Category: Nursing

  • Nursing Care Plan for a 24-Year-Old Female with Hydatidiform Mole in the Third Trimester Title: “Comprehensive Nursing Care Plan for a 24-Year-Old Female with Hydatidiform Mole in the

    Nursing care plan:
    Medical DX: 
    24 Y/O FEMALE PRIMIP 
    DX: HYDATIDILIFORM
    MOLE ( H MOLE) 
    3 RD TRIMESTER
    Must create a nursing care plan following the directions I have uploaded. I have also uploaded a template to use for the care plan. Must had nursing notes as well. Everything is in the directions I uploaded

  • “Understanding Types of Research in Scholarly Writing and Publishing”

    Read the section “Types of Articles and Papers” in Ch. 1, “Scholarly Writing and Publishing Principles,” of the APA Publication Manual. 
    View the following videos:
    Nursing: Types of Research [4:51]Links to an external site.
    Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research: The Differences Explained | Scribbr 🎓 – YouTubeLinks to an external site.
    Feel free to post questions and comments about these resources in the Collaboration Discussion Forum or Consultation Discussion Forum.

  • Title: The Evolution of Research Ethics and Legal Considerations in Human Participant Studies

    Write a 3–5 page report on the historical development, ethical responsibilities, and legal considerations of research studies that involve human participants.
    You will use the training on protecting human research participants from the Collaborative Institutional Training Institute (CITI) as a basis for your assessment. This training will likely take you 3–6 hours to fully complete, so plan your time accordingly.
    PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FOR COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS

  • Title: Implementing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Improve Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare: A Case Study of an Interview with a Health Care Professional Introduction: In today’s rapidly changing healthcare landscape, it has become increasingly important for healthcare professionals to work together in

    Create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional. You will identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue.  Use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle.

  • “Optimizing Treatment for Peptic Ulcer Disease: Evaluating and Monitoring Patients for Appropriate Management”

    Select one of the following discussion prompts to address:
    Select a sexually transmitted disease and discuss the importance of appropriate dosing, administering, and monitoring drug therapy. How do pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles guide the selection of the optimal dosing regimen, and what factors must be considered when tailoring treatment plans for individual patients, such as renal and hepatic function, patient adherence, and potential drug interactions? 
    The treatment of hepatitis, a viral infection affecting the liver, has evolved significantly over the past few decades with the introduction of new antiviral agents. Select and discuss one of the different classes of drugs used to treat various types of hepatitis (e.g., hepatitis B and C), their mechanisms of action, and the factors healthcare professionals must consider when selecting the most appropriate treatment regimen for a specific patient, such as the viral genotype, disease stage, and potential drug interactions.
    Penicillin allergy is a common concern among patients and healthcare professionals. Reflect on your experience as a healthcare professional or through a case example, and discuss the challenges of managing patients with suspected or confirmed penicillin allergies. How do you ensure the appropriate use of alternative antibiotics in these patients while minimizing the potential for further resistance development or adverse reactions?
    Managing peptic ulcer disease may require adjustments to patients’ treatment plans over time due to changes in their symptom severity, underlying health conditions, or comorbidities. Discuss the process of evaluating and monitoring patients with peptic ulcer disease to determine the most appropriate treatment plan and when modifications may be necessary. 

  • “Enhancing Patient Safety and Experience in the Perioperative Environment: A Case Study of Holistic Care for a Patient Undergoing Tangential Excision”

    Assessment 2
    3000 Word Essay Learning Outcomes 1&2
    60% Weighting
    Assessment Title: ODP4019 Caring in the Perioperative Environment Case Study
    Assessment Task
    Assignment 2: Topic/subject I picked was following a patient that was going for Tangential excision!!!!!!!!!! BASE THIS ASSIGNMENT ON THIS PLEASE AND THE STEPS AND PROCESS You are required to produce a 3000-word case study in which you select a patient from a case you encountered whilst a student ODP (at university or clinical placement). You should identify their holistic care needs when undergoing an elective surgical procedure and describe how you assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated the care for the patient in the pre-, intra-, and postoperative stages of their journey. You will need to identify how care planning and communication in the perioperative setting enhanced safety and experience for your patient.
    Your work will need to be supported by a variety of up to date or defining reference sources that justify your practice and demonstrates that you have read around the topic areas you have selected as well as those in the module reading list. Please ensure the literature you cite is predominately from the UK as non-UK guidance may differ to that within the UK. It should be in written the first person and past tense to reflect the care you delivered (e.g. I assessed the patient…, I applied monitoring…)
    Confidentiality
    Please ensure that you comply with BCU and the HCPC standards in relation to professional and safe practice, confidentiality, and respect for the rights of individuals including but not limited to patients, colleagues and healthcare organisations. Breaches in confidentiality will result in an automatic 1% technical fail.

  • Title: Exploring Group Dynamics and Facilitation in a Support Group Experience

    Purpose: Support groups are a place for people to give and receive both emotional and practical support as well as to exchange information. The purpose of this assignment is to help the student understand and evaluate group dynamics, group facilitation, and group processing. 
    Assignment: The student will participate in an observational Support Group Experience in person or virtual. This experience usually lasts 1½ – 2 hours. Choose a Support Group that meets the course objectives, (i.e., Caregiver group, NAMI-National Alliance for the Mentally Ill support groups, Compassionate Friends-Grief support groups, Family-Survivors of Suicide support groups, cancer support groups). AA or NA groups are not recommended. Each student is responsible for contacting the selected facilities/agencies and arranging the participant-observer experience. Call the Group Leader to obtain permission to attend. [Be professional and state that you are an advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing student wishing to gain knowledge about the group and that this is a course assignment.] Maintain professional appearance and behavior while in groups – remember you are a guest and represent your Nursing program. 
    Write a 4–5-page (excluding title page and reference pages) paper on this experience. Incorporate at least 4 evidenced based research articles that support the objectives of the assignment. Submit this assignment to the DROPBOX at the end of Unit 7. Follow the following criteria:
    Subheadings
    Discuss the purpose of the support group attended.
    Describe the demographics of the group (e.g., number of members in attendance, gender, ages)
    This is equal to the Introduction on the Grading Rubric
    Discuss the roles of the support group leader in relation to the group members.
    Identify the therapeutic factors (Yalom, 2005) you observed in the group. Give an example of each factor identified.
    This is equal to the Focus & Sequencing on the Grading Rubric
    Discuss your observations about the needs of the group.
    Describe your feelings about this experience and how it personally enriched you.
    This is equal to the Conclusion on the Grading Rubric

  • Title: Protecting Patient Information: Best Practices for Social Media Use in Healthcare “Protecting PHI: Best Practices for Social Media Usage in Healthcare Settings” “Ensuring Patient Data Security: A Staff Update on Protecting Sensitive Electronic Health Information”

    Prepare a 2 page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
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    Introduction
    Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care.
    This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.
    Professional Context
    Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities. Examples include:
    Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).
    Provision of EHR incentive programs through Medicare and Medicaid.
    Enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
    Release of educational resources and tools to help providers and hospitals address privacy, security, and confidentiality risks in their practices.
    Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care providers and patients.
    At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy, security, and confidentiality best practices such as:
    Keeping passwords secure.
    Logging out of public computers.
    Sharing patient information only with those directly providing care or who have been granted permission to receive this information.
    Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.
    Preparation
    As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) activity. The activity will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.
    To successfully prepare to complete this assessment, complete the following:
    Review the settings presented in the Assessment 02 Supplement: Protected Health Information [PDF] Download Assessment 02 Supplement: Protected Health Information [PDF]resource and select one to use as the focus for this assessment.
    Review the infographics on protecting PHI provided in the resources for this assessment, or find other infographics to review. These infographics serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize evidence-based information.Analyze these infographics and distill them into five or six principles of what makes them effective. As you design your interprofessional staff update, apply these principles. Note: In a staff update, you will not have all the images and graphics that an infographic might contain. Instead, focus your analysis on what makes the messaging effective.
    Select from any of the following options, or a combination of options, as the focus of your interprofessional staff update:Social media best practices.
    What not to do: social media.
    Social media risks to patient information.
    Steps to take if a breach occurs.
    Conduct independent research on the topic you have selected in addition to reviewing the suggested resources for this assessment. This information will serve as the source(s) of the information contained in your interprofessional staff update. Consult the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help in identifying scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
    Scenario
    In this assessment, imagine you are a nurse in one of the health care settings described in the following resource:
    Assessment 02 Supplement: Protected Health Information [PDF]Download Assessment 02 Supplement: Protected Health Information [PDF]
    Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook and described how happy she is that her patient is making great progress. You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of your organization’s social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriate corrective action.
    You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takes swift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.
    Based on this incident’s severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:
    Educate staff on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
    Prevent confidentiality, security, and privacy breaches.
    The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:
    Social media best practices.
    What not to do: Social media.
    Social media risks to patient information.
    Steps to take if a breach occurs.
    Instructions
    First, select one of the health care settings described in the following resource:
    Assessment 02 Supplement: Protected Health Information [PDF]Download Assessment 02 Supplement: Protected Health Information [PDF]
    As a nurse in this setting, you are asked to create the content for a staff update containing a maximum of two content pages that address one or more of these topics:
    Social media best practices.
    What not to do: social media.
    Social media risks to patient information.
    Steps to take if a breach occurs.
    This assessment is not a traditional essay. It is a staff educational update about PHI. Consider creating a flyer, pamphlet, or one PowerPoint slide (not an entire presentation). Remember it should not be more than two pages (excluding a title and a reference page).
    The task force has asked team members assigned to the topics to include the following content in their updates in addition to content on their selected topics:
    What is protected health information (PHI)?Be sure to include essential HIPAA information.
    What are privacy, security, and confidentiality?Define and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care.
    Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
    What evidence relating to social media usage and PHI do interprofessional team members need to be aware of? For example:What are some examples of nurses being terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States?
    What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team members who have violated social media policies?
    What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriate social media use?
    What evidence-based strategies have health care organizations employed to prevent or reduce confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches, particularly related to social media usage?
    NotesYour staff update is limited to two double-spaced content pages. Be selective about the content you choose to include in your update so you can meet the page length requirement. Include need-to-know information. Omit nice-to-know information.
    Many times people do not read staff updates, do not read them carefully, or do not read them to the end. Ensure your staff update piques staff members’ interest, highlights key points, and is easy to read. Avoid overcrowding the update with too much content.
    Also, supply a separate reference page that includes two or three peer-reviewed and one or two non-peer-reviewed resources (for a total of 3–5 resources) to support the staff update content.
    Additional Requirements
    Written communication: Ensure the staff update is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
    Submission length: Maximum of two double-spaced content pages.
    Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point.
    Citations and references: Provide a separate reference page that includes 2–3 current, peer-reviewed and 1–2 current, non-peer-reviewed in-text citations and references (total of 3–5 resources) that support the staff update’s content. Current means no older than 5 years.
    APA format: Be sure your citations and references adhere to APA format. Consult the Evidence and APA page for an APA refresher.
    Competencies Measured
    By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
    Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.Describe the security, privacy, and confidentially laws related to protecting sensitive electronic health information that govern the interdisciplinary team.
    Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
    Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.Identify evidence-based approaches to mitigate risks to patients and health care staff related to sensitive electronic health information.
    Develop a professional, effective staff update that educates interprofessional team members about protecting the security, privacy, and confidentiality of patient data, particularly as it pertains to social media usage.
    Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
    Create a clear, concise, well-organized, and professional staff update that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

  • “Exploring the Risks and Rewards of Big Data in Healthcare: A Discussion on Strategies for Mitigating Challenges”

    When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone to reply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. On your drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival, you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility. And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by the cafeteria to purchase a coffee.
    From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generation machine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using a debit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, creates data. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Many studies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering: Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generated every second for every person on earth.
    As the volume of data increases, information professionals have looked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that require specialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potential for significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In this Discussion, you will consider these risks and rewards.
    To Prepare:
    Review the Resources and reflect on the web article Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs.
    Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed.
    Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.
    Learning Resources
    Required Readings
    McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2022). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
    Chapter 22, “Data Mining as a Research Tool” (pp. 537-558)
    Chapter 24, “Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, and Computational Biology” (pp. 581-588)
    Glassman, K. S. (2017). Using data in nursing practice. American Nurse Today, 12(11), 45–47. Retrieved from https://www.americannursetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ant11-Data-1030.pdf
    Thew, J. (2016, April 19). Big data means big potential, challenges for nurse execs. Retrieved from https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nursing/big-data-means-big-potential-challenges-nurse-execs
    Wang, Y., Kung, L., & Byrd, T. A. (2018). Big data analytics: Understanding its capabilities and potential benefits for healthcare organizations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 126(1), 3–13.
    Required Media
    Walden University, LLC. (Executive Producer). (2012). Data, information, knowledge and wisdom continuum [Multimedia file]. Baltimore, MD: Author. Retrieved from http://cdn-media.waldenu.edu/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6051/03/mm/continuum/index.html
    Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2018). Health Informatics and Population Health: Analyzing Data for Clinical Success [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

  • “Exploring Solano County: Restaurants, Schools, and Hospitals in Northern California”

    SOLANO COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
    FOR THE RESTAURANTS, SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS, YOU USE VACAVILLE, CALIFORNIA INFORMATION AS IT’S A SMALLER TOWN AND WHERE I LIVE. SINCE IT NEEDS MORE INFORMATION IN TERMS OF CHRONIC DISEASE AND STUFF LIKE THAT, YOU CAN USE SOLANO COUNTY. VACAVILLE IS A TOWN UNDER SOLANO COUNTY. UPLOADED BELOW HAS SOME HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR YOU TO RESEARCH ON THE COMMUNITY. LET ME KNOW IF HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. I WILL KEEP IN TOUCH AS THE UPCOMING SCHOOL WEBINARS , PROFESSORS WILL DISCUSS WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THIS WORKSHEET. I ALSO UPLOADED THE PRACTICUM WORKSHEET WHICH IS REQUIREMENT FOR THIS COURSE BUT YOU DONT NEED TO WRITE ANYTHING UNDER THAT SECTION. 
    CAN YOU JUST PUT HOW MUCH TIME YOU SPENT IN COMPLETING THIS WORKSHEET AND BE SPECIFIC LIKE WHAT TOPICS REQUIRED HOW MUCH TIME BECAUSE I NEED TO INCLUDE THAT UNDER THE PRACTICUM TIME LOG. 
    FOR THE PRACTICUM TIME LOG, I ALREADY HAVE 6 HOURS FROM THE WEBINARS I ATTENDED. I NEED REMAINING HOURS, WHICH WILL COME FROM THE WORKSHEETS 1, 2, 3 AND FINAL PRESENTATION. 
    PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANY QUESTIONS.