Discussion: The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy Evaluation

In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making. A critical component of any policy design is evaluation of the results. How comfortable are you with the thought of becoming involved with such matters?

Some nurses may be hesitant to get involved with policy evaluation. The preference may be to focus on the care and well-being of their patients; some nurses may feel ill-equipped to enter the realm of policy and political activities. However, as you have examined previously, who better to advocate for patients and effective programs and polices than nurses? Already patient advocates in interactions with doctors and leadership, why not with government and regulatory agencies?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

To Prepare:

• In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making.
• Review the Resources and reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

By Day 3 of Week 9

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that currently exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy review. 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. Be specific and provide examples.

Analysis of a Persuasive Speech

Instructions:

View the persuasive speech, Graham Hill: Why I Am A Weekday Vegetarian. Based on the video, respond to the following questions in your post:

• What is the speaker’s topic?
• Who is the speaker’s target audience? How do you know?
• What is the speaker’s thesis?
• How did the speaker use logos?
• How did the speaker use ethos?
• How did the speaker use pathos?
• What other persuasive techniques did the speaker use?
• Did the speaker use visual aids? If so, how did these help persuade you?
• What defective persuasion did the speaker use?
• Did the speaker persuade you to listen to their point? Why or why not?

Why I’m a weekday vegetarian – Graham Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUJD3sGppUo&feature=emb_logo

Please post 1 peer response.
 

In the response post, based on your classmate’s review of the speech, including the following:

• Was the speaker’s use of ethos, logos, and pathos effective?
• How did the speaker use presentation aids?
• Was the delivery of the speech effective? Why or why not?
• Were you convinced?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Assignment #2: 

Instructions

Choose: Persuasive Speech Topic

Evaluation Title: Persuasive Speech Topic

Choose a topic for your persuasive speech. Craft a Word document which addresses the following:

• What is your topic?
• Who is your target audience?
• Share examples of logos, pathos, and ethos you will include in the speech.
• What other persuasive techniques and/or appeals will you use?
• How will you avoid defective persuasion?
• Identify a minimum of three research materials you will use as supportive evidence. Include an APA citation as well as a 3-5 sentence summary of each material.
• Share ideas for presentation aids to be used in the speech.

PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW
ZERO PLAGIARISM

4 REFERENCES

• Develop effective documentation skills for group therapy sessions *
• Develop diagnoses for clients receiving group psychotherapy *
• Evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for groups *
• Analyze legal and ethical implications of counseling clients with psychiatric disorders *

* The Assignment related to this Learning Objective is introduced this week and submitted in Week 10.

Select two clients you observed or counseled this week during a group therapy session. Note: The two clients you select must have attended the same group session.

Then, in your Practicum Journal, address the following:

• Using the Group Therapy Progress Note in this week’s Learning Resources, document the group session.
• Describe each client (without violating HIPAA regulations), and identify any pertinent history or medical information, including prescribed medications.
• Using the DSM-5, explain and justify your diagnosis for each client.
• Explain whether cognitive behavioral therapy would be effective with this group. Include expected outcomes based on this therapeutic approach.
• Explain any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling each client.
• Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

Value based care powerpoint

Develop a 8- to 9-slide PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the following:

• Describe the differences between a board of nursing and a professional nurse association.
• Describe the board for your specific region/area.
  • Who is on the board?
  • How does one become a member of the board?
• Describe at least one state regulation related to general nurse scope of practice.
  • How does this regulation influence the nurse’s role?
  • How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?
• Describe at least one state regulation related to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs).
  • How does this regulation influence the nurse’s role?
  • How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?
• Include Speaker Notes on Each Slide (except on the title page and reference page)

 Watch the following video, then complete the required assignment. Review the document in Course Resources for instructions on accessing the videos. Lab 1 OSCE Clinical Skills Headache 26:08 Upon completion of watching the video write up the scenario into a SOAP format. Is there anything you would do differently on your plan? How to Submit Submit your SOAP notes to the unit Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit. Please submit your Lab directly into the text submission tool located in the Unit Lab Dropbox. 

 Adult History Paper & Description of the Interview  

Discussion Question:

What biological, psychological, environmental, socio-cultural, behavioral, and health system factors might be contributing to the failure of LGBT to use health care services? What population health nursing interventions might promote more effective use of services?

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook

The Health Care Delivery System
1. You are a home health care nurse scheduled for a home visit to your patient, a retired account payable clerk who is 7 days postsurgical with a new colostomy. Your patient lives with her husband who is involved in her care; they compile a list of questions between visits to ask upon your arrival at their home. During this visit, the patient has questions regarding her colostomy equipment and stoma care; her husband has questions regarding his current medication regimen. Both of them express concerns over recent changes in their health care coverage. 
a. What data in the scenario are pertinent?
b. Outline your nursing care responsibilities, as the home health care nurse, in this scenario. Compare and contrast these responsibilities with those found in the acute care setting.
c. What would be your recommendation for the husband’s medication questions?
d. What is the home health care nurse’s role and responsibilities related to the challenges of health care reform?
2. You are a nursing student attending clinical at a large, urban university hospital where you engage in direct patient care with clinical instructor supervision. At the nurses’ station, you overhear various nurses addressing patient care needs, including an RN requesting consults with a physical therapist, a respiratory therapist, a dietitian, and a social worker. Another nurse discusses the potential
need for palliative or hospice care consults for a patient. You observe a physician assistant approach the nurse with a list of written orders. 
a. Outline the roles of the various licensed health care workers mentioned in this scenario.
b. Compare and contrast palliative and hospice care. What is the major difference between the two?
c. As a nurse, what is your responsibility regarding physician assistant (PA) orders?

Please this is the bibliography
1.Potter, P.A., &Perry, A. G. (2017). Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice (9th ed.). St. Louis: MO:  Mosby. ISBN: 9780323327404 

 1-Do you think it is important for nurses to be involved in their professional organizations? Why or why not?

2. The Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) has been both praised and vilified. Debate the pros and cons of this legislation and of health-care reform in general. 

3. What is your vision of nursing’s future? How will you contribute to shaping it? 

4. Interview a nurse educated in a diploma program at least 20 years ago.

a-How did that nurse’s education differ from your education today? 

5. Locate the website of a professional organization related to nursing. Bring a copy of the organization’s mission, membership criteria, and standards of practice. 

6. Ask five people of different ages and gender who do not work in the health-care field what they think most nurses do. Compile their answers with the answers your classmates collected and summarize them. Compare the summary to what you know nurses actually do.

a-Were the answers realistic? 

b-Did they over- or underestimate the responsibilities most nurses have?

c-Did they recognize the wide variety of things nurses do?

d-Was there a difference by age or gender of the person answering the question?

e-What do the results tell you about the public’s image of nursing? 

f-What do you think influences their image the most? Explain your answer.

7. Describe the nurse of the future.

a-What does he or she do?

b-Do you think nursing will become a more powerful force in health care?

c-Why or why not?

250 words or more

3 references APA citation