Addressing Maternal Mortality Disparities: The Role of the APRN

1) An APRN is working in a regional perinatal center, coordinating nursing care provided to high-risk obstetric patients. The APRN knows that there are racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality.
Where could the APRN go to find information on maternal mortality disparities?
2) What SDOH are associated with maternal mortality?
3) How might an APRN participate in local efforts to reduce maternal mortality rates in the population level?
4) Which principles of ethics would guide the APRN’s attempts to support maximizing benefits to the undeserved maternal population protect such vulnerable groups? Why?

Evolving Landscape of News Media: Bias, Infotainment, and the Rise of Social Networks

Many experts see the media as biased and more like infotainment. In fact, many people have turned to social networks as an outlet for news instead of CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN and other news stations. Do you see this as an issue? Do you see the news as biased or unbiased? Should there be more restrictions on the news stations?

Comprehensive List of Relevant Information for Assessing Abdominal Pain

Make a comprehensive list of relevant information to gather when assessing abdominal pain.
How do you assess for masses in the abdomen and how you would document such findings?
Describe your findings on a previous patient that you have encountered where you have palpated a mass in the abdomen.
Musculoskeletal
Define, Compare, and Contrast the following conditions:
Osteoarthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis

 

 

Case Analysis: J.R. and Integrating Traditional Healing Practices

 

Case

J.R. is a nurse practitioner in a clinic on a large, isolated Indian reservation. The clients in his community have a disproportionately high rate of alcoholism and suicide. Poverty is widespread.
He believes the most important component of his job is to promote wellness among his clients. J.R. reaches out to the people of the community by providing wellness clinics and educational forums. He uses a holistic approach to health care, incorporating traditional Indian healing practices along with Western medicine.
Do you think is appropriate that J.R. is adapting his practice incorporating traditional Indian healing practices along with Western medicine? Support your answer with evidence base practice recommendation.
Once you received your case number; answer the specific question on the table above. Then, continue to discuss the 3 topics listed below for your case:
1. An effective health assessment incorporates not only physiological parameters; please suggest other parameters that should be considered and included on health assessments to reach maximal health potential on individuals.
2. Name the different family developmental stages and give examples of each one.
3. Describe family structure and function and the relationship with health care.

Economic Stability: A Key Determinant of Health Outcomes

 

Select an objective related to your assigned social determinant from the Healthy People website.
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/economic-stability
ECONOMIC STABILITY
a. Correctly identify your assigned social determinant. Briefly define the determinant and describe how it impacts healthcare outcomes.
b. Select an objective related to your assigned social determinant from the Healthy People website linked above. Identify the status of the objective and the population to whom the objective applies.
c. Provide at least three appropriate questions related to the chosen objective that the NP could incorporate into the health history and interview to assess the client and family.
d. Identify at least two online, national, or local resources and explain how the resources could help meet the chosen objective for at-risk clients or families.

Importance of Enhanced HIV Screening and Management in Nurse Practitioner Practice

 

My topic will be infectious disease. HIV

Over the course of the next eight weeks, we will be examining concepts related to nursing research and the translation of evidence to practice. To help you better understand the process, you will be identifying a practice issue for nurse practitioners. You will develop a PICOT question associated with the issue, find evidence to support a change in practice, and present your recommendations for change to your peers. This week, we will work on helping you refine your area of interest so that you will be able to develop a concise question for next week’s assignment. You are encouraged to use the area of interest you chose for the project in NR500NP and/or NR501NP; however, you may choose a different area if you wish.

Select an issue in nurse practitioner (NP) practice that is of interest to you and in which you would like to see a practice change occur. Conduct a review of literature to see what is currently known about the topic. In 1-2 paragraphs, describe the scope and relevance of the issue and your recommended change. Provide reference support from at least two outside scholarly sources to support your ideas. Please pick something you can do as a NP in your practice that is patient focused. Your intervention needs to relate to a measurable patient health outcome. Please avoid anything that would require a policy or law change, such as full-practice authority. Burnout and satisfaction surveys also are not appropriate topics as they are not patient centered.