Marjorie Benton

Provision of PPEs

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Please checked the attached file and read all questions.

Please clarify if anything not clear. Use proper 7th edition APA.

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The above-described questions are the most important questions for this source because they address a critical area in the nursing field. The safety of health workers is paramount in reducing the contraction of unintended infections. More so, they reduce the transmission of illnesses from the patient to health practitioners or from health practitioners to patients.   The transmissions of the illnesses within the health facility not only present a considerable burden to patients but also to the health facilities. The above questions will help me as an RN coming up with strategies to prevent the spread of infection within the health facility.  This will ensure that all patients, nurse staff, and I are safe while delivering health services to the patients.

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Provision of PPEs

Marjorie Benton

Diabetes education

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During diabetes education, Fatima indicates she is Muslim and that for Ramadan she fasts from sunrise to sundown.

1. Using Leininger’s Sunrise Model, analyze the dietary significance of fasting.

2. Discuss the possible nursing interventions to accommodate Fatima’s religious practice.

3. How might Fatima respond if she was told that she couldn’t fast?

You must cite or quote at least two evidence-based references (besides the class textbook) no older than 5 years old.

A minimum of 600 words excluding the first and references page is required.

NO PLAGARISIM !!

APA 7th edition

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Nursing Interventions to Accommodate Fatima’s Religious Practice

Fatima’s religious practice is acceptable, even though the patient has diabetes. Therefore, the nurse should support the patient’s belief through the following interventions. First, the nurse should measure glucose level in the patient’s blood throughout the fasting period. This intervention would help the nurse to identify other complications, such as hypoglycemia, in time. Secondly, before the fasting begins at sunset, the patient should be advised to eat food rich in complex carbohydrates. This kind of food has a low glycemic index, which reduces glucose levels in the blood while fasting (Almalki & Alshahrani, 2016). Third, the patient should take enough fluids after the sun is down to avoid dehydration, which might cause health complications.

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Diabetes education

Marjorie Benton

Domestic Violence

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Discussion:

2.Victim Blaming is still prevalent when it comes to Domestic Violence. Can you think of some public examples and discuss the language that was used against the reported victim? Why do you think that we continue to partake in victim blaming and what do you think could be effective ways to stop it?

Resources for Assessment:

Please include references and provide the url link to all journal articles you use as references. Use current (meaning within the past 2 years) scholarly journal articles as references. Use APA 6th edition format.

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Rapid changes are experienced daily in the world, including changes in languages and epidemiological concepts, which have a great impact on patient care. These changes are expected to continue, and nurses have to prepare and be updated on the increasingly diverse populations of patients. Despite knowing how to prevent and cure diseases such as cancer, the effects of the disease keep changing, and more deadly types are also coming up; hence nurses should update their level of education and research to be more equipped in dealing with diverse diseases. Additionally, nurses’ understanding of different diverse cultures improves the relationship between patients and nurses. This will aid in improving their patient-care services and understanding how well to treat and care for different patients.

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Domestic Violence

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:

Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are significant to nursing practice.
Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN‐prepared nurses.
Explain why it is important that a nurse’s role and education evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population.
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.
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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Rapid changes are experienced daily in the world, including changes in languages and epidemiological concepts, which have a great impact on patient care. These changes are expected to continue, and nurses have to prepare and be updated on the increasingly diverse populations of patients. Despite knowing how to prevent and cure diseases such as cancer, the effects of the disease keep changing, and more deadly types are also coming up; hence nurses should update their level of education and research to be more equipped in dealing with diverse diseases. Additionally, nurses’ understanding of different diverse cultures improves the relationship between patients and nurses. This will aid in improving their patient-care services and understanding how well to treat and care for different patients.

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The Future of Nursing

Marjorie Benton

Affordable Care Act

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Reflect on whether you oppose or support the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Consider the nursing professional’s position as a caregiver and/or the healthcare leader as an administrator. Explore two significant components of the ACA that could potentially impact specific populations unjustly. Appraise the current political climate as it relates to repealing and replacing the ACA. For this weeks’ discussion, identify at least two reasons for keeping the ACA and at least two reasons that it should be repealed, replaced, or revised. Provide rationale for each. Words not less than 400 words.

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The ACA has components that negatively impact some populations. One of the groups that are treated unjustly by the act is low-income earners.  ACA requires every individual to have health insurance, failure to which they must pay fines. Low-income earners who cannot raise the amount of acquiring a plan that matches their health needs end up being disadvantaged (Finkelstein, Hendren, & Shepard, 2019). It is because the health conditions of low-income earners mar require a health insurance plan that is beyond their financial ability. People with pre-existing conditions are also treated unjustly by the ACA. It is because ACA has led to a wide range of benefits for this group of people being provided by insurance companies at high premiums. As a result, people with pre-existing health conditions end up paying more to receive essential health insurance benefits.

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Affordable Care Act

Marjorie Benton

Organization and System theories

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Topic 7:: Organization and System theories

In this assignment, learners are required to write a case report addressing the personal knowledge and skills gained in this course and potentially solving an identified practice problem.

General Guidelines:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

  • This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
  • Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
  • This assignment requires that at least four additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included (use Scholarly article within 5 years).

Directions:

Construct a case report (2,500-3,000 words) that includes a problem or situation consistent with a DNP area of practice.

Requirements:

  1. Use a minimum of any two theories discussed in the course to develop the case report.(select from Middle-range theories. Nursing theories, Ethical theories, and biophysical & Psychosocial theories)
  2. Apply one or more theories to describe understanding of the problem or situation of focus.
  3. Apply one or more theories to the recommended intervention or solution being proposed.
  4. Develop the case report across the entire scenario from the identified clinical or health care problem through proposing an intervention, implementation, and evaluation using an appropriate research instrument.
  5. Describe the evaluation of the selected research instrument in the case report.
  6. Lastly, explain in full the tenets, rationale for selection (empirical evidence), and clear application using the language of the theory within the case report.

In addition, your case report must include the following:

  1. Introduction with a problem statement.
  2. Thesis development and purpose
  3. Brief literature review.
  4. Description of the case/situation/conditions explained from a theoretical perspective.
  5. Discussion that includes a detailed explanation of the synthesized literature findings.
  6. Summary of the case.
  7. Proposed solutions to remedy gaps, inefficiencies, or other issues from a theoretical approach.
  8. Identification of a research instrument to evaluate the proposed solution along with a description of how the instrument could be evaluated.
  9. Conclusion.

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Various studies indicate that falls are the major cause of fatal injuries among elderly people. Falls are associated with high levels of non-fatal injuries, especially among senior citizens.  CDC points out that approximately 2.8 million people are treated in the emergence department every year. Out of the total number of falls, 800,000 are hospitalized, and 27,000 people succumb to the fall injuries annually. A high rate of falls in the country presents a considerable burden to the country’s health system. For instance, the total cost associated with falls in 2015 was approximately $50 billion, where the Medicaid and Medicare shouldered 75 percent of the total costs.  Fall in the geriatric population is attributable to numerous factors, including poor vision, structural inabilities, and other comorbidities. Walsh et al. (2018) highlight that geriatric falls are among the major causes of death in the geriatric population.  If the right measures are not put in place, patient falls can present financial difficulties to patients, hospitals, and the country at large.

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Marjorie Benton

NLRA rules

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How have the NLRA rules about contact with employees failed to keep up with technology? Present your views in approximately 250 words in your post. Utilize at least one scholarly source. APA format

Requirements: 250 words

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Employees International Union (SEIU) decertification efforts in 2017, election fraud cases hit the headlines (Wolf, Hall & Clay 2017). According to Wolf, Hall & Clay (2017), a fragment of the 27000 employees wanted the union decertified, and their struggles led to allegations of fraud where some members’ signatures were forged on authentication cards and casted votes. The controversial union called for investigators to solve the case, but the perpetrators of fraud were never identified (Wolf, Hall & Clay 2017). From this incident, it is evident that NLRA rules enforcement has failed to keep up with modern technology. This is because NLRA has analog and inferior enforcement capabilities to detect coercive communications and manipulation of employees in their relations with their employers and labor unions.

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NLRA rules

Marjorie Benton

Personal philosophy of nursing

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Select a nurse theorist and write a paper describing the background of the theorist, the theory, and its application to nursing practice. The paper should address the following:

1. Describe the background of the nurse theorist and the various social and professional issues that influenced the development of the theory.

2. Identify the major concepts and relational statement of the nursing theory. Concepts common to most nursing theories include: Person, health, nursing, and environment.

3. Describe the assumptions made by the nurse theorist. To what extent are these assumptions compatible with your personal philosophy of nursing?

4. Apply the theory to a clinical situation and describe how its use will improve nursing care or influence the way care is given.

Important:

The paper must be typed in APA format with a minimum of 1000 words (excluding first and references page) with a minimum of 4 evidence-based references using the required Arial 12 font. Follow the APA example paper under the folder APA tools. Make sure references are used according to APA guidelines and electronic references must be from reliable sources such as CDC.

Requirements: Well explained

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The major concepts in the environmental theory include health, nursing, person, and the environment. Nightingale wanted to make nursing practices are effective by making sure that all environmental factors are addressed. She argued that patients could recover faster if they get fresh air, clean water, and have a clean surrounding. Therefore, in her theory Nightingale approach the person as the entity receiving the care, including individuals and families. She approached the environment as both external and internal factors that affect someone’s ability to recover from illnesses. For example, the environment consists of ventilation, beddings, water, sunlight, and food (Masters, 2020). Nightingale explained health as the ability to utilize everything we must use to have good health. Moreover,

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Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Marjorie Benton

professional nurse in health policy

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Role of the Professional Nurse in Health Policy Paper Submission

Write a paper on the role of the professional nurse in health policy.

  1. Discuss the professional nurse’s role in health policy.
  2. Identify an action plan for nurses to increase involvement.

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 no shorter than 5 pages; nor longer than 7 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Your paper should be formatted per APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions).
  • 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 (the library (Links to an external site.) has a copy of the APA Manual).

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The nursing profession carries significant weight in the healthcare sector. Therefore nurses are in a prime position to influence policy. Despite having this power and moral responsibility in the recent past, patients’ agents’ nurses have recorded low participation in health policy formulation (Gandelman & Moran, 2021). Several barriers exist that have been hampering the active involvement of nurse in policymaking. Notable challenges are the lack of healthcare policy knowledge, information and skills. Besides, there has been an inadequate promotion of this role in both academic and professional practice nursing settings. Elimination of these barriers will empower nurses to promote transformational ideas in the healthcare sector through the legislature. Therefore, measure4s such as creating workshops to teach and promote the nursing role in policymaking have proven to be effective.

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professional nurse in health policy

Marjorie Benton

Health care professional

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As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. This is the scientific method adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).

You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements. For this assessment, you will not be implementing all of the PDSA cycle. Instead, you are being asked to interview a health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace. This interview, in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.

It would be an excellent choice to complete the PDSA Cycle activity prior to developing the report. The activity consists of four questions that create the opportunity to check your understanding of best-practices related to each stage of the PDSA cycle. The information gained from completing this formative will promote your success with the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification report. This will take just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.

Reference

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). How to improve. Retrieved from http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/HowtoImprove/de…

Demonstration of Proficiency

  • Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
    • Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
    • Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
  • Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.
    • Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
  • Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
    • Describe change theories and a leadership strategy that could help develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
    • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
    • Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Professional Context

This assessment will introduce the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model to create change in an organization. By interviewing a colleague of your choice, you will begin gathering information about an interprofessional collaboration problem that your colleague is experiencing or has experienced. You will identify a change theory and leadership strategies to help solve this problem.

Scenario

This assessment is the first of three related assessments in which you will gather interview information (Assessment 2); design a proposal for interdisciplinary problem-solving, (Assessment 3); and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement plan could be implemented in a place of practice (Assessment 4). At the end of the course, your interviewee will have a proposal plan based on the PDSA cycle that he or she could present to stakeholders to address an interdisciplinary problem in the workplace.

For this assessment, you will need to interview a health care professional such as a fellow learner, nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational problem that he or she is experiencing or has experienced, or an area where they are seeking improvements. Consult the Interview Guide [DOCX] for an outline of how to prepare and the types of information you will need to complete this project successfully.

Remember: this is just the first in a series of three assessments.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will report on the information that you collected in your interview, analyzing the interview data and identifying a past or current issue that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach. This could be an issue that has not been addressed by an interdisciplinary approach or one that could benefit from improvements related to the interdisciplinary approach currently being used. You will discuss the interview strategy that you used to collect information. Your interview strategy should be supported by citations from the literature. Additionally, you will start laying the foundation for your Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal (Assessment 3) by researching potential change theories, leadership strategies, and collaboration approaches that could be relevant to issue you have identified. Please be certain to review the scoring guide to confirm specific required elements of this assessment. Note that there are differences between basic, proficient and distinguished scores.

When submitting your plan, use the Interview and Issue Identification Template [DOCX], which will help you to stay organized and concise. As you complete the template, make sure you use APA format for in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that are informing your plan, as well as for the reference list at the end.

Additionally, be sure to address the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

  • Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
  • Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
  • Describe potential change theories and a leadership strategies that could inform an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
  • Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could facilitate establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
  • Communicate with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, and using current APA style.

Additional Requirements

  • Length of submission: Use the provided template. Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.

Requirements: 2-4 pages

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Change Theories That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution

The Force Field Model and the Unfreezing-Change-Freezing Model are relevant theories that the change management team could apply in this scenario. The Force Field Model is explanatory in evaluating the change process and the factors that inhibit organizational change (Udod & Wagner, 2018). It asserts that the progress of change is determined by the proportion of driving forces and restraining forces. The Unfreezing-Change-Refreezing Model takes a more practical approach and identifies the three major steps needed to change. Unlearning old practices in the healthcare setup is akin to reducing the restraining forces to facilitate new mechanisms to increase the driving forces of change (Udod & Wagner, 2018). Ultimately it is essential to freeze the new practices so that they become established norms.

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