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Discuss how you feel nurses can positively impact the Healthy people 2020 goals.

Healthy people 2020 has many goals. I feel nurses can greatly impact the healthy people 2020 goals by first teaching patients about prevention. Healthy people goals for global health is one of those preventions. “Improve public health and strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies.” Disease detection starts with well check-ups with your primary care physician. Nursing strategies include educating patients on the importance of keeping check-up appointments. Any chronic illness to be assessed and any new information to be given to patient verbally or written materials given to patient.

Secondly, we as nurses can introduce health promotion. Healthy people 2020 in immunizations and infectious disease goals, “Increase immunization rates and reduce preventable infectious diseases.” Floor nurses can educate patients before discharge on influenzas, pneumonia, or shingles vaccine. We in the cancer center as nurses give handouts on neutropenia symptoms and how to prevent infection (we have many patients that are or become neutropenic). We handout thermometers and give face masks to our patients.  According to NIH.gov, “Nurses must have an evidence-based understanding of the significant effect that can be made through health promotion interventions and communicate this understanding to the public at large. As more people grow in their awareness of activities that lead to good health and become knowledgeable about their own health status and the health of their families, the overall health of the population will improve.” At my hospital where I work we have health screening fairs a few times a year. Other hospitals around our town offer that as well.

According to my current other class Caring for the Community in week 2 it discusses the first level of prevention which is primary prevention. “This is conventional prevention—preventing an undesirable thing from happening. It includes efforts at immunization, nutrition teaching, and education about modes of transmission of communicable disease. For example, encouraging people to protect themselves from the sun’s ultraviolet rays is an example of primary prevention of skin cancer. Other examples in primary prevention include well baby clinics, HIV community education efforts, and programs that discourage substance abuse. In the community, this may involve fitness events, water fluoridation, or even efforts to install sidewalks near schools.”

 Topic 2 DQ 1

Hello Everyone. Our century is the century of new technology. New technologies, new machines appear in our life so frequently that we sometimes do not even pay attention to this. The new technology is coming to the hospitals as well. A self-help kiosk in the hospitals and health care organizations is the new reality that already came into our life. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the self-help kiosks?

Advantages:

1. Medical kiosks are reducing patients’ waiting time
2. Secure biometric authentication
3. Less errors due to human mistakes
4. Reduce cost for the facility
5. Different and more secure payment options
6. Keeping distance between patients helping to reduce spreading the virus

Disadvantages:

1. Lack of human interaction, a patient needs to put an effort if he/she needs attention and the patient has a question about payments and some appointments.
2. Older populations sometimes do not understand the interface and the programs and get confused.
3. Software has to be constantly updated and high cost of maintenance

The group of medical researchers made a study about the self-help kiosk, a database was explored from 2001- 2018. The research made this conclusion: “This study found that health kiosks are promising, cost-effective and multifunctional tools; if included in the formal health system of countries, they may improve health indicators in countries. However, before deploying, their challenges and concerns need to be investigated and addressed. (Mozhgan, L. 2020). It was proven that self-help kiosks are more efficient and have more advantages than disadvantages, however, we should consider the older population as well and make sure that they are not left without the help.

 With the growing importance of increasing wage rates for employees, many health care organizations are implementing technology such as self-help kiosks to reduce staffing. Describe both an advantage and a disadvantage to this practice and discuss how patients may perceive reductions in dedicated staffing. 

  

Using 200-300 words APA format with at least two references. Sources must be published within the last 5 years. Add critical thinking in the posts along with research. Apply the material in a substantial way. 

 Discussion – Dialysis Safety

Hemodialysis (also known as “dialysis”) is a common treatment for patients with kidney disease. In the United States, more than 468,000 patients are on dialysis (NIH, 2018). Since 1993, hospitalization rates related to the process of dialysis has risen between 47-87% (CDC, 2018).

Many patients seek dialysis care at outpatient facilities that are not inspected as frequently as other healthcare facilities, like nursing homes and hospitals. For example, in California, kidney dialysis clinics are only inspected on average once every six years.

In your post, address the following questions:

• Should kidney dialysis centers be held to the same safety standards as other healthcare facilities?
• Are current regulations for dialysis centers strong enough?
• Should more frequent inspections be required?
• Are there other ways to reduce the risk of infection for dialysis patients?

 Review this Week’s assigned readings from the Walden e-Guide and the document, “Technical Tips for Learning at Walden,” in the Learning Resources.

• Review this week’s media program, “Tips for Effective Online Composition and Communication.”
• Think about some strategies you have used, or read about, that may be beneficial for effective planning, time management, communication, and technology use.
• Consider how the strategies you have identified can contribute to being a successful online learner.

  

Pancreatic Cancer

Written Research Project Guidelines:

  

Select a cancer either in the adult or pediatric   population to research( Pancreatic   Cancer ) You   will write a paper based on the rubric below. This assignment is an opportunity   for you to explore a particular cancer of interest to you. Its purpose is to   assess your understanding and demonstrate your practical application of the   pathophysiologic processes that occur in diseases. This comprehensive paper   will be 10 pages in length and should include the following components: 

 

Abstract

10%

 

Introduction

10%

 

Pathophysiology   of the disease

10%

 

Description   of the clinical manifestations and assessments

10%

 

Diagnostic   Studies/ Laboratories

10%

 

Clinical   Management/ Treatment Modalities

10%

 

Evaluation   of Treatments

10%

 

Patient   Education and Safety (QSEN)

10%

 

Choose one   case study related to the disease   process. Articles must be less than 5 years old, from a scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. 

10%

 

APA format   (title page, headers, heading, in-text citations, reference page)

10%

 

TOTAL

100%

Specific writing requirements

REWRITES ARE NOT ALLOWED

 

1. All paper submitted must be in APA format according to      Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th      ed.). 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5. Use precise APA format that includes correct punctuation,      spelling, sentence structures, and references. 
2. Must include at least 5 peer-reviewed references,      including McCance, K. L., &      Huether, S, E. (2015). 7th ed and Publication Manual American Psychological      Association (APA) (6th ed.).

    

3. Type must be Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced.

 

4. Use the spell check function on the computer (will help with #1).
 

5. Use a COVER page following APA guidelines 

6. Paper must be sent via email on due date. Papers will be submitted to Turn It In for evaluation of plagiarism. A similarity index of 20% or above will result in the paper receiving a failing grade.

7. Papers turned in past the due date will receive an automatic deduction of 10 points with the grade to start with a B (89).

If page numbers are limited, pages that exceed the limit will NOT be read and further points may be removed if critical content was included on the excess pages.

Must go through TURNIT IN