Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to post one scholarly activity while you are in the BSN program, which should be documented by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

Submit, as the assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Please provide proper citation with page numbers of the material you are referencing in your Main Post.

1. Give a brief description how you would assess the reproductive system of a male or female patient, young adult, middle age, or older patient (choose).You may only cover one aspect of the assessment.
2. Discuss, in brief, one psychosocial or psychological impact of the effect of breast disorder of a patient. Choose which disorder you want to talk about.
3. Discuss, in brief, one gynecologic problem of a patient. Choose which disorder you want to talk about.

  

Create a concise summary, no more than two pages in length, explaining the following elements.

• Include      a minimum of two peer-reviewed scholarly sources (current within 5 years)      to support your work
• Introduction
• Statement      of personal leadership style
• Change      advocacy statement and rationale
• Conclusion

 

Prepare a 3–4 page report on a critical health issue in a community or state. Describe the factors that contribute to the health issue and interventions that have been implemented. Explain the scope and role of nursing in the interventions, and recommend ways the scope of the interventions might be expanded.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

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• Competency 1: Explain the factors that affect the health of communities.
  • Explain the factors that contribute to a critical health care issue within a specific community.
• Competency 2: Apply evidence-based interventions to promote health and disease prevention and respond to community health issues.
  • Describe current interventions to target a critical health care issue within a specific community.
  • Describe the scope and role of nursing in current interventions that target a critical health care issue.
  • Recommend evidence-based ways to expand the scope of interventions to target a critical health care issue.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of a nursing professional.
  • Describe a critical health care issue within a specific community.
  • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Correctly format citations and references, using current APA style.

 

Requirements

Format this assessment as a professional report. It may help to look at reports or other documents used within your organization and to follow that formatting. You must still follow APA guidelines for in-text citations and references, and include a title page and reference page.

Within the report:

• Describe one critical health issue in your community or state that has grown larger or has the potential to become larger. Be sure to include any statistics available on the health issue. Tip: check your county and/or state health department Web site.
• Explain the factors that contribute to this health issue. Consider things such as access to health care services, economics, culture, attitude, education, health care policies, and so on.
• Describe any interventions your community or state has put in place to address the health care issue. Include information on how long the interventions have been in place, how the community was made aware of the interventions, and so on.
• Describe the scope and role of nursing and public health nursing in the interventions to reduce the health issue.
• Recommend evidence-based ways the scope of the interventions could be expanded to increase positive health outcomes. Think in terms of cost, efficiency and access, effectiveness, and the use of both conventional and unconventional interventions.

Additional Requirements

Complete your assessment using the following specifications:

• Title page and reference page.
• Number of pages: 3–4 (not  including the title and reference pages).
• At least 3 current scholarly or professional resources.
• APA format for citations and references.
• Times New Roman font, 12-point, double-spaced.

  

Ticket to Simulation

Student Name _____________________________________ Date _______________________

Diagnosis Gestational diabetes

Pathophysiology (this is not a definition-try to find out what is happening in the tissue/cells/body)

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Textbook Signs and Symptoms

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Recommended Treatments (be specific if possible, don’t just say medications, say beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, etc.)

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Teaching (what topics of patient education are important for this disease process. For example: for diabetes, weight control, diabetic diet, etc.)

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Prevention (what could have been done to prevent the patient from developing this disease process, if possible)

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Make sure to cite your sources.