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pediatric populations

pediatric populations Week 1 Discussion For this assignment, you will review the latest evidence-based guidelines in the links provided below. Please make sure you are using scholarly references and they should not be older than 5 years. The posts/references must be in APA format. https://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/minority.html#Introduction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519320/ After completing your research, answer the following questions:  1) […]

Community Blood Center of the Carolinas

Community Blood Center of the Carolinas Continuing with the case: Community Blood Center of the Carolinas: Donations, Donations, Donations, Complete a full case analysis incorporating your work from your SWOT analysis this week. Use the following format to complete this assignment. An introduction  Definition of the problem.  Identification of the stakeholders.  Identification of alternative solutions.  Evaluation of […]

Advanced Practice Nursing Model

Discussion Reflection Response – Advanced Practice Nursing Model Post your complete response to the discussion questions in the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. This first week we are going to reflect on who we want to be and why. Why do you want to be an advanced practice nurse? Please note: Start with why you wanted […]

Pharmacolgy And Therapeutics

1. What is selective toxicity? 2. How does antibiotic use promote resistant organisms? What are ways that nurses can help to reduce the spread of resistant organisms in hospitals? 3. What is broad spectrum vs. narrow spectrum antibiotics? Name an example of each. 4. How is clostridium difficile treated initially? How about for a severe […]

Food-Bourne Illnesses

Using the following scenario, complete the case study. During Spring Break, Angela, Bridgette, and Laura went to a small Mexican town near the Gulf of Mexico. On Friday night, the girls went to a restaurant. Angela and Bridgette shared a pizza with ground beef, refried beans, cheese, and some vegetable toppings. Laura ate a large portion of chicken fajitas. After dinner, […]

communication technologies

You have just walked into your first steering committee meeting. And quickly see this committee is ready to move forward with levering technology specific to communication. As the nursing delegate, you have been tasked with creating a comparative analysis of two communication technologies. And how they can be used to improve communication between healthcare teams. […]

Technology And Nursing

 there is a definite need for knowledge workers well versed in data analytics skills.  Data analytic skills include knowledge of how to aggregate data including collect the right data, context. And cleaning of the data as well as the underlying statistical basics of type of data (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio. And categorical/continuous) to best visually […]

Electronic Health Record Implementation

Emerging Technology Brief   New health care innovations offer the advanced registered nurse an opportunity. To apply emerging technologies in practice to improve quality and patient outcomes. For this assignment, research an emerging health care technology. That you think has the potential to overcome current or emerging barriers to care.   Write a 500-750 word […]

signs of benzodiazepine toxicity

What are the signs of benzodiazepine toxicity?  How is it treated? How do local anesthetics work? Why are vasoconstrictors often used with local anesthetics?   Why are local anesthetics with epinephrine not used near toes, fingers, noses, ears, or penis?  Describe balanced anesthesia. What is the mechanism of action of inhaled anesthetics? Describe minimum alveolar […]

a nursing problem

Reply to my peers Peer 1 1. Critically analyze current practice to formulate researchable problems. I was able to establish a nursing problem in my practice in form of high prevalence of chronic health conditions in elderly patients. By considering statistics about chronic health conditions in older patients,\, I was able to identify a knowledge […]