Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to post one scholarly activity while you are in the BSN program, which should be documented by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

Submit, as the assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Week 4: Question for Discussion

Chapter 7 – Posttraumatic Stress

Question(s): Name the DSM-IV-TR indicators necessary for a diagnosis of PTSD? (full criteria for diagnosis) five of condition/symptoms, with at least two in each category. Please, include specific symptoms in children (PTSD symptoms in children that are different than in adults). Note: (DSM-5 will be accepted).

Guidelines:The answer should be based on the knowledge obtained from reading the book, no just your opinion. If there are 2 questions in the discussion, you must answer both of them. Your grade will be an average of both questions.

Please have a complete and concise answers to all 3 questions:

As a registered nurse, you have gathered many health histories throughout your career. The health history is the story that unfolds with the patient’s genetic history, health practices, nutrition and exercise routine, social and family relationships, spiritual strength, chronic illnesses, and chief complaint. The nurse is responsible for collecting and analyzing that information to plan care in collaboration with the patient. In practice, nurse’s encounter patients from various races, ethnicities, languages, cultures, and beliefs. Culturally congruent care promotes positive outcomes and reduces health disparity.

Directions: Please watch the video “Cultural Competence for Health Care Providers”. Once you have watched the video, please discuss the following with your classmates:

1. What does the American Nurses Association say about the nurse’s role in cultural competence?
2. Does the electronic health record used in your facility prompt you to ask culturally relevant assessment questions? Please provide an example of two. 
3. Describe one way you plan on being more culturally inclusive in providing your nursing care in the future.

Watch VideoCultural Competence for Health Care ProvidersDuration: 9:27
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Sustaining change can be difficult, as there are many variables that can affect implementation. One critical component of EBP is to ensure that practice change is part of an organization’s culture so it will continue to impact outcomes over time. Name two potential barriers that may prevent your EBP change proposal from continuing to obtain the same desired results 6 months to a year from now, and your strategies for overcoming these barriers.

This Module’s SLP is intended to allow you to apply what you have learned in the background readings regarding performing an analysis of a healthcare organization’s basic financial statement of operations. After completing each part of the background readings, search online for a healthcare organization’s statement of operations (at least two years of data; the organization can be inpatient or outpatient, either real or fictitious). Examine each of the columns and the totals in the statement of operations, using each of the topics introduced in Chapter 3 of the required background reading by Dr. Nowicki (2018), then answer the following: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.trident.edu:2048/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/ZTAwMH[email protected]pdc-v-sessmgr06&vid=0&format=EB&rid=1

1. How is your chosen organization doing in terms of its overall financial health?
2. What is your assessment of the organization’s revenues, expenses, operating income, nonoperating income, etc.? How have each of these lines changed from one year to the next?
3. What might the changes signify, and what might be the logical cause of the changes? What would your recommendations be for the following year’s revenue cycle?
4. How do changes in the economic market often affect the healthcare financial environment? Do you believe the healthcare revenue cycle models the rises and falls of the larger economy?

SLP Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.
2. Provide a response of 3-5 pages, not including title page and references. Include a copy of the organization’s statement of operations as an Appendix at the end of your assignment.
3. As we have multiple required items to be addressed herein, please use subheadings to show where you are responding to each required item and to ensure that none are omitted.
4. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least two references from peer-reviewed sources. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php and for evaluating internet sources:
   https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
5. You may use the following source to assist in formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Paraphrase all source information into your own words carefully, and use in-text citations.