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Effective care coordination in the healthcare continuum requires a constellation of roles, processes, and tools to address the needs of patients and caregivers presenting with a wide variety of needs. Please identify a specific role nurses may play in the efforts of care coordination and discuss a specific process that the nurse may develop or participate in to improve care coordination efforts. 

EVERY post/response MUST be supported with TWO references from recent Professional Journals (less than 5 years – 2010-2025) and a minimum of 250 words

• Critically evaluate the effects of health policy including financial implications upon global, national, state, and local health care delivery in the community (CO 3)
• Provide one example from your current or past nursing practice and demonstrate how policy/finances impact the health of the community served (CO 3)

Instructions: 

• You must cite and reference the course materials in your initial discussion post.

Required Textbook Readings

• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapters 4. Marcia Stanhope authors this chapter. (MO 2.1, 2.2)
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapters 5. Whitney Rogers Bischoff authors this chapter. (MO 2.1, 2.2)

• Describe the components of the healthcare delivery system, including public health services and public health nursing (CO 1, 2)
• Provide one example from your current or past nursing practice and how it relates to the care of clients in community-based settings (CO 1, 2)

Instructions: 

• You must cite and reference the course materials in your initial discussion post.

• Required Textbook Readings:
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapter 1. Carolyn Williams authors the Chapter. (MO 1.1, 1.2)
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapter 2. Joanna Dieckmann authors the Chapter. (MO 1.1, 1.2)
• Stanhope & Lancaster Chapter 3. McKimm Mitchell & Stanhope author the Chapter. (MO 1.1, 1.2)

Treatments for Respiratory Disorders 

Based on Module 4: Lecture Materials & Resources and experience, please answer the following questions:

1. Discuss triggers of asthma and treatment options
2. Discuss corticosteroids 
3. Describe chronic bronchitis and treatment options

• Arcangelo, P. V., Peterson, M. A., Wilbur, V., & Reinhold, A. J. (2017).
  • Chapter 25: Asthma
  • Chapter 26: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • Describe causes of Upper respiratory infections and drug therapy 

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in the current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources within the past 5 yrs.
  • Each question must be answered individually as in bullet points.

Appraisal of Therapeutic Modalities of Care

Carefully consider one of the topics addressed this week:

• Telepsychiatry
• Hallucinogenic therapy
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
• Pharmacogenomics

Many of these modalities are relatively new to the psychiatric treatment realm.  It is important to consider the pros and cons of each therapeutic modality as well as its applicability to certain groups of patients when determining its usefulness in your practice.  The purpose of this assignment is to identify research that has been done with one or more of these modalities and determine the quality of the research.  Locate one article describing research with one or more of these modalities as a form of treatment for a group of selected patients.  Answer the following questions using this template.

• Describe the study and its purpose.
• Describe the results of the study.
• Discuss whether you found the results of the study to be helpful.
• Based on the findings in this study, would you consider this as a treatment modality?  Why? or Why not?

Include examples from the article to support your responses and make sure your responses reflect depth and synthesis of the material.  Please upload the article and the completed template with your review as separate documents to the assignment area clearly labeled so they can easily be located for grading.  

1. Conduct a rapid critical analysis of the five (5) articles (use the articles used in discussion 5).
2. Title the discussion with the PICOT question.
3. Initial post: Your post should be within a range of 150-200 words and answer the following questions.
   1. Choose one of the research studies in the Matrix table (Appendix G).
   2. Provide a brief overview of what the article was trying to do (i.e., the problem).
   3. What is the type of the study( experimental, cohort, case-study)?
   4. What was the purpose of the study?
   5. Describe the sample (who are the participants, how they were selected). Setting (where it happen).
   6. What is the source of the data?  (was a survey, intervention, observation, interviews).
   7. What were the results? (major findings) (look at the discussion, what was learned).
   8. Limitations (who funded the research, was the sample too small).

Cite your references APA 7th  ed.

Health Promotion Proposal, Part 1

Description

Over the duration of this course, you will submit a scholarly PowerPoint “Health Promotion Program Proposal,”

addressing existing nursing knowledge related to health promotion and a written proposal.

In the written proposal, you will also develop a health promotion program to meet the health needs of a vulnerable

population in your potential concentration area or community. The PowerPoint portion is your presentation of that proposal.

The proposal must demonstrate graduate school-level writing and critical analysis. The final version of

your proposal is due in week 8.

For this assignment you will submit Part One of your proposal, detailing a health problem that is

prevalent within your selected group and demonstrating your research of health promotion strategies for

addressing this specific health problem. At this point, you already developed in your discussions the core ideas of the topic contained in this assignment. You will use the same information, but it won’t be a copy-and-paste exercise. The purpose is that you enhance your ideas with the comments and outcomes of the weekly discussions and previous evaluations. 

Guided Reflection

Calvin is a 36-year-old lawyer who is coming in today for a worsening cough over the past four days. He has had some yellow sputum sporadically throughout the day; he says he has felt hot but has not taken his temperature. He has a history of asthma and has been using his Proventil inhaler every 2 to 3 hours for the past 3 to 4 days. He has no other medication. He says that other than the cough, he feels a little fatigued, and he notices that his energy level is less when he plays hockey with his men’s league twice a week.  His SaO2 is 96%, HR 102, and BP 144/82. He has bilateral wheezes posteriorly on inspiration, worse at the base.

Mason is a 55-year-old homeless man who you are seeing today for the first time. He is a smoker and states that he has frequent colds and a routine morning cough. He used to be short of breath just walking up hills, but he now has difficulty breathing with everyday activities and is having trouble finding food because he cannot walk very far. He just wants medicine to help him survive on the streets. On examination, you find him using his accessory muscles to breathe. His vital signs are 99°, 100 beats per minute, 28 respirations/min., and blood pressure 140/90. Breath sounds are distant with end-expiratory wheezes. He has a slight barrel chest and neck vein distention.