Case study 

SJ is an African American patient with a history of obesity and depression. She has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Drugs currently prescribed include the following: 

metformin 500 mg BID 

lisinopril 20 mg daily 

Zetia 10mg daily 

Norvasc 10 mg daily 

HCTZ 50 mg daily

metoprolol 100 mg daily

aspirin 81 mg daily 

follow template attached 

Curriculum design is an essential part of a program design and it guides stakeholders to achieve overall desired course and program outcomes. Program evaluation is a routine assessment of various parts of a program and a measure of intended goals. Program evaluation is done for a variety of purposes, including evaluating program implementation, determining program effectiveness, providing direction, and guiding improvements. The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with the program evaluation process.

Use the program outcomes on the example lesson plan in Chapter 10 of the Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty textbook. Create a hypothetical course framework that includes a course description and learning outcomes. Provide a rationale for how your course fits within the program and aligns to program outcomes. Your course outcomes should be different from the ones in the example lesson plan. Include a detailed explanation of how you plan to evaluate the course’s success within the program.

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

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

1. Select an area of Health Information Technology Continuous Quality Improvement (HIT CQI) recommendations of interest. This may include items such as EMR, episode start and end dates for global procedure codes, benchmarking data, standardizing survey items for same quality measures, or reducing disparities in health and care through modifying existing mechanisms to report race and ethnicity, language, etc. An area of interest to you as an APN to improve patient outcomes, safety/quality, processes, or costs.

2. Discuss the role of Health Information Technology in Quality Improvement targeting your area of interest. Include a discussion of how this type of technology impacts the data to decision cycle, reporting, HIPAA considerations, and can improve data collection, analysis and reporting to improve outcomes and cost. Points to consider: costs of implementing and running the Health Care IT system, staff and consumer education, and what impact the IT system will have on improving the CQI processes.

Document the assignment in a 6-page Microsoft document and must include 5–6 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles.

How does our microflora affect us?

Be sure to do the following before starting your discussion:

Go to http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/index and learn about Human Microbiome Project. Go to https://www.bbc.com/news/health-18422288 and listen to the BBC radio program on Human Microbiomes.

Read these articles:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/studies-of-human-microbiome-yield-new-insights.html?emc=eta1
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?pagewanted%3Dall

Based on what you have learned from the website, article, and chapter 14 (Tortora) about microflora, write a two-paragraph discussion on how microflora influences our health and what can we do to sustain a healthy microflora in our body.

Eating Disorders — Discuss several of these. Include 3 full APA evidence-based citations.

~What is anorexia nervosa? Describe the population that is most at risk. What psychological factors and societal factors are involved? What evidence might lead you to suspect that someone has anorexia nervosa? What roles do advertising and certain pro-anorexia sites play in encouraging anorexia nervosa? What are the nutrition and health consequences of anorexia nervosa? How is anorexia nervosa treated? How successful is treatment?

~Describe the behaviors that are classified as bulimia. What evidence might lead you to suspect that someone has bulimia? What are the nutrition and health consequences of bulimia? How is bulimia treated?

~Describe the behaviors that are classified as binge eating. Why do you think that people binge eat? What evidence might lead you to suspect that someone is binge eating? What are the nutrition and health consequences of binge eating? Can you cure yourself from binge eating? What professional treatment is used for binge eaters?

~ What is pica? Why does pica occur? What kinds of non-foods are ingested in pica? What are the technical names used to describe the specific pica disorders? What are the nutrition and health consequences of pica?