Entries by Daphne Hanson

Recovery-oriented mental health services

The national recovery framework for recovery-oriented mental health services provides a policy direction to enhance and improve mental health service delivery in Australia.  The framework consists of 17 capabilities, grouped into five fields of practice known as “practice domains”.  List the domains and discuss how you will ensure that you provide nursing care within your […]

The Framingham Heart Study

Which appropriate hypothesis testing procedures should be used in testing if there is a relationship between hypertension and diabetes among participants of the Framingham Heart Study? I just need to figure out which appropriate hypothesis test to use as I can use SPSS to do the analysis.

Level of clinical reasoning

Develop the ADN nursing student’s common language of clinical reasoning skills: noticing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting. 4. Demonstrate an improvement in ADN nursing student level of clinical reasoning, identifying beginning, developed, and accomplished to exemplary levels.

Practices to promote cardiopulmonary health

As part of the primary health care focus, it is important to educate the young to the older population about following lifestyle practices to promote cardiopulmonary health. Can you describe how maintaining an ideal body weight, eating a low-fat, low-salt, calorie-appropriate diet, non-smoking, and engaging in regular exercise can impact a patient’s level of health […]

Components of the Medicare and Medicaid programs

Identify three major components of the Medicare and Medicaid programs and, based on these components, identify at least two patient coverage gaps for each of the programs. Be clear when you describe the coverage and the gaps as they may relate to specific ages, patient populations, or disease entities. Use primary sources to identify the […]

Copassionate Communication in Patient Care

Would like assistance in thoroughly answering these questions. My instructor told me I did not answer the question correctly or detailed. Please if you have read the book (I’m Here, Compassionate Communication in Patient Care by Marcus Engel) and know the nursing theories I would like help. My initial response to each question is below. […]

The cognitive impairment

Introduction In excess of 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK. This statistic, in conjunction with dementia’s detrimental impact on cognition, demonstrates it to be a prominent and important topic.1 The cognitive impairment accompanying dementia may result in patients holding beliefs that fail to reflect reality, causing individuals to have a distorted understanding of […]

Morbid obesity with disabilities

Identify the risk assessment instrument for a 35-year-old white male with a history of morbid obesity with disabilities in a rural setting and justify why it would be applicable to the selected patient. Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient. Please cite and include references to the articles used.

Abdominal cholecystectomy

A 42-year-old patient is 3 days post-op from abdominal cholecystectomy. She is currently taking only antibiotics and hydrocodone. Today she complains of left calf pain just below the knee and states it is swollen, warm, and painful to touch. She denies other symptoms, significant history, or allergies. Discuss what questions you would ask the patient, […]