Scenario : Patient is an 18-year-old female with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis who presents with complaints of increased productive cough and fatigue in the last few days. The patient denies a fever but reports that her appetite hasn’t been good because she is so tired.

ALTERATIONS IN CELLULAR PROCESSES   Scenario :     Patient is an 18-year-old female with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis who presents with complaints of increased productive cough and fatigue in the last few days.  The patient denies a fever...

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND NURSING INFORMATICS

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND NURSING INFORMATICS: INTRODUCTION   Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses and respond to your colleagues. continue the discussion by commenting on how your classmates experience could enhance your own practice....

In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided a framework for the delivery of high value care in the USA, the Triple Aim, that is centred around three over- arching goals: improving the individual experience of care; improving the health of populations; and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare.

The Quadruple Aim: care, health, cost and meaning in work   Rishi Sikka,1 Julianne M Morath,2 Lucian Leape3   1Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, Illinois, USA 2Hospital Quality Institute, Sacramento, California, USA 3Harvard School of Public Health,...

Scenario # 1 You are sent to the medical ICU to help out because there were several sick calls. You are instructed by the charge nurse to take vital signs on all of the clients in the 12-bed unit. You are just completing your rounds when a call bell goes off in room three. The client in room three is recovering from septic shock but has been stable for the past 48 hours.

Purpose   Recognize common blood disorders and apply appropriate nursing interventions within the scope of practice of the LPN.   Competency   Describe nursing care interventions for clients with hematological disorders.   Instructions   Read...

A nursing leader was working with staff nurses on a particular unit where the nurses did not have much research time and were not meeting certain quality benchmarks.

When thinking about making positive social change in an organization, the need to consider the levels of strategic planning and performance improvement will dictate what is required to impact positive social change.   For this Discussion, you create and post one...

Benchmark Support Groups and Treatment Groups Compare and Contrast Paper Support Groups and Treatment Groups Instructions

COUC 691   Benchmark Support Groups and Treatment Groups Compare and Contrast Paper   Support Groups and Treatment Groups Instructions   During this class you have been required to visit a minimum of one meeting each of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA),...

Identify an ethical issue related to public healthcare that interests you.

Week 9 Assignment – An Ethical Quandary Overview In last week’s activity, you described how public health managers can effectively promote an “ethics-focused” organizational culture. Even though an ethics-based culture may exist, applying...

Pathophysiologic process for respiration

Pathophysiologic process for respiration   As you read and complete your coursework this week on diseases and conditions that can affect the respiratory and eyes, ears, nose, and throat (EENT) systems, connect what you are learning to a current or recent article...

Write a persuasive essay on Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, discussing something you believe is very important that Hurston is trying to express about race or racial matters, gender or male/female matters, nature symbolism, other symbolism, why Hurston uses dialect effectively, or the importance of shifting settings.

Persuasive Essay Their Eyes Were Watching God   Write a persuasive essay on Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,  discussing something you believe is very important that Hurston is trying to express about race or racial matters, gender or...

Case Scenario: A woman is admitted to the adult inpatient behavioral health unit after experiencing flashbacks to her rape that occurred when she was a 12-year-old girl while at her babysitter’s. She was raped by the babysitter’s 15-year-old son and three of his friends

Case Scenario:   A woman is admitted to the adult inpatient behavioral health unit after experiencing flashbacks to her rape that occurred when she was a 12-year-old girl while at her babysitter’s. She was raped by the babysitter’s 15-year-old son and...

A woman is admitted to the adult inpatient behavioral health unit after experiencing flashbacks to her rape that occurred when she was a 12-year-old girl while at her babysitter’s. She was raped by the babysitter’s 15-year-old son and three of his friends.

Case Scenario:   A woman is admitted to the adult inpatient behavioral health unit after experiencing flashbacks to her rape that occurred when she was a 12-year-old girl while at her babysitter’s. She was raped by the babysitter’s 15-year-old son and...

1. Compares and contrasts the pathophysiology between Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. (CO1) 2. Identifies the clinical findings from the case that supports a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. (CO3)

Activity Learning Outcomes   Through this discussion, the student will demonstrate the ability to:   1. Compares and contrasts the pathophysiology between Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. (CO1)   2. Identifies the clinical findings...