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After working with your preceptor to assess organizational policies, create a list of measurable outcomes for your capstone project intervention. Write a list of three to five outcomes for your proposed intervention. Below each outcome, provide a one or two sentence rationale.

The assignment will be used to develop a written implementation plan.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

unit 2 question and answer 

Week 3: Paper #1 Due

The older population in the United States is becoming more ethnically and racially diverse. In addition to racial and ethnic diversity, there will be growing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons entering their senior years who will present a unique set of challenges. The growing diversity of the older population presents challenges for gerontological nursing in providing culturally competent care.

Essential to the provision of culturally competent care is an understanding of:

• The experiences of individuals of similar ethnic or racial background
• Beliefs, values, traditions, and practices of various ethnic and racial groups
• Unique health-related needs, experiences, and risks of various ethnic and racial groups and persons of similar sexual orientation
• One’s own attitudes and beliefs toward people of various ethnic and racial groups and persons of similar sexual orientation, as well as those attitudes of co-practitioners
• Language barriers that can affect the ability of patients to communicate health-related information, understand instructions, provide informed consent, and fully participate in their care

Your assignment is to write a 2-3 page paper choosing one of the following groups of older adults and address how you will provide cultural care for this group or the individual:

•          Hispanic Americans

•          Black Americans

•          Asian Americans

•          Jewish Americans

•          Muslim Americans

•          Native Americans

•          Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender 

• Paper should be in APA format
• Length: 2-3 pages in length EXCLUDING the title and reference pages
• Paper #1 due Sunday, November 15 by 11:59 pm EST

Review your problem or issue and the study materials to formulate a PICOT question for your capstone project change proposal. A PICOT question starts with a designated patient population in a particular clinical area and identifies clinical problems or issues that arise from clinical care. The intervention used to address the problem must be a nursing practice intervention. Include a comparison of the nursing intervention to a patient population not currently receiving the nursing intervention, and specify the timeframe needed to implement the change process.  Formulate a PICOT question using the PICOT format (provided in the assigned readings) that addresses the clinical nursing problem.

The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project change proposal.

In a paper of 500-750 words, clearly identify the clinical problem and how it can result in a positive patient outcome.

Describe the problem in the PICOT question as it relates to the following:

1. Evidence-based solution
2. Nursing intervention
3. Patient care
4. Health care agency
5. 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.

INSTRUCTIONS TO FOLLOW FOR THIS PAPER:

TOPIC: FACILITATING HAND-OFFS: IMPROVING COMMUNICATION IN THE PACU (POST ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT); THIS IS THE PROBLEM/ISSUE TO HELP FORMULATE A PICOT QUESTION ; (P) – Population refers to the sample of subjects you wish to recruit for your study. There may be a fine balance between defining a sample that is most likely to respond to your intervention (e.g. no co-morbidity) and one that can be generalized to patients that are likely to be seen in actual practice.

• (I) – Intervention refers to the treatment that will be provided to subjects enrolled in your study.
• (C) – Comparison identifies what you plan on using as a reference group to compare with your treatment intervention. Many study designs refer to this as the control group. If an existing treatment is considered the ‘gold standard’, then this should be the comparison group.
• (O) – Outcome represents what result you plan on measuring to examine the effectiveness of your intervention. 
• (T) – Time describes the duration for your data collection.

PLEASE ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

PLEASE FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS

PAPER NEEDS TO BE IN APA FORMAT

ALL REFERENCES NEED TO BE CITED AND WITHIN THE LAST 5 YEARS

Reflection Paper

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. 

Minimum of 250 words with at least one peer review reference in 7th edition apa style

 Analyze leadership strengths, personality characteristics, and leadership effectiveness.  

Change. See attached

Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:

1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing.
3. Reflect on your overall state of health. B. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. C. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
4. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. B. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).

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.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assesses the following competency:

RN-BSN

For this three-part assessment you will create a histogram or bar graph for a data set, perform assumption and correlation tests, and interpret your graphic and test results in a 2-to-3 page paper.

In this unit we focus on whether two or more groups have important differences on a single variable of interest. For example, for the dependent variable stress score, we may want to know if there is a difference in stress between males and females, or maybe we would like to know if there is a difference in stress levels between people who drink chamomile tea and those who do not, or maybe we would like to determine if a group of expectant parents is less anxious (this is the dependent variable) about the birthing experience after a series of discussions with experienced parents. In each of these examples we have two groups (two groups being compared or the same group being compared before and after), and one dependent variable that is being compared in each group. In this unit you will begin exploring popular statistical techniques (and their assumptions) that are used to compare two or more groups.

The independent t-test, also called unpaired t-test, is typically used in health care to compare two groups of individuals that are entirely unrelated to each other (that is, independent), thus the one group cannot influence the other group. For example, we may wish to compare a drug treatment group to a control group (those not receiving drug treatment) for a specific clinical characteristic (dependent variable) that can be measured at the interval or ratio level (such as cholesterol, depression scale, or memory test).

The dependent t-test, also called paired t-test, compares two groups for a dependent variable measured at the interval or ratio level as well; however, these two groups are in reality just one group. But because they are measured before and after an intervention, we consider them as two groups for analytical purposes. This group is considered dependent because nothing is expected to vary in the nature of the individuals being measured except as a result of the intervention, as the group is composed of the same individuals.

Overview

One of the most important steps along the researcher’s path to data analysis is to become familiar with the character of the raw data collected for the project. Before weaving the strands of data into an analytical story that is related to a study’s goals, researchers typically inspect the completeness and quality of the data with various visualization techniques (graphics), summary tables, and mathematical tests of quality (assumption tests), as discussed in Assessment 2. One of these latter tests is a correlation analysis. With this approach, the researcher performs a very basic series of exploratory tests on variable pairs to identify any potentially interesting (yet unknown) relationships between groups of data (variables). Correlational analyses are often later performed as part of the predetermined data analysis plan to answer a specific research question.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment you will address the following scoring guide criteria, which align to the indicated course competencies.

• Competency 1: Describe underlying concepts and reasoning related to the collection and evaluation of quantitative data in health care research. 
  • Interpret the overall clinical meaning and limitations of the relationship of two variables, based on a correlation analysis and literature regarding age and stress.
• Competency 2: Apply appropriate statistical methods using common software tools in the collection and evaluation of health care data. 
  • Create a histogram and scatter plot for variables tested for normal distribution.
  • Perform a normal distribution assumption test for two variables to determine if data is normally distributed.
  • Perform an appropriate correlation test to determine the direction and strength or magnitude of the relationship between two variables.
• Competency 3: Interpret the results and practical significance of statistical health care data analyses. 
  • Interpret the effect size for correlation analysis results.
• Competency 5: Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences. 
  • Articulate meaning relevant to the main topic, scope, and purpose of the prompt. 
  • Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.

Instructions

For this three-part assessment, complete the following, referring to Yoga Stress (PSS) Study Data Set [XLSX], which you have used previously, as needed.

Software

The following statistical analysis software is required to complete your assessments in this course:

• IBM SPSS Statistics Standard or Premium GradPack, version 22 or higher, for PC or Mac.

You have access to the more robust IBM SPSS Statistics Premium GradPack.

Please refer to the Statistical Software page on Campus for general information on SPSS software, including the most recent version made available to Capella learners.

Part 1: Graphic Representation of the Data from the Yoga Stress (PSS) Study Data Set

1. Create a histogram or bar graph (according to the measurement level of the data) of the following variables: Age, Education, Pre-intervention Psychological Stress Score (PSS). 
   • Refer to the following resources as needed while creating your histogram: 
     • SPSS Tutorials. (n.d.). What is a histogram? Retrieved from https://www.spss-tutorials.com/histogram-what-is-it/
     • SPSS Tutorials. (n.d.). Creating histograms in SPSS. Retrieved from https://www.spss-tutorials.com/creating-histograms-in-spss/
     • Creating Histograms in SPSS.
2. Create a scatter plot of the following pair of variables: Age versus Pre-intervention Psychological Stress Score (PSS). 
   • Refer to the following resources, as needed, while creating your scatterplot: 
     • Displaying Relationships: Scatterplot.
     • Interpreting Scatterplots.

Part 2: Statistical Tests

1. Perform a preanalysis assumption test for a normal distribution test to determine if the data you intend to use for the correlation tests passes the assumption of being normally distributed. 
   • You will use this test for Age and Pre-intervention Psychological Stress Score (PSS).
2. Perform the appropriate correlation test to determine the direction and strength or magnitude of the relationship between these two variables from Step 1. 
   • Remember, we are not concerned about causation at this point and want to determine only if there is a statistical association.

Part 3: Yoga Stress (PSS) Study Paper

• Include the histogram and scatter plot graphics you created earlier for Age and Pre-intervention Psychological Stress Score (PSS). 
  • Provide an interpretation for these graphics.
• Report the statistical outcome of the correlation analysis using appropriate scholarly style, including a brief interpretation of the effect size of the correlation.
• Interpret the practical, real-world meaning (and limitations of the interpretation) of the relationship of these two variables based on the correlation analysis you performed.
• Include the SPSS “.sav” output file that shows your programming and results from Parts 1 and 2 for this assessment.
• Provide at least one evidence-based scholarly or peer-reviewed article that supports your interpretation.

Number 1

1. Describe at least five populations who are vulnerable to PTSD

2. What are eight DSM5 criteria for PTSD

3. Describe possible signs and symptoms a client experiencing PTSD could exhibit

4. Describe at least five triggers and how they can be manifested in client experiencing PTSD

5. Describe five treatment options for clients experiencing PTSD

Number 2

1) Describe some day to day challenges that face people who are voice hearers

2) Explain the subjective experience of hearing voices that are disturbing

3) Describe cultural humility for people who hear distressing voices through self-reflection, self-awareness and self-critique

4) What other conditions can stimulate or trigger hearing voices in the mind?