Our field is rich with misinformation. You can Google any topic on fitness, wellness, or nutrition and find 10s of thousands of websites with information based on partial truths or complete falsehoods. Additionally, many certifications in out arena do not require rigorous training. You have chosen a different path. You are taking the time to learn the scientific basis of the body in motion.
Task: Write a 3 page minimum, 1” margins, double-space, paper, with proper APA citation, reviewing 2 research articles (same topic) on the effects of activity or inactivity on health, mental health, or wellness. YOU MUST ALSO UPLOAD THE 2 JOURNAL ARTICLES YOU USED AND CITED. For full points, include: 1. The problem being studied 2. The hypothesis 3. The experiment design 4. The results 5. The conclusions 6. Limitations of the studies 7. What the authors suggests for future research After you have reviewed the 2 articles, write a paragraph or section that explains the article's findings in laymen’s terms - like you would explain it to a friend or patient/client. Include at least two facts or statistics from the research papers in your laymen’s terms explanation. ---------------------------------------------
The 2 articles I wish to use have been uploaded. Please look at the rubric I attached to help ensure I get full points. I also included 2 examples of others' completed work if it may help.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has described five core competencies (CCs) required of health professionals to improve professional practice and patient outcomes (IOM, 2003). Quality and Safety Education for Nurses QSEN has expanded these to include knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) that nurses demonstrate in six areas (Cronenwett, et al., 2007):
Patient-Centered Care Teamwork and Collaboration Evidence-based Practice Quality Improvement Informatics Safety (added by QSEN)
For this writing assignment, you are to focus on one of the CCs: Describe one of the IOM Core Competencies (CCs), and the impact it has on patient care outcomes.
Research the CC in peer-reviewed, scholarly sources (at least 3 sources in addition to your text) and reflect upon these articles to form an independent opinion of how to best improve patient outcomes by increasing awareness of the CCs you have chosen.
Describe three ways in which you can positively impact your clinical practice and patient care outcomes with your chosen CCs.
Think about the current challenges in health care delivery and report on potential barriers to implementing the strategies you have suggested.
There are no right or wrong answers, only more or less reflection and research. Follow APA guidelines for paper format, grammar & language. Cite in-text and list references from scholarly and peer-reviewed sources. Length: 4-6 pages of text (not including the abstract, title page, references, etc).
The Assessment Rubric for Critical Thinking (ARC) Assessment Profile is a written demonstration of your competence to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a management problem and create a bridge between theory and application. A successful ARC project will demonstrate your capacities to examine, question, critique, modify, and reflect on an issue associated with the improvement of a management situation. This will include utilizing your critical thinking skills to intellectually explore and critically examine a problem/issue, develop a perspective on this problem/issue and provide support in favor of your perspective. There are six major goals within the ARC Assessment Profile. They are:
1) Communication: Define the problem. a. Identify the main issue or problem in the Scenario: Aggressive Behavior at Chevron Medical Center. b. Support your choice of the main idea or problem with details and examples. c. How does this issue or problem impact the department in general and the workers in the department?
2) Analysis: Compare & contrast available solutions. a. What is your goal? b. Clarify your objectives for addressing the issue and/or problem. c. What do you hope to accomplish? d. What will you need in order to accomplish your objectives? e. What are the end results your are looking toward?
3) Problem Solving: Select one of the available solutions and defend it as your chosen solution. a. Create one primary solution and one imaginative new alternatives. Defend your chosen solution and alternative. b. Back up your choice through facts and or evidence that support your primary and alternative solutions.
4) Evaluation: Identify the weaknesses of your chosen primary and alterative solutions. a. Envision any consequences within your chosen primary and alternative solutions. b. What will you do if the employee refuses to accept and/or follow your directives?
5) Synthesis: Suggest ways to improve/strengthen your chosen primary OR alternative solution. a. Identify concepts and ideas from multiple sources that improve or strengthen your solution. b. Identify possible trade-offs and the impact that trade-off may or may not have on your solution and department. c. Identify potential missing information and the impact that missing information may or may not have had on your solution.
6) Reflection: Reflect on your own thought process after completing the assignment. a. Identify the strengths and weaknesses in your thought process with this project. b. Where there bias’ in your thinking? c. What did you learn from doing this project? d. What would you do different next time to improve your critical thinking skills process? Each goal has specific predetermined questions that must be included in your document along with your assessment of the issue/problem at Chevron Medical Center (see below Scenario: Aggressive Behavior at Chevron Medical Center). The ARC Assessment Profile’s assigned goal sections will be submitted in weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, & 12 of this course. You only need to submit the goal assigned for each particular week. Your weekly document will be graded/assessed utilizing the ARC grading rubric. See separate document in the “Student Resources Folder”.
Critical Thinking Case study: Scenario: Aggressive Behavior at Chevron Medical Center Chevron Medical Center is a 300 bed trauma hospital in La Porte, Indiana. Chevron Medical Center is a Joint Commission approved Medicare, Medicaid facility and houses a separate large outpatient surgery center adjacent to the main hospital. (You) Sandy Marshall is the Director of Health Information Management, and manage all of the records for both the main hospital and the outpatient surgery center. Ten months ago, Chevron Medical Center moved totally away from paper medical records and implemented an electronic health record (EHR) system. The move was completed in three phases over an eighteen month time span. The majority of your 16 employees were ecstatic about the move to an EHR and were fully onboard with the change. One of your employees, Donna Hartford is frustrated over all of the security features associated with the new EHR. Donna is very vocal about wanting some of the security features disabled so she can get faster access to patient records and not have to sign in multiple times a day due to the systems auto shut down if idle for 10 minutes. The current process in place for all hospital employees is to first log on to Chevron Medical Center’s main system with a user name (assigned by the hospital IT department) and password (selected by the employee); second, then log on to the electronic health record using the main user name but a different password along with an access code (again assigned by the hospital IT department). Donna wants to sign on one time and access anything she wants within the main system and electronic health record for as long as she wants with no additional logons or lock outs. She has assured you and the hospitals risk management department she will sign off completely when she goes on breaks, lunch, and at the end of her shift. Donna has been extremely negative in regards to the new EHR sign on process and has made it a daily goal of hers to complain to anyone and everyone she comes in contact with. This includes co-workers, physician's, department heads, other employees within the facility, and etc. Once a week, you have a brief department meeting with your staff just to touch base on how things are going, new items you need to share with them, productivity levels, concerns, and etc. During these meetings, Donna exhibits severe negative behavior emphasizing the need to eliminate the security features within the EHR. She becomes very verbally aggressive when one or more of her co-workers do not agree with her and say they have no issues with the process currently in place. There have been one or two times she has hit her fist on the table and shook her finger at everyone. Donna's behavior is very disruptive and has all your other employee's fearful she may become physically violent at any given moment. You have consulted Donna on her behavior in the past and she manages to tone it down for several weeks. But within two to three weeks she is back to her aggressive behavior again. You have had quite a number of complaints from other employee's throughout the facility and know you must take action to control this situation. Due to the State and Federal rules and regulations in regards to confidentiality and security of patient health information, you are at a loss as to how to possibly accommodate Donna's request. You have reviewed: 1. Chevron Medical Center's internal policy and procedures on confidentiality, security, and access to patient health records. It clearly states due to HIPAA and Joint Commission regulations, all EHR systems must be equipped with confidentiality, security, and access controls for protecting patient health records. Your task, utilizing the 6 goals of the ARC, is to assess the issue/problem with Donna.
for this assignment, consult the "Professional Communication Cultural Sensitivity Guide."
Write a paper of 1,000-1,250 words on a specific cultural group. Use the following guidelines:
Select one article from a nursing journal focused on a cultural group. In the introduction, state your reason for selecting the cultural group. Summarize the key points of the article. Apply the new information to a practice situation that demonstrates cultural sensitivity in communication, reflecting the reading in chapter 25. Write a conclusion.
Professional Communication Cultural Sensitivity Guide:
Title of Paper
This is the introduction. It should include purpose of paper and rationale for selection of specific cultural group. It would be appropriate to cite information from your textbook regarding the importance of cultural competence in nursing.
Summary of Article
Summarize article succinctly. Then focus on the key cultural differences that should be taken into consideration when providing care.
Application to Practice
In this section, be sure to focus on communication (assessing, comforting, teaching) that would demonstrate cultural sensitivity to the cultural group. You may also include other nursing interventions that would demonstrate cultural sensitivity. Cite from chapters in text to provide additional general information applicable to key points.
Conclusion
In the conclusion, address the importance of cultural sensitivity in communication, both generally and with this population. Describe any conclusions you have drawn from the article/text readings related to this paper. Do not introduce new information.
References
Provide complete information for the references you have cited in your paper.
This week we have been exploring the use of surveys in Health Services Research. Our discussion board will have two parts and you should address each of these areas based on your selected topic (helicobacter pylori).
Part I
Find an article about a research study using one of the Berkeley College databases (Proquest, EBSCO Host, etc.) that addresses your topic and utilizes a survey method design. Briefly describe the research question and how the study used the survey method to answer the research question. Be sure to include a very brief description of the study findings and post an APA formatted reference citation for your article.
Part II
Develop a research question related to your topic that you would like to explore and briefly describe how you would study it using a survey method. Who would you survey? What type of survey would you use? What types of questions would you ask?
Talk about ISO standards (International Organization for Standardization). You can pick one of the standards OR talk about more than one standard... the first page has to be an introduction... then 3 page body paragraphs, and a conclusion page. USE CITATIONS AND MAKE SURE THE REFERENCES ARE CLEAR in the reference page. Could you pleas use 5 resources. Finally, I need the paper to be free plagiarism, grammar mistakes
There are many reimbursement methods that are utilized to reimburse physicians and facilities for the services and procedures that they provide to patients. A physician and the facility must keep track of the services and procedures that they are providing to the patients to bill out and receive the appropriate reimbursement. The chargemaster or charge description master (CDM) is the billing process that is used in all health care facilities, and it is updated yearly.
Focus your discussion on the following questions:
What are the consequences of not utilizing current codes and charges? Discuss how using last year’s CDM will affect the current year’s bottom line. Will this create a positive or negative result for the health care facility? Explain your answer. How can facilities ensure that the current CDM is used?
Read the following article(s): 1. Tanner, C. (2006). Thinking like a nurse: A research-based model of clinical judgment in nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, 45(6) 204-211.
Write a response as indicated below. 1. Your response is to demonstrate an understanding of critical judgment and how it impacts nursing practice.
** Include citations to the required reading or any additional resources as appropriate to support your response.
**Review Tanner's suggested model for clinical judgment (Tanner, 2006).
**Using Tanner's model, explain a scenario in which a nurse could have used clinical judgment.
**Write at least a paragraph for each of the aspects of the model (noticing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting).
An MDRO is a multi-drug-resistant-organism. This means it is extremely difficult or impossible to kill with current antibiotics. Often, the only drugs that will kill the organism will also kill the patient. We will discuss the "red queen hypothesis" and drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms and how this applies to pathogens and parasites in the post-antibiotic era.
What are some of the things that humans are doing to up the ante for microorganisms to adapt? How are they doing this? What has been the response from populations of microorganisms and how has their response been achieved? What have people been doing as a counter measure? Complete the reading and videos for chapters 13, 14, & 15 before writing your post. Find and properly cite a recent (past 2 years) article supporting your statement/position. Internet articles and your book are also acceptable as citations as long as the citations are done correctly. Describe how people have contributed to a pathogenic microorganism's adaptation, what that adaptation is, and what must now be done in response to the new adaptation. Who do you think is winning or are we at a Red Queen stalemate?
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