• CO 2: Recognize the influence that developmental stages have on physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual functioning. (PO #1)
• CO 4: Identify teaching/learning needs from the health history of an individual. (PO #2)

Due Date

Patient Teaching Plan assignment is due Sunday of Week 4 at 11:59 MT.

Points

This assignment is worth 125 points.

Background Information

NR305 focuses on nursing assessment, and the identification of opportunities to prevent disease and improve health of patients. An important professional role for nurses is to provide teaching to patients based on knowledge deficits identified during assessment.

Prior to beginning this assignment, follow the link to read the article below. The information related to adult learning and barriers to understanding will be helpful when planning how to best educate your selected population.

Beagley, L. (2011). Educating patients: Understanding barriers, learning styles, and teaching techniques. Journal of Paranesthesia Nursing, 26(5), 331-337. permalink (Links to an external site.)

Directions

Please read all directions carefully before you begin.

1. Click to download the Patient Teaching Plan Form (Links to an external site.).
   Type your answers directly into this Word document and submit. The use of correct terminology, grammar, and spelling is important! Any references and citations used should be written in APA format. Please utilize in-text citations when appropriate, and list all references in the space provided at the end of the worksheet.
2. You are required to complete the form using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.). Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
3. Health Topic: Decide WHAT you would like to teach. Describe in detail why this is an important topic for patient education. Use evidence from the textbook, lesson or an outside scholarly source to support your rationale. Select from the following health topics to complete your Patient Teaching Project:

    

   • Stress and Time Management
   • Self-Care (can choose a specific self-care activity)
   • Prevention of Hazards at Work
   • Bicycle Safety
   • Ergonomics (related to work, posture)
   • Skin Cancer Prevention
   • Healthy Eating
   • Exercise/Physical Activity
   • Suicide
   • Human Trafficking
   • Eating Disorders
   • Substance Abuse (Opioid, Alcohol, Nicotine)
   • Depression
   • Palliative Care/Hospice Care
4. Population and Setting: Once you have selected a topic, you must decide WHO you will be teaching and WHERE the education will take place. (i.e., teaching a classroom of middle school students; teaching community members at a local health fair)
5. Learning Barriers: Refer to the assigned article: Educating patients: Understanding barriers, learning styles, and teaching techniques for information related to learning barriers and other teaching considerations. Barriers might be cultural, physical, educational, or environmental. You may also want to consider the developmental stages of your selected population. Example:
    
   • The population in this community is known to have a low-literacy level, therefore clear pictures and graphics will be utilized to assist with understanding.
6. Learning Objectives: Write three specific learning objectives your Visual Teaching Tool will address. Begin each objective with “At the end of this education, the learner will …” Use an action verb to finish the sentence (i.e., list, demonstrate, describe, define, identify). Example:
    
   • At the end of this education, the learner will be able to demonstrate the proper way to wear a bike helmet.
   • At the end of this education, the learner will be able to describe how to perform a breast self-exam.
   • At the end of this education, the learner will be able to list three benefits of regular physical activity.
7. Evaluation: Write a paragraph describing how you could evaluate whether your visual teaching tool was successful and met the learning objectives. Consider the population’s abilities and the setting.

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 2010. Many of the provisions of the law directly affect health care providers. Review the following topic materials:

1. “About the Affordable Care Act”
2. “Health Care Transformation: The Affordable Care Act and More”

What are the most important elements of the Affordable Care Act in relation to community and public health? What is the role of the nurse in implementing this law?

Nature offers many examples of specialization and collaboration. Ant colonies and bee hives are but two examples of nature’s sophisticated organizations. Each thrives because their members specialize by tasks, divide labor, and collaborate to ensure food, safety, and general well-being of the colony or hive.

Of course, humans don’t fare too badly in this regard either. And healthcare is a great example. As specialists in the collection, access, and application of data, nurse informaticists collaborate with specialists on a regular basis to ensure that appropriate data is available to make decisions and take actions to ensure the general well-being of patients.

In this Discussion, you will reflect on your own observations of and/or experiences with informaticist collaboration. You will also propose strategies for how these collaborative experiences might be improved.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on the evolution of nursing informatics from a science to a nursing specialty.
• Consider your experiences with nurse Informaticists or technology specialists within your healthcare organization.

Post a description of experiences or observations about how nurse informaticists and/or data or technology specialists interact with other professionals within your healthcare organization. Suggest at least one strategy on how these interactions might be improved. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain the impact you believe the continued evolution of nursing informatics as a specialty and/or the continued emergence of new technologies might have on professional interactions.

3 to 4 references less than 5 years

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        This is a graded discussion: 25 points possible 

              due Aug 18                   

Week 6 Discussion 1: Presidential Advisor

 2      2 unread replies.    2      2 replies.          

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Review Chapter 2, 3 (pp. 56-59), 13
• Lesson
• Additional scholarly sources you identify through your own research

Initial Post Instructions

You are an advisor to the President tasked with cutting at least $300  billion from the budget. The president wants your recommendations to  cut lines, not large categories. Explain why you chose those cuts.

Note: These are not true US budget numbers.

    

DOMESTIC PROGRAMS AND FOREIGN AID

Cut some foreign aid to African countries

 $17 billion

 

Eliminate farm subsidies

 $14 billion

 

Cut pay of civilian federal workers by 5 percent

 $14 billion

 

Reduce the overall federal workforce by 10%

 $12 billion

 

Cut aid to states by 5%

 $29 billion

 

MILITARY

Cut the number of nuclear warheads, and end the “Star Wars” missile defense program

 $19 billion

 

Reduce military to pre-Iraq War size and further reduce troops in Asia and Europe

 $25 billion

 

Cancel or delay some weapons programs

 $19 billion

 

HEALTHCARE

Enact medical malpractice reform by reducing the chances of large malpractice verdicts

 $ 8 billion

 

Increase the Medicare eligibility age to 68

 $ 8 billion

 

Raise the Social Security retirement age to 68.

 $ 13 billion

 

EXISTING TAXES

Return the estate tax to Clinton-era levels, passing on an estate  worth more than $1 million to their heirs would have portions of those  estates taxed.

 $ 50 billion

 

End tax cuts for income above $250,000 a year

 $ 54 billion

 

End tax cuts for income below $250,000 a year

 $ 172 billion

 

Payroll tax increase for people making over $106,000 annually contributing more to Social Security and Medicare.

 $ 50 billion

 

NEW TAXES

Institute a Millionaire’s tax on income above $1 million

 $ 50 billion

 

Add a national 5% sales tax

 $ 41 billion

 

Add a tax on carbon emissions

 $ 40 billion

 

Tax banks based on their sizes and the amount of risk they take.

 $ 73 billion

 

Total gap covered by your budget plan

$_________________

Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned  readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source.

Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least  two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by  providing more information and clarification. Minimum of 1 scholarly  source, which can include your textbook or assigned readings or may be  from your additional scholarly research.

Writing Requirements

• Minimum of 3 posts (1 initial & 2 follow-up)
• APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Grading
This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:

• Link (webpage): Discussion Guidelines 

Course Outcomes (CO): 7

Due Date for Initial Post: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Wednesday
Due Date for Follow-Up Posts: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

 

Assignment: Capstone Paper, Part I: Introduction, Analysis of Existing Evidence, and Quality Improvement Process

The Assignment you will submit this week will combine the work you completed in Week 1 (Introduction) and Week 2 (Analysis of Existing Evidence) and this week’s assignment, the Quality Improvement Process. These three sections, when combined, will complete Part I of your Capstone Paper.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review the Capstone Paper Assignment Guide
• Locate the most current version of your Week 1 and Week 2 Assignment. You will add this section to that document.
• Review the Academic Writing Expectations Checklist Capstone Level
  • Note the new expectations for Use of evidence and Credit to Source
  • Use a Scholarly Voice
    • http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice
    • http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/webinars/scholarlywriting#s-lg-box-2773859
  • Review the Walden University Writing Center webpage: Using Evidence: Synthesis
• Review the Week 3 Assignment Rubric

Remember: Each section of the Capstone Paper must meet the Academic Writing Expectations for the Capstone Level.

For this Assignment

• Describe the quality improvement process and the Quality model that will be used as a basis for the practice problem. Include a description of a quality improvement tool(s) that you will use in your quality improvement plan. See Spath, (2013) chapter 6 for examples.
• Explain why the specific process was selected and document your explanation with references.

For the Week 3 Assignment, you will combine your Week 1, 2 and 3 assignments and submit a 3-4-page paper that addresses the following:

• Practice Problem (Completed in Week 1)
  • State the practice problem in measurable terms.
  • State the data that suggests a practice problem exists
  • Include a purpose statement.
• Analysis of the Existing Evidence (Completed in Week 2)
  • Summarize the findings from the evidence analysis that support your practice problem. Include minimum of at least 5 evidence-based practice sources that support your practice problem. Identify research, clinical guidelines, expert opinions, and other relevant information. You must include two-three research studies in your analysis. Using your own words synthesize the evidence that supports your identified practice problem. There should be no quotes or personal opinions included in this section.
• Quality Improvement Process (Completed this Week) (Approximately 2-3 paragraphs)
  • Describe the quality improvement process and the quality model that will be used as a basis for the practice problem. This is not your entire quality improvement plan, only a description of the quality improvement process and the quality model you chose. You will develop your specific quality improvement plan in week 4. Include a description of a quality improvement tool(s) that you will use in your quality improvement plan. See Spath, (2013) chapter 6 for examples.
  • Explain why the specific process was selected and document your explanation with references.
  • Conclusion