Discuss ways your organization uses technology to gather patient and health care information

Discuss ways your organization uses technology to gather patient and health care information, and how this information and data are used to direct patient care and outcomes.

Recommend an appropriate disease prevention teaching project

Recommend an appropriate disease prevention teaching project that your chosen agency could offer to the local community. Summarize the public health issues facing the selected agency = Diabetic

Select 1 issue and DRAW an outline of the problem or issue faced = Diabetic

Explain how your selected agency could address the issue = Diabetic

Determine an appropriate teaching project to develop and potentially implement.

SUMMARY of the disease prevention teaching project that the agency could offer.

Discuss vulnerabilities in the protection of electronic health information? 

The Administrative Simplification Compliance Act of 2001 requires that all Medicare claims be submitted electronically. Discuss vulnerabilities in the protection of electronic health information? Identify and discuss specific resources or federal agencies that you will utilize to remain informed and current in public health trends and practices.

The structure and financing of health care, practice, and health outcomes

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives: Analyze how policies influence the structure and financing of health care, practice, and health outcomes. Develop institutional, local, state, and/or federal policy initiatives.

  • Consider the role of government and various professional organizations in the process of planning and implementing policies at management levels for diverse healthcare environments.
  • Examine the effect of legal, ethical, and regulatory processes on nursing practice (and/or change to providers), healthcare delivery, and outcomes while maintaining balance with administrative and fiscal responsibilities.
  • Interpret research, bringing the nursing perspective, alongside perspectives of their administrative colleagues, for policy makers and stakeholders.
  • Advocate for policies that improve the health of the public and the profession of nursing and health care administration.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

  • For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
  • Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to professional application.

Reflect back on your journey through this course and answer the following:

  • What was the most valuable thing you learned in this course?

Cough productive of purulent sputum

A 45- year-old man presents to the clinic with a cough productive of purulent sputum of 3-week duration.  He says that he had just gotten over a cold a few weeks prior to this episode.  He occasionally has fevers and he coughs so much that he has chest pain.  He reports that he also has a mild sore throat and runny nose.

He has no history of asthma and no history of any type of lung disease.

He denied N/V/D and any recent travel.  He denies any smoking history.

PE: Temp 98.6, AP 96, BP 124/80, resp 18 and oxygen sats 99% on RA.  Lung sounds have expiratory wheezing in the upper lobes, no crackles.

  1. Would you order a chest x ray on this patient?  Why or why not- support your decisions with how this patient fits or does not fit criteria according to the guidelines.

2. What medication regimen would you order for this patient (include dose) and why?  Provide supporting evidence for your pharmacological interventions.

 

Dissemination of Evidence-based practice and research

Dissemination of Evidence-based practice and research, such as presenting results at a conference or writing an article for a journal, is an important part of professional practice. Identify one professional journal and one nursing or health care conference where you might present your project. Discuss why each of your choices is the best option for you to disseminate your new knowledge.

Anti-depressive medications on anxiety and depression

Review the following research questions. Is the use of soap and water or alcohol-based rubs more effective in preventing nosocomial infections? How effective are anti-depressive medications on anxiety and depression?

  1. For patients of 70 years and older, how effective is the use of the influenza vaccine at preventing flu as compared to patients who have not received the vaccine?
  2. What is the relationship between alcohol and breast cancer?
  3. What is the difference between self-efficacy scores in older adults who exercise and the scores of those who do not?
  4. What is the difference in attitudes of male and female college students toward condoms?

Next, select 3 of the above questions and address the following:

  • Identify an appropriate research design.
  • Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the design.
  • Provide a rationale for the design you selected

What are the criteria for a substance use disorder? 

What are the criteria for a substance use disorder? If your client asked you “What is the difference between substance abuse and substance dependence? ”  How would you explain (teach). Many people are described as having duel diagnosis.  What does that mean?

and how would that impact your nursing treatment of that person?

How would you go about prioritizing what issue you would treat first?

 

4.  Many people have a substance abuse disorder yet so many people are not identified or treated for this disorder.  What are some reasons cited in the text regarding failure to detect substance abuse disorders and failure to provide treatment?

5. Review some methods used to screen for substance abuse disorders?  What is CAGE?

6.  What is the legal limit of blood alcohol content with a breathe device?  What is the level that could cause death?  Is that true for everyone?  can the levels change?  why or why not?

7.  Explain briefly what is alcohol withdrawal?  what happens in the body?

What is the treatment course for alcohol withdrawal?  is it life threatening?  What is the most significant concern with alcohol withdrawal?

8.  What medications are used when a person is going thru  active withdrawal from alcohol?

How long does withdrawal typically last?

What are the common symptoms of alcohol withdrawal?

the advocacy and informed consent concepts to deliver quality nursing care to patients

How do Paediatric and child health nurses can incorporate the advocacy and informed consent concepts to deliver quality nursing care to patients and/or their families

Beliefs and lack of interpersonal comfort

Martha Kendel, 82 years old, has AD. She lives with her husband, who has been trying to care for her in their home. Mrs. Kendel is having trouble dressing. She has put her blouse on backward and sometimes puts her bra on over her blouse. She often forgets where things are. She makes an effort to cook but has recently attempted to “put out” the electric burners of the stove with pitchers of water. Once in a while, she cannot find the bathroom in time, often mistaking it for a closet. Sometimes she cries because she is aware that she is losing her sense of her place in the world. She and her husband have always been loving companions, and he wants to keep her at home as long as possible.

 

a. Help Mr. Kendel by writing out a list of suggestions that he can try at home that might help facilitate (a) communication, (b) activities of daily living, and (c) maintenance of a safe home environment.

 

b. Identify at least three interventions appropriate to this situation for each of the areas previously cited.

 

c. Identify resources available for maintaining Ms. Kendel in her home for as long as possible. Provide the name of a self-help group that you would urge Mr. Kendel to join.

 

 

2. Mr. Beech is undergoing surgery for a broken leg. He is suspicious of the staff and believes that the intravenous medication he is receiving for hydration and pre-anesthesia will be used for harmful purposes. He keeps his eyes closed and refuses to answer or look at his family, who describe him as odd. He has schizotypal personality disorder.

 

a. Explain how being friendly and outgoing may be threatening to Mr. Beech.

 

b. Explain how being matter-of-fact and neutral and sticking to the facts would be effective to Mr. Beech.

 

c. What could be done to give Mr. Beech some control over his situation as a hospitalized patient?

 

d. How could you best handle his beliefs and lack of interpersonal comfort with caregivers so that both you and he would feel most comfortable?