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  Goal: To assess a clinical issue that is the focus of the Quality Improvement Project. Evaluate the clinical project. Create an outline of the action plan for the project.

  List the risk factors for cerebrovascular accidents and why? What cultures are at higher risk and why? Describe the 0 to 4+ scale for scoring deep tendon reflexes. What would you expect to find in a patient with diabetic peripheral neuropathy? Share any experience you have encountered and elaborate.

  What steps were used in the decision-making process? What evidence was considered for decision-making? What research did you reference and present throughout the decision-making process to support the proposed change? Is this change you could make in your current facility? 

Case Study Perhaps the one case study that best depicts the effect that  therapeutic jurisprudence might have involves the case of Theresa  (Terri) M. Schiavo.  Ms. Schiavo suffered a cardiac arrest in February  1990.  She was without oxygen for approximately 11 minutes, or 5 to 7  minutes longer than most medical experts believe is possible … Read more

  Based on this week’s reading, share a qualitative research article that is useful and applicable to your practice based on your readings.  Critique and evaluate this article based on the credibility, audibility, and fittingness proposed by Guba & Lincoln in Chapter 6 of your textbook.  Discussion tip #1: Review Table 6.2 in your textbook and … Read more

  This Discussion has 2 parts: GI Make a comprehensive list of relevant information to gather when assessing abdominal pain. How do you assess for masses in the abdomen and how you would document such findings? Describe your findings on a previous patient that you have encountered where you have palpated a mass in the … Read more

Discussion(M3) Watch one of these films and  then discuss anyone of these “dying and death” representations as  presented in movies or plays such as: Bringing Out the Dead Angela’s Ashes Beaches Philadelphia Terms of Endearment Wit Evan Mayday’s Good Death Address the following questions if pertinent to the film you watched: What were the causes … Read more

What matters at the end of life and Palliative care, a  different voice in healthcare. There are two Utube videos above and you  need to pick only one and tell about it. Here is what you can report on: a) What is the subject that the speaker is covering? b) Does it effect the ideas … Read more