Diabetes Mellitus

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Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes is an endocrine system disorder that affects millions of children and adults (ADA, 2015). If left untreated, diabetic patients are at risk for several alterations, including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, neuropathy, and blindness. There are various methods for treating diabetes, many of which include some form of drug therapy. The type of diabetes, as well as the patient’s behavior factors, will affect treatment recommendations. In this assignment, you will compare the different types of diabetes, including drug treatments for type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.

 

Write a minimum 4–page paper (excluding cover page and references) that addresses the following:

  • Explain the differences between the types of diabetes, including type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.
  • Describe one type of drug used to treat the type of diabetes you selected, including the proper preparation and administration of this drug.
  • Analyze and discuss the dietary considerations related to treatment.
  • Explain the short- and long-term effects of this type of diabetes on patients including the effects of drug treatments.
  • Include four or more appropriate scholarly sources from the last five years throughout the paper.

 

Definitions of health

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Based on the various definitions of health, define health and explain if you agree with one definition more than the other? Why?

The social and cultural influences in your life

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Describes:

  • the social and cultural influences have shaped his/her lifestyle
    and career choices.
  • Implications of those influences for the student’s role as an advanced practice
    the nurse should be identified

The scholarship of teaching and learning in nursing

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Being an effective educator requires staying abreast of the scholarship of teaching and learning in your field.

What aspects of teaching and learning in your field interest you most?

What plans do you have for participating in scholarly activities to enhance your nurse educator role based on Boyer’s model of scholarship?

Leadership behaviors in healthy-work environments

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Leadership behaviors in creating healthy-work environments

To Prepare:
-Identify two to three scholarly resources that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
-Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.
-Reflect on your results of the CliftonStrengths Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
My results are as follow ( Strategic, Futuristic, Learner, Learner, and Focus)

Medicare and Medicaid

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Medicare and Medicaid
Consider how people qualify to receive Medicare and/or Medicaid and write a paper that addresses the bullets below. There should be four (4) sections in your paper; one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear brief heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Start your paper with an introduction and include a “Conclusion” section that summarizes all topics. This paper should consist of at least 1750 words and no more than 2000.

This week reflect upon the Medicare and Medicaid programs to address the following:
Describe the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) and explain how the QIO improves policies and healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries.
Briefly define the qualifications for Medicare and Medicaid benefits. How can qualifications be modified to serve more people who are considered a vulnerable population?
Discuss the impact (including at least two positive and two negative aspects) that the ACA has had on benefits and coverage for Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
Describe your role(s) as a healthcare leader as it applies to the practice of advocating for cost-effective care for vulnerable populations.

Mitral valve prolapse

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Case Study: Heart

A female basketball player Janet was the tallest person in her family. Her brother used to joke with her and tell her she could play Abraham Lincoln in any play because she was tall and lanky just like good old Abe.

Janet was the star center on her high school basketball team. She had always been tall with big hands and long fingers, perfect for snagging the ball on rebounds. Recently, Janet had begun wearing contact lenses because she was having trouble seeing the hoop clearly. The optometrist had diagnosed her with nearsightedness, something that her parents also experienced.

Recently, while practicing basketball with her high school team, Janet experienced some pain in her chest. She mentioned this to her coach, but since it was the beginning of the season and they had recently started practicing, the coach assumed that she had pulled or overworked a muscle. The coach suggested that she take some Tylenol and apply ice to her chest to relieve the pain.

Five minutes into their first game of the season, Janet experienced dizziness and motioned for the coach to take her out. As she walked to the bench, she lost consciousness and passed out. The referees couldn’t feel a pulse and started CPR while waiting for the paramedics and ambulance to arrive.

When Janet came to, she was in a hospital bed in the CCU of the local hospital. The doctors advised her that she likely had a disease called Marfan’s syndrome. As a result of that disease she had experienced cardiac arrest and that she had a mitral valve prolapse.

 Questions:

What are the four valves found in the heart and where are they located? Give all names for each valve.
What is a mitral valve prolapse and what causes this in Marfan’s syndrome specifically?
What happens to blood flow (specifically) with a mitral valve prolapse (where would the blood back up to and why)?
If a person were to have a prolapse of the tricuspid valve, what specifically would happen to the flow of blood in that case?
Do you think Janet will ever play basketball again? Why or why not?

Eligibility for Medicaid coverage for nursing facilities

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Eligibility for Medicaid coverage for nursing facilities

The “ideal” long-term care system base eligibility for services on functional needs rather than financial needs. Find the criteria for eligibility for Medicaid coverage for a nursing facility in your state (you can get the eligibility standards directly from the state or from a nursing facility).

Do you think they measure functional need vs. financial need? How close do they come to the “ideal” criteria? How would you change them if you could?

Contemporary Nursing Practice

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Contemporary Nursing Practice

The field of nursing has changed over time. In a 750‐1,000 word paper, discuss nursing practice today by addressing the following:

Explain how the nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
Compare and contrast the differentiated practice competencies between an associate and baccalaureate education in nursing. Explain how the scope of practice changes between an associate and baccalaureate nurse.
Identify a patient care situation and describe how nursing care, or approaches to decision‐making, differ between the BSN‐prepared nurse and the ADN nurse.
Discuss the significance of applying evidence‐based practice to nursing care and explain how the academic preparation of the RN‐BSN nurse supports its application.
Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective patient outcomes.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

 fibromyalgia

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Case Study :

A 34-year-old Caucasian female presents to the clinic with a chief complaint of widespread pain in her joints and muscles. She states that her skin seems sensitive, and sometimes it hurts to be touched.

The Caucasian female has had extreme fatigue for the past 4 months. She admits to being depressed and is unable to sleep well. She has had to drop out of her gardening club due to pain. She says that bright lights and loud noises really bother her.

Past medical history noncontributory. Social history was significant for her divorce from her husband 14 months ago. She is the mother of 2 small children and works as an administrative assistant at the local insurance company.

Physical exam remarkable for tender points over her posterior supraspinatus muscles, occiput, trapezius, gluteal area, and sacroiliac joints bilaterally. BASED ON HER PHYSICAL EXAM, the APRN tells the patient that she most likely has fibromyalgia.

Question :

What are the underlying causes of fibromyalgia? 

The APRN tells the patient that the tender points are no longer used to diagnose FM. She suggests that the patient takes the Widespread Pain Index (WPI) and the Symptom Severity Inventory (SSI).

The patient asks the APRN what these tests are for. What is the APRN’s best answer?