Read Chapter 11

1. Why is the subject of workplace health and safety of concern to nurses? 

How are these concepts related to patient safety and patient outcomes? 

2. What action is suggested when you are faced with an angry or hostile coworker?

3. Why is substance misuse among nurses a serious concern? What is the most appropriate way to handle a suspicion that a coworker may be involved in serious substance misuse?

4. What is the most common physical injury experienced by LPNs and nursing assistants? How can a nurse manager help staff avoid physical injury at work? 

5. Describe several examples of sexual harassment in the workplace. Discuss methods of dealing with these instances.

6. Review the policies and procedures on the following safety issues in your current clinical rotation. Compare with other students in the class. What are the similarities and differences? What might this mean in terms of workplace safety? 

• Latex allergies

• Needlestick injuries

• Violence 

3. Go to the ANA website and explore the sections on workplace and patient safety under the heading “Professional Nursing Practice.” 

Which concepts discussed in these sections are particularly important to the beginning RN? Why? 

4. Interview one of the staff nurses on your unit. Explore his or her feelings and concerns related to the following topics. Based on the comments, develop strategies to address the concerns.

• Substance abuse among nurses

• Emergency preparation 

• Quality of work life within the organization 

Search the internet for the top 5 or 10 ethical issues in your chosen profession.  List and discuss each issues.  You must have one resource cited for this assignment.

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 HA3300D – Healthcare Policy and Ethics

Discussion 08: Harassment

Discussion 

In Chapter 10 of your textbook, you explored the relationship between organizational culture and ethics. Keep this reading in mind as you respond to the following case study:

You are the director of a radiology department. During a routine individual meeting with one of your male staff, the employee tells you that a female employee has been making suggestive remarks to him, and occasionally grabbed and fondled him in a sexual manner. He said he asked her several times to stop this behavior as he was married and did not appreciate the behavior, particularly in a work setting. The behavior continued anyway. The male employee asks you not to report this further because he did not want to get the female employee in trouble and he brought it up only for ideas how to make her stop it.

Consider these questions in your 8 – 10 sentence discussion board post:

.What are your ethical obligations?

.What ethical theories apply to your situation, and why?

.Does the work of Carol Gilligan change how we should respond in this scenario? Why or why not?

Your initial post should be a minimum of 8 – 10 sentences and include an APA-style references list to ensure full credit.

HPI

• Change “strange symptoms” and use the term that the patient used in stating her problem. Note the amount and consistency of the blood and if how many times she changed pantyliners in one day, if its soaked or not. 
• 1/10 is a pain scale, if there is no pain do not use the scale and instead state that she don’t feel any pain
• I got confused if weight loss is related to her symptoms or diet
• HPI means history of present illness, previous illnesses should be on the past health history
• Change the statement for the negative papsmear result to “but the patient claimed that she has positive result.”

OLDCART” which stands for Onset, Location, Duration, Characteristics, Aggravating Factors, Relieving Factors/Radiation and Treatment 

• Character- should describe the blood/spotting
• Aggravating factors- for ex.if the bleeding happens after sexual intercourse, during activity etc
• Relieving factors- does not stop with any remedy

Medications -state how long she is taking the drug and if she’s compliant with her prescriptions

Hospitalizations-rearrange it according to dates, first is when she was 8

Family history-state cause of death of the parents and you stated the age of her siblings twice

Social history 

• occupation is kinda confusing, state the job that she retired on. 
• how many times is a frequent visit? 2-3x a week?once? Pls indicate 

ROS

General- is wt loss sudden?

PhysicalExam

General- Appears alert? 

Skin – pls describe the color of skin not the race, is the skin cold?warm to touch?

HEENT- describe the color of sclera

GI-what do you mean by the abdomen is obese? Pls describe using appropriate medical terms

Breast-I’m sorry i did not understand what you meant by  breast is selling and palpable axillary lymph?

Musculoskeletal- i think you no longer need to state that you observed the rom on waiting area?

Neuro – are you not required to take the reflexes such as tendon reflex, etc? 

Less than 10 % similarity

References APA

This is another student post to which i have to react adding some extra information related this post. 

short answers.

The adolescence is a difficult stage in the lives of any person, however at present is become a really nightmare in some case .We are living in a world that move to fast at some time we do not have time to stop and think carefully some decision in this scenario have a paramount role the program that we can apply in order to reduce the stress. With the teens is especially difficult because many of them not divulge theirs feeling. Middle school students can be entirely vulnerable to push due to the enormous changes they are encountering genuinely, inwardly, socially, and mentally during these years.

 According Weber,2019 they might be encountering stressors, for example, schoolwork load, a bustling timetable, peer pressure, test uneasiness, grades, picture concerns, absence of help, and changes in schedule. Even though many students experience worry, there are solid ways for guardians and understudies to create adapting procedures to oversee it. Guardians can help their kids by training them time the board abilities; guaranteeing they aren’t overscheduled; empowering rest, work out, and good dieting; observing parental weight, empowering outside play, and permitting the kid to have a great time(Weber,2019). Exist programs that uses peer advocate, this mean that we educate high school student about depression and fight again this disease. Also help to reduce the stigma about the people that suffer this disease and encourage people to find any kind of help.

The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) program, it uses a “peer advocate” method to educate high school students about depression and teach them effective methods to convey this knowledge to peers in order to reduce stigma, raise awareness and encourage help-seeking(Starkman,2018). This student advocate is selected by teacher, counselors, and nurses, they learn about techniques that help to reduce the stress and them creates different activities where they can use all that knowledge. Activities like teaching session, make poster about the fight against this disease, also create confidential way to express any kind of feeling or having yoga in the cafeteria of the school( Starkman,2018).This activities help Jamal to feel more confident and ask for help if he have any depression symptoms .

References

Weber, L. (2019). Youth first. Retrieved from https://youthfirstinc.org/managing-stress-for-middle-school-students/

Starkman, M. (2018). Helping depressed teens: A school peer program that works. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/call/201803/helping-depressed-teens-school-peer-program-works

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Discussion: School Health Issues

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, as defined by the World Health Organization. Nationally, there is growing interest in preventing health problems and promoting behaviors that improve individual and community health. The challenge is to use what has been learned about effective strategies to prevent health adversities and to encourage the widespread and consistent practice of healthy behaviors.

Due to changing family conditions and numbers of students attending school with health problems, the traditional role of providing assessment and screening for all students has broadened to include a focus on the physical condition of younger students, as well as substance abuse, early pregnancy, and sexually transmitted disease among older students. School health encompasses a range of activities that promote and protect student health. 

LINK (http://www.maine.gov/education/sh/contents/)

1. In your opinion how much responsibility should public schools take for the health of their students? 
2. Would you consider that public schools with a fairly strong and active health program are crossing over from the business of just an educator to that of a public health/health care provider? 
3. Who should pay for these additional services and programs for our children?

PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT FPR REQUIRED READING

Please post your response by the end of this module and critique the response of at least one other student.

Vaccines have effectively produced protection to a wide variety of infectious microbes.

• What infectious microbe would you create a vaccine to protect people from the disease?
• Describe how you would design the vaccine.
• What are some new additives being used in vaccines and how do they help produce immunity?
• How much will the vaccine cost?
• Who should receive your vaccine?

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

This should be between 300-500 words. 

Sue T. is the nurse manager for medical-surgical units at a community hospital.  She is currently enrolled in a nursing master’s degree program at the local university.  As part of the requirements for a Nursing Management course, Sue proposes to conduct a study linking nursing interventions and nursing outcomes.  She returns to her place of employment at night for two weeks to audit patient charts and collect the data she needs for her assignment.  She makes copies of the patient records that are particularly helpful and takes them home to write the final paper.  

As Sue is developing her paper, she realizes that the information she has collected may be helpful in completing her nursing staff performance evaluations due next month.   She decides to collect further patient outcome data for individual nurses to monitor their performance.

Consider the following 

1. Has Sue violated ethical principles by collecting data for a college assignment? Why or Why not? 
2. Has Sue violated ethical principles by collecting patient data for employee performance evaluations? Why or Why not? 
3. What, if anything, should Sue have done differently in completing her college assignment? 
4. What, if anything, should Sue have done differently in completing her employee performance evaluations? 

 Do you have the courage to ask for honest feedback? Do you have the courage to give honest feedback to a friend or colleague? How do you respond to negative feedback?

Instructions:

APA format (intext citations and references)

Plagiarism FREE

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

·      All answers or discussions comments submitted must be in APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.) 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

·      Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.

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