Entries by Linus

patients within the healthcare environment

Class 521 week 5 APA Due 08/05/2020 References Complete your Week 5 required discussion prompts. Discussion Prompt #1 Specifically define the role of the registered nurse in patient advocacy. Describe situations in which nursing advocacy can assist patients within the healthcare environment. Defend why nurses are, or are not, adequately prepared, in prelicensure education, to […]

PEOPLE OF IRISH HERITAGE

Write an 700 words essay (APA format) contracting the two study heritages, answering the questions below: 1.  Discuss the organization and the family role in every one of the heritages mentioned about and how they affect (positively or negatively) the delivery of health care. 2.  Identify sociocultural variables within the Irish, Italian and Puerto Rican […]

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

BACKGROUND Mr. Akkad is a 76 year old Iranian male who is brought to your office by his eldest son for “strange behavior.” Mr. Akkad was seen by his family physician who ruled out any organic basis for Mr. Akkad’s behavior. All laboratory and diagnostic imaging tests (including CT-scan of the head) were normal. According […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Week 14 Discussion Post After reading about the three nursing theorists in chapters 29, 30, and 31, reflect upon the events that are happening in health care today (Covid-19 Pandemic). 1. Which theorist would you select to construct a framework for care of your staff and patients? 2. Please explain why using two bulleted examples. […]

THEORY OF HUMAN CARING

Assignment Prompt Explore the influence of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring on your future role as an APN. The student will explore the concepts and caritas processes from the Theory of Human Caring and present how these concepts may impact their future APN role. Directions: The student will create a PowerPoint and include speaker […]

Ethical   Dimensions of the Issue

The grading guidelines are as follow:   Ethics Final   Paper–Evaluation Rubric Possible Score Your Score   Introduction:    Summary of what is known about the ethical issue Well summarized (20)  Adequately   summarized (15), Superficially summarized (10)  Poorly summarized (5) 20   Ethical   Dimensions of the Issue Identified and Discussed (why is this an ethical   issue) Ethical […]

Epidemiology and antibiogram in healthcare

Epidemiology and antibiogram in healthcare due 8/8/2020 write a 5-page paper on antibiograms and their role in infectious disease epidemiology. 1. Include the following response in your paper. 2. What is an antibiogram? 3. How is the antibiogram created? 4. What is the implication of over prescribing antibiotics and how can antibiogram assist? 5. How […]

sexually transmitted infection

Select a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and do research on it. Write a 3-5 page paper about the condition/issue. In the paper discuss the concepts below: · What is the pathophysiology of one STI · What is the etiology of the selected STI · What are the clinical manifestations of the selected STI · What […]

chronic illnesses

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use resources from the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. You may use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources or connect to the […]

Pressure Ulcer Management

©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2016979 Pressure Ulcer Management Background Patients in intensive care units are likely to have limited mobility owing to hemodynamic instability and activity orders for bed rest. Bed rest is indicated because of the severity of the disease process, which often involves intubation, sedation, paralysis, surgical procedures, poor nutrition, […]