Describe the differences between hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and continuous renal replacement therapy. How do they work to clean the patients blood and/or remove excess fluids? How is it monitored to be sure it is working correctly? What are the worst side effects that can occur on the treatment?List three benefits and three disadvantages to each … Read more
Engagement and MotivationAccording to DeYoung (2015), it is important to maintain learner engagement and determine the appropriate motivation for learning. Review the third Vila Health challenge, Management and Motivation. Select one of the learning situations and determine how the faculty could support learning while maintaining an engaged and motivated audience.
Traditional TeachingLecturing can be an effective teaching strategy in learning situations in which you are introducing new content, stimulating interest, summarizing knowledge from several sources, clarifying difficult concepts, and updating the most recent knowledge lacking in a textbook (DeYoung, 2015). While lecture may be the most common traditional teaching method, there are other traditional strategies … Read more
Best Practices in TeachingFor this discussion, you will: Provide a short summary of the current best practices in both a traditional environment and an online environment as identified in the nursing research literature.Compare and contrast traditional and online teaching practices.Select at least two teaching strategies that you feel exemplify best practices that could be used … Read more
Teaching StrategiesFor this assignment, write a paper in which you address the following: Utilize your assigned reading from this week and your independent research to write three learning outcomes for your course project, which you began planning in Unit 1.Explain how these outcomes are reflected in the course content and representative of what is expected … Read more
This discussion will be based on two readings from this unit’s Studies section: Associations Between Characteristics of the Nurse Work Environment and Five Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcomes in Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Literature.The American Nurses Association Web site section, Nurse Staffing.In both readings, the issue of staff-to-patient ratio is explored. Staffing is a problem that … Read more
Write a 1-2 page paper discussing how your topic (diabetes and chronic diseases) has been analyzed at the global level. You should find at least one additional article to support your writing. Make sure what your writing about has to do with the actual topic not just health.
Discussion: Nurse/Patient Empowerment As a nurse, you are the individual who has the ability to empower patients in the decision-making process pertaining to their health care. In addition, you are in a unique position to empower your nursing colleagues to improve job satisfaction and use performance indicator data from dashboards to effect social change.In this … Read more
Quality Improvement Initiative EvaluationProfessional ContextToo often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolationeach group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be … Read more
For this discussion, review the following two resources from this unit’s Studies section: Core Measures.National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.As you know, quality indicators are common measures that apply to most patients or disease-specific measures that convey the quality of clinical care for patients with specific diagnoses. Using standard quality indicators to measure and report … Read more