After assessing your patient total needs, you begin to set priorities. It is important to prioritize when giving care. A nurse is caring for a patient who is recovering from a knee injury that required extensive surgery. One focus of care is effective communication among the patient’s healthcare team. What aspects of communication are essential … Read more
Scenario: J.T. is a 20 year-old who reports to you that he feels depressed and is experiencing a significant amount of stress about school, noting that he’ll “probably flunk out.” He spends much of his day in his dorm room playing video games and has a hard time identifying what, if anything, is enjoyable in … Read more
Scenario: Vee is a 26-year-old African-American woman who presents with a history of non-suicidal self-injury, specifically cutting her arms and legs, since she was a teenager. She has made two suicide attempts by overdosing on prescribed medications, one as a teenager and one six months ago; she also reports chronic suicidal ideation, explaining that it gives … Read more
Pediatric Health Promotion Plan Web Page Assignment Prompt A family just migrated from another country to your area and you are seeing them in the clinic for the first time. They do not speak English well. There are two children, ages 2 years 6 months and 6 years. When taking the children’s history, you become … Read more
Week 8 Activity – The COVID-19 Shutdown and Air Quality Overview Sometimes nature presents itself as a laboratory, where scientists can study results that are far more broad-based than any test they could set up in a controlled environment. COVID-19 “shutdowns” offered such an opportunity, when large geographic areas reduced activity to stop the spread … Read more
For this assignment, list the parts of a comprehensive mental status examination (MSE) for mental health patients. Give examples of each and describe the significance to the advanced practice nurse. 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 … Read more
Who are the clients in Community Health nursing? What government resources might they be eligible for? What agencies are responsible for those resources? 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.
Purpose:Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research. Scenario: Kel is a 42-year-old certified public accountant (CPA) who dreams each year that she will board a cruise ship the day after Tax Day and go somewhere, anywhere, except Portsmouth, Virginia. Each … Read more
Identify regulatory agencies that regulate health and the health care system within the US, create a table listing your 5 regulatory agencies and address the following: Describe the agency, level of regulatory authority (local, state, federal), scope of regulatory authority, and role within the US healthcare system. Address relevance of the organization or the organization’s … Read more
Identify the signs of inflammation and how it can help an organism fight an infectious disease. List the four cardinal signs of inflammation. Describe what physiological processes bring about these signs. Describe the role these signs play in disease management. Identify what would happen if a patient was unable to create these signs.