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Search the GCU Library and find one new health care article that uses quantitative research. Do not use an article from a previous assignment, or that appears in the Topic Materials or textbook.

Complete an article analysis and ethics evaluation of the research using the “Article Analysis and Evaluation of Research Ethics” template. See Chapter 5 of your textbook as needed, for assistance.

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, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

This assignment requires incorporating suggestions from feedback:-

You have described an important problem. I would recommend that you look at your outcomes and simplify a bit. For example, how do you measure pervasiveness? What about weight loss, HgA1C, cholesterol etc (whatever measurable outcomes you might see in the literature) In addition, your comparison might need to be looked at a bit. You might want to compare standard treatment or you can use universal protocol as long as everybody is looking at the same protocol.

Please see the attached project

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”

THE IMPORTANCE TO IDENTIFY IF HELICOBACTER PYLORI, A GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM, IS PRESENT, DISCUSS THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR H PYLORI, WHICH CAUSES MORE THAN 77% OF THE PEPTIC ULCER ( GASTRIC AND DUODENAL), PLEASE DISCUSS ABOUT THE PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT FOR HPYLORI, KEEP IN MIND THAT HPYLORI AND PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE ARE VERY OFTEN

Based on your research and the data you gather through your Part 1 Planning Guide, include the following:

• A brief description of your chosen setting and the existing agency, institution, medical/healthcare center, or clinic or other setting, including distinguishing characteristics of the community where it is located.
• A brief description of the needs assessment that you conducted, including:
  • Key external factors identified by the needs assessment
  • Key internal factors identified by the needs assessment
• An analysis of how the key external and internal factors impact your focus setting (i.e., agency, institution, healthcare center, clinic or other); its nursing, patient, or other education programs (if applicable); and current education needs. Use the Learning Resources and/or the best available evidence from current literature to support your analysis.
• A summary statement explaining:
  • The type of education program you propose (e.g., patient education, entry-level nursing, staff professional development, or other)
  • The target population for this program (e.g., age-specific groups; location-specific groups)
  • 2–3 program-level outcomes for the curriculum you would design for this setting
• An explanation of specific external and internal factors that could positively or negatively influence your proposed program. Use the Learning Resources and/or the best available evidence from current literature to support your explanation.
• Based on your overall needs assessment, an explanation of your rationale for the curriculum you are proposing. Use the Learning Resources and/or the best available evidence from current literature to support your rationale.

Capstone Change Project Evaluation Plan

(Fall prevention strategies in hospitals)

Review your strategic plan to implement the change proposal, the objectives, the outcomes, and listed resources. Develop a process to evaluate the intervention if it were implemented. Write a 150-250 word summary of the evaluation plan that will be used to evaluate your intervention.

The assignment will be used to develop a written implementation plan.

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

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Assess the culture of the organization for potential challenges in incorporating the nursing practice intervention. Use this assessment when creating the strategic plan.

Write a 150-250 word strategic plan defining how the nursing practice intervention will be implemented in the capstone project change proposal.

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

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Case study:

45-year-old woman presents with chief complaint of 3-day duration of shortness of breath, cough with thick green sputum production, and fevers. Patient has history of COPD with chronic cough but states the cough has gotten much worse and is interfering with her sleep. Sputum is thicker and harder for her to expectorate. CXR reveals flattened diaphragm and increased AP diameter. Auscultation demonstrates hyper resonance and coarse rales and rhonchi throughout all lung fields.

An understanding of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems is a critically important component of disease diagnosis and treatment. This importance is magnified by the fact that these two systems work so closely together. A variety of factors and circumstances that impact the emergence and severity of issues in one system can have a role in the performance of the other.

Effective disease analysis often requires an understanding that goes beyond these systems and their capacity to work together. The impact of patient characteristics, as well as racial and ethnic variables, can also have an important impact.

An understanding of the symptoms of alterations in cardiovascular and respiratory systems is a critical step in diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. For APRNs this understanding can also help educate patients and guide them through their treatment plans.

In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. You identify the elements that may be factors in the diagnosis, and you explain the implications to patient health.

Assignment (1- to 2-page case study analysis)

In your Case Study Analysis related to the scenario provided, explain the following

• The cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting these symptoms.
• Any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.
• How these processes interact to affect the patient.

In this Assessment, you will use information from the case scenario below, along with the supporting documents provided, to demonstrate your ability to apply economic concepts to make recommendations for organizational decisions.

Case Scenario: Launching a Cancer Drug: Comanapracil

You are a pharmaceutical executive. You believe that your firm, Ropache, may have developed a promising new drug, Comanapracil, which seems to arrest the progress of breast cancer for 2 years with no significant side effects. Clinical trials suggest that the drug is 100% effective for 2 years. After 2 years, tumor growth resumes at the same rate. Therefore, Comanapracil can only be used for a 2-year course, after which it loses its effectiveness.

Professional Skills: Written Communication, Technology, and Critical Thinking and Problem Solving are assessed in this Competency

Your response to this Assessment should:

• Use the Assessment documents and video as required.
• Reflect the criteria provided in the Rubric.
• Adhere to the required assignment length.
• Use the APA course template.
• Download the Writing Checklist to review prior to submitting your Assessment.

This Assessment requires submission of two (2) files. Save your files as follows:

• Save Part I as FM005_PartI_firstinitial_lastname (for example, FM005_PartI_J_Smith).
• Save Part II as FM005_PartII_firstinitial_lastname (for example, FM005_PartII_J_Smith).

When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu.

Instructions

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.

Rubric

Access the following to complete this Assessment:

• U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics
• Annual Costs of Cancer Care—Cancer Prevalence and Cost of Care Projections:
• Chemo Costs in U.S. Driven Higher by Shift to Hospital Outpatient Facilities
• GDP Per Capita
• Health Expenditure Per Capita
• Life Expectancy at Birth, Total (Years)
• Breast Cancer Drug – Comparison Chart

This assessment has two-parts.  Click each of the items below to complete this assessment.

Part I: Determine Pricing and Marketing Strategy for a New Drug

You have been tasked with developing a pricing and marketing strategy for Comanapracil. As you undertake this task, refer to the following resources mentioned above:

• U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics
• Annual Costs of Cancer Care—Cancer Prevalence and Cost of Care Projections
• Chemo Costs in U.S. Driven Higher by Shift to Hospital Outpatient Facilities
• Breast Cancer Drug—Comparison Chart

Create a 10- to 15-slide presentation, for the board of directors, to convince them that Comanapracil is a good investment. The presentation should address the following economic issues related to the marketing of Comanapracil:

• Develop and present estimates for the demand for Comanapracil and the price of the drug you think the market will bear. Be sure to include the number of customers for this drug.
• Describe where and to whom you will focus your marketing efforts. For each, detail why they are important.
• Explain how you will ensure that insurance companies pay for your drug.
• Explain the elasticity of demand for a drug like Comanapracil. What factors could potentially change the elasticity of demand?
• Assume you are able to obtain a patent, and are ready to go to market immediately. Explain the length of time for which your drug will receive patent protection, so that you are protected from competition prior to generics entering the market. Also, explain why patent protection exists in healthcare.

Part II: Compare International Healthcare Systems to Develop an International Market Entry Strategy

It is your job to develop a market analysis for four different healthcare markets with unique insurance systems. These four analyses will be contained within one 10- to 11-slide presentation to the board of directors. Your analysis will serve as a basis for deciding which country to market Comanapracil:

• Germany
• United States
• Ghana
• Brazil

Create your presentation as follows:

• The first slide will be an analysis of the relationship between spending on healthcare per capita and life expectancy in each country. Begin by referring to the World Bank charts “GDP Per Capita,” “Health Expenditures Per Capita,” and “Life Expectancy at Birth, Total (Years).” Using these, create a chart comparing the spending on healthcare per capita with the life expectancy in each country. Underneath the chart, on the same slide, address the question: Is there a relationship between life expectancy and healthcare spending?
• Next, based on what you have learned about the healthcare systems of Germany, the United States, Ghana, and Brazil, create four slides (one for each country) that summarize how each healthcare system is structured.
• Next, create another four slides (again one for each country). Each of these slides should summarize your findings from conducting a SWOT analysis for each country (that is, identify the economic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) associated with marketing Comanapracil in each country.
• Create one to two slides recommending which two countries are most attractive for marketing Comanapracil and why.
• Your board has shown a particular interest in the German market. In order to market your drug in Germany successfully, you must be approved by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWIG). Create two to three slides, addressed to the IQWIG, which argue for the importance of why your drug should be covered. Address the following issues:
  • How much of a gain in health outcomes will this drug provide?
  • Do other drugs provide similar effectiveness in treating this disease?
  • How many people will benefit from this drug? Explain why some people will benefit from the drug more than others.

Identify a vulnerable population or a community health issue and use what you have learned during this course using EBP to guide health technology, community resources, screening, outreach, referral and follow up to improve health outcomes in the community.

Must address all of the topics.

At least 200 words minimum 300 words maximum.

APA format, including a minimum of two references within a 5 year span.