To Prepare for the Discussion:

• Review the Learning Resources.
• Select one of the following topics for the Discussion:
• • Adoption
  • Foster care
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Forensic issues
  • Impact of terrorism on children

 

Post:

• Write your selected disorder in the subject line of your Discussion post.

• Explain the psychological issues that may result from your topic.

• Describe the most effective assessment measure that could be used, and explain why you selected this.

• Explain the treatment options available for children and adolescents involved with your selected disorder.

• Explain how culture may influence treatment.

 Provide a minimum of three academic references. Including Introduction and Conclusion  

Persuasion and Division 

MUST BE IN APA FORMAT

PLEASE ANSWER EACH QUESTION WITH AT LEAST 2-3 SENTENCES

INCLUDE 2 CITATIONS & 2 REFERENCES

THANK YOU

 

 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? 

Please see the attachment!!

 

Week 7: Evidence Translation and Change

  Define evidenced informed practice. How can this be applied to your project proposal? Explain why evidenced informed practice is integral in effecting change.   

• What are the common barriers to evidence translation in addressing practice problems?
•  How you involve your team and yourself in changes?
• What strategies might you adopt to be aware of new evidence?  

Instructions:

Use an APA style and a minimum of 200 words. Provide support from a minimum of at least three (3) scholarly sources. The scholarly source needs to be: 1) evidence-based, 2) scholarly in nature, 3) Sources should be no more than five years old (published within the last 5 years), and 4) an in-text citation. citations and references are included when information is summarized/synthesized and/or direct quotes are used, in which APA style standards apply. 

• Textbooks are not considered scholarly sources. 

• Wikipedia, Wikis, .com website,s or blogs should not be used.

  

N492 Assignment Mod 2:

Assignment:

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

• Demographics,      life time education and career/employment
• Two      most significant (positive) times in their lives
• What      past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?
• Two      personal strengths
• Engage      them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills
  • Inquire       of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now
• Three      (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?
• Support      the client in taking the Geriatric Depression Scale.pdf
• Support      the client in taking the Fulmer SPICES Assessment.pdf
• Perform      a Mini Mental State Exam.pdf and Patient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf (attach here)
• Perform      a Hall, Hall, and Chapman Article.pdf
• Report      the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient      stress questionnaire and the mini mental status exam
• Discuss      your older adult’s level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by      psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10,      with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego      integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?
• Describe      at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.  
• Create      a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with      two nursing interventions each.

The assignment should be written in an APA-formatted essay. The essay should be at least 1500 words in length and include at least two scholarly sources other than provided materials.

Record the time you spend interviewing the client and writing the assessment report as practice experience hours in Project Concert as ‘Older Adult Interview’ for Module 2. (Discussion Board work does not apply). It is expected to take you between 2-4 hours. Access Project Concert. Minimum required hours must be entered into Project Concert for Module 2. Some states/entities require hour logs for certification or employment. It is the student’s professional responsibility to ensure all hours are entered correctly in order to meet these requirements. Please see the Project Concert directions document in the Learning Materials on how to enter hours.

  

Discussion Questions

By the due date assigned, post your response to the assigned discussion questions in the below Discussion Area. It is important to support what you say with relevant citations in the APA format from both the course materials and outside resources. Include the South University Online Library in your research activities utilizing not only the nursing resource database, but also those pertaining to education, business, and human resources.

No later than by the end of the week, review and comment on the discussion question responses posted by at least two of your peers. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language. All comments should be posted to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.

Discussion Question

Using the Excel Sheet and descriptive statistics page; you will write up your analysis for the 20 participants.

This week, you learned about the statistical software applications used to analyze data for research analysis. For this week’s discussion, you will use Excel sheet provide to run descriptive statistics, create graphs and respond to the following:

· How could you use Excel descriptive statistics for data analysis research?

· What are your plans for learning more about Excel and how will the information you learned about this software be of benefit in your future analysis of research data?

Refer to this week’s readings and video tutorials before starting this two part discussion question assignment. 

Step 1: Entering Data

Open a blank worksheet in the Excel program

You will now use Excel to view a sample dataset

Dataset Options

In many cases, researchers may have the data from their study in another software package like Microsoft Excel. However, if the data is not available in a software spreadsheet you can manually enter the data. Option 2: Manual Data Entry

In the Worksheet window, type “Age” in C1. Enter the numbers as shown in the dataset below. Enter the remaining data as shown below (set up your column labels i.e., variable). The measure reflects math anxiety and the study variables (cringe, uneasy, afraid, worried, understand) the math anxiety range is from 1–5 with low being the least and 5 the highest.

  

Age

Cringe

Uneasy

Afraid

Worried

Understand

 

28

5

3

4

4

3

 

34

2

5

3

2

1

 

25

4

4

4

2

5

 

56

3

4

3

1

2

 

23

5

4

3

3

4

 

29

1

5

3

 2

3

 

30

3

3

5

2

5

 

59

2

5

5

1

2

 

45

4

2

5

3

3

 

38

1

2

4

1

1

 

33

3

2

4

3

2

 

47

4

2

3

4

5

 

24

1

5

3

4

4

 

29

5

4

2

1

3

 

53

3

1

5

2

1

 

48

4

4

1

5

3

 

27

2

5

4

3

4

 

34

4

4

3

2

5

 

26

4

5

2

3

2

 

36

5

5

5

4

3

Step 2: Click on Excel tab for Add Ins; if you do not see statistics; you will need to open the file option; click on Add ins; click on ok; a box will open which will allow you to choose Statistics package; place a check mark in the box and click ok. How to Run Descriptive Statistics

Now that your data is in Excel, you will look at the descriptive statistics for this dataset. Select the data in all the columns except the top that has words for the columns; however you have the file already completed and a picture of the descriptive statistics..See end of page for a copy of the excel sheet and descriptive statistics output.

Discussion Question Part 1

How could you use Excel descriptive statistics for data analysis research? Write about your experience running descriptive statistics. Use the results in the Session Window to support your response. Then add to your discussion with the information you learn writing up your analysis.

Step 3: Excel and Graphs

You will now look at graphing. Select insert graph located at the top of the sheet; highlight the data you want to use for a chart; select the type of chart; select ok. Try using the histogram  feature for one of the variables and select “Ok”. You can create other Histogram graphs by choosing different variables. You can also choose from the other ten graph choices shown on the insert chart function.

Discussion Question Part 2

What are your plans for learning more about Excel and how will the information you learned about this software be of benefit in your future analysis of research data? Copy and paste your graph(s) in a Word document and attach to your discussion response.

 

#1)  Write down sample nursing diagnoses, interventions, and expected outcomes for the following client:

Elaina, 27 years old, visits a prenatal clinic to confirm a positive pregnancy test. Elaina tells the nurse that she is not married and has no support system. She also states that she is making minimum wage at a restaurant with no health insurance and cannot afford prenatal care. She intends to keep the baby and would rather not tell her partner because “they don’t have that kind of a relationship.” Elaina asks the nurse “If I take good care of myself, why do I need prenatal care?”

#2) Explain how the fetus is affected by tobacco use during pregnancy.  Keeping in mind the 2020 National Health Goals, what are some things you can do as a nurse to promote these goals and carry your ideas out into the community.

#3) You are asked to perform an assessment of a pregnant  woman and her family. Prior to the assessment, devise a list of interview questions to use to assess the woman’s readiness for parenthood and current health status as well as her goals for the pregnancy.

#4) For each of the following QSEN competencies write a list of nursing interventions for promoting fetal and maternal health related to each competency:

         Patient centered care

        Teamwork and collaboration

         Evidence-based practice

        Quality improvement

         Safety

         Informatics.

#5)  List the four major hormones produced in early pregnancy.  Describe what each one does.

 

  

Public/community health impact of driving under the influence of alcohol and health education program

(200 words) Describe the public health impact of driving under the influence of alcohol.

(200 words) Suggest a health education program that would assist community aggregate to reduce the prevalence of DUI

(200 words) Gather [recent] factual statistical information from various media sources (newspapers, television, radio, magazines, .GOV) related to driving under the influence of alcohol.

(200 words) What messages or information are observed regarding the impact of DUI?

(200 words) What strategies have been taken by the community to deal with the problem?

(200 words) How has the community been involved in identifying the problem and potential solutions? Provide specific actions taken and programs that were implemented.

(200 words) What were your best resources for this topic and why? Resource should be from credible government agencies such as CDC and The US Department of motor vehicles. 

Essay should be in APA 7th edition format with at least four credible source including the textbook, subheadings, intro body and conclusion. 

 Bell hooks (nee Gloria Jean Watkins) is a professor and social activist who has written about feminism and popular culture.  For this assignment, you will watch bell hooks’ views on Cultural Criticism and Transformation in the video (https://youtu.be/zQUuHFKP-9s) and read the accompanying extended transcript.

 Your essay should include some discussion of the following questions:

1. Do you agree or disagree with hooks’ views?  Support your position.
2. Does mass media promote images of equality by leveling racial, ethnic, and gender differences or do they promote inequality through exclusion and exaggeration of difference?
3. Does mass media reinforce the viewpoints of white, male, corporate culture or does mass allow for the authentic expression of racial, ethnic, and sexual identity?  Give examples to support your position

Specifications: 

Submit an 800-1000 word essay addressing the questions above. 

In your essay:

• Be sure to structure your essay with an introduction paragraph that includes a thesis statement, well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion that reiterates the main points of your argument. 
• Your argument should be supported by reputable research cited in APA format both in the body of the paper and in your references section.