Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization). Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor…

Explain why a thorough psychiatric assessment of a child/adolescent is important. Describe two different symptom rating scales that would be appropriate to use during the psychiatric assessment of a child/adolescent. Describe two psychiatric treatment options for children and adolescents that may not be used when treating adults. Explain the role parents/guardians play in assessment. Support…

Chapter 14 – Human Resources Information System Please read the attached documents and answer the following question: What factors have led to increased organizational interest in HR metrics and workforce analytics?

To Prepare: Review practice agreements in your state. Identify whether your state requires physician collaboration or supervision for nurse practitioners, and if so, what those requirements are. Research the following: How do you get certified and licensed as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) in your state? What is the application process for certification in…

LEGISLATION GRID AND TESTIMONY/ADVOCACY STATEMENT As a nurse, how often have you thought to yourself, If I had anything to do about it, things would work a little differently? Increasingly, nurses are beginning to realize that they do, in fact, have a role and a voice.   Many nurses encounter daily experiences that motivate them…

Identifying barriers and challenges that impact vulnerable and marginalized groups is an important first step, but advocates cannot stop there. What can be done to address the inequities, the challenges, and the barriers? How might an advocate use policy to enact change?   The Allegory of the Orchard required you to consider the barriers and…

DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY: DATA SOURCES AND DATA COLLECTION   Descriptive epidemiology deals with describing disease patterns using three major categories: person, place, or time (Friis & Sellers, 2021). Consider the following example:   Over the last weekend, six people went to the Alcan City Hospital emergency room with similar symptoms. The laboratory results for the six…

Explain a detailed plan for enacting change to address discrimination in the selected policy or program. Include steps for implementation, a budget, and specific sources for funding. Discuss leadership skills needed to implement the plan to address discriminatory issues in the selected policy or program. Reflect on your personal application of or capacities for these…

Analyzing Federal or State Healthcare Policy    For the wrap-up of this course, it is time to weave together all the knowledge that you have gained. The goal of this project is to integrate what you have learned throughout the course into an interconnected exploration of a specific healthcare policy. For the Portfolio Project, you…

How has the practice and scope of population health changed?***   *** Include in your explanation the role of epidemiology in promoting the health of populations.****   ***What role did nurses play at the advent of these concepts in the 1800s and early 1900s? Be sure to differentiate between individual and population-based care.****   ****How…