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1. While the title of this course is “Medical Terminology for Health Care Professionals,” it’s important to understand that medical terminology encompasses different terms outside of what is typically thought of as body systems. For this assignment, refer to your textbook, weekly resources, and the Business Side of Healthcare Infographic.

   Identify 10 terms that are important for all healthcare professionals to understand.

   Explain these 10 terms in a way a non-medical person could understand.

   Write a 500- to 750-word summary that describes the importance of understanding and using appropriate health care medical terminology in your current or future career.APA format
   Cite any peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your assignment.

   Submit your assignment.

   Resources

   • Center for Writing Excellence
   • Reference and Citation Generator
   • Grammar and Writing Guides

Complete a course project on your approved chosen topic and discuss how you would improve the patient outcome in your targeted population, including all relevant criteria as listed in the rubric below. 

*** My topic of choice is Patient-centered in relation to death and dying/Hospice****

*** Please see attached file for assignment details. 

Mrs. Cason brings her 10-year-old child to the clinic stating my son “just isn’t breathing right, he doesn’t want to play, he just sits on my lap or lays on the couch, and this happens all the time.” Appearance of both mother and child is disheveled. The child’s wheezing can be heard across the room. When asked if her son is better at any certain time of the day the mother responds: “It’s like this all the time and has been for the past year, we just don’t come to the doctor because we don’t have any money.”

Mrs. Cason’s son was diagnosed of asthma.

• Discuss short and long term treatment options for this child, inhaled beta2-adrenergic agonists. Include rationale for your recommendations.
• What is your educational plan for the child?

Two (2) posts are required for week 13 Discussion Board 1 initial and 1 reply. All posts must be supported by peer-reviewed references within 5 years of publication. 

Instructions

Develop: Newspaper Article

Evaluation Title: Newspaper Article

Knowing the stories behind the people in World War II, write a newspaper article of from the perspective of one of the people during that time.

• You can choose to write from the perspective of one of the following characters:
  • a German soldier
  • a Japanese-American citizen
  • a Russian soldier
  • an American woman working to support the troops
  • a British citizen living in London during the bombings, or
  • a Government Official making decisions about their country’s activity in the war
• What do you want the rest of the world to know about your experience as that person during WWII?
• Explain why you think the way you do as that person.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

This week’s first assignment is STEP 3 – Literature Review and Critical Appraisal.

The student will complete the following items and submit a Word doc to the assignment link. 

1. Provide a title that conveys or describes the assignment.
2. Literature Review – Provide the key terms used to guide the search for the evidence and provide at least five (5) summaries of research studies to support the evidence.
3. Critical Appraisal of Literature – Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence, what is known from the evidence and any gaps in knowledge from the research evidence.
4. References – Cite a minimum of five scholarly references in APA 6th ed format.
5. 4-5 PAGES

Expectations

• Format: Completed paper with references in APA 7th ed. format
• File name: Save the file with Student First Name_Last Name_Part 3  

(PICOT Question;

For elderly patients above 60 years with pressure ulcers (P), will negative pressure wound therapy (I) as opposed to standard moist wound therapy (C) improve the healing of the pressure ulcer (O) during their two-week stay at the hospital (T)?)

IMPORTANT NOTICE

See attached paper as it has everything you are to do in this paper and you MUST use the Critical Analysis article to guide you in your analysis that is also attached; the EBP pyramid paper also attached.

• Use the paper you submitted in week 5 (part 2) as this may reflect what you will do for your capstone project. In this version of that paper, you are to do the following: (PUT THE PAPER IN A WORD DOCUMENT NOT PDF and NO APA templates as edits cannot be made to help you learn in either format)
  • Make sure your title page is accurate with a proper title of the project, your name, US University, MSN 563, your faculty name
• Title the first section on page one: Introduction –
  • Restate the CON approved list of subjects
  • Restate your PICOT question
  • Then you MUST give a one to two paragraph discussion of the key terms you used to guide the search for the evidence and the search engines you used to obtain the articles you will discuss.
• Title the next section Critical Analysis of Five Research Articles: all articles have to be within the last 5 years of publication
  • then present summaries of five (5) of the research studies you used to support your project and use the appraisal criteria below to do this part of the paper.
    • Title of the article and the journal
    • Author and Date of publication – has to be within the past 5 years to be used as evidence
    • Type of article published: systematic review, meta-analysis, random clinical trials, cohort studies, etc
    • EBP pyramid level of evidence (Ranks are levels I – VII)
    • Include what was the purpose, process, and outcomes of that research
    • Was the study appropriate and valuable to improve health
    • Who were the participants, how many, was a power analysis done to determine if statistical analysis should be performed
    • Was randomization or volunteer, or specific sample selection used
    • If a systematic review or meta-analysis, how did the authors determine what articles to choose to review?
    • What was the intervention?
    • Were the instruments used to analyze the data valid and reliable
    • What were the results? This includes the stats findings
    • What were the strengths and weaknesses of the published article?
    • This includes the EBP pyramid, the instruments reliability/validity, sample size, type of analysis done, results, limitations, etc
    • Did the strengths or weaknesses predominate and should the article be used to support your project and practice change?
    • Just because it is a level 1 on the EBP pyramid does not mean that it is a quality paper

 Title the next section: Summary of What is Known

• In this section discuss what is known from the evidence you presented and identify any gaps in knowledge from the research evidence you discussed.
• Give a closing statement

References – Cite a minimum of five scholarly references in APA 6th ed format. (7th edition is OK if that is what you have been using). This MUST be in proper APA format.

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 Write a 3-4 page paper describing an evidence-based quality improvement project, based on your PICOT question, and your organization (page count does not include title and reference pages).

1. Structure the paper as follows:
   1. Create a title page.
   2. Introduce your topic to the reader.  Tell why the clinical issue or patient outcome needs to be improved.
      1. Why is current practice in the area of interest being questioned? (provide data)
      2. State your PICOT question, and describe what makes up the P, the I, the C, the O, and the T parts of it.
      3. Define the purpose of the project (connect the evidence and the project). What is going to be studied/addressed? Why?
   3. The next several sections (use headings and subheadings as appropriate)  should address the following points. Use the evidence that you have gathered so far from the research studies you reviewed in Modules 2 and 3.
      1. Summarize the evidence with a focus on implications for practice (from the 10 articles you reviewed in Modules 2 and 3). This section will look similar to a review of the literature that you have seen in the research studies you have analyzed.
      • Indicate how the research studies are applicable to the project
      • Identify how similar methods might be applied to this project to be successful
      • Identify who will be involved in the study.
      • What is the process for getting this project/study approved for implementation?
      • Describe who would need to know about the project. Does approval need to be received from the institutional review board (IRB)? When do the person/people need to know? How will the person/people be informed?
   4. Assume that this project/study was proposed to be done at your place of employment.
   5. Describe the process for including stakeholders
   6. Define baseline data collection sources (such as existing datasets, electronic health records, etc.), methods (questionnaires, observation) and measures (how will the results be evaluated). What will be needed to conduct the study?
   7. Define the post-project outcome indicator of a successful project (i.e., how would those doing the project, or researchers, know if the project were successful)?
   8. Summarize the proposed project/study.
   9. Include a reference page in APA format.

Work with your preceptor to perform a needs assessment of the organization and community for your practicum. Review the needs assessment to identify possible project topics. In preparation for the capstone change project proposal, compile a list of three to five possible topics for your project and submit to the assignment instructor in LoudCloud.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 QUESTION

After sharing information about the e-intensive care unit (E-ICU) concept to a nurse who is new to the setting, the nurse asks how the system can affect the quality and improve safety of patient care. How should you respond? 

NOTE: Focus on how E-ICU affects the quality and improve safety of patient care.

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.