Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for being such a wonderful class.  It’s been a joy to work with you this term.  I forgot to remind you today that the first literature review is due on Thursday.  The link to the assignment is located here:  http://spot.pcc.edu/~scarr/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Also, I would like you all to check your blood pressure three times by next Thursday and submit the numbers with your name on a sheet of paper.  I’ll give another reminder next class.

I hope you all have a great evening and look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Amira is a 27-year-old Syrian refugee who has been residing in a local homeless shelter since her arrival here in the United States 4 weeks ago. She was brought into the emergency room this morning via squad after being found by a shelter employee sitting in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor crying and holding her abdomen. Due to her limited English speaking abilities, she is unable to provide specific details as to her complaints but the shelter employee states that she has recently stopped eating and has not looked well for the past couple of days.

Based on the limited information provided, please answer the following questions.

How will you prioritize your care of Amira, what assessments will you complete, and in what order? Please provide rationale for choosing this order.

Are there any cultural beliefs/practices that must be taken into consideration when planning her care?

Considering her symptoms of abdominal pain and bleeding, is it possible that her status as a homeless refugee is a causative or contributing factor to her illness? Please provide rationale for your response.

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As healthcare providers, we look more and more to technology to improve patient outcomes, streamline operations, and lower costs. Sometimes, technology can be used in ways that have ethical, moral, and legal considerations too. You will be writing about the use of personal devices and social media and its use in healthcare. We can do it, but dare we?

This is a “think outside the box” assignment in which there is not necessarily only one right answer. Still, you are required to find sources that support your opinions. Be sure to cite and reference them in your paper. The running head of the paper will be—We can do it, but dare we?

The length of the paper should be four to five pages, excluding the title page and reference page. Limit the references to minimum of 4 to 5 references. The Paper will contain an introduction that catches the attention of the reader, states the purpose of the paper, and provides a narrative outline of what will follow (i.e,the assignment criteria).

In the body of the paper discuss the scenario in relation to HIPAA, legal and other regulatory requirement that apply to the scenario and the ending you choose. Demonstrate support from sources of evidence included as in- text citation.

Choose and identify one of the four possible endings provided for the scenario and construct your paper based on its implications to the scenario. Make recommendations about what should have been done and what could be done to correct the problems caused by the scenario and the ending you chose. Demonstrate support from sources of evidence included as in-text citations.

Present the advantages and disadvantages of using smart phones and social media in health care and describe professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology, base on the facts from supporting sources of evidence, which must be included as in-text citations.

The paper’s conclusion should summarize what you learned and make reflections about them to your practice.

Please and please this paper should be 100% free plagiarism.

“Bariatric Info Session: Tuesday at 7:00 PM.” Gabby looked at the flyer in her physician’s waiting room, wondering if this would be the week that she would muster the courage to get more information about gastric bypass surgery.  Her doctor had been telling her for two years that her elevated BMI, combined with the fact that she had type 2 diabetes, would qualify her for insurance coverage if she decided to have the operation.  But surgery seemed so drastic and irreversible.  She had recently been motivated by a TV feature about a local woman’s weight-loss success story but then her coworker Tim told her that his cousin gained all of his weight back just a few years post-op.

Gabby felt ashamed that she hand’t been able to lose much weight on her own through diet and exercise, despite having worked with a personal trainer and registered dietitian.  Her doctor had told her that part of the bariatric evaluation consisted of meeting with a psychologist to make sure that she would be a good candidate for surgery.  She didn’t like the idea of talking to someone about her feelings, especially regarding the complicated role that food had always played in her life.  And what about the strict diet she would have to follow in the weeks post-surgery-and the changes in eating habits she would need to maintain for the rest of her life?  Gabby had already failed at so many diets that she didn’t know if she would have the willpower necessary to succeed.  And yet her weight was a constant source of worry when she thought about her future. 

Please answer the following questions in your discussion post:

1) If her weight wasn’t causing any health problems currently, should she still consider surgery?

2) Why must patients follow a very strict diet post-bariatric surgery?

3) What are some of the dangers or potential side effects of bariatric surgery?

 Use MS Word to complete “Questions to be Graded: Exercises 31 and 32” in Statistics for Nursing Research: A Workbook for Evidence-Based Practice. Submit your work in SPSS by copying the output and pasting into the Word document. In addition to the SPSS output, please include explanations of the results where appropriate.