Over the past 30 years, states have expanded minors’ authority to consent to health care, including care related to sexual activity. This trend reflects the 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Carey v. Population Services International that affirmed the constitutional right to privacy for a minor to obtain contraceptives in all states. It also reflects […]

Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care. This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team […]

The deliverable this week is the Course Project: Introductory Project Plan, which is a written plan that will describe the IT project you have selected from one of the options with instructor’s approval. It assumes that you have already acquired proficiency in the skills of a project’s work, decomposition, estimation, scheduling, resource planning, and tracking. […]

1. What should be included in an introductory paragraph of the research paper? 2. Select an introduction from scholarly, peer-reviewed research, and appraise the introduction to assess whether it includes the necessary elements of an introduction. Why and why not? 3. How does PICOT help form a clinical question? Use Box 2.2 in your textbook […]

Case scenario: Amy is a 20-year-old female gymnast who presents to you because she has missed her period for 6 months. She feels cold all the time and has noticed that when she crosses her legs, she gets pins-and-needles sensations down her leg. She had a stress fracture of her right tibia 5 years ago […]

For Major Assignment 2 in Topic 4, you will look ahead at your financial plan after graduation. For this DQ, you will look ahead at the assignment instructions and take some time to think ahead about what you will need to do for this assignment. Start by reviewing the instructions for the assignment and the […]

After watching the film “Miss Evers’ Boys” identify two ethical dilemmas that faced the characters in the movie. Describe the ethical dilemmas and the ethical principles involved. Describe how the experiment violated the American Nurses Association ([ANA], 2015) code of ethics by identifying one provision from the code that was violated. If you had been […]

Write a 4–5 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes. Nurses at the baccalaureate level in all practice areas are involved in nursing informatics through interaction with information management and patient care technologies. Nurses must not only demonstrate knowledge of […]

Case Study John, age 14, and his sister Ella, age 8, live with their single mother Sue in a Middle-class part of town. Their mother’s boyfriend, Chad, just moved in. Ella has cerebral palsy and requires a great deal of care. Sue works as a manager for a local restaurant but is exhausted by Ella’s […]

Natalie is a 31-year-old G0 P0 female who complains of intermittent breast pain. She thinks she feels lumps in the outer quadrants of her breasts but is unsure of the location today. She has no family or personal history of cancers, she menstruates regularly, is not pregnant, and uses condoms consistently for BCM and STI […]