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Patient-Centered Concept Map assessment.

Concept Map Template Instructions You may use the template on the following page to help you complete your Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Concept Map assessment. The template has been created to mirror the formatting of the draft concept map from the Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Care media piece. To get started, you can copy and paste the information you […]

Health care organizations

1-Health care organizations continually face challenges from various regulatory. And government agencies while also being bound by Managed Care Organization (MCO) standards. View the video located in the study materials entitled “College of Nursing and Health Care Professions: Do We Know What Our Future Is?” for insight into the challenges of health care reform. Based […]

management of insomnia

JM is a 42 year old female who was referred for management of insomnia. She reports that she is unable to sleep at all during the week (difficulty going to sleep and staying asleep). And sleeps all day on Sunday. She currently takes temazepam (Restoril) 30 mg HS (recently increased from 15mg). She also experiences […]

Vibrio vulnificus

What: On September 10, 2021, in Leon County Florida. The Department of Health reported the 8th fatality to Vibrio vulnificus. There are currently 20 confirmed cases of the infection. Vibrio vulnificus is a disease transmitted through seafood or an open wound by warm, contaminated seawater. If ingested, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain can occur. If an […]

heartburn

Discussion Question 1 Mike is a 46-year-old who presents with a complaint of “heartburn” for 3 months. He describes the pain as burning and it is located in the epigastric area. The pain improves after he takes an antacid or drinks milk. He has been taking either over-the-counter (OTC) famotidine or ranitidine off and on […]

laws regulating speech

Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer. 1. What kind of speech was the First Amendment written to protect? 2. Does the First Amendment apply only to spoken words? 3. What does it mean that laws […]

meanings of “valid inference” and “warranted inference”

  .MMRequired Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: · Textbook: Chapter 8, 9, 17 (Introduction); review Chapter 7 · Lesson Introduction Remember – your actual journal entry should be somewhat brief; most of your time should be spent thinking about the questions asked and the issues raised. Your thoughts should then be distilled […]

calling for casualties

Your hospital has been placed on alert for receiving patients from a local explosion at a large factory. Reports from the scene are spotty in terms of numbers killed or injured. And you do not know how many patients you may be getting. News reports are calling for casualties in the 100s. But local fire […]

quantitative and qualitative nursing research

data analysis methods between quantitative and qualitative nursing research Compare and contrast the differences in purpose and data analysis methods between quantitative and qualitative nursing research.  Provide two examples of a research question, one question for each type of research, that you might wish to investigate in your future advanced nursing role. Expectations Initial Post: […]