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Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to post at least one documented scholarly activity by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

Submit, by way of this assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when, and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

You will write a 12–15-page research-based paper in current APA format that focuses on leadership and change theory. A clinical scenario will be provided. From that scenario, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) system, variations, theories and human behavior framework will be used. You will discuss the system, potential variations (such as human behavior and EI), 2 leadership theories and 1 applicable change theory. Potential leadership skills/traits/theories must be discussed to help improve the clinical problem.

I need a process recording done for some with a diagnosed psychiatric condition such as depression or bipolar disorder, must follow the rubric and guidelines, must include the interactions and questions you asked.

A serotonin reuptake inhibitor, such as Fluoxetine, may be prescribed for this patient because she has a disturbed sleep pattern, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. These three symptoms could correlate with an altered mood. Prozac works by blocking the reabsorption of the serotonin neurotransmitter and causing an increase of the amount of serotonin in the brain. It is believed to increase the client’s mood, improve sleeping patterns, and enhance the thought process. This medication is commonly used to treat major depressive disorders (Henry et al., 2016).

Some important teachings to give the client when administering the first dose are to avoid caffeine, monitor daily weights because weight loss is a common adverse effect in the early stages of therapy, monitor for the signs and symptoms of serotonin syndrome such as increased body temperature, fast heart rate, frequent loose stools, sweating, tremors, and/or anxiety, watch for bleeding or bruising if the medication is given with a blood thinner, and advise the client that fatigue or dizziness can occur (Henry et al., 2016). Serotonin syndrome can occur when there’s an excessive amount of serotonin in the body and can cause changes in mental status and heart function. If the patient observes any of the symptoms listed above, she should notify the physician and nurse immediately

Some changes I expect to see with the client after 2 months of treatment are increased appetite, reduced fatigue, return to a normal sleep pattern, improved concentration and thought process, reduced thoughts of guilt, improved mood, and the patient appears to be content with her appearance, mood, and thoughts. If the client is not displaying the expected outcomes, the physician may prescribe an SNRI such as Venlafaxine, an atypical antidepressant such as Bupropion, or a monoamine oxidase inhibitor such as Phenelzine.

Search the internet for the top 5 or 10 ethical issues in your chosen profession.  List and discuss each issues.  You must have one resource cited for this assignment.

Once you have completed and saved your document (be sure to give it a unique name), click on the button below to browse and upload it. Then click “Add Submission.” Be sure to include your name in your document.

All submissions should be formatted in a 12 point Times New Roman font.

Instructions for Answer to 2 Question

1- After Each DQ (question), write down references

2- 300 minimum words for every DQ, you can go up to 800 words but answer should be complete.

3- 2-3 Peer Reviewed/ scholarly references for each question

4- References should be within 4 years

5- I am in acute care nurse practitioner program.

6- The response to the DQ is expected to be a minimum of 300 words. A minimum of two peer reviewed/ scholarly  resources are expected. These need to be appropriate for a clinical professional to guide decisions about patient care. If a textbook is used for one of these responses, the other needs to be journal or professional-level website. The references need to be correctly formatted, as do the citations for those references.  “ Question words” don’t count towards 300 minimum count”

Scenario: Family
An 83, year old woman is recovering from pneumonia. She has Alzheimer’s disease and has become increasingly hostile and unmanageable in the home setting. Her 65, year old daughter is distraught about the idea of placing her mother in a long term care facility but feels she is not able to care for her.

• As a nurse, what is your role in this situation?
• How might you help the daughter with her decision?
• What information would you give the daughter?

Create a side-by-side bar graph using Microsoft Excel® and the data provided in the Ages Impacted document to identify the age groups affected by the virus.

Note: This information will be used for further analysis in future assignments.

Write a 350- to 525-word report of your analysis of the data. Include an answer to the following questions:

• Which age groups are most affected?
• Which age groups are least affected?
• What is the prevalence rate per age demographic?
• What else can be deduced after evaluating the chart?

Include your side-by-side bar graph in the report.

Format your citations according to APA guidelines. If a reference is used in body of response, please ensure that you cite according to APA.

.doc file

APA Format w/ citation if used in body of response.

Please provide paper plus excel sheet with graph requested. Same as previous work submitted.

Minimum of 750 words with at least 2 peer review reference in 7th edition apa syle

1. Compare and contrast differences and similarities of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method designs 
2. Analyze qualitative and quantitative data for the purposes of critical appraisal of evidence 
3. Synthesize literature relevant to practice problems. 

1) Minimum 8 full pages (Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part)

              Part 1: Minimum 1 page

              Part 2: minimum 1 page

              Part 3: minimum 1 page

              Part 4: minimum 1 page 

              Part 5: Minimum 1 page

              Part 6: minimum 1 page

              Part 7: minimum 1 page

              Part 8: minimum 1 page

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms

          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs

          Bulleted responses are not accepted

          Dont write in the first person 

          Dont copy and pase the questions.

          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

         Submit 1 document per part

3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks) 

********************************It will be verified by SafeAssign (Identify the percentage of similarity of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)

4) Minimum 3 references per part not older than 5 years

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question.

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.doc 

__________________________________________________________________________________

Part 1: 

 Topic: Infection control and prevention

Dissemination of EBP and research, such as presenting results at a conference or writing an article for a journal, is an important part of professional practice. 

Infection control and prevention

1. Identify one professional journal and one nursing or health care conference where you might present your project. 

2. Discuss why each of your choices is the best option for you to disseminate your new knowledge.

Part 2: 

 Topic: Infection control and prevention

1. Discuss why EBP is an essential component of the practice of a BSN-prepared RN. 

2. Identify two ways in which you will continue to integrate evidence into your practice and encourage it within your work environment. 

3. What obstacles could challenge this plan, and what steps will you take to minimize their impact?

Part 3: 

Case Study:

Richard is a 40-year-old man with a history of 4 weeks of cluster headache once each year. These began when he was 35 years old. His cluster periods occur in the fall. The cluster period begins slowly, increasing over 1 week, reaching a peak where Richard has two or three severe cluster attacks each day. They occur from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Each cluster headache lasts from 40 to 90 minutes, and the headaches are severe. The pain is always on the right side, with eye tearing and nasal congestion. 

Richard comes into our office 1 week into this fall’s cluster series. The headaches are increasing in intensity, and he is miserable with the pain.

Please complete the following questions: 

1. Describe Cluster Headache and its epidemiology.

2. What would be your goals for therapy for Richard? Give rationale with evidence from articles. 

 Part 4: Community Nursing

A neighbor, who is 3 months pregnant, asks to talk to you because she has felt tired for the last 2 days, has a headache, a rash, and does not feel like eating. You take her vital signs and find that she has a low-grade fever. She has recently traveled to an area where there is risk for Zika virus disease.

1. To what could your neighbor have been exposed

2. how could the exposure have occurred?

3. What advice would you give your neighbor?

Part  5: Crisis intervention 

 1. Discuss what is complicated grieving.

2.  Mention at least 3 clues for identifying complicated grief reaction and explain them. 

Part 6: Aging

When caring for older adults, it is important for the nurse to understand special considerations for medication use in the older population. 

1. List at least two considerations and education you would provide for following medication: Analgesics: Aspirin, acetaminophen and Diuretics: Thiazides, loop diuretics, potassium-sparing diuretics?

You are the nurse caring for an 82-year-old patient with a diagnosis of: Ineffective Breathing Pattern. 

2. List two (2) interventions for this diagnosis with supporting rational. +

Part 7

Clinical performance evaluation is subjective and involves the judgments of the evaluator. It is filtered by the evaluator’s perspective, values, and biases. With this in mind, 

1. select three clinical evaluation strategies that you believe are fair and accurate in order to measure student learning, and determine their competency and safety in the clinical setting.

2.  Explain your rationale for why you selected each of the strategies, and how they align with your personal philosophy of teaching.  

Make sure the strategies that you selected include ways to evaluate students cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learning.

Part 8

What is your position on assigning grades based on a curve (a relative scale)? Explain and defend your position.