Giovanna  Nursing Leadership and Management Adjusting the patient-to-nurse ratio for patients requiring step-down care compared to medical-surgical patients is crucial for several reasons, primarily related to patient safety, quality of care, and nurse workload. The arrival of the vascular surgeon in the unit has not only increased the complexity of care (greater acuity), but […]

(Image: PICO Definition) After reading the chapters and watching the three required lecture videos (all together, less than an hour).  Complete the two worksheets below: This is a link to a Prezi presentation. FYI: Prezi is a great alternative to PowerPoint. Press the > icon below the main text and it will walk you through […]

Overview Let's start with taking some time to reflect upon our identities and our social positionality.  These aspects of ourselves shape our perceptions (or the lens through which we see) including in our professional field of nursing to determine how we relate to health, healing, and disease.  It is important to be self-aware regarding our […]

The nurse manager of a medical–surgical unit has a budgeted ADC of 20. A new vascular surgeon has been admitting patients to the unit, which is requiring an increase in nursing care to treat these additional patients. The current budgeted HPPD is 7.59. You have been monitoring the number of patients with higher acuity in […]

Do you think it is possible to combine client-centered and existential approaches in therapy? Why or why not? Explain what a combined approach might look like. Include at least one scholarly source to support your response. Cite any scholarly references accordingly using in-text citations and a reference list. 2.1 What is countertransference, and how does […]

For this Assignment, you will continue to work on your community needs assessment plan. You will begin by defining at least two goals for your plan that your team will help you carry out. The goals should be 1–2 sentences in length, align to the vision statement that you wrote in Week 4, and reflect […]

The purpose of this assignment is to have you reflect on your experience in NUR 4945C( Advanced Concept Practicum) and determine what you learned and how it can help you grow as a nurse in the future. Please answer the following questions: 1. What did you like most about this course? 2. Which assignments helped […]

Based on Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings, explain how the process of aging is not a process of decline but a creative process of growing diversity of field patterning based on the postulates of Rogerian Science and the Principles of Homeodynamics. Question: Based on Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings and Newman’s Theory of […]

Create a 2-4 page resource that will describe databases that are relevant to EBP around one of the diagnoses below and could be used to help a new hire nurse better engage in EBP. Before you complete the instructions detailed in the courseroom, first select one of the diagnoses below. You will use this diagnosis […]

Develop a 2-4 page scholarly paper in which you describe the diagnosis you researched for the previous assessment, and then identify and analyze credible evidence that could be used as the basis for applying EBP to the issue. Collapse All Introduction The goal of using evidence-based research findings is to enhance safety and quality of […]