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Risk factors for development of cancer

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In this assignment, you will complete a self-assessment to analyze your risk factors for development of cancer.

Step 1 Select a type of cancer to examine.

Step 2 Select a cancer risk factor self-assessment tool. There are a number of online cancer risk factor tools. Select one to explore your risk for your choice of cancer and remember to cite your source using proper APA 7th Edition formatting.

Step 3 Summarize your individual risk for development of cancer. In your summary, include the following information:

Identification of individual and familial genetic factors that could lead to cancer development

Description of your lifestyle factors that could contribute to cancer development
A description of the role gender plays in risk for development of cancer
A description of the role nutrition plays in risk for development of cancer

A list of interventions you can take to reduce your risk of developing cancer
How the aging process affects cells and causes cellular injury that can lead to cancer

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Nursing Leadership and Theory Class

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Personal Goals and Objectives:

Please submit 1overall goal and 3 personal behavioral objectives for your virtual clinical experiences

Please develop ONE OVERALL GOAL and THREE PERSONAL BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES for your virtual clinical experience
Please present at least one goal for each of the learning domains (psychomotor, affective & cognitive).

Review the video below for the domains of learning;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBZQ4J46GI

Objectives should be developed in SMART format (S= specific, M= measurable, A= achievable, R= realistic * T= Timed).

Each objective should be referred to each virtual clinical day in your journal (whether or not it was accomplished).

Finally, you must state whether each objective was accomplished or not, how and when. If not completed, must give details why they were not accomplished.

Please watch this short video on SMART goals before you get started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGbmAH4mBPA

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Clinical practice

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Discuss the following using 4 APA citation with nursing content within 5years.

Discuss the following obstacles or barriers to implementing EBP in nursing? Provide a rationale for your answer. Since there are numerous topics on the issue, it is not appropriate to repeat one that has already been mentioned unless providing new information.

Lack of knowledge about the EBP process. Currently not enough nursing staff have adequate knowledge on utilization of EBP in clinical practice. The nursing training in the past was not geared towards EBP.
There is resistance and unwillingness whereby nurses are not ready to implement EBP.

Heavy work load. There is large numbers of patients and nurses are very busy hence no time to implement EBP.

Discuss the following using 4 APA citation with nursing content within 5years.

Discuss the following obstacles or barriers to implementing EBP in nursing? Provide a rationale for your answer. Since there are numerous topics on the issue, it is not appropriate to repeat one that has already been mentioned unless providing new information.

Lack of knowledge about the EBP process. Currently not enough nursing staff have adequate knowledge on utilization of EBP in clinical practice. The nursing training in the past was not geared towards EBP.
There is resistance and unwillingness whereby nurses are not ready to implement EBP.

Heavy work load. There is large numbers of patients and nurses are very busy hence no time to implement EBP.

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phenomenological inquiry

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In your opinion which of the following topics is best suited to a phenomenological inquiry? To a ethnography? To a grounded theory study? Provide a rational for each response.

a-The passage through menarche among Hatian refugee

b-The process of coping among AIDS patients

c-The experience of having a child with leukemia

d-Rituals relating to dying among nursing home residents

e-Decision making processes among nurses regarding do-not-resucitate orders

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Systems Development Life Cycle

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In the media introduction to this module, it was suggested that you as a nurse have an important role in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). With a focus on patient care and outcomes, nurses may not always see themselves as contributors to the development of new systems. However, as you may have observed in your own experience, exclusion of nurse contributions when implementing systems can have dire consequences.

In this Discussion, you will consider the role you might play in systems development and the ramifications of not being an active participant in systems development.

To Prepare:

Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as presented in the Resources.

Reflect on your own healthcare organization and consider any steps your healthcare organization goes through when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system.
Consider what a nurse might contribute to decisions made at each stage of the SDLC when planning for new health information technology.

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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

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Urban and Rural Health Issues

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Urban and Rural Health Issues

Instructions:

Choose one of topic below and post your response.
In what ways might health promotion activities for rural populations differ from those designed for urban populations?
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.
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.
Your response should be 50 – 100 words.

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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:

Background
Clinical problem statement.

Purpose of the change proposal in relation to providing patient care in the changing health care system.
PICOT question.
Literature search strategy employed.

Evaluation of the literature.
Applicable change or nursing theory utilized.
Proposed implementation plan with outcome measures.

Discussion of how evidence-based practice was used in creating the intervention plan.
Plan for evaluating the proposed nursing intervention.
Identification of potential barriers to plan implementation, and a discussion of how these could be overcome.
Appendix section, if tables, graphs, surveys, educational materials, etc. are created.

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Cultural Competence

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Examine Your Barriers to Cultural Competence

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

Assess your own barriers to cultural competence.
Have you overcome these? If not, how do you plan to overcome them?
If you do not have barriers, why do you think you do not have them?