Topic: Healthcare

Type of paper: Coursework

Discipline: Health Care and Life Sciences : Health Care

Format or citation style: APA

 

Design a floor plan for a health care facility. This will include designing the layout of rooms within the facility as well as adding environmental, regulatory, and IT elements within the rooms you design.
Review the Facility Planning Guide to familiarize yourself with the requirements of the project.
Research software programs you can use to create a floor plan, and choose one.
Write a brief explanation as to why you chose the program and why it is the best choice for this assignment. Include details on how the faculty member will be able to access your project.
Facility Planning Template—Floor Plan
Health care facilities have uniquely defined characteristics based on the needs of the facility or population served. Poor design may lead to staff, visitor, or patient stress. In large facilities, the inability to find a department may lead to frustrations and disorientation. Poor layout may also lead to staff inefficiencies or fines because of failure to meet regulatory requirements.
Throughout this course you will design a floor plan for the facility you selected in the Week 2 Facility Selection and Research assignment. This assignment illustrates the difficult balances between patient flow, workflow, safety, and aesthetics. You will use this document as a guide to understand the environmental design elements you should include in your final design. You will submit this document each week as your assignment.
For this project, you may use the program of your choice to complete the floor plan. Some programs to consider are Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Visio®, Publisher®, Excel®, or online floor plan programs such as Edraw, SmartDraw, Gliffy, and Lucidchart. Your faculty member will need to approve your choice, since he or she must be able to view your project in order to grade it. It is important to note that the purpose of this project is not to be an expert at creating a facility using your chosen program, but rather to ensure the concepts learned in this course can be applied to the facility design principles.  Your use of the floor planning program is meant to enhance your learning of the course and program concepts.

 Topic: chemical hazards and noise exposures

Type of paper: Essay (any type)

Discipline: Health Care and Life Sciences : Safety and Health

Format or citation style: APA

 

Choose an operation for a workplace which you are familiar where either chemical hazards or noise exposures were present. If you have never worked in a location where chemical hazards or noise are present, read about some examples on OSHA’s website and choose one that interests you. Complete the following tasks in a minimum two-page (500 word) essay:         

1.)Summarize the steps you would take to perform a hazard assessment of your chosen operation. Make sure you list the chemical hazards or noise hazards that are present using the example hazard assessment from OSHA’s website or one with which you are already familiar.

2.)Discuss the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for controlling occupational hazards in relation to the operation you chose.           

3.)Choose one hazard that you identified. The hazard can be a chemical or noise hazard. Summarize how you would evaluate employee exposures to the hazard. Include information about any sampling method you would use, how many samples you would collect, the types of samples you would collect (e.g., personal or area, TWA or short-term), and to which standards you would apply the results.         

4.)Assume there are several results indicating that employees are exposed to levels exceeding the applicable OSHA PEL. Using OSHA’s Hierarchy of Controls, summarize the control methods you would employ to reduce the risk for employees to an acceptable level. Your summary should include examples from each level of OSHA’s Hierarchy of Controls with a discussion of why you think the control would or would not be an effective method for reducing the exposure to an acceptable level.         

5.)Discuss how you would evaluate the effectiveness of the control methods you chose, both in the short-term and for the next 5 years.

Cite all references.

  

Chapter 12: Support for students with special needs 

Read Pages 135-143

(1 pt. each)

1) What is the ADA? What was the purpose of the amendment in 2008? 

2) What does the term disability mean (to you?)

3) What is an Accommodation?

4) What are the academic support services available to you at FNU?

5) What is the process to request Accommodation for a disability as a student? 

6) What is the difference between a physical disability and a learning disability?

7) If an SPTA presents with a disability, what employment/ clinical education issues can arise?

a. What is the stance of the ADA on these issues?

REVIEW TABLE 12-4; TECHNICAL STANDARDS

Are you able to do all of these? (think carefully, no written answer required)

Chapter 13: WHEN ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE! J 

Read Pages 147-153

(1 pt. each)

1) Reading – what technique helps you the most when reading through text?

2) Listening- are you a good listener? Do you understand what is going on in class? What technique do you think will help you the most with your comprehension during lectures?

3) Writing- REVIEW Table 13-3, 13-4 & Table 13-5

a. Proofreading is so important with any written correspondence or academic/ professional assignment. 

i. What are 3 resources you can use to help you at FNU or online? (apart from proofreading yourself- which should always be first!)

TEST TAKING; Class discussion – Review Table 13-6

Chapter 14: Re-entry and Career Transition Students

Read Pages 155-160

(1 pt. each)

1) What group are you? 

2) What do you think is your biggest struggle with adjusting to college life?

Provide a plan of action of how to use each of the following strategies to manage the re-entry process; (10 pts)

  

Strategy

Plan of Action

 

Professional   counseling 

 

Financial   aid

 

Re-entry   program services

 

Solicit   the Support of the Faculty

 

Collaborate   with your classmates

 

Involve   your family and significant others

 

Upgrade   Technology skills 

 

Be   an active listener 

 

Use   all your best survival strategies 

 

Don’t   take yourself too seriously 

Benchmark – Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management 

In this assignment, you will be writing a 1,000-1,250 word paper describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following:

1. Select an issue from the following list: bullying, unit closers and restructuring, floating, nurse turnover, nurse staffing ratios, use of contract employees (i.e., registry and travel nurses), or magnet designation.
2. Describe the selected issue. Discuss how it impacts quality of care and patient safety in the setting in which it occurs.
3. Discuss how professional standards of practice should be demonstrated in this situation to help rectify the issue or maintain professional conduct.
4. Explain the differing roles of nursing leaders and nursing managers in this instance and discuss the different approaches they take to address the selected issue and promote patient safety and quality care. Support your rationale by using the theories, principles, skills, and roles of the leader versus manager described in your readings.
5. Discuss what additional aspects mangers and leaders would need to initiate in order to ensure professionalism throughout diverse health care settings while addressing the selected issue.
6. Describe a leadership style that would best address the chosen issue. Explain why this style could be successful in this setting.

Use at least three peer-reviewed journal articles other than those presented in your text or provided in the course.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

RN to BSN

1.1:       Exemplify professionalism in diverse health care settings.

1.3:       Exercise professional nursing leadership and management roles in the promotion of patient safety and quality care.

3.4:       Demonstrate professional standards of practice.