Category: Nursing

Using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Survey on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) – there are versions for hospitals, medical offices, nursing homes and ambulatory surgery centers. Can be found at https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/hospital/index.html . Complete one on your work site and write a 8-10 page paper (references not counted) on how you would use it to plan an improvement in one or more areas. Include an assessment on where your organization is in implementing a “just culture.” Describe what makes up a culture of safety, or not, in your organization – how do they handle adverse events; how is reporting of adverse events handled; are RCAs done and shared? 
Please use Nursing homes

When considering the components of the three-legged stool (guests, cast members, business metrics) and the Disney Keys (inclusion, safety, courtesy, show, and efficiency), discuss how these models connect to leadership.
Which leg and/or key is most likely to get out of balance?
Explain your answer.
Discuss your role as a leader in applying these decision-making models.
Include how your leadership style connects to implementing and/or fostering these decision-making models.

Imagine that you are a staff nurse that has identified a problem in your unit. You have created a PICO and taken the draft to your supervisor. Your supervisor asks you to complete a brief report using your PICO and two articles (one qualitative and one quantitative) to support your practice change suggestion. Use one of the following databases to find one qualitative and one quantitative article to appraise and support the proposed intervention in the PICO:
The following databases are available through the LIRN library. You can access the LIRN Library in the Canvas navigation bar.CINAHLPlus
Medline (PubMed or Ovid)
Proquest centra
Write a 1-to-2 page summary report for your supervisor using the articles found. The report should include
A detailed summary of the problem identified in the unit, along with the PICO
A summary of the articles’ findings
The reliability of the articles selected to defend your practice change suggestion

Research and pick a disease or condition of the gastrointestinal system. Describe what the disease is, sign/symptoms, individuals that are more prone to the condition, prognosis, and ways to treat the conditon.
Your assignment should be a minimum of 700 words. Please cite your paper and list them on a reference page (2 references/resources required). This summary should follow APA formatting. Your submission should be a word document or pdf file.

Based on your textbook reading, discuss the process of Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) business planning from a system approach.
Submission Instructions:
The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
The paper is to be 2-3 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).
These are some journals that the professor told us to read. Most importantly though, Please use the advanced practice nursing as a reference. It needs to be cited. especially chapters 19,20,23,24
Hamric, A. B., Hanson, C. M., Tracy, M. F., & O’Grady, E. T. (2013). Advanced practice nursing: An integrative approach. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Romboli, J. E. (2012). Establishing an independent family practice. Nurse Practitioner World News, 18(7/8), 1-7.
Donald, F., Martin-Misener, R., Carter, N., Donald, E. E., Kaasalainen, S., Wickson-Griffiths, A., & … DiCenso, A. (2013). A systematic review of the effectiveness of advanced practice nurses in long-term care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(10), 2148-2161. doi:10.1111/jan.12140
Stanik-Hutt, J., Newhouse, R. P., White, K. M., Johantgen, M., Bass, E. B., Zangaro, G., & … Weiner, J. P. (2013). The quality and effectiveness of care provided by nurse practitioners. Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 9(8), 492-500. doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2013.07.004
Conrad, D., Hanson, P. A., Hasenau, S. M., & Stocker-Schneider, J. (2012). Identifying the barriers to use of standardized nursing language in the electronic health record by the ambulatory care nurse practitioner. Journal of The American Academy Of Nurse Practitioners, 24(7), 443-451. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7599.2012. 00705.x 429-43
Dillon, D. L., & Hoyson, P. M. (2013). From graduation to employment: A guide for the new nurse practitioner. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 9(5), 312-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2013.04.002
Dillon, D., & McLean Hoyson, P. (2014). Beginning employment: A guide for the new nurse practitioner. Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(1), 55-59. doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2013.09.009
Schwarz, C. (2015). Five powerful marketing initiatives for the new practitioner. Podiatry Management, 53-54. 

To Prepare:
Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry. Keep in mind that the clinical issue you identify for your research will stay the same for the entire course. 
Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:
The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Resources 
Grant, M. J., & Booth, A. (2009). A typology of reviews: An analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information and Libraries JournalLinks to an external site., 26, 91–108. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x
Hoare, Z., & Hoe, J. (2013). Understanding quantitative research: Part 2. Nursing StandardLinks to an external site., 27(18), 48–55. doi:10.7748/ns2013.01.27.18.48.c9488
Hoe, J., & Hoare, Z. (2012). Understanding quantitative research: Part 1. Nursing StandardLinks to an external site., 27(15), 52–57. doi:10.7748/ns2012.12.27.15.52.c9485

In this course, you learned rapidly changing technologies have a drastic impact on nursing and healthcare. During this course both current and emerging technologies support safety practice environments have been addressed. These technologies can optimize patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and health outcomes.
For the assignment, you are to propose either a change to an existing technological tool/advance/innovation used in a healthcare system or propose a new one related to nursing. Some ideas include, but are not limited to:
artificial intelligence
Telemedicine
vein finders
blood analyzers
cloud
automated medication administration systems
block chains
Remember, it is through technology in healthcare, care is reshaped. Care is transformed not only in the hospital setting, but in the rural settings as well. 
As you are building the presentation, imagine presenting the change to the board of organizational healthcare stakeholders for approval. With a formal presentation, the usage of speaker notes is necessary. The speaker notes include the information not included on the slide. The same writing requirements are applied to the speaker notes. Please include any relevant citations in APA format. Each slide should contain speaker notes with adequate information for presentation purposes.
The PowerPoint presentation should include the following:
Be 15-20 slides in length, not including the title slide and reference slides.
The title slide should list the name of the protocol, the date, and the name of the assignment.
The reference slides should provide all references in APA format.
Each slide should include speaker notes with appropriate APA format.
Slides ideas might include: introduction, history, literature review, need, proposal idea, implementation strategies, evaluation ideas, financial implications, conclusion.
A minimum of five recent (within the last 5 years), scholarly, peer-reviewed articles are required.
Select professional backgrounds, coloring, and fonts. No more than two slides should be visuals. Pictures, charts, and visual may be used but should be used to accentuate the content not replace it. Clip art and animation is encouraged to enhance the presentation.

Select a leading health indicator described in the Healthy People 2030 agenda (CO 5,6).
Analyze the literature and provide a summary of one evidence-based program that has been developed/implemented to address indicator (CO 5,6).
Include two possible populations where this indicator may need to be addressed (CO 5,6).

Class 5-assessment 1
Please see attachments 
Write a 4 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes
For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state’s nurses association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization.
You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who ask you to prepare a 4 page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position.
One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justify means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization.
The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the headings below in your proposal
Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist
What is nursing informatics?
What is the role of the nurse informaticist?
Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations
What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team?
Impact of Full Nurse Engagement in Health Care Technology
How does fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact:
Patient care?
Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)?
In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources.
Workflow?
Costs and return on investment?
Opportunities and Challenges
What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role?
How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology?
Summary of Recommendations
What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember?
This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old.
APA 7

You are currently employed as a healthcare provider in a community hospital in your local community. The local high school is designing a learning unit for sophomores who have expressed an interest in computers and other technology as a potential future career. The teacher, who has designed this unit, has asked you to attend one of the classes as a guest speaker discussing how computer-related technology is used in healthcare.
Given the above scenario, please answer the following questions:
1. What are the 3 to 5 key points you would want to include in this presentation?
Please remember that you must include one citation from a scholarly source that is within the last 5 years using APA guidelines