Agree ll instrument

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Agree ll instrument

After reviewing the website http://www.agreetrust.org/, do the following:

  1. Describe the purpose of the Agree ll instrument.
  2. Describe the history of the AGREE Project
  3. Compare the original AGREE and AGREE II items.
  4. What guidelines can be evaluated with the AGREE ll instrument.
  5. Is there a Guideline that you are interested in that would benefit from an evaluation by the AGREE ll instrument? Why?           350 words and APA references

Professionalism of nurses

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Professionalism of nurses in social media

Social media plays a significant role in the lives of nurses in both their professional and personal lives. Additionally, social media is now considered a mainstream part of the process for recruiting and hiring candidates. Inappropriate or unethical conduct on social media can create legal problems for nurses as well as the field of nursing.

Login to all social media sites in which you engage. Review your profile, pictures and posts. Based on the professional standards of nursing, identify items that would be considered unprofessional and potentially detrimental to your career and that negatively impact the reputation of the nursing field.

In 500-750 words, summarize the findings of your review. Include the following:

  1. Describe the posts or conversations in which you have engaged that might be considered inappropriate based on the professional standards of nursing.
  2. Discuss why nurses have a responsibility to uphold a standard of conduct consistent with the standards governing the profession of nursing at work and in their personal lives. Include discussion of how personal conduct can violate HIPAA or be considered unethical or unprofessional. Provide an example of each to support your answer.
  3. Based on the analysis of your social media, discuss what areas of your social media activity reflect Christian values as they relate to respecting human value and dignity for all individuals. Describe areas of your social media activity that could be improved.

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

antibiotic selection and stewardship

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philosophy and methods of antibiotic selection and stewardship.

 Assessment Description

Research and discuss the philosophy and methods of antibiotic selection and stewardship. Select and address one of the focus areas below.

Support your answer with two or three peer-reviewed resources.

  • Discuss antibiotic stewardship and the role you play in this as a nurse practitioner.
  • Discuss antibiotic resistance.
  • Discuss what resources are available for antibiotic selection.
  • Explain how to obtain and interpret microbiology cultures/sensitivities.
  • Explain antibiograms.
  • Discuss when is it appropriate to withhold antibiotics until a pathogen can be identified versus when you must initiate empiric antibiotic therapy while the pathogen is still being identified.
  • Explain what is meant by local or geographic antibiotic resistance.
  • Explain when it is appropriate to consult an infectious disease specialist.

Antibiotic infection

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Treatment of Antibiotic infection

Antibiotic selection often presents a challenge for the new provider. Conduct research on an infectious process. Design a case study that will provide enough basic information for your classmates to problem-solve, diagnose, and treat the infection. Post the case study for your classmates.

Select a case study created by your classmate and explain how you will diagnose and treat the infection. Include discussion of additional referrals or consultations that might be necessary.

  Gram-Positive Bacteria

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Treatment of Gram-Positive Bacteria

What are the common Gram-Positive Bacteria?

What antibiotics are generally useful in treating Gram-Positive bacteria?

What are the common Gram-Negative Bacteria?

What antibiotics are generally useful in treating Gram-Negative bacteria?

Ethics approach

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Ethics approach in situation

You are a nurse in a Third World country in a small village of 150 people (adults and children – roughly equal in numbers). There is an outbreak of a deadly infection which is easily treated with a specific antibiotic. Untreated, the mortality rate is close to 100%. However, you only have enough to treat 25 adults or 50 children. Additional dosages are on their way but are not expected to arrive before the disease will run its course. Note that anyone over 11 is considered an adult and you are in as much danger from the infection as everyone else.

What do you do? What is the ethical approach in this situation? How do you treat the community knowing that you may have to watch some die while you reserve treatment for specific individuals?

Note

You MUST choose an action. If you waffle or refuse to state who gets treated and why

Types of elder Abuse

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 Challenges Elder Abuse

There are many types of elder abuse.

Choose two types of elder abuse and discuss challenges you perceive in abolishing them.
Justify why you consider them as the most crucial.
Discuss how you can advocate and protect the elderly from abuse.

professionalism in the healthcare

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principles of professional

Valuable Member Infographic Competency

Demonstrate principles of professional identity and professionalism for the nurse within the context of regulatory and practice standards.

Scenario

You are assigned to discuss your professional identity with your peers on the unit during a meeting and have decided to present the attributes using an infographic. The goal is to encourage all nurses to examine attributes and identify their professional identity to improve professionalism in the healthcare setting. As a nurse leader, you want your infographic to include the attributes that have guided your growth within the profession. As a leader of the unit, you work to grow the nurses on the unit and want to encourage them to identify their professional identity as the leaders to focus on succession planning. Your goal is to develop your infographic and share with other nurses to encourage them to examine the attributes to grow within the profession.

Instructions

Create an infographic that includes the attributes you believe support your professional identity. Include the following:

  • Identify 10 attributes that form your professional identity based on professional standards.
  • Reflect on why each of the attributes were selected for your professional identity.
  • Determine the attributes that are important for nurse leaders.
  • Identify how diversity and teamwork plays a role in developing your professional identity.
  • Provide stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.

Resources

For assistance completing this assignment, refer to the Infographic FAQ

disaster preparedness

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Disasters in your community and how to overcome it

Discussion Question

Think about disasters your community has or could potentially face. Now, think about how your community is helping its members prepare.

  1. Explore your community and find an advertisement that represents helping community members be prepared for a disaster. (I live Broward county, FL…SO YOU CAN USE HURRICANE WILMA 2000)
    • Examples could be a billboard, poster at a bus stop, marquee sign, flyer, yard sign and more.Example: Sign advertising ‘free’ flu vaccinations at a local pharmacy.
  2. Describe the message the advertisement is conveying.
    • Describe how the message impact preparedness.
  3. If you cannot find any advertisement in your community, describe a type of advertisement for disaster preparedness you think would be most beneficial to your community and how it would be best conveyed.
  4. Next, identify one community setting that is impacted by the disaster advertisement you shared
    1. Settings:
      • Correctional facilities
      • Home health
      • Schools
      • Forensic areas
      • Hospice
      • Faith communities
      • Occupational health
    2. Analyze at least one nursing role (refer to Week 6 lesson) related to disaster preparedness in that setting. Example: In the school setting, what actions and interventions would be involved with the nurse as coordinator of disaster preparedness?
    3. Identify at least one key stakeholder related to the setting that a CHN could collaborate with regarding disaster preparedness. Include why this collaboration is important.

Your discussion post should look like:

  • Uploaded picture (Please add the picture with the document)
  • Paragraph one: Describe the message the advertisement is conveying and how the message impact preparedness.
  • Paragraph two: Identify one community setting that is impacted by the disaster advertisement you shared. Analyze at least one nursing role related to disaster preparedness in that setting.
  • Paragraph three: Identify at least one key stakeholder related to the setting that a CHN could collaborate with regarding disaster preparedness. Include why this collaboration is important.
  • Resources: Where did you find your data?

 

EHR Database and Data Management

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EHR Database and Data Management

Assessment Description

As a DNP-prepared nurse, you may be called upon to assist in the design of a clinical database for your organization. This assignment requires you to integrate a clinical problem with data technologies to better understand the components as well as how those components can lead to better clinical outcomes.

General Guidelines:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

  • Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments.
  • Use primary sources published within the last 5 years. Provide citations and references for all sources used.
  • Refer to the examples in the topic resources for health care database examples.
  • You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite for similarity score and plagiarism check

Directions:

 

  1. Select a clinically based patient problem in which using a database management approach provides clear benefit potential.
  2. Consider how a hypothetical database could be created to assist with this clinically based patient problem. Identify and describe the data needed to manage this patient problem using information      from the electronic health record (EHR).
  3. Include a brief description of the patient problem that incorporates information needed to manage the specific problem. Describe what information is required for the patient to manage the condition and how the database and health care provider can be incorporated into the approach for better health outcomes.
  4. Describe each entity (data or attribute) that will be pulled from the EHR as either structured or unstructured and provide an operational definition for each. Structured data is more easily searchable and specifically defined. For example, structured data can be placed in a drop-down menu like hair color: brown, black, grey, salt and pepper, blonde, platinum, etc. Unstructured data is data that would be included in a nurse’s notes. An operational definition is how a researcher or      informatics specialist decides to measure a variable. For example, when the nurses enter height into the EHR, do they enter height as measured in inches or centimeters or in feet and inches?
  5. Provide a complete description of data entities (the objects for which you seek information, e.g., patients) and their relationships to the attributes collected for each entity (data collected for each entity, e.g., gender, birthdate, first name, last name) that apply to the hypothetical database. You can use a concept map similar to the “Database Concept Map” resource, to help you describe the relationships between each entity and its attributes.
  6. For this assignment, write a 1,000-1,250 words