TO PREPAREReview this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders.Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5-TR to use for this Assignment.Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and…
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY DESIGNS As introduced in the first few weeks of this course, investigators use various epidemiological study designs to study health problems and the effects of health interventions. You have examined several study designs, including descriptive designs (in Week 2) and analytic study designs that are observational (in Week 3) or experimental (this week).…
LEADERSHIP THEORIES IN PRACTICEA walk through the Business section of any bookstore or a quick Internet search on the topic will reveal a seemingly endless supply of writings on leadership. Formal research literature is also teeming with volumes on the subject.However, your own observation and experiences may suggest these theories are not always so easily…
Policy models provide the framework for moving policy forward. However, not all policy models will be effective for all priorities. Therefore, it is important to appraise policy models with the specific advocacy priority in mind. For this Assignment, you will choose from three policymaking frameworks, the one that best fits your advocacy priority. You will…
CDC Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative Discussion PaperConstruct a professional paper that outlines the advanced practice role – as a nurse educator, a nurse leader, or a nurse practitioner – to advance the CDC’s antibiotic resistance initiative. The paper needs to be a minimum of six (6) pages [excluding title and reference pages] consistent with APA style…
LEGAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONSYou have recognized a problem change is needed in your practice or organization, but before you can begin implementing your plan for change, have you considered the legal and ethical implications of this implementation? Patient rights, legal parameters, privacy issues, and other legal and ethical concerns must be identified and reviewed before…
Discuss three issues in the Opportunity to Apply video that you identify as barriers to providing effective care.Address what you may do differently to provide a better care experience.Compare the Opportunity to Apply video to the Successful Outcome video, and describe three differences in the Successful Outcome video which promote collaboration and communication.Your paper must…
Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative ResearchBriefly, describe the characteristics of qualitative research and identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a qualitative research approach.Compare and contrast three different qualitative research methodologies.Briefly, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research evidence for informing nursing practice.Communicate how this research design is used in research.
Select a patient for whom you conducted psychotherapy for an impulse control or conduct disorder. include subjective and objective data; assessment from most recent mental status exam; current psychiatric diagnosis including differentials that were ruled out; current psychotherapeutic plan (include one health promotion activity and one patient education strategy you provided); and patient progress toward…
As nurses gain experience and learn more about the science of nursing and nursing theory, the expected outcome is that nurses will have a deeper understanding of the discipline of nursing that will inform their decision making. Nursing ethics are driven by the values that nurses hold as a collective, but the context of the…