Weeks 7 and 8 Creating an Informatics System to Help Improve Patient Outcomes Presentation

 

You are working on a busy clinical unit, and you and your peers have identified a new informatics system that may improve patient outcomes on the unit. At the end of the busy day, you and your peers approach your nursing care manager to explain your ideas. The nursing care manager is excited about your ideas and suggests you first review the literature for evidence to support your idea.

Within the presentation, you should include the following:

  • Identify the type of informatics system you envision being used on your unit to improve patient outcomes and nursing processes.
  • Complete a brief five article literature review on your suggested system.
  • Develop a brief abstract on your suggested system utilizing your evidenced-based research.
  • Estimate the cost of the system and implementation needs for the system.
  • Conclude with a thorough explanation of your expectations for the improvement to patient outcomes and nursing processes that you foresee occurring as a result of implementation of your suggested system.

healthcare programs within the nursing practice

As their names imply, the honeyguide bird and the honey badger both share an affinity for honey. Honeyguide birds specialize in finding beehives but struggle to access the honey within. Honey badgers are well-equipped to raid beehives but cannot always find them. However, these two honey-loving species have learned to collaborate on an effective means to meet their objectives. The honeyguide bird guides honey badgers to newly discovered hives. Once the honey badger has ransacked the hive, the honey guide bird safely enters to enjoy the leftover honey.

Much like honeyguide birds and honey badgers, nurses and health professionals from other specialty areas can—and should—collaborate to design effective programs. Nurses bring specialties to the table that make them natural partners to professionals with different specialties. When nurses take the requisite leadership in becoming involved throughout the healthcare system, these partnerships can better design and deliver highly effective programs that meet objectives.

In this Assignment, you will practice this type of leadership by advocating for a healthcare program. Equally as important, you will advocate for a collaborative role of the nurse in the design and implementation of this program. To do this, assume you are preparing to be interviewed by a professional organization/publication regarding your thoughts on the role of the nurse in the design and implementation of new healthcare programs.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and reflect on your thinking regarding the role of the nurse in the design and implementation of new healthcare programs.
  • Select a healthcare program within your practice and consider the design and implementation of this program.
  • Reflect on advocacy efforts and the role of the nurse in relation to healthcare program design and implementation.

The Assignment: (2–4 pages)

In a 2- to 4-page paper, create an interview transcript of your responses to the following interview questions:

  • Tell us about a healthcare program, within your practice. What are the costs and projected outcomes of this program?
  • Who is your target population?
  • What is the role of the nurse in providing input for the design of this healthcare program? Can you provide examples?
  • What is your role as an advocate for your target population for this healthcare program? Do you have input into design decisions? How else do you impact design?
  • What is the role of the nurse in healthcare program implementation? How does this role vary between design and implementation of healthcare programs? Can you provide examples?
  • Who are the members of a healthcare team that you believe are most needed to implement a program? Can you explain why?

Module 5 SBAR

 

The course project in Module 05 is a further examination of a technique that is commonly used for improving communication among team members and patients and develop solutions to solve problems to improve organizational function and patient experience.  It is called SBAR and stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation.

Read through the scenario below and you are required to provide a minimum of 3-5 sentences of each section of SBAR and should be free of spelling and grammatical errors. References are not required but if used, must be cited in proper APA citation format.

Scenario

As a medical administrative assistant working at a healthcare clinic you have noticed in the last month there is an increasing number of patients checking out after their visit unsure of when they should schedule their next visit.  This causes you to have to track down a healthcare member from that patient’s healthcare team to determine when the patient needs to reschedule their next appointment.  This process takes time, added effort and a delay in assisting other patients along with decreasing the patient’s overall experience.   

Utilizing the SBAR technique, discuss how communication can be improved between the front desk and healthcare team members along with how this issue can be resolved. 

You are required to provide a minimum of 3-5 sentences for each section of SBAR and your submission should be free of spelling and grammatical errors. References are not required but if used, must be cited in proper APA citation format.  Please download the following assignment template to complete your SBAR assessment:

Module 05 Course Project Template. (Attached below)

Nursing Ethics – case study – Nurse background only

Present clinical situation that led to Ethics Team consult with the following scenario: Elderly 85 year old disoriented male patient with end stage lung cancer, is septic, has low blood pressure only maintained by pressers for an extended period of time, and family insisted on intensive care. The patient full code, and still undergoing invasive procedure. 

2 pages

Nursing Leadership

1-Do you think it is important for nurses to be involved in their professional organizations? Why or why not?

2. The Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) has been both praised and vilified. Debate the pros and cons of this legislation and of health-care reform in general. 

3. What is your vision of nursing’s future? How will you contribute to shaping it? 

4. Interview a nurse educated in a diploma program at least 20 years ago.

a-How did that nurse’s education differ from your education today? 

5. Locate the website of a professional organization related to nursing. Bring a copy of the organization’s mission, membership criteria, and standards of practice. 

6. Ask five people of different ages and gender who do not work in the health-care field what they think most nurses do. Compile their answers with the answers your classmates collected and summarize them. Compare the summary to what you know nurses actually do.

a-Were the answers realistic? 

b-Did they over- or underestimate the responsibilities most nurses have?

c-Did they recognize the wide variety of things nurses do?

d-Was there a difference by age or gender of the person answering the question?

e-What do the results tell you about the public’s image of nursing? 

f-What do you think influences their image the most? Explain your answer.

7. Describe the nurse of the future.

a-What does he or she do?

b-Do you think nursing will become a more powerful force in health care?

c-Why or why not? 

Rivaroxaban Powerpoint

I need a powerpoint presentation put together. I’m providing all the information for the slides i just need someone to do it for me.

Here is the format for the slides:

 Contain content addressing the items below.

  1. Pharmacotheraputics
    1. State the drug name and its therapeutic category
    2. Pharmacodynamics (how does this drug work to achieve its intended response)
    3. Pharmacokinetics (how is this drug absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted).
    4. Discuss dosage, scheduling, route, and length of therapy.
    5. Describe what clients can expect regarding their therapeutic response and when it should develop
    6. Introduce nondrug measures that clients can do to enhance their therapeutic response (e.g., specific diet to follow, exercise requirements, substances to avoid, special precautions to take, etc.)
  2. Side Effects, Adverse Effects, and Interactions
    1. Explain the symptoms of common side effects, and what clients can do to minimize any discomfort
    2. Explain the symptoms of any major adverse effects, and what clients should do if they experience them
    3. List the major adverse drug-drug interactions and drug-food interactions that clients need to be made aware of
  3. Follow-up Care
    1. Provide information regarding when clients should call their doctor for advice (e.g., questions, non-urgent symptoms, unpleasant side effects, etc.)
    2. Emphasize any symptoms for which clients should seek immediate care (e.g., when to go to the emergency center or call 911)

 Use the Speaker Notes feature in PowerPoint to reduce the amount of text that appears on the content slides.

  • The Speaker Notes for each slide will contain the text that will guide what the trainer will say while presenting the slides during the in-service.
  • The content slides themselves should be clear and easy to understand; they serve as an outline so the audience can follow along with what is being presented.

Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 3: Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics

 

The Assignment:

Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1 and expanded in Module 2, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

  • Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
  • Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
  • Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
  • Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
  • Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

  • identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your: (1) academic work as a student of the MSN program and (2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.