Everyone should have an approved topic for your final paper on an ethical dilemma of your choosing. This week’s assignment is to write the first, and most important, part of your paper (my topic “Incompetent/Impaired Nurses”)

This is the Introduction—Summary of What is Known about the Issue (See Grading Rubric for Final Paper)

1. Why is this topic important to investigate?
2. What is the scope, context, and significance of the topic as an ethical dilemma?
3. Highlight the importance of the problem/issue and make general statements about the problem/issue
4. Summarize the current understanding and background information about the topic
5. Include one reference source that will support your introductory thoughts about your topic.
6. APA 7th edition format; full sentences, attention to grammar

  

Appendix C – Mrs. Thomas

• Give the questions some thought and answer honestly
• Give examples if you have them
• Cite resources
• Number your answers to correspond with the question
• Worth 12 points / 5%
• Scenario:
  Mrs. Thomas is a 54, year old African American widow, mother and grandmother, who lives with her daughter and four grandchildren (ages 12, 10, 7 and 5) in a 4 story walk up apartment. She is an active member of her church community and friends, comments that she had so much energy that she exhausted all of them just being around her. At age 51, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Busy with raising her grandchildren, a little more than 3 years went by before she sought attention for her symptoms and was diagnosed. Despite aggressive treatments with chemotherapy and radiation, her diseased progressed and she was considering undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Climbing the stairs to the apartment one afternoon she became very short of breath and collapsed. Her twelve, year old granddaughter called 911. At the hospital she was minimally responsive and in severe respiratory distress. She was intubated and transferred to the ICU. A family meeting with the oncology and ICU team was called to discuss Mrs. Thomas’s advanced condition, the fact that she would probably not survive further treatment of the lymphoma and to decide on goals of care. Fifteen family members arrived, including her daughter, pre-teen granddaughters and grandson, three nieces, four nephews, several friends from her church and the minister. On being asked that only the immediate family participate in the meeting, the family and friends became angry and insisted that all of them be involved in this discussion.
  Discussion questions:

1. What is your impression regarding this scenario? What are some concerns you have with this case and what do you anticipate would happen? Support your answer.
2. Have you thought about what kind of care you would want if you could no longer speak for yourself at the End of Life? Give examples.
3. How would you handle all the family members and friends wanting to be included in the discussion?

•  Assignment 2 (Appendix D – Pain)Assignment Due November 24 at 6:00 PMAppendix D – Pain

• Give the questions some thought and answer honestly.
• Give examples if you have them
• Cite resources
• Number your answers to correspond with the question
• Worth 12 points / 5%
• Questions:

1. Describe your response to the pain you have experienced. Explain and describe the pain you were experiencing. What were the effective methods used to deal with the pain? Describe pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies used to relieve pain.
2. Did those around you understand the pain you were experiencing? Why or why not? How did their understanding or lack of understanding make you feel?
3. How could this experience with pain impact your response to a patient with pain?

Read the Stokowski article from Week 3.  Consider the implementation of the EHR in your facility.  After reading the article choose one issue or argument presented.  Answer the following points:

• Discuss how you encountered this in your facility.
• What were the common responses of staff and providers? What were the barriers and how could you overcome them?
• Consider how you would have changed the implementation and/ or ongoing support for the EHR. What specific measures or support would you have provided and why? 
• How can you evaluate the effectiveness of the measures?
• If you could tell your head of information technology how to improve it or change, what would it be and why?

Chapter 3

1. How do heredity and environment influence traits?

Chapter 5

2. Summarize and evaluate Piaget’s theory of cognitive development 

 

Textbook: Essentials of Understanding Psychology

12th edition              

Author: Robert Feldman

Publisher: McGraw Hill

ISBN-13: 978-1259531804

DQ should follow APA guidelines and be 300 words or more.

*Ran through Grammarly.com, not plagiarised and cited correctly*

Total pts 100