Current Health Issues and Trends After watching this week’s videos and reading this week’s articles on the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919, please respond to the following questions (with at least 3-4 well-written sentences for each prompt):   1. What conclusions can you draw between this historic event and the current COVID-19 pandemic?   2. […]

Environmental and Occupational Health/Human Factors Human Factors play an integral part in healthcare. Review this week’s videos regarding this topic and reflect upon these factors and your own experiences. In the video LDI Louise Batz, her daughter mentions 3 reasons preventable medical errors occur and her conviction about the importance of patients and families being […]

Nutrition & Exercise, Complementary & Alternative Holistic Strategies, and the Nurse’s Role in Patient Education   As seen in this week’s readings and media regarding Complementary and Alternative practices, there is a growing number of American’s using these types of practices for their health. Reflect upon your own personal values and cultural influences and the […]

Stress Management, Healthy Sleep, and Brain Health After reviewing this week’s readings and media on Stress and Stress Management, take some time to reflect upon the importance of stress management for yourself and your patients. Then, please respond to the following TWO discussion board questions.   Remember to include an APA formatted in-text citation AND […]

Health Promotion, Wellness, and Healthy Lifestyles Please introduce yourself to the other members of your Discussion Group. Perhaps you can share something about other schools you may have attended, your job, the area of nursing that you work in, your goals for your education after you complete your BSN, your family, etc. Anything that you […]

Question 1 Many people believe there is nothing to learn from history, especially ancient history. What cognitive bias explains the formation of this belief?   Availability Bias   Confirmation Bias   Bias Blind Spot   Dunning-Kruger Effect   Question 2 What is the Bias Blind Spot?   The assumption that everyone is more prone to […]

Question 1 The theory of holism asserts that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist or be understood independently of the whole.     True     False   Question 2The holistic theory is comprised of all of the following interrelated dimensional parts except:     Emotional     […]

Question 1 The Social Determinants of Health include all of the following except:     Education level     Economic level     Environment     Genetics   Question 2 Motivational interviewing techniques can be helpful in producing change. These techniques are characterized by:     providing ongoing advice     confrontational questions     […]

Health Risk Assessment and Health Promotion Contract   Complete your Health Risk Self-Assessment and Health Promotion Contract. [Note: Submission of this assignment is a requirement to pass this course. It is not optional. Your Journal and Journal Analysis are based on them]   For the Health Risk Self-Assessment, provide a summary of your current health […]

You have maintained a journal for four weeks, recording four entries per week that reflect the issue you selected for your Health Promotion Contract. Now you will review those entries and analyze the effect the journaling experience had on you and your progress toward goals.   Answer all of the questions thoroughly in 3-4 complete […]