Yearly Archives: 2022

DQ1 How has the patient’s control over his own health care changed?   DQ2 What part does negotiation play in patient education?

DQ1 Discuss a patient of another culture. How can the health care professional communicate in presenting patient education? Consider language, family, cultural differences, and method of communication.   DQ2 Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation.

DQ1 Sister Mary is a patient in Level 2 Emergency Department. She must have a neural examination, physical assessment, radiographs of her facial bones, and a computed tomography scan of the head. Taking into consideration that she is a Roman Catholic nun, what would be the ideal course of patient education as this woman progresses […]

DQ1 Alma Faulkenberger is an 85-year-old female outpatient sitting in the waiting room awaiting an invasive pelvic procedure. The health care professional who will assist in her procedure enters the room and calls “Alma.” There is no reply so the professional retreats to the work area. Fifteen minutes later the professional returns and calls “Alma […]

The Evidence-Based Presentation is a professional quality improvement project that implements one of the main function of the MSN-level nurse – the analysis, synthesis, and translation of evidence into practice. Students will analyze the work that was done in the Annotated Bibliographies assignment, synthesize the findings and recommendations, and build a presentation to support the […]

Develop a topic of personal/professional interest which exists in the realm of psychiatric and mental health care (an expansion on a topic discussed in class or a disorder that was not discussed). Papers must be a minimum of five pages in length (not including title, abstract, or reference pages), in APA format, and no more […]

DQ1 The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was implemented to allow patients to state “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNS), or to assign a surrogate decision maker in the event that the individual is unable to make the decision. What relationship does an ethics committee have in enforcing the advance directives of the patients in their care? Support […]

DQ1 With the growing importance of increasing wage rates for employees, many health care organizations are implementing technology such as self-help kiosks to reduce staffing. Describe both an advantage and a disadvantage to this practice and discuss how patients may perceive reductions in dedicated staffing.   DQ2 Research the role of an administrator versus that […]

DQ1 Explain the role of accreditation in mitigating risk compliance issues.  Provide an example of a health care organization that was placed on probation by its accrediting body or by CMS within the last 3 years for a risk compliance issue. What caused the probation or loss of accreditation and how could it have been […]

DQ1 Alma Faulkenberger is an 85-year-old female outpatient sitting in the waiting room awaiting an invasive pelvic procedure. The health care professional who will assist in her procedure enters the room and calls “Alma.” There is no reply so the professional retreats to the work area. Fifteen minutes later the professional returns and calls “Alma […]