Category: Nursing

  • Title: Cultural Influences on Health and Healing Practices in Asian-American Communities

    Describe health and illness practices that may augment problems associated with the treatment of hypertension for Chinese-American clients. 
    Describe the locus-of-control variable that some Filipino Americans have that may influence health-seeking behavior.
    Describe the importance of folk medicine and folk healers to Vietnamese Americans. 
    Submission Instructions:
    Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted, and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.  Your initial post is worth 8 points.
    You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.) 
    Incorporate a minimum of 2 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles should be referenced according to the current APA style (the online library has an abbreviated version of the APA Manual).

  • Title: “Assessment and Management of Respiratory Symptoms in a 70-Year-Old Male Smoker” Questions to Elicit Patient’s History: 1. How long have you been experiencing this productive cough? 2. Can you describe the

    A 70-year-old male patient presented to your clinic with complaint of a “ productive cough” x 2 weeks. Confirms fever, mild dyspnea on exertion, chills, tachycardia, and chest congestion. Describes cough as productive with clear to yellow sputum. Medical history includes  nicotine dependence for 30 years smoking 1 pack per day.  On inspection, patient appeared to be tachypneic with respiratory rate at 30,  HR at 104, febrile with temperature of 101,  02 saturations at 91% on RA with crackles heard in all lung fields. The nurse practitioner noticed that patient could not complete  sentences without pausing to take a deep breath.
    Discuss at least five questions you would ask this patient to elicit a history about the patient’s symptoms.
    List three physical findings in the respiratory examination that will concern you as the nurse practitioner
    What differential diagnosis would you consider as the nurse practitioner seeing this patient?

  • Weekly Engagement Report: Selection of Disaster Scenario – FLOODS in South Florida

    Weekly Engagement Report Instructions:
    this week meeting will be about a Selection of a Disaster Scenario which will be FLOODS and its risk in south florida
    Summary of Meetings:
    Begin your report with a brief summary of the meetings held during the week. Include the number of meetings, dates, and duration.
    Highlight the main objectives or topics discussed in each meeting.
    Participation Details:
    List the names of the participants and their roles or contributions during the meetings.
    Mention any noteworthy contributions or ideas shared by individual members.
    Key Outcomes:
    Describe the outcomes of the meetings. What decisions were made or what progress was achieved?
    If any action items were assigned, specify who is responsible and the expected deadlines.
    Plans for Next Week:
    Outline the planned meetings for the next week, including tentative dates and topics.
    Set goals or learning objectives for the upcoming week’s meetings.
    example attached

  • “Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practice Quality Improvement Project: Sections I-III”

    Purpose
    As a master’s-prepared advance practice nurse, you will have many opportunities to lead evidence-based change in practice. The deliverable at the end of this course/program is a completed evidence-based practice quality improvement project prepared for dissemination. In this assignment, students will begin the dissemination process through the scholarly writing of their MSN project manuscriipt Sections I-III. Please refer to the MSN project template to help guide the development of the evidence-based practice quality improvement project manuscriipt. You may use your initial work that you started in your project proposal template in NR528 but you will need to include more details, particularly in the literature review and synthesis section.
    A printed version of these assignment guidelines are available below.
    NR662 MSN-Project Manuscriipt Section I-III Guidelines and Rubric Links to an external site.
    NR662 MSN-Project Template MSN Generalist Links to an external site.
    Course Learning Outcomes
    This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
    CO 1: Apply a process improvement model to affect positive evidence-based change in a practice setting. (POs 1,5)
    CO 4: Disseminate findings of scholarly work. (POs 3,4,5)
    Due Date
    This assignment has a suggested due date of Sunday 11:59 pm MT at the end of Module 2.
    Final due date is Sunday 11:59 pm MT at the end of Module 7.
    Total Points Possible
    160 points
    Assignment Overview
    This assignment will assist you with the information needed to complete the MSN project manuscriipt for dissemination. In this assignment, you will complete all of the sections I-III of the MSN project template. Some of the sections you have already completed in previous assignments so you are allowed to re-use this information. It will be important to make sure you have reviewed and incorporated faculty feedback when adding in these sections to your manuscriipt from previous coursework. Make sure to adhere to the graduate-level writing style expectations.
    Assignment Instructions
    Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
    Complete sections I-III of the MSN project template.
    Sources older than five years may not be used without the permission of the class professor.
    Title page, pagination, subheadings, body of paper, citation of sources, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the most current edition of the manual.
    Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the most current edition of the APA Manual.
    Please note: If you do not receive a proficient rating in any major content category, you can re-submit your assignment with revisions in those content categories to receive a better grade. You have one additional opportunity to revise after the initial submission in order to make improvements. The initial submission must be a complete paper, and rough drafts will not be graded. All revisions must be submitted no later than Sunday of Module 7 at 11:59pm. (You cannot revise your APA for a higher grade in that category)

  • “Gung Ho! Principles in the Operating Room: Improving Morale and Teamwork”

    please see File for additional information.
    I work in the operating room, please use real life examples.
    Book Resource:
    Blanchard, K. & Bowles, S. (1998). GUNG HO! New York, NY: William Morrow & Company. Book 1 – 176.
    Read the book. Discover principles – strategically applied will improve morale of individuals, teams and organizations.

  • Title: The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Interventions in Reducing Burnout among Nurses in Intensive Care Units: A Critical Analysis of High-Level Evidence

    THIS ASSIGNMENT BASICALLY INVOLVES DEVELOPING A RESEARCH QUESTION THEN IN RELATION TO AN AREA OF NURSING PRACTICE (AM HAPPY FOR YOU TO CHOOSE THE AREA, MAYBE EMERGENCY OR INTENSIVE CARE) THEN SOURCING HIGH LEVEL RESEARCH TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, I AM INTERESTED IN NURSING BURNOUT AND THE EFFECTS OF AN INTERVENTION (MINDFULNESS) BUT AM OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS HERE. Apply the use of high-level evidence in clinical practice. Construct a research question in relation to an area of practice and conduct a search of to identify evidence to answer the question and make recommendations for practice. Also discuss the barriers to evidence-informed practice that may exist in your clinical setting and strategies to address these barriers.
    This assessment provides the opportunity to apply the use of high-level evidence in clinical
    practice (knowledge translation). construct a research question in relation to an area of practice and conduct a search to identify
    evidence to answer the question and make recommendations for practice. You will also discuss
    the barriers to evidence-informed practice that may exist in your clinical setting, and strategies to address these barriers.
    Assignment structure
    • Introduction – provides a road map for the paper (what are you
    going to discuss in 1-2 sentences)
    • Paragraph 1
    • Explain the reason why you have chosen this question (criterion 1)
    • Main body of paper – address the remaining criteria in the
    rubric. Note the criteria with the highest marks allocated –
    this should get more focus in your paper
    • Brief 1-3 sentence conclusion summarising what you covered
    in the paper
    Criterion 1: Identifies and briefly describes a specific
    aspect of practice. (10%)
    • Why have you chosen this question?
    • Suggest providing data or other reasons to support
    this discussion (these need to be referenced)
    Criterion 2: Develop a specific research question & conduct
    the appropriate search for high level evidence.
    • Content for weeks 8 – 11 relevant to this criterion
    • Question needs to be clear and answerable
    • Need to undertake a search & provide brief descriiption so the
    marker understands how and where you searched & terms used
    • Identify the three highest pieces of evidence, demonstrating
    your knowledge of levels of evidence – attach the abstract/s or
    summary/summaries of the high-level evidence as appendices
    Criterion 3: Critically analyses available evidence
    with application to practice setting (25%)
    • What are the recommendations? (what do the
    resources say in answer to your question?)
    • Do you get a clear answer? How does that relate to
    (your) current practice?
    • If you don’t get a clear answer, can you draw any
    conclusions?

  • Title: Patient and Family Education on Cancer Risk Reduction and Screening Strategies

    is will be done in class…be prepared to share your screen and fully participate
    Doris Bowman, a 39-year-old diagnosed with uterine fibroids, dysmenorrhea, and menorrhagia, is scheduled for a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. She has a family history of uterine and ovarian cancer. She asks the nurse what she can do to further reduce her risk for cancer and is also concerned for her family members. What patient and family education should the nurse present on risk reduction strategies, health promotion, and cancer screening? 
    1. What is the scenario asking?
    2. Answer the question or questions being asked
    3. What will you note when reviewing this situation at first?

  • Title: “Mounjaro and Ozempic: A Comparative Analysis of Two Novel Drugs for Diabetes and Obesity Management”

    Mounjaro and Ozempic have gained attention due to their efficacy in managing conditions such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. Discuss about similarities, differences, and clinical implications of these two new drugs.