One important aspect of interprofessionalism is for all team members to have the ability and confidence to contribute to decisions about patient care regardless of hierarchy/profession-based boundaries. How do hierarchies affect the delivery of patient care? Also, how can you be mindful of hierarchies or traditional boundaries between professions in the future?
Which cranial nerve (CN) appears to plunge right through the transverse pontine fibers on the ventral-lateral aspect of the pons?
Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.
Discuss implementation science and its place in quality improvement. Include concepts such as facilitators and barriers to change, Lewin’s stages of change, and how people across the change-readiness spectrum (innovators to laggards) affect change in positive and negative ways.
Describe the developmental changes that occur in the following structures of the brain: corpus callosum, the prefrontal cortex, and the amygdala and how they affect a teen’s thoughts/emotions/behavior
Describe the three core principles of biomedical research ethics of respect for persons, beneficence, and distributive justice. Consider how this is a framework for the informed consent process including confidentiality, privacy, cultural considerations, and vulnerable populations
Discuss the three principles of the Belmont Report and how each plays a part in ethical health care research. Use specific examples of practices meant to protect the rights of research participants for each principle.
Briefly discuss two or three historical examples of unethical treatment of research participants and the ways in which this treatment may have led to the development of distrust of the medical research community. What can we (nurse researchers) do to assist in the repair of this damage?
Define systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses and the methods for each. Include where they would fall on the pyramid of evidence and their place in assisting with quality improvement in nursing.
Describe some of the legal and ethical issues surrounding physician-assisted suicides. What implications does it have on health services managers and health economics as a whole?
