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  Registered nurses and Advanced practice nurses, mold and shape health care and policies, in a big way. Most RNs and APRNS, join health care organizations like the American Nurses Association

(ANA), to make a big difference. Being apart of a bigger organization gives them advantage, by being with similar thinking individuals. Additionally, health care organizations are mostly inthe favor of

the nurse. With that, a  push for policy changes, would makes it more in their favor. Another way nurses make an impact, is by expressing their beliefs and ideas, at their workplace. As a nurse, you are

mostly looked as a role model. So when it comes to nursing students, or techs, they come to you for advise and help. Making them leaders and giants in their industry. With this, they can push for

change and help with hospital programs in their workplace if needed. Like helping to develop fall programs for patients, or creating a charge nurse committee for the units. 

    With these advantages, comes greater obstacles. One of the issues, would be to try and get accepted into a health careorganization. Sometimes membership fees, issues with your nursing license

in the past, or the simple fact of getting chosen, becomes burdens. Sometimes trying to become a member is not a very task and it becomes a complex process. Another issue, would be on trying to

voice your opinion at work, and not being heard. For example, what is the point of fighting for your unit, when the staff it self, only looks out for themselves and it does not make you feel like you are

part of a team. To add, having bad management leaders who only care about the unit numbers and the unit budget, would push for more tension in the workplace. Making you feel like no matter how

hard you try, you can always be replaced. 

    In order to overcome these challenges, like any good relationship, their has to be trust and above all, communication. Voicing your opinion on items or procedures you do not agree with. If you are

not heard by your own manager, then take it to upper management. Working hard to achieve your nursing license, is not worth the risk to do something that is not ethical. With it, more training for

veteran and future nurses, should be also implemented. To be given the opportunity to be aware of new changes or medications, that will affect their place of work. Additionally, having great

leadership and courage to speak up for the unit staff and the safety of patients. 

Hearing & Eye Age-Related Diseases 

After studying Module 5: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following:

• Define presbycusis, name signs and symptoms, etiology and differential diagnosis.
• Create 3 interventions-education measures with a patient with Presbycusis.
• List, define and elaborate on three different retinal and macular diseases age-related.

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your

Discuss at least 3 regulations impose in APRN in the state of Florida and would you like to change the process.

Review the following websites: https://www.ncsbn.org/Consensus_Model_for_APRN_Regulation_July_2008.pdf

American Association of Nurse Practitioners “Standards of Practice”

https://storage.aanp.org/www/documents/advocacy/position-papers/StandardsOfPractice.pdf

Review the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Write a 750‐1,000 word paper discussing the influence of the IOM report on nursing practice. Include the following:

1. Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are significant to nursing practice.
2. Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN‐prepared nurses.
3. Explain why it is important that a nurse’s role and education evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population.
4. Discuss the significance of professional development, or lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health‐illness continuum.
5. Discuss how nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system.

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. 

Deliverable 1 – Public Health Nursing Presentation

Competency

Describe the foundations of public and community health nursing.

Scenario

The faculty in your nursing program have asked senior nursing students to create an infographic to improve potential nursing students’ understanding of public and community health nursing. You are a senior nursing student who has just completed your community rotation. You are very excited to share information about the world of public and community health nursing with incoming nursing students.

Instructions

Prepare an infographic that:

· Explains the scope of the public and community health nurse’s role.

· Describes the importance of public health nursing to the community well-being.

· Illustrates the role of the public health nurse from the 1800s to present day.

· Explains how public health operations work in the local community and state-level health systems.

· Defines settings where nurses address the needs of community-based populations.

· Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the infographic.

Resources

Websites

· The US Public Health Service

. The Role of Ethics in Public Health Policy

· The American Public Health Association

Deliverable 5 – Public Health Interview Questions

Competency

Facilitate public health nursing care through collaboration with resource partners, including dissemination of relevant information.

Scenario

The preceptor wants to encourage senior nursing students to learn more about how public health nurse professionals collaborate with community-based resource partners. As a senior nursing student, you are asked to interview a public health nurse professional working in a community clinic, the health department, or a program that specifically deals with vulnerable populations.

You will need to prepare interview questions, contact a public health nurse professional to schedule the interview, perform the interview, and prepare a thank you email with a summary of the interview.

Instructions

Part One – Questions for Interview

Prepare six interview questions that identify:

· The role of the public health nurse professional in the community.

· The populations served by the organization.

· The collaboration that occurs with community-based resource partners.

3. To address the needs of specific populations.

3. To disseminate relevant information to the community.

Part Two – Interview

Conduct an interview with a public health nurse professional by:

· Scheduling the interview

1. Determine how the interview will take place (over the phone, in person, Skype, Google Hangout, or a web-conferencing tool).

1. Determine when the interview will be (date and time).

1. Documenting the responses to the interview questions and include the following contact information:

2. The full name of the public health nurse professional.

2. The name of the organization the public health nurse is employed.

2. Phone number of the organization.

2. Work email address of public health nurse professional.

Part Three – Thank You Email

Prepare a thank you email to the public health nurse professional that:

· Provides the public health nurse professional with two suggested resources for information to support their community.

· Concludes with a thank you statement and summary paragraph of the interview.

· Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the interview questions, interview responses document, and thank you email

Grading Rubric

Six interview questions contain all the criteria: the role of the public health nurse professional, populations served, the collaboration that occurs, to address the needs of specific populations, and to disseminate relevant information.

Documentation of interview contains all the criteria: the role of the public health nurse professional, populations served, the collaboration that occurs, to address the needs of specific populations, and to disseminate relevant information, including contact information.

Provided two suggested resources for information thorough alignment to the needs of the public health nurse professional’s community.

Exemplary thank you statement with comprehensive summary of interview

Provided stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the interview questions, interview responses document, and thank you email.

Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations.

For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of polices to address that issue.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected for study in Module 1.
• Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.

By Day 3 of Week 3

Post an explanation of how competing needs, such as the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients, may impact the development of policy. Then, describe any specific competing needs that may impact the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples.

By Day 6 of Week 3

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by providing additional thoughts about competing needs that may impact your colleagues’ selected issues, or additional ideas for applying policy to address the impacts described.

Assignment Description

Effective Communication

The Joint Commission reported that [poor] communication was the root cause of 66% of Sentinel Events between 1995-2005. Examine the communication and collaboration in your workplace. Include these aspects:

• The components necessary for effective interpersonal communication.
• Discuss the importance of interprofessional collaboration.
• Apply components of interpersonal communication to interprofessional collaboration.
• Discuss strategies to promote interprofessional collaboration.
• Describe effective strategies to build interprofessional teams.
• Cultural competence

Assignment Expectations:

Length: Between 1000 to 1200 words

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. You should utilize at least two scholarly sources in addition to your textbook.

Barbara receives an email from her manager asking about the progress of the strategic plan. The manager informs Barbara that UCCO is wanting to implement a new electronic health record (EHR), to improve the overall process of providing quality patient care; and organizational challenges. After her discussion, Barbara realizes that she would need to complete a situational analysis. By performing a situational analysis, planners can help anticipate and manage change. Understanding the internal and external environment is also critical to an effective strategic plan. For the external environment, planners look at opportunities and threats. For the internal environment, planners look at strengths and weaknesses.

For this project assignment on UCCO, complete a minimum of a 1-2 page report and two SWOT tables to describe key opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses in selecting an electronic record system. Your written report should address the following concepts:

Visit the Rasmussen online Library and search for a minimum of 2 articles covering the topics of electronic health record implementation. Conduct academic research using the library’s databases, like:

• CINAHL
• Discovery
• Business Source Complete via EBSCO
• Business via ProQuest
• What is the current economic situation for UCCO? What suggestions can Barbara make to help mitigate financial issues? Use the financial review provided in the UCCO case.
• What type of electronic record system should Barbara recommend for the company? What is her best option? What are the financial implications? Explain the choice based on what the system can provide in comparison to the organizational challenges?

Visit the Internet and search for a minimum of 2 electronic health record systems. Search for types of EHR systems.

To complete this assignment, construct two situational/SWOT analysis tables – one for each electronic record system being considered – that contains the following:

• External influences – opportunities and threats.
• Internal influences – strengths and weaknesses.
• Trends that can impact clinic performance, market and financial position
• EHR System fun 
• ctions and capabilities
• EHR End-user requirements and ease of use

Remember to integrate citations accurately and appropriately for all resource types; use attribution (credit) as a method to avoid plagiarism. Use NoodleBib to document your sources and to complete your APA formatted reference page and in-text citations.

To include intervention with evidence and citations as well as a reflective account on practice

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

For this assignment, groups will create a fictitious patient within the population you selected for the assignment in Topic 4 and complete the three parts of the assignment for your patient, as outlined below.

Part 1: Risk Factors, Quality Indicators, and CAM:

Identify the following regarding the health of your fictitious patient: ( Minimum 600 words and 3 references)

1. Risk factors associated with the patient’s demographics.

2. Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM).

3. Quality indicators specific to the patient.

Part 2: History and Physical ( Minimum 400 words and 2 references)

Develop a history and physical (H&P) examination for the fictitious patient chosen. In previous courses in the program, you have used this subjective, objective, assessment, and plan format to document H&P examinations. For the second part of this assignment, refer to the subjective component of an H&P to complete this assignment.

Complete the subjective component for your fictitious patient, including the following: ( 400 words)

1. The chief complaint that is the reason for admission, visit, or consult.

2. The patient’s history and present illness (HPI) for H&P, consult notes, symptom analysis, or interval history for progress notes.

3. The patient’s medical, surgical, family, social, and allergy history for H&P and consult notes.

4. Any home medications used by the patient, including dosages, route, frequency, and indications.

5. A review of systems with each system for H&P or consult note, with more than four related systems for progress note.

Part 3: Model or Plan of Care (Minimum  400 words and 2 references)

Develop a model or plan of care for the patient population pertinent to the above-mentioned patient. This could include community or health system programs as an approach or what seems appropriate. Incorporate the chronic care models:

1. Educational tools and resources.

2. Provider interaction models.

3. Electronic alerts for providers and patients.

4. Electronic connectivity between the patient population and the provider.

General Requirements

You are required to cite five to eight sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 4 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.