Meeting Essential VIII

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Reflection Assignment 4: Meeting Essential VIII

This week, reflect on your perception of change theory, management roles and nursing leadership, communication conflict, and the nurse management role in patient care as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific leadership models you support, and compare and contrast communication techniques for patient-centered care effectiveness. How does your academic work support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values

  • Outcome #3: Promote the image of nursing by modeling the values and articulating the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the nursing profession.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect on and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Recommended: Refer to the work you completed for NURS 510 Policy, Organization, and Financing of Health Care and LDR 432 Principles of Leadership for Healthcare Organizations, as well as other courses, to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

Solve the Outbreak

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  • Go to the website: Solve the Outbreak (Links to an external site.)
  • Select Level 1 and choose one of the following:
    • Breathless in the Midwest
    • The Village of Gold
    • The Queens Killer
  • Follow the instructions. They will lead you on a search for an infected organism.
  • Once you have found the infected organism, write a three- to four-page review of the process you went through and the results you obtained. You must identify the disease found and define the epidemiological process you used. Make sure to describe how you used it. This paper must be written using current APA Style, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, and double-spaced with one inch margins. Use at least two references that support your findings.

Reflection Assignment 4: Meeting Essential VIII

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Reflection Assignment 4: Meeting Essential VIII

This week, reflect on your perception of change theory, management roles and nursing leadership, communication conflict, and the nurse management role in patient care as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific leadership models you support, and compare and contrast communication techniques for patient-centered care effectiveness. How does your academic work support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values

  • Outcome #3: Promote the image of nursing by modeling the values and articulating the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the nursing profession.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect on and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Recommended: Refer to the work you completed for NURS 510 Policy, Organization, and Financing of Health Care and LDR 432 Principles of Leadership for Healthcare Organizations, as well as other courses, to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

Reflection Assignment #3: Meeting Essential III

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Reflection Assignment #3: Meeting Essential III

This week, reflect on your perception of healthcare delivery models and the nurse’s role in public health programs as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific healthcare delivery models you support, and compare and contrast public health programs you are familiar with. How does your academic work support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice

  • Outcome #2: Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of the research process and models for applying evidence to clinical practice.
  • Outcome #5: Participate in the process of retrieval, appraisal, and synthesis of evidence in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team to improve patient outcomes.
  • Outcome #6: Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of care.
  • Outcome #7: Collaborate in the collection, documentation, and dissemination of evidence.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect on and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Recommended: Refer to work you completed for NURS 561 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and NURS 350 Research in Nursing, as well as other courses, to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

Reflection Assignment 2: Meeting Essential VIII .

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Reflection Assignment 2: Meeting Essential VIII

This week, reflect on ethical principles and your understanding of ethical decision-making frameworks as they have evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific ethical standards and moral conduct codes. How does your academic work support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values

  • Outcome #1:Demonstrate the professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect on and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Recommended: Refer to work you completed for NURS 521 Ethics in Heath Care and NURS 510 Policy, Organization, and Financing of Health Care, as well as other courses, to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

This week, reflect on ethical principles and your understanding of ethical decision-making frameworks as they have evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific ethical standards and moral conduct codes. How does your academic work support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values

  • Outcome #1:Demonstrate the professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect on and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Recommended: Refer to work you completed for NURS 521 Ethics in Heath Care and NURS 510 Policy, Organization, and Financing of Health Care, as well as other courses, to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

Choose a global health issue

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Choose a global health issue. For this assignment, you will introduce the health issue and discuss the interventions necessary to prevent the issue and promote health.

Some topics to consider may include:

  • Anthrax
  • Bioterrorism
  • Cholera
  • Clostridium botulinum infection
  • Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
  • Ebola virus disease
  • Escherichia coli
  • Human immunodeficiency virus disease
  • Malaria
  • Plague
  • Severe respiratory distress syndrome
  • Small pox
  • Suicide
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection
  • West Nile virus

Include the following in your paper:

  • Introduction/overview of the health issue and the prevalence in the United States and worldwide
  • Contributing factors
  • Prevention strategies
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Diagnostic tests (if applicable)
  • Advanced practice nursing role and management strategies
  • Medical/pharmacological management (if applicable)
  • Follow-up care
  • Conclusion

Write a 3–4 page paper following APA format. You must include 2–3 scholarly sources in your citations and references.

intimate partner violence or substance abuse.

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Develop an informational video or handout on intimate partner violence or substance abuse.

  • Choice 1Create a 3-minute video clip that includes information on prevention, treatment, and available resources.OR
  • Choice 2Create a trifold educational flier for any of the issues discussed in this week’s readings.

For either format that you choose, you must include a reference page with at least three citations using resources that are less than five years old.

Consider the following information when pulling your research together:

  • Summarize the models of care that have evolved in caring for victims of intentional violence.
  • Describe the impact of substance abuse and addiction on individual people and their families, communities, and nations.

Disease Analysis Paper

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For this assignment, you will select a disease of your choice and conduct a detailed analysis of that disease, exploring it from a balanced traditional and alternative health perspective.Begin by searching the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website Diseases and Conditions Index (Links to an external site.) to choose a disease or condition of interest to you. Next, review the website for Healthy People 2020 (Links to an external site.) for information related to the disease or the disease category (e.g., mental health for ADHD). In your paper, discuss the following:

  • Prominent aspects of this disease
  • Current data and statistics related to the disease
  • Health disparities related to the disease
  • Prevention strategies including complementary and alternative health therapies
  • Contemporary research and clinical studies related to the disease
  • An analysis of the pathophysiologic effects of stress related to the disease
  • Evidence-based stress management interventions that might help with prevention or cure

The paper should be between 3–4 pages.

Incorporate at least three scholarly sources within the paper. Sources should be no more than three years old.Use proper APA format to cite and reference sources.

Current Natural or man made Diaster

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Week 5 Written Assignment:

  • Identify a current natural or man-made disaster in the news within the last 5 years.
  • Discuss the following for that certain disaster within the last 5 years. Answer this for that disaster and not in general terms.

1.) Current Disaster

2.) The type of disaster

3.) Characteristics of the disaster – Use the textbook for these characteristics and relate them to your disaster. How can your disaster be described using the characteristics.

4.) Application of disaster management stages – Use the word stages and apply to your disaster – what happened during your disaster

 

APA paper with introduction and conclusion

Suggested Headings:

Current Natural or Man-Made Disaster (level one heading- Centered and bold)

Type of Disaster (level two heading- Aligned flush against the left margin and bold font)

Characteristics of the Disaster (level two heading- Aligned flush against the left margin and bold font)

Application of Disaster Management Stages (level two heading- Aligned flush against the margin and bold font)

Health Care Reform Implementation

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This assessment is aligned with the module objective “Develop the implementation of population-focused care through the nursing process, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills.” As part of the written assignment, you will complete the following tasks:

  • Describe an Accountable Care organization and how it impacts population health.
  • Discuss the concept of ‘bundled care’ and the risks which organizations that participate in bundle payment.
  • Explain the benefits of showing pricing for care. 

Points: 40

 

Due Date: Sun, Sep 19 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.

 

References

Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)

Week 4 Assignment – Healthcare Reform Implementation

This assessment is aligned with the module objective “Develop the implementation of population-focused care through the nursing process, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills.” As part of the written assignment, you will complete the following tasks:

-· Describe an Accountable Care organization and how it impacts population health.

-· Discuss the concept of ‘bundled care’ and the risks which organizations that participate in bundle care face.

-· Explain the benefits of showing pricing for care.

-Suggested headings include: (All Level One Headings (centered and bold))

Accountable Care Organization

Bundled Care

Advertising Pricing of Care