What is the main issue for your organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice? Discuss what might be the first step in addressing and resolving this issue.

Choose one health-promoting behavior in which you personally could but don’t engage. Identify factors, as defined in the health promotion model, which contribute to your decision not to participate. Include immediate competing alternatives.

2. Analyze factors that contribute to your participation in a health-promoting activity and place each factor under the appropriate label from the health promotion model.

3. Consider your own philosophy of health and prepare your description of wellness. Is absence of disease more prominent than positive, active statements of health?

4. Anticipate the health-promoting behaviors important at various stages of development across the life span. What health promotion topics do you include in your practice?

I need a care plan done for the mental health patient in this video.

• Review Care plan patient: https://de.ryerson.ca/games/nursing/hospital/area.html#2

Enclosed is an example of a care plan and a blank care plan template

Points: 60 | Due Date: Week 7, Day 7 | CLO: 6 | Grade Category: Assignments

Assignment Prompt

The purpose of Reflection-in-Action is to reflect upon what one has learned or how one has performed as compared with one’s expectations or goals. This assignment will provide an opportunity for students to share their experiences, thoughts, feelings and learning moments from this course. 

Self understanding through reflection on life experiences, feelings, etc., is a core concept in Dr. Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring.  

The Reflection for this course must address at least three (3) of the following topics:

• Learning moments or activities from this course
• Thoughts on evidence-based practice
• Evidence supporting Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
• Ethics in research
• Protecting human subjects in quality improvement or evidence-based practice projects
• Understanding or comfort level with statistics in nursing research and other research reports
• Perception of MSN graduates’ role in nursing research
• Creating and sustaining an Evidence-Based nursing environment
• Asking compelling, clinical questions
• Lessons learned while conducting evidence-based literature review

Expectations

• Due: Monday, 11:59 pm PT
• Length: A minimum of two and maximum of four pages (excluding the title and reference pages).  Submissions not meeting the minimum and maximum page requirements will receive a grade of zero. 
• Format: Formal paper, APA 7th ed format for body of paper and all citations. 

 Review the Capstone Paper Assignment Guide

• Download the template you will use to complete this Assignment
  • Walden University. Walden templates: General templates: APA course paper template with advice (6th ed.). Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general#s-lg-box-2774360
  • Review the webinar on using a template.
    • Delete the abstract page in the template. This is not required for this course.
    • The template includes the correct font and formatting:  12 pt. Times New Roman font, double spacing, and 1 inch margins on all sides.
• Review the Academic Writing Expectations Checklist Capstone Level
  • Note the new expectations for Use of evidence and Credit to Source
  • Use a Scholarly Voice
    • http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice
    • http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/webinars/scholarlywriting#s-lg-box-2773859
  • Review the Walden University Writing Center webpage: Using Evidence: Synthesis
• Review the Week 3 Assignment Rubric
• Identify a quality improvement practice problem to be discussed in the Capstone paper (Contolling pain at the end of life_
  • Consider problems related to structure, process, outcomes, or patient experience.

Remember: Each section of the Capstone Paper must meet the Academic Writing Expectations for the Capstone Level.

For this Assignment, write a paragraph that addresses the following:

• Practice Problem )Controlling pain in dying pt or hospice pt
  • State the practice problem in measurable terms and that reflect quality indicators. Include data that suggests a practice problem exists. Do not use anecdotal experiences or opinions.
    • This is the same problem described in the Week 1 Practice Experience discussion.
    • Keep in mind that this section may need to be revised after you complete all of the other sections.
  • Provide the rationale for selecting the practice problem. See Chapter 3, page 69, Exhibit 3.15 in the Spath (2018) text for examples.

respond  to this discussion…

Two methods of evaluating evidence are quantitative and qualitative analysis

Qualitative analysis research is concerned with analyzing data, comparing metrics or data sets. Criteria is or uses formal instruments and prediction. Results and variable are objective. Methodologies involve hypothesis and theories to be verified through data and fact finding and data comparison.

Qualitative research is concerned with processes and meanings, patient perception and experience. Criteria is difficult to measure, requires interpretation and empathetic understanding. Results and variables are contextual. Methods used involve field work, records of behaviors, use of subjective devices such as interviews, drawing and journaling.

After reviewing the Psychological Care of the Elderly source found in course resources.

1: discuss surprising facts about the psychological care of the aging. 

2: Did you originally consider any of these as myths, when in reality they are based on evidence? 

3: How can nurses influence attitudes among caregivers and the public about aging?

at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook. 

• Geriatric Nursing. (2018). https://geriatricnursing.org/psychological-care-of-the-elderly/

Patient Preferences and Decision Making

Changes in culture and technology have resulted in patient populations that are often well informed and educated, even before consulting or considering a healthcare need delivered by a health professional. Fueled by this, health professionals are increasingly involving patients in treatment decisions. However, this often comes with challenges, as illnesses and treatments can become complex.

What has your experience been with patient involvement in treatment or healthcare decisions?

In this Discussion, you will share your experiences and consider the impact of patient involvement (or lack of involvement). You will also consider the use of a patient decision aid to inform best practices for patient care and healthcare decision making.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on a time when you experienced a patient being brought into (or not being brought into) a decision regarding their treatment plan.
• Review the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s Decision Aids Inventory at https://decisionaid.ohri.ca/.       
  • Choose “For Specific Conditions,” then Browse an alphabetical listing of decision aids by health topic.

NOTE: To ensure compliance with HIPAA rules, please DO NOT use the patient’s real name or any information that might identify the patient or organization/practice.

By Day 3 of Week 8

Post a brief description of the situation you experienced and explain how incorporating or not incorporating patient preferences and values impacted the outcome of their treatment plan. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain how including patient preferences and values might impact the trajectory of the situation and how these were reflected in the treatment plan. Finally, explain the value of the patient decision aid you selected and how it might contribute to effective decision making, both in general and in the experience you described. Describe how you might use this decision aid inventory in your professional practice or personal life.

Week 4: Assignment – Application of Concepts from Caring Science

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Points: 300 | Due Date: Week 4, Day 7 | CLO: 3, 4 | Grade Category: Assignments

Assignment Prompt

Summary: A theory can be used to guide practice.  This assignment is an exercise in supporting a clinical practice with theory and evidence.

Directions: Identify an outcome of nursing practice in your area of practice that can be improved.  For example, if you work in home health, you may identify that throw rug use by fall risk patients is too prevalent.  You may be able to use the problem that inspired the theory concepts that you developed in week two. Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that could represent or include the outcome.  In our example, the outcome would be the changes in self through the change in the patient’s floor covering practice. Identify a practice that can be changed or implemented that may influence the outcome. Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that includes the practice.  In our example, the practice could be to improve the understanding of fall hazards through the engagement in a teaching-learning experience, one of Watson’s Caritas Processes. Identify exactly how these two concepts will be measured with their operational definitions. Develop a proposition between the two. Present your outcome in an APA formatted paper  meeting the University’s standards for a written assignment.

Expectations

· Due: Saturday, 11:59 pm PT

· Length: 5 to 7 pages including title and reference pages

· References: 3 to 10.  There should be enough to support the links between the concepts of the problem and the concepts of Watson’s Theory of Caring.

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Week 4: Discussion Question – Watson’s Theory Concepts

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Points: 30 | Due Date: Week 4, Day 3 & 7 | CLO: 1 | Grade Category: Discussions

Discussion Prompt

Find a concept within Watson’s Theory of Caring and a similar concept within any other nursing theory.  Compare the two concepts for similarities and differences. Illustrate how a person reading about a theory can be influenced in their understanding of a theory if they have a different definition of a concept than the author.

Expectations

Initial Post:

· Due: wednesday, 11:59 pm PT

· Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references

· Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

Peer Responses:

· Due: Thursday, 11:59 pm PT

· Number: A Minimum of 2 to Peer Posts, at least one on a different day than the main post

· Length: A minimum of 150 words per post, not including references

· Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA per post from within the last 5 years

Discussion: Respond to Posts in Your Own Thread

See USU NUR Discussion Board Rubric for additional details and point weighting.

Rubrics

· USU NUR Discussion Board Rubric

write a 2 page paper addressing the sections below of the research proposal.

Methodology

• Extraneous Variables (and plan for how controlled).
• Instruments: Description, validity, and reliability estimates, which have been performed (on a pre-established measure). Include plans for testing validity and reliability of generating your own instrument(s).
• Description of the Intervention
• Data Collection Procedures