Support Groups for Stress Management

Article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/support-groups/art-20044655

Once you have read the article, answer the following questions.

1. What are the different structures of support groups? 

2. Name 5 benefits of support groups.

3. Name 5 risks and cons of joining a support group. 

4. What would be one question from the list that you would ask before joining and WHY? 

5. What are the red flags you should look for before joining?

The interpretation of research in health care is essential to decision making. By understanding research, health care providers can identify risk factors, trends, outcomes for treatment, health care costs and best practices. To be effective in evaluating and interpreting research, the reader must first understand how to interpret the findings. You will practice article analysis in Topics 2, 3, and 5.

For this assignment:

Search the GCU Library and find three different health care articles that use quantitative research. Do not use articles that appear in the Topic Materials or textbook. Complete an article analysis for each using the “Article Analysis 1” template.

Refer to the “Patient Preference and Satisfaction in Hospital-at-Home and Usual Hospital Care for COPD Exacerbations: Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial,” in conjunction with the “Article Analysis Example 1,” for an example of an article analysis.

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.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

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Describe how you plan to advocate for your patients. Include relevant policies and stakeholders. Given the opportunity, what organization would you develop to advocate for the public and why? Use the  American Lung Association.

Assignment Description: This assignment will be at least 1500 words or more

This week you will reflect upon the Affordable Care Act and Patient Advocacy to answer the following questions:

• How can you contribute to safe practice?  
• Briefly define your role and tell how you will advocate for the healthcare consumer
• Reflect on your future role changing as a result of policy changes
• How do you see the role of your chosen profession changing in the near future?

Assignment Expectations: How will students be successful?

• Length:
  • 1500-2000 words (6-8 pages); answers must thoroughly address the questions in a clear, concise manner
• Structure:
  • Include a title page and reference page in APA style
• References:
  • Two scholarly references are required; you should include the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions

Political actions in the healthcare sector are important to the LGBTQ community as the engagement of the nurses in political actions help improve their well-being. The nurses can actively participate in elections to put up to power the leaders they want or to bring down the leaders who do not fully satisfy their needs. The nurses can therefore engage in policy making by ensuring that manifesto of the leaders elected include the various policies they need. The nurses can ensure that the leaders being elected have the potential to listen to the various proposals of the nurses on the grounds of ensuring protection for the LGBTQ community (Amann, 2017). This will facilitate the incorporation of the recommendations of nurses in the policies. 

The nurses can stand to be elected as leaders into political position which is the most important as it pertains to LGBTQ and in all the patients. The nurses can act best in that position as they leaders can be able to implement the needed policies that will improve the healthcare sector. A nurse chairing a political position will have adequate knowledge on how policies will work in the healthcare sector and how LGBTQ community could be protected. The political position will facilitate the enhancement of the health care services for all the patients regardless of the category (Groenwald andEldridge, 2019). The political action will facilitate the improvement of the LGBTQ as awareness to the public reducing the stigma associated with them due to non-acceptance in the society.  

The nurses can also obtain training and be involved in city councils and committees where they can raise issues of concern within the industry. Participating in these trainings on political issues will facilitate the enhancement of the needed knowledge to the community on the LGBTQ. The participation in the committees will facilitate the enlighteningof the society on the healthcare delivery for all the patients (Kung and Rudner Lugo, 2015). The involvement will generate an opportunity for nurses to protect the LGBTQ from being denied some services and priorities.  

References 

Amann, C. A. (2017). Undergraduate Health Policy Education: Impacting the Future of Nursing. Groenwald, S. L., & Eldridge, C. (2019, August). Politics, power, and predictability of nursing care. In Nursing forum. 

Kung, Y. M., & Rudner Lugo, N. (2015). Political advocacy and practice barriers: A survey of Florida APRNs. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 27(3), 145-151. 

Role of Nurses in Influencing Policy Making
 Nurses as Political Actors

Nurses should see themselves as practitioners with the opportunity and obligation to impact current and future delivery systems of health care to be successful. The practice of nursing is based on human health science and caring psychology. This works from a context that holistically respects all people and aims to encourage and advance the health of people throughout their lives and throughout all levels of society (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, n.d).

A large number of the leading nursing associations encourage nurses to take part in the formulating of policies actively. For instance, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing underlines the job of nursing in strategy. It distinguishes, in its “Fundamentals” reports, the standard arrangement inclusion that ought to be tended to in instructive projects at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees of expert nursing. The National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association additionally anticipate that medical caretakers should address the approach as a component of their expert job. Politically, nurses can play a significant role in influencing policies that influences the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals (LGBT) (Burke, 2016). They include individuals from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, yet society has treated them as lesser beings. Nurses can influence policymaking concerning these groups in the following ways.

Lobbying political leaders; Through unique knowledge of their constituents ‘ needs, city and county officials have the power to implement policies and programs that protect LGBTQ people, improve community engagement, and open opportunities (Burke, 2016). Nursing leaders can, therefore, lobby political leaders to pass policies that favor LGBT.

Involvement in campaign groups; Many of these LGBT individuals face discrimination due to current policies in place. Nurses can join in their campaign and together fight for their rights. Sometimes, demonstrations are the only voice that the government hears and responds to.

Volunteer to engage in conferences or activities related to strategy. Prepare a fact sheet and help prepare a document to educate policymakers. Inform stakeholders regarding events that provide incentives for policymakers to tackle.

Conclusively, there is a need for changes to be effected on policies relating to LGBT rights to ensure they feel safe in society. As such, nurses should politically intervene with members of LGBT. They have the potential to have a profound global impact on politics. Nevertheless, it is nurses ‘ ethical and professional duty to intervene in policies they deem to be affecting their patients, LGBT notwithstanding.

References
Burke Sheila A. (2016). Influence through policy: Nurses have a unique role.Retrieved 29 October 2019, from https://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org/commentary/more-commentary/Vol42_2_nurses-have-a-unique-role
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health. (n.d). Retrieved 29 October 2019, from  https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/

 

•   Deliver a 5–7-page analysis of an existing quality improvement  initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze  should be related to specific disease, condition, or public health issue  of personal or professional interest to you.
  Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and  outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among  themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical  to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential  that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance  reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related  to quality initiatives. The nursing staff’s perspective and the need to  collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient  safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
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  You have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an  existing quality improvement initiative at your workplace. The QI  initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific  disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional  interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether specific  quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care,  cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics.
  Your target audience consists of nurses and other health  professionals with specializations or interest in your selected  condition, disease, or issue. In your report, you will define the  disease, analyze how the condition is managed, identify the core  performance measurements used to treat or manage the condition, and  evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care  facility:
  Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion  of, your draft to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final  version of your analysis for this assessment. However, be mindful of  the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this  free service.
  The numbered points below correspond to grading criteria in the  scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further  delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that  your Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation addresses all of the  content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better  understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.
   

1. Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.      
   • Evaluate a QI initiative and explain what prompted the  implementation. Detail problems that were not addressed and any issues  that arose from the initiative.
2. Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.      
   • Analyze the benchmarks that were used to evaluate success.  Detail what was the most successful, as well as what outcome measures  are missing or could be added.
3. Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.      
   • Integrate the perspectives of interprofessional team members  involved in the initiative. Detail who you talked to, their professions,  and the impact of their perspectives on your analysis.
4. Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand quality outcomes of a quality initiative.      
   • Recommend specific process or protocol changes as well as added technologies that would improve quality outcomes.
5. Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and  effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use  of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
6. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
7. Submission Requirements
    

• Length of submission: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of four sources (no older  than seven years, unless seminal work) of scholarly peer reviewed or  professional evidence that support your interpretation and analysis.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.