Retrospective Inventory

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Retrospective Inventory (10 pts) and Power Point (40 pts)

After completing the Retrospective Inventory, you will use that material to create

A power point presentation consisting of the following: 10 slides not including a title page, an introduction, a conclusion and a reference page (14 slides total)

Introduction: A brief summary of your power point

Content: For each slide, provide specific detail, illustrations, diagrams to clarify the topic

Conclusion: Briefly summarize your thoughts on doing this project..what did you learn etc.

Reference Page: The resources you used

Retrospective Inventory

Briefly describe the events in your life that you remember with great satisfaction and explain why. Indicate your age. Try to list ten minimum.

Briefly describe those events you remember with great dissatisfaction and explain why. Indicate your age. Try to list ten minimum.

When you have completed these, place a check mark beside the five events in each category that were the most significant. Describe these in greater detail. (Slides one and two)

Describe as many events as you can remember when someone who was perceived to be your enemy was reconciled to you. (Three)

What lenses do you use to view the world. (Four)

List five experiences you would like to have before you die. Project a timeline. (Five)

Write an obituary for yourself, real or imagined, summarizing your life. (Six)

Briefly describe events in your life that were peak or transformational experiences. Explain why. Indicate your age. (Seven) Try to list ten minimum. Choose five that are most important for slide Eight.

The philosopher Descartes said “I think, therefore I am.” Who do you think you are? (Nine)

What is your philosophy? (Ten)

Scope of nursing practice

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Learning Activity regarding Nursing: The Scope and Standards of Practice

Using your book please answer the following questions. You may use the words in the book with references included, but I believe you demonstrate understanding by explaining in your own words-this is a learning experience and it is helpful to know what you think these things mean so we can be sure you do understand what it means!

I know you are using your book, but please be sure to include the reference in APA format at the bottom of the page-thanks!

1. What is the definition of Nursing?

2. Using the glossary in the book define the following and then describe it in your own words

a. Scope of nursing practice

b. Standards of practice

c. Standards of Professional nursing practice

3. Why do we have the Professional Nursing’s Scope and Standards of Practice? (pp xi, 1, & podcast)

4. Development of Standards: The Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice describe what?

a. What does the scope describe?

b. What do the standards describe?

5. What is the difference between Scope of Practice and individual state Nurse Practice Acts?

6. The Standards of practice mention the nursing process. How does it describe the Nursing Process? (p 4)

7. List the 6 Standards of Practice

8. List the 11 Standards of Professional Performance

9. We will look at competencies next week, but why do they accompany the standards?

10. What are the 5 tenets of Nursing Practice?

11. What is the definition of the “how” of nursing?

12. Read the section on integrating the Art and Science of Nursing (pp 6-13) and answer the following questions with what you think these mean-we will discuss in class-I do not expect deep detail, just a starting place for discussion

a. What is healthcare consumer-centered practice?

b. What is evidence based practice?

c. What is interprofessional collaboration?

d. What is use of informatics?

e. What is continuous quality improvement?

f. How would you describe the art of nursing versus the science of nursing? Give me what you think is one example of each

Roy and Neuman

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Roy and Neuman

Create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least one (1) source and the textbook using APA citations throughout your presentation. Make sure to cite the sources using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Create a PowerPoint Presentation to discuss the following…

Sgt. Eddie Johns leaned back against the chair in the outpatient orthopedic clinic. His head was killing him! He wasn’t sure which was worse, the “morning after” headache or not being able to sleep at night. At least when he had a few beers under his belt so he could catch a few hours of sleep. It had been like this since he was air evacuated back stateside from Afghanistan after the roadside bomb went off. He was thankful that he had only broken his leg in a couple of places and gotten a bad bump on the head. They called that traumatic brain injury but he didn’t know what that was and really didn’t believe them anyway. He was still thinking just fine. His friend Joe wasn’t so lucky! How was Joe going to learn to walk on those artificial legs? He was still in the hospital in Washington, DC. That was pretty far from his home. Eddie wished he could visit Joe. They had been in the same platoon for 9 months. But, Eddie was glad that he had been able to come back to his own home town for outpatient treatment. It took an hour to get here but at least he could see his girl almost every day. Sure he had moved back in with his mom but it was easier to have someone to help him get around and cook for him. It was a bummer that he couldn’t work right now. He guessed it didn’t matter much since he really didn’t have a job to go back to. He had been replaced at the plant. They said they would find something for him to do once he could get around more easily. Eddie sure hoped the doc would take the pins out of his leg today and give him a clearance to work.

  • How would the use of the Roy Adaptation Model assist the nurse in planning the continuation of care for Sgt. Johns?
  • Describe the influence of Roy’s Theory in guiding the nurse’s actions in promoting Sgt. Johns adjusted self-concept.
  • From the perspective of the Roy Adaptation Model, why is it important for the nurse to listen to Sgt. Johns’ “story” in his own words and not just base her interactions on information from the chart, fellow colleagues, or his family?
  • Based on Neuman System’s Model, identify at least 4 stressors from the case study. Create a plan of care based on Neuman Systems Model for Sgt. Johns.

Community Needs and Health Screening Initiative

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Community Needs and Health Screening Initiative

Directions

For this Assignment you will pick one recommended screening from United States Preventive Task Force A and B Recommendations.

An initiative is a project, an event. So something in the community is ideal. Workplace location for employees is fine too. Please include the following suggested level one headings so content is clear and easily identified.

Theory or Conceptual Model

Choose a theory or conceptual model that you think might work for your initiative and explain the theory or model here.  You may choose to independently research your model to help you explain its application to your initiative. If you have found another model you will like to use. Not listed, contact your instructor.

Screening Purpose

Discuss why it is important to screen for this condition. This is where you address your community assessment and the reason for this need in your community/ population choice. Support your stance with statistics and information, ideally related to the location and population.

Population

Clearly address the demographics that are being screened. Where they live, state, county, ages, races included etc. Provide a brief general community assessment as it related to the condition and the population.

Location/ Setting

Briefly explain where you are doing this. It should be very specific (e.g., Senior Citizen Center in Monroe Co on Saturday). Think about what kind of facility or area you will need. Include comments explaining how this location meets the needs of your target population and screening choice.

Screening Activity

This section is what you are doing at the screening and should completely align with the screening guideline for the condition. Also all health promotion screenings include some brief prevention education component.

Community Needs and Health Screening Initiative

Outcome Goals

Bullet specific goals here. What do you hope to accomplish with your screening?

Cost

This is the cost for you to develop and conduct the initiative. It is best displayed as a brief Word table showing what it costs you to conduct the screening; paper, equipment, rentals etc. Volunteers are fine, but everything is not free. Students must demonstrate they can develop a cost estimate for a community screening intervention that is realistic and takes into account financials. If there is a cost for the attendees that should go here as well.

Summary

Provide a summary of your screening, general benefit to the community and why it is important. Master’s-prepared nurse educators, leader. Nurse practitioners and all specialty nursing fields are contributors to health promotion in populations across the life span. This Assignment is focused on preventive screening applications in the community. Workplace or school settings. You should be able to apply this knowledge to their specialty focus as it relates to health promotion and epidemiology.

This should be a 3–4 page paper, excluding title page, and references. A person should be able to read your paper and understand fully what you are screening, where, when, the costs and how it is supported in the guideline. Ideally a person would be able to duplicate your screening initiative, based on the clarity you present. This paper should adhere to appropriate APA formatting and citation style. A minimum of 3–4 sources should be used.

Organizational Risk Management Interview

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Organizational Risk Management Interview

The purpose of this assignment is to gain real-world insight into how risk management programs operate within health care organizations.

Select a local health care organization where you can conduct an interview with an employee who is involved in risk management processes. This organization can be your current employer or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multi‐provider private medical clinics. Assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Select an individual who can provide sufficient information regarding how their organization manages risk within its facility to answer the questions below.

In your interview, address the following:

  1. Risk management strategies used in the organization’s risk control program, along with specific examples.
  2. How the facility’s educational risk management program addresses key professional. Legal, and ethical issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and vicarious liability.
  3. Policies the facility has implemented that address how to manage emergency triage in high‐risk areas of health care service delivery (e.g., narcotics inventories, declared pregnancy policies, blood-borne disease sector, etc.).
  4. Challenges the organization faces in managing and controlling high-risk health care. (e.g., infectious diseases, nuclear medicine, abortion, class 4 narcotics/opioids, etc.).
  5. Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor, evaluate, and maintain compliance within its risk management program.

Organizational Risk Management Interview

After conducting the interview, compose a 750‐1,000 word summary analysis of the interview that includes the questions above. In conjunction with the interviewee’s responses. In addition, include the following elements in your response:

  1. An assessment of the organization’s risk management program, including how it attends to high-risk health care and legal concerns.
  2. Action steps you would take to improve one area of the organization’s risk management program, along with your rationale for doing so.

Cite appropriate references as needed to support your statements and rationale.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

The Future of Transcription

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Imagine that you are the supervisor of the transcription department. The HIM director has approached you about the future of the transcription role and the new emerging technology surrounding transcription. Prepare a PowerPoint slideshow that describes the current, traditional role and the future of transcription technology.

Your presentation should be a minimum of 8 slides (including a Title slide and References slide) and address the following:

  1. Current, traditional role of transcription.
  2. General explanation of speech recognition software and how it works.
  3. Three (3) specific examples of new transcription technology and the specs of each system. You will need to research specific systems such as Dragon Professional.
  4. The role of the medical scribe.
  5. The changing role of the transcriptionists and how they may adapt to the changes.
  6. Your prediction of the future of transcription based on your research.
  7. Include APA formatted citations for your references.

importance and purpose of maintaining financial statements

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importance and purpose of maintaining financial statements

In previous units, we discussed the importance and purpose of maintaining financial statements. In this assignment, you will interpret those financial statements for a diverse group of stakeholders.

You are the Chief Financial Officer of People’s Community Clinic. You are responsible for delivering a financial overview presentation at the year-end meeting. Your audience will include employees and leadership team members of PCC, financial donors, and community members (who may be potential donors, if they are pleased with the information you present!)

People’s Community Clinic. (2015). People’s Community Clinic Annual Report (Links to an external site.). (Links to an external site.) [PDF]

People’s Community Clinic (n.d.). People’s Community Clinic (Links to an external site.)[Website]

annual report document

  • Using the content of the attached annual report document, prepare a 10-minute Powerpoint or Prezi presentation.
    • Include a voice-over or written script (in the speaker’s notes section)
  • You may include visuals of the important sections of the financial statements, ensuring the content is easy to read for your audience.
  • Create graphs or charts to illustrate important data.
  • Your closing two slides should summarize the year-end status, and summarize assumptions for the year in-progress (i.e. do you expect to be profitable, experience loss, why or why not).
  • Your final slide should include any references, in APA format, used to complete your presentation.

Assignment 2

Being able to concisely summarize financial information is an important skill for a health care manager. For this assignment, you will reference the presentation you created in U6A1, and repackage it for an internal audience.

Continuing your role as CFO of People’s Community Clinic, create a 1-2-page memo for the managers of PCC.

  • Summarize the content of your presentation, focusing on key takeaways your managers need to know.
  • Graphs and charts aren’t required, but may be included if space allows (your memo should not exceed 2 pages).
  • On a separate page, include any references, in APA format, used to complete your presentation and memo.

population and urbanization

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population and urbanization

Overview: This purpose of the week 13 discussion board is to examine population and urbanization. Answer prompt 1. Then select and answer one prompt from prompts 2-5. Refer to Chapter 15 to answer the prompts.

Instructions: Respond to prompts in paragraph form (200-400 words)

1: Describe 3 topics from Chapter 15 that you found interesting.

 2: Define demography and explain the three processes that produce changes in populations.

3: Discuss Malthusian, Marxist, and neo Malthusian perspectives on population as well as demographic transition theory.

4: Explain how cities develop through preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial stages.

Prompt 5: Identify the best-case and worst-case scenarios regarding population and urban growth in the twenty-first century, and discuss how some of the worst-case
scenarios might be averted.

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Leadership Profile

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 Leadership Profile

Respond to THE two post below separately of your colleagues  making recommendations for how they might strengthen the leadership behaviors profiled in their StrengthsFinder assessment, or by commenting on lessons to be learned from the results that can be applied to personal leadership philosophies and behaviors. PROVIDE UP TPO 3 REFFERENCES EACH

 

POST 1

After completing the Gallup survey, my top five signature themes included achiever, focus, responsibility, relator, and analytical (Gallup, Inc, 2021). As an achiever, I always feel the need to accomplish a task each day no matter how small it may seem. Focus helps me identify what I want in my life and to evaluate if I am on the right track. Consistently evaluating helps me move toward any planned goals. The responsibility theme allows me to take ownership of anything that I commit myself to without giving any excuses. The realtor theme explains that I like to develop intimate relationships with people I already know rather than meeting new people. The analytical theme which involves questioning, finding data, patterns, and connections makes me think objectively.

 

Two core values

 

According to Broome and Marshall (2021), core values serve as the foundation and guiding principles of how people work (p.218). I believe that each one of us has a purpose on this earth and to achieve it, we need to first figure out who we are and also identify what is important to us. Growing up, I always believed in intentional decisions and actions to find true purpose. Therefore, based on the strength finder assessment, my core values will be responsibility and achiever. To achieve what you want in life, you must be willing to take responsibility for your actions.

focus and achiever

Two strengths

 

Rath (2007) explains that when a person is not able to utilize their strength, they are more likely to have negative outcomes and not enjoy what they do (p.24). Based on my assessment, I found focus and achiever as my two strengths. Without the ability to focus, it is difficult for me to get anything done. Both of these leadership behaviors help me to be to stay on track regardless of what I am trying to accomplish. Daily, I like to keep a “to-do list” to help me visualize all the tasks I have completed. When a task is completed, I feel accomplished.

 

Two characteristics to strengthen

 

To be an effective leader, you need to have the ability to analyze yourself and know the improvements needed. Moxley (2001) encourages leaders to pay attention to both strengths and weaknesses to improve. Therefore, I would like to strengthen the relator and analytical leadership behaviors. Although it is great to build upon friendships, I tend to withhold the engaging aspect of my personality a lot. Also, when making a decision, I like to analyze both pros and cons intensively which has made me missed great opportunities. If able to strengthen both, it might lead me to the right paths needed to accomplish my goals.

 

References

Broome, M., & Marshall, E. S. (2021). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

Gallup, Inc. (2021). CliftonStrengths. Retrieved on March 28, 2021 from https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx

 

Moxley, R. S. (2001). To improve, should leaders focus primarily on building on their strengths or on correcting their weaknesses? Leadership in Action, 21(2), 13.

Rath, T. (2007). Strengths Finder 2.0 with/ Access Code. Gallup Press.

Ideation themes

File  Gallup Analytics and Reporting.pdf (234.224 KB) POST 2

 

Week 5 Discussion 2: Leadership Profile

The results of my Strengths Finder assessment include; Positivity, Includer, Adaptability, Futuristic, and Ideation themes. According to Gallup (2021), these five themes are the result of the timed answers on the report and reflect identical insight. First, people with the positivity theme are especially upbeat and enthusiastic about their plans. The included trait symbolizes inclusiveness and wants others to never be left out. The adaptability theme shows that I am a, “go with the flow” personality, and concerned about what is happening now and accept the future one day at a time. I am fascinated by new technology, which would explain why ideation was one of my themes. I love to learn new things and help create new ideas to include productive ways of completing tasks and also futuristic which helps me be optimistic about the future and the vast possibilities that can be obtained in the future.

good professional relationship

Two core values I think are important are being an includer and adaptive. By including others on the team, I can create a good professional relationship that encourages others to remain happy and involved in progress. By being adaptable, I can remain flexible and not upset or discouraged by changes that may be taking place. Wise leaders will be in tune with their staff and be sensitive to their likes and dislikes (Broome & Marshall, 2021). By combining my strengths and weaknesses and learning from both, I can become an effective leader.

The characteristics I would like to strengthen would be adaptability and ideation. First, I would like to improve not only “living in the moment” but rather looking ahead to evaluate the choices I make today that may alter future results. I would like to avoid situations that are “too structured and stifle my need for variety” (Rath, 2007, p.47). Next, I would strengthen my ability to create constructive ideas and not wait on others to create a plan first. I work in leadership roles now, however, I can use these evaluation tools to further assist me in the future as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) leader in my specialty.

(Signature Theme Report: See Attachment)

References

Broome, M. E. & Marshall E. S. (2021). Transformation leadership in nursing: From expert

          clinician to influential leader. New York, NY: Springer.

Gallup, Inc. (2021, March 26). CliftonStrengths Online Talent Assessment | EN – Gallup. Gallup.Com. https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx

Rath, T. (2007). StrengthsFinder 2.0 (1st ed.). p.47. Gallup Press.

 

 

 

The Traits To Be An Effective Leader

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The Traits To Be An Effective Leader

AMELLA BROWN

Your Signature Themes SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 03-29-2021

DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths

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PAMELLA BROWN SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 03-29-2021

Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.

A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes.

dominant themes of talent

Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to CliftonStrengths. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your “top five.”

Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.

Achiever

Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive. Achiever describes a constant need for achievement. You feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. And by “every day” you mean every single day—workdays, weekends, vacations. No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of achievement, no matter how small, you will feel dissatisfied. You have an internal fire burning inside you. It pushes you to do more, to achieve more. After each accomplishment is reached, the fire dwindles for a moment, but very soon it rekindles itself, forcing you toward the next accomplishment.

levels of productivity

Your relentless need for achievement might not be logical. It might not even be focused. But it will always be with you. As an Achiever you must learn to live with this whisper of discontent. It does have its benefits brings you the energy you need to work long hours without burning out, is the jolt you can always count on to get you started on new tasks, new challenges and is the power supply that causes you to set the pace and define the levels of productivity for your work group. It is the theme that keeps you moving.

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Transforming something strong into something

Maximizer

Excellence, not average, is your measure. Taking something from below average to slightly above average takes a great deal of effort and in your opinion is not very rewarding. Transforming something strong into something superb takes just as much effort but is much more thrilling. Strengths, whether yours or someone else’s, fascinate you. Like a diver after pearls, you search them out, watching for the telltale signs of a strength. A glimpse of untutored excellence, rapid learning, a skill mastered without recourse to steps—all these are clues that a strength may be in play.

And having found a strength, you feel compelled to nurture it, refine it, and stretch it toward excellence. You polish the pearl until it shines. This natural sorting of strengths means that others see you as discriminating. You choose to spend time with people who appreciate your particular strengths. Likewise, you are attracted to others who seem to have found and cultivated their own strengths. You tend to avoid those who want to fix you and make you well rounded. You don’t want to spend your life bemoaning what you lack. Rather, you want to capitalize on the gifts with which you are blessed. It’s more fun. It’s more productive. And, counterintuitively, it is more demanding.