Chapter 4: Competencies for Professional Nursing Practice

3.  You will be taking care of a patient in a nursing home for the first time. Your assignment is to care for an older man who has heart disease. In addition, he has five other medical problems and takes 20 medications. While developing a plan of care for this patient, you can identify 8 to … Read more

Chapter 6: Epidemiology: The Science of Prevention

Jeff is 11 years old and slightly overweight. His father is a truck driver who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. His mother is a licensed practical nurse at the local hospital. At a recent health science fair at his school, a student-led screening clinic documented Jeffs blood pressure at 140/92 mm Hg. a. … Read more

Health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care

   Explain how understanding Health-illness continuum helps healthcare providers to promote value and dignity to people  Behaviors that support or detract people from health and well being, explain where you fall on the Health-illness continuum Options and resources available to help people move towards wellness on the Health-illness spectrum. How these resources will help to … Read more

Homeopathy

Write a 4-5 page report summarizing the remedy you took please include how you took the remedy and its effectiveness research the remedy you used further and provide evidence to support its effectiveness the paper should be 4-5 pages including a title page, and reference page, proper apa 7th edition format should you followed.  The … Read more

Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management

  In this assignment, you will be writing a 1,000-1,250 word paper describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following: Select an issue from the following list: bullying, unit closers and restructuring, floating, nurse turnover, nurse staffing ratios, use of contract employees (i.e., … Read more

Depression in the elderly

Depression in later life is usually diagnosed on the basis of two clusters of symptoms: feelings and physical changes. In a 3-page paper, written in APA format using proper spelling/grammar, research the topic of depression in the elderly and address the following: How would one know if an elderly relative had clinical depression or was … Read more

Discussion 2 CC2. The Point: Windshield Survey-A Community Assessment Strategy: Downtown Promise Heights

 a Please access the following Simulation http://playspent.org/  Discuss how the following factors relate to the reality of poverty in America. Please, write a two to three paragraph discussion, citing your sources, and respond to at least one of your classmates with a meaningful response. 1. Subjugation 2. Disadvantaged Areas 3. Work- and Employment-Related Hardships 4. … Read more

whether or not bipolar disorder can be diagnosed

   Some debate in the literature exists specific to whether or not bipolar disorder can be diagnosed in childhood. While some have anecdotally argued that it is not possible for children to develop bipolar disorder (as normal features of childhood confound the diagnosis), other sources argue that pediatric bipolar disorder is a fact. In this … Read more

week 4 clinical logs

 Was just going thru MyEvaluations logs this morning, and noticed most of yours had “New OB visit” as the type of encounter. I changed them to “acute/episodic care” as I assumed they were not new OB visits based on your notes (and they were older patients with no mention of pregnancy). Most of the time … Read more

Assignment 1: Week 10 Practicum Journal: Checkpoint for Certification Plan

Learning Objectives Students will: Evaluate progress on certification plans Assignment: Report your progress on the Certification Plan completed in Week 1 and submitted in Week 4. What have you done to prepare for your certification?  Have you completed the scheduled tasks assigned on your timeline? If not, what are your plans to stay on schedule? … Read more