Marjorie Benton

Legal Issues in Nursing

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Legal Issues in Nursing: In this assignment, you will write a 2 page paper on a legal issue that you have either experienced first hand, that you have been privy to, or that you have invented.Relate the incident, how it could have been prevented, and how it was resolved.You should have at least 2 references. This APA assignment is worth 15 points.

Suggestions:

Whistleblowing

Breach of confidentiality

Clinical judgment

Inappropriate triage

Medication error

Sentinal event

Lapse in communication

Substandard care

Lack of documentation

Fraud

False imprisonment

Assault or battery

Legal Issues in Nursing

15 Points

 Quality paper, with thorough content and minimal grammar or spelling errors.

15

 Good paper, but a few omissions in content or more than 2 errors in spelling or grammar

14-12

 Fair to poor paper, difficult to follow or lacking in pertinent content, or many spelling or grammar errors

11-8

 Very poor paper, very late paper, or no paper at all.

7-0

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In my working experience as a nurse, I have been privy to a legal issue of unethical conduct by a health practitioner. In the healthcare nursing home, I work in, there is a specific physician involved with several institutions in town. Whenever he discharged a patient, he put all effort into ensuring they were released to a nursing facility that he was affiliated with. The physician would either convince the family involved or the patient into accepting to go to specific care institutions to pursue his interests. In his practice, the administration often allowed him to get away with questionable things due to his high-ranked position and the multiple clients he brought to the organization.

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Legal Issues in Nursing

Marjorie Benton

Urban and Rural Health Issues

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Urban and Rural Health Issues

Instructions:

  1. Choose one of topic below and post your response.
    1. In what ways might health promotion activities for rural populations differ from those designed for urban populations?
    2. Assume you are a community health nurse in a rural community. Describe your own approach to problem solve overuse of the emergency room for minor childhood illnesses by the population groups.
    3. Interview a classmate who was raised in a rural community about his or her family and school life. Determine what he or she considers to be his or her best experiences growing up. Compare the classmate’s best experience with your own.
  2. Your response should be 50 – 100 words.

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people in urban areas are often impersonal and independent. To solve the issue of overuse of the minor emergency room (ER), I would perform an analysis of the cases brought to the ER. Using the results, I would create a practical guide for population groups to minimize the common injuries or illnesses and administer the guide to the groups educating them on various health promotion strategies. My classmate’s best experience was playing outside on the farm with their peers while my best memories are from taking vacations with my parents.

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Urban and Rural Health Issues

Marjorie Benton

Clinical problem statement

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Develop a 1,250-1,500 written project 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.

Review the feedback from your instructor on the Topic 3 assignment, PICOT Question Paper, and Topic 6 assignment, Literature Review. Use this feedback to make appropriate revisions to these before submitting.

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Nurse burnout is a significant challenge experienced by most nurses. Various factors are associated with nurse burnout among them, including short staffing, working for longer hours, and micromanaging.  While nursing is the most demanding field, a gap between the demand and supply is widening due to a few opening ins nursing schools, causing a shortage of professional nurses in the country. Halm (2017) highlights that the hospital and other health facilities overwhelm nurses with many roles, making their work more difficult.  Nurse burnout is associated increase in the number of medical errors in the health facilities. Critical nurses are more susceptible to burnout, which interfere with their service delivery. It lowers the quality of health services delivered,

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Clinical problem statement

Marjorie Benton

Cultural Competence

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Examine Your Barriers to Cultural Competence

  1. Respond to the prompts below in full sentences. Be sure to use standard English grammar and spelling:

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I have taken several steps and aspire to do more to address these barriers. I am now more deliberate about listening to the rationale behind people’s actions, norms, and traditions before making conclusions. Keeping an open mind has made it much easier for me to interact with and accommodate different people peacefully. I am now talking to more people from different cultures, most of who I would have otherwise ignored and assumed we have nothing in common. Additionally, I have tried to come out of my cultural cocoon to look at different issues from the cultures of the people involved, and this has positively affected my actions and attitudes towards them.

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Cultural Competence

Marjorie Benton

Environmental Issues

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Environmental Issues

Instructions:

  1. Choose one of the assignments below and post your answers or ‘editorial’ in this forum.
    1. Select an article from the mass media (newspaper) that deals with an “environmental” health issue. Analyze and critique the article by answering the following questions:
    2. Identify an environmental health problem in your community.
  2. Your response should be 50 – 100 words.

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GFL is the source of the problem through the emission of gases from their manufacturing activities, creating rashes and congenital disabilities. The evidence given is from the director of the Indian Environmental Group, while GFL was going to be awarded by the UN, while they released emissions at night. Moreover, the media programmed health issues such as congenital disabilities and body rashes caused by GFL through a picture of an Indian family. The population at risk is the people living in Nath-Kuva village. However, the coverage provides adequate information for people to understand the problem showcasing how GFL using money to stop the community’s resistance. Finally, I would improve this article by stating the measure creating a campaign against such companies that take advantage of the poor.

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Environmental Issues

Marjorie Benton

Nursing practice

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discussion 2

Requirements: On topic

Advocacy

What examples of advocacy do you see in your own nursing practice? List and discuss 2 examples.

 

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
  • You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.)
  • All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.

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As a nurse, patients’ education is very important because many of the leading causes of death in America are closely associated with unhealthy lifestyles. For instance, stroke, hypertension, lung disease, and many others. Based on research, counseling and patients’ education have helped provide patients with current information regarding certain lifestyles and their impact on their health. Nurse-patient education helps create trust and empowers patients to fully participate in their health care as they have sufficient information to make an informed decision regarding their health.

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Nursing practice

Marjorie Benton

Cardiovascular system and lymphatic system

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Choose a medical condition from the cardiovascular system and lymphatic system and explain the pathophysiology changes that may occur. What patient education would need to be included related to this disorder? Please add Citations and References.

Please add the topic of the discussion in the beginning

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AIDS is a medical condition that affects the whole-body system by creating a deficiency of cellular immunity. Through this, the susceptibility of malignancies and neurological infections in the body increases. Gilroy (2020) states that HIV releases cellular immune deficiency that depletes the CD4+ cells, creating neoplastic processes and opportunistic viral/bacterial infections. In such cases, the required patient education is based on periodic counseling, which is significant for treatment purposes. Exercise and physiotherapy for those with fewer CD4 count cells are essential for patient education regarding this disorder. Lastly, nutrition education must also be included to keep the body system healthy and fit.

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Cardiovascular system and lymphatic system

Marjorie Benton

Plagiarism in an Academic Setting

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NURS 220

APA Paper

You will write a paper on Plagiarism in the Academic Settingwith an in-depth examination of plagiarism as it applies to academic settings.

The Purpose of the Paper is to:

1. Familiarize the student with the definition of plagiarism.

2. Help the student recognize and prevent common mistakes that occur in academic settings and examples of plagiarism.

3. Familiarize the student with tools that highlight plagiarized content.

4. Make them aware of the LUSON Honor Code

5. Make them. Aware of penalties of plagiarism

6. Familiarize the student with the LUSON Appeal Process

7. Teach current APA formal writing techniques.

Additional required content is noted below. A valuable learning experience, research, and writing on this topic will empower you to succeed in the critical areas of academic honesty and current APA formal writing techniques.

The paper must be written in current APA format and include the following:

• Title Page

• Body of the work: 1,000–1,500 words of text with a maximum of 2 quotations. Content must include these elements:

o Quotations

o Paraphrasing

o Citations

o Appropriate illustrations/examples

o References

o APA Level headings

o Formatting

o Definition of plagiarism

o Common mistakes that occur in academic settings and examples of plagiarism

o Reference to your SafeAssign/Originality Report(optional)

o Tools that highlight plagiarism

o LUSON Honor Code

o Reference University online specific penalties for academic dishonesty that can be found under “Student Expectations” and click on “Plagiarism & Academic Dishonesty.”

o LUSON Appeal Process

• Reference Page: a minimum of 5 peer-reviewed sources, published in the last 5 years, in current APA format must be incorporated.

• A minimum of 5 required references are required and include the following:

o APA Manual: required

o LUSON website: required

o At least 2 of the 5 sources are to be scholarly peer reviewed sources from the Jerry Falwell Library (JFL) to address required topics: required

o Other Scholarly sources:

Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 6.

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There are common mistakes that lead to plagiarism. One mistake that students make is forgetting to paraphrase the literature works they use in their studies. Copy and paste strategy of exact text is plagiarism, and it can be avoided when the content is paraphrased in a student’s own words, but the meaning should not be distorted. While paraphrasing academic content, it is critical to observe the “five consecutive word” rule (Thomas, 2018). According to Thomas (2018), when you have five consecutive words similar to another text, then you have committed plagiarism. In some aspects, their names used that can be hard to paraphrase and still maintain their meaning. To avoid the content being taken as plagiarized, the student can use quotations to present the information while citing the authors of the information. Despite paraphrasing the contents of one or different scholarly works, it is an academic ethic to cite the sources used to get the information as references at the end of the research work.

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Plagiarism in an Academic Setting

Marjorie Benton

Urinary Incontinence

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Chapter 15

Urinary Incontinence

Instructions:

  1. Read Chapter 15 carefully.
  2. Answer the following questions: (Try to think of as many things as you can and describe them.)
    1. How many ways are urinary incontinence and decubitus ulcers related to each other?
    2. Can one cause the other?
    3. Are there any microorganisms that they have in common?
    4. Do they both affect the same kind of tissue?
    5. Do they both cause pain?
    6. Is it the same kind of pain?

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At times, urinary incontinence might result in a person experiencing some back pain (Dugger, 2018). However, the extent of the relationship between back pain and urinary incontinence is still getting explored to pinpoint, whether back pain leads to UI or urinary incontinence. This results in a patient experiencing back pain (Dugger, 2018). Decubitus ulcers are also excruciating, especially if they get infected or mishandled during dressing and treatment. In most cases, untreated pressure sores become open wounds, which might be quite painful when touched or exposed to stimuli.

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Urinary Incontinence

Marjorie Benton

Gerontological Nursing

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Chapter 20

What elements go into the idea of “quality of life” for the elderly? So many times we discuss the quality of life when someone elderly becomes very ill. The topic of quality is usually brought up for discussion as the ethical standard.

Instructions:

  1. Read Chapter 20 carefully.
  2. Describe what “quality of life” aspects are relevant when a very elderly person is near death and you are the caregiver.

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Finally, the aspect of veracity, which includes confidentiality, truthfulness, and fidelity, is essential when caring for a patient about to die. The nurse-patient relationship is a close one, especially when the patient is about to die as they are highly dependent on the nurse. Patients tend to share many memories and experiences with their caregivers (Mauk, 2010). As such, I will need to observe these three qualities in maintaining a healthy relationship with patients at the end of their life. A positive relationship characterized by three qualities is a way of offering emotional comfort to the patient. In conclusion, observation of ‘quality of life’ aspects by nurses

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Gerontological Nursing