The ambiguity and Conflict in nursing roles

Discuss the ambiguity and conflict in nursing roles required in critical care areas, balancing the biomedical model of care with holistic nursing of patients and families. What societal trends have increased family caregiver stress and burden?

Use at least one scholarly source other than your textbook to connect your response to national guidelines and evidence-based research in support of your ideas. This is required. In addition, you may also provide an example case, either from personal experience or from the media, which illustrates and supports your ideas.  All sources must be referenced and cited using correct APA (including a link to the source).

Open reduction and internal fixation

Cindy lives with her mother and two siblings, 6-year-old Roger and 12-year-old Betty. Her father died in a car accident a few years ago. Her mother works as a receptionist in a law office. Her family is now at the hospital. Cindy undergoes an open reduction and internal fixation of tibial fracture. She has been in the post anaesthesia unit for approximately 45 minutes. As she arouses from sleep, she begins to moan and call for her mother, “I want my mom! Where is she?”.

Cindy Lizzo is a 10-year-old who was playing at the playground at school and fell from the monkey bars.  She held her left leg and began to scream uncontrollably. EMS and her mother were called. She was taken to the local hospital.

Her vital signs are “HR: 115 beats/minute; T: 37.4 C oral; BP: 122/74 mm Hg; RR: 25 breaths/minutes with oxygen saturation of 94% on room air

 

1.What signs indicate that Cindy may be in pain?

2. What are the effects of hospitalization for Cindy and her family? Consider implementing atraumatic/trauma-informed care.

 

3.What pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies would you expect to be used to manage Cindy’s pain? What are the implications of unmanaged pain?

 

4.As Cindy’s primary nurse what assessments and interv

The different Natures of pain in Hispanic culture

Describe the different natures of pain in Hispanic culture (physical, emotional, etc.) Describe the relationship between ethnic background and pain in hispanic

  1. Discuss ethnic differences in pain perception and pain responses
  2. Explain how a nurse’s own culture, personal bias, values and beliefs may alter the 
interpretation of patients’ pain experience.
  3. What might some variations be in assessment of pain when caring for the hispanic? What are the verbal cues? What are the non-verbal cues?
  4. Which pain assessment tool would you use? Why?
  5. What might some variations of nursing interventions be in management of pain when caring for the hispanic culture? Pharmaceutical: Traditional? Alternative? Inter- professional?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

The nurse is working with the a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Which of the following statement made by the patient indicates improvement in obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD)? please provide explanation
a. “I wash my hands before I get the thoughts of germs so I don’t feel anxious?”
b. “Since I understand about OCD better, I do not feel guilty about washing my hand
as often”
c. “The anxiety is manageable and I do not need to wash my hand all the time.”
d. “Instaed of wasting time to wash my hand, now I use gel to sanitize my hand.”

Evolving Requirements during a pandemic

What methods may help staff to embrace evolving requirements during a pandemic? What are the potential impacts on nursing, infrastructure/supply needs, and priorities from the pandemic? Propose three priorities to lead and manage the healthcare team to embrace the evolving requirements and staffing allocations during a pandemic.

A list of Activities available at a local library

The nurse provides an older client, who was recently widowed, with a list of activities available at a local library. For which nursing diagnosis is this action most appropriate?

Risk for loneliness.

Risk for ineffective coping.

Risk for complicated grieving.

Risk for situational low self-esteem.

Pressure injury reduction in the Acute care setting

Evidence based practice – the Evidence-based clinical issue of interest – pressure injury reduction in the acute care setting. post a PICO (T) question the search terms used, and the names of at least two data bases used for your PICO(T) question.  Describe search  results in terms of the number of articles returned on original research and how this changed as you added search terms using our boolean operators.  Finally explain strategies you might make to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a data base search on PICO question. Be specific and provide exmples

Nurse Manager Position on the Medical Surgical Unit

University Hospital is hiring for a Nurse Manager Position on the Medical Surgical Unit. You have submitted an application and are now preparing for your interview. For this interview you are expected to dress appropriately and be professional.

 

 

This is a fake interview im need help with and none of the information has to directly be about me just about ways a nurse manager . I need help getting detailed responses for the question below. 

 

 

 

  1. Why do you want to be a Nurse Manager
  2. What strengths would you bring to this position?
  3. What is an area of weakness and how will you address this weakness in this position?
  4. How do you adapt to change? Give a recent example.
  5. How do you handle conflict? Give a recent example.
  6. What question would you ask the hiring manager?

The systemic manifestations and Treatment of hyperthyroidism

Discuss Grave’s disease and the systemic manifestations and treatment of hyperthyroidism. Describe the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, evaluation, and treatment of hypothyroidism.

Use at least one scholarly source other than your textbook to connect your response to national guidelines and evidence-based research in support of your ideas.

Struggling with Weight management

After years of struggling with weight management, a middle-age man is evaluated for gastroplasty. He has experienced difficulty with managing his diabetes mellitus and hypertension, but he is approved for surgery. Which intervention is most important for the nurse to include in this client’s plan ? A) Monitor for urinary incontinence B) Provide a wide variety of meal choices C) Observe for signs of depression D) Apply sequencial compression stockings