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Thesis Statement/Annotated Bibliography for the Structured Controversy assignment. Write the current pandemic ( COVID 19), how it affects immunocompromised individuals, what are the main immune system disorder it affects, and why and what population it mostly affects. Find 6 sources and summarize each source in one paragraph. Make sure to include a proper APA citation.         

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:

1. Describe the application of statistics in health care. Specifically discuss its significance to quality, safety, health promotion, and leadership.
2. 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.

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.

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Healthy Chicago 2025 Reflection Activity

Please click on link below to view the Healthy Chicago 2025 Campaign Launch. Please view entire session and answer the following reflection questions. 

https://live.avchicago.com/HealthyChicago2025/

Healthy Chicago gives us a look at how all of us can have a voice in creating a healthier city. Change happens when we make healthy choices as a society. Looking at health in a broad sense is what public health is about. Everything impacts a person’s health: housing, education, income, community design, transportation, and the environment. Healthy Chicago 2025 discussed a life expectancy gap between black and white residents of almost nine years. We have to evaluate what are the reasons for this gap and how we as health care providers can assist to change it. Together, we can change the direction of health in America.

1. Why would it be important to gather information from a variety of people –different backgrounds, different economic status, different age groups, when we are discussing “What makes a healthier Chicago?” 

2. List some barriers to having good health, equitable health care in the city of Chicago?

3. What was a topic that the panel shared that impressed you?

4. Were you surprised about the life expectancy rates in the city of Chicago?

5. In the video they mentioned, Logan Square Neighborhood Association. What if any neighborhood organization are you familiar with? What is the purpose of a neighborhood organization in a community?

 

Environmentalism and Moral Concern for Animals

Many believe that we are in serious trouble today as human beings plunging headlong into a major climate crisis on planet earth. 

Our course eText on Environmental Ethics states the following:

There is no denying that the global climate is changing, as the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased during the past century.  … Coastlines are crumbling as the climate changes and sea levels rise… storms are increasing in severity … the Arctic ice cap is melting… (MacKinnon, 427). 

But what’s causing these troubling changes?  We are.  MacKinnon again:

Some skeptics dispute whether the changes are entirely man-made, but the vast majority of experts believe one of the major causes of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels … (MacKinnon, 428). 

And the human disregard for nature also means disregard for all species of animals that depend on livable natural habitats.  Entire species today are threatened with immanent extinction.  Writing in 2016, MacKinnon says “687 animal species are listed as either endangered or threatened.”  That number has risen drastically since 2016, leading some scientists to conclude that we are in the midst of a global mass extinction of animal species.

The following video link and quoted material provide: 1) a summary of a U.N. Climate Change Report from 2019 (the video), and 2) an explanation of the meaning of speciesism as Dr. Richard Ryder first used it (the quotation ).  After reviewing these, please respond to the discussion questions listed below.

U.N. Climate Change Report: LINK (Links to an external site.)

On Dr. Richard Ryder’s use of the term speciesism (which term the moral philosopher Peter Singer later made more popular):

“The view that only humans are morally considered is sometimes referred to as ‘speciesism’. In the 1970s, Richard Ryder coined this term while campaigning in Oxford to denote a ubiquitous type of human centered prejudice, which he thought was similar to racism. He objected to favoring one’s own species, while exploiting or harming members of other species” (Gruen, Lori, “The Moral Status of Animals”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 2017 Edition, Edward N. Zalta, ed., URL = LINK (Links to an external site.)).

Discussion Questions (please address both 1 and 2).

[1] How does the hearing of this U.N. report on the climate crisis affect you, your values, your sense of the world and its future?   What human beliefs or values today will more likely prevent needed changes in our way of life, methods of production, or government policies?  And what beliefs or values will more likely lead to the kind of changes needed to address the climate crisis?

[2] Do you think humans are biased against animals, as moral philosophers like Peter Singer express with the term speciesism, and do you think this speciesism is comparable to other human biases such as racism, as Richard Ryder claimed in the 1970s?  Why or why not? 

reparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.

  

Referring to chapter 29 of the attached textbook on Natural and manmade disasters. Respond to the questions regarding natural and manmade disasters. 

1. 200 words – What social and cultural factors need to be considered in disaster planning in your community?

2. 200 words – Describe the various vulnerable population within the community setting (for example: homeless, imprisoned, mobility impaired)? 

3. 200 words – Describe the disproportion within vulnerable population… What special needs do they have? 

4. 200 words- If evacuation of the community is mandated, have plans for evacuation of these groups been developed? Give examples of these organizations involved and how they assist these special groups ?(who plan for evacuation during disasters) For example FEMA. 

5. 200 words- Provide a summary of the article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646456/.

6. 200 words-  What are key factors that community health nurses should consider when responding to disaster management for vulnerable population? 

Essay should be in APA format with subheadings corresponding to each question. Include at least 5 reference.

 

Students are required to submit weekly reflective narratives throughout the course that will culminate in a final, course-long reflective journal due in Topic 10. The narratives help students integrate leadership and inquiry into current practice.

This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week students should also explain how they met a course competency or course objective(s).

In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the course. Journal entries should address one or more of the areas stated below.  In the Topic 10 graded submission, each of the areas below should be addressed as part of the summary submission.

1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

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The comprehensive integrated psychiatric assessment of a child or adolescent consists of gathering information from not only the child but from several sources, most notably the family members, caregivers, and the child’s teacher or school counselor. Because of this, the diagnostic assessment becomes more complicated. Issues of confidentiality, privacy, and consent must be addressed. Also, the PMHNP must take into consideration the impact of culture on the child.

In this Discussion, you review and critique the techniques and methods of a mental health professional as he or she completes a comprehensive integrated psychiatric assessment of an adolescent.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Evaluate comprehensive integrated psychiatric assessment techniques
• Recommend assessment questions

To Prepare for the Discussion:

• Review the Learning Resources concerning the comprehensive integrated psychiatric assessment.
• Watch the Mental Status Examination video.
• Watch the two YMH Bostonvideos.

 

Based on the YMH Boston Vignette 4 video, post answers to the following questions:

• What did the practitioner do well?
• In what areas can the practitioner improve?
• At this point in the clinical interview, do you have any compelling concerns? If so, what are they?
• What would be your next question, and why?

 

Supportive Psychotherapy versus Interpersonal Psychotherapy

With the rising cases of mental disorders, there has been an increasing urge for healthcare providers to assess the efficacy of the approaches used in psychotherapy. This is intended to help in the identification of the strategy that will be effective in assisting patients who are suffering from psychiatric disorders. Two of the common approaches that are used in helping the patients is supportive psychotherapy and interpersonal psychotherapy. Herein, this paper will seek to discuss the similarities of the approaches, the differences, and the effective strategy that could be selected for helping patients. 

How supportive and interpersonal psychotherapies are similar

Both supportive psychotherapy and interpersonal psychotherapy are important and seek to bring therapeutic impact to the patients who have psychiatric disorders. Whiting et al. (2019) argue that the use of supportive psychotherapy by a healthcare provider is intended to help in the enhancement of the adaptive and health patterns of the patients with the objective of reducing the cases of intrapsychic conflict. The interpersonal approach as well seeks to resolve the interpersonal problems that a patient may have. These intend to help the patient in attaining a healthy state if thinking. 

Three differences between these therapies and how these differences might impact practice as a mental health counselor

One of the differences is that the use of supportive approach involves the adherence to a time-limited approach that is structured and takes three to four months but the supportive approach is not structured and makes use of a combination of cognitive behavior and conceptual approach. The focus of the supportive approach is to ensure that the patient is able to have an improved standard of health while interpersonal approach aims at identifying and bringing a resolution to a problem that has prevailed. This infers that there will be a need for the therapists to have an evaluation of the relational aspects of psychiatric disorder patients (Bombardier et al., 2019). 

The therapeutic approach that might be used with clients and why

The therapeutic approach that will be useful in this case will be the interpersonal approach. I prefer to make use of this approach as a nurse therapist in addressing the challenges that are presented by patients with psychiatric disorders. This is attributed to the fact that the approach puts stress on the importance of interpersonal relationships. Psychiatric disorders as per Marrie et al. (2015) are mainly developed by lack of an effective interpersonal relationship. Along these lines, tackling the issue will help in resolving the issue of the patients. The selection is as well attributed to the fact that in considering interpersonal relationships one is able to consider the issues of mood changes and the behavioral changes of a patient which are the main aspects that contribute to psychiatric disorders. 

 

Vital Signs
1. You are a nurse caring for a 58-year-old ironworker who has been admitted to your unit with acute hypertension. He became extremely symptomatic at work and was brought to your emergency department (ED) via ambulance. After receiving a report from the ED nurse, he is brought to your unit asymptomatic (other than his BP of 178/106) and seems in good spirits. After completing his admission paperwork, he settles in and awaits his health care provider. Four hours later, you answer his call light and he reports headache (rated 6 on a 0-to-10 scale) and dizziness. 
a. Outline the pertinent information within this case study.
b. How often would you expect to measure the patient’s vital signs based on his history?
c. What would be your first intervention upon his reporting increased symptoms? Include rationale.
d. What is the patient’s pulse pressure?
e. Describe risk factors that could be contributing to your patient’s hypertension.
2. As a nurse in a critical care unit, your newest admission is a 24-year-old victim of a motor vehicle accident (MVA). Report from the OR nurse indicates that the patient has several surgically repaired fractures, a closed head injury, and elevated temperature. Additionally, he has IV fluid running postoperatively and dressing changes scheduled every shift. The patient is intermittently alert and disoriented, with his pain adequately controlled by IV analgesics. 
a. Outline the pertinent information within this case study.
b. What factors could be causing the patient’s elevated body temperature?
c. Why is determining the fever’s cause important?
d. Indicate areas that are important to monitor in a patient with elevated body temperature.
e. Describe cause-specific interventions useful in treating the patient’s elevated body temperature.

PLEASE, answer each question in order and separately. PLEASE,  this is the bibliography( Chapter 29-30).
1.Potter, P.A., &Perry, A. G. (2017). Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice (9th ed.). St. Louis: MO:  Mosby. ISBN: 9780323327404