Submit an evidence-based practice paper about cultural competency in mental health nursing. An evidence-based practice paper allows you to explore best practice and help improve client outcomes on a psychiatric unit. Your paper should describe how you, as a nurse, will include – or have included – cultural awareness in a client diagnosed with a mental illness. The person you describe could be someone in your clinical setting, someone you have worked with in the past, or a theoretical client. 

Remember that culture can also include gender equality, sexual orientation, and other cultures besides race and religion – including cultures unique to one particular family. Your paper should be at least 3 pages (double-spaced, not including the title or reference pages) in APA Format and include:

• Assessment: Discuss what you would assess in regard to a client’s culture. For example, are there specific dietary requirements? Are schedule changes necessary to avoid conflicts with religious practices? Who is the spokesperson for the family? What would you assess?
• Diagnosis: List any mental health nursing diagnoses this person has or may be at risk for. Include at least one cultural diagnosis.
• Planning: What planning needs to be done to ensure the cultural and emotional safety of the client? 
• Implementation: What are interventions that would ensure the safety of your client in regard to culture? Include at least two interventions. For example, if your client has religious beliefs that affect the ability to take medications, what interventions would you create to ensure the client’s safety? What can you do to make sure the client’s cultural needs are met?
• Evaluation: How will you evaluate whether your implementation was effective? Make sure the parameters are objective and measurable.
• In your summary, discuss whether any completed interventions were successful. What could be done differently in the future? If the interventions have not yet been carried out, you might discuss some institutional changes that could be made to ensure cultural safety for all clients in that setting.

 

Assignment Description

Professional Platform for Ethics and Leadership

The role of the health care professional includes being a moral agent or a person whose actions affect themselves and others at a moral level. It is important to have a personal ethic or moral framework in which you ground your practice and professional relationships. The purpose of this assignment is to explore and create a foundation for leadership and ethics in your professional practice.

Write a reflection on the nature, sources, and implications of your values, beliefs, and ethical perspectives that guide your personal life and nursing practice. Please note, grading is based on the clarity and depth of your writing and the apparent effort given the assignment, not on the rightness or wrongness of your position. You are encouraged to be honest in your self-assessments and conclusions.

Each of the following points must be addressed in your essay:

• Primary influences (childhood and adult)
• Ethical principles that influence you personally and professionally
• Ethical practice of professional nursing
• Ethical leadership and professional development plan. Include both positive and negative aspects of your character that emerge when you are in a position of authority

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1500 to 2000 words total.

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Your assignment should include at least two (2) scholarly sources PLUS the textbook.

Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.

Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word

Respond  by offering one or more additional mitigation strategies or further insight into your colleagues’ assessment of big data opportunities and risks.

      

                                                                

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                                                          Big data benefits

Big data is the compilation of insurmountable information gathered. As Milton (2017) suggested, it encompasses everything from “digital technologies, online services, computing devices,” (Milton, 2017). Big data can be used by banks, the stock market, healthcare system, it’s a matter of taking which information is relevant to what. The part of big data that I’m interested in is what can be used to provide personalized healthcare. In the world of nursing, everyone can agree that the electronic health record (EHR) is a great technology. As this technology advances, it is important that it is also standardized and agreed upon across the board. Charting nursing assessments must be consistent in order to make sense of what was observed. This, in turn, will make turning data into useful information easier when it comes to data interpretation. Nurses utilize all this information to come up with a well-thought-out nursing intervention to provide the best patient care possible. The ever-changing EHR, the accumulation of information gathered from patients through advancement in technology, and the continuous improvements in the current technology in healthcare are all great, however, it was designed to lessen the burden on nurses when it comes to charting and documentation. It seems as though, the more improvements and modifications the electronic health system develops, the more time the nurses are to spend on the computers, inputting more data and interpreting results in the hopes of improving patient care, while at the same time not essentially performing “patient care.” 

                                                          Big data challenge in nursing care

The biggest benefit of big data in healthcare is I believe the organization of the EHR. As a nurse, being in the front line of healthcare, I have observed the real benefits of electronic health records. The organization I work for has multiple hospitals and outpatient centers, and if the physician is part of this organization, he/she can then access all information in the EHR. This current technology is indeed great for everyone involved, patients and clinicians alike, as the information they would need is readily available. My only concern as a nurse is that it somehow takes away from the nurse to patient relationship. As I have observed in nursing practice, charting can become redundant and unnecessary. This simple redundancy in charting is, in fact, a hindrance in a nurse to patient interaction. I would certainly hope that the future modifications of the electronic health record would reduce redundancy and must be more standardized.

A strategy that I believe has the potential to lighten this growing issue is charting by exception. I surmise, charting by exception will give nurses a little less time to spend on the computer and more time at the bedside. This will improve patient morale and satisfaction if they actually interact more with their nurses instead of having the nurse stare at a computer screen while talking to them.

                                                                              Big data risk

An information security breach is I believe the biggest threat with the use of big data. Protected health information or PHI, if stolen can wreak havoc in an individual’s life. According to Milton (2017), “big data, by design, are intended to reveal unforeseen connections between data points.” (Milton, 2017). Patient privacy must be protected at all times, confidentiality is essential and must never be compromised. I surmise the information security we currently have is really hard to break however, I also assumed that was the case with credit companies like Equifax, even big banks like J.P. Morgan Chase. If hackers can hack through those, it’s only a matter of time for them to hack through health records. 

References

Arora, A., Garg, S., & Khanduja, V. (2017). Applications of big data in real world: It’s not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know. International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation, 159-163.

Delaney, C. W., & Westra, B. (2017). Big data: Data science in nursing. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 39(1), 3-4.

Henley, S. J. (2014). Mother lodes and mining tools: Big data for nursing science. Nursing Research, 63(3), 155.

Milton, C. L. (2017). The ethics of big data and nursing science. Ethical Issues, 30(4), 300-302.

Needleman, J. (2013). Increasing acuity, increasing technology, and the changing demands on nurses. Nursing Economic$, 31(4), 200-202.

 

CAN YOU COMPLETE THIS DISSCUSSION WITHIN A COUPLE HOURS ?NEED IT TODAY 300 WORD LENGTH 

HIV Help-Inc., a non-profit organization focusing on the prevention of HIV/AIDS just received a $10 million grant to fund several projects.  The organization is currently located in an older building that needs extensive repairs. The organization is using outdated office equipment In addition, one additional staff member is needed in order to keep up with incoming phone calls and requests for presentations and community outreach activities. A portion of the grant – $2 million – is allotted for business improvements which can address one of these three areas: repairs to building, outdated office equipment, and more staff. The remaining $8 million is to be used to further enhance the continuum of care level to provide access to preventive health services.

• Section A: Create a cost benefit analysis for an update that will improve the business: structural, office equipment, or staff. You can be creative in determining what the business needs.  The cost will use the full amount of funds allotted to this improvement ($2 Million), so you can only improve one of these three needs
  Note: Your work must include Steps 1-4, as outlined in section 7.2 of your course text.  
   
• Section B: Create a cost effective analysis to determine how to best spend the $8 million portion of the grant funding on education and other preventive services.
  The organization currently serves the community and clientele with community education classes at schools and community centers, as well as the distribution of condoms and educational materials. They wish to expand their current services to reach the neighboring community (4,000 residents), add social media advertising and messaging to reach the younger population, distribute educational material and condoms to homeless shelters in the area, and add HIV testing to at-risk individuals. Select two of the potential services and determine how the money can be best spent to have the greatest outcome for the HIV+ population in the community.
  Note: Your work must address the costs as well as the anticipated benefits, as outlined in section 7.2 of your course text
   
• Section C: Based on the  CDC website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., analyze how cultural norms impact the risk of getting HIV.  Explain one method or action on how to address this challenge.
  Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Use proper APA formatting for in-text citations and references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Cente

The Assignment: (2- to 3-page Comparison Grid and 1-page Fact Sheet)

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid

Based on the presidential administrations you are comparing, complete the Agenda Comparison Grid. Be sure to address the following:

• Identify and provide a brief description of the healthcare issue you selected.
• Identify which administrative agency would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected.
• How does the healthcare issue get on the agenda and how does it stay there?
• Who was the entrepreneur/champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected?

Part 2: Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief

Based on your Agenda Comparison Grid for the healthcare issue you selected, develop a 1-page Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief that you could use to communicate with a policymaker/legislator or a member of their staff for this healthcare issue. Be sure to address the following:

• Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation.
• Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.