Criminal Minds

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Remember your project should include the following:

· A “criminal minds” individual will be your “patient” from the list below for your project.

· A brief history of the patient including diagnoses (documented or your thoughts if no diagnosis is recorded) and medications (if applicable). Not a lot of gory details about their crimes.

· Any substance abuse, addiction or violence issues surrounding this mental health problem.

· List appropriate nursing interventions for your chosen patient. Include sources for evidence-based practice. What might have made the difference between functional mental illness to the progression to criminal behavior.

· Include 3 relevant Nursing Diagnoses for your patient.

· The paper should use APA formatting and be at least 3 pages in length.

 

CRIMINAL MINDS

 

Richard Speck

Aileen Wournos

Jeffrey Dahmer

John Wayne Gacey

H. H. Holmes

Ted Bundy

Jim Jones

Charles Cullen

Earl Nelson

Charles Manson

Genene Jones

Richart T. Chase

Ed Giehn

BTK Dennis Rader

R. Kuklinski

DC Sniper

Bob Yates

Albert Fish

Grim Sleeper

Son of Sam

Columbine Killers

Unabomber

Harpe Brothers

Menendez Bros

Michael Swango

Kristen Gilbert

Henry Lee Lucas

Ottis Toole

Gary Heidnik

Edmund Kemper

Valerie Solanas

Mark Chapman

Rodney Alcala

Charles Sobhraj

John Wayne Wilson

Craig List Killers

Nannie Doss

John Wilkes Booth

Darren Deon Vann

Gary Ridgway

Lucrezia Borgia

Adam Lanza

Rostov Ripper

Richard Beasley

Lisa Montgomery

Miranda Barbour

Amy Bishop

Marie Besnard

Patrick Sherrill

 

 

Scoring Rubric:

Criteria Points
Describes the patient that is the subject of the project including diagnoses, medications, and history OR describes the community, its strengths and problems and the mental health issue that will be the subject of the paper. 4
Includes any substance abuse or violence issues for the patient or community 2
Discusses attempted interventions, what has been successful and what has not. 4
Describes own personal thoughts about the patient’s or community’s mental health issues. 4
Describes any cognitive concerns and possible interventions. 2
Writes a nursing care plan including three priority nursing diagnoses with r/t and AEB factors. 4
Includes outcomes in NOC language and interventions in NIC language with a plan for evaluation. 4
Identifies mental health resources that can be used with the patient or community. Includes an educational tool. 4
Supports answers using academic resources, with citations in APA format. 2
Total 30

Risk Management Program Analysis

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Benchmark – Risk Management Program Analysis – Part One

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a health care risk management program.

Conduct research on approaches to risk management processes, policies. And concerns in your current or anticipated professional arena to find an example of a risk management plan. Look for a plan with sufficient content to be able to complete this assignment successfully. In a 1,000‐1,250-word, provide an analysis of the risk management plan that includes the following:

type of risk management plan

  1. Summary of the type of risk management plan you selected (new employee, specific audience, community‐focused, etc.). And your rationale for selecting that example. Describe the health care organization to which the plan applies and the role risk management plays in that setting.
  2. Description of the standard administrative steps. And processes in a typical health care organization’s risk management program compared to the administrative steps and processes you identify in your selected example plan. (Note: For standard risk management policies and procedures, look up the MIPPA-approved accrediting body that regulates the risk management standards in your chosen health care sector. And consider federal, state, and local statutes as well.)
  3. Analysis of the key agencies and organizations that regulate the administration of safe health care in your area of concentration. And an evaluation of the roles each one plays in the risk management oversight process.
  4. Evaluation of your selected risk management plan’s compliance with the standards of its corresponding MIPPA-approved accrediting body relevant to privacy, health care worker safety, and patient safety.
  5. Proposed recommendations or changes you would implement in your risk management program example to enhance, improve, or secure the aforementioned compliance standards.

In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of three peer‐reviewed references.

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

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

formal role where a nurse is in a position of leadership

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formal role where a nurse is in a position of leadership

PLEASE GIVE TWO REFERENCES FOR EACH QUESTION ( One page for each question )

1. Discuss a formal role where a nurse is in a position of leadership. Outline the essential responsibilities of that role and the educational preparation required. Explain what leadership traits, styles, or qualities are required to be successful in this role and why.

2. The influence of leadership can be far-reaching in practice and improving patient outcomes even when not in a formal role. Describe advocacy strategies that you can use as a leader to create positive change in your current workplace. In response to peers, describe a time when you provided leadership and the outcome. Was there anything that you would do differently?

Alzheimer’s disease

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Alzheimer’s disease

Appendix A

Ticket to Class

Due on:

No single word responses (At least 100+ words in your response. Repeating the question in the answer does not count towards the 100+ words)
Give questions some thought and answer honestly and sincerely
Give examples if you have them
Cite resources

 

Assignment:

You are viewing social media at home when you notice one of your coworker’s post on Facebook. The post is complaining about an elderly patient on your unit at work. The post reveals that the patient has Alzheimer’s disease and is “crazy” and your coworker states “I can’t wait until she is transferred out of here and back to Comfort Care Homes. After this shift, you will find me at the bar, line them up, I will need it.” Additionally, the coworker’s full name, occupation and employer are listed on their “about me” page.

Answer the following question:

1. What would you do regarding this posting? Explain clearly what you would do and why.

relationship between bullying and suicide.

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 relationship between bullying and suicide.

Discussion:

Bullying prevention is a growing research field that investigates the complexities. And consequences of bullying.  There is also a complex relationship between bullying and suicide.

Visit http://www.stopbullying.gov/resources/index.html and identify resources for preventing bullying and assisting children who have been bullied.

Instructions: 

Post your discussion to the Moodle Discussion Forum.  Word limit 500 words.  Support your answers with the literature and provide citations and references in APA format.  Reply to at least two other student posts with a reflection of their response.

solutions to patient care problems in a healthcare organization

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PICO INSTRUCTION

 

 

Purpose: PICO questions are used by practicing nurses and researchers to focus research questions and develop an efficient literature search strategy.  It is essential that future nurses learn how to do this to develop evidenced-based solutions to patient care problems in a healthcare organization.

Instructions:

1. Write a PICO question based on a scenario you choose from the list of scenarios attached below.  Use the templates in the EBP Step by Step 3 article to help create your questions. You may need to do a pre-search to finding an intervention (the “I”) that has been studied and published to solve the problem.

2. Identify the PICO elements for each question.

3. Develop a search strategy using at least 3 keywords from the P, I, and O parts of your PICO, 1 synonym for one of the keywords, and 1 MeSH term for one of your keywords.

4. Locate 4 articles that help answer your PICO question.  The articles must meet the following requirements:

· must be primary source quantitative research articles.

· No article can be older than 2017.

5. Obtain pdfs of the four articles you selected from the school database.  They must show the full text of the entire article. If not available for the School database, you may request access from the school Library, or you can email me the citation for the article, and I will attempt to locate a pdf of it.

6. On a Word document, include your scenario; write your PICO question as a sentence; identify the P, I, C, and O for each question; and list the search terms (3 keywords, 1 synonym, 1 MeSH term) for each. You may use the template attached here. See also the link to the MeSH terms website below.

7. Provide a properly formatted APA reference page for your selected articles from Step 4 of these instructions. See the link to the APA and Writing LibGuide below.

Epidemiology And Disease

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Epidemiology And Disease

Your post should be 2-3 paragraphs long, following the outlined in the discussion rubric under course materials

Step 1: Choose ONE of the following communicable or tropical diseases:

Step #2: Determine the mode of transmission for your chosen disease

Step #3: Analyze maps, statistics and reports showing the incidence and spread of your chosen disease worldwide. How has the spread of the disease changed over time? What commonalities do you see between countries with high rates of the disease? Discuss the implication of the disease related to population-based nursing in developing countries. 

Treatment for a Patient With a Common Condition

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Treatment for a Patient With a Common Condition

Insomnia is one of the most common medical conditions you will encounter as a PNP. Insomnia is a common symptom of many mental illnesses, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and ADHD (Abbott, 2016). Various studies have demonstrated the bidirectional relationship between insomnia and mental illness. In fact, about 50% of adults with insomnia have a mental health problem, while up to 90% of adults with depression experience sleep problems (Abbott, 2016). Due to the interconnected psychopathology, it is important that you, as the PNP, understand the importance of the effects some psychopharmacologic treatments may have on a patient’s mental health illness and their sleep patterns. Therefore, it is important that you understand and reflect on the evidence-based research in developing treatment plans to recommend proper sleep practices to your patients as well as recommend appropriate psychopharmacologic treatments for optimal health and well-being.

Reference: Abbott, J. (2016). What’s the link between insomnia and mental illness? Health. https://www.sciencealert.com/what-exactly-is-the-link-between-insomnia-and-mental-illness#:~:text=Sleep%20problems%20such%20as%20insomnia%20are%20a%20common,bipolar%20disorder%2C%20and%20attention%20deficit%20hyperactivity%20disorder%20%28ADHD%29

For this Discussion, review the case Learning Resources and the case study excerpt presented. Reflect on the case study excerpt and consider the therapy approaches you might take to assess, diagnose, and treat the patient’s health needs.

Case: An elderly widow who just lost her spouse.

Subjective: A patient presents to your primary care office today with chief complaint of insomnia. Patient is 75 YO with PMH of DM, HTN, and MDD. Her husband of 41 years passed away 10 months ago. Since then, she states her depression has gotten worse as well as her sleep habits. The patient has no previous history of depression prior to her husband’s death. She is awake, alert, and oriented x3. Patient normally sees PCP once or twice a year, denies any suicidal ideations. And arrived at the office today by private vehicle. Patient currently takes the following medications:

· Metformin 500mg BID

· Januvia 100mg daily, Losartan 100mg daily, HCTZ 25mg daily, Sertraline 100mg daily

Current weight: 88 kg

Current height: 64 inches

Temp: 98.6 degrees F

BP: 132/86

By Day 3 of Week 7
Post a response to each of the following:

· List three questions you might ask the patient if she were in your office. Provide a rationale for why you might ask these questions.

· Identify people in the patient’s life you would need to speak to or get feedback from to further assess the patient’s situation. Include specific questions you might ask these people and why.

· Explain what, if any, physical exams, and diagnostic tests would be appropriate for the patient and how the results would be used.

· List a differential diagnosis for the patient. Identify the one that you think is most likely and explain why.

· List two pharmacologic agents and their dosing that would be appropriate for the patient’s antidepressant therapy based on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. From a mechanism of action perspective, provide a rationale for why you might choose one agent over the other.

· For the drug therapy you select, identify any contraindications to use or alterations in dosing that may need to be considered based on ethical prescribing or decision-making. Discuss why the contraindication/alteration you identify exists. That is, what would be problematic with the use of this drug in individuals based on ethical prescribing guidelines or decision-making?

· Include any “check points” (i.e., follow-up data at Week 4, 8, 12, etc.), and indicate any therapeutic changes that you might make based on possible outcomes that may happen given your treatment options chosen.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

By Day 6 of Week 7
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days in one of the following ways:

· If your colleagues’ posts influenced your understanding of these concepts, be sure to share how and why. Include additional insights you gained.

Engaging In A Political Process

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Engaging In A Political Process

Engaging in a political process enables a nurse leader to influence others in order to achieve a set of professional goals. Conduct extensive research on the importance of political process in nursing, and answer the following questions:

  • How can average nurses be involved in the political process?
  • What do you do or should do in order to become more politically active?

Epidemiology And Disease

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Your post should be 2-3 paragraphs long, following the outlined in the discussion rubric under course materials

Step 1: Choose ONE of the following communicable or tropical diseases:

  • Tuberculosis
  • Hepatitis B
  • Zika virus
  • Yellow Fever
  • Typhoid Fever

Step #2: Determine the mode of transmission for your chosen disease

Step #3: Analyze maps, statistics and reports showing the incidence and spread of your chosen disease worldwide. How has the spread of the disease changed over time? What commonalities do you see between countries with high rates of the disease? Discuss the implication of the disease related to population-based nursing in developing countries.