Prompt: What are your thoughts on the fitness goals for Healthy People 2020? What are your thoughts on these goals and your patient population? Is exercise compliance easy for you to manage with your patients?  Do you apply technology for exercise compliance? Do you use technology for stress management with your patients? What are stressors that you would identify for your patient population? Are there any complementary or alternative strategies implemented in your population? Do you have a practice that you find particularly useful? 

Q2

This week you are to begin developing your outline for your research project. Select the first three program learning objectives and develop your research project outline for those three program learning objectives. Be sure to include which reference you will use to support your analysis of these learning objectives.

1. Critiques theories and principles of healthcare management 
2. Summarizes knowledge of management principles to functional areas of healthcare 
3. Evaluates the use of management skills in leadership 
Assignment: Using the attached Microsoft Word document outline define the learning objectives, how you plan to cover the material and your supporting references for each objective.

Assessment of Respiratory Status (graded)

Please review the video on the assignments page under the discussion section as it will provide you with an opportunity to immerse yourself in the role of a nurse addressing tobacco use during routine patient care. In doing so, reflect on what you have learned about tobacco use and the role that nurses and other interdisciplinary team members play in helping to assist tobacco users with quitting. While viewing, it is also important to keep in mind that tobacco users move through stages of change in the process of quitting. They move from pre-contemplation to contemplation, contemplation to preparation; preparation to abstinence; abstinence to maintenance. Every stage requires a different strategy by a nurse.

After watching the video, and reflecting on the information presented, address each of the following questions.

1. What are the common symptoms associated with an exacerbation of COPD?
2. What assessment techniques will you use to assess Mary?
3. Identify smoking strategies that would be appropriate for each of the encounters that Mary had with the nurse throughout the video that could have been used to assist Mary in quitting smoking.
4. Find a resource in your community that could assist Mary. Start by searching the Internet for your local health department’s website. What services are available to Mary? Briefly describe the services that the state quit line provides. Does it meet the 4 As? Is it accessible, acceptable, affordable, or available for Mary?
5. What will you do to follow-up on Mary’s smoking cessation process?

 Respond

DUE NOW
rior to beginning this discussion, read Chapters 7 and 8 from the Wager, Lee, & Glaser (2017) text and the articles by Callen (2016) and van Laere & Aggestam (2016).
Health information systems face challenges with data input and information output. Concerns with health information systems may vastly impact the accessibility and/or integrity of patient-protected health information (PHI). Health care leaders are continuously concerned about PHI value, quality, security, and efficiency. Meanwhile, technology is advancing in health care at an unsurpassed rate. Some health care organizations are very slow to adapt. Other organizations spend the time and resources ensuring that they remain competitive, measuring the risk versus the benefit of new or improved health information systems.
Participate in one of the following discussion subtopics as directed by your instructor on or before Day 3 of the week in a 300-word initial post:

Evaluate three threats to health information systems and explain their impact on patient health information.
Evaluate the effectiveness of a Web 2.0 tool used to manage health information, such as Practice Fusion (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. or Webicina (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Highlight the safeguards and/or drawbacks you discover.
Evaluate ways in which IT value can be realized and aligned with patient safety goals.

Guided Response: Review your peers’ posts and substantively respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. Your three required posts (initial and at least two responses to peers) must be on three different days of the week. A substantive response is a respectful, professional, and unique response that is at least five sentences in length and

Highlights the key points of what you have learned from your peer’s post.

Adds to your classmate’s content knowledge by sharing a suggestion or insight that your colleague did not consider.