In a 2-page paper, describe the historical development of the quality management process in nursing and the role of health care regulatory agencies in the quality management process. 

Paper requires a minimum of two references: One from a peer-reviewed NURSING journal (must be less than 5 years old) and one from the course textbook (titled: Professional Nursing Practice by Kathleen Koernig Blais and Janis H Hayes. Book relevant pages provided in the attachments)

APA format required. Plagarism free required. One reference must be cited from the book pages provided. Assignment due today at 9pm

 

Choose a nursing intervention (examples: IV saline flush versus Heparin; current trends in wound care; unrestricted visiting hours versus limited visiting in the ICU, etc.) related to your area of expertise or one that you would like to prove best evidence. Search a minimum of two sites from the below Sources of Evidence for guidelines and/or recommendations from the research for your chosen intervention.

Answer the following questions:

1. Present your intervention and rationale for choosing

2. Who are the authors of the guidelines/recommendations (or articles if an article is included)? Specifically, were any nurses a part of the decision-making? How important is it to have nurses as part of evidence appraisal?

3. What type of evidence was considered when creating the guideline/protocol?

4. Summarize the quality of the evidence and strength of the recommendations.

5. How do these guidelines/recommendations compare to what you know and practice in your institution?

6. Provide a summary of support to continue with current practice or change practice related to the intervention.

Sources of Evidence:

Keiser University Online Library: Literature searches and data bases (CINAHL, OVID, PROQUEST)

AHRQ Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations: Information and includes links to NGC, USPSTF, and others.

AHRQ’s National Guideline Clearinghouse: A public resource for summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF): Recommendations from panel of national experts (including nurses) in prevention and evidence-based medicine 

Cochrane Reviews: Systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy

Guideline Central: Guidelines, quick-reference tools (including apps), available in both print and digital formats 

Lippincott’s Evidence-based Practice Network: Articles, tools, resources for best practices

Professional Nursing Associations such as the American Nurses Association (ANA): Standards of Care, Code of Ethics

Specialty organizations such as:
Emergency Nurses Association – Practice Resource Library

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN): Position statements and resources

In the discussion, respond to the following. Be sure to respond to all parts of the questions in order to earn full credit.

• Looking back at the health care organization you identified in the first assignment, choose a specific product offered by that organization. Then, create an exploratory perceptual map for that product. 
• In the discussion, share both your perceptual map (or a detailed description of your map) and what the map might mean for your chosen health care organization.
  • Discuss whether would use a perceptual map in your current or desired profession. Explain why or why not. 

 

Endocrine Attendance Questions

Please answer the 5 questions below for attendance credit. Submit your answers to the proper assignment folder. Please do not share work.

1. What is hypopituitarism and how is it managed?
2. Compare and contrast the pathophysiology of Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH) and Diabetes Insipidus (DI)
3. Discuss the pathophysiology of Graves disease and include signs and symptoms associated with this disorder.
4. Discuss the pathophysiology of congenital hypothyroidism and the therapeutic management
5. Discuss the therapeutic management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)

 

Think about your experiences as part of an interprofessional health care team and answer the following questions:

• Describe a professional experience where you either feel your team collaborated and communicated well or a time when you feel that your team did not collaborate and communicate well in the process of conflict resolution.
• Describe the role of each member of the team who was involved in the experience.
• What communication techniques worked or did not work well during the experience?
• Research conflict resolution techniques and identify which were used or should have been used.
• If you were leading a debriefing of the experience, what recommendations would you make to the team to improve collaboration and communication?
• For this post, you must show research in your writing using in-text citations and show your reference in 7th. ed. APA.