Please answer the following Discussion Question.  Please be certain to answer the four questions on this week DQ and to provide a well-developed and complete answer to receive credit.  Also, please ensure to have read the assigned chapters for the current week. 

Case Study, Chapter 23, Professional Identity and Image

Nursing care is frequently perceived by the public as simple and unskilled. Many male nurses live in fear of how their caring actions might be interpreted. Many nurses hold that stereotypes about the profession are true, just as the general public does. Public identity and image has been a struggle for nurses for a long time. The greater public clearly does not understand what professional nursing is all about, and the nursing profession has done a poor job of correcting long-standing, historically inaccurate stereotypes.

1. What are the common nursing stereotypes?

2. What was the role of the Center for Nursing Advocacy? Discuss the role of Truth about Nursing in addressing inaccurate or negative portrayals of nursing in the media and the process they use to raise public and professional awareness of the issues surrounding nursing public image?

3. What are some of the ways of changing nursing’s image in the public eye?

4. One of the most important strategies needed to change nursing’s image is to change the image of nursing in the mind of the image makers. What are some of the key ways for nurses to interact with the media?

 

Asthma is a respiratory disorder that affects children and adults. Advanced practice nurses often provide treatment to patients with these disorders. Sometimes patients require immediate treatment, making it essential that you recognize and distinguish minor asthma symptoms from serious, life-threatening ones. Since symptoms and attacks are often induced by a trigger, advanced practice nurses must also help patients identify their triggers and recommend appropriate management options. Like many other disorders, there are various approaches to treating and managing care for asthmatic patients depending on individual patient factors.  

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One method that supports the clinical decision making of drug therapy plans for asthmatic patients is the stepwise approach, which you explore in this Assignment.

To Prepare

• Reflect on drugs used to treat asthmatic patients, including long-term control and quick relief treatment options for patients. Think about the impact these drugs might have on patients, including adults and children.
• Consider how you might apply the stepwise approach to address the health needs of a patient in your practice.
• Reflect on how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease.

Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following:

• Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.
• Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
• Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.

  

ASSIGNMENT

Research one of the servant leadership organizations listed below.

In a 750-1,000-word paper, include the following:

A summary of how the organization implements the principles of servant leadership in providing customer service, hiring and managing employees, and modeling operations and policies.

A discussion of how the implementation of servant leadership affects the community and the common good.

An explanation of how adopting principles of servant leadership could result in conflict or create operational challenges. Include how the leader has addressed these challenges.

An explanation of the benefits and moral obligation of leading with kindness, compassion, and justice for the good of followers and the community

Use a minimum of two resources to strengthen and support your claims. Each section of your essay should use in-text citations.

Corporate Servant Leaders

Jason’s Deli, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen

AutomationDirect.com, SAS, Wegmans Food Market, Zappos.com, Nugget Market, Recreational Equipment (REI), Whole Foods Market, QuikTrip, Balfour Beatty Construction, TD Industries, Aflac, Marriott International, Nordstrom, Men’s Wearhouse, Darden Restaurants, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, Southwest Airlines, Medtronic ,Landry’s Bicycles, Synovus Financial, Folds for honor, 7- Eleven, Banner Health System, Food for the Hungry, Trilogy Health Services, US Cellular.

How healthy is your workplace?

You may think your current organization operates seamlessly, or you may feel it has many issues. You may experience or even observe things that give you pause. Yet, much as you wouldn’t try to determine the health of a patient through mere observation, you should not attempt to gauge the health of your work environment based on observation and opinion. Often, there are issues you perceive as problems that others do not; similarly, issues may run much deeper than leadership recognizes.

There are many factors and measures that may impact organizational health. Among these is civility. While an organization can institute policies designed to promote such things as civility, how can it be sure these are managed effectively? In this Discussion, you will examine the use of tools in measuring workplace civility.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and examine the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory, found on page 20 of Clark (2015).
• Review and complete the Work Environment Assessment Template in the Resources.
• QUESTION
• Post a brief description of the results of your Work Environment Assessment. Based on the results, how civil is your workplace? Explain why your workplace is or is not civil. Then, describe a situation where you have experienced incivility in the workplace. How was this addressed? Be specific and provide examples.

Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.

Assignment:

The patient presents to your office with a Personal Health Records (PHR). Remembering, medical records and PHRs are not the same thing, complete both of the following:

1. Develop and create an educational tool (brochure, flyer pamphlet) that you can provide to your patients that address the following areas:

• How do you access it?   
• What obstacles might you identify?
• Frequently Asked Questions

2. Develop and create an educational tool (brochure, flyer pamphlet) for providers to understand the PHR that address the following areas:

• How can we make sure PHR information is accurate, reliable, and complete?   
• What obstacles might patients have with control over how their health information is accessed, used, and disclosed?
• Frequently Asked Questions
• What advantages and disadvantages are there?
• What does the clinician need to understand?