Assignment 1: Practicum – Client Termination Summary (Due in Week 11)

Although termination is an inevitable part of the therapeutic process, it is often difficult for clients. However, by discussing termination throughout therapy, you can better prepare your clients for life without you. Once a client has achieved his or her therapeutic goals, termination sessions should be held and documented in a client termination summary. For this Assignment, you have the opportunity to practice writing a termination summary for a client with whom you have worked during your practicum experience.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Develop client termination summaries

To prepare:

• For guidance on writing a client termination summary, review pages 693–712 of Wheeler (2014) in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Identify a client who may be ready to terminate therapy.

Assignment

With the client you selected in mind, address in a client termination summary (without violating HIPAA regulations) the following:

• Identifying information of client (e.g., hypothetical name and age)
• Date the client initially contacted therapist, date therapy began, duration of therapy, and date therapy will end
• Total number of sessions, including number of missed sessions
• Whether termination was planned or unplanned
• Presenting problem
• Major psychosocial issues
• Types of services rendered (e.g., individual, couple/family therapy, group therapy)
• Overview of treatment process
• Goal status (goals met, partially met, unmet)
• Treatment limitations (if any)
• Remaining difficulties and/or concerns
• Recommendations
• Follow-up plan (if indicated)
• Instructions for future contact
• Signatures

The Professional Development Assignment should be between 1500 and 2000 words with a minimum of 2 sources from the literature outside of your textbook. 

You are a population health nurse working with congestive heart failure clients (greater than the age of 65) who receive services from your hospital. 

From a population health management perspective, identify services and interventions that address the health needs of this particular population. Your exploration with this particular population should include cost-effective interventions that address health promotion and illness prevention, risk management, care coordination, and disease management. 

 Position Paper Written Assignment

A position paper is a document you could present to a legislator to seek support for an issue you endorse. Present your position on a current health-care issue in a one-page paper, following the assignment guidelines below. You can select your issue topic from newspapers, national news magazine articles, professional journals, or professional association literature; and this can be the topic you choose for your ethical issues debate. 

Your position paper should:

• Be quickly and easily understood.
• Be succinct and clear.
• Appear very professional with the legislator’s name and title on top and your name and your credentials at the bottom.
• Condense essential information in one, single-spaced page, excluding the title and reference list pages.
• Be written using correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, and APA format.
• Clearly describe the issue that you are addressing in the opening paragraph.
• Include 3–4 bullet points regarding why you are seeking the legislator’s vote, support, or opposition. Bullet points should be clear and concise but not repetitive and should reflect current literature that substantiates your position.
• Summarize the implications for the nursing profession and/or patients.
• Conclude with two recommendations that you wish to see happen related to your issue, such as a vote for or against, a change in policy, or the introduction of new legislation.
• Use APA format (6th ed.), correct grammar, and references as appropriate.

The literature you cite must be from peer-reviewed journals and primary source information. You may use this paper as preliminary research for your ethical issues debate project that occurs in weeks 4-7.

Due Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time)

Points: 150

1. Search the internet and learn about the cases of nurses Julie Thao and Kimberly Hiatt.
2. List and discuss lessons that you and all healthcare professionals can learn from these two cases.
3.  Describe how the principle of beneficence and the virtue of benevolence  could be applied to these cases. Do you think the hospital  adminstrators handled the situations legally and ethically?
4. In addition to benevolence, which other virtues exhibited by their colleagues might have helped Thao and Hiatt?
5. Discuss personal virtues that might be helpful to second victims themselves to navigate the grieving process.

Scholarly article, APA format, and no grammar error

Based on “Case Study: Fetal Abnormality” and the required topic study materials, write a 750-800 word reflection that answers the following questions:

1. What is the Christian view of the nature of human persons, and which theory of moral status is it compatible with? How is this related to the intrinsic human value and dignity?
2. Which theory or theories are being used by Jessica, Marco, Maria, and Dr. Wilson to determine the moral status of the fetus? What from the case study specifically leads you to believe that they hold the theory you selected?
3. How does the theory determine or influence each of their recommendations for action?
4. What theory do you agree with? Why? How would that theory determine or influence the recommendation for action?
5.  Christian View of the Nature of Human Persons and Compatible Theory of Moral Status 
6.  Determination of Moral Status 
7.  Recommendation for Action 
8.  Personal Response to Case Study 

Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.

Points

The entire project is worth 600 points. Milestone 3 is worth 225 points of this total.

Due Date

The Milestone 3 PowerPoint OR Poster assignment is due by Sunday at 11:59 pm MT, at the end of Week 6. Submit your completed assignment. You may consult the Policies section in the Introduction & Resources module for details regarding late assignments. Post questions about this assignment in the Course Q & A Forum.

Required Assignment Topic

Note: You will use the same scenario you developed and same mHealth app you identified in Week 2.

Directions

• Select a Microsoft PowerPoint OR a Poster presentation for this assignment. See the Guidelines below for each of the options. 
• You are required to complete this assignment using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.pptx” format. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.)

PowerPoint Assignment Guidelines

• You are required to cite your source(s) as it relates to your application slide. Other citations are permitted, but this is not a requirement for the assignment.
• Title slide (first slide): Include a title slide with your name and the title of the presentation.
• Scenario Slide (one slide): This slide should include the approved patient scenario from Milestone 1 and 2. You will use the approved patient scenario and include a disease process, diagnosis, OR identify a patient with a desire to maintain good health and prevent illness and who would benefit from an already developed and reliable mHealth app. Include the nurse’s assessment of learning needs and readiness to learn.
• mHealth application slide (one slide): Identify a developed and reliable mHealth app that could benefit the patient. Describe the app, including the following.
  • Name of app
  • Purpose of app
  • Intended audience
  • Mobile device(s) upon which the app will operate
  • Where to download or obtain it (include a working link if it is to be downloaded from a website)
  • Any other information you believe would be pertinent to this situation
  • Be sure to cite all sources you use.
• Teaching slide(s) (one to three slides): Prepare slides that contain important points about the app that you want to teach to the patient, such as how to use the app safely and effectively (including how to interpret and act on the information that is provided).
• Evaluation slide(s) (one to three slides): Describe how you would determine the success of the patient’s use of this app. For example, include ways to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching plan that are a good fit for the type of app and focus on specific ways that this app benefits the patient’s health and wellness.
• References (last slide): List any references for sources that were used and cited in the presentation.
• Number of PowerPoint slides: 6-10 slides total

Writing and design: There should be no spelling or grammatical errors. Writing is concise and clear. Avoid words that the patient may not understand. Slides are visually appealing, incorporating graphics, photographs, colors, and themes.

Review the section on Academic Integrity Policy found in the RNBSN Policies. All work must be original (in your own words) unless properly cited.

Best Practices in Preparing PowerPoint Slideshows

• Be creative but realistic.
• Incorporate graphics, color, themes, or photographs to increase interest.
• Make each slide easy to read with short bullet points and large font. You may use speaker notes for full sentences.
• Review directions thoroughly.
• Cite all sources within the slides with (author, year), as well as on the reference slide.
• Proofread prior to final submission.
• Check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.
• Abide by the Chamberlain academic integrity policy.
• Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx. (Links to an external site.) The Chamberlain Student Success Strategies (SSPRNBSN) offers a module on Computer Literacy that contains a section on PowerPoint. SSPRNBSN is a course tile on your dashboard.

Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse.

Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This assignment asks you to consider these tools and how you might apply them to your own work.

In this Assignment, you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous assignment.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this Module in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
• Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.

The Assignment:

Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1 and expanded in Module 2, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

• An explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
• An explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
• Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
• Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

• identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your: (1) academic work as a student of the MSN program and (2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

Rubric and template attached below.

Write a reflective forum in this discussion board to explore what you learned about yourself and nursing in the process of completing this course.

400 – 600 words, in 2-3 paragraphs, will be sufficient for the response posting. Be sure that postings with specific references use APA format.

*Users must post before seeing replies.

This week, you will find three scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles on your topic. Remember that next week you will submit a paper on Scientific and/or Mathematical/Analytical perspectives of inquiry, so use this week’s assignment to prepare materials and collect information for that purpose.

Use articles that will help you explain and describe scientific issues and/or statistical data or economic information related to your topic. You will analyze and evaluate these articles in your submission, which should include:

Three separate paragraphs, one for each of the three articles, each presenting:

• A brief 3–4 sentence summary of the article (use in-text citations)
• An explanation as to what makes this source credible (in the WCU Library go to Research Guides > Research Basics > Evaluating Resources)
• An explanation of why the article will be useful in addressing your problem or issue

MUST USE CREDIBLE SOURCES FROM MY STUDENT PORTAL WHICH I WILL PROVIDE LOGIN INFO. 

PowerPoint due in 8 hours.. the PowerPoint has to be on the topic:

This topic is for the final project.. I have included the final project directions so it can help guide you as what is expected.. also, I have attached the link to the teacher providing information on how to do the PowerPoint:

https://ullafayette.zoom.us/rec/play/eN1rzJO4QfGB0re98M1Xm0HLIYgF7unp47tNygcpvAFUir8dzixxTUR6DbqMcsFiMStBZGU5jWQ8QWTj.5080O-MK38a5U8PZ?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=qHFXlRYqQyuB9cvlrv-VJA.1600798197388.022d0600b9ba075ea53a31cc0ad7f084&_x_zm_rhtaid=456

She speaks about the PowerPoint at about 23:42

and also a ppt with instructions is attached..

Final Project Directions

The final project will be an analysis of your Research Selection Assignment from Week 1.  The critique for the final project is due 

Thursday  of Week 7 at 11:55 pm c Central Standard Time. Review Chapter 21 to help you understand how to critique a research study.

IF YOU DO NOT USE  THE STUDY FROM WEEK 1 YOU WILL RECEIVE A 0 FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.

Purpose

The purpose of doing an in-depth analysis of your Research Selections Study, designed research  article is to help you put into practice the content of the course and to illustrate why the hierarchy of evidence is focused on systematic reviews. Further, your having done such a review gives you insight into the sort of thinking and questioning that arises when you are reading research articles. It may also stimulate the critical thinking that is required of the nursing scholar. 

This will be your analysis and you are required to use critical thinking in analyzing your selected article.  If you agree or disagree with the author, support your reasoning. If you find any component of the study lacking or in need of improvement, support your position. Support your position with scholarly resources.

Steps in the Process:

1. Refer to the Distance Learning Librarian link under the Learner Support banner on the homepage of the course to learn how to use the library and find the library databases. 

2. See the assignment in week one on submitting your Research Selection Study 

3. Follow the instructions for this assignment in week one

4. The Grading criteria, the Rubric, for the written project is found in week six.

5. Your paper is to be 5 – 10 pages not counting the title page and the reference page.

7. Submit your paper to Turnitin by the posted deadline