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

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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

Marjorie Benton

Communicating disease

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Instructions: Please answer using your own words in a minimum of 300, maximum 400 words PER QUESTION SINGLE spaced. Referenced with two (2) peer-reviewed journal articles or qualified text publish within the past five years and follow APA Manual 6th or 7th editions scholarly writing guidelines. When writing replies, please provide your experiences, new ideas, add probing questions and new literature on the topic to enhance the learning opportunity.

 

  1. Highlighted the importance of communicating disease threats to international authorities.  Based on that how important do you think it is for governments like the United States to support international health organizations for the sake of public health? Please review the article from the link below.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/what-we-will-lose-if-united-states-cuts-ties-with-world-health-organization/

 

  1. 2. Identify what you believe to be the most pressing issue in public health.  Why is this the most important matter? What do you recommend to address the issue?

 

  1. What are the International Health Regulations?  How do they apply (or not) to the United States?

You can also use references that you deem fit to answer the questions.

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The transmission of STDs, mainly gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis, through oral, vaginal, and anal sexual activities, has been surging. According to the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County (DOH Miami-Dade) (2019), in a population of 100,000, there were 652 persons with STDs between 2015 and 2017. These rates in Miami were higher than in Florida State, whereby in a population of 100,000, there were 649.2 persons with the diseases. When looking at HIV/AIDS, the high rates of infection are evident in men as a result of anal sex. Also, transmission through the sharing of needles in drug use increases the infection rate. As indicated by the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics (2019), the incidence rate value of 43.4 in HIV infections and 14.6 in AIDS, were classified as the worst rating. An incident rate of a value of not more than 11.6 in HIV and 5.7 in AIDS was classified as commendable performance.  Hence, this shows a need for improvement in reducing these numbers.

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Communicating disease

Marjorie Benton

Communicable Diseases

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Communicable Diseases

  1. Choose one of the following topics and submit a short paper:
    1. Research and present on the local, state, national, and global trends such as incidence, prevalence, and populations at risk for their communicable disease group.
    2. Investigate and present communicable diseases of interest in your local community.
    3. Research the different types of organisms that could be used to create an epidemic as a result of bioterrorist activity, such as smallpox, anthrax, or botulism. Use the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Website to find out about organisms and their transmission routes, signs and symptoms, prevalence and incidence, and primary prevention treatment. Present your findings and discuss the differences in impact on the healthcare community and the population, and the role of the community health nurse.
    4. Develop primary prevention strategies for Miami Dade College, Medical Center Campus, the community, and students who have been exposed to rubella. Assess which groups are at the highest risk. Discuss or present your findings.
  2. Your response should be 1-2 pages.
  3. Be sure to use standard English grammar and spelling

The community will be Miami Dade County

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The transmission of STDs, mainly gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis, through oral, vaginal, and anal sexual activities, has been surging. According to the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County (DOH Miami-Dade) (2019), in a population of 100,000, there were 652 persons with STDs between 2015 and 2017. These rates in Miami were higher than in Florida State, whereby in a population of 100,000, there were 649.2 persons with the diseases. When looking at HIV/AIDS, the high rates of infection are evident in men as a result of anal sex. Also, transmission through the sharing of needles in drug use increases the infection rate. As indicated by the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics (2019), the incidence rate value of 43.4 in HIV infections and 14.6 in AIDS, were classified as the worst rating. An incident rate of a value of not more than 11.6 in HIV and 5.7 in AIDS was classified as commendable performance.  Hence, this shows a need for improvement in reducing these numbers.

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Communicable Diseases

Marjorie Benton

The Future of Nursing

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Review the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Write a 750‐1,000 word paper discussing the influence of the IOM report on nursing practice. Include the following:

  1. Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are significant to nursing practice.
  2. Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN‐prepared nurses.
  3. Explain why it is important that a nurse’s role and education evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population.
  4. Discuss the significance of professional development, or lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health‐illness continuum.
  5. Discuss how nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system.

You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be appropriate for the assignment and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines 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. Rubric

Criteria Description

IOM Summary of Four Messages and Significance to Nursing Practice

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As a result of careful considerations, the committee developed four main messages that showed the recommendations presented in the report. The first message outlines the need to modify practice. It explains the need for nurses to fully practice according to their education and training (Mihdawi et al. 2020). The second message states the need to modify education. It outlines the importance of nurses achieving high educational levels and training via a well-updated system that maintains an absolute academic program. The third message describes the need to modify leadership. Nurses should work together with other health care professionals in modifying health care in the U.S. The fourth message outlined why better information is required in the health care workforce. For effective planning of a health care workforce, better ways of gathering information and a better data infrastructure are required (Mihdawi et al. 2020). This report emphasizes the establishment of leadership programs that improve the capacity of nurses to develop change and improve health care services by generating opportunities for improvement in education and profession.

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The Future of Nursing