Head-to-Toe Assessment

For this assignment, perform a complete head-to-toe assessment on one of your chosen participants. Your analysis should include the following:

• Topical headings to delineate systems.
• For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would do the assessment.
• Detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings, along with normal laboratory findings for client age.
• An analysis of age-specific risk reduction, health screen, and immunizations.
• Your expectation of normal findings and what might indicate abnormal findings in your review of systems.
• The differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings.
• A plan of care (including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation).
• Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion.
• Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client.

Provide your answers in a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Submission Details

Name your document SU_NSG3012_W4_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Incorporate topical heading to delineate systems =

o    Perform a full head to toe patient assessment.  Ensure the proper identification within your paper of each system you are assessing. For example: Cardiac- than describe your cardiac assessment of your patient, Respiratory- than describe your respiratory assessment of your patient, etc.

o    For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would perform the assessment =

o    Explain how you as a healthcare provider, would conduct a physical assessment without medical equipment. For example, palpation techniques.

o    Provided a detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings and included normal laboratory findings for client age=

o    Provide a detailed patient physical assessment for each major system (cardiac, respiratory, etc.), within a patient SOAP note, ensuring to provide both normal and abnormal patient assessment findings along with appropriate laboratory data.

o    Analyzed and explained age specific risk reduction health screen and immunizations =

o    Explain the age specific risk (the elderly and pediatric populations) to consider during the health screen and the possible needed immunizations. 

o    Provided expectations of normal findings and indicated abnormal findings in your patients review of systems =

o    Create a full review of each system for a patient, head to toe assessment. Ensure to explain the normal findings, as well as possible abnormal findings in some areas. The abnormal findings will assist you to form appropriate nursing diagnosis and interventions.

o    Analyzed and described the differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings =

o    What are possible differential diagnosis (diseases) for your patient related to the health assessment.

o    Designed a plan of care including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation =

o    Pick one or two main nursing diagnoses (NANDA approved) for your patient (s) based on your assessment findings. The formation of the nursing diagnosis must be: The nursing diagnosis related to (state the main reason the patient falls into this nursing diagnosis) as evidence by (states patient signs and symptoms that support the nursing diagnosis chosen.) For example: “Acute pain R/T bleeding along urinary tract AEB patient reports of pain 10 out of 10.

o    Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion

o    Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client

o    Written components =

o    Ensure proper APA format. If you need assistance with APA format, please visit the “Academic Resources” section within the classroom, here you will find numerous sources to ensure academic success, including an APA guide.

Submit a 500-750 word referenced reflection on what you feel were the key items covered during the week and how they might apply to your present or future education, life, or ministry. This is a very important part of the learning experience each week and should contain a significant reflection on what you have learned.Students are encouraged to read other classmates’ posts and engage with their peers, but not required to post a response.
Specifically, you should report on:

1. What is the most significant thing I learned this week?
2. How did what I learned change my thinking about this week’s topic?
3. How will I use (or have I used) this knowledge in my life?
4. What previous experiences relate to what I read and learned?
5. (optional) What questions do I still have about what I learned this week?

The above five (5) weekly reflection questions are independent of each other, meaning that your response to each question may or may not be a continued discussion of the previous question. It is possible to have five (5) entirely different responses to five (5) different aspects of what you learned this week.
To score well, the reflection must make reference to the assigned reading (including parenthetical references), will include suggested real-world manifestations of the course material, and will include a plan for implementing the material in a personal and/or professional setting.

Strategic human resources management aligns human resource practices with the strategic objectives of an organization. Successful health care managers need to understand how human resource functions can be utilized to fulfill their organization’s mission and goals, such as the promotion of high-quality care, a customer-service orientation, and financial viability. In addition, today’s health care environment requires that organizations demonstrate the value-added for the services they provide—and this includes those related to human resources management. The traditional approach to evaluating HR services has been based on productivity, volume, and efficiency measures. Such measures include the percentage of people who participated in a training program, time to fill a position, and cost per hire. These are valid measures but only capture part of the HR role. In current thinking, the HR department should not only work efficiently and productively, but also should add value to the organization. This means that the work of HR begins with the concerns of the business. And while HR groups typically see themselves as responsive to internal customers, a value-added approach means that HR needs to be aligned with internal and external stakeholders and be a source of competitive advantage for the organization. In preparation for this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the following: Based on your experiences and the information presented in the Learning Resources (particularly the article “Why We Hate HR”), how would you assess the HR function in most health care organizations? Is it closer to the negative or the positive view of HR? Why does HR often have a negative reputation? What have you learned in previous courses or through your professional experiences that informs your understanding of strategic human resources management? What do you see as your current or future responsibility for ensuring that an organization’s human resources practices align with its mission and objectives? How do you think the efficiency, productivity, and/or value added by HR services should be assessed? What types of metrics would you suggest be used? Why? Post by Day 4 a response to the following: Share key insights you have gained about the impression (positive, negative, or mixed) that you and others have of human resources management. Also, explain what factors might be contributing to this perception. Describe how you view your current or future responsibilities for promoting strategic human resources management within health care. Analyze two metrics and indicate how each could be used as an indicator of HR efficiency, productivity, and/or value added.

Students this project will allow you to formulate and hypothetically develop your own research project. The purpose of this project is for the student to complete an abstract submission to a specific nursing journal. The assignment must be strictly following APA guidelines, points will be deducted if otherwise (See Rubric).

An abstract is a concise summary of a larger project (a thesis, research report, performance, service project, etc.) that concisely describes the content and scope of the project and identifies the project’s objective, its methodology and its findings, conclusions, or intended results.

Abstract Outline:

-Title of Project

-Problem Statement: what is the problem that needs fixing?

-Purpose of the Project

-Research Question(s)

-Hypothesis

-Methodology (Qualitative vs. Quantitative)

                -Steps in implementing your project

-Results (Pretend results)

-Conclusion

Follow the following guidelines:

1-Student will think about a problem in their nursing career that needs fixing (Example, Increase number of falls in delirious patients in ICU). 

 THERE IS NO MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PAGES AS LONG AS ALL THE MATERIAL ARE COVERED.

Week 1 – IA-1 Essay Assignment

Your Future Career in Project Management

According to a published report on the gap in project management human resource talent (Project Management Institute, 2013), “between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 million new project management roles will be created globally across seven project-intensive industries” (para. 1). As a student in PMAN 634 here at University of Maryland University College, you are taking steps to gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to assume a project management position.
Prompt:
· Identify and describe at least three potential project management roles/positions that you would consider as likely employment once you have completed the Project Management Program, or any other program in which you are enrolled.
· In what industry are you most likely to find these project management roles/positions?
· How will completing this course, or the PMAN program in project management, prepare you to assume one of these roles/positions, in the industry of your choice, in project management profession?
Instructions for completing this assignment:
1. Review the grading rubric attached to this assignment to understand how you will be graded on this assignment.
2. Compose a short essay (800-1000 words; 2 to 3 pages in length) that provides a critical and thoughtful response to the prompt presented above.
3. Review the literature that will serve as evidence to support your response to the prompt. The literature reviewed will meet these criteria.
a. Use UMUC’s library of online academic databases to locate at least three (3) scholarly journal articles.
b. Two of these articles must have a publication date within the last five years.
4. Follow APA (6th edition) style and formatting guidelines to prepare your essay. This will include in-text citations and References page. The essay will be organized in a logical sequence and include at a minimum level 1 heading.
5. Demonstrate the mastery of technology skills by meeting the following criteria:
a. Prepare your essay in MS Word with 1-inch margins on sides/top/bottom, double line spacing, and 12-point font in Times New Roman. Insert page numbers as required in APA.
b. Upload your completed essay in MS Word to the Assignment folder.
6. The assignment is due no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday of Week 1.