. Jeanne shared this information with her coworkers. She volunteered to contact the 

state board of nursing on their behalf to request a 

declaratory statement on the nurse’s role in the initiation of premature rupturing of uterine membranes. 

Her state board’s clinical practice committee 

reviewed her request for a declaratory statement and 

gathered information from other states. A formal 

declaratory statement was drafted by the board and 

made it available on its Web site. A letter from the 

board was sent to Jeanne’s institution, informing it of 

the declaratory statement, which stated that the task 

nurses were requested to perform was beyond their 

scope of practice based on the Nurse Practice Act.

8-Which stage of the policy model does this scenario 

represent?  

 Describe a health promotion model used to initiate behavioral changes. How does this model help in teaching behavioral changes? What are some of the barriers that affect a patient’s ability to learn? How does a patient’s readiness to learn, or readiness to change, affect learning outcomes? 

250 words, please add references

Peer 1

These last two weeks have been great for me. I have learnt quite a lot as now I have gotten deeper into the community, interacting more with the local people and getting to better understand some of the major issues that are affecting them. While I am working on obesity in children, I am getting to be more exposed on other community problems that relate to the obesity. A major issues that has come up over the last two weeks has been diabetes especially in the older people. I have been interacting with those working in the health care sector and that issue is always coming up in the community. a major trend that I see is that a bigger number of those that have diabetes tend to also be struggling with weight and have been since their teenage year. Even without deep data to better make a conclusion there appears to be a link between diabetes and childhood obesity. In healthy people 2020 website, diabetes is noted to be a major health problem and among the top 10 causes of death in the country. It is also among the most expensive health problem to manage in the country with $254 billion being spent in its management in 2012 (ODPHP, n.d.). It clearly shows that my community needs to do a lot more to address the problem. Studies in the areas also appear to support the problem and calls for more action to combat it.

There are a few things that I learned. One is that the people that have a good understanding of the health issues tend to be more attentive to taking the better decisions to protect themselves and to reduce chances of making the condition worse. They are also better at managing it. Therefore, I still think a major tool that needs to be used in helping these communities to better handle their health problems remains information. From my experience, I think we should have better plans of having a more detailed health education plan up to high school level. A big number of the people in the community have studied up to the high school level. if there is more aggressive approach to health education especially in the major non-communicable diseases, then we can create a country where a large pool of people can act as the first barrier to the problem. Seeing how effective education can be at the small scale, I am convinced that if applied on the large scale then we would create a healthier nation with reduced cases of many of these diseases.

This approach also matches the framework pillars of the university and especially holism. Educating the masses on health will mean that it is not just their body that we take care when one is unwell. It promotes proactive approach in provision of the healthcare services and ensures that other aspects especially the emotional state is promoted. These people will be more comfortable in their lives knowing that they are taking the right actions to protect themselves, their families, and the communities where they belong.  

References

ODPHP. (n.d.). Diabetes | Healthy people 2020. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/diabetes

Peer 2

ln the last week I have been able to visit two women whom at the first meeting one seemed excited for the upcoming holidays. By the second time we visited she was complaining of such pain that she was unable to live her bed. Depression has become a major issue among the elderly. The isolation that has come about in relation to the COVID 19 and all the regulations for safety have in my view increased the level of  depression in an already vulnerable population. At this particular visit the lady with whom we were seeing per the primary care physician, has increased symptoms especially around the holidays. This year so far Halloween trek or treating has been cancelled in this building for the safety of the residents. Aktürk, Ü., Aktürk, S., & Erci, B. (2019), writes how depression with aging can complicate preexisting medical conditions and potentially result in increased mortality. In line with the goal of health people 2020 to improve the health , function and quality of life of  older adults , the hospice team is making Halloween baskets, and following closely with increased symptoms. The lady in this visit had her antidepressants increased . The nurse provided teaching with the caregiver for medication changes and encouraged the use of as needed medication until she starts to feel better .

Aktürk, Ü., Aktürk, S., & Erci, B. (2019). The effects of depression, personal characteristics, and some habits on physical activity in the elderly. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 55(1), 112–118. https://doi-org.su.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/ppc.12322

Institute of medicine. Committee on the Future of Health Care Workforce for older Americans . Retooling for an aging America. Washington : National Academics Press:2008

The work is about  disorders of hormonal regulation.  The following questions need to be discussed with your classmates. APA stile 4 pages minimum 10 references  2 for each question. due next Tuesday October 6. please follow the instruction carefully.

1. A patient having renal surgery suddenly develops massive hypertension and dies during surgery. An autopsy shows the presence of a pheochromocytoma. In your own words, explain how this incident might have happened, provide ten (10) bulleted points.
2. Your favorite cousin, who is 20 years old, has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He is overweight and spends most of his time playing computer games or watching television. He asks you what he should do to take care of his diabetes. As a health professional, provide ten (10) bulleted points on the advice will you give him?
3.  Your patient has just been diagnosed with SIADH. His mother is asking you what this condition is and what she should expect next. Kindly provide ten (10) bulleted points regarding what you will tell her?
4. Your patient has been admitted to the hospital in preparation for a subtotal removal of her thyroid gland to reverse her hyperthyroidism. She suddenly develops thyroid storm. What manifestations will you find? Please list at least five (5) and what is the pathophysiologic basis of thyroid storm?

***Please follow the Guidelines when completing this essay***

1) This essay MUST be 2,000-2,500 words.

2) USE the new APA 7th Edition, Please reference this guide when completing assignments 

3) USE the RUBRIC guidelines attached

 Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per DQ, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph.

·      All answers or discussions comments submitted must be in APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.) 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

·      Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.

You will be taking care of a patient in a nursing home for the first time. Your assignment is to care for an older man who has heart disease. In addition, he has five other medical problems and takes 20 medications. While developing a plan of care for this patient, you can identify 8 to 10 nursing problems. You have no previous experience with nursing homes, and most of what you have heard and read about them is negative. Will you find yourself dreading the clinical day and expecting a negative experience before you even begin?

APA Style (in text citations and reference)

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