Marjorie Benton

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:

Post a description of what you believe to be the consequences of a healthcare organization not involving nurses in each stage of the SDLC when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system. Provide specific examples of potential issues at each stage of the SDLC and explain how the inclusion of nurses may help address these issues. Then, explain whether you had any input in the selection and planning of new health information technology systems in your nursing practice or healthcare organization and explain potential impacts of being included or not in the decision-making process. Be specific and provide examples.

Please follow the instruction carefully,and this paper will need 5 most recent APA references.Thanks
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Maintenance of the system is critical to prevent any errors or failures in its utilization. The HIT system can be maintained through software support, which needs to be changed over time to improve its function. The repercussions of not engaging nurses in the SDLC maintenance phase are that it may hinder the system’s proper running (Garcia-Dia, Chan and Park, 2019). It is because nurses may not be up to date with the new project, and their input to facilitate changes may also be dismissed. However, this issue can be avoided by informing nurses of the most recent changes to the system, which is communicated with other nursing staff.

In my practice, the entire nursing staff was excluded from all the phases of the SDLC. The selection and planning of the new HIT system was a mystery for most nurses, and the only ones who had an idea of what it comprised were the senior members. As a result, the new project’s functioning failed, and time and resources were consumed in fixing the identified errors and gaps. For example, most staff felt uncomfortable with the new HIT system because it was integrated with advanced software, challenging most employees.

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Systems Development Life Cycle

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

Nursing Leader

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This is an individual assignment related to a nursing leader. This paper should be three to five pages in
length, not including the title and reference pages. The paper should include level one headings.
In review, when developing a scholarly APA paper, begin with an introductory paragraph that includes the purpose statement. The body of the paper should include levels of heading that keep the writer focused and on track. For example, this paper would have four level one headings not including the introductory paragraph or conclusion. The paper would then have a conclusion to summarize the main points of the paper. The last page would be the reference page.
Nursing Leader:
Florence Nightingale
Assignment Criteria:
Students will develop a scholarly paper relating to the selected nursing leader that includes the following
criteria:
1. Identify and provide rationale for the selected nursing leader.
2. Describe the historical background of the selected nursing leader.
3. Explain the effect the selected nursing leader had on the practice of profession nursing today.
4. Provide a prediction of the future needs of nursing based on the selected nursing leader.
5. The scholarly paper should be in narrative format, 3 to 5 pages excluding the title and reference page.
6. Include an introductory paragraph, purpose statement, and a conclusion.
7. Include level 1 headings to organize the paper (page 47-48 in the APA manual).
8. Write the paper in third person, not first person (meaning do not use ‘we’ or ‘I’) and in a scholarly manner. To clarify: I, we,
you, me, our may not be used. In addition, describing yourself as the researcher or the author should not be used.
9. Include a minimum of two (2) professional peer-reviewed scholarly journal references to support the paper (review in Ulrich
Periodical Directory). You may use historical references that are more than five years old.
10. APA format is required (attention to spelling/grammar, a title page, a reference page, and in-text citations).

Requirements: 3-5

please only use the two articles attached, for this assignment I can only use specific sources.

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To most medical professionals, Florence Nightingale is perceived as the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale was born on 12th May 1820, in Florence, Italy, to William and Frances Nightingale (Riegel et al., 2021). She was the youngest of the family’s two children and was born into an affluent family. Nightingale’s love for philanthropy started at a young age, considering she regularly attended to the sick and the poor people in the village close to her family’s estate (Riegel et al., 2021). When Nightingale was 16 years, she believed that nursing was not only her calling but also her divine purpose. Nightingale informed her parents of her desire to become a nurse. Nightingale’s parents were displeased with her career choice and forbade her from pursuing nursing. Furthermore, when she was 17 years, Nightingale rejected a marriage proposal from Richard Monckton Milnes. Despite her parent’s displeasure and objections, Nightingale pursued nursing. She enrolled as a nursing student at Lutheran Hospital in Germany in 1844. After completing her studies, Nightingale returned to London in 1850 and worked as a nurse in a hospital located in Middlesex. In 1854, Nightingale and 34 other nurses went to the Crimean War to tend to the injured and sick soldiers (Riegel et al., 2021). Her
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Nursing Leader

Marjorie Benton

Clinical Judgment

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  1. Competency

    Modify clinical judgment within an iterative, outcome-based cycle of clinical reasoning and client needs.

    Student Success Criteria

    “View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “The item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.”

    Scenario

    As part of the clinical portion of your BSN Capstone course in your senior semester, you have the opportunity to attend a two-day seminar with senior nursing students from other academic institutions. The theme of this seminar is the application of clinical judgment to determine the best evidence-based solutions for nursing practice.

    Instructions

    For a clinical judgment roundtable with faculty and students that is sponsored by your academic institution, you must prepare one scenario based handout to promote robust discussion regarding the application of clinical judgment as an outcomes-based dynamic cycle of clinical reasoning and client needs. The handout must contain these components:

    • Describe a clinical situation where you applied an outcome-based cycle of clinical reasoning to select what you considered the “best” client intervention based on information available.
    • Include relevant external and internal cues and hypotheses
    • Discuss the outcomes based, iterative cycle of clinical reasoning you applied after the initial intervention to select the next “best” interventions appropriate for the particular situation based on client needs.
    • Rationales and evidence based findings were included to support choices for the next “best” interventions

    Resources

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    The Outcome-Based, Iterative Clinical Reasoning Cycle

    Based on the established case scenario, the evidence-based framework that helped derive a comprehensive clinical judgment was Tracy-Levett Jones’s clinical reasoning cycle. Adopting this model in nursing facilitates critical thinking and in-depth analysis of the eight systematic phases, leading to comprehensive decision-making (Levett-Jones, 2013). Starting with the initial phase entails searching for all the facts displaying the patient’s status. As seen in the clinical case, the mother of a newborn recovering at the ward got transferred to the NICU due to the child’s situation whereby the skin had turned yellow as well as the white parts of the eyes. Notably, the presiding doctor diagnosed that the newborn had neonatal jaundice.

    Looking back at the clinical case, the second step was gathering data regarding the mother’s medical history, present complaints, and vital signs. After conducting several tests, the findings showed the infant had elevated bilirubin. Cochran (2021) describes bilirubin as a substance,

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    Clinical Judgment

Marjorie Benton

Healthy and unhealthy diets

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Briefly introduce a person you have recently cared for in your nursing practice. (Be sure not to include any identifying information that would be protected by HIPAA!) Discuss the person’s view of the cause of their health condition, the person’s health literacy, and the person’s identity on the continuum of privilege-disadvantage (Table 4 in the Lor article on p. 361). What was (or would be) your approach to care for him/her in a culturally competent way?

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

itter, L.A., Graham, D.H. (2017). Multicultural Health (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
ISBN: 9781284021028
Chapters 2 and 6

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Reducing health disparities and improving the health of society remains an important goal for the U.S healthcare system. Also, cultural competence is the pillar for achieving quality healthcare through the culturally sensitive and biased quality of care hence reducing inequality. The minority community is highly stigmatized when treating obesity, especially in the U.S (Stubbe, 2020). However, as a healthcare professional, I had to reach out to this patient without making assumptions and explaining every detail in depth to ensure he grasps every detail. Many patients suffer, especially in healthcare, as practitioners are not ready to accommodate and educate them. I assured this patient understood his health condition well and how he could work to overcome it. Also, I made sure he knew his rights as a U.S citizen so that he may seek medical help whenever necessary.

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Healthy and unhealthy diets