Category: Questions

Review the Pediatric Case Study and analyze the data to determine the health status of the patient. You will need a minimum of two scholarly references to support your work.

After viewing the patient interactive information, address the following:

1. What important information is missing from the case study?
2. Discuss normal developmental achievements and potential vulnerabilities.
3. What precipitating factors could be contributing to the current symptoms?
4. What is the differential diagnosis?
5. Describe the etiology of the primary diagnosis.
6. How should physiologic complications be monitored and assessed?
7. What are the usual nonpharmacologic therapies that would help?
8. What medications could help and why?
9. Identify safety risks and how they should be dealt with in the treatment plan.

Include current supportive evidence in your responses to the questions above using two required resources from this week’s materials and one new resource. National guidelines should also be considered with treatment pla

Case Study:
1) You are the nurse manager for your unit. You have called a staff meeting and have encouraged the staff to bring concerns regarding staff satisfaction and care delivery. The focus of this meeting is to consider a new approach of self-scheduling. Before looking at how such an approach could actually be implemented, you want staff to consider the pros and cons of the current approach (managerial driven) versus the pros and cons of handing this over to the staff for self-scheduling. Construct a chart (4 sections: a pro section for each type and a con section for each type) to illustrate and clarify the dilemmas, challenges, benefits, issues, and problems associated with each. Please list at least 5 items in each of the sections. Be sure to look at this from in regards to the staff and the impact on care delivery.
2) Now assume that you and your group have decided to move forward with initiating self-scheduling for your unit on a trial basis. Before initiating this new approach, you will need to write some guidelines for self-scheduling that the staff must all follow. List at least 8 guidelines that all staff will follow.

Preventing heart failure patients frequent re-hospitalization.

Content Areas in an Evidence-Based Practice Poster
Content Areas to Include in an Evidence-Based Practice Poster
Background/significance: Provides the nature and/or importance of the clinical problem
Clinical question: States the PICOT question addressed
Search for evidence/accepted practice: Discusses the search parameters and methods and the evidence sources used
Presentation and critical appraisal of the evidence: Provides a succinct summary of the conclusions drawn from evaluating the available evidence
Clinical practice implications: Describes clinical practice implications

Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) is often used in order to improve Reliability. Select a well-known company (one of which all your classmates would have heard) that produces a product (not a service). Based on your reading for this week, respond to the following:

*What type(s) of equipment would your company use in producing their product?

*What kinds of malfunctions or breakdowns might occur with the type(s) of equipment that this company uses?

*How could a TPM program be useful in avoiding the kinds of malfunctions or breakdowns that might occur? In other words, what actions can be taken to prevent the malfunctions or breakdowns that might occur?

Reflection: Reimbursement and Quality
Using the information that you gathered in looking at Hospital Compare, Hospital Cost Compare, and the CMS document covering Value-Based Purchasing provide a written reflection:
• Explaining your findings for your organization (or one in your area that you are able to locate on both resources)
• Can you see a link between the quality/safety information and cost/reimbursement
• Exploring your thoughts on how CMS links quality to payment

Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were findings that 38% of adults use CAM [complementary and alternative medical] health care modalities.

Construct a professional paper that outlines how the use of the following CAM health care modalities impacts the cardiovascular system.
Ginseng
Hawthorn
L-Arginine
St. John’s Wort
For each of the modalities the discussion must include:
effect on the cardiovascular system
anticipated benefits
any identified risks or adverse effects
relative patient education

Choose a family in your community, and conduct a family health assessment addressing the questions below.

1. Family composition.
   Type of family, age, gender, and racial/ethnic composition of the family.
2. Roles of each family member. Who is the leader in the family? Who is the primary provider? Is there any other provider?
3. Do family members have any existing physical or psychological conditions that are affecting family function?
4. Home (physical condition) and external environment; living situation (this must include financial information). How the family support itself.
   For example, working parents, children or any other member
5. How adequately have individual family members accomplished age-appropriate developmental tasks?
6. Do individual family member’s developmental states create stress in the family?
7. What developmental stage is the family in? How well has the family achieved the task of this and previous developmental stages?
8. Any family history of genetic predisposition to a disease?
9. Immunization status of the family?
10. Any child or adolescent experiencing problems
11. Hospital admission of any family member and how it is handled by the other members?
12. What are the typical modes of family communication? It is affective? Why?
13. How are decisions made in the family?
14. Is there evidence of violence within the family? What forms of discipline are used?
15. How well the family deals with crisis?
16. What cultural and religious factors influence the family health and social status?
17. What are the family goals?
18. Identify any external or internal sources of support that are available?
19. Is there evidence of role conflict? Role overload?
20. Does the family have an emergency plan to deal with family crisis, disasters?
    Identify 3 nursing diagnosis and develop a short plan of care using the nursing process.

Health in the Global Community Women’s health

Describe globalization and international patterns of health and disease.

Identify international health care organizations and how they collaborate to improve global nursing and health care.

Identify and discuss the major indicators of women’s health.

Identify and discuss the barriers to adequate health care for women.

Identify and discuss the major indicators of men’s health status.

Mention and describe the physiological and psychosocial factors that have an impact on men’s health status.

Mention and discuss barriers to be improving men’s health.

Mention and discuss factors that promote men’s health.

Violent Behavior in Institutions

Statistics show that 48% of no fatal injuries from occupational assaults in the United States occurred in health care and social services particularly mental health workers.

1. Mention at least 3 precipitating factors for violent behavior in institutions?
2. Discuss each of them (3 precipitating factors).