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 Describe and discuss the nurse’s role in health promotion and disease prevention in older adults. Share an example from your personal experience as a RN.

• Name and elaborate on at least three screening/preventive procedure that must be done in older adults.
• Define and discuss three common End-of-life documents that you as nurse must be familiar with to be able to educate older adults.

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.

Minimum of 300 words with at least 2 peer review reference in 7th edition apa style

 Summarize and discuss the clinical characteristics of ALZHEIMER DISEASE and identify the appropriate laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic and screening tools that apply to this condition or disorder. Why did you select these tests or tools as being appropriate to this scenario? Support your summary and recommended plan with a minimum of two peer-reviewed references 

Scenario:
• Your 79, year old female patient suffered a stroke 6 months ago. She is cared for in her sister’s home. The patient is dependent for position changes. She is unable to communicate the need to be turned. She must be fed at all meals. She has a stage II pressure injury on her sacral area.

Questions:
• Develop a teaching plan for the family to ensure that the patient’s needs are met

Scenario 2 Musculoskeletal

Directions: Musculoskeletal
• A 72, year old man lived a fairly sedentary lifestyle as an accountant. Now that he is retired, he recognizes the need to be active to maintain his health as long as possible. He is concerned, however, that it is too late for him to start exercising because he has never engaged in such activities.

Prepare the informative speech outline.   You can choose your topic. Be sure to choose a topic that does not include any opinion – it should be strictly information. To prepare the outline, use the full-sentence outline method. The outline should have enough content in order to deliver a 5-7 minute informative speech.  When you are creating your outline, please be sure to check out the sample outline that is linked in the directions above.  The format is a required part of the assignment. Please DO NOT simply follow the bullet points listed above. The outline should include the following:

• Specific Purpose
• Central Idea (aka:  Thesis Statement or Preview Statement)
• Introduction – capture attention, establish YOUR speaker credibility, preview the speech
• Body – key points (minimum of 3), transitions between main points, supporting materials from at least 3 sources including in-text references to the sources.
• Conclusion – signal the end, summarize main points, bring finality
• Researched supporting material references (minimum 3) – include a works cited at the end of your outline, use APA format.
• Identification of a presentation aid (visual)

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and full references in APA format.

Attention Wizard Kim. 

Week 8 Discussion: Optimization in Staffing 2 pages 

Week 8 Assignment: More Advanced Optimization with 2 questions from Textbook (3 pages on excel).

Please follow the same rubrics.

 Final Project parts 14 & 15

• 14. Make recommendations for continued development; and 
• 15. Conclusion

Recommends ways for children, their parents, and the community can continue to help other children lose weight or keep the weight off. And type a conclusion. 

Times new Roman, 12 point font, double spaced, references

PLEASE complete accurately 2 case studies. Below I have attached the Template, Rubric/Guidelines, an Example Case Study, AND ALSO A template to Plug in the information/rearrange or take out information as needed for the case study. No plagiarism, provided proof of TurnItIn document. No references order than 5 years. 

 Diagnosis to use

1st Case Study > DIABETES TYPE 2

Differential Diagnosis=  Diabetes Type 1 Mellitus & Cushing Syndrome

2nd Case Study > HYPERTENSION

Differential Diagnosis = Congestive Heart failure & Chronic Kidney Disease. 

Chapter 7 – Economic and Legal Issues.Chapter 

Chapter 8 – Assessment and Documentation for Optimal Care.

Questions: 

The gerontological nurse is responsible to conduct a complete “head-to-toe” physical assessment. There are several considerations of common changes in late life during physical assessment discussed in your textbook. 

1.Mention at least 3 common changes in late life that the gerontological nurse needs to have in consideration during a physical assessment.

2. Explain each one of them.

Guidelines: The answer should be based on the knowledge obtained from reading the book, no just your opinion. 

Grading Criteria: Student mentioned 3 common changes in late life that the gerontological nurse needs to have in consideration during a physical assessment (30%). Student explained each one of them (70%).

I need a power point of 12 slides about cerebrovascular accident 

2nd rerply

RE: Discussion – Week 6-one page three references

COLLAPSE

    The peer review article I chose, was about using acetaminophen for pain management post op laparoscopic surgery ( Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 2017).  I decided to use this topic, because I have been working in the ortho floor lately, and noticed a lot of physicians prescribing Tylenol to patients post op, around the clock. I kept asking the charge nurse and other nurses why, and nobody seemed to have a definite answer, as to why. Doctors would explain to me, that it was way to prevent prescribing hard core pain medications, instead. Due to the fact, that when the patients are discharged, they will not be able to get that IV Dilaudid, at home. 

    I searched for my article using the Walden University. I found the search for this article on the website, to be easy and user-friendly. On top of the search, the library gave me additional topics related to my search. Similar to Youtube, you can continue clicking on interesting things, and the next thing you know, two hours have passed, and you are reading on why cats have 9 lives! In other words, I found the Walden University library to be very useful for me and my colleagues. I would so recommend it to not just my colleagues, but to the whole Walden University campus, and future colleagues to com