Explore Robert’s understanding of end-stage renal disease and his experience as an African American (term he uses to describe himself/his community). What are the beliefs/assumptions being made by Robert (the patient) and his provider? In your response, discuss the following: · Robert’s mention of research · The issue of trust/mistrust of the medical community · […]

Mrs. Taylor Outcome is a 73-year-old female currently living at her own residence; however, her daughter is worried that Mrs. Outcome may be “losing it” after she left a burner on and caused a small fire in her house.  After this event, Mrs. Outcome’s daughter, Teresa, stayed with her mother to make sure she was […]

You are a community health educator in the Southwest United States. Your county health department received a grant to create a new initiative that is designed to decrease smoking rates in the county. Your health commissioner and Board of Health want to create a team of teachers, parents, community leaders, and public health professionals to […]

Preparing the Assignment 1. Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions. a. Select a Speak Up brochure from The Joint Commission website. b. Write a short paper reviewing the brochure. Use the Grading Criteria (below) to structure your critique. c. Include current nursing or healthcare journal […]

This week, you will prepare a video presentation with a PowerPoint file. You will create your video presentation by using a video capturing tool located in D2L. To access the video capturing tool, follow the tutorial found in your Course Resources for this lesson.   Instructions   Assume that you have been asked to deliver […]

You are a family nurse practitioner employed in a busy primary care office. The providers in the group include one physician and three nurse practitioners. The back office staff includes eight medical assistants who assist with patient care as well as filing, answering calls from patients, processing laboratory results and taking prescription renewal requests from […]

Using the following two resources, locate a legal case involving a nurse. · Nursing Reference Center Plus · Tip: Do a keyword search on a type of legal case (negligence, malpractice, etc.) and then use the checkboxes on the left-hand side of the results to limit the results to Legal Cases.   · Legal Eye […]

To Prepare:   · Reflect on strategies that you can pursue in developing portfolios or portfolio elements that focus on academic achievements.   · Review one or more samples from your own research of resources focused on portfolio development.   BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 8 Post an explanation of at least two strategies for […]

The purpose of this discussion is to discuss organizational changes and ethical-legal influences in a clinical scenario at an out-patient family practice. Students will explore potential effects on patient outcomes and ethical and legal implications for members of the heath care team as a result of illegal behaviors.  Students will develop strategies that result in […]

A personal nursing philosophy can help to inspire and motivate you as well as help to define your purpose as a nurse (Hountras, 2015). To develop your philosophy, you will explore such concepts as your beliefs and values, what type of nurse you desire to be, your beliefs about nursing, and the role of nurses […]