Yearly Archives: 2022

DQ1 Much of the current debate in the U.S. and individual state governments centers on the inclusion and expansion of health insurance coverage for all Americans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 (ACA).  In addition, the scope of the uninsured and the underinsured population in the U.S. is great relative […]

You are a nurse preceptor for a novice nurse from your unit. Create a scenario from your work experience and develop three questions reflecting the Critical Thinking Habits of the Mind, (Appendix A, pages 341- 356) that will help you to assess how your mentee is doing. Respond to two classmates by completing their questions, […]

DQ1 Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2015) suggested that interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration involves different communication styles and can result in conflict that can negatively affect patient care practices. Previously you discussed how emotions, feelings anxiety and confidence can affect your ability to think critically.  Discuss how you may be able to use conflict in a positive […]

Discuss strategies that you can use to encourage and support implementing evidence- based practice and use of nursing outcome indicators in your current work environment to improve nursing practice and ultimately high quality, safe patient care?

How does your health care organization assess nursing competency? Does your organization use a formal tool?  Can we observe “competency”, or can we measure it in another way? Using the IOM Core competencies as a guide (Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2015), p. 86), discuss your suggestions for improving quality and consistency of care through assessing nursing […]

Thinking and other cognitive processes such as analysis and synthesis depend upon many variables, both internal and external. Each person has learned patterns of thinking that are a result of culture, ethnicity, education and genetics.   Choose ONE of the following to answer in this discussion forum:   Discuss a previous experience when you had […]

DQ1 Assessment of the patient is critical to providing safe, high quality nursing care. Yet, often we have so many procedures to perform, medications to administer and other tasks to complete that we do not stop to critically assess the patient. Consider the following in your discussion:   What assessment processes do you use in […]

DQ1 Much of the current debate in the U.S. and individual state governments centers on the inclusion and expansion of health insurance coverage for all Americans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 (ACA).  In addition, the scope of the uninsured and the underinsured population in the U.S. is great relative […]

National Health Coverage Plans, Reimbursements, and Quality   For this assignment, you will examine the importance of healthcare coverage (insurance).  You will also examine how reimbursements (payments) from health plans are impacted by quality of care.  Start by selecting two major national (U.S.) insurance health plans.  You may choose Medicaid, Medicare, HMO, PPO, or private […]

Health Care Priority Issue   For our final project, we will examine how priority healthcare issues should be examined by nursing.  We will select a key healthcare priority issue and a population. You will find articles that describe nursing interventions designed to improve patient outcomes for your population and healthcare priority issue.  Finally, you will […]