Marjorie Benton

Psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner

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Prior to starting the course, you should have applied for a practicum site following the guidelines for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) practice. Now it is time to make it official. For this Assignment, you provide your Clinical Faculty with information about your practicum site, your Preceptor, and your clinical calendar.

To Prepare

The Assignment

Complete the designated areas of the Practicum Site Information Form. Include your practicum site and contact information; your Preceptor and contact information; and a schedule of when you plan to engage in onsite practicum activities.

Students must provide their schedule in the form of a monthly calendar with the time written out on the appropriate date. For example, writing 8 hours on the 5th day of the monthly calendar slot is not acceptable. You must enter 8am-4pm or 10pm-6pm in the day slot of the monthly calendar. Students need to complete the calendar for the whole quarter to demonstrate to the faculty the total number of hours to be completed this quarter.

Requirements: 4 pages

 

 Please, follow the posted instructions carefully. This assignment will need an introduction and concluding part, and 5 most recent APA 7th edition references from 2017.

This is a sample, please follow this pattern.

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Planned Activities: There are systematically planned activities to increase professional skills for legal and ethical conduct. Most critical is to have a mentor from the Psychiatry and Psychology department to inform on the updated requirements. I will review the most critical ethical dilemmas within the organization and the state to understand the best cause of action. I will also attend webinars and workshops on ethical and legal conduct to improve my professional skills. I will familiarize myself with specific guidelines on appropriate practice within the clinical setting and in the use of telemedicine (Nittari et al., 2020).

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Psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner

Marjorie Benton

Quality Improvement Project

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Instruction Its very important that each part is divided as explained in the instructions

PART 1: What strategies would you recommend your employer implement to improve staff nurse recruitment and retention? Why would these strategies be effective?

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

Resources

read and watch the lecture resources & materials below early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s).

(Note: The citations below are provided for your research convenience. You should always cross reference the current APA guide for correct styling of citations and references in your academic work.)

Read

  • Yoder-Wise, P. S. (2015).
    • Chapters 13, 14, 15 and 21

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Online Materials & Resources

  • Visit the CINAHL Complete under the A-to-Z Databases on the University Library’s website and locate/read the articles below:
    • Mark, B.A., Harless, D.W. (2011). Adjusting for patient readings acuity in measurement of nurse staffing: Two approaches. Nursing Research, 60(2), 107–114.
    • Laschinger, H. K., Leiter M., Day, A., & Gilin, D. (2009). Workplace empowerment, incivility and burnout: Impact on staff nurse recruitment and retention outcomes. Journal of Nursing Management, 17(3), 302-311. (IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ACCESS THOSE LINKS USE THE BOOK MENTIONED ABOVE)

Part 2

    • is part of the assignment will be continued for the following 3 weeks, one section will be a continuation of the assignment of the week before until we put it together as one document.

Clinical Assignment: Quality Improvement Project Part 1

Goal:

Content Requirements:

Submission Instructions:

    • The paper is to be clear and concise, and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
    • The paper is to be 2 – 3 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
    • Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
    • Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style
    • Your paper should be formatted per current APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions
    • Note: this is first part of your Quality Improvement Project. You should revise/improve your work based on your professor’s feedback. In module 7, you will be putting all the parts together to complete and submit your final project.

Requirements: as instructed

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Thirdly, the organization should introduce informational forums and programs which encourage the nurses to share their inputs about their daily duties, scheduling, and hospital policies. Such forums encourage open communication, where the employees share their views on areas the leaders should improve to achieve positive outcomes. This is an effective strategy that keeps the administrators and nurse managers aware of issues affecting the nurses’ performance and design solutions collaboratively. For instance, nurses emphasize talking about burnout due to the exhausting working hours, which encourages the leadership to take action (Laschinger et al., 2009). However, if an organization lacks such forums for open conversations, the nurses feel less valued since their inputs are not considered.

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Quality Improvement Project

Marjorie Benton

Information technology in nursing

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What is and/or should be nursing’s role in decision making regarding selecting information systems?

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.

Requirements: 500 words

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Hospital management must involve nurses when deciding on information systems. This is important because it ensures that the information system integrates the needs and considerations to make it user-friendly. This way, the system will be embraced by the nurses in running their daily activities, thus increasing and improving their productivity at work leading to patients’ satisfaction. Any management aims to successfully introduce a system that will be receptive to all. Ensuring that nurses are included in decision-making when selecting such systems as information systems will guarantee a successful transition of the new technology. Hospital management should understand the important role nurses play when selecting information systems because they are the ones who will be using the systems after all.

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Information technology in nursing

Marjorie Benton

Financial healthcare reforms

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Submission Instructions:

Requirements: 500 words

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Nurses’ involvement during decisions concerning reimbursement will ensure that nurses are aware of what is to be expected. This reduces the chances of resistance from the nurses, which could affect their service delivery and, eventually, productivity (Fox, 2016). To avoid such cases, the management should be keen on making sure the nurses are included during the decision-making of such reforms. The administration should ensure that nurses understand the reason for the change. When addressing financial issues, the management must explain to the nurses the reason behind such changes and how these changes will affect nurses. Lack of communication and understanding creates a barrier that prevents nurses from understanding the reimbursement issues and what they should expect (Fox, 2016). For example, if there is an increase in nurses’, it is important that nurses understand how the administration arrived at such increment. The same goes for a decrease in income.

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Financial healthcare reforms

Marjorie Benton

Qualitative research and quantitative research

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You will critically appraise a research design

Content Requirements:

You will select one research report with a qualitative design and one with quantitative design and answer the following questions regarding the following categories:

  1. Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative Research
  2. The study, sampling, data collection, analysis, rigor, findings and limitations
    • Identify the purpose of the study.
    • Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.
    • Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.
    • Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.
    • Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research.
    • Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
    • Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
    • Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged.
    • Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.
    • Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations.
    • Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nursing.
  3. Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research – Use the following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument and support with references):
    • Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.
    • Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach
    • Differentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
    • Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.
    • Communicate how this research design used in research.
  4. Critique the Quantitative Research Report – Use the following headings to guide your critique (in all discussions and explanations give reasons for your argument and support with references):
    • The study
      • Identify the purpose and design of the study.
      • Explain what is meant by ‘blinding’ and ‘randomization’ and discuss how these were addressed in the design of the study.
      • Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.
    • Sampling
      • Explain the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.
      • Discuss how the sample size was determined – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.
    • Data collection
      • Briefly, outline how the data was collected and identify any data collection instrument(s).
      • Define the terms validity and reliability and discuss how the validity & reliability of the instruments were/were not addressed in this study and why this is important.
    • Data analysis
      • Outline how the data were analyzed.
      • Identify the statistics used and the level of measurement of the data described by each statistical test – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.
    • Findings and limitations
      • Briefly, outline the findings and identify any limitations of the study
      • Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to briefly discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion an explanation of the term statistical significance and name the tests of statistical significance used in this study.

Submission Instructions:

  • The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The paper should be formatted per current APA and 4-5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.

Requirements: 4-5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.   |   .doc file

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A phenomenological case study design was appropriate to evaluate the lived experiences of mothers in Victoria, Australia (Hardy et al., 2019). Studies on the context of a discussion between parents and Community-based child and family health nurses on the topic are lacking.

Ethical issues and if they were Addressed

The main ethical concerns are the consent and confidentiality of the participants. Autonomy was addressed through voluntary participation (Hardy et al., 2019). The ethical approval was obtained from the institution’s Ethics Research Committee after participants signed consent forms with knowledge of their right to withdraw. Participants’ personal details are not revealed but identified as participant 1, participant 2 to participant 10 in the responses.

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Qualitative research and quantitative research

Marjorie Benton

psychological syndrome

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Find and read a nursing scholarly article that relates to your clinical practice and is found in a peer-reviewed journal. Follow the instructions for the format in course textbook and write a 1-page summary.

Submission Instructions:

  • Must be a research article.
  • Write a 1-page summary using an outline of the steps of the research process, discuss the study type (qualitative or quantitative?), purpose, and research question(s).
  • The summary is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The summary should be formatted per current APA and 1 page in length, excluding the title page and references page. No abstract.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 2 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.

Requirements: 1 page

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administered questionnaires and Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) to measure burnout levels.

Generally, while integrating the SPSS statistical analysis approach, the researchers generated comprehensive findings revealing that emotional exhaustion ranked high among the professionals experiencing burnout in the ED. Hence, the lack of resilience led to violence and high attrition among healthcare workers.

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psychological syndrome

Marjorie Benton

Medical surgical unit

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As a manager on a medical surgical unit, part of the job responsibility includes chart audits.

A trend noted during the most recent audit was the overuse of the term “dementia.” The nurse manager notes that there may be a lack of understanding between the types dementia as related to neurological diseases.

The nurse manager developed a survey to evaluate the staff’s understanding of the different types of dementia. As a result of the survey, you have been asked to create a PowerPoint presentation to increase the nurse’s awareness of the types of dementia a presentation was created.

Instructions

Choose one of the following topics for a focused presentation:

The presentation should include the following:

Using Ignatavicius and one additional resource, develop a presentation to enhance the nurses’ knowledge of the differences between types of dementia and delirium. Be sure to document your source(s) in your presentation.

Requirements: As much as possible

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  • Other risk factors for Alzheimer’s include untreated depression, social isolation and loneliness, and a sedentary lifestyle.
  • The disease’s main symptom is memory loss, where someone cannot remember their past events.
  • People with Alzheimer’s experience difficulties thinking and reasoning, especially about simple things like date of birth, while others have difficulties multitasking.
  • Others get a hard time making reasonable decisions in everyday situations.

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Medical surgical unit

Marjorie Benton

polydipsia and polyphagia

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Question 1

Explain the pathophysiology of the three P’s (Polyuria, Polydipsia, polyphagia)with the given diagnosis of type 1 DM

Question2

Explain the genetics relationship nd how this and the environment can contribute to type 1 DM

Question 3

How would you describe the pathophysiology of type 11 Diabetes Mellitus

Question4

What causes hypothyroidism

references should be 2017 to date

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Hypothyroidism results from the thyroid gland failing to produce adequate hormones. This occurs due to several factors, such as autoimmune disorders whereby the immune system attacks the body tissues, including the thyroid gland, altering its ability to produce the required hormones (Alrehaili et al., 2018). Another cause is congenital diseases whereby babies get born without the thyroid gland or a defective gland (Alrehaili et al., 2018).

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polydipsia and polyphagia

Marjorie Benton

Chronic treatment of acute illness

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Discuss the following questions using 5 APA reference to support your discussion.

Requirements: 2pages

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As much as innovation should be encouraged throughout different aspects of the nursing practice, it is faced with challenges that prevent innovation. The lack of adequate training and educative opportunities for the nurses has contributed to low chances of developing new techniques or systems in nursing care. Moreover, lack of commitment among the nurses to their practice has negatively affected their contribution to improving the healthcare system. Lack of commitment may result from low drive and interest in their work. Besides, lack of human, material, and financial resources are identified as the most prevalent barriers to innovation in the healthcare industry (Salina et al., 2021).

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Chronic treatment of acute illness

 

Marjorie Benton

Prevalence of immune thrombocytopenia purpura

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A 14-year-old female is brought to the urgent care by her mother, who states that the girl has had an abnormal number of bruises and “funny looking red splotches” on her legs. These bruises were first noticed about 2 weeks ago and are not related to trauma. PMH not remarkable and she takes no medications. The mother does state the girl is recovering from a “bad case of mono” and was on bedrest at home for the past 3 weeks. The girl noticed that her gums were slightly bleeding when she brushed her teeth that morning.

Labs at urgent care demonstrated normal hgb and hct with normal WBC differential. Platelet count of 100,000/mm3 was the only abnormal finding. The staff also noticed that the venipuncture site oozed for a few minutes after pressure was released. The doctor at urgent care referred the patient and her mother to the ED for a complete work-up of the low platelet count, including a peripheral blood smear for suspected immune thrombocytopenia purpura.

Please do a 1- to 2-page case study analysis.

In your Case Study Analysis related to the scenario provided, explain the following as it applies to the scenario you were provided (not all may apply to each scenario):

Requirements: 2-3 pages

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The blood generally contains platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. When the patient loses excess blood, the red blood cells reduce. However, the health professional needs to determine the type of anemia in a patient. For instance, the prevalence of microcytic anemia is inevitable in a patient with small red blood cells than required due to lacking adequate hemoglobin. Macrocytic anemia is evident in a patient with larger red blood cells than usual, leading to complications if not treated. Therefore, due to the risk health factors associated with ITP, the physician must ensure that the patient receives the recommended treatment.

In conclusion, advanced pathophysiology of a health condition using evidence-based procedures and interventions is highly recommended in the delivery of patient care (Sargsyan, 2020). As discussed, a critical evaluation of the symptoms in patients with ITP helps determine the kind of treatment they deserve. Once recommended, the health care professionals should ensure the patient is ready for the treatment to mitigate additional health issues that worsen their well-being.

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Prevalence of immune thrombocytopenia purpura