What strategies can staff nurses use to collect and share evidence that could impact health policy decisions?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. 

Read and watch the lecture resources & materials below early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s).

Read

Mason, Gardner, Outlaw & O’Grady text: Chapters 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13

Online Materials & Resources

1. Review: Hinshaw, A. S (2007). Shaping health policy through nursing research. American Association of College of Nursing. Available at http://www.aacn.nche.edu/membership/members-only/presentations/2007/07fall/Hinshaw.pdf (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site).
2. Read: Majumdar, S. R., & Soumerai, S. B. (2009). The unhealthy state of health policy research. Health Affairs, Supplement 28(5), 900-908.

1. Discussion 2 -421

Briefly introduce a person you have recently cared for in your nursing practice. (Be sure not to include any identifying information that would be protected by HIPAA!) Discuss the person’s view of the cause of their health condition, the person’s health literacy, and the person’s identity on the continuum of privilege-disadvantage (Table 4 in the Lor article on p. 361). What was (or would be) your approach to care for him/her in a culturally competent way?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

Read the Module 2: Lecture Materials & Resources early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s).

Required Textbook Readings

Ritter, L.A., Graham, D.H. (2017). 

Chapters 2 and 6

  

1) Minimum 5 full pages (No words)

2)¨******APA norms (Mandatory) 

            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

3) It will be verified by Turnitin and SafeAssign

4) Minimum  6 references not older than 5 years

5) ***************Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question.

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

  a) Accordinto XXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

  a)  These are the issues that arise 

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Theory of Comfort by Katharine Kolcaba 

1) Introduction (1/2 page)

    a) Identification of theorist including a brief background of the theorist (accomplishments, career, accolades, research efforts)

2) Analysis of basic components/concepts and major relationships in the theory (Minimum 2 pages)

      a) Briefly discuss the theory’s core concepts

      b) Use a secondary source that covers the selected nursing theory, you must have a minimum of 3 references from nursing literature (only one from a non-article source like a secondary source/text) to support your discussion in this section.

3)  Relevance (Minimum 2 pages)

        a)  Personal relevance if any of the authors described (connect the theorist to the theory) 

       b) Relevance to healthcare and the client discussed (connect the theory to healthcare today) 

       c) Application to research and/or practice provided (connect the theory to current research/practice) 

       d) Use at least two peer-reviewed/research articles that detail the nursing theory being applied in clinical

      e) Practice/research, and summarize key findings of both articles including results and implications for future practice

4)  Summary (1/ 2 page)

Include theory strengths and limitation in the summar