Category: Nursing

Review Ch. 3 & CH. 25 and all readings:
1. Read Chapter 3 & Chapter 25. Identify and discuss three advantages of
and three problems with integrative health-care practices.
2. Select three (3) nursing
theories from Chapter 3 that use a holistic approach to nursing. Identify how and what alternative
practices would work well with each one of these theories.

Prepare a workplace brief (8-10 double-spaced pages) to address a privacy breach that occurred in a health care organization. Include the consequences of failure to act and evidence-based recommendations for addressing the breach.
Health care is one of the most heavily regulated major industries in the United States. Leaders are challenged to stay current and to comply with federal, state, and local laws and their associated regulations. Health care organizations are also responsible to meet industry standards. In some cases, payers equate meeting industry standards with achieving and maintaining accreditation. In fact, many payers consider accreditation a minimum condition of participation. In addition, individual licensure and certification requirements establish basic expectations for health care leaders’ professional conduct.
In summary, health care leaders are responsible to:
Meet ethical personal, professional conduct, certification, and licensure expectations.
Comply with local, state, and federal health care and human resources laws.
Provide evidence of compliance with existing regulations and scan the field for emerging regulations.
Identify and meet appropriate accrediting body standards (for example, Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals standards).
As an individual’s health care leadership career advances, so does the corresponding level of accountability. Not knowing the laws or regulations is not an excuse for not complying with them.
This assessment allows you to demonstrate your knowledge of and skills relating to compliance concepts, and governmental and regulatory agencies that oversee health care service delivery, billing, and general operations. You will also have the opportunity to apply the components necessary to initiate and maintain an effective compliance program. Finally, you will consider relevant human resources laws that may pertain to your compliance recommendations.
In this assessment, you are assuming the role of an early careerist in risk management and quality improvement at one of Vila Health’s community-based hospitals. Vila Health is a medium-sized system of health operating facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. You are working on a team-based initiative under the supervision of the Vila Health Chief Compliance Officer. Your role is to assist in addressing a specific compliance risk regarding a breach of privacy and a potential HIPAA violation. A Vila Health employee has disclosed—without prior written authorization—a patient’s protected personal health information.
Here is the information the team has collected about the privacy breach and potential HIPAA violations to date. A Vila Health supervisor instructed an employee to obtain pre-authorization for an upcoming surgical procedure for a patient. The Vila Health employee submitted confidential, protected health care information about the patient to the insurance company. The Member Services Representative at the insurance company contacted the Vila Health supervisor. The insurance company representative indicated that further discussion of the matter without prior written consent from the patient is prohibited.
As part of the team exploring theprivacy breach, you will prepare a workplace brief with authoritative, evidence-based references to support your work.
You are already familiar with HIPAA but may want to conduct independent research to enhance your knowledge. Consult this resource for additional guidance on how to conduct research using credible sources: Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide.
This is a workplace brief rather than an academic paper. Download the Compliance Program Implementation and Ethical Decision-Making Template [DOCX] Download Compliance Program Implementation and Ethical Decision-Making Template [DOCX]. Be sure to address all of the following in your brief:
Background
Include a short paragraph of no more than five or six sentences describing the known details about the privacy breach and HIPAA violation.
Privacy Breach—HIPAA Violation
Summarize the relevant health care compliance concepts that apply to this privacy breach and HIPAA violation. Be sure to consider the following:
Federal, state, and local laws and associated regulations.
Disclosure.
Human resource concepts and laws.
Industry and accrediting body standards.
Seven Essential Elements of an Effective Compliance Program
Apply to this HIPAA breach the seven essential components of an effective health care compliance program, as determined within the Federal Register.
Privacy Breach Consequences
Provide a synopsis of the consequences for an individual leader and for other internal health care organization stakeholders for not taking immediate actions to address a privacy breach. At a minimum, be sure to consider all of the following in your synopsis:
Patient safety.
Financial losses.
Individual and organizational violations of the law.
Evidence-Based Recommendations
Construct evidence-based recommendations to resolve the HIPAA-related privacy breach. You may also want to include relevant information related to:
Human resource laws.
Professional codes of ethical conduct and standards.
Previous case precedents.
Current alleged health care legal violations.
For help in identifying appropriate evidence-based recommendations, you may want to visit some of the authoritative sources, such as the DOJ/OIG, CMS/HHS, et cetera, listed under the suggested resources for this assessment.
Ethical Decision-Making Framework for Health Care Leaders
Describe an ethical decision-making framework as one of your concluding recommendations. Tip: You may want to use the ACHE’s ethical decision-making framework.
Conclusion
Write a paragraph that summarizes the following:
Key concepts.
Importance of compliance.
Best practices to monitor for future quality improvements.
Short list of resources.Be sure to include all appropriate citations.
Written communication: Use the Compliance Program Implementation and Ethical Decision-Making Template linked above. Your workplace brief needs to be clear, concise, well-organized, and generally free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. The title page, citations, and references need to be in the current APA format.
Length: Approximately 8–10 typed, double-spaced content pages in Times New Roman, 12-point font, including the By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:Competency 1: Analyze health care laws and regulations from a local, state, and federal level.Summarize the relevant health care compliance concepts that apply to a HIPAA privacy breach.
Competency 3: Assess the importance of continuous readiness in the health care organization.Apply the seven essential elements of an effective compliance program to a HIPAA privacy breach.
Recommend evidence-based actions to address a HIPAA privacy breach.
Describe a health care, industry-approved, ethical decision-making framework.
Competency 4: Explain how governing body and regulatory agency standards exercise oversight authority within a health care organizational setting.Provide a synopsis of the consequences to individual leaders and other internal stakeholders of not addressing a HIPAA privacy breach.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with the expectations of health care professionals.Write a clear, concise, well-organized, and generally error-free workplace brief addressing a HIPAA privacy breach that is reflective of professional communication in the health care field.
reference page. See the APA 7th Edition Example Paper [PDF] Download APA 7th Edition Example Paper [PDF].
Title page: Develop a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words. It should stir interest, yet maintain professional decorum. Ensure that your title page conforms to the current APA format.
References: Include a minimum of six current, authoritative citations and references in the current APA format. See Evidence and APA for more information.
Scoring guide: Please review the scoring guide for this assessment so that you understand how your faculty member will evaluate your work.

Using the linked template below document the progress towards the achievement of each course objective. For every objective, the student must submit a narrative report which must contain the following elements:-How the objective was met, if met.
-By meeting the objective, what changes does the student expect to implement in their personal nursing practice.

I have a resume that needs revised for a new position. I am a corrections nurse and I want to go into acute care nursing. 
I need to add my skills and qualifications to this resume as a corrections nurse, but I don’t know how to set the resume up so that it looks clean with all the information needed.
These are my skills and qualifications 
### Clinical Skills
1. **Medical Assessment and Triage**: Ability to assess and prioritize patient care needs quickly and effectively.
2. **Wound Care**: Proficiency in treating wounds, including infections, lacerations, and other injuries.
3. **Medication Administration**: Experience in administering medications, including injections and IV therapy.
4. 
**Chronic Disease Management**: Knowledge of managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma.
5. **Emergency Response**: Ability to respond to medical emergencies and perform CPR, first aid, and use of AEDs.
6. **Infection Control**: Strong understanding of infection control protocols and practices.
### Correctional Facility Skills
1. **Security and Safety**: Awareness of security procedures and ability to maintain a safe environment for staff and inmates.
2. **Behavioral Health**: Experience in dealing with mental health issues and providing psychiatric care.
3. 
**Crisis Intervention**: Skills in de-escalating conflicts and managing crises within the inmate population.
4. **Documentation and Record Keeping**: Accuracy in maintaining detailed and confidential medical records.
5. **Patient Education**: Ability to educate inmates on health maintenance, disease prevention, and treatment plans.
### Interpersonal Skills
1. **Communication**: Strong verbal and written communication skills, crucial for interacting with inmates, colleagues, and other stakeholders.
2. **Empathy and Compassion**: Demonstrating care and concern for inmate patients while maintaining professional boundaries.
3. **Cultural Competence**: Ability to work with a diverse population and understand different cultural health practices and beliefs.
4. **Team Collaboration**: Experience working as part of a healthcare team, including collaborating with doctors, other nurses, and security personnel. 
### Technical Skills
1. **Electronic Health Records (EHR)**: Proficiency in using EHR systems to document patient care and manage medical records.
2. **Medical Equipment Use**: Knowledge in operating medical equipment used in a correctional setting. 
### Organizational Skills
1. **Time Management**: Ability to manage time effectively and prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment.
2. **Attention to Detail**: High level of accuracy in patient care and record-keeping.
Including these skills in your resume will help to show potential employers that you have the specific abilities and experience necessary to excel in a corrections nurse role. Be sure to provide examples of how you’ve applied these skills in your past work experiences.

Choose a peer reviewed article on  interval or margin of errors and confidence interval. You must have one citing from the article of choice. Please cite at least once from the article and once from the enclosed attachement 
Confidence Intervals
In everyday terms, a confidence interval is the range of values around a sample statistic (such as mean or proportion) within which clinicians can expect to get the same results if they repeat the study protocol or intervention, including measuring the same outcomes the same ways. As you ask yourself, “Will I get the same results if I use this research?”, you must address the precision of study findings, which is determined by the Confidence Interval. If the CI around the sample statistic is narrow, you can be confident you will get close to the same results if you implement the same research in your practice.
Consider the following example. Suppose that you did a systematic review of studies on the effect of tai chi exercise on sleep quality, and you found that tai chi affected sleep quality in older people. If, according to your study, you found the lower boundary of the CI to be .49, the study statistic to be 0.87, and the upper boundary to be 1.25, this would mean that each end limit is 0.38 from the sample statistic, which is a relatively narrow CI.
(UB + LB)/2 = Statistic [(1.25 + .49)/2 = .87]
Keep in mind that a mean difference of 0 indicates there is no difference; this CI does not contain 0. Therefore, the sample statistic is statistically significant and unlikely to occur by chance.
Because this was a systematic review, and tai chi exercise has been established from the studies you assessed as helping people sleep, based on the sample statistics and the CI, clinicians could now use your study and confidently include tai chi exercises among possible recommendations for patients who have difficulty sleeping.
Now you can apply your knowledge of CIs to create your own studies and make wise decisions about whether to base your patient care on a particular research finding.
Initial Post Instructions
Find an example of a confidence interval in the news, scholarly source or medical journal. Summarize the article/study. Does the article/study include the sample size and the level of confidence used to create the confidence interval? Explain what the confidence interval means in context of the news article or scholarly source.
You may refer to this topic for more info https://builtin.com/data-science/confidence-intervals-explained
This week we are talking about confidence interval and how the true population mean can not be calculated exactly but we can estimate it using sample mean and then providing a confidence interval to give a range of estimation. When you compute a confidence interval on the mean, you compute the mean of a sample in order to estimate the mean of the population. Clearly, if you already knew the population mean, there would be no need for a confidence interval. 

Please use APA style to answer the following 5 questions. Please answer questions in paragraph form for each question.
Class: Pharmacology for FNP’s (Family Nurse Practitioners)
-You can answer the questions as you want based on this topic Pharmacology for FNP’s
Class Objectives:
1. Discuss the prescription, monitoring, and evaluation of pharmacology agents utilized to treat common disease states.
2. Describe the teaching needed by individuals and families to properly adhere to
prescribed pharmacology therapy.
3. Identify the roles and responsibilities of the FNP in prescribing pharmacology agents
and monitoring and evaluating patient responses.
4. Identify the collaborative role of the FNP and the physician in prescribing, monitoring,
and evaluating the pharmacologic agents.
Questions to be answered:
1. What have you learned in the course that will help you continue to grow as a professional in your chosen career?
2. Which specific assignment for this course was your best work? (Please mention: Powerpoint focused on HIV treatment- I have attaches the powerpoint). What makes it your best work? What did you learn by creating it? What does it say about you as a student regarding your degree concentration? How do you plan to use it in your field?
3. In which area(s) will you likely continue to strengthen your knowledge or competencies?
4. Which strategies did you use to learn the material in this course? Which were the most effective? Why?
5. How did your communication skills improved with this course? Discuss new vocabulary, the style of the profession (writing and oral), others.

Review the current NCLEX-RN® test plan and reflect on areas of opportunity and strategies to assist the student in the transition to practice. The student will assess clinical learning against the activity statements within the test plan and determine next steps to seek out new opportunities in future clinical experiences.
Please check file section for requirements.
Test plan attached below
https://nclex.com/test-plans.page

feel free to use more references if needed. feel free to use template provided or to create your own. follow score guide for a grade of proficient or distinguised part 2/3

This is a self-reflection activity that requires you to consider what you have learned in this module. Please click to download the self-reflection activity

Assessment Description
The purpose of this assignment is to identify a problem or concern in your organization, local community, or state in which change can occur through advocacy and legislation.
Nurses often become motivated to change aspects within the larger health care system based on their real-world experience. As such, many nurses take on an advocacy role to influence a change in regulations, policies, and laws that govern the larger health care system.
Identify a problem or concern in your organization, local community, or state. Examples of problems relevant to nursing include, but are not limited to, title “nurse” protection, sharps injury prevention, nursing shortage, nurse well-being, valuation of nursing services, etc. Research the issue you selected and use the attached “Creating Change Through Advocacy” template to complete this assignment.
You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.
for this assigment  i need a brief paper on the topic and the certificate filed out