Purpose This assignment increases the students’ awareness of the National Patient Safety Goals developed by The Joint Commission. Specifically, this assignment will introduce the Speak Up Initiatives, an award-winning patient safety program designed to help patients promote their own safety by proactively taking charge of their healthcare. Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to…
Create a 2-4 page resource that will describe databases that are relevant to EBP around one of the diagnoses found in the provided PDF supplement and could be used to help a new hire nurse better engage in EBP.
Use online calculators to determine what impact wellness programs might have on an organization’s health care costs, absenteeism, and presenteeism. The assignment also shows the risks of doing nothing to try to curb those health insurance, absenteeism, and presenteeism costs. To carry out the assignment, you are required to: 1. Complete 3 tables—one each for…
If you talk about a possible poor health outcome, do you believe that outcome will occur? Do you believe eye contact and personal contact should be avoided? You would have a difficult time practicing as a nurse if you believed these to be true. But they are very real beliefs in some cultures. Differences in…
Name____________________________________ Nursing Interventions Client Education Medication Administration (Dose and Route) Medication Name and Type Drug Class Therapeutic Uses (Indications) Complications Interactions Contraindications Expected Pharmacological Mechanism of Action (How it Works) ____________________________________________ Evaluation of Medication Effectiveness
Purpose: To expand understanding and application pharmacologic concepts for integration of these concepts to support critical thinking. Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO1: Apply the concepts of pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenomics to the use of specific medication classifications in specific health conditions and in consideration of…
Submit 1 Mini-SOAP note on a patient that you saw in clinic this week. Submit as a Word Document. See example template below for required format. Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded. Demographic Data · Patient initial (one initial only), age, and gender must be Health Insurance Portability…
Eleanor is a 52-year-old patient who has had a hip replacement 1 day ago who is on your assigned patient care team. You complete patient care rounds and assess Eleanor’s vital signs, comfort level, intravenous (IV) site and wound dressing. Eleanor has an IV for fluid replacement and medication administration. She also has an indwelling…
POLICY/REGULATION FACT SHEET As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise. With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues,…
Introduction Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented. Even the best intervention plan will not be effective without a sound and reasonable approach to implementing it. The implementation of…