Play this week’s games to familiarize yourself with the prefixes, suffixes, and word roots related to this week’s topic.Imagine you are an official in a hospital or public health agency.Write a memo, at least 350 words in length, to a fictional colleague in which you use 5 words from the Summary Tables in this week’s chapters.Be sure to use the words in such a way that it is clear to the reader that you know the exact meaning of each of the 5 words.

Use  this word:

      

•pneumonic

•bronchiole

 

•respiratory

•normoventilation

 

•inspiration

•normoxia

 

•ventilation

•hyperventilation

 

•hemoptysis

•hypoxia

  Please answer ONE of the following DQ’s.  Please provide the questions that is being answered as the heading.  Incomplete answers will be marked as “0.” 

APA style and 3 references.

Chapter 27

A patient with chronic bronchitis is brought into the emergency room with complaints of sudden-onset chest pain, shortness of breath, and coughing up blood. His lab work shows hypoxemia, respiratory acidosis, and elevated red blood cell (RBC) count, white blood cell count, hemoglobin, and hematocrit.

a.            Utilizing your understanding of the process of erythropoiesis, why do you think this patient has elevated RBCs, hemoglobin, and hematocrit?

b.            What is the most likely cause of the patient’s acute symptoms? How do you explain this?

Books Required; Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century 3rd Edition Author: Morrison, E.E. & Furlong, B. ISBN: 978-1449665357 Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, (2014) 

 

Identifying how you will apply ethical theories to your practice as a health care professional.

Write a one page paper (minimum 600 words excluding title page and reference page)

The paper must be in APA summary format thus no abstract required. Please include at least two references for your work.

 

To prepare:

• Review Chapter 3 of Milstead, J. A. (2016). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• In the first assignment, you reflected on whether the policy you would like to promote could best be achieved through the development of new legislation, or a change in an existing law or regulation. Refine as necessary using any feedback from your first paper.
• Contemplate how existing laws or regulations may affect how you proceed in advocating for your proposed policy.
• Consider how you could influence legislators or other policymakers to enact the policy you propose.
• Think about the obstacles of the legislative process that may prevent your proposed policy from being implemented as intended.

To complete:

Part Two will have approximately 3–4 pages of content plus a title page and references. Part Two will address the following:

• Explain whether your proposed policy could be enacted through a modification of existing law or regulation or the creation of new legislation/regulation.
• Explain how existing laws or regulations could affect your advocacy efforts. Be sure to cite and reference the laws and regulations using primary sources.
• Provide an analysis of the methods you could use to influence legislators or other policymakers to support your policy. In particular, explain how you would use the “three legs” of lobbying in your advocacy efforts.
  • Summarize obstacles that could arise in the legislative process and how to overcome these hurdles.