QUESTION

Nursing

For the initial discussion post, review the article by Miller, Drummond and Carey:

Scenario:

  • You begin your career in an acute care hospital as a newly licensed RN. During your orientation, you observe your preceptor checking gastric feeding tube placement by injecting air and auscultating the abdomen, stopping continuous enteral tube feedings before a patient is turned or repositioned, and routinely inserting rectal tubes for patients with diarrhea. You know that ALL three (3) of these practices are currently NOT supported by nursing evidence. When asked, your preceptor responds, “This is the way we have always cared for patients with tube feedings and diarrhea.” You prepare to talk to this peer about necessary changes in nursing practice.

Initial Discussion Post:

Address the following:

  • Choose ONE (1) of the practices described in the scenario.
  • Describe how you will address this gap in nursing practice with your preceptor. Write out exactly what you might say to this RN to professionally address the current evidence for the nursing care of patients.
  • Include when and where you would communicate this information
  • Consider any additional information you might provide to your preceptor to support changing nursing practice

Base your initial post on your readings and research of this topic. Your initial post must contain a minimum of 250 words. References, citations, and repeating the question do not count towards the 250 word minimum.

ADJUST AUTOMATIC MARKING AS READ SETTING CHOSE TO FURTHER MY EDUCATION IN HOPES OF PROVIDING BETTER PATIENT CARE AND EDUCATION.

Purpose: DiscussionThing to Remember:Discussion: Opinion LeadersAdjust automatic marking as read settingI chose to further my education in hopes of providing better patient care and education. I want to be seen as an influence and a primary healthcare provider. My goal is to provide specialized high-leveled care to patients with different backgrounds.An opinion leader is someone who has strong influence within a work place giving of their time and experience and creates strategies to help change an initiative. An opinion leader earns their role after much experience and expertise. Others look to them for advice and new information (Hamric Hanson Tracy & OGrady 2014).When problems arise in a work environment employees will look towards opinion leaders and others who will lead them through the stressors and crises. In order to be successful as an opinion leader staff must be committed to serving the organization and devote time for teaching. Patient and staff safety should always be at the forefront. Not one person knows all the answers but once we live through various experiences our abilities and competence improve and widen (Kai Tiaki 2014).Communication skills can improve opinion leaders abilities. It is important that communication allows everyones voice to be heard in an open non-combative manner. In order for piers and other staff to have a positive trusting relationship with the opinion leader they must feel as though they are being heard and also guided in difficult situations (Pollard & Wild 2014).By the end of the summer I am hoping my schedule allows me to become a preceptor for new graduates. I view that role as being an opinion leader for an individual which would progress to a small group. I would love the opportunity to mold new fellows with everything I have learned so far as a postpartum nurse. When a newer nurse comes to me for advice I want them to feel safe. My goal is never to talk down to someone making him or her feel inadequate for coming to me for help in the first place. If I do not know how to solve the issue I have been made aware of I seek guidance from another senior nurse. I feel as though a good opinion leader wants others to seek their guidance instead of possibly making a mistake.ReferencesHamric A. B. Hanson C. M. Tracy M. F. & OGrady E. T. (2014).Advancedpractice nursing: An integrative approach(5thed.). St. Louis MO: Elsevier.Kai Tiaki. (2014) Nursing New Zealand.What nursing leaders are saying 20(6) 12-13.doi: edsgcl.375815611Pollard C. Wild C. (2014) Nursing leadership competencies: low-fidelitysimulation as a teaching strategy.Nurse education in practice 14(6) 620-626.doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2014.06.006

Epidemiological Study Designs
Understanding the differences among the types of epidemiological study designs is important for translating the results to public health practice. For this Discussion, you will identify and design epidemiological research studies. To prepare, review the Learning Resources about epidemiologic study designs. Then, go to the Walden Library or another scholarly library and find an epidemiological research study that was published in the last 3 months and uses one of the study designs we are learning about in this module.
– Briefly summarize the study in your own words, identify the study design it uses, and discuss what features it has that identify it as that type of study design. Do not just copy the abstract or parts of the article. Then, redesign the same study using a different study design than the authors did. This does not mean finding another article on the topic. Instead, pretend you are the epidemiologist and design your own study on the topic, using the information we’ve been learning in class about study designs, exposures, outcomes, and measures of association. You are the researcher! For the study you are designing, be sure to include information on who the participants would be and how you would measure the exposure and outcome variables. Discuss why your study design is stronger or more limited than the original study design, and how you arrived at this conclusion. Finally, pose a question about study designs to your peers that is based on your post.

The purpose of this personal Assessment and Action Plan is to explore and assess the impacts of your lifestyle on the planet and the systems on which you depend and then devise a plan (goals, indicators) to minimize your footprint on the planet. You are to create a thoughtful, bold, and articulate assessment and plan to increase the sustainability of your actions (balancing impacts within the three dimensions) and decrease your (and your social networks) overall impact on the planet. Clearly articulate a plan for you to drawdown your resource consumption and help to mitigate emissions. Your Plan thoughtfully incorporates the results from your completed footprint calculators (links to calculators below) and includes well written and well thought through goals and indicators to keep track of your progress.
Step 1: Conduct a baseline assessment  Your baseline sustainability assessment is based on the results of three calculators: ecological footprint calculator, OSU carbon calculator, and a water footprint calculator (links below). This first step of conducting a baseline assessment of current environmental, social, and economic impacts occurs at the start of any sustainability planning process. In this assignment, you will apply basic project planning skills to developing your personal plan for a minimal footprint.
Explore the data. Calculate your three footprints. Follow the links and go through all of the steps of the three footprint calculators. Save your results to include in your assessment.

1. Display and analyze data to explain at least two findings for each calculator Include data and visuals of your footprint results to illustrate your baseline assessment, such as pie charts and other displays of data. Critically analyze the results of your footprint calculations based on the context of your life and the main systems on which you depend (transportation, waste, energy, etc).
a. Ecological Footprint: Be sure to include the graphic showing your footprint by land type and consumption category, in addition to your overall footprint data
b. Carbon Footprint: Be sure to include the graphic showing your footprint by category compared to the US average (graph titled Results), in addition to your overall footprint data
c. Water Footprint: Be sure to include the graphic showing your Indoor, Outdoor and Virtual water footprints, in addition to your overall footprint data
Step 2: Reflect on your role within larger systems
Consider the following question and response embedded in the results page of the global footprint calculator.
“Why can’t I get my Footprint score within the means of one planet?”
“A person’s Ecological Footprint includes both personal and societal impacts. The Footprint associated with food, mobility, and goods is easier for you to directly influence through lifestyle choices. However, a person’s Footprint also includes societal impacts or “services,” such as government assistance, roads and infrastructure, public services, and the country’s military. All citizens are allocated their share of these societal impacts. This is why, if we want to achieve sustainability, we need to focus on both our own lifestyle as well as influencing our governments.”
It is important to reflect our role in the systems that we inhabit, including how those systems limit our choices and how we can create broader impacts within those systems.
a. Explain how your footprint is impacted by systems and factors outside of the direct control of your decision-making.
b. Consider social impacts and influences. Address how your social connections may impact your lifestyle choices. How have you been influenced by the people and social norms in your life?  Do you feel knowledgeable and empowered to make sustainable change?
c. Consider your sphere of influence.  How do you influence the people and systems in your life? Provide some concrete examples of how you can impact specific people or systems around you.
Step 3: Create a Personal Sustainability Action Plan. Establish goals and indicators to address your six key findings identified in step 1.  Since the footprint assessments are focused primarily on the environmental dimension with a strong economic component, I would also like you to create two goals and indicators to address your impacts on the social dimension specifically.
Here you are to establish “S.M.A.R.T.” goals and indicators (use template attached below) to reduce your footprint. Establish S.M.A.R.T. goals to address the aspects of your lifestyle that are most impactful on the planet based on what you learned from the calculators.  For each impact identified above, create SMART goals designed to reduce specific impacts identified in the calculators. SMART goals are defined as goals that are specific (S), measurable (M), achievable (A), results-focused (R), and time-bound (T).
For step 3 use the Create a Personal Sustainability Action Plan table (template), it is attached to the file.
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can help me to finish this assignment with good quality and be on time please?
Please follow the instructor carefully. There are draft and outline files attached below.
You are expected to answer all the questions base on the topic, outline and draft.
Short answer to questions 1-7 and write about 4 to 5 sentences to each question. whole paragraph for each 8 and 9 question.   
Topic: Will Robots reduce or Increase Human Employment Opportunities?
Now you have a topic in mind,
1.what kind of public conversation is/has been occurring related to this topic–what is being said AND in what spaces/locations (news, social media, academic research, etc.)?
2.What do you think most of your audience already knows about your topic?
3.How will you make the speeches relevant and interesting to the class?
4.What are terms or concepts do the audience need to understand about your topic?
5.Who do you think is impacted by this topic/issue/controversy?
6.What are the different opinions, positions or perspectives people have on this topic (objectively, what is an opposing viewpoint from your own?)
7. What do you want the audience to do after watching your speech?
8. What is your FINAL proposed topic choice?
9.What is your backup FINAL proposed topic choice?
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Program/policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs/policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve. Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives.
Nurses can play a very important role assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this Assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.
To Prepare:

  • Review the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
  • Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation or choose one of interest to you.
  • Review community, state, or federal policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described.

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)
Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
  • How was the success of the program or policy measured?
  • How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
  • How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
  • At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
  • What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
  • What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
  • What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific and provide examples.
  • Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
  • Would you recommend implementing this program or policy in your place of work? Why or why not?
  • Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.

Submit your completed healthcare program/policy evaluation analysis.

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Assignment 2: Personal Philosophy of Nursing

In a 6- to 7-page paper in APA format describe your personal approach to professional nursing practice. Be sure to address the following:

  • Which philosophy/conceptual framework/theory/middle-range theory describes nursing in the way you think about it? Discuss how you could utilize the philosophy/conceptual framework/theory/middle-range theory to organize your thoughts for critical thinking and decision making in nursing practice.
  • Formulate and discuss your personal definition of nursing, person, health, and environment.
  • Discuss a minimum of two beliefs and/or values about nursing that guide your own practice.
  • Analyze your communication style using one of the tools presented in the course. In your paper, discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with your style of communication and the impact on your ability to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team.
  • On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.

·         Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.

·         This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.

·         You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

Essay: Biology And Technology In The Real World

Written Assignment 2: Biology and Technology in the Real World
Addresses course outcomes 1, 3, 4:
-recognize and explain how the scientific method is used to solve problems
– weigh evidence and make decisions based on strengths and limitations of scientific knowledge and the scientific method
– use knowledge of biological principles and the scientific method to ask relevant questions, develop hypotheses, design and conduct experiments, interpret results, and draw conclusions
This assignment will give you the opportunity to participate in ongoing scientific research.  For the past several years, I have been involved in ecological research in old-growth forests in Wisconsin.  A major problem in many woods is that the forest floor is dominated by a grasslike species, Pennsylvania sedge (likely due to the effects of high deer populations).  Another problem in many areas is that dominant trees, such as white pine and sugar maple, do not show successful reproduction to replace old pines and maples that die.
With support from a UMUC Faculty Research Grant to create this assignment, I collected data this summer to address the question, “Does Pennsylvania sedge inhibit regeneration of trees?”  Your assignment will be to follow the steps of the scientific method to analyze the field data to test the hypothesis that sedge inhibits tree reproduction.  We will also examine a second hypothesis that the sedge cover lowers biodiversity.  You will also be asked to generate new hypotheses from the data. (You also will be use the technology of Google Earth to examine the study site.)
You will be given the background and specifics of the assignment in detail during Week 4. The written report on the assignment will be due Monday 2 April at the end of Week 6 and worth 15% of your grade.

Instructions

Before you start making decisions in NewShoes, it is important to develop a strategic plan. Start by writing a mission statement, in which you communicate a vision for the company. Then identify measurable goals that your company should achieve to support your mission. Finally, plan the strategy you will use to meet those goals. Your strategy should spell out plans to enter markets, marketing mix for each market, and product development budgets. Use the following outline for successful completion of the assignment. Please keep in mind that you are writing an APA formatted paper with a Title page, body, and Reference page. Think of this as a research paper. You should take time to research your target market, the athletic shoe industry, and key business concepts in order to address the specific questions asked in this assignment.

  1.  Mission Statement
    1. Who Does Your Company Serve?
    2. How Large is the Target Market?
    3. What is the Scope of the Product Line and Services Offered?
    4. What Effect Does your Business Have on the Consumers?
    5. How do you want the world to think of you?
  2. Measurable Goals
    1. Profit
    2. Return on Sales in a Period of Time
    3. Market Share Objective
    4. Customer Satisfaction
  3. Strategy to Complete the Goals
    1. How do you plan to enter each marketplace?
    2. Share the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Place,  and Promotion) for each of the markets?
    3. What is the product development budget for each market?

Assignment Parameters

  1. Accurate description and reference of all concepts and theories learned from the course material.
  2. Practical examples of concepts that lead to a continuing interest in the topic.
  3. Synthesis of concepts and theories from other course activities.
  4. Well-organized clearly presented work ( free from excessive spelling and grammatical errors)
  5. Properly cited sources using APA 6th edition.
  6. Ensure use of the assignment rubric.

Assignment Objectives

  • Construct a strategic marketing plan
  • Develop an understanding of the steps involved in creating a strategic Marketing plan, including a viable mission statement, measurable goals, and a strategy to successfully attain the goals

Assignment Resources