Respond 

 

Group, 

It looks like so far most of us work within an open system and practice complex adaptive system thinking.  Thinking in terms of the current healthcare crisis throughout the world do you think that there are any benefits to being a closed facility or would an open facility that adopts a complex adaptive system be more effective?  Which would be most beneficial for patients as well as staff dealing with daily changes in process/procedures?  Summarize all learned in this week.

  Case Study Analysis  

For this assignment, conduct a thorough analysis of the healthcare system within Saudi Arabia. Specifically, focus on the development and implementation of technology over the last several decades within the Kingdom.

1. How has technology impacted cost, quality, and access to health services?
2. Does Vision 2030 rely heavily on technology?

Your final submission will be 3 pages in length, excluding the cover and reference pages. Be sure to include:

1. Analysis of the specific healthcare system.
2. Technology impact on cost, quality, and access.
3. Predict the KSA vision 2030 impact on technology.
4. Summary of findings (conclusion)

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

1. The paper should be formatted according to APA writing standards.
2. Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of 4 scholarly articles.
3. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external.
4. No pliagiarism

  

Assignment: Project Selection and Approval

You will identify a specific evidence-based practice proposal topic for the project. Consider the clinical environment in which you are currently working or have recently worked. The project topic can be a clinical practice problem, an organizational issue, a quality improvement suggestion, a leadership initiative, or an educational need appropriate to your area of interest as well as your practice immersion (practicum) setting.

Write a 500-750 word description of your proposed project topic. Make sure to include the following:

1. The      problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need that will be      the focus of the project
2. The      setting or context in which the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or      educational need can be observed.
3. A      description providing a high level of detail regarding the problem, issue,      suggestion, initiative, or educational need.
4. Impact      of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need on the      work environment, the quality of care provided by staff, and patient      outcomes.
5. Significance      of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and its      implications to nursing.
6. A      proposed solution to the identified project topic

You are required to retrieve and assess a minimum of 8 peer-reviewed articles.  Please note that all project written assignments in this class will be about the topic that you choose this week.

Answers by topic

Problem: Many patients refuses to receive the flu vaccine when influenza vaccination related to substantial reductions in the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia or influenza. 

Issue. The infection diseases have a higher incidence in Homestead, Florida. Influenza increase a risk to developing pneumonia in general population during flu season.

Initiative: In my study I will make a survey in 30 patient where they tell me if they getting the getting a flu vaccine, in case that they say NO, I make the survey about their knowledge in advantage the patient in get the vaccine that lead change their opinion in this preventive action, and then make educative program and I will expose in the community.

Context: Community Setting conducted in homestead, Fl population 69, 907, with 60 % of Hispanic mainly agricultural community. Reviewed zip code 33033. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/homesteadcityflorida,US/PST045217

Propose solution: 

Solution: Based in patient uncertain and doubt relate to lack of knowledge referent to advantages to get flu vaccine, I will made educative program oriented to eliminate the lack of knowledge regarding the preventive action of the flu vaccine like method to avoid spread infection diseases.

Impact of problem

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (2018) “recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against influenza and its potentially serious complications”

· Annual seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to help protect against flu.

· Flu vaccination reduce severity of illness in people who get vaccinated but still get sick.

· Getting vaccinated yourself protect people around you, including the vulnerable population, like babies and young children, older people, pregnant women and people with certain chronic health conditions.

SOME REFERENCES, THE OTHER ONE ARE IN PDF, I ATTACHED IN THE PAGE.

Alberta Health. (2015). Vaccine uptake following a measles outbreak in Alberta, Health System  Accountability and Performance, Surveillance and Assessment Branch. Retrieved from 

http://www.health.alberta.ca/documents/HTA-2015-04-14-Measles-Vaccine-Outbreak.pdf

Atkinson, P. (1984). Training for certainty. Social Science & Medicine, 19(9), 949–956. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(84)90324-1.

Center of Diseases Control and Prevention (2013). Understanding How Vaccines Work.

Manca, T. (2016). Health professionals and vaccine narrative: “the power of the personal story’ and the management of medical uncertain”. Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

On the bias of estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness from test-negative studies.

Ainslie KEC, Shi M, Haber M, Orenstein WA.

Vaccine. 2017 Dec 19;35(52):7297-7301. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.10.107. Epub 2017 Nov 13.

N Engl J Med. 2007 Oct 4;357(14):1373-81.

Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in the community-dwelling elderly.

Nichol KL1, Nordin JD, Nelson DB, Mullooly JP, Hak E.

United States Census bureaus

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/homesteadcityflorida,US/PST045217

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (2018). Preventive Steps. Seasonal Influenza (FLU). Retrieved by www.cdc.gov

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (2018). Preventing the Flu: Good Health Habits Can Help the Stop Germs. Seasonal Influenza (FLU). Retrieved by www.cdc.gov

This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes: 

– This course will enable the student to identify and apply components of the different cultures (ACCN Essential I, II, V, VII; QSEN: safety, evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration and patient-centered care).  

– The students will be able to determine the impact of culture in health care (ACCN Essential I, II, V, VII; QSEN: safety, evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration and patient-centered care).

Requirements

1. The Course Reflection is worth 100 points (10%) and will be graded on quality of self-assessment, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric.

2. Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about your essay may be posted under the Q & A forum under the Discussions tab. 

3. The length of the reflection is to be within three to six pages excluding title page and reference pages. 

4. APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headers (upper and lower case, centered): 

Note: Introduction – Write an introduction but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (2010, p. 63).

a. Course Reflection 

b. Conclusion

Preparing Your Reflection:

The BSN Essentials (AACN, 2008) outline a number of healthcare policy and advocacy competencies for the BSN-prepared nurse. Reflect on the NUR3655 course readings, discussion threads, and applications you have completed across this course and write a reflective essay regarding the extent to which you feel you are now prepared to:

  

1. Assess health/illness beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.

2. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion and disease and injury prevention interventions 

3. Advocate for social justice, including a commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.