Complementary and Alternative Health Care

 

Find a peer review journal article about dream work or the correlation of dreaming and healing. Please provide a link to the article or full reference. Briefly discuss how dreaming impacts our physical a emotional health.

Guidelines: The discussion should be based on the knowledge obtained from reading the textbook and journal article, no just your opinion.

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Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some favorite online resources and databases that you use or have found useful in the past. For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.

To Prepare:

  • Review the information presented in the Learning Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.
  • Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and interests you.

Post the following:

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.

Fetal Abnormality

 

Based on “Case Study: Fetal Abnormality” and the required topic study materials, write a 750-1,000-word reflection that answers the following questions:

  1. What is the Christian view of the nature of human persons, and which theory of moral status is it compatible with? How is this related to the intrinsic human value and dignity?
  2. Which theory or theories are being used by Jessica, Marco, Maria, and Dr. Wilson to determine the moral status of the fetus? What from the case study specifically leads you to believe that they hold the theory you selected?
  3. How does the theory determine or influence each of their recommendations for action?
  4. What theory do you agree with? Why? How would that theory determine or influence the recommendation for action?

Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.

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,    https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/wi-phi/wiphi-value-theory/wiphi-ethics/v/moral-status 

HOMEWORK

   

CASE STUDY

A 32-year-old African American mother of three toddlers who is 28 weeks pregnant is admitted to the high-risk pregnancy unit with regular contractions. She is concerned because the plans for her family are not finalized. She has many comfort needs, diagrammed in Table 33.1. When nurses assess for comfort needs in patients, they use the taxonomic structure, or comfort grid, to identify and organize all known needs. Using the comfort grid (see Fig. 33.1) as a mental guide, nurses design interrelated comforting interventions that can be implemented in one or two nurse–patient–family interactions. For this case, some suggestions to individualize the types of comfort interventions that might be considered are presented in Table 33.2.

TABLE 33.1

Taxonomic Structure of Comfort Needs for Case Study

   

Context of Comfort

Relief

Ease

Transcendence

 

Physical

Aching back

Early strong contractions

Restlessness and anxiety

Patient thinking, “What will happen to my family and to my   babies?”

 

Psychospiritual

Anxiety and tension

Uncertainty about prognosis

Need for emotional and spiritual support

 

Environmental

Roommate is a primigravida

Room is small, clean, and pleasant

Lack of privacy

Telephone in room

Feeling of confinement with bed   rest

Need for calm, familiar environmental elements and   accessibility of distraction

 

Sociocultural

Absence of family and culturally sensitive care

Family not present

Language barriers

Need for support from family or significant other

Need for information and   consultation

TABLE 33.2

Comfort Care Actions and Interventions

   

Type of Comfort Care Action or Intervention

Example

 

Standard comfort interventions

Vital signs

Laboratory test results

Patient assessment

Medications and treatments

Social worker

 

Coaching

Emotional support

Reassurance

Education

Listening

Clergy

 

Comfort food for the soul

Energy therapy such as healing touch if it is culturally acceptable

Music therapy or guided imagery   (patient’s choice of music)

Spending time

Personal connections

Reduction of environmental stimuli

For clinical use, the nurse might ask the patient to rate her comfort before and after receiving the interventions on a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest level. To determine whether a specific comforting intervention enhanced the comfort of the patient, a comfort questionnaire is administered, assessing each cell in the comfort grid (see Fig. 33.1). A Likert-type scale with responses ranging from 1 to 6 facilitate a total comfort score. A questionnaire, given to the patient before and after the intervention, demonstrates the level of effectiveness of intervention.

Compare the suggestions for the comfort of this mother of three presented in Table 33.2 with comfort measures you considered as you read the case study of this woman. Are there nursing comfort measures you might add? Explain your addition using Table 33.1.

4 page paper

Imagine that you have been appointed the director of health at the Kaluyu Memorial Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya—a for-profit hospital. The facility is also a referral hospital and receives severe cases of accidents and chronicle and communicable diseases, and it houses an HIV/AIDS ward. As you settle into your position, you realize that the employees always act scared as they approach their superiors. Some of the employees deliver files and leave your office in a hurry. 

As you make your routine departmental visits, you realize that there are tensions between nurses and doctors, and there is a sentiment that the nurses tend to do the majority of the work within patient care but the doctors get all the credit. You realize that the employees are always looking forward to the end of their shifts when they can go home. Some employees even come back to work wearing the same unwashed clothes as the previous day. Too many employees are calling in sick, and many of them give weak reasons for their tardiness.

There is also a sense that employees and nurses dominate other employees in similar positions. In meetings and conference calls, some employees are quiet and never participate. You notice that people with families tend to gather and talk quietly on breaks. The new mothers working for the hospital have to use bathrooms to pump breast milk for their infants, and the refrigerators do not work well. Looking at the financial statements of the hospital, you realize that the hospital’s expenses are higher than the industry standard, and it makes losses year after year.
Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Preparation
As part of your preparation for this assignment, please read the following:

  • The Future of Healthcare Leadership.
  • Reading: Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory.
  • McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory.
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
  • Requirements
    Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:
  • Investigate the major demotivational factors at Kaluyu Memorial Hospital. Assess the level of impact that the identified factors could have on specific areas of service and business if the administration does not address the situation. Support your response with at least two examples of the potential negative impact of the identified demotivational factors on the hospital.
  • Read the overviews of the three major motivational theories (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Herzberg’s two-factor theory, and McClelland’s acquired needs theory). After reading all three, choose the theory that you think best fits this scenario and defend that choice in your assignment.
  • Formulate a communication system that will have the greatest impact on improving the situation, and specify the major reasons why your system will influence the employee behaviors for the better. Justify your response.
  • Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find four recent (within the last five years) quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

what will make you most effective? (for mrs Lynn eyes only)

 

What will make you most effective?

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Assignment: Discussion Board Week 4-Leadership Styles, Philosophies, and Skills- Which are most effective? , due by 11:59pm (50 pts).

Discussions play an integral role in monitoring your course participation throughout the term. You should check back to the weekly discussions multiple times throughout the week to engage in the discussion with your peers and me. Participation is only counted during the week in which this discussion is assigned. Be sure to appropriately cite any sources you use to support your responses with standard APA citations. Answer the prompt question(s) thoroughly using a minimum of 150-200 words and respond to as many of your peers as possible – note that responses of 75-100 words to 2 of your peers are required for full credit. Be sure to answer any additional questions that I may post in the discussion threads. Your initial post is due by Day 3 of the current week, and follow up posts to your peers are due on Day 7

Discussion Prompt: 

  1. Please discuss/include the following in a minimum of 150-200 words for your initial post:
  • Now that we have reviewed a variety of leadership styles, philosophies, behaviors, and skills, please consider how learning about Strengths-Based and Servant Leadership provide a new framework for you as a leader. As you create your response, take each of the following into consideration:
    • Review and reflect on the difference between styles, philosophies, behaviors, and skills and how Strengths-Based and Servant Leadership can compliment or elevate the leadership styles that appeal to you most.
    • Review your working definition of leadership and consider how you would change this to include one or both, Strengths-Based or Servant Leadership.
    • Share with the group what you have added and how you have revised your working definition of leadership.
  1. Reply to two (2) peer posts with each response being a minimum of 75-100 words to expand on the conversation.

psychopharmalogical approach

 

  1. Explain the agonist-to-antagonist spectrum of action of psychopharmacologic agents, including how partial and inverse agonist functionality may impact the efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments.
  2. Compare and contrast the actions of g couple proteins and ion gated channels.
  3. Explain how the role of epigenetics may contribute to pharmacologic action.
  4. Explain how this information may impact the way you prescribe medications to patients. Include a specific example of a situation or case with a patient in which the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must be aware of the medication’s action.