This is an individual assignment. Based on the feedback offered by the provider, identify the best approach for teaching. Prepare a presentation to accompany the teaching plan and present the information to your community. Select one of the following options for delivery of the presentation:

1. PowerPoint presentation – no more than 30 minutes
2. Pamphlet presentation – 1 to 2 pages
3. Poster presentation

Appropriate community settings include:

1. Public health clinic
2. Community health center
3. Long-term care facility
4. Transitional care facility
5. Home health center
6. University/School health center
7. Church community
8. Adult/Child care center

Before presenting information to the community, seek approval from an agency administrator or representative.

Upon receiving approval from the agency, include the “Community Teaching Experience Form” as part of your assignment submission.

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

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

No plagiarism please.

Will need minimum of 300 words, APA Style, double spaced, times new roman, font 12, and Include: (3 references within years 2015-2018) with intext citations. 

Topic: Pediatric Conditions 

Upper respiratory disorders: 

Acute nasopharyngitis (The common cold)  and 

rhinosinusitis (commonly known as siusitis)

You are expected to present your initial topic including, but not limited to, the following items:  Use the below headings while answering the questions. 

• Pathophysiology
• Epidemiology
• Physical exam findings
• Differential diagnoses and rationale
• Management plan to include diagnostic testing, medications if applicable, follow-up plans and referrals if needed

Instructions

Poetry Analysis – Final Draft

By the due date assigned, submit your revised analytical essay on poetry as a Microsoft Word document.

Consider the feedback you received on the Week 1 rough draft from your instructor, peers, and Smarthinking (if your paper was submitted for review), and determine what changes you want to make. Consider:

• Do you need a more engaging opener or a stronger thesis?
• Do you need to reinforce your arguments and add more supporting evidence?
• Do you have areas to develop or clarify?
• Are you satisfied with your conclusion?

Once you have revised the essay, review it for editing issues. Run the spell checker and grammar checker in Word, and then proofread, looking for typos the checkers might have missed. Read it aloud to listen for awkward places and to fine tune the flow. Make sure you have applied APA rules of style to source citations as well as the overall formatting of your essay. 

Of the leadership theories discussed this week, which one did this nurse leader subscribe to? Why?

            Of the leadership theories discussed this week the Participative (Democratic) style most describes the nurse leader at my workplace. She includes the staff when making decisions and welcomes open group discussions before making final decisions.” A participative management style is pervasive, and staff feedback is not just welcomed but expected by leaders in making decisions about the work of patient care” (Porter-O’Grady, T. 2016 P.17)

How has your experience been with the nurse leader? Provide a description of your interactions with him or her?

           My nurse leader was recently promoted from charge nurse to manager; she’s the perfect person for the job. We’re all enthused that she has this position, she was a floor nurse just months prior and still remembers the challenges we face caring for six patients. Recently I had a confused, anxious, combative, unsteady, high fall risk patient, who lived at home alone. Due to his combative, uncooperative nature the hospital Doctor issued a discharge home to self -care order.  I knew that he was in no condition to go home alone, he would return to the hospital within hours in worst shape. Due to my role and responsibility as my patient’s advocate, I went in to speak to my nurse leader in private and addressed all my concerns. She quickly got the case management supervisor involved in the case and requested a physical therapy evaluation. As a team we were able to prevent an unsafe discharge from hospital.

This article discusses how the critical social theory should be utilized as a framework for academic nursing practice.  The preface of critical social theory is that nurses must maintain a level of self-reflection to maintain the areas of practice without forgetting that patient problems are as important as treating the condition.  This includes being able to assess all of the dimensions utilized as nursing care is delivered.  This is bigger than locating a problem and instituting a solution it also involves a behavioral shift to utilize emotional and behavioral solutions as well.  They discuss how the nurses actions are dictated by actions other than the nurses original intentions such as; the manner the situation is being treated, the view regarding who should be in charge of the interaction, the center of commitment to the client, practitioner, organization, and the nature of communication that is appropriate for that specific interaction (Swartz, 2014).  They further discuss how the nursing profession is somewhat oppressed in that many advanced practice nurses feel that they are powerless without their physician backing them.  They also discuss how nursing has difficulty obtaining support to institute programs such as proper nutrition for cardiac wellness but there is significant backing for bypass procedures.  This is similar to the oppression discussed in the critical social theory.  The discussion of transpersonal learning through active participation from teachers and learners instead of the traditional forms of presenting material.  This learning format promotes respect and collaboration.  Utilizing the critical social theory to assess areas of oppression, in order to open the discussion for change and improvement would greatly benefit any nursing and education in nursing environment.  Empowering the nurses to be actively engaged in the process of change encourages commitment to the organization and allegiance to improvements. 

References

Swartz, M. K. (2014, May). Critical Theory as a Framework for Academic Nursing Practice. Journal of Nursing Education, 53(5), 271-276. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20140408-01