CPG Related to Prescribing Medication Collaboration Cafe’

 Choose a clinical condition from the list below that is applicable to your practice area or clinical interests. Assess the linked clinical practice guideline (CPG) related to prescribing medications for clients with that condition and respond to the following questions.   Mine is Hypertension

 Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.

  1. Briefly summarize the condition you selected and your rationale for selecting it.
  2. Describe the prescribing recommendations from the CPG and how these could impact pediatric, pregnant, and older adult populations considering pharmacokinetic principles.
  3. Discuss how you could apply the clinical guidelines to your future practice.
  4. In considering the summary from this articleLinks to an external site., review the strengths and weaknesses of the CPG you selected and discuss how the graded evidence may influence your practice as a clinician.

Applying Ethical Principles

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For this assessment, you will apply the four ethical principles to your healthcare topic (selected in Assessment 2), explain bias as it relates to your topic, and relate at least one of the Four Spheres of Care. Consider the ethical dilemmas healthcare professionals are faced with in your selected topic. Discuss at least one of the Four Spheres of Care and how it is important to understand the ethics of your topic as it relates to the sphere being discussed. Use the Capella University Library to locate at least two academic peer-reviewed journal articles you can use to support your analysis of the situation.

Use the four core principles that healthcare professionals need to know and honor when helping patients:

  • Autonomy: To honor the patient’s right to make their own decisions.
  • Beneficence: To help the patient advance their own good.
  • Nonmaleficence: To do no harm.
  • Justice: To be fair and treat like cases alike, which will be used to inform your work.

Select at least one of the Four Spheres of Care and discuss how an understanding of ethics is important as it relates to your chosen Sphere.

  • Wellness, Disease Prevention.
  • Chronic Disease Management.
  • Regenerative/Restorative Care.
  • Hospice/Palliative Care.

Health Information Technology

 

  • Discuss an example of health information technology (HIT) that you believe is the most impactful for either reducing costs or improving patient care. Support your choice.

Risks and Benefits of Interoperability

Interoperability in healthcare is an important but very complex issue. There are many issues to address in order to create an easy transition from one system to the next. Presented in your learning resources were 4 levels of interoperability. For this assignment you will select and utilize one of the levels.

In this discussion board respond to the following prompts:

  • Identify the interoperability level you are utilizing for the assignment and a rationale to support your selection of that level.
  • Describe the benefits interoperability provides between healthcare systems.
  • Discuss some of the actual or potential concerns that may be associated with interoperability between healthcare systems.
  • Minimun 250 words

Health Education in Community

 

Discussion Prompts:
  • Select a community-based health education resource to present and critique.
  • Analyze the appropriateness of the resource for use in your current nursing practice

All Nurses are Leaders

 

Larsson & Sahlsen (2016) identified 5 descriptive categories that describe registered nurses’ perceptions of what it entails to be a leader at the beside in patient care.  Read the article included and reflect on the 5 descriptive categories while contemplating your own role in your current position. Do you believe this article provides an accurate representation of leadership at the bedside? Please support your answer with evidence including personal experiences. 

2. Reflective practice in health care is a tool nurses can use to gain insight into self-knowledge and and growth (Palmer, 2007). Reflection provides focused opportunities to discover personal meanings gained from professional nursing educational courses and interaction with peers and faculty. Please reflect and thoughtfully respond to your initial response to the introductory question : What do you hope to learn from this course? 

Role Transition/Professional Development

 

Identify a common activity or nursing intervention in your own practice setting that you feel may not be supported by evidence. Locate 1 peer-reviewed research article in a peer-reviewed journal that supports this change of practice. Summarize the article being sure to include the clinical question and/or problem statement. outcome and recommendations for practice. 

2. Discuss why you would or wouldn’t consider implementing the recommendations from this article into practice. If you would consider implementing the recommendation, what would be the next steps in applying the information into your practice setting and within your organization? 

HIT 2000 MOD 6 DB

 Part 1 Initial Post: Contribute a substantive initial posting that demonstrates critical thinking and understanding of the subject matter presented. Relate to your classmates the major points of what you learned from your interview of an HIM Manager/Director.  What challenges does the manager face related to the EHR and the challenges of managing people and processes that are always changing.  In your initial response, note specific statements made by the HIM Director, and relate your thoughts on these statements.