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Malnutrition associated with specific health conditions What specific health conditions increase the risk of malnutrition?

Example Studies: Malnutrition in a sample of people with Parkinson’s disease.

Risk of malnutrition is associated with mental health symptoms 

Choose a current issue/trend topic from the following list:

1. Technology in health care
2. Collective bargaining
3. The impaired nurse
4. The global nurse workforce
5. Mentoring and coaching in nursing
6. The trimodal model of 21st-century effective nurse leaders

Create a 6- to 8-page paper in APA format including a minimum of 4 to 5 scholarly references (most recent 2015+). Explain how you would lobby your legislators or local government for funds to support your issue or trend. Include the following elements in your paper: share why you chose the specific topic, the current relevance of material, how it is integrated into clinical practice, and how the information is used in clinical setting.

Review your problem or issue and the cultural assessment. Consider how the findings connect to your topic and intervention for your capstone change project. Write a list of three to five objectives for your proposed intervention. Below each objective, provide a one or two sentence rationale.

After writing your objectives, provide a rationale for how your proposed project and objectives advocate for autonomy and social justice for individuals and diverse populations.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

2 part assignment

Module 02 Written Assignment – Immune System Disorder

Identify a person you know who has an immune system disorder or cancer. Review content in your text for potential types of disorders.

Interview the affected person and write a 3-5 page paper identifying your findings including: 

• Identify the pathophysiology of the immune system disorder
• Discuss the treatment for the immune system disorder
• Summarize the findings of the interview.
• Use at least one scholarly source to support your findings or identify therapies that may be new or different from what the affected person may be using.  Examples of scholarly sources include academic journals, textbooks, reference texts, and CINAHL nursing guides. You can find useful reference materials for this assignment in the School of Nursing guide: https://guides.rasmussen.edu/nursing/referenceebooks
• Cite your sources in-text and on a References page using APA format. Have questions about APA? Visit the online APA guide: https://guides.rasmussen.edu/apa

Questions you may want to use to guide your interview:

1. Which immune system disorder do you have?
2. How long have you had this disorder?
3. How has this disorder changed your life (home and work)?
4. Are you able to carry out daily activities independently?
5. What therapies are you using to manage this disorder?
6. What, if any, side effects does the treatment have?
7. What therapies are you using to manage this disorder?
8. What, if any, side effects doe the treatment have?
9. Has this disorder changed your body?
10. Does this disorder have any emotional effects on you?
11. Have alternative therapies, such as Eastern medicine (acupuncture, herbal treatment, yoga) been tried or recommended?

Module 02 Assignment

For this discussion, you will use a census website that posts information on variables observed in the city where you live.  Here is the website address.  https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/data-profiles/2017/ (Links to an external site.)

 (Links to an external site.)After you open the website, you can enter your state’s name on the left at the bottom and the name of your city on the right of the landing page.  You will see links to 4 sets of information on your area:  social, education, housing, and demographic.  You will be assessing the change in one variable you select for two different years. For example, data from the entire United States could compare the percentage of women never married for the years 2010 and 2017.

Once you have selected your variable and obtained the information, answer the following questions:

•  Was there a difference in the values of your variable? 
• How would you write the null hypothesis if you wanted to test the differences statistically?
• Does the difference appear to be a significant one? How would you substantiate that?
• Is the difference important?
• What are the consequences of the change in your values for your community? For example, a significant increase in the number of women never married could affect the birth rate.  It could also mean more women are attending college and becoming self-sufficient. 

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

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

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 inter professional 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 inter professional 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.

Assume the provider in the case study included in the Compassionate limit setting for the high risk, non-adherent patient population, article is a nurse practitioner who works for the hospital where you are a CEO. The Nursing Ethical Guidelines and the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics apply to Nurse Practitioners. Select one of these sets of ethical guidelines for nurses and describe how you think the guidelines dictate that the nurse practitioner should act in this case.  As the CEO, guided by the ACHE’s Code of Ethics, do you believe the ACHE’s code is consistent with the Nursing ethical code you chose to apply in this case?  Why or why not?  Your post should be between 200 to 300 words and include at least 2 references using APA format).  Initial post due date: 10/29/2020

Prepare a 10–20-slide presentation of the strategic plan you developed in Assessment 2, to be delivered to key stakeholders at a strategic visioning session.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

SHOW LESS

The implementation and success of a strategic plan depends on the support of key stakeholders. This in turn depends on your ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with decision makers and to sell your vision of the future. You must also be able to lead the initiative and sustain strategic direction. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to showcase your strategic thinking and exercise the communication skills necessary to move your strategic plan forward toward implementation.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
  • Explain why one’s leadership qualities and skills are well suited to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
• Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
  • Summarize a strategic plan aimed at achieving desired quality or safety improvements within a care setting.
  • Describe the necessary actions for aligning the structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills of a care setting with strategic goals.
  • Explain how the implementation and outcomes of a strategic plan will be evaluated against current performance benchmarks.
• Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
  • Explain how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influence the design of a strategic plan and strategies for its implementation.
• Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
  • Explain one’s role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
• Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
  • Explain a strategy for communicating with stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Questions to Consider

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

Reflect on the current cultural climate in your care setting.

• What aspects of the current cultural climate would aid in achieving one or more specific goals contained in your strategic plan?
• What aspects of the current cultural climate would present a challenge in achieving one or more specific goals contained in your strategic plan?
• What leadership theories, models, or strategies could help you turn this challenge into an opportunity?

Effectively communicating with internal and external stakeholders and constituencies can help in achieving strategic initiatives.

• How would you communicate the essential aspects of the strategic plan you developed in Assessment 2 to stakeholders or groups, both internal and external to your care setting?

Assessment Instructions

Note: In this assessment, you will develop a presentation to stakeholders for the strategic plan you developed in Assessment 2.

Preparation

Your strategic plan has been reviewed, and you have been asked to present your plan—including operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms—at a strategic visioning session with key stakeholders (senior leaders if your plan is organization-wide, community leaders if your plan is for a community health project, or the nurse manager of a specific department or team). This session is the next step in moving your plan toward implementation.

Your deliverable for this assessment is a slide deck of 10–20 slides to supplement your presentation and facilitate discussion of your plan. You may use Microsoft PowerPoint or any other suitable presentation software. Please use the notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and reference your sources, as appropriate.

If you choose to use PowerPoint and need help designing your presentation, a link to Microsoft tutorials is provided in the Supplemental Resources in the left-hand navigation pane of your FlexPath courseroom. An additional PowerPoint guide is linked in the Resources.

Presentation Design Tips

Being able to effectively address any audience is a necessary leadership skill. Remember that you are the speaker, not a projectionist. Your purpose is not to present a slide show. Your audience is there to listen to what you have to say, not read your slides—or worse, listen to you read them. Design your presentation slides to compliment and reinforce your message and engage your listeners.

The following tips will help you create presentation slides that work to your advantage:

• Focus on the content of your presentation and the development of your main points. Remember that your purpose is to garner support for your plan and build partnerships for implementation.
• Consider your intended audience and how best to communicate effectively with them.
• Create slides that support your presentation. They should not be your presentation.
  • Use a professional presentation template, or one used in your organization.
  • Ensure that your slide background provides sufficient visual contrast for your text and graphics.
  • Avoid filling your slides with text. Use speaker notes to record the details you want to communicate to your audience.
  • Be judicious in your use of bulleted lists. You might even consider a separate slide for each main point.
  • Use images and graphics, when appropriate, to illustrate information and make your points. Presentation slides are a visual medium. Images are more effective than text at engaging your audience.
  • Avoid using images that are simply decorative. They can be a visual distraction and do not contribute to your message.
  • Avoid using flashy slide transitions and animations. They can be both distracting and annoying. Keep your slide transitions consistent throughout the presentation.
  • Add a slide to the end of your presentation to prompt questions from the audience.

Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so, at a minimum be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Communication, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style

• Present your plan in a professional and respectful way, with the goal of garnering support for your plan and building partnerships for implementation.
  • Address stakeholders’ needs and concerns.
  • Communicate the need to work collaboratively on implementation.
• Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your assertions.
  • Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
• Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
• Add a references slide to your slide deck.
• Proofread your slides to minimize errors that could distract the audience and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Presentation

• Summarize your plan for achieving 2–3 main goals. Include corresponding metrics, targets, and initiatives to help achieve the desired quality or safety improvements in the care setting.

Note: It may be useful to think about what you hoped to achieve in addressing your care setting’s positive core or specific area of concern in Assessment 1. For example:

• Progress toward achieving the Triple Aim.
• Better patient safety outcomes.
• Lower readmission rates.
• Higher volume of patients and care.
• Increased financial gain.
• Minimizing staff burnout.
• Improved relationship and trust with the community or a specific population.

In addition, remember to consult the literature, research studies, and resources from professional and governmental organizations when developing metrics, targets, and initiatives.

• Explain how you will communicate your plan to those stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing your plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Identify the key individuals or groups with whom you must communicate.
  • Identify the cultural or ethical factors, if any, that are relevant to the design of your communication plan, including how key individuals or groups typically prefer to be contacted.
• Describe the actions you will take to align your care setting’s structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills with your strategic goals.
  • Describe the changes that are needed to achieve your goals.
  • Describe the goals and processes for on-boarding relevant individuals or groups.
• Explain how you will evaluate the success of your strategic plan.
  • Define successful implementation.
  • Describe the successful outcomes for this project.
  • Explain how will you compare outcomes to current performance benchmarks.
  • Explain how will you collect data to evaluate whether you have achieved specific goals and outcomes.
  • Identify your priorities, assuming you cannot accomplish everything.
• Explain how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influenced the design of your strategic plan and strategies for its implementation.
• Explain your role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Explain how leadership and health care theories support your role.
• Explain why your leadership qualities and skills will enable you to successfully implement your plan and sustain strategic direction.
  • Explain why should you be the one to lead this initiative.
  • Explain how have you demonstrated some or all of these qualities in past work.

Additional Requirements

In addition to your slide deck, submit any other relevant documentation or links for this assessment (if you used presentation software or technology other than PowerPoint).

GRADING RUBRIC:

1-  Summarize a strategic plan aimed at achieving desired quality or safety improvements within a care setting. 

Passing Grade:  Summarizes a strategic plan aimed at achieving desired quality or safety improvements within a care setting, and notes inherent weaknesses or threats. 

2-  Explain a strategy for communicating with stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction. 

Passing Grade:  Explains a strategy for communicating with stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction, and identifies assumptions on which the strategies are based. 

3-  Describe the necessary actions for aligning the structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills of a care setting with strategic goals. 

Passing Grade:  Describes the necessary actions for aligning the structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills of a care setting with strategic goals; proposes criteria for evaluating the success of orientation and on-boarding. 

4-  Explain how the implementation and outcomes of a strategic plan will be evaluated against current performance benchmarks. 

Passing Grade:  Explains how the implementation and outcomes of a strategic plan will be evaluated against current performance benchmarks, and identifies areas of uncertainty or knowledge gaps. 

5-  Explain how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influence the design of a strategic plan and strategies for its implementation. 

Passing Grade:  Explains how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influence the design of a strategic plan and strategies for its implementation; identifies potential conflicts related to cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations. 

6-  Explain one’s role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction. 

Passing Grade:  Explains one’s role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction, and identifies assumptions. 

7-  Explain why one’s leadership qualities and skills are well suited to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction. 

Passing Grade:  Explains why one’s leadership qualities and skills are well suited to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction, including plans that acknowledge opportunities for personal growth. 

8-  Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues. 

Passing Grade:  Communicates analyses clearly, logically, and persuasively, demonstrating professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues. Grammar and mechanics are virtually error-free. 

9-  Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. 

Passing Grade:  Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Citations are error-free. 

 Select a policy related problem that affects of persons, communities or society in general and write a policy issue paper dealing with the problem.  Include problem identification, background information (social, economic, ethical and political/legal factors), the issue statement, stakeholders, policy objectives, policy alternatives or evaluation of options, political feasibility, comparison of alternatives, and the results of your analysis .

The policy topic for this assignment is: FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY

10-12 pages and plagiarism free