Discussion 2: The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy-Making

  

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The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy-Making

Word cloud generators have become popular tools for meetings and team-building events. Groups or teams are asked to use these applications to input words they feel best describe their team or their role. A “word cloud” is generated by the application that makes prominent the most-used terms, offering an image of the common thinking among participants of that role.

What types of words would you use to build a nursing word cloud? Empathetic, organized, hard-working, or advocate would all certainly apply. Would you add policy-maker to your list? Do you think it would be a very prominent component of the word cloud?

Nursing has become one of the largest professions in the world, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve the delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients. Hence, policy-making has become an increasingly popular term among nurses as they recognize a moral and professional obligation to be engaged in healthcare legislation.

Revisit the Congress.gov website provided in the Resources and consider the role of RNs and APRNs in policy-making.

Resources:

Advocacy

https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy/

Evaluating Policy Implementation

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/policy/Brief%204-a.pdf

Congress

https://www.congress.gov/

Reflect on potential opportunities that may exist for RNs and APRNs to participate in the policy-making process.

By Day 3 of Week 8

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples.

300-350 words. in text citations. 3 references within last 5 years

Transition to Graduate Study

 When looking at studies, do you think that reading the abstract provides you with a good summary on the study? If not, do you have any thoughts on how to better provide this information?  

Asthma PPT A6

In a 20 slide presentation, using at least 2 APA style cited references, complete the following:

  1. You have several students with Asthma. Discuss the difference between an asthma action plan and an Individualized health plan. Create a PowerPoint or Prezi on asthma. The first 2 slides should be a description of these plans. Then create five slides to be used to train teachers about their students with asthma.
  2. You have several epinephrine pens in your office for children with severe allergies. Discuss how you would collaborate with the head of nutrition in your school district to keep these students safe? Create a PowerPoint or Prezi on allergies. The first two would discuss how to collaborate with the nutrition department. Then create five slides that you would use to teach the bus drivers how to use an epinephrine pen. 
  3. As a closing element, discuss the importance of collaboration for these two conditions.

Feel free to use other resources for your teachings and explanations, such as YouTube in your teaching.

Nursing and the aging Family DQ week 2 Part 1 Dianelis Pons

 

  Please reply to this student post by adding something else relate to this post

Please APA style and less than 10 % similarity. 

 

Discussion part one

It is not possible to define aging in the elderly solely by chronological criteria, since the functional, physical, mental and health conditions they present must be considered, since the aging process is individual, verifying that different biological conditions can be observed in individuals located in the same chronological age range. For example, in the cardiovascular system, when an elderly person is subjected to exertion, there is a decrease in the ability of the heart to increase the number and strength of the heartbeat. With aging there is also a reduction in the heart rate at rest, an increase in cholesterol and vascular resistance, with the consequent increase in blood pressure. Another time may be that arteriosclerosis is caused by normal changes in age, environmental influences, and genetic factors. In the autonomic nervous system there is a lower cardiovascular response to sympathetic and parasympathetic stimuli and a decrease in adrenergic content. As a result of these changes, the ejection phase and the relaxation phase increase, with reduced diastole, greater impedance to the left ventricular ejection, and decreased compliance (Health & Medicine Week, 2019).

I believe that it is important not to confuse aging factors with diseases that are not the cause of the same. One of them is Alzheimer’s, as this is a disease that can appear suddenly and although older adults are more likely to get it, this is not the main cause of it. Memory loss in the elderly does not presuppose normality, but, on the contrary, illness. As a result, it is important to allow the patient and his family to plan for the future in the face of total disability, providing support and monitoring in the aspects of judgment and safety so that the patient can continue independently and living in the community as much as possible (Mental Health Weekly Digest, 2016).

References

Health & Medicine Week. (2019). Aging Research – Aging and Development; Data from University of Liverpool Advance Knowledge in Aging and Development (Ageing-associated changes in the expression of lncRNAs in human tissues reflect a transcriptional modulation in ageing pathways). Retrieved from: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2319051274?accountid=158399

Mental Health Weekly Digest. (2016). Neurodegenerative Diseases and Conditions – Alzheimer Disease; Researchers’ Work from Alzheimer’s Association Focuses on Alzheimer Disease (Guidelines to improve animal study design and reproducibility for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: For funders and researchers). Retrieved from: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1846856026?accountid=158399

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Minimum of 350 words with at least two peer review reference in 7th edition apa style

 

As a practice scholar, you are searching for evidence to translate into practice. In your review of evidence, you locate a quasi-experimental research study as possible evidence to support a practice change. You notice that the study aims to make a prediction that relates to correlation between study variables. The study sample size is large and normally distributed. Reflect upon this scenario to address the following.

  • In your appraisal of the evidence, you note that an independent variable is not present and that a Spearman’s ranked correlation is used to analyze data. Is this the correct level of correlational analysis? Explain your rationale.
  • Are association and correlational analysis equivalent in determining relationships between variables?
  • Do these findings impact your decision about whether to use this evidence to inform practice change? Why or why not?

Assignment

 

A walk through the Business section of any bookstore or a quick Internet search on the topic will reveal a seemingly endless supply of writings on leadership. Formal research literature is also teeming with volumes on the subject.

However, your own observation and experiences may suggest these theories are not always so easily found in practice. Not that the potential isn’t there; current evidence suggests that leadership factors such as emotional intelligence and transformational leadership behaviors, for example, can be highly effective for leading nurses and organizations.

Yet, how well are these theories put to practice? In this Discussion, you will examine formal leadership theories. You will compare these theories to behaviors you have observed firsthand and discuss their effectiveness in impacting your organization.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and examine the leadership theories and behaviors introduced.
  • Identify two to three scholarly resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
  • Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.

By Day 3 of Week 4

Post two key insights you had from the scholarly resources you selected. Describe a leader whom you have seen use such behaviors and skills, or a situation where you have seen these behaviors and skills used in practice. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain to what extent these skills were effective and how their practice impacted the workplace.

DIVERSE MANAGEMENT

 

Describe the business perspective for inclusion of diversity management in a health care environment. Include how diversity management has been addressed in your organization, including the positive and negative impacts on patient care that you predict from cultural differences. Provide supporting references for your response. PLEASE INCLUDE IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCE