Month: April 2018

Please follow the Australian reference system …
and make sure to be aware of the nursing standard practice followed in Australia..
An example paper will be attached to the account.
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This assessment task prepares you to access a patient in your care and identify those at risk. Select an ‘at risk’ patient for analysis and write a brief summary of the patient’s relevant health problems and any management provided.
Critically analyse one health problem using evidence based findings relating this to the ‘at risk’ status of the patient. Consider any system failures that may have contributed to the presenting problem and the relationship to communication pathways. The cases you read and discussed in MyLO are examples of an “at risk” patient. Your discussion should include the complexities of health care decision making and its relationship to inter-professional communication pathways.
You must clearly demonstrate the related pathophysiology and management that contributed to the patient’s condition. Laboratory findings should be included if relevant to the case. Expand and justify management by identifying and discussing key nursing and medical interventions, including clinical assessment, physiological monitoring, supportive therapies and evaluation of the care provided. Justify and critique the relevant nursing interventions by drawing on recent, evidence-based literature and propose recommendations for future practice if indicated. The paper should include a minimum of 10 scholarly references to support your discussion points.
Maintain patient confidentiality by assigning the person a pseudonym and abide by your organisations ethics policy on using patient information. You should also maintain organisational anonymity.
There will be an example paper in MyLO for you to read. Please note this is an example only and assessment requirements have been altered. Use it as a guide of where you need to aim to receive an HD. Please read the marking criteria carefully to ensure you are meeting all elements.

Social Media article
Identify the articles you read and then share three (3) key points you learned from the articles you read on social media and public policy related to nursing issues.
Letter to the Editor:
Select a public policy issue that affects the profession of nursing or patient care and that has received attention in the media within the past 6 months. You should feel passionate about the issue.
Write a Letter to the editor of your local or state paper or to a professional journal or online peer-reviewed publication, identifying the issue and suggesting a solution or action you want taken. You must sign the letter and include your home address and phone number, although that is never published.
Each publication has its own rules. Most papers restrict the number of words to 150 but some allow as many as 250.
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Identify a non-profit organization you would like to know more about in your community 2. Research their website and any other information available on line to become familiar with who they are and what they do. Some might be associated with a national organization. Some questions to guide this work are:
What is their mission?
What is their vision?
What are their main programs?
Are there specific health care issues that they advocate for or against?
What are some of the laws that affect the population being served?
Is there any upcoming legislation with which they are particularly concerning themselves?
How does the organization incorporate the voices of the representative group/ population referred to in (b) in its decision making?
How are they funded?
How are the funds distributed?
Submit a 2-3 page double –spaced paper describing the organization and incorporating answers to the above questions. You must cite at least one scholarly article that addresses the health care issue(s) the organization addresses. You must also describe whether or not the organization needs legislative action to assist their population and how you might advocate on their behalf.

You will find four questions below relating to an evolving clinical scenario. Respond to each question in chronological order. Each response must use correctly structured paragraphs in response to the task (400 words maximum per question).
You are a new graduate nurse and part of a small multidisciplinary team in a large 24-hour medical clinic. A young woman has just presented. She is dishevelled, appears nervous, constantly moving about the waiting room looking closely at different objects. She responds warily to any interaction with other patients. She has asked reception several times if a doctor can see her now. The duty doctor asks you to sit in and assist him with the interview.
Describe the key communication skills you will use in order to engage with her in the interview. (400 words)
There are a number of clinical signs and symptoms in the scenario so far. Identify three significant signs or symptoms and support your clinical opinion with evidence from the scenario. (400 words)
Discuss the education you will need to provide to Sarah about her medication. (400 words)

Understanding Professional Nursing Standards in Australia
Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements
TITLE: Understanding Professional Nursing Standards in Australia
Length: 1500 words (+/- 10%) including in text referencing but not your reference list
ESSAY PURPOSE
This essay will give you the opportunity to develop your understanding of how history, language and culture have shaped nursing practice. It will help you develop a deeper understanding of the codes and principles underpinning the practice of registered nurses in Australia and how they can be applied to a real world setting. Completing this essay will also further develop your academic and information literacy skills.
ESSAY QUESTION
Research the nursing work of one of the nurses mentioned in chapter two of your prescribed text. Based on this research how would your chosen nurse measure up against the current Australian Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse?
It is expected that your essay will address/contain the following information:
The name of your chosen nurse
An overview of the nursing work carried out by your chosen nurse
A discussion and/or evaluation of how your chosen nurse would measure up against the current Australian Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse
The NUR 120 Learning Outcomes addressed by this assignment include:
On completion of this unit a student should be able to:
1. Identify ways in which history, language and culture have shaped nursing as a practice and as a scholarly discipline;
2. Articulate the key principles underlying ethical, legal and professional guidelines and codes that underpin the practice of registered nurses in Australia.
3. Demonstrate developing skills in academic and information literacy that provide a foundation for evidence based nursing.
4. Articulate and define the NMBA Competency Standards, Codes of Ethics and Codes of Practice for the Registered Nurse.
5. Develop a critical and reflective approach to nursing practice.

In according with what I wrote. The follow question need to be answer.
Can you identify by the name of the required courses from your undergraduate curriculum, if a conceptual framework was used? If so, what was the framework?

1) Select one article that utilizes a quantitative research design and 2) select a second article that utilizes either a qualitative OR a mixed methods design. These need to be single studies not systematic or integrative reviews (including meta-analysis and metasynthesis).
•Use the templetes which will guide your critique of each article: ◦Critique Template for a Qualitative Study
◦Critique Template for a Quantitative Study
•Consider the fields in the templates as you review the information in each article.
•Begin to draft a paper in which you analyze the two research approaches as indicated below.
•Reflect on the overall value of both quantitative and qualitative research. If someone were to say to you, “Qualitative research is not real science,” how would you respond?
To complete this Assignment:
•Complete the two critiques using the appropriate templates.
•Write a 3-page paper that addresses the following: ◦Contrast the types of information that you gained from examining the two different research approaches in the articles that you selected.
◦Describe the general advantages and disadvantages of the two research approaches featured in the articles. Use examples from the articles for support.
◦Formulate a response to the claim that qualitative research is not real science. Highlight the general insights that both quantitative and qualitative studies can provide to researchers. Support your response with references to the Learning Resources and other credible sources.
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Discuss the role of the advanced practice nurse in primary care in management of selected acute, episodic, and chronic pathologies. Describe why it is essential for nurse practitioners to focus on primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in primary care for patients across the lifespan? What impact (if any) does the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have on primary services in the United States?

Nursing caring and inquiry: foundational
Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements
Critically analyse the patient assessment findings, taking into consideration the person’s situation and medical diagnosis. Discuss the data/information collected and process that information in terms of relevance to their nursing care using DRABC ( danger, response, airway, breathing, circulation) (10 marks)
Identify three (3) nursing diagnoses for this person;
One of which must address the client’s psycho-social needs.
The nursing diagnoses must be discussed in order of priority (e.g.: what nursing diagnosis should be addressed first and why).
You must also establish one patient centred goal for each nursing diagnosis. (5 marks)
For each nursing diagnosis,
discuss the specific nursing interventions (what you would do and why) that would be appropriate.
Each intervention must include detailed rationale (why you did what you did) and specific evaluation criteria (how will you know if the intervention was successful).

Read this first:
Fielding, J. E., Teutsch, S., & Koh, H. (2012). Health reform and healthy people initiative. American Journal of Public Health, 102(1), 30–33.
1. Answer these questions.
Describe your current professional position in health care?
What is your personal definition of health promotion?
How do you view role of government in health promotion?
How do you view the nurse’s role in health promotion?

Jacqueline Collins
Unit 1 Discussion 1
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Review these articles already provided in the study section of this unit in preparation for this discussion:
◾Read Furst, Finto, Malouf-Todaro, Moore, Orr, Santos, Sutton, and Tipton’s 2013 article, “Changing Times: Enhancing Clinical Practice Through Evolving Technology,” from Medsurg Nursing, volume 22, issue 2, pages 131–134. This article will be used in the first discussion in this unit.
◾Read Murphy’s 2010 article, “Nursing and Technology: A Love/Hate Relationship,” from Nursing Economics, volume 28, issue 6, pages 405–408. This article will be used in the first discussion of this unit.
◾Read Schwartz’s 2012 article, “Helping Drive Health Care’s Fast-Moving Technology Train,” from Science of Caring, volume 24, issue 1, pages 14–20. This article will be used in the first and second discussion of this unit.
•Select two examples of current technology used in the delivery of patient care. Use Electronic health record and Barcode technology. One technology should be used for data management and one for direct care.
•Discuss how the technology contributes to safety and quality in the care of patients.
•Discuss how specific data is tracked, monitored, stored, or trended.
•Discuss how the technology could be enhanced for the future.
Your initial post should be about 150 words. Use at least one APA-formatted reference and that can be a text, any assigned readings, or a reference you find on your own through the Capella Library.