populations in the United States

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Step 1: Find an article.
Identify one peer-reviewed article from a nursing journal focused on the health needs of one of the following populations in the United States:

  • Women
  • Children and adolescents
  • Families

Step 2: Read the article.
Critically read the article. While you read, note the audience targeted by the article, the purpose of the article, how evidence is incorporated into the nursing implications, the major ideas of the article, whether the article makes sense, whether the conclusions are logical, and so on.

Step 3: Summarize the article and propose a population-based intervention
Summarize the article, including the audience and purpose of the article, as well as the implications for population-based nursing. Based on the information in the article, propose one population-focused intervention. Make sure that you use APA format to properly cite the article.

Step 4: Post to the discussion forum.
Post the summary of your article to the discussion forum.

Neurologic Assessment

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Module 07 Content

  1. You will perform a history of a neurologic problem that your instructor has provided you or one that you have experienced and perform an assessment of the neurologic system. You will document your subjective and objective findings, identify actual or potential risks, and submit this in a Word document to the drop box provided.

 

Title:

Documentation of problem based assessment of the neurological system.

Purpose of Assignment: 

Learning the required components of documenting a problem based subjective and objective assessment of neurological system. Identify abnormal findings.

Course Competency:

Apply assessment techniques for the neurological and respiratory systems.

Instructions:

Content: Use of three sections:

o Subjective

o Objective

o Actual or potential risk factors for the client based on the assessment findings with description or reason for selection of them.

Format:

· Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)

Resources:

Chapter 5: SOAP Notes: The subjective and objective portion only

Sullivan, D. D. (2012). Guide

 

Subjective 

(4 Pts)

Missing   components such as biographic data, medications, or allergies. Symptoms   analysis is incomplete. May contain objective data.

Basic   biographic data provided. Medications and allergies included. Symptoms   analysis incomplete. Lacking detail. No objective data.

Basic   biographic data provided. Included list of medications and allergies.   Symptoms analysis: PQRSTU completed. Lacking detail. No objective data.   Information is solely what “client” provided.

 

Objective

(4 Pts)

Missing   components of assessment for particular system. May contain subjective data, have signs of bias or explanation of findings. And have included words   such as “normal”, “appropriate”,
“okay”, and “good”.

Includes all   components of assessment for particular system. Lacks detail. Uses words such   as “normal”, “appropriate”, or “good”. Contains all objective information. May have signs of bias or   explanation of findings.

Includes all   components of assessment for particular system. Avoided use of words such as   “normal”, “appropriate”, or “good”. No   bias or explanation for findings evident Contains all objective information

Includes all   components of assessment for particular system. Detailed information   provided. Avoided use of words such as   “normal”, “appropriate”, or “good”. No   bias or explanation for findings evident. All objective information

 

Points: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

 

Actual or Potential Risk Factors

(2 pts)

Lists one to   two actual or potential risk factors for the client based on the assessment   findings with no description or reason for selection of them. Failure to provide any potential or actual   risk factors will result in zero points for this criterion.

Brief   description of one or two actual or potential risk factors for the client   based on assessment findings with description or reason for selection of   them.

Limited   description of two actual or potential risk factors for the client based on   the assessment findings with description or reason for selection of them.

Comprehensive,   detailed description of two actual or potential risk factors for the client   based on the assessment findings with description or reason for selection of   them.

Proximate Determinants Framework

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Proximate Determinants Framework

Using the proximate determinants framework, discuss the relative impacts of one of the following reproductive health issues: contraception, breastfeeding, abortion, sexual activity and infecundity on total fertility rates in Latin America versus Africa from both a family-centered and systems-based perspective. What are the policy implications of these findings? Provide a real-world example of this issue and explain how the policy impacts the low-income population. Similarly, explain why Japan, which has a relatively low contraceptive prevalence rate, has such a low total fertility rate.

Please provide at least two references

Ministry Of Health Of A Lower-Income Country

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 The Ministry of Health of a lower-income country has decided to institute a national nutrition surveillance system. To monitor the country’s most pressing child and maternal nutrition problems. The surveillance system should incorporate the micronutrient deficiencies that affect the population. And account for people at different life stages, socioeconomic, and geographic groups’ vulnerabilities to individual nutrient deficiencies. As a health professional working for the ministry, provide your professional summary for a selected lower middle income country, of the nutritional problems, target groups, approaches to assessment, options for routine contact in the community, and types of agencies to organize into a surveillance system to guide the ministry. Discuss ways in which single-micronutrient deficiency prevention strategies might be combined, integrated, or coordinated to achieve cost-effective control. Describe the roles of general rations, supplementary feeding programs, and therapeutic feeding programs in maintaining population nutrition.

Please provide 2 reference, at least 250 word

Leadership Styles And Nursing

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This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

The purpose of this assignment is to assess leadership styles, traits. And practices as a nursing professional, establish the importance of effective inter professional communication as a leader in nursing. And to explore the role of servant leadership in nursing practice.

Read the study materials on leadership and complete the topic quiz activities to better understand your leadership qualities.

Upon completion, summarize and share with your group what you learned about your specific leadership qualities, so you can become familiar with how you are similar and different from your peers when it comes to being a leader.

As a group, review the study materials related to servant leadership. Using what you have learned about the tenets of servant leadership and traits and practices of successful leaders, create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes. Add an additional slide for references at the end of your presentation.

Include the following in your presentation:

1. Each group member: Create a slide that summarizes your leadership style, traits, and practices.

2. Compare the personal leadership styles of your group members, including commonalities between-group members’ strengths and weaknesses.

3. Explain why it is important for nursing professionals to be aware of their personal leadership style, traits, and practices.

4. Discuss what leadership traits and styles are necessary to be an effective communicator. Explain the importance of leaders adapting communication approaches when working inter professionally (across ancillary departments, vendors, community members).

5. Discuss how nursing professionals can benefit from integrating the tenets of servant leadership to empower and influence others as they lead.

6. Discuss how leaders who practice servant leadership and have a strong understanding of their personal leadership traits can successfully lead others and navigate the unique challenges that are part of nursing and health care. Provide two examples that illustrate your main ideas.

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 relevant to nursing practice.

Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

 

organization discharge data

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View the following activity to address the discussion scenario.

[MUSIC] A local hospital publicly reported organization discharge data. The data were risk adjusted to control for pre-existing comorbidities to level the playing field. With data reported from other hospitals. The report notes little risk adjustment for stroke mortality. Recently, the hospital received stroke center designation for following best practice protocols for stroke management. The DNP scholar and data analyst track stroke mortality data. And note a spike in mortality for a given quarter, which explains why the state public report is unsatisfactory.

Drilling into the data to examine the numerator deaths due to stroke, denominator and total patient population. The data analysts determines that the risk mortality has a score of one to four, with one being a minor risk of mortality. This explains why the hospital did not risk adjust well, because these patients did not appear to have risks associated with severe illness that would reasonably explain the associated mortalities. Next, the data analyst drills further into the detailed subject oriented data of actual patient records and then completes a full chart review to obtain the sweet spot to inform quality improvement.

Consider the scenario above to address the following.

  • Do you recommend that the data analyst examine aggregate data, detailed data, or both, to investigate this quality issue? Please explain your rationale.
  • Do you recommend that the data analyst use a retrospective data warehouse, clinical data store, or both, to investigate the mortality rate? Please explain your rationale.
  • What type of tools or analytic approaches is relevant for use by this analyst? Please explain your rationale.

Now, conduct a search for evidence. Select three scholarly sources of information describing the challenges of utilizing data in the clinical setting.

  • Provide a brief overview of the findings of each source of evidence.

Please review the Graduate Discussion Grading Guidelines and Rubric  (Links to an external site.)for complete discussion requirements

Aggregate data

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Jill,

Consider the scenario above to address the following.

Do you recommend that the data analyst examine aggregate data, detailed data. Or both, to investigate this quality issue? Please explain your rationale.
Aggregate data is a summary of the population being evaluated. And does not consider individualized data. Detailed data evaluates individualized information. Which can eliminate potential biases that may exist in aggregated data. Tierney et al. (2020) concluded that aggregate data were more likely to agree with detailed data when the information size was large. Since this is a quality issue and the information provided does not state the sample size, I recommend evaluating the aggregate and detailed data to ensure enough information is captured.

Do you recommend that the data analyst use a retrospective data warehouse, clinical data store, or both, to investigate the mortality rate? Please explain your rationale.
To investigate the mortality rate, the analyst should evaluate the retrospective data warehouse. The retrospective data warehouse provides aggregate and detail-level data, whereas the clinical data store manages operational and clinical data to assist clinicians at the point of care. Aggregate data in the retrospective data warehouse may contain a mortality rate, risk-adjusted mortality rate, and risk of mortality for specific patient populations (McBride, 2019).

type of tools or analytic approaches

What type of tools or analytic approaches is relevant for use by this analyst? Please explain your rationale.
First, this analyst will need a spreadsheet, such as Microsoft Excel, that allows the data to be organized and sorted into various charts and graphics. BI tools are software applications that assist in the multidimensional analysis of clinical data in organizations (McBride, 2019). Statistical packages assist the analyst in organizing the data, performing data cleaning, and validating the data. Statistical tests such as t-test, correlations, and regression are often used.

Now, conduct a search for evidence. Select three scholarly sources of information describing the challenges of utilizing data in the clinical setting.

Data utilization in the healthcare industry presents many challenges. One challenge is proprietary or determining who owns the data, the facility, or the patient (Kruse et al., 2016). The patient’s ability and ease of accessing their information is another concern. Patient security is a significant challenge in data management (Galetsi et al., 2019; Kruse et al., 2016; Ristevski & Chen, 2018). According to Galetsi et al. (2019), future research is directed towards the standardization of data systems to allow for the safe extraction of patient data from all relevant organizations. Advanced encryption algorithms and pseudo-anonymization of personal data should be used to avoid patient security and privacy issues (Ristevski & Chin, 2018; Galetsi et al., 2019).

References

Galetsi, P., Katsaliaki, K., & Kumar, S. (2019). Values, challenges and future directions of big data analytics in healthcare: A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 241, 112533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112533 (Links to an external site.)

Kruse, C., Goswamy, R., Raval, Y., & Marawi, S. (2016). Challenges and opportunities of big data in health care: A systematic review. JMIR Medical Informatics, 4(4), e38. https://doi.org/10.2196/medinform.5359 (Links to an external site.)

McBride, S. (2019). Nursing informatics for the advanced practice nurse: Patient safety, quality, outcomes, and interprofessionalism (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Ristevski, B., & Chen, M. (2018). Big data analytics in medicine and healthcare. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2017-0030 (Links to an external site.)

Tierney, J. F., Fisher, D. J., Burdett, S., Stewart, L. A., & Parmar, M. B. (2020). Comparison of aggregate and individual participant data approaches to meta-analysis of randomised trials: An observational study. PLOS Medicine, 17(1), e1003019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003019

Resume and Cover Letter

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Resume and Cover Letter

An applicant’s professional history and qualifications are outlined in a resume. A cover letter is a way for the applicant to make a professional introduction to the hiring manager and demonstrate an interest in the company.

Develop a current resume and create a formal cover letter for a position for which you would like to apply. Create both the cover letter and resume using a professionally accepted format.

Include the following:

1. Resume: Detail your overall education, credentials, and professional experience, such as licenses, earned degrees, certifications, professional experiences, previous positions held, membership in professional organizations, publications, and skills.

2. Write a one-page double spaced introductory cover letter in which you explain your professional objectives, professional interests, and strengths as an applicant.

3. Prior to submission, share your resume with a colleague and obtain feedback. Revise your resume as needed

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

 

Balancing School and Life

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1

 

5

Balancing School and Life

 

Marion Simmons

8/8/21Balancing School and Life

Ways in which Quality of Life Self-Care Wheel scores have changed

Some of the principles scores on the Quality of Life Self-Care Wheel changed significantly. For instance, the score for financial situation raised to 8, the score for the environment increased to 7, and the score for career/school increased to 9. Creating a fixed deposit account, which boosted my cash reserves by restricting my redemptions, was responsible for improving my financial score. In addition, I ignored purchasing non-essential items that were not necessary for me.

Furthermore, my environmental score improved since I learned more deeply about environmental damage and why it is necessary to keep our surroundings clean and safe. For example, I realized the self-accountability of dumping garbage in dumps rather than anywhere else. I also learned that maintaining the environment clean would improve our safety by significantly lowering the dangers of infectious diseases. Also, my school grade improved because I collaborated with my classmates, who assisted me in improving in areas that I found difficult.

Current levels of tension and stress, the score on a scale of 1-10, the strategies identified, and how to implement them

My current level of tension and stress is a five on a scale of 1-5. Therefore, the mean score is directly linked to the application of integrated anxiety and stress-reduction strategies. To improve my studies and reduce the stress that comes with them, I regularly collaborated with my peers in discussion groups to ensure that we could solve problems together and come to a likely outcome after sharing our ideas. Furthermore, to reduce the stress of interacting with patients, I appropriately engaged with my coworkers and asked them for methods of improving the patient’s condition from an objective viewpoint and questioning the patients themselves.

The feedback received facilitated a cooperative relationship with the patients, reducing the stress experienced in this industry (Worley et al., 2017). Moreover, the tension and stress relating to financial issues were kept to a minimum due to implementing the opening of a fixed deposit account, which enabled me to save by minimizing withdrawals. Furthermore, I reduced my spendthrift habit by using cash rather than a credit card and avoiding spending on frivolous items. Thus, the stress associated with being broke due to excessive spending was reduced through effective financial resource management.

New strategies that will “fit” better

Debriefing sessions and effective communication are two new strategies that I believe would be beneficial. Debriefing sessions, for example, would improve bereavement counseling skills among nurses to reduce stress and facilitate coping abilities (Jan et al., 2017). This is beneficial to the nurses in terms of stress reduction and the patients receiving quality healthcare services. Furthermore, debriefing sessions are vital because they help relieve stress, particularly after a critical stressful incident that may have elicited strong nurses’ reactions.

Additionally, better communication is a compelling strategy. That is because effective dialogue by any institution can prevent nurses from stress and provide a friendly atmosphere where all individuals trust and support each other. Furthermore, these communication lines should be adaptable so that nurses can express their concerns without hindrance or delay. As a result, debriefing sessions and good communication would help reduce the stresses and anxieties that nurses face and ensure that patients receive high-quality healthcare services.

Finally, by implementing various strategies like environmental sustainability, savings via a fixed deposit account, and discussion groups with my peers, I improved my score on the Quality of Life Self Care wheel. Furthermore, these strategies have improved my academic performance and assisted in the reduction of several tensions and stresses, such as financial burden.

References

Jan, F., Kaur, S., & Para, M. A. (2017). Coping Strategies Used by Staff Nurses Working in Emergency and General Wards of SKIMS Hospital: A Comparative Study. Annals Of Medical & Health Sciences Research, 7106-112

Worley, L. L., & Stonnington, C. M. (2017). Self-care, resilience, and work-life balance. In Physician Mental Health and Well-Being (pp. 237-263). Springer, Cham.

The Different Forms Of Collective Behavior

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Section One: Describe the different forms of collective behavior, and explain why people participate in collective behavior. Is all collective behavior bad for society? Why or why not?

Section Two: Analyze a current social movement of your choice according to the sociological principles and findings from your reading this week. Are some social movements an indication of the climate in society? Why or why not ?

Section Three: Your textbook this week discussed an analysis of the Nazis and ISIS to help explain how social movements can recruit people to do evil. Can you fit the analysis into groupthink and dehumanization into the analysis?