Category: Nursing

Use any database to find one primary qualitative research article on any nursing topic recently published this year in a nursing journal. Read the article and in one paragraph (7 to 8 sentences) provide a rapid critical appraisal by answering the following questions. Support your response by citing and referencing the research article.
1.What was the research design?
2.How were study participants chosen and was the sample size appropriate?
3.Does the research methods fit the purpose of the study? Explain.
4.Are data collection and analysis technniques approproiate for this type of study? Explain.
5.Is the phenomenon (human experience) clearly identified? Explain.
6.What are the reported results?
7.How may the results be applied in clinical practice?

Contact an individual from the cultural group selected in module two (with their consent) and conduct a cultural interview.  
This interview can be in person, over the phone, or through a video call. 
The individual can be a patient, neighbor, grandparent, in-law, or friend. Do not use your parent, brother, sister, spouse, or significant other. 
Respect the interviewee’s privacy and cultural beliefs. 
Use the interview questions developed in Module 2 based on Module 1’s mind map and the textbook’s FIG. 1.1 and FIG. 1.2 in Chapter 1 as the blueprint and guide for your interview.
Take notes during the interview to capture the key points discussed. 
Use voiceover PowerPoint, Canvas Studio Screen Capture, Teams, or Zoom to narrate the PowerPoint presentation you will create to share the results of the interview. 
Be sure to answer the following questions in the presentation: 
Did your preconceptions or stereotypes influence the interview process? 
What cultural factors emerged during the interview that could impact healthcare decisions?
How might you adapt your nursing practice to provide culturally competent care for individuals from this cultural group based on the interview insights? 
Submission Instructions:
The presentation is to be original work and logically organized, formatted, and cited in the current APA style, including citations and references.
The PowerPoint presentation should consist of 10-15 slides and be 10-15 minutes in length. 
Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles should be referenced according to the current APA style (the online library has an abbreviated version of the APA Manual).

In a 5 page written assessment, define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. Introduction:This assessment lays the foundation for the work that will carry you through your capstone experience and guide the practicum hours needed to complete the work in this course. In addition, it will enable you to do the following:
Develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population that’s relevant to your practice.
Begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practicum.
Focus on the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.
To prepare for the assessment, complete the following:
Identify the patient, family, or group you want to work with during your practicum. The patient you select can be a friend or a family member. You’ll work with this patient, family, or group throughout your capstone project, focusing on a specific health care problem.
Begin surveying the scholarly and professional literature to establish your evidence and research base, inform your assessment, and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.
Requirements: The assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.
Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.
Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or population.
Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.
Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your practicum.
Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.
Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.
Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.
Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.
Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Additional Requirements
Format: Format your paper using APA style. APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] is provided to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:
A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
Appropriate section headings.
Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including the reference page.
Supporting evidence: Cite at least five sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. Provide in-text citations and references in APA format.
Proofreading: Proofread your paper, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on its substance.

For this week’s activity, please review the journal articles assigned to you this week. Additionally, please review Carolyn Buppert’s video regarding ‘Prescribing for Friends’. This is important for you to review for your own practice. Your response this week should either reflect a summary of findings for prescriptive privileges OR practice privileges. Please see the A&A for Discussion Board guidelines.
assigned video:
https://youtu.be/zcUH-1bhPLc

Your nursing director has approached you regarding a concern related to a patient care policy within your organization. The director seeks assistance in collecting evidence-based information to support the revision of this policy. Several individuals have been tasked with the initial step of locating evidence-based scholarly articles for this purpose. You have been asked to locate a minimum of two scholarly articles, although the director welcomes the inclusion of up to four articles. To ensure consistency, the director has requested that you submit your findings using APA style, as there is potential for future publication. Your submission should include a title page, a brief description of the sources where the articles were found, a summary of each article, and a reference list.
Directions
For this activity, you can focus on any patient care policy you have used, experienced, or questioned in your nursing practice. To complete the activity, you must create an APA style formatted paper. All the components of a scholarly paper should be included: title page, text, and reference page. A template is provided, but you are not required to use it. You can create your own document, but it must meet the requirement of APA style formatting as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
You will need to locate and read at least two scholarly articles to summarize and describe the process of locating the references. For the first article, you must include a direct quotation within your summary. The direct quotation must be cited correctly. For the second article, you must paraphrase a portion of the content and include the correct citation for paraphrasing. Finally, the references must be listed and correctly formatted.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Scholarly Articles: Identify at least two scholarly articles that have been published within the last five years.
Search Strategy: Describe your search strategy for where you located the articles as the introduction paragraph of the paper. Consider including the following:
The browser, if one was used, for searching for articles
The library, if one was used, for searching for articles
The database you used for searching for articles
The keywords you used for searching for articles
The number of articles that were available for the topic
Article One: Summarize article one to accurately represent the content with a correctly cited direct quotation.
Article Two: Summarize article two to accurately represent the content with a correctly cited paraphrase.
What to Submit
Using the Module Two Activity Template, submit your completed activity. Your submission should be a 3- to 4-page Word document with separate title and reference pages that are not part of the page count. Follow APA style standards for formatting and citing your sources

This assessment requires you to visit the The Research Clinic:
https://ori.hhs.gov/TheResearchClinicVideo/
You will click to play Jan Klein, RN. Work your way through the brief videos, choosing the best response as the RN assisting in research.
Upon completing the videos, you will submit a Word file that summarizes the essential elements of informed consent, special populations that require special legal and ethical research considerations, and the nurse’s role in advocating for the patient in research situations. Also, provide a summary of your personal thoughts on Jan’s actions during the activity.
Your summary should be between 300-400 words. Provide a minimum of 2 references, in 7th edition APA format, supporting your summary.
Objectives
Understand the history behind the development of Human Subjects Protection guidelines
To identify and describe the three principles of ethical human subjects research identified in the Belmont Report
To identify risks associated with participation in research and appropriate protections against risks, vulnerable populations that need specific protections, and situations in which research involving humans is exempt from regulatory requirements
Identify the essential elements of an informed consent form
Describe the nurse’s role as patient advocate in research situations

Using this will create a 5-10 minute video reflection that addresses either an interprofessional collaboration you experienced or a collaboration case study scenario that you imagine you experienced. see further instructions below 

Find and read a nursing scholarly article that relates to your clinical practice and is found in a peer-reviewed journal.
Submission Instructions:
The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
Must be a research article.  Write a 1-page summary using an outline
of the steps of the research process, discuss the study type, purpose, and research question(s)
Your paper should be formatted per the current APA style and references should be current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions).

In this discussion, you will examine and analyze the learning
materials and explore the patient’s perspective on their diagnosis and
how they managed their illness journey.
Reflect on 3 resources: the Broyard and Frank articles and Kahlo painting.
As
you reflect, consider how different patients may find ways to “own”
their illness or to find empowerment instead of weakness to the articles
and the painting.
Broyard, A. (1989, November 12). Intoxicated by my illness.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/magazine/about-men-intoxicated-by-my-illness.html. The New York Times. 
Frank, A. W. (2014). Being a good story: The humanities as therapeutic practice.
https://eds-p-ebscohost-com.vlib.excelsior.edu/eds/ebookviewer/ebook?sid=23643d08-ca52-42f0-88f0-c07a9aa1ffaf%40redis&ppid=pp_13&vid=0&format=EB. [PDF] In Jones, T., Wear, D., & Friedman, L. D. (Eds.), Health Humanities Reader (pp. 13-25). 
Kahlo, F. (1946). The wounded deer. https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-wounded-deer.jsp [Painting].
In Broyard’s article, “Intoxicated By My Illness,” he describes an
experience of becoming almost enamored of his illness: “When you learn
that your life is threatened, you can turn toward this knowledge or away
from it. I turned toward it.” Later he writes, “I understood that
living itself had a deadline.” 
Frank recounts the importance of finding one’s story as one deals with an illness. 
Kahlo paints a depiction of her chronic pain in The Wounded Deer.
In
your initial post, apply Broyard’s statements to all three resources
from the module materials and explain how each either turned toward
their suffering or away from it, and provide specific examples from each
as you describe what their illness journeys looked like.
The initial post should be at least 250 words. Be sure to include 2-3 references to the assigned readings, terms, and concepts from the module.  

THIS IS PART 2 OF THE QUALITIES PAPER
Create a 6-8 slide presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) on how you would select, foster collaboration among, and educate a team dedicated to solving a diversity issue.
In this assessment, you will continue your work from Assessment 2 by creating a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation for the diversity project kickoff meeting.
Scenario:
Imagine that your boss Lynnette follows up with you in an email shortly after reading your views on leadership and collaboration:
Hi,
Thanks for sending me your thoughts last week on the diversity issue at the clinic. Your next step is to select a team of professionals who can help you in this project and prepare an introduction of the project for a first meeting with them.
I want you to prepare a presentation to serve as a brief but substantive introduction for the first meeting with a group of 4–5 members who will participate on the committee tasked with addressing the diversity issue. Once I review more information about the proposed team I can help you with the recruitment. The presentation should be 5–7 minutes and use 6–8 slides with detailed speaker’s notes so I can understand your approach. Not a lot of time or space, so keep things pretty high level. Do the following:
Briefly outline the project goals and highlight 2–3 of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group. Also, explain why they are important.
Explain the composition of the team and why you chose them. Note that you will not know the exact individuals yet, but assume we will recruit the people with the desired qualities and characteristics you outline in the presentation. Consider the following:
Include a group of professionals you believe can help define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it.
Make sure each member is either trained in, sensitive to, or has experience with the concept of workplace diversity.
Give some thought to having some members from outside the organization.
Provide member profiles: their diversity, qualifications, experience, internal versus external, and so forth.
Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration. Describe how the group will communicate. How and when they will meet.
Describe how ideas will be shared and decisions made.
Describe roles, group function, and structure.
Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse workplace.
Provide a convincing argument regarding the benefits of a diverse workforce using support from current research.
Thanks,
Lynnette
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length: 6–8 PowerPoint slides (not including title slide) that would accompany a 5–7 minute oral presentation.
Notes: Prepare detailed speaker’s notes describing items on each slide so that the viewer can accurately interpret the deeper meanings and intentions that would have been conveyed orally. Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current, scholarly or professional sources.
Visuals: Create visuals that are easily read and interpreted. Use colors, fonts, and formatting and other design principles that make the information clear and generally add to the aesthetic of the presentation.
Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be evaluated.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply qualities, skills, and practices used by effective health care leaders.
Outline goals and initial priorities that reasonably reflect the project.
Competency 2: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.
Outline a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration.
Competency 3: Apply ethical codes and diversity best practices in health care organizations.
Define the composition of a team with characteristics that could effectively address and apply ethical codes, diversity, and best practices in health care organizations.
Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Explain the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization using scholarly resources.
Competency 4: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
Create an organized presentation that clearly communicates all specified content.