Assignment: Group Processes and Stages of Formation

In your role, you must understand group processes and stages of formation, as this will help you develop groups and determine an individual’s appropriateness for group therapy. Whether you are at the beginning stages of group formation or facilitating a session for a developed group, it is important to consider factors that may influence individual client progress. For this Assignment, as you examine the video Group Therapy: A Live Demonstration in this week’s Learning Resources, consider the group’s processes, stages of formation, and other factors that might impact the effectiveness of group therapy for clients.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Analyze group processes and stages of formation
• Analyze curative factors of groups
• Analyze the impact of curative factors on client progress
• Recommend strategies for managing intragroup conflict

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide on group processes.
• View the media, Group Therapy: A Live Demonstration, and consider the group dynamics.

The Assignment

In a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:

• Explain the group’s processes and stage of formation.
• Explain curative factors that occurred in the group. Include how these factors might impact client progress.
• Explain intragroup conflict that occurred and recommend strategies for managing the conflict. Support your recommendations with evidence-based literature.

Note: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The sample paper provided by the Walden Writing Center provides examples of those required elements (available at http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/57.htm). All papers submitted must use this formatting.

By Day 7:https://waldenu.kanopy.com/video/group-therapy-live-demonstration

In this Discussion, you will reflect on your own observations of and/or experiences with informaticist collaboration. You will also propose strategies for how these collaborative experiences might be improved.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on the evolution of nursing informatics from a science to a nursing specialty.
• Consider your experiences with nurse Informatics or technology specialists within your healthcare organization.

Post a description of experiences or observations about how nurse informaticists and/or data or technology specialists interact with other professionals within your healthcare organization. Suggest at least one strategy on how these interactions might be improved. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain the impact you believe the continued evolution of nursing informatics as a specialty and/or the continued emergence of new technologies might have on professional interactions.

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1) Minimum 10 full pages (Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part)

 Parts 4 and 5 must be different. Different writing and perspective, but always answering questions objectively 

              Part 1: Minimum 1 page

              Part 2: minimum 1 page

              Part 3: minimum 5 pages

              Part 4: minimum 1 page 

              Part 5: Minimum 1 page

              Part 6: Minimum 1 page

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms, please use headers

          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs

          Bulleted responses are not accepted

          Dont write in the first person 

          Dont copy and pase the questions.

          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

         Submit 1 document per part

3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks) 

********************************It will be verified by SafeAssign (Identify the percentage of similarity of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)

4) Minimum 3 references per part not older than 5 years

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question.

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.doc 

__________________________________________________________________________________

Part 1:

A predominant theme in research and practice today is obesity, which is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide in all ages. As a future nurse practitioner:

1. How would you approach or discuss the topic of obesity and diet with your adult or geriatric patients?

2. What are the possible health consequences of obesity and what factors need to be taken into consideration when treating the obese patient who also has multiple comorbidities (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol)?

Part 2:

DERMATOLOGY CASE STUDY

Chief complaint:  “ My right great toe has been hurting for about 2 months and now it’s itchy, swollen and yellow. I can’t wear closed shoes and I was fine until I started going to the gym”.

HPI: E.D a 38 -year-old Caucasian female presents to the clinic with complaint of pain, itching, inflammation, and “yellow” right great toe. She noticed that the toe was moderately itching after she took a shower at the gym. She did not pay much attention. About two weeks after the itching became intense and she applied Benadryl cream with only some relief. She continued going to the gym and noticed that the itching got worse and her toe nail started to change color. She also indicated that the toe got swollen, painful and turned completely yellow 2 weeks ago. She applied lotrimin  AF cream and it did not help relief her symptoms. She has not tried other remedies.

Denies associated symptoms of fever and chills. 

PMH: Diabetes Mellitus, type 2.

Surgeries: None

Allergies: Augmentin

Medication: Metformin 500mg PO BID.

Vaccination History:  Immunization is up to date and she received her flu shot this year.

Social history: College graduate married and no children. She drinks 1 glass of red wine every night with dinner. She is a former smoker and quit 6 years ago.

Family history:Both parents are alive. Father has history of DM type 2, Tinea Pedis. mother alive and has history of atopic dermatitis, HTN.

ROS:

Constitutional: Negative for fever. Negative for chills.

Respiratory: No Shortness of breath. No Orthopnea

Cardiovascular: Regular rhythm.

Skin: Right great toe swollen, itchy, painful and discolored.

Psychiatric: No anxiety. No depression.

Physical examination:

Vital Signs

Height: 5 feet 5 inches Weight: 140 pounds BMI: 31 obesity, BP 130/70 T 98.0, P 88 R 22, non-labored

HEENT: Normocephalic/Atraumatic, Bilateral cataracts; PERRL, EOMI; No teeth loss seen. Gums no redness.

NECK: Neck supple, no palpable masses, no lymphadenopathy, no thyroid enlargement.

LUNGS: No Crackles. Lungs clear bilaterally. Equal breath sounds. Symmetrical respiration. No respiratory distress.

HEART: Normal S1 with S2 during expiration. Pulses are 2+ in upper extremities. 1+ pitting edema ankle bilaterally.

ABDOMEN: No abdominal distention. Nontender. Bowel sounds + x 4 quadrants. No organomegaly. Normal contour; No palpable masses.

GENITOURINARY: No CVA tenderness bilaterally. GU exam deferred.

MUSCULOSKELETAL: Slow gait but steady. No Kyphosis.

SKIN: Right great toe with yellow-brown discoloration in the proximal nail plate. Marked periungual inflammation. + dryness. No pus. No neuro deficit.

PSYCH: Normal affect. Cooperative.

Labs: Hgb 13.2, Hct 38%, K+ 4.2, Na+138, Cholesterol 225, Triglycerides 187, HDL 37, LDL 190, TSH 3.7, glucose 98.

Assessment:

Primary Diagnosis: Proximal subungual onychomycosis

Differential Diagnosis:  Irritant Contact Dermatitis, Lichen Planus, Nail Psoriasis

Special Lab:

Fungal culture confirms fungal infection.

As an NP student, you need to determine the medications for onychomycosis.

Questions:

1. According to the AAFP/CDC Guidelines, what antifungal medication(s) should this patient be prescribed, and for how long? Write her complete prescriptions using the prescription writing format in your textbook.

2.  What labs for baseline and follow up of therapy would you order for this patient? Give rationale.

Part 3:

1. Create a case with the following information, include vital sign and explain in detail the case.

Name: YM

Gender: Female

Diagnosis: asthma

 2. Make a diagnosis about the case

3. Explain the pathophysiology  about asthma and the case

4. Indicate sign and symptoms about asthma and the case 

5. Indicate diagnostic test about asthma and the case 

6. Assessment technique used for making diagnosis about asthma and the case

7. Make 3 differential diagnosis about the case

Part 4:

following website and answer the following question.

Visit thehttps://nurse.org/resources/family-nurse-practitioner/

 After reviewing the different setting in which Family Nurse Practitioners work. 

1. What setting will be your career choice and why?

Part 5:

following website and answer the following question.

Visit thehttps://nurse.org/resources/family-nurse-practitioner/

 After reviewing the different setting in which Family Nurse Practitioners work. 

1. What setting will be your career choice and why?

Part 6:

Discuss at least 3 regulations impose in APRN in the state of Florida and would you like to change the process.

Review the following websites: https://www.ncsbn.org/Consensus_Model_for_APRN_Regulation_July_2008.pdf

American Association of Nurse Practitioners “Standards of Practice”

https://storage.aanp.org/www/documents/advocacy/position-papers/StandardsOfPractice.pdf

 EBP is an essential component  

Week 7: Evidence Translation and Change

  Define evidenced informed practice. How can this be applied to your project proposal? Explain why evidenced informed practice is integral in effecting change.   

• What are the common barriers to evidence translation in addressing practice problems?
•  How you involve your team and yourself in changes?
• What strategies might you adopt to be aware of new evidence?  

Instructions:

Use an APA style and a minimum of 200 words. Provide support from a minimum of at least three (3) scholarly sources. The scholarly source needs to be: 1) evidence-based, 2) scholarly in nature, 3) Sources should be no more than five years old (published within the last 5 years), and 4) an in-text citation. citations and references are included when information is summarized/synthesized and/or direct quotes are used, in which APA style standards apply. 

• Textbooks are not considered scholarly sources. 

• Wikipedia, Wikis, .com website,s or blogs should not be used.

Review the feedback on the change proposal professional presentation and make required adjustments to the presentation. Present your evidence-based intervention and change proposal to an interprofessional audience of leaders and stakeholders. Be prepared to answer questions and accept feedback.

After presenting your capstone project change proposal, write a 250-350 word summary of the presentation. Include a description of the changes that were suggested by your preceptor before your presentation and how you incorporated that feedback. Describe how this interprofessional collaboration improved the effectiveness of your presentation. Include a description of the feedback and questions from your audience after your presentation, and how this experience will affect your professional practice in the future.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

APA STYLE AT LEAST 2 REFERENCES

Read Chapter on Davis Plus:Finance

1-Mention the types of budgets that you know and give examples of then?

2- What is budgeting?

3- What is directed and indirect cost?

4- Give examples of productive and non-productive hours?

5- What does HMO, PPO, POS means?

A) Mention one example of each of then in your city, or state?

6- What is DRGs.?

7- Give some examples of strategies for Cost-conscious nursing practice that your Nursing unit use to lower medical care cost? 

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  safety & Quality in Nursing Paper 

formal paper

, using APA format, from one of ECRI Institute’s 10 Patient Safety Concerns for

Healthcare Organizations in 2020:

#

ECRI’s Concerns for 2020

Missed and delayed diagnoses. (Topic)

a.

Creativity and reflection in presentation of ideas is encouraged.  

b.

No abstract is needed. 

c.

Heading and level headers are required per APA guidelines.  

d.

Any assignments submitted after the scheduled due date and time will lose 10% PER 

DAY for every day of lateness. 

e.

Papers

will be graded according to the Philosophy of Nursing Grading Rubric 

provided. 

Items to be addressed in the paper (same as listed in the rubric):

1.

Introduction statement

2.

Define the patient safety concern.

3.

Discuss the threats of this safety concern to patient safety.

4.

Discuss risk reduction strategies that can be implemented in healthcare organizations

to address this patient safety concern.

5.

Investigate if this safety concern is occurring across the continuum of care in your 

place of employment. 

6.

Discuss how nurses can respond to the threats of this patient safety.

7.

Summary statement

8.

Mechanics:

Sentence construction, typographical errors, spelling, and vocabulary will 

be evaluated and should be carefully considered as the paper is written.

9.

References:

At least four references are to be included in the paper. The course 

textbooks may count as references. References must be of a professional level and 

cited in the paper using APA format.

10.

Paper can be 3-5 pages paper (not including title page or reference page).

11.

Follow the grading rubric requirements.