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Reflect on the analysis of the sin of suicide and, thus, euthanasia from the topic readings. Do you agree? Why or why not? Refer to the lecture and topic readings in your response.

Due Date: Thursday 12 

PICOT is utilized by the health care community to identify and study a nursing or medical practice problem. Consequently, PICOT examples that may provide insight into the use of the PICOT process, may not be relevant to nursing practice as they are based on a medical practice problem.

Describe the difference between a nursing practice problem and a medical practice problem. Provide one example of each. Discuss why is it important to ensure your PICOT is based on a nursing practice problem.

The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem.

For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem. To support your PICOT question, identify six supporting peer-revised research articles, as indicated below. The PICOT question and six peer-reviewed research articles you choose will be utilized for subsequent assignments.

Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” to complete this assignment.

1. Select a nursing practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research. Start with the patient population and identify a clinical problem or issue that arises from the patient population. In 200–250 words, provide a summary of the clinical issue.
2. Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT question in your selected nursing practice problem area of interest. The PICOT question should be applicable to your proposed capstone project (the project students must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).
3. The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project. 
4. Conduct a literature search to locate six research articles focused on your selected nursing practice problem of interest. This literature search should include three quantitative and three qualitative peer-reviewed research articles to support your nursing practice problem.

Note: To assist in your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow or broaden your main topic. For example: Search for diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what research design was used in the articles the search produced, review the abstract and the methods section of the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods. Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews, and Metanalysis articles are good resources and provide a strong level of evidence but are not considered primary research articles.  Therefore, they should not be included in this assignment.

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. 

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

Read Chapter 15: Law and Professional Nursing Practice 

Answer: What measures are taken when a nurse is summoned to court for a legal action? Is a nurse more responsible than a doctor in the situation if both were involved with the patient’s care?

APA style (intext citations and references)

Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per DQ, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph.

Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.

Plagiarism FREE

Read and watch the lecture resources & materials below early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s).

(Note: The citations below are provided for your research convenience. Students should always cross reference the current APA guide for correct styling of citations and references in their academic work.)

Read

Black, B. P. (2017). Chapter 16

Online Materials & Resources

• Hart, C. (2015). The elephant in the room: Nursing and nursing power on an interprofessional team. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 46 (8) 349-355.
• Lindell, J. M., & Fowler, D. (2016). Innovating traditional nursing administration challenges. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 46(3), 120-121.
• Beard, E. L. & Sharkey, K. (2013). Innovation amidst radical cost containment in health care. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 37(2), 116-121.
• Institute of Medicine (2015). IOM releases progress report on the Future of Nursing 2020 goals available at https://www.nurse.com/blog/2015/12/10/iom-releases-progress-report-on-future-of-nursing-2020-goals/ (Links to an external site.)

QUESTION

Vision of Nursing

What is your vision for the future of nursing? How does your vision fit with the recommendations in the IOM report? What two action steps do you plan to take to promote this vision?

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.
• Your assignment will be graded according to the grading rubric.

  Please do not copy, my school uses Turn It In safe Assignment for Plagiarism

1. Go to https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives. “Healthy People 2030 objectives are organized into intuitive topics so you can easily find the information and data you’re looking for. Pick a topic you’re interested in and explore the relevant objectives.” (Healthy People 2020).

2. From any of the health conditions, health behaviors, populations, settings and systems and social determinants of health, choose three conditions or problems that are affecting our community and present a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation must include the following.

a. Mention and discuss “The Healthy People 2030” goals for the conditions, objectives to control or eradicate the conditions, the emergency preparedness and the role of our health care system in the prevention,  control and/or eradication of the conditions chosen. 

3. Identify the epidemiologic principles that were applied based on what you studied on the lecture.

4. The application of the three levels of prevention to each one of the conditions identified. 

5. Mention and discuss how the three conditions affect your community.

The presentation must be in APA PowerPoint format with a minimum of 15 slides (excluding first and references page). A minimum of 4 evidence-based references including the “Healthy People 2030” must be used. You must use the required APA font. 

Post a response to the following:

• Provide the case number in the subject line of the Discussion.
• List three questions you might ask the patient if he or she were in  your office. Provide a rationale for why you might ask these questions.  
• Identify people in the patient’s life you would need to speak to or  get feedback from to further assess the patient’s situation. Include  specific questions you might ask these people and why.
• Explain what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate for the patient and how the results would be used.
• List three differential diagnoses for the patient. Identify the one that you think is most likely and explain why.
• List two pharmacologic agents and their dosing that would be  appropriate for the patient’s ADHD therapy based on pharmacokinetics and  pharmacodynamics. From a mechanism of action perspective, provide a  rationale for why you might choose one agent over the other.
• If your assigned case includes “check points” (i.e., follow-up data  at week 4, 8, 12, etc.), indicate any therapeutic changes that you  might make based on the data provided.
• Explain “lessons learned” from this case study, including how you  might apply this case to your own practice when providing care to  patients with similar clinical presentations.

** Four references required

Goal:

Analyze and evaluate a middle range theory.  You will select a middle range theory and identify application of nursing theories into clinical practice.

Content Requirements:

1. Components of the theory
   • Discuss the major concepts of the theory
   • Philosophical basis or worldview change, advancing health
2. Structural aspects of the theory
   • Discuss the framework of the theory.
3. Identify an area of your practice where this theory could be applicable
   • What question does the theory help to answer?
   • Describe the area of interest in relationship to the theory/theoretical model.
   • Is it appropriate for the practice setting and is it applicable?
   • Discuss the strength and weakness of the theory. If there is weakness, discuss what makes it difficult to be used in practice.
4. Use of theory in clinical practice.
   • Performing a literature review is essential to completing this section. If there is no literature available about the application of this theory in practice, address reason(s) why based on your findings.
5. Evaluation of theory
   • Is this theory used to understand and apply into practice?
   • What difficulties did you encounter or would anticipate encountering in using this theory?
   • What would make this theory more usable or applicable to practice?

Submission Instructions:

• The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
• The paper should be formatted per current APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions.)
• The paper is to be 3 – 5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
• Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style.

*this assignment will be submitted by turnitin

Severe vs Moderate pain:

A patient put on their call light. When you go to their room to see what they need they state that they have pain. You ask them to rate it on a numeric pain scale and they report it to be a 9/10. You understand this is moderate to severe pain. When you look in their medical administration record, they have a PRN order for both 650 mg acetaminophen and 1mg morphine IV.

1. Which medication would you decide is more appropriate for this patient?
2. What will you monitor this patient for after you administer the medication?

Acetaminophen overdose:

A patient comes to the ED after her family found her at home with two empty bottles of acetaminophen and a note stating she no longer wished to live.

1. What do you anticipate will be ordered to help reverse the effects of the acetaminophen? Describe its mechanism of Action.
2. What will you monitor? Include laboratory studies and signs and symptoms of organ failure.