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• You are not required to initiate a thread, however, everyone must post at least once . There is no minimum or maximum word count. You will be graded on the relevance of your post to the topic and the application of the concepts.
• When responding to your peers, you should extend, refute/correct, or add additional nuance to their posts. 
• All replies must be constructive and follow proper netiquette. Click here to go to the Academic Continuity Guide for Students and read the Course Communication Guidelines (Netiquette)Links to an external site..

Based on your assigned readings and lecture materials this week, engage with your peers and me by initiating a thread or responding to another peer’s thread or one of my threads. You should post a minimum of three times.

• Is there something you are learning this week that you are excited about?
• Can you apply any of the concepts this week to the career you are interested in pursuing?
• Do you have any questions about the concepts you are learning this week?

• You are not required to initiate a thread, however, everyone must post at least once . There is no minimum or maximum word count. You will be graded on the relevance of your post to the topic and the application of the concepts.
• When responding to your peers, you should extend, refute/correct, or add additional nuance to their posts. 
• All replies must be constructive and follow proper netiquette. Click here to go to the Academic Continuity Guide for Students and read the Course Communication Guidelines (Netiquette)Links to an external site..

follow all directions

1. Identify a nurse-driven topic of interest related to a current challenge in nursing or your workplace and explain why it is a nursing problem. This topic will be used to complete the remainder course assignments. Be sure to review any feedback from the faculty this week posted on the discussion board.
2. Evidence-based practice uses the PICOT model for formulating a searchable question. Follow the guide below to answer the questions that will help you develop your PICOT question. Support your response by citing and referencing either the course lesson or assigned textbook.

• P = Population: How would you describe the group of patients in question?
• I = Intervention: What main nursing intervention within your scope of practice are you considering implementing to improve patient outcomes?
• C = Comparison: Is there an alternative to compare with the intervention?
• O = Outcome: What do you hope to accomplish, improve or affect from the implementing the nursing intervention?
• T = Timeframe: What would be the timeframe for data collection or time to measure the outcome?

1. Based on your responses, use the sample below to develop your clinical PICOT question. State your clinical question.

In elderly patients (P), does a fall risk assessment tool (I) compared to none (C) affect fall rates (O) by hospital discharge (T)?

Need a little help and some ideas for the discussion board. 

 After reviewing the obstetrics chapter, identify and discuss a root operation that you find interesting. Do you think finding root operations in the obstetrics chapter will be easier than the medical surgical section? Why or why not? What are some other aspects of obstetric coding that you find interesting?