APA format

1-3 paragraphs answering each section.

Topic is Increased risk of infection with covid-19 among the population of persons aged 65 and above of Hudson County, NJ related to knowledge deficit of preventive measures such as mask wearing, social distancing and vaccination as evidenced by an overall increase in covid-19 cases.

(B1) Health Inequity/Disparity 

Explain how the health concern from your community health nursing diagnostic statement is linked to a health inequity or health disparity within the target population.

(B1a) Primary community and Prevention Resources

Discuss the primary community resources and primary prevention resources currently in place to address the health concern.

(B1b) Underlying Causes

Accurately and logically discuss the underlying causes that contribute to the selected primary health concern. (This may be similar from the information you included in section B1). 

(B2) Evidence-Based Practice

Logically and appropriately include evidence-based practice article(s) relevant to the selected primary prevention field experience topic.  Look for 1 or more articles that provide evidence for strategies, best practices, or guidelines that have been used to improve the problem within communities

[[This is not a section to discuss the reason for the problem in your community. Instead you should discuss the best practices (EBP) for prevention/promotion of the health concern. Discuss and in-text cite and reference scholarly journal article(s) to support the practices for the primary prevention topic.]]

(B2a) Identification of Data

In this section include relevant data relating to selected field experience topic at the local, state, or national level and discuss your findings. This should include supportive data that your prevention topic is a true problem in your community.

(C1) Social Media Campaign Objective

The description presents a measurable objective of what you hope to accomplish to improve the health concern for your population using the social media campaign. Refer to the SMART tool in the CDC intervention section: CDCynergy.

Components of the social media campaign objective should include

• improving what, 
• for whom (target population) 
• by what percent 
• in what time frame.

(C2) Social Marketing Interventions

Provide 2 specific population focused social marketing interventions to aid in meeting your objective in section C1. Describe how each intervention would improve the health message related to the selected field experience topic. 

(C3) Description of Social Media Platform 

Describe applications you will use to implement your interventions (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, Snapchat, Instagram and others) that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking (electronic dissemination of ideas). 

(C3a) Benefits of Social Media Platform 

Discuss how each platform will support preventative healthcare in your target population for your identified health problem. 

(C4) Benefit to Target Population

You will Discuss how your target population will benefit from the social media campaign. Discuss how your target population would benefit from using social media to receive the health care message. 

(D) Best Practices for Social Media

Discuss the general principles for best practice in implementing all types of social media tools for healthcare marketing. Look at the key concepts from 5.1  and 5.2 in your course material and refer to the CDC social media toolkit. 

(E1) Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities

A stakeholder is someone who has an interest in the health problem and whose support is required for the social media campaign to be successful. Stakeholders have a special connection to you and your involvement in the prevention of the health problem Identify the role and responsibilities for each stakeholder

• They are or could be affected by the social media campaign
• They are interested in how the social media campaign will impact them
• They may know what you need to know for the campaign to be successful
• Points of view from community perspective
• Communicates your message (e.g. Advertises your campaign)

(E2) Potential Public and Private Partnerships

Partners have a working relationship to you and collaborate in an official capacity on the social media campaign. Discuss potential public partnerships relative to implementing your campaign (Public partners are comprised of organizations that are owned and operated by the government and exist to provide services for a community (e.g. law enforcement, healthcare agencies, emergency medical service (EMS), schools). Discuss potential private partnerships relative to implementing your campaign (Private partners is usually composed of organization that are privately owned and not part of the government (e.g. businesses, independently owned institutions, grocery stores).

Partners:

• are interested in fulfilling their role in the campaign and staying informed
• they work together with you to benefit everyone involved
• help to solve problems by seizing opportunity or sharing resources 

(E3) Timeline

Discuss in detail the timeline with dates (week 1, week 2, etc.) for implementing the campaign.

Consider benchmarks (time points) from the planning phase to the evaluation phase.

(E4) Evaluation

Explain how you will evaluate the effectiveness of meeting your measurable objective for the social media campaign. Include a measurement tool.

(E5) Cost of Implementing the Campaign 

Discuss the estimated direct/indirect costs of planning, implementing, and evaluating your campaign. 

(F) Reflection on Social Media Marketing

Reflect on how the community health nurse can use social media marketing to promote healthier populations (provide one or more examples).

(F1) Reflection on Future Nursing Practice

Reflect on how you can apply a social media campaign to your future nursing practice (provide one or more examples).

Students maintained and submitted weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to explore the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. This assignment combines those entries into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.

This final submission should also outline what students have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced during the process, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and, finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course.

The final journal should address a variable combination of the following, while incorporating your specific clinical practice experiences:( 1500 words)

1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

RN to BSN

2.3:     Understand and value the processes of critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and decision making.

4.1:     Utilize patient care technology and information management systems.

4.3:     Promote interprofessional collaborative communication with health care teams to provide safe and effective care.

5.3:     Provide culturally sensitive care.

5.4:     Preserve the integrity and human dignity in the care of all patients.

It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember.

Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed legislation requiring that 20 cents per month of a sailor’s paycheck be set aside for covering their medical bills. This represented the first major piece of U.S. healthcare legislation, and the topic of healthcare has been woven into presidential agendas and political debate ever since.

As a healthcare professional, you may be called upon to provide expertise, guidance and/or opinions on healthcare matters as they are debated for inclusion into new policy. You may also be involved in planning new organizational policy and responses to changes in legislation. For all of these reasons you should be prepared to speak to national healthcare issues making the news.

In this Assignment, you will analyze recent presidential healthcare agendas. You also will prepare a fact sheet to communicate the importance of a healthcare issue and the impact on this issue of recent or proposed policy.

To Prepare:

• Review the agenda priorities of the current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations.
• Select an issue related to healthcare that was addressed by each of the last three U.S. presidential administrations.
• Reflect on the focus of their respective agendas, including the allocation of financial resources for addressing the healthcare issue you selected.
• Consider how you would communicate the importance of a healthcare issue to a legislator/policymaker or a member of their staff for inclusion on an agenda.

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Comparison Grid, 1-Page Analysis, and 1-page narrative) with a title page, an introduction, purpose statement, and a conclusion. This is an APA paper.

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid

Use the Agenda Comparison Grid Template found in the Learning Resources and complete the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid based on the current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations and their agendas related to the public health concern you selected. Be sure to address the following:

• Identify and provide a brief description of the population health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.
• Describe the administrative agenda focus related to the issue you selected.
• Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.
• Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.
• At least 3 resources must be used

Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis

Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid on the template, complete the Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis portion of the template, by addressing the following:

• Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?
• How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the agenda for the current and two previous presidents? How does it stay there?
• Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected for the current and two previous presidents?

Part 3: Narrative

Using the information recorded on the template in Parts 1 and 2, develop a 1-page narrative that you could use to communicate with a policymaker/legislator or a member of their staff for this healthcare issue. Be sure to address the following:

• Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation.
• Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.
• The response fully integrates at least 2 outside resources and 2-3 course specific resources that fully supports the summary provided.

Directions for Part 1

1. Review the Direct Care Project Overview above. Select topic (Air Quality OR Substance Use) from the table. This will be the topic of your entire course project.
2. View the Direct Care Project Part 1 Tutorial (Links to an external site.).
3. Download the corresponding Assessment and Diagnosis template under Templates below. For example, if you have selected Air Quality as your topic, download the Air Quality Assessment and Diagnosis Template. 
4. Collect the data outlined in the template. There are two parts: 
   • Online data collection – gather data from the weblinks provided on the template 
     • Please note, if you live in Washington D.C. it may be listed as a  state or county. You may list the Washington D.C. data as state and  county, then compare to the U.S. data.
   • Modified windshield survey data collection – gather local community data by physically looking at your community 
     • If possible, plan on asking someone to drive during your survey so that you can take notes.
     • Your community should be the area where you live or the area  surrounding your work. The community must include a residential area and  be a large enough area to answer the survey questions. If you live in a  large area, you may choose a suburb.
     • Note: It is helpful to conduct this portion of the assessment at  least two different times: during the day or evening, on a weekday,  and/or on the weekend.
5. Identify a nursing problem (nursing diagnosis) based on data and observations 
   • You must select a problem caused by your topic
   • Important: the problem you identify will be utilized in Parts 2, 3, and 4 of the project. 
6. Identify the vulnerable population that the problem affects. This will also determine who you will present to in Part 3.
7. Write the nursing diagnosis (See template and chapter 6 in Nies & McEwen textbook for more information)
8. Submit template through the submit assignment button on this page.

Templates

Select and download from the links below the one that corresponds with selected topic:

Air Quality Assessment and Diagnosis Template (Links to an external site.)

Substance Use Assessment and Diagnosis Template (Links to an external site.)

Best Practices

• Please use your browser’s File setting to save or print this page.
• Use the template provided. If the template is not used, a deduction will be applied. See rubric below.
• Download and save the template (with your name) to your computer. Type directly on the template.
• Spell check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission. 
• Include your name and date on the template.
• Use the rubric as a final check prior to submission to ensure all content is clearly addressed. 

Scholarly Sources and Citations

• Since sources are on the template, citations are not needed.

You are an LPN working on a medical-surgical floor in a team that consists of an RN and a medical assistant. Read through some of the chart entries over a 48-hour period and answer the questions at the end. Please make sure you cite any sources using APA format. You will find when there is a major clue.

0130: Admission nurses note (RN): Client arrived via EMS from long-term-care for evaluation of “low blood sugar.” Pt. arrived confused (alert and oriented X 1) and is a known diabetic. Finger stick was 45. Orange juice and crackers, given repeat finger stick 104. Pt now alert and oriented X 4. Report from the charge nurse at the long-term-care facility indicates that the client has been having frequent bouts of hypoglycemia.

0530: (RN) Foley catheter inserted for incontinence–pt. “too weak” to get up to the bathroom and is experiencing bouts of incontinence.

600 mL clear yellow urine noted. The nurse indicates that the ER is “very busy” and “short-staffed.” 0545 (Admitting Physician) See history and physical. Pt. admitted to the medical-surgical service for evaluation of recurrent hypoglycemia.

View the ER chart before the pt. is transferred to the floor:

0730: (RN) Report is given to RN on 3 North.

Emergency Department Chart

Client: Mabel Simpson

DOB: 4/23/1941

Admission Date 8/16/2019

Medical Diagnosis: recurrent hypoglycemia

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Temp.- 97.3 PO

History: Diabetes (insulin dependent)  

Medications: Insulin R titrated to finger sticks

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Pulse- 68

History: Hypertension

Medications: Furosemide 20 MG twice per day

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Respirations- 18

History: Atrial Fibrillation

Medications: Warfarin 5 Mg Mon, Wed, Fri 2 Mg Tues, Thurs

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Blood Pressure- 122/86

History: Rheumatoid Arthritis   

Medications: Enalapril 5 Mg once per day

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: No C/O pain

History: Mild Heart Failure (class 1)

Medications: Proventil inhaler as needed for wheezing

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Alert and oriented X 4

History: Former Smoker- smoked 1 pack per day X 40 years- last smoked 10 years ago

Medications: Methotrexate 2.5 Mg per day

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Lungs: No adventitious sounds

History: Appendectomy as a child

Medications: Tylenol 650 Mg as needed for pain or fever

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: + Bowel sounds

History: Mobility (baseline): able to ambulate slowly with minimal assist

Clear yellow urine draining from Foley catheter in adequate amts.

Medications: 

Allergies: None

Vitals/ Data Collection: Clear yellow urine draining from Foley catheter in adequate amts.

History: 

Medications: 

Allergies: None

8/16/2019

10:00: (RN) Pt received on 3 North. Alert and oriented X 4. Fingerstick 81. Eating breakfast. Offering no complaints.

8/17/2019 (Medical Assistant)

0130: Sleeping Soundly

0700: (LPN) alert and oriented Finger stick 124. Offering no complaints. Medications given as ordered. Foley catheter draining cloudy yellow urine- RN notified.

1100: (Case Manager note): Pt. alert and oriented. Blood sugar stable. Will speak to the physician about discharge tomorrow morning.

1300: (Physical Therapy): Ambulated to the hallway 200 feet. Ambulates slowly- baseline as per long-term-care facility charge nurse. Recommend physical therapy after discharge, however, ambulated well enough for discharge.

1600: (LPN) Pt found to be confused (alert and oriented X 1). RN notified. Fingerstick 130. Vitals 97.5 (axillary), 110, 24, 98/64

1800: (Medical assistant) 400 cc’s emptied from catheter bag.

0100: (RN) Pt confused and combative. Attempting to pull out her IV and repeatedly removing her gown. Pt’s physician was paged- ordered Lorazepam 1 MG IM. Medicated as ordered and slept the remainder of the night with no incident.

0700: (RN) Pt awake and alert but combative. Finger stick-124. Vitals: 98.9 (axillary), 116, 28, 90/55

1730: (LPN) Unable to administer medication. Pt appears extremely confused. RN notified.

1200: (LPN) Pt’s daughter at bedside. Daughter indicates that her mother is not normally confused and is concerned that she may have had a stroke and notes that her mom feels “very warm.” RN notified. Foley catheter draining cloudy urine.

1230: (Medical Assistant) Vital signs: T 103.6 (rectal), P=130, BP=84/43, resp rate=28

1300: (RN) Rapid response called (because of the change in condition) and client transferred to the ICU.

Update: The client spent 3 days in the ICU but unfortunately did not recover.

Please answer the following questions:

1. Why did this client become confused and combative? (5-10 sentences)
2. What pivotal decision made in the ER directly caused this client’s worsening condition? (1-2 sentences)
3. What type of incontinence did this client have? Explain your answer. (5-10 sentences)
4. What factors in the client’s medical history contributed to the client’s change in condition? (5-10 sentences)
5. How did communication (or lack thereof) contribute to the poor outcome for this client? (5-10 sentences)