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Identify the difference between an ambulatory care facility and an acute care facility and how this might change the role of information technology. What is the difference between an ambulatory care and an acute care facility? What are some other areas to consider before designing the technology solution?
After prompt analysis of your patient, you decide to institute treatment for osteoporosis. Which class medication is considered as the first-line treatment? Are there any considerations to be taken prior starting therapy? Which recommendations would you provide to the patient regarding this treatment?
What facts and principles do you already know about the causes of pressure injury?
Do you have enough information to provide interventions for Mrs. Peterson’s actual impaired skin integrity? If not, what do you still need to find out?
What do you know about positioning clients? How would you explain to the UAP how to position Mrs. Peterson “to prevent further pressure on her sacrum”?
What reassessments would you make to evaluate Mrs. Peterson’s skin integrity problem? When evaluating the diagnosis of self-care deficit, what reassessments would you make? Who can or should evaluate the issues identified? How often, or when, would you reassess?
What is one problem not described in the scenario that might arise?
Demonstrate principles of professional identity and professionalism for the nurse within the context of regulatory and practice standards.
Scenario
You are assigned to discuss your professional identity with your peers on the unit during a meeting and have decided to present the attributes using an infographic. The goal is to encourage all nurses to examine attributes and identify their professional identity to improve professionalism in the healthcare setting. As a nurse leader, you want your infographic to include the attributes that have guided your growth within the profession. As a leader of the unit, you work to grow the nurses on the unit and want to encourage them to identify their professional identity as the leaders to focus on succession planning. Your goal is to develop your infographic and share with other nurses to encourage them to examine the attributes to grow within the profession.
Instructions
Create an infographic that includes the attributes you believe support your professional identity. Include the following:
Identify 10 attributes that form your professional identity based on professional standards.
Reflect on why each of the attributes were selected for your professional identity.
Determine the attributes that are important for nurse leaders.
Identify how diversity and teamwork plays a role in developing your professional identity.
Discuss
How this law was created
Legal definition of death, describe
Define dying within context of faith, basic principle about human life
Bioethical Analysis of Pain Management – Pain Relief
What is the difference between Pain and suffering? Explain
Diagnosis / Prognosis: define both.
Ordinary / Extraordinary means of life support. Explain the bioethical analysis.
Killing or allowing to die? Define both and explain which one is ethically correct and why?
Catholic declaration on life and death; give a summary of this document: https://ecatholic-sites.s3.amazonaws.com/17766/documents/2018/11/CDLD.pdf (Links to an external site.)
What is free and informed consent from the Catholic perspective?
Define Proxi, Surrogate
Explain:
Advance Directives
Living Will
PoA / Durable PoA
DNR
DC is a 46-year-old female who presents with a 24-hour history of RUQ pain. She states the pain started about 1 hour after a large dinner she had with her family. She has had nausea and on instance of vomiting before presentation.
Explain your diagnosis for the patient, including your rationale for the diagnosis.
Describe an appropriate drug therapy plan based on the patient’s history, diagnosis, and drugs currently prescribed.
Justify why you would recommend this drug therapy plan for this patient. Be specific and provide examples.
Identify and discuss at least two potential ethical issues that could be of concern for nurses with telehealth delivered care.
Distractions are everywhere. They may include cellphones, multiple alarms sounding, overhead paging, monitors beeping, and various interruptions that disrupt your clinical practice.
Give an example of an ethical or legal issue that may arise if a patient has a poor outcome or sentinel event because of a distraction such as alarm fatigue. What does evidence reveal about alarm fatigue and distractions in healthcare when it comes to patient safety?
Planning for our patients during times of transitions (for example: hospital to home, home to rehabilitation facility) involves collaboration with a number of healthcare professionals. Please address the following questions:
· How does your facility promote interprofessional collaboration during times of patient transitions?
· What is the role of the nurse in patient transitions?
· What gaps can you identify in this process related to quality of care? (If you are not currently in practice, please use a previous role or clinical experience in your answers.)
Describe strategies to make the off-label use and dosage of drugs safer for children from infancy to adolescence. Include descriptions and names of off-label drugs that require extra care and attention when used in pediatrics.