Equitable health care for a diverse population

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Select a current or proposed health care policy that is designed to provide equitable health care for a diverse population. Describe the policy selected. Discuss the diverse population that will be affected by this policy.

  1. Explain how the policy is designed to improve cost-effectiveness and healthcare equity for the diverse population.
  2. Discuss why the policy is financially sound and explain how the policy incorporates the nursing perspective and relevant ethical, legal, and political factors. Provide a basis to support your explanation.
  3. Describe what state, federal, and global health policies, or goals the policy is related to, and explain the degree to which each helps achieve equitable health care for the diverse population.
  4. Discuss advocacy strategies for improving access, quality, and cost-effective health care for the diverse population selected.
  5. Discuss the professional and moral obligation of master’s prepared nurses to respect human dignity and advance the common good through working to promote health and prevent disease among diverse populations from a Christian perspective.

Why psychological cultural and spiritual aspects are important to consider for a patient

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Explain why psychological cultural and spiritual aspects are important to consider for a patient who has been diagnosed with diabetes. Describe how support can be offered in these respective areas as part of a plan of care for the patient. Provide examples. NOTE: Please while writing, include in-text citations and references published within the last 5 years. Thank you.

The evolving requirements and staffing allocations during a pandemic

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Propose priorities to lead and manage the healthcare team to embrace the evolving requirements and staffing allocations during a pandemic

Caring for a patient with a tracheostomy

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A nurse is caring for a patient with a tracheostomy admitted for pneumonia who requires suctioning of secretions. The patient hits the call button and as the nurse enters the room, the nurse notes the patient is apprehensive, tachypneic, and gesturing for the nurse to come in. Using critical thinking to make a clinical judgment, which action does the nurse take first?

O Calls the code team

O Suctions the patient

O Encourages the patient to cough

O Auscultates the patient’s breath sounds

Discuss the role of health care in creating health equity

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Discuss the role of health care in creating health equity. Explain why health care alone isn’t enough to create health equity.

Description: David R. Williams, Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been researching health inequities in the United States for two decades. In this video, he sits down with Don Berwick, MD, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at IHI, to discuss the role of both health care and social determinants of health to create health equity.

 

Discussion Questions:

  1. After hearing Williams say that health care is important to health equity, how do you feel about your role in ensuring high-quality care to people who face barriers to good health as a result of social circumstances?
  2. What role do you think health care providers play in addressing the non-clinical determinants of health?
  3. Williams says early childhood development is critical to good health. How do you think health systems can promote early childhood development?

The definition of Salience of the disability

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According to your textbook, what is the definition of Salience of the disability Most noticeable Different from the rest C The disability is the most important, or the only, aspect of the individual D The importance of the race, gender, or sexual orientation when experiencing a disability

Question 7 2 Points The tendency to feel anxiety or panic at the idea of becoming disabled, " disability is a devastating personal tragedy", can be defined as: A Salience of disability Handicapism C Distressed Identification Stereotyping Question 8 2 Points

The inspiratory tidal volume

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You go to the patient’s bedside and assess the patient’s interaction with the ventilator and note that the inspiratory tidal volume is 450 mL but the expiratory tidal volume is only 392 mL.

1) Please assess the tidal volume values and identify the issue causing the discrepancy of values.

2) Please identify how you will fix this problem.

Pathophysiology with connection to common clinical manifestations

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Risk factors and/or causes of the disorder. Pathophysiology with connection to common clinical manifestations. Either a medical treatment or surgical treatment for the disorder

  • Nursing management
    • Health promotion or prevention [if none explain why]
    • For your chosen medical treatment or surgical treatment:
      • Assessment or ongoing monitoring [not diagnostic tests]
      • Interventions – collaborative and independent actions
      • Client and caregiver educational needs

While completing a ventilator check you note that the patient’s resistance has increased

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While completing a ventilator check you note that the patient’s resistance has increased from 7 cmH2O to 18 cmH2O. Please identify one possible cause of the increase in resistance.

 

Uncontrolled hypertension presents with dyspnea

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A client who has a history of uncontrolled hypertension presents with dyspnea, cold moist hands, a rapid weak pulse, and jugular vein distention. The nurse initiates oxygen via a face mask. Which action should the nurse implement next?

A) insert an IV Cather and a saline lock

B) Place the client in a high Fowler’s position

C) Palpate the pedal pulses

D) Call for a portable chest x-ray.