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Benchmark – Nursing Process: Approach to Care

The nursing process is a tool that puts knowledge into practice. By utilizing this systematic problem-solving method, nurses can determine the health care needs of an individual and provide personalized care.

Write a paper (1,750-2,000 words) on cancer and approach to care based on the utilization of the nursing process. Include the following in your paper:

1. Describe the diagnosis and staging of cancer.
2. Describe at least three complications of cancer, the side effects of treatment, and methods to lessen physical and psychological effects.
3. Discuss what factors contribute to the yearly incidence and mortality rates of various cancers in Americans.
4. Explain how the American Cancer Society (ACS) might provide education and support. What ACS services would you recommend and why?
5. Explain how the nursing process is utilized to provide safe and effective care for cancer patients across the life span. Your explanation should include each of the five phases and demonstrate the delivery of holistic and patient-focused care.
6. Discuss how undergraduate education in liberal arts and science studies contributes to the foundation of nursing knowledge and prepares nurses to work with patients utilizing the nursing process. Consider mathematics, social and physical sciences, and science studies as an interdisciplinary research area.

You are required to cite to a minimum of four sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

Do supplements really work?  Read the following systematic review over protein supplementation in elite athletes.  Discuss the following:

1) Current recommendations on intake amounts

2) Types of training as related to protein intake differences

3) Specific types of proteins available and an opinion on which is best.

Discuss the following question by pdf.

PDF is upload below.

The IOM published report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” makes recommendations for lifelong learning and achieving higher levels of education.

In 1,000-1,250 words, examine the importance of nursing education and discuss your overall educational goals.

Include the following:

1. Discuss your options in the job market based on your educational level.
2. Review the IOM Future of Nursing Recommendations for achieving higher levels of education. Describe what professional certification and advanced degrees (MSN, DNP, etc.) you want to pursue and explain your reasons for wanting to attain the education. Discuss your timeline for accomplishing these goals.
3. Discuss how increasing your level of education would affect how your competitiveness in the current job market and your role in the future of nursing.
4. Discuss the relationship of continuing nursing education to competency, attitudes, knowledge, and the ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics.
5. Discuss whether continuing nursing education should be mandatory. Provide support for your response.

You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.  

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

 -Who is your target population?

What is the role of the nurse in providing input for the design of this healthcare program? Can you provide examples?
What is your role as an advocate for your target population for this healthcare program? Do you have input into design decisions? How else do you impact design?
What is the role of the nurse in healthcare program implementation? How does this role vary between design and implementation of healthcare programs? Can you provide examples?

Who are the members of a healthcare team that you believe are most needed to implement a program? Can you explain why? 

Assignment Content

1. Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation. Complete the following in your presentation:

   Explain how Electronic Health Records (EHR) are used.

   • Identify types of information found in an EHR.
   • Describe 1 technology that has an impact on health care delivery.
   • Include possible concerns or considerations regarding this technology and patient health data.
   • Describe 1 regulation that has an impact on health care delivery.
   • Include how this regulation affects the use of patient health data and technology.
   • Include consequences of noncompliance with this regulation.
   • Describe 1 government agency with oversight of healthcare delivery.
   • Identify whether this agency is available at the federal, state, or local level.
   • Identify a healthcare structure that must comply with this agency
   • Describe the effect this agency has on health care delivery.
   • Summarize the importance of compliance for patient health data and technology.

     Note: Provide speaker notes for each slide. Refer to the tutorial “Adding Speaker Notes to Your PowerPoint® Slides” from Microsoft® for more information on how to add speaker notes to your presentation.

     Cite any references to support your assignment.

     Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Assignment: Literature Review: The Use of Clinical Systems to Improve Outcomes and Efficiencies

New technology—and the application of existing technology—only appears in healthcare settings after careful and significant research. The stakes are high, and new clinical systems need to offer evidence of positive impact on outcomes or efficiencies.

Nurse informaticists and healthcare leaders formulate clinical system strategies. As these strategies are often based on technology trends, informaticists and others have then benefited from consulting existing research to inform their thinking.

In this Assignment, you will review existing research focused on the application of clinical systems. After reviewing, you will summarize your findings.

To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and reflect on the impact of clinical systems on outcomes and efficiencies within the context of nursing practice and healthcare delivery.

· Conduct a search for recent (within the last 5 years) research focused on the application of clinical systems. The research should provide evidence to support the use of one type of clinical system to improve outcomes and/or efficiencies, such as “the use of personal health records or portals to support patients newly diagnosed with diabetes.”

· Identify and select 4 peer-reviewed research articles from your research.

The Assignment: (4-5 pages)

In a 4- to 5-page paper, synthesize the peer-reviewed research you reviewed. Format your Assignment as an Annotated Bibliography. Be sure to address the following:

· Identify the 4 peer-reviewed research articles you reviewed, citing each in APA format.

· Summarize each study, explaining the improvement to outcomes, efficiencies, and lessons learned from the application of the clinical system each peer-reviewed article described. Be specific and provide examples.

· In your conclusion, synthesize the findings from the 4 peer-reviewed research articles

Task 1.

1. 200 words – Provide a brief overview of the concept of food desert as it relates to urban community. What impact does food desert and access to healthy foods have on population health, within urban communities?  

2. 200 words – Consider the character Nurse Lisa in the book “The Hate You Give”. Consider how the concept of food desert affect her and her family? For example, as a nurse within an underserved urban community her role is to advocate for the health and wellbeing of her clients and community members. What methods/ education can she provide to her clients to increase their access to health good choice when there is limited supplies? 

3. 200 words – Consider the novel “The Hate You Give” relate the novel and it setting to the concept of food desert. 

4. 100 words – How would a community health nurse or public health official address the issue of food desert? 

5. 100 words – What key stakeholders within the community would the official speak to and coordinate with to resolve this problem?

6. 100 words – Provide at least 3 community programs (interventions) that could be established to resolve the problem of food desert? 

7. 200 words – How would you coordinate these interventions? What is the most important aspect of the program intervention? Consider (funding, needs assessment, policy developments etc.)?

Task 2. 

1. 200 words- What are the determinants of health? How does the determinants of health impact health outcome within underserved urban communities?

2. 200 words- Of the many detriments of health which do you think is the most impactful and why? how does the determinants of health relate to the book “The Hate You Give”? provide example? 

Respond to the questions above in APA 7th format.

Each question MUST have subheadings.

Provide at least 7 scholarly resources including the book “The Hate You Give” and the attached textbook. 

 PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

4 REFERENCES NOT MORE THAN 5 YEARS

ZERO PLAGIARISM

In your role as a PMHNP, you will encounter several situations that will require your ability to make sound judgments and practice decisions for the safety and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. There may not be a clear-cut answer of how to address the issue, but your ethical decision making must be based on evidenced-based practice and what is good, right, and beneficial for patients. You will encounter patients who do not hold your values, but you must remain professional and unbiased in the care you provide to all patients regardless of their socio-demographic and ethnic/racial background. You must be prepared to critically analyze ethical situations and develop an appropriate plan of action. For this Assignment, you review the literature and discover the various ethical dilemmas PMHNPs encounter and how these issues are typically addressed in your state.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Analyze salient ethical issues in psychiatric mental health practice
• Compare ethical dilemmas with state health laws and regulations
• Analyze ethical decision-making processes

To prepare:

• Review literature for moral/ethical issues encountered by a PMHNP.
• Select one of the articles you found that was published within the last 5 years to use as a focus for this assignment.

Write a 3-page paper in which you do the following:

• Summarize the moral/ethical issue in the article (no more than 1 paragraph).
• Describe the moral and ethical dilemmas surrounding the issue.
• Analyze the ethical issue and compare them to the state health laws and regulations in your state.
• Outline the process of ethical decision making you would use to address this ethical dilemma.

1. Read the information about the case study with the chart materials provided or gather the necessary information from one of your patients.

2.Review the patient assessment information. What other assessments might you do in addition to those provided? What findings would you anticipate with this patient? Develop a care plan (use the template provided) based on the highest priority problem (1 nursing diagnosis, 2 goals, 3 interventions for each goal, 2 rationales for each intervention and evaluation for each goal). Complete an in-depth analysis reflecting your ability to prepare a case study based on principles derived from pharmacology, pathophysiology, psychology, nutrition, and evidence-based nursing practice guidelines. Remember to include an introduction to the patient, pathophysiology, history, nursing assessment (given and any additional), and related treatments.

3.Include selected references for your case study paper/care plan and use APA format.

4. A specific grading rubric and template are attached. The care plan should also be completed.

Benchmark – Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project Proposal: Draft Proposal (Chapters 1-3 and Appendix A)

At this point in the course, learners have completed and submitted Chapters 1-3 and the 10 Strategic Points as individual components of the Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project Proposal. This assignment requires learners to incorporate feedback from their DPI Project Committee on these assignments, combine them into the DPI Project Proposal: Draft Proposal (Chapters 1-3 and Appendix A), and submit it as one unit.

Upon submission, the DPI Project Proposal: Draft Proposal will be sent for an Academic Quality Review (AQR). The AQR is performed by a qualified external reviewer that provides a formal scientific merit review and quality assurance check on the DPI Project Proposal.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

· Locate the “DPI Proposal Template” document in the PI Workspace of the DC Network.

· Locate your DPI Project Proposal – Strategic Points Final Draft assignment with DPI Committee feedback.

· Locate all previous feedback from Chapters 1-3, the 10 Strategic Points, and the soft submission submitted in Topic 7.

· You must submit this assignment in the form of a Word document. If this manuscript proposal is not submitted prior to due date in the designated format, you will receive 0 points for the assignment and will not undergo AQR. Remove the scoring grids/rubric and previous embedded feedback from your proposal for AQR submission.

· Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.

· You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. 

Directions:

1. Integrate the four individual DPI Project Proposal assignments into one document using the “DPI Proposal Template.”

2. Be sure to review the “DPI Project Guide,” before submitting your assignment.

Submit the completed document to your DPI chairperson.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

Doctor of Nursing Practice

1.1:  Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics, the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organizational sciences as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice. 

1.4:  Develop and evaluate new practice approaches based on nursing theories and theories from other disciplines.   

4.2:  Synthesize concepts to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to improve individual, aggregate, and population health management. 

PROFESSOR’S PRIOR INSTRUCTIONS:-

The professor has made new comments on the project and it requires for the comments to be incorporated into the project. You can also see the professor’s comments in the attached 10 Strategic Points.

Areas Needing corrections are as follows: It must be updated in the 10 Strategic Points and in the main project ATTACHED.

1. Interventions

a. This has to be for Diabetes. Currently, it is not the right methodology

b. The intervention is what will be done for each patient which should be based on educating the patients on lifestyle changes. It should be like this: –

i. Diet Teaching Education- what type of education will be used for teaching the patients. Where are you going to get the materials from? You must explain the Therapy in full. This must be rearranged in the project.

2. Lifestyle Changes Education must be addressed as follows: –

a. Discuss Medication Nutrition Education Therapy in full

b. Discuss Medication Adherence Education in full

c. It must specify Disease Education on Diabetes

d. It must indicate who is doing it e.g. RN, Nurse Practitioner etc.? How are they doing it? How long is it going to take or for long?

3. You must indicate what the expected result is going to be. 

4. How do you plan to measure Medication Adherence and the tools that will be used to measure it.

5. The Problem Statement must now change based on these new listed additions. It must start with “It is not known the extent to which………………

6. SAMPLE:

a. Explain why you are picking the specific number of patient population

b. Use population of adults 18 and above. Don’t limit to 45 and older.

7. Inclusion Criteria

a. Adult 18 – above with Type 2 Diabetes

b. It should state who identified it in the home health setting such Physicians since they are the ones that refer patients to the home health care for non-compliant or non-adherent to medication

8. Exclusion Criteria

a. It should state that you will exclude patients with cognitive impairment

9. Data Collection and Data Analysis

a. You must adjust both of them by using an existing method of Data Collection-please, do not make up your own

Please make corrections in all the chapters including 1, 2 and 3.

APPENDIX A is the 10 Strategic Points