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Provide an example of interprofessional collaboration that was or might be utilized to improve patient outcomes.
Discuss why interprofessional collaboration is important for the improvement of patient outcomes.
As a nurse, you may encounter incivility, lateral violence, or outright bullying in the workplace. Provide an example of these behaviors from your experience or a news story.
Discuss the nurse’s role and a leader’s role in the incivility example.
This narrative should help students integrate leadership and inquiry into current practice.
This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and explain how they met a course competency or course objective(s).
Reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the course, by writing extensively about everything you know about the following 5 topics highlighted below, write at least 2 references for each topic below each question in 7th edition APA format. Scholarly articles are needed for this assignment, and should not be more than 5 years. Journal entries should address the 5 topics stated below.
1. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
2. Population health concerns
3. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
4. Health policy
5. Leadership and economic models
A patient has developed several complications of diabetes. The patient is currently being seen in the emergency department with diabetic ketoacidosis.
Use the nursing process as a framework to prepare an education summary about diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
What is hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome?
Outline a current or emerging health care law or federal regulation introduced to reform or restructure some aspect of the health care delivery system. Describe the effect of this on nursing practice and the nurse’s role and responsibility.
The field of nursing has changed over time. In a 750‐1,000-word paper, discuss nursing practice today by addressing the following:
1. Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
2. Compare the differentiated practice competencies between an associate (ADN) and baccalaureate (BSN) education in nursing. Explain how scope of practice changes between an associate and baccalaureate nurse.
3. Identify a specific client care situation and describe how nursing care, or approaches to decision making, differ between the BSN‐prepared nurse and the ADN nurse.
4. Discuss the significance of applying evidence‐based practice to nursing care and explain how the academic preparation of the RN‐BSN nurse supports its application.
5. Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective client outcomes.
What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis? How much of the drug should the patient receive? How often should the drug be administered? When should the drug not be prescribed? Are there individual patient factors that could create complications when taking the drug? Should you be prescribing drugs to this patient? How might different state regulations affect the prescribing of this drug to this patient?
What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis? How much of the drug should the patient receive? How often should the drug be administered? When should the drug not be prescribed? Are there individual patient factors that could create complications when taking the drug? Should you be prescribing drugs to this patient? How might different state regulations affect the prescribing of this drug to this patient?
Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of
transmission, complications, treatment).The demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).Describe the determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease.Discuss the epidemiologic triangle as it relates to the communicable disease you have selected. Include the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors. (The textbook describes the elements of
the epidemiologic triangle). Explain and describe the role of the community
health nurse (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).Identify at least one national agency or organization that addresses the communicable disease and
describe how the organization(s) contributes to resolving or reducing the impact of the disease.
Give references
You have had the opportunity to review thermoregulation as is pertains to the human body.
Explain what is thermoregulation
Why is thermoregulation important
Post a description of the patient case from your experiences, observations, and/or clinical practice from the last 5 years. Then, describe factors that might have influenced the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes of the patient you identified. Finally, explain details of the personalized plan of care that you would develop based on influencing factors and patient history in your case. Be specific and provide examples.