Category: Nursing

Step 1: Comparison of Nursing Specialties
write 2-3 paragraphs comparing the nursing specialty you have selected – or the one you prefer if your choice is still under consideration –  to your second preference. Identify each specialty and describe the focus and the role that graduates are prepared for. Identify any other differentiators you feel are significant, especially those that helped or may help you reach a decision.
Compare Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practioner vs. Family Nurse Practitioner. 
Step 2: Justification of Nursing Specialty
Use the space below to write a paragraph identifying and justifying your reasons for choosing your MSN specialization. Be sure to incorporate any feedback you received from colleagues in this week’s Discussion Forum.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practioner- justifications for choosing this specialty: I have personal experiences that allow me to contribute to this field in a manner that will continue to move in a new direction 
Step 3: Professional Organizations
Use the space below to identify and examine one professional organization related to your selected or preferred specialty. Explain how you can become a member of this organization.
Organization: American Psychiatric Nursing Association 

Instructions
Read the following:
Polit & Beck textbook, pp. 43–48 and Table 3.1 on p. 49
Read Advanced Practice Nursing Student (Link below)
Fill in the chart in this Word Document: Parts of an EBP (Word)
https://www-sciencedirect-com.regiscollege.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0260691718305276?via%3Dihub
Screenshots and chart attached.

I AM APPLIYING TO THE EVENING NURSING PROGRAM (BRIDGE PROGRAM) AT RIVIER UNIVERSITY.
I AM LOOKING TO FURTHER MY EDUACTION IN NURSING.
I HAVE BEEN A NURSE (LPN) SINCE DECEMBER 2013. I GRADUATED FROM GREATER LOWELL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ON JULY 2013. 
I AM CURRENTLY WORKING AS THE 11-7 NURSING SUPERVISOR AT MARY IMMACULATE NURSING RESTORATIVE  CENTER.
I HAVE TWO CHILDREN.
MY MOTHER WAS O.R. NURSE IN AFRICA.
FRENCH IS MY FIRST LANGUAGE.

INSTRUCTIONS: PART 1
Review the steps to guide moral decision-making (Table 18.1 in chapter 18 of the ebook Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice: A Practical Guide for Nursing) and the ethical concepts of autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.
Then, write 200–250 words using the discussion prompts to guide your initial post. Reply to at least two of your peers’ posts.
DISCUSSION PROMPTSHow are ethical principles adhered to when creating EBP guidelines?
Research one ethical principle of interest. How is the principle supported through evidence-based practice?
Review the Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice. How are these standards followed when implementing EBP?
PART 2
Find a current agency practice protocol or clinical practice guideline related to your group’s clinical problem. You will use this CPG/protocol to evaluate and confirm the rationale for the proposed intervention or EBP change (PICOT activity from module 1). Then, create a Microsoft Word document and answer the following questions. Your response should be a minimum of 3–5 sentences in length, original (in your own words), and use professional writing.
Provide a summary of the CPG/protocol.
What about the current practice guideline or protocol needs improvement?
How does the current practice guideline or protocol negatively impact patient outcomes?
What do you perceive as the biggest barrier to changing the CPG/protocol?

For this assessment, you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an
interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving
improvements in the organizational issue of interprofessional miscommunication in healthcare.
Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
Explain organizational resources, including a
financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on
those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought
by the plan.
Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
Describe an objective and predictions for an
evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective
related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain the collaboration needed by an
interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s
objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration
from the literature.
Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and
leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve
specific organizational goals.
Explain a change theory and a leadership
strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help
an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or
creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly,
evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient,
interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with
smooth transitions; contain few errors in grammar/punctuation, word
choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

1-What are the primary aims of the first psychiatric interview?
2-How should the initial interview be organized?

Instructions: Read the following case study, then answer the questions below. Cultural Case Study – Mr. and Mrs. S .docx Download Cultural Case Study – Mr. and Mrs. S .docx 
Download Cultural Case Study – Mr. and Mrs. S (3) (1).docx
1) List 2 different cultures interacting in this health care encounter?  
2) Give an example  of ethnocentrism.  
3) What evidence is there that cultural competence may need improvement on the part of providers in this case? 
4) What could the providers do to be more culturally competent? 

Instruction:
Choose an epidemiology graph of a chronic disease of your choice in a developing country from a peer reviewed resource.
Explain in one (1) paragraph why you chose that graph. A paragraph is minimum of three sentences. Describe in one (1) paragraph what the graph is illustrating.
Last paragraph should explain how the data from that graph may forecast the future of that disease and country.
Be sure to include the graph in your document on a separate page.
This assignment should be a minimum of 2 pages, one page with the written information (See items 2,3 and 4). The other page should include the graph with reference to where the graph was obtained from.

The purposes of this assignment are to understand the role of the APN in federal strategic planning and to identify actions the APN can take to attain plan goals within an individual practice. 
View the video:A brief overview/summary of the ONC’s 2020 to 2025 Federal Health IT strategic planLinks to an external site.
Review this infographic on the four goals for the 5-year period from the federal strategic plan
Compose a 2-3 page paper to answer the following questions:
What specific actions can you take as an APN to assist in attaining two or more of the four goals in the plan?   
What aspects of health information technology will assist you, or will be an obstacle, in your endeavors? 
What changes are required in the four domains of nursing practice to accomplish these two goals? The four domains of nursing practice in the CARE model: Federal Health IT Strategic Plan_2020_2025compressed.pdf Download Federal Health IT Strategic Plan_2020_2025compressed.pdfClinical, Administration, Research, and Education (of nurses). 

Part 1: Choose a condition from the following case studies: (Week 3 Case Study Details). I attached a copy of the case studies.
Part 2: Select two different students/topics and discuss the condition encompassing clinical experiences and critique the post.
Please use sources within the last 5 years.