Cardiac disease

 Cardiac disease is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Since it is so prevalent, you want to ensure your co-workers are fully prepared to care for patients. You are hosting a lunch to provide a refresher on heart disease and how to care for patients. During lunch, you will present a PowerPoint Presentation to your co-workers.

Instructions

Valvular Heart Disease –

Within your presentation include:

interview with a Psychiatric Doctor

Need an Interview summary Synthesis,

It will be an interview with a Psychiatric Doctor (Doctor NN) working at RIM hospital. See attachment for further instructions.

The interview should be a focus on the need of reducing the ratio of patients with mental health issues to staff. Currently, the ratio is 12 patients to I nurses. His suggestion is to lower the ratio to 7 patients to 1 nurse in order to provide the best care and reduce any fatality via suicide and enhance the care and recovery process as well as preventing nursing staff burnout.

MLA-style source documentation and Works Cite.

minimum of 350 words.

Turnitin received required.

Fall Prevention in Healthcare facilities 

Develop a 1,250 written project on the topic Fall Prevention in Healthcare facilities that includes the following information as it applies to the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need profiled in the capstone change proposal:

  1. Background
  2. Clinical problem statement.
  3. Purpose of the change proposal in relation to providing patient care in the changing health care system.
  4. PICOT question.
  5. Literature search strategy employed.
  6. Evaluation of the literature.
  7. Applicable change or nursing theory utilized.
  8. Proposed implementation plan with outcome measures.
  9. Discussion of how evidence-based practice was used in creating the intervention plan.
  10. Plan for evaluating the proposed nursing intervention.
  11. Identification of potential barriers to plan implementation, and a discussion of how these could be overcome.
  12. Appendix section, if tables, graphs, surveys, educational materials, etc. are created.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

 Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

 Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

Week7 Discussion

Ebook attached below: Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach 7th Edition

Take a look at the presentation and answer those two questions:

  • What food items within the current daycare menus for each school was culturally significant to your various cultural group presented?
  • What are some of the differences between the two daycare centers you chose to analyze?

APA format (6th ed.) and is free of errors

Grammar and mechanics are free of errors free of Plagiarism

References: Use your book, the outside source must be within the last 5 yrs, Scholarly Article or Nurse journals within the last 5 yrs

Type out the questions and respond to the question in APA format with citation and very detailed responses

advocates for the vulnerable populations

1. What role can providers play as advocates for the vulnerable populations.
2.After reading the posted article, “Nurses Need Not be Guilty Bystanders: Caring for Immigrant Populations”. What did you learn from this article and how can you affect change for the better to help eliminate stereotyping based on ethnicity?
3.Define what you think constitutes a vulnerable population and give 3 examples.
4.What is RAM and who founded it. Explain the purpose it serves and the population.
5..Does Medicaid provide dental and vision care for adults? What impact does this have on that population and health outcomes?

6.The article Development of a Community Nurse-Managed Health center there are 3 goals listed in establishing the clinic. What are they?
7.How do you think low literacy impacts a person’s ability to seek health care? What are the long range health problems that can develop without preventive health care?
8.In the video on government and health care there is some discussion about 3rd party purchases related to health care. What does this mean?
9.In the RAM videos what is the greatest need that people seek care for and what could help solve this problem?
10.After watching the video on the Affordable Care Act. What do you think are positives and negatives of the Act?

11.For extra credit tell me what you think is wrong with our health care system and what could be done to fix it.

Quality in Healthcare Systems

HA4120D – Management of Continuum Care Services

Assignment 08: Quality in Healthcare Systems

Prepare a 3 page, that addresses the following:

This activity is designed to provide you with insight regarding quality measures implemented in healthcare facilities in your community. You may choose two facilities for comparison in your area to research – if you have any issues finding information from the healthcare systems/hospitals in your area, you may expand your search.

• Research and discuss quality management programs and services of two existing hospitals or  healthcare systems in the community.

• Provide details of any quality assurance programs in place at each facility.

• Compare the quality programs and services of both hospitals. Are there any trends, similarities or major differences?

• Propose any suggestions to the quality programs of the facilities and summarize the findings of the comparison.

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Adult Health and Nutritional Assessment

Case Study, Chapter 5, Adult Health and Nutritional Assessment

1. Mrs. Jones, a 40-year-old female patient, is presenting for a history and physical. The nurse gathers a family history from the patient. She shares that her mother died at 70 years of age of colon cancer and had adult onset diabetes controlled with oral agents, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension. She had a stroke before passing away. Her father died at 67 years of age from a stroke. He had a long history of alcoholism and smoked two packs per day of cigarettes for 50 years. He had hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and two heart attacks; the first heart attack was at 30 years of age and the second at 52 years of age. He had adult onset diabetes controlled with oral agents since 50 years of age.

He had renal stenosis that was unsuccessfully treated with a renal angioplasty and he developed end-stage renal failure requiring hemodialysis. Mrs. Jones has two brothers. One brother developed hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and adult onset diabetes controlled with oral agents at 50 years of age. The second brother has no health problems. The maternal grandmother died at 88 years of age of a stroke and had hypertension. The maternal grandfather died at 70 years of age of a massive heart attack and had a history of hypertension. The paternal grandmother died at 80 years of age of a heart attack.

bleeding esophageal varices

The paternal grandfather died at 50 years of age from bleeding esophageal varices related to long-standing alcoholism. The patient shares that her mother’s first cousin, George, died at 52 years of age of Hodgkin lymphoma. She has another first cousin Mabel, 72 years of age, who is alive but has had cancer of the colon and had a recent stroke, and has a history of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and adult onset diabetes controlled with diet.

Her mother’s sister, who is 68 years of age, is alive and has a history of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. Her mother’s brother died at 68 years of age of renal cancer and had a history of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and adult onset diabetes controlled with oral agents. He also had a heart attack at 45 years of age and a coronary artery bypass graft operation of three vessels at 55 years of age. He smoked cigarettes for 50 years. The patient’s father was an only child and her father’s family all lived to be over 80 years of age. (Learning Objective 5)

history of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia

  1. What genetic-related diseases do the patient’s first-order relatives have?
  2. What genetic-related diseases do the patient’s second-order relatives have?
  3. Optional: Draw a genogram of the patient’s family’s health history using the example in the textbook (see Fig. 5-2) as a guide.

2. The registered nurse prepares to conduct a nutritional assessment on Mrs. Varner, a 52-year-old Caucasian female who describes herself as “overweight most of my adult life.” The client states that her health is good. She works part time as a receptionist and volunteers about 10 hours per week in her church. The nurse obtains Mrs. Varner’s height as 64 inches and her weight as 165 pounds. (Learning Objective 8)

  1. What is the rationale for computing body mass index? What is Mrs. Varner’s BMI?
  2. Calculate her ideal body weight. What is your assessment of her BMI and weight?
  3. Based on Mrs. Varner’s BMI and weight, the nurse measures her waist circumference. Describe the proper procedure for this assessment.
  4. Mrs. Varner’s waist circumference is 38 inches. What is your assessment?
  5. What laboratory values would the nurse review to evaluate Mrs. Varner’s protein levels?

Overview of Genetics and Genomics in Nursing

Case Study, Chapter 8, Overview of Genetics and Genomics in Nursing

1. A patient who is 38 years of age is diagnosed with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary disease that results in fluid-filled cysts occupying space in the kidneys. The cysts can interfere with the function of the kidney and may burst and cause bleeding inside the kidney. The patient with polycystic kidney disease may or may not have a berry aneurysm of a blood vessel in the brain that could lead to bleeding and death, cysts on the ovaries.

And a mitral valve prolapse (in females) that can lead to dysrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms), or diverticula (outpouching of the bowel) that are susceptible to infection and inflammation and may lead to gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient is susceptible to retaining fluid in the abdomen so the abdomen is large to constipation, and to hypertension. There is no cure for the disease. The patient receives supportive care for the various symptoms or complications the patient may have. (Learning Objectives 1 to 3)

  1. When explaining to the patient and family about polycystic kidney disease, the nurse should explain what characteristics about an autosomal dominant genetic disease?
  2. How does variable expression of genetic characteristics play a role in the course of polycystic kidney disease and how can the nurse further predict the level of the disease?
  3. Identify the roles of the nurse in integrating genetics in the nursing care provided for the patient.

Significant family history of elevated cholesterol levels

2. Mr. Wayne is a 38-year-old man with a significant family history of elevated cholesterol levels. His father died at age 42 from a massive heart attack secondary to elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, and two of his older siblings are currently taking medications to lower their cholesterol levels. Mr. Wayne makes an appointment to discuss his risk for hypercholesterolemia. The nurse recognizes that Mr. Wayne is at risk for familial hypercholesterolemia because this is an autosomal dominant inherited condition. (Learning Objective 2)

  1. Describe the pattern of autosomal dominant inheritance.
  2. Mr. Wayne asks what chance his children have of developing familial hypercholesterolemia. How should the nurse respond?
  3. Explain the phenomenon of penetrance observed in autosomal dominant inheritance.

Individual and Family Homeostasis, Stress, and Adaptation

Case Study, Chapter 6, Individual and Family Homeostasis, Stress, and Adaptation

1. Mr. Smith, a 52-year old patient, is admitted to the coronary care unit with the diagnosis of acute inferior myocardial infarction. The patient has a history of smoking two packs per day of cigarettes for 35 years, and he drinks a six-pack of beer on weekend nights, but does not drink the rest of the week. He is the sole financial support for his family. He is a consultant for a company and is out of town during week days. Over the past year, Mr. Smith has gained 20 pounds. He is 5 foot 6 inches, weighing 200 pounds. His diet consists mostly of fast food. He rarely exercises. His wife cares for their three teenage children.

The eldest son, 17 years of age, totaled the family car when drinking and driving 2 days ago and he is in the local children’s hospital in the intensive care unit in critical condition. Mr. Smith developed chest pain and slumped over in his chair during an argument with his wife about their teenage daughter, who is 15 years of age and wanted to get birth control pills. The wife is in the waiting room while the nurses settle Mr. Smith into his room. The youngest son, 13 years of age, is at a friend’s house. The teenage daughter is staying at the bedside of the critically ill eldest son. The wife blames her eldest son for her husband’s heart attack and told the emergency department nurse that she does not care to see her son at all. (Learning Objectives 6, 10, and 11)

  1. What maladaptive responses to stress may have contributed to Mr. Smith’s development of an illness?
  2. Based on the case study, what family assessment data may be used to determine coping strategies being currently used by the family in crisis?
  3. What nursing interventions should be used to promote effective coping for the patient and his family?

2. Mary Turner stepped on a nail 5 days ago and sustained a puncture about 1 inch deep. She immediately cleaned the area with soap and water and hydrogen peroxide, and applied triple antibiotic ointment to the site. Today she comes to the clinic with complaints of increased pain and swelling in her foot. On assessment, the nurse notes that the puncture site is red and edematous, and has a moderate amount of yellowish drainage. (Learning Objective 9)

  1. Describe the sequence of events that caused the local inflammation seen in Mary’s foot.
  2. What is the role of histamine and kinins in the inflammatory process?
  3. Which of the five cardinal signs of inflammation does Mary exhibit?
  4. Because Mary’s injury occurred 5 days ago, the nurse should assess for what systemic effects?

Overview of Transcultural Nursing

Case Study, Chapter 7, Overview of Transcultural Nursing

1. Mrs. Perez, 32 years of age, is a Hispanic patient who is admitted for early stage cancer of the uterus. The surgeon stated that in order to treat Mrs. Perez’s cancer successfully, the uterus will need to be removed surgically through a procedure called a simple hysterectomy leaving the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and vagina. The surgeon requests that the nurse make arrangements for an interpreter, so they can both use the interpreter’s services. The patient only speaks Spanish, but her mother and one of the patient’s sisters are bilingual. They are currently visiting the patient. Her husband is also visiting and he only speaks Spanish. The patient’s two children are with her sister Maria. The family stated they are devout Catholics and request to see a priest while in the hospital. Today is Ash Wednesday. (Learning Objective 4)

Which interpreter is the most appropriate choice to communicate with Mrs. Perez and why?
After critically analyzing the cultural influences, what nursing actions are appropriate for the patient?
2. The nurse manager of an ambulatory care clinic has noted an increased number of visits by patients from different countries and cultures, including patients from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Concerned about meeting the needs of this culturally diverse population, the nurse manager convenes a staff meeting to discuss this change in patient demographics, and to query the staff about any learning needs they have related to the care of these patients. (Learning Objective 3)

What strategy to avoid stereotyping clients from other cultures should the nurse include in this meeting?
Identify culturally sensitive issues to be discussed in the staff meeting.
One technician on the staff complains that some patients never make eye contact, and this makes it difficult for him to complete his work. How should the nurse respond?