Acute bacterial prostatitis

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Explain the differences between acute bacterial prostatitis and nonbacterial prostatitis.

Epididymitis

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Discuss how bacteria in the urine cause epididymitis.

Herpes Simplex Virus type 2

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What is the pathophysiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2)?

stages of syphilis

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Describe the 4 stages of syphilis

pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)

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What is the pathophysiology of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)?

polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)

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What is the pathogenesis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)?

How does PCOS affect a woman’s fertility or infertility?

financial analysis of the American Cancer Society

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Instructions
For this assignment, complete a financial analysis of the American Cancer Society by reviewing current company financial data such as income statements, budgets, net revenue, profit/loss statements, etc. Use that information and research about key budget items such as average salaries, cost of benefits, space and equipment costs, etc. to formulate a proposed budget for your strategic initiative.

Address the following in the form of an executive summary:

Briefly describe the proposed strategic initiative including the proposed changes and expected outcomes based upon the results of the SWOT analysis.

Provide a simple budget for the strategic initiative. Include all relevant budget categories such as staffing (including salaries and benefits), space, equipment, training and education, and any other expenses related to the initiative. Create a table to efficiently present the key budget information.

Provide a financial data overview that summarizes what financial data you examined and a description of specific factors that informed each financial statement (net revenue, profit/loss, balance sheet, etc.).

Include at least one of the financial statements available from the selected organization (income statement, budgets, net revenue, profit/loss statements, etc.) as a figure or an appendix.

Disaster response and management

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Instructions
All health care professionals, regardless of discipline, may be called to serve in the case of a community disaster.
Search for information about the disaster preparedness (readiness) plans for your community.
1) How accessible was the plan? Is it easily understood by community members?
2) How is information managed in this plan?
3) Are there informatics tools that could be incorporated to improve disaster response and management?
4)What are the advantages and disadvantages of using crowdsourced social media data during disaster response

Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder

CASE STUDY

S.is a 48-year-old divorced woman with one adult daughter and three grandchildren. She is currently working as an LPN part-time in a nursing home and also works at a convenience store one or two days per week. She has had many jobs over the last 22 years, usually changing every one or two years. S notes that she has been called less often to work in the convenience store and worries that they don’t like her anymore.

She reports being written up several times for arguing with customers. She also reports that her supervisor at the nursing home “is a bitch”; although she really liked her supervisor at first, she says “Now I hate her; she’s trying to get me fired.” S. reports that she has tried to get full-time jobs five times in the last four years was hired for three, but only lasted one or two weeks at each one.

S. reports that she is currently not talking to her daughter because “she is horribly mean to me and she needs to apologize or I won’t talk to her again”. She is upset that she hasn’t seen her three small grandchildren in about a year. She sends them presents and cards frequently that says “I still love you! Grandma”, but hasn’t called them since she stopped talking to her daughter. She is considering reporting to the county that her daughter is keeping her grandchildren from her.

S. is very unhappy that she isn’t in a relationship. She was abused by her ex-husband and has a pattern of meeting and dating men who eventually abuse her. She states that her last relationship was very good, however; the man was not abusive and “I loved him very much”. The relationship ended for reasons that S. doesn’t understand, although she does report many arguments that ended in “scenes” such as her throwing chairs, stomping out of the house, making crank phone calls to his family, and calling the police with false reports.

But S. also reports that she “couldn’t have loved him more and I showed it”. She gives examples of going to her boyfriend’s place of work with flowers, buying him expensive presents, surprising him with tickets to Mexico at the last minute – she was very upset that he wasn’t willing to drop everything and go with her. S. reports asking him why he didn’t love her and what she was doing wrong on a regular basis. When the boyfriend asked to break up, S. reports sitting outside his house for weeks, crying; she called his mother, called his boss, and called and texted him until he filed a restraining order. This occurred about 4 months ago.

S. admitted herself to the mental health unit when she felt suicidal. She reports that she had stopped her individual psychotherapy 3 months ago and stopped going to DBT. She also stopped her anti-depressant at that time, as she felt it wasn’t working, and missed her last two psychiatrist appointments.

 

Read the case study about Borderline Personality Disorder and answer the following questions in your initial posting:

  • How would you use therapeutic communication and principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy with the client?
  • Describe your assessment process. What are some likely co-morbid conditions? List one nursing diagnosis and appropriate nursing intervention.
  • What interdisciplinary referrals might be appropriate?

Association between low vitamin D and colorectal cancer among African Americans

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Instructions
This is part 1 of a Scholar practitioner Project (SPP) for an epidemiology course.

SPP Description:

• Background (one page maximum)
o Statistics and information about the health outcome/disease(s)
o Statistics and information about the exposure/risk factor(s)
o Brief discussion of possible connection between exposure(s) and outcome(s) and justification for the study
• Target population and sample size
o Description of target population and sample
 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
 The sampling strategy to be used
o Sample size considerations (how large of a sample do you need and why)
• Recruitment (primary data collection) or data selection (secondary data) strategies
o If collecting your own data, describe:
 How you will find and contact potential participants (where, when, with what method)
 The type of data collection method to be used (e.g., online survey)
 How many times participants will be contacted and by what method
o If using secondary data (an existing database), describe:
 The procedures used for recruitment, participation, and data collection by the owners of the database (i.e., how were the data in the database collected?)
 How you will gain access to the dataset
• Selection biases
o Description of potential selection bias concerns (i.e., how representative your sample will be of the larger population)
o Discussion of strategies you will use to minimize selection bias in your study