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• Look through several major newspapers for articles that discuss care for the elderly in the community or care for those at the end stage of a life-threatening illness. Then answer the following questions:

A) What is the role of a community health nurse in assisting families in the care of the elderly in their homes?
B) What are some of the barriers related to the initiation of home care services in communities?
C) How does living in an urban area versus a rural area affect home care services?

Article should not be older than 2015 and attach article or provide link. 1 page 

Healthy People 2020 and Nursing

Topic 1: Faith-Based Nursing

Review Healthy People 2020. Identify objectives that are amenable to parish nurse intervention.

• Describe how faith communities can contribute to the accomplishment of these national health objectives and accomplish the goal of improving the health of the public.
• How can nurses working in the community form partnerships with parish nurses and faith communities?
• How would such partnerships be beneficial?

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 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.

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

This discussion is an opportunity to compare two different persuasive speeches.  Each has its pros and cons.  

• What was the speech goal?
• What type of organizational pattern did they each use?  (Review Chapter 14 for Persuasive Speech Organizational Patterns)
  • Was it effective?
  • Why/why not? (If not, how could it be improved?)
• Which one did you like more?  Why?

Be sure to check out the rubric first so you fully understand the requirements necessary to earn a full-credit post. 

Original posts are due by the 3rd day of the week and follow up responses are due by day 7 of the course week. 

Scenario:
• Your 79, year old female patient suffered a stroke 6 months ago. She is cared for in her sister’s home. The patient is dependent for position changes. She is unable to communicate the need to be turned. She must be fed at all meals. She has a stage II pressure injury on her sacral area.

Questions:
• Develop a teaching plan for the family to ensure that the patient’s needs are met

scenario 2

Directions: Musculoskeletal
• A 72, year old man lived a fairly sedentary lifestyle as an accountant. Now that he is retired, he recognizes the need to be active to maintain his health as long as possible. He is concerned, however, that it is too late for him to start exercising because he has never engaged in such activities.

Attention Wizard Kim. 

Week 6 Discussion: Practicum professional Development Objectives/ Progress Appraisal  3 pages. 

Rubrics 

The Impact of Chronic Illness

In a Microsoft Word document of 4-5 pages formatted in APA 7 style, describe the information collected about a person with a chronic illness. Please note that the title and reference pages should not be included in the total page count of your paper.

Identify one person from the illness group you chose in Week 1 to interview (see attachment). The person should not be a patient at the facility in which you work. You can use friends, family members, or coworkers. Do not use the person’s name in the paper, only initials.

Administer the questionnaire you created in Week 1 to that person and address the following:

Compile the data and analyze the responses to better illustrate where this person, his or her family, and friends are in relation to accepting the diagnosis in relation to the standard health or illness definitions.

The analysis should also include coping skills, treatment, and support aspects of the illness.

Explain how this information will direct care plan development for the chosen illness group.

Include a copy of the interview you created with the responses from the person interviewed in an Appendix.

Support your responses with examples and information from library resources, textbook and lectures.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA 7 format. 

Please use the attached reading material to complete work.

Remember to include an open-ended follow-up question with each response. This is a required part of substantive participation that encourages further discussion.

When you post responses to your peers the response needs to be “substantive” to receive credit. Substantive posting criteria includes: Acknowledge what your peer stated (agree or disagree). Include additional information. End the post with an open-ended follow up question. This is important to encourage further discussion.

 It relates to the problem of all chronic diseases in general. Explain to your patients what chronic disease means, what the different ones are, the risk factors, and ways to prevent them from getting one or more. There are national statistics on the problem of chronic disease you can share. 

 THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT ABOUT ONE CHRONIC DISEASE! 

This is NOT a Research Project but a Quality Improvement Project 

TOPIC: Impact of Medication Administration Errors on 3-4-Year-old Leukemia Patients 

This week’s post will focus on Chapter Three. Please address the areas below in your discussion post this week. Please write at least five concise statement discussing the content in this area. Spelling and grammar will be reviewed and graded. Note: When you write the chapters, adhere to the Proposal Paper requirements.

Population and Sample Selection: This section discusses the setting, total population, project population, and project sample. The discussion of the sample includes the project terminology specific to the type of sampling for the project.

Instrumentation or Sources of Data: This section describes, in detail, all data collection instruments and sources (tests, questionnaires, interviews, databases, media, etc.); the specific instrument or source to collect data for each variable or group (quantitative project).

Validity and Reliability: This section provides specific validity statistics for quantitative instruments, identifying how they were developed, and explains how validity will be addressed during data collection approaches. This section provides specific reliability statistics for quantitative instruments, identifying how the statistics were developed, and explains how reliability will be addressed during data collection approaches.

Data Collection Procedures: Describe the step-by-step procedures used to carry out all the major steps for data collection for the project in a way that would allow another investigator to replicate the project. Can say Step 1, Step 2, Step 3…

Data Analysis Procedures: This section provides a description of how the data will be collected and organized for each variable or group; a description of the type of data to be analyzed, identifying the descriptive, inferential, or nonstatistical analyses; a description of how the raw data will be organized and prepared for analysis; and a step-by-step description of the procedures used to conduct the data analysis.

Ethical Considerations: This section discusses the potential ethical issues surrounding the DPI project, as well as how human subjects and data will be protected. It identifies how any potential ethical issues will be addressed.

Limitations: This section discusses, in detail, the limitations related to the project approach and methodology and the potential impacts on the results.