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  Overview: Lifestyle modifications play a crucial role in preventing and managing chronic diseases such as Hypertension discussion, you will explore how lifestyle changes—such as nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and avoiding harmful behaviors—can prevent or modify disease processes and promote restoration of health. 

2. Discuss Lifestyle Changes: Describe at least two lifestyle changes that can prevent, modify, or restore health in relation to your selected disease. Use evidence-based practice (EBP) to support your discussion.

o Include specific examples of dietary changes, physical activity, smoking cessation, or stress management techniques.

3. Explain the Impact: Discuss how these lifestyle changes influence the disease process. Explain the physiological or behavioral changes that occur as a result.

4. Relate to Nursing Practice: Identify the nurse’s role in educating and promoting these lifestyle modifications. How can nurses empower patients to adopt and sustain these changes?

5. Support with Evidence: Integrate at least two peer-reviewed scholarly sources published within the last five years. Use APA format for in-text citations and your reference list.

6. Use 400 to 500 words

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This week we are introduced to both genetics and genomics in healthcare. As you complete the readings for this week, consider both the risks and benefits of using both genetics and genomics in caring for patients. What are three risks and three benefits? What safeguards would you suggest to ensure that the benefits of using genetics and genomics in healthcare outweigh the risks?

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Antibiotic resistance has exponentially increased in the last two decades and this is widely contributed to the liberal prescriptions of antibiotics for various conditions, even when medically unnecessary. Even though antibiotics are some of the most effective medications for treatment of infectious diseases, the over prescription of them leads to an accelerated rate of resistance. It is also interesting that conditions such as C Diff, with overt symptoms such as diarrhea, are treated with high dose and various antibiotics that have the potential to compound the already present issue. Please review the following article and share your experience with the use of antibiotics as treatment and potential consequences for future patient care.

Anwar, M., Raziq, A., Shoaib, M., Baloch, N. S., Raza, S., Sajjad, B., Sadaf, N., Iqbal, Z., Ishaq, R., Haider, S., Iqbal, Q., Ahmad, N., Haque, N., & Saleem, F. (2021). Exploring Nurses’ Perception of Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Qualitative Inquiry. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 14, 1599–1608. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S309020

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8254422/

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For this week’s discussion, please select or describe a current ethical issue in the healthcare of veterans.  This may be one you found on the VA Scandals webpage, or another topic of interest to you. 

Describe the issue, which ethical principle it violates, and then share at least 2 recommendations that could

improve the ethical treatment of veterans.

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Write 3–4 pgs, not including the title, abstract, and reference pgs, that addresses the following:

As the manager of the CTU Health Care Information Systems Department, the chief information officer (CIO) has asked you to complete the following:

• Analyze the implications and challenges of cost, quality, and external forces on electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) selection and implementation within your department.
• Conduct research on 1 major external threat facing the EHR today.

Note: Use APA style, and cite at least 2 scholarly references published within the last 5 years.

 Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not. 

https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library

 Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

The chief information officer (CIO) of CTU (Colorado Technical University) Health Care wants you, the manager of the information systems department, to ensure that the employees within your department are aware of the challenges facing the department since the implementation of the electronic health record (EHR). Discuss the following:

• Discuss 5 major challenges that are currently facing the department.
• Discuss the impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on these challenges.

 Note: Use APA style, and cite at least 2 scholarly references published within the last 5 years. 

Part 3 section of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the following:

• Your topic of interest.
• A correctly formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search details.
• Identify a professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.
• Analysis of the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template
• Write a 1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to inform professional practice.
• Write a 2- to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan that includes the following:
  • Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research.

Part 2, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Week 1, 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 Turnitin to improve the product.
• Explain how Grammarly, Turnitin, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 2, 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:

Academic work as a student of the MSN or PMC program and 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.

Review the Frequently Asked Questions on Requirements for Education at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) : https://humansubjects.nih.gov/requirement-education

Read the detailed document by the NIH: 

https://grants.nih.gov/sites/default/files/PHRP_Archived_Course_Materials_English.pdf

Reflect on what you learned from the NIH materials about protecting the rights of human research participants.

Discuss at least two of the following:

• Describe the circumstances that influenced the need for a policy to protect human research subjects. Give examples of specific ways human research subjects can be harmed by researchers.
• Identify three vulnerable populations and the special restrictions associated with human research among these groups. Evaluate the requirements and restrictions. Do you think they are adequate? Why or why not?
• The Belmont Report summarizes the ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects. Three core principles are identified: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. Even though these principles are considered equal, prioritize them in order of importance to you. Explain your decisions.
• Although you are not implementing a change project at this time, and you may not be directly involved in research as part of your professional responsibilities, explain the reasons why it is important for you to know about these rights and protections.

Your reflection should be two pages and written in current APA Style.