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Assignment (5–6 pages not including title and reference pages)

• Complete the Theory Comparison Matrix for all listed theories. (Note: Include your notes in the cells provided. Also, should you require additional information related to a specific theory, search the Internet and/or the Walden Library for reliable sources to supplement your information.)
• Using the completed Theory Comparison Matrix, select one theory from the “Psychological Learning Theories” category and all theories under “Additional Theories” and begin comparing each theory and its basic tenets in the area provided in the template.

In a 5- to 6-page paper, provide explanations for the following.

• Describe one method for incorporating each of your selected theories into an educational activity. Note: Be as explicit as possible and provide detailed information.
• Explain how each of your selected theories may be applied to the role of the Academic Nurse Educator and provide a rationale for each. 
• Explain how each of your selected theories may be applied to the role of the Nursing Professional Development Practitioner and provide a rationale for each. 
• Explain conclusions you have drawn as a result of comparing your selected theories and explaining their applications to nursing education. Be specific and provide examples.

Write a 4–6-page policy proposal and practice guidelines for improving quality and performance associated with the benchmark metric underperformance you advocated for improving in Assessment 1.
In advocating for institutional policy changes related to local, state, or federal health care laws or policies, health leaders must be able to develop and present clear and well-written policy and practice guideline proposals that will enable a team, a unit, or an organization as a whole to resolve relevant performance issues and bring about improvements in the quality and safety of health care. This assessment offers you an opportunity to take the lead in proposing such changes.

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice to bring to discussions about policy development, both inside and outside your care setting. Developing policy for internal purposes can be a valuable process toward quality and safety improvement, as well as ensuring compliance with various health care regulatory pressures. This assessment offers you an opportunity to take the lead in proposing such changes.
Competency Map
Use this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.

• Assessment Instructions:  Propose an organizational policy and practice guidelines that you believe will lead to an improvement in quality and performance associated with the benchmark underperformance you advocated for improving in Assessment 1. Be precise, professional, and persuasive in demonstrating the merit of your proposed actions.
  Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft policy proposal to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.
  Requirements
  The policy proposal requirements outlined below correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
  • Explain the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.
    • What is the current benchmark for the organization and the numeric score for the underperformance?
    • How is the benchmark underperformance potentially affecting the provision of quality care or the operations of the organization?
    • What are the potential repercussions of not making any changes?
      • What evidence supports your conclusions?
  • Recommend ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance prescribed by applicable local, state, or federal health care policy or law.
    • What does the evidence-based literature suggest are potential strategies to improve performance for your targeted benchmark?
    • How would these strategies ensure performance improvement or compliance with applicable local, state, or federal health care policy or law?
    • How would you propose to apply these strategies in the context of Eagle Creek Hospital or your own practice setting?
    • How can you ensure these strategies are ethical and culturally inclusive in their application?
  • Analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on your recommended practice guidelines.
    • What regulatory considerations could affect your recommended guidelines?
    • What resources could affect your recommended guidelines (staffing, financial, and logistical considerations, or support services)?
  • Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of your proposed policy and practice guidelines.
    • Why is it important to engage these stakeholders and groups?
    • How can their participation produce a stronger policy and facilitate its implementation?
  • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
    • Proofread your proposal, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your proposal.
  • Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.
    • Be sure to apply correct APA formatting to source citations and references.
  • Example Assessment: You may use the Assessment 2 Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
    Policy Proposal Format and Length
    It may be helpful to use a template or format for your proposal that is used in your current organization. The risk management or quality department could be a good resource for finding an appropriate template or format. If you are not currently in practice, or your organization does not have these resources, many appropriate templates are freely available on the Web.
    Your policy should be succinct (about one paragraph). Overall, your proposal should be 4–6 pages in length.
    Supporting Evidence
    Cite 3–5 references to relevant research, case studies, or best practices to support your analysis and recommendations.
    Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.
    Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your policy proposal to your ePortfolio.
    Competencies Measured
    By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
  • Competency 1: Analyze relevant health care laws, policies, and regulations; their application; and their effects on organizations, interprofessional teams, and professional practice.
    • Analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.
  • Competency 2: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.
    • Recommend ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance prescribed by applicable local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.
  • Competency 3: Evaluate relevant indicators of performance, such as benchmarks, research, and best practices, to inform health care laws and policies for patients, organizations, and populations.
    • Explain the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.
  • Competency 4: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.
    • Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines.
  • Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
    • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
    • Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.

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

By Day 7 of Week 8

Submit your completed Assignment.

Community Assessment, Analysis, Diagnosis, Plan, and Evaluation

Weekly Objective 4 is addressed in this assignment.

Needed Document: Final Paper Template

This activity is intended for undergraduate nursing students. In this activity, you will observe, think critically about, and report health issues in diverse community environments.

Community health nursing can improve access to care for the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach groups in any country. The community health nurse should combine knowledge of major indicators of health, social factors that contribute to declining health status, and public programs designed to address problems of health care. Efforts should encompass all levels of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary) and should address the needs of the individual, family, aggregate, and community.

You will submit a formal APA Paper (see instructions in the template and the rubric).

Utilizing the information gathered on your selected community in from eight Sentinel City subsystems you have been working on throughout this class, write your assessment, analysis, nursing diagnosis, plan, and evaluation method (per the rubric) in APA 7th edition format.

You do not need an abstract. The order of the paper is as follows: the title page, the body of the paper (5-10 pages), a reference page. See the sample template provided.

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

PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE CRITERION TABLES.

Discuss your experiences/research with policies implemented to protect vulnerable populations such as patients with mental illness. How does the mental health Parity Act of 2008 improve mental health services? Describe ethics as it relates to vulnerable populations and you as a healthcare professional. Include values, beliefs, and laws in your discussions.

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

Discussion Question:

In general, what findings in the physical assessment of a healthy older adult do you expect to be different than that of a healthy 35-year-old?

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

The preceptor will perform a midterm evaluation with the faculty. The preceptor will input the evaluation content into the Lopes Activity Tracker. The student will upload the evaluation into LoudCloud after meeting with the preceptor to discuss the midterm evaluation.

Students must meet all clinical expectations of the course, earn a passing grade on all benchmark assignments, and successfully complete remediation (if necessary) in order to receive a passing grade in the NRS-493 course.

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

PICOT QUESTION: Advantages of Breast Feeding for a Newborn Baby

For this assignment, you will locate two research studies related to the topic and PICOT questions that you developed in Week 2. The articles must be current (within the last five years), and one article must be quantitative, and one article must be qualitative.

Article choice is very important, therefore:

• Articles used for this assignment cannot be used for the other assignments. The selected articles should be original research studies. Review articles, concept analysis, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, integrative review, and systemic review articles should not be used.
• Mixed-methods studies should not be used.

There are two parts to this assignment.

Part 1: Complete a Rapid Critical Appraisal Checklist

• Select one each: qualitative and quantitative research articles.
• Create a Rapid Critical Appraisal Checklist for the two research articles (one column per article).
• Complete with brief, concise, summarized information.

Part II: Write a summary (one- to two- pages)

• Identify differences between quantitative and qualitative designs and research methods.
• Use current APA Style for your summary paper and to cite your sources.
• Submit the checklist and summary.

As a new nurse, how does evidence based practice influence your practice. 

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