Topic: Cultural Assessment

1. Assess and include transcultural beliefs including language, religious practices, socioeconomic status, end-of-life practices, dietary preferences, risky behaviors

2. Identify healthcare behaviors (i.e. nontraditional therapies)

3. Identify challenges and barriers to healthcare and outcomes related to these challenges

4. Develop an evidence-based plan that can be used to improve healthcare outcomes and access to healthcare (including use of IT systems, interdisciplinary members, etc.) for your selected culture. Provide supporting data from peer-reviewed articles.

APA 7th edition formatted, 4-page paper (excluding title and reference pages)

Minimum of 3 references within 5 years

 Utilizing Process Improvement Models in Saudi Healthcare Settings (110 points)

You have been asked by the Board of Directors to persuade stakeholders in your healthcare organization to adopt Lean Six Sigma.

In this assignment, you will write an executive summary that can be distributed to inform stakeholders about Lean Sigma and how it will benefit your organization and your plan for implementation.

In each summary, you will include the following:

• A succinct overview of the model
• The impact of the model on quality
• The impact of the model on cost
• Barriers to implementation in your organization and how you would address them
• Brief implementation plan

There are many formats for executive summaries, but they all include relevant headings and succinct descriptions.

Click on the following link to view an example of an executive summary, if desired:

Executive Summary Example Executive Summary Example – Alternative Formats

Your well-written executive summary should meet the following requirements:

• Each executive summary should be 2-to-3 pages in length, excluding the cover and reference pages.
• The summary should have its own reference page.
• Provide full APA references for the articles selected and any additional sources used, along with appropriate in-text citations.
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the others must be external.
• Formatted per Saudi Arabia Electronic University and APA formatting guidelines.
• Utilize headings to organize the content of your work.
• Make sure headings correspond to the assignment requirements.

DQ1.  250 WORDS CITATION AND REFERENCES

During your practicum, determine what clinical problem or issue the organization is facing. Discuss two implications for nursing.

DQ2. 250 WORDS CITATION AND REFERENCES

What is the main issue for your organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice? Discuss what might be the first step in addressing and resolving this issue.

 

1) Minimum 8  full pages (Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part)

              Part 1: Minimum 1 page

              Part 2: minimum 3 page

              Part 3: minimum 1 page

              Part 4: minimum 1 page

              Part 5: minimum 1 page

              Part 6: minimum 1 page

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms

          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs

          Bulleted responses are not accepted

          Dont write in the first person 

          Dont copy and pase the questions.

          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

         Submit 1 document per part

3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks) 

********************************It will be verified by SafeAssign (Identify the percentage of similarity of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)

4) Minimum 3 references per part not older than 5 years

                Part 3: Minimum 5 references not older than 5 years         

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question. Start your answer on the same line, not the next

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.doc 

__________________________________________________________________________________

Part 1: Health Care Policy

1. Describe a type of health care spending that you consider wasteful or services that you consider have little or no benefit. 

2. Explain why you find the spending wasteful, and if eliminated, what impact it may have on the American public.

Part 2: Health Care Policy 2

  

Meeting: Maternal Health and Mortality: 

Topic: “The House Ways and Means Committee convened a hearing to discuss the high rate of mothers dying due to causes related to pregnancy or childbirth in the U.S. Olympian and gold medalist track and field athlete Allyson Felix testified about the need to address the racial disparities with maternal health care” (“House Committee Examines Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality Rates”, n.d.).

Location: May 16th, 2019 @ C-Span.org

Link: https://www.c-span.org/video/?460809-1/house-committee-examines-racial-disparities-maternal-mortality-rates&start=1692&transcriptQuery=nicu

1. The purpose of the meeting, key participants, key agenda items, and meeting logistics

2. Background information and a description about the committee

3. One specific topic that was discussed at the meeting and an explanation of the committee process

4.An analysis of the key stakeholder positions related to the topic discussed

5. Key interactions that occurred at the meeting

6. Outcomes of the meeting including the specific topic focus

Part 3: Nursing research

   

1) What type of analysis you are conducting in your research

studies and explain it?  cross-sectional quantitative descriptive study  

2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of both inferential analysis and qualitative analysis?

Part 4: Nursing role and scope

1. Describe a clinical experience that was troubling to you. 

2. Describe what bothered you about the experience and what could have you done differently utilizing critical thinking.

Part 5: Physical Assessment

1. A patient who has smoked for 20 years has a desire to quit. He has COPD. 

a. Discuss the 5 A’s used in assessing readiness to quit smoking.

b. Discuss the “Stages of Change Model” that assesses readiness to quit as well.

2. A patient has come to the emergency room with severe dyspnea. A pulmonary embolism (PE) is suspected.

a. What other clinical manifestations are indicative of a PE?

b. What is a major risk factor for development of a PE?

Part 6: Physical Assessment 2

During assessment of the apical pulse,the nurse has the patient supine. They locate the apical impulse at the 6th intercostal space near the axilla area. 

1. Discuss normal location of apical pulse and suggest causes for the location at the 6th intercostal space.

Stroke volume (the volume of blood ejected with each heartbeat) depends in turn on preload, myocardial contractility, and afterload. 

2. Discuss these cardiovascular components and discuss disease processes related to each of them.

Select ONE of the organizational or behavioral change models which were used successfully for evidence-based practice change in healthcare for many years. Select ONE model or theory from the readings or lesson this week and:
1-List the steps or the components in the change model or theory.
2-Does the model or theory contain a component for appraising the evidence?
3-Does the model or theory contain a component for networking with the stakeholders during all phases of practice change?
4-Does the model contain components for identifying barriers and addressing barriers to implementation? 

Please answer these questions separated and use at least 3 sources no later than 5 years.

You can use this sources:

 

Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2019). NR-701 Week 4: Change Theory and Models for Change Intervention [Online lesson]. Downers Grove, IL: Adtalem.

White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. F. (2016). Translation of evidence into nursing and health care (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.