Sister Mary is a patient in Level 2 Emergency Department. She must have a neural examination, physical assessment, radiographs of her facial bones, and a computed tomography scan of the head. Taking into consideration that she is a Roman Catholic nun, what would be the ideal course of patient education as this woman progresses from […]
Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations. For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses […]
Select a research article, other than the articles from your assignments, from the GCU library. Provide an overview of the study and describe the strategy that was used to select the sample from the population. Evaluate the effectiveness of the sampling method selected. Provide support for your answer. Include the article title and permalink in […]
The Health Care Delivery System1. You are a home health care nurse scheduled for a home visit to your patient, a retired account payable clerk who is 7 days postsurgical with a new colostomy. Your patient lives with her husband who is involved in her care; they compile a list of questions between visits to […]
Description Health Care Human Resources Management Stand-Alone Project: Strategic Health Care HR (200 points) You should begin working on the Stand-Alone Project early in the course. Each assignment provides a benchmark for completing the Stand-Alone Project in a timely manner while working through the course. You will find this information in the “Stand-Alone Project Benchmark” […]
Scientists, Scientific Methods, & Ethics This week’s assignment is focused on the development of a PowerPoint presentation that will have two parts. The presentation is a minimum of 12 slides and maximum of 16 slides. Include a title slide and a reference slide. Part One: Key Events and Individuals Develop 5-6 slides that include […]
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze how an organization’s quality and improvement processes contribute to its risk management program. This assignment builds on the Risk Management Program Analysis – Part One assignment you completed in Topic 1 of this course. Assume that the sample risk management program you analyzed in Topic 1 was […]
Description Health Care is once again a central topic for political debate in America. The definition for “Health” that is chosen will set treatment and quality goals for providers (as well as reimbursements), budgets for payers (insurance companies and government insurers), as well as expectations for patients, stakeholders and policymakers. Consider each of the 3 […]
Week 3: Personality Disorders Discussion: Treatment of Personality Disorders – Histrionic Personality Disorder Explain the diagnostic criteria for your assigned personality disorder. Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned personality disorder. Describe clinical features from a client that led you to believe this client had this disorder. Align the clinical features […]
In a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, you will describe the advocacy process. Whether nurses are advocating for their patients, health care, and/or policies that improve people’s lives, the advocacy processes have commonalities that transcend the subject of their advocacy. There are also differences, although these differences may be more […]
