Jean Watson’s Theory of  Human Caring

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Jean Watson’s Theory of  Human Caring/Caring Science is one theoretical framework used throughout the USU College of Nursing courses. The practice implication of Watson’s Human Caring Theory evolves our thinking and approaches to patient care from a mindset of carative (cure) to one of caritas (care). The core principles/practice are founded on a:

  • Practice of loving-kindness and equanimity
  • Authentic presence: enabling deep belief of other (patient, colleague, family, etc.)
  • Cultivation of one’s own spiritual practice toward wholeness of mind/body/spirit—beyond ego
  • “Being” the caring-healing environment
  • Allowing miracles (openness to the unexpected and inexplicable life events)

Some individuals are comfortable framing their practice with Watson while others prefer different theories or a collection of theories. However, Watson is based on caring which is a foundation of nursing. Anyone could use the core principles to guide decision making. Select one of the core principles and discuss ways you might be able to apply the principle in guiding your advanced practice nursing practices.

Resources:

Watson, J. (2021). Caring science & human caring theory. Watson Caring Science Institute. https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/jean-bio/caring-science-theory/

Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing. Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing (currentnursing.com)

  • Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
  • Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

Nursing Theories

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Nursing Theories

Step 1 Write a two-page (minimum) paper, not including the title page or the reference page. For all professional papers, you will need a title page, an introduction paragraph, the body with research, a conclusion and a reference page. All format must be in 7th edition APA. For the body of your paper, address the following objectives and separate using distinct paragraph headers:

  • Define and/or describe grand, middle range, and micro-range nursing theory. For each type of theory, give one theorist and his or her theory as an example.
  • Which theory are you most likely to use in your practice? Explain your reason.
  • Which theory would you like to incorporate more into your practice in the future? Explain your reason.

family’s cultural background

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Please respond to the following discussion questions (5 points each)

1. During morning rounds, your patient states, “I will never get better, I can’t get any sleep in this place…can you help me?”  What are some independent nursing interventions you could implement to assist this patient?”

2.  What is your family’s cultural background?  How do your various family members respond to pain?  Is your response to pain consistent with your cultural influence?

3.  As a nurse, how would you respond if you were caring for a patient with a terminal illness who said to you, “I am in such pain and I can’t take it anymore, please help me die now.”

4.  A patient is stressed about an upcoming surgery and asks you to pray with her.  Would you?  Is this the role of the RN?  How could you facilitate prayer with the patient?

Maternal Child Care Of Nursing

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Module 05 Content

  1. Purpose of Assignment
    The goal of creating a newborn nutrition teaching presentation is to prepare the nursing student to provide evidenced based education to the pre and postpartum client on lactation.
    Competency
    Select safe, effective nursing interventions for the postpartum client and newborn.
    Instructions
    Create a teaching tool to promote breastfeeding. The material created to educate new mothers on breastfeeding will influence the mother’s decision to breastfeed, including duration, based on the quality and content of the teaching.
    Assignment Requirements
    Your teaching tool will be a trifold and must include this relevant content for a mother considering the risks and benefits of breastfeeding a newborn.

    • Explain how breast milk is formed in the mammary glands and the physiology of breast milk
    • Include two 2020 National Health Goals related to newborn nutrition to support breast feeding as the best choice. See the link below:
    • https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health
    • Discuss the advantages of breastfeeding related to immunities transferred to the newborn
    • Describe three additional benefits of breast feeding with supporting rationales
    • Include at least two supporting resources
    • Document must be written
    • Format
    • Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
    • Logical, original and insightful
    • Professional organization, style, and mechanics in APA format
    • Submit document through Grammarly to correct errors before submission

Epidemiological surveillance data 

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Epidemiological surveillance data

Epidemiological surveillance data can be used to guide public health interventions. Support funding, develop policy, and educate the community and specific populations in order to decrease burden. The purpose of this assignment it to analyze, interpret. And disseminate Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) surveillance data to both technical and nontechnical audiences. And provide recommendations for public health action for a selected disease or heath issue using audience-appropriate language and information.

Select a MMWR health issue published within the past 5-10 years to disseminate data to a technical and nontechnical audience.  Select a technical audience, such as public health practitioners, clinicians and other health care providers, policymakers and other decision makers, and a nontechnical community group or target population. Provide the reason for the dissemination from the following, be specific, and provide details tailored to your data and health issue:

  1. Educate about recent findings or accomplishments.
  2. Elicit immediate action.
  3. Solicit support or participation.
  4. Justify program/prevention activities.
  5. Prepare for an upcoming intervention or program.
  6. Provide rationale to develop new policy or support current policy.

For the technical audience, create a PowerPoint presentation (10-13 slides)  to disseminate surveillance data from the MMWR report for a selected purpose using the slide headings outlined below. Include speaker notes for each slide. For your final slide, develop an educational “fact sheet” about the issue that is appropriate for a nontechnical community group or target population.

Add two additional slides for the Title and References slides.

Refer to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), “Introduction to Public Health Surveillance,” and “Data Dissemination” to assist you in completing this assignment.

PowerPoint Headings

  1. Title Page: Include your health issue topic which identifies a specific technical and nontechnical audience and group member names.
  2. Audience Appropriate Data Dissemination (1-2 slides): Explain the importance audience appropriate messages for data dissemination. Identify your health issue, technical and nontechnical audiences, and the reason for the dissemination
  3. Data Collection (1-2 slides): Identify and describe a MMWR for a health issue and the data collection timeframe and methods.
  4. : Summarize the data and document the magnitude of the health issue using descriptive statistics (person, place, time), rates, include tables, graphs, maps, or charts.
  5.  Interpretation (1-2 slides): Summarize the report results and provide the implications for public health practice.
  6. Recommendations for Action (1-2 slides): Provide recommendations or support for policy, policy development, funding for screening or implementation of an intervention or program to address the health issue. Include the factors (e.g., unique behaviors, exposures, or environmental factors) that contribute to the health issue that will be addressed.
  7. Fact Sheet: Data Dissemination to a Nontechnical Audience (1 slide): On the last slide of your presentation, create an audience appropriate fact sheet that explains and brings awareness to the health issue and the steps in addressing/mitigating the health issue for a community group or population. Include both text and photos, images, or illustrations to make it eye catching and compelling.
  8. Conclusion (1 slide)
  9. References page

You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and public health content.

 

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

MPH 2.1; MSN Public Health Nursing 6.2

Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.

barriers to practice as an APN in one’s state 

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Purpose

Discuss barriers to practice as an APN in one’s state from both a state and national perspective.  Research methods to influence policy change from various forms of competition, state legislative and executive branches of government and interest groups.

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this discussion, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Discuss the history of policy development and policy making in nursing (CO1) 
  2. Examine different types of policy and their relationships to healthcare policy (CO1)
  3. Explain current barriers to practice for advanced practice nurses (CO2)
  4. Discuss health policy and methods of lifting barriers to practice (CO2) 

Using the readings from this week as well as outside reliable resources to: Identify;

  1.  practice barriers for APNs in your state and discuss these barriers on a state and national level.
  2.  forms of competition on the state and national level that interfere with APN’s ability to practice independently.
  3. the specific lawmakers by name at the state level (i.e., key members of the state’s legislative branch and executive branch of government)
  4. interest groups that exist at the state and national levels that influence APN policy.
  5. methods used to influence change in policy in forms of competition, state legislative and executive branches of government and interest groups.
  6. A scholarly resource must be used for EACH discussion question each week.

care plan for a patient 

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care plan for a patient

You are the nurse receiving a report on your patient that was admitted as an emergency earlier in the day. A 64-year-old female underwent a right colectomy. The right side of her colon was removed due to cancer. She has a history of smoking & no other health problems. She is currently being transferred to you in PACU, has a midline incision with a Penrose drain, a stab wound w/ a Jackson Pratt drain to incision. And also has an NG tube, attached to intermittent suction. She is alert, oriented, and can move all 4 extremities. BP is 110/68, Respiratory rate is 14, O2 stats are at 93% w/ additional oxygen given via nasal cannula.

All labs are normal. You are asked to change the dressings daily and document the drainage. What precautions will you take to prevent this patient from obtaining a nosocomial infection?

Please answer the questions and develop a care plan for a patient that will be having elective surgery. Please use the provided format for building your care plan. You will need to use your nursing reference materials as you build this care plan.

Pulmonary Education Infographic

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Module 05 Written Assignment – Pulmonary Education Infographic

  1. Competency
    Compare strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients with lower respiratory disorders.
    Scenario
    You are a nurse on a pulmonary rehabilitation team at an outpatient clinic in your community. You are updating educational resources to educate clients who want to know more about health promotion and maintenance and improving pulmonary health related to their lung conditions.
    Instructions
    Create an infographic for a lower respiratory system disorder that includes the following components: Description;

    • Risk factors associated with the common lower respiratory system disorder.
    •  three priority treatments for the lower respiratory disorder. of inter professional collaborative care team members and their roles to improve health outcomes for the lower respiratory system disorder.
    • three multidimensional nursing care strategies that support health promotion and maintenance for clients with the lower respiratory system disorder.
    • a national organization as a support resource for your client specific to the lower respiratory system disorder.

description of the nursing role

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Information for your Professional Paper

The professional paper is individually assigned. Each student needs to choose one nursing role and write 3 pages about the role.

Suggested roles: advocate, educator. Care provider, collaborator, researcher, administrator…ect

The professional paper should include the following:

1. Introduction – clear description of the nursing role being researched

2. Body- provide description of educational requirements. And any specialized training associated with this professional nursing role.

3. Review the scope of practice- the focus of this nursing role

4. Publications and organizations – specific journals. And professional organizations that a nurse in this role will need to help succeed.

5. Conclusion- Summarization of paper and why interested in this particular nursing role

6. Reference page in correct APA format

processes used in clinical practice

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2 copies

Discuss the differential diagnosis (DD) process. Identify 3 different DD processes used in clinical practice.  Describe the risks/benefits of these 3 processes.

Responses to students should include an example of when the student identifies one of the differential diagnosis processes used in the clinical setting.

It is crucial to appropriately utilize APA 7th ed. All assignments; group work discussions and responses require accurate and appropriate APA citations. It is recommended to use nursing literature. Medical literature and ancillary research in other disciplines as necessary. Current citations are required.

When possible evidence based literature. And primary sources that are up to date and are most desirable. Works such as WebMD and the patient “self-help.” Resources are not appropriate for graduate discussions.

Expectations

Initial Post:

  • Length: A minimum of 250 words. Not including references
  • Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA. From within the last 5 years APA 7TH Edition