Please view the you-tube videos on Week 2 moodle page-they cover various topics about nursing and can be included in this discussion board.  Some include some television show clips that have nurses and also interviews with people on the street about what nursing is.  Hopefully this will give you all a better picture of how the public views nursing. There is also a video about the struggles of minority students and nursing.   My hope, is that by the end of this course you will be a strong voice for nursing, with the goal of sharing who nurses are, and why we do what we do!

The questions below are discussion starters and you do not have to answer all of them-choose what interests you to discuss!  Remember, your initial post can be 300-500 words, basically about 1-2 paragraphs.

What do you think nursing is?  What has most influenced how you see nursing?  How do you react to shows that have nurses on them?  How do you think this can affect the view of nursing that the general public will have?  Have you had family or friends question why you would want to become a nurse?  Have you had someone tell you to become a doctor instead?  What can we as nurses and nursing students do to positively or negatively affect the image of nursing? This is more of a “personal” discussion and I do not expect you to bring in resources, unless you want to.  If you have not already done so, please review the rubric for discussion posts-they need to be “substantial”- have depth and your answers need to be substantial and carry forward the conversation.  

The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem.For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem. To support your PICOT question, identify six supporting peer-reviewed research articles, as indicated below. The PICOT question and six peer-reviewed research articles you choose will be utilized for subsequent assignments.Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” to complete this assignment.

1. Select a nursing practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research. Start with the patient population and identify a clinical problem or issue that arises from the patient population. In 200–250 words, provide a summary of the clinical issue.
2. Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT question in your selected nursing practice problem area of interest. The PICOT question should be applicable to your proposed capstone project (the project students must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).
3. The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project.
4. Conduct a literature search to locate six research articles focused on your selected nursing practice problem of interest. This literature search should include three quantitative and three qualitative peer-reviewed research articles to support your nursing practice problem.

Note: To assist in your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow or broaden your main topic. For example: Search for diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what research design was used in the articles the search produced, review the abstract and the methods section of the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods. Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews, and Metanalysis articles are good resources and provide a strong level of evidence but are not considered primary research articles.  Therefore, they should not be included in this assignment.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.You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 What role do nurses have in selecting and evaluating information systems within your work environment? What strategies facilitated implementation of the information system and/or what were the barriers to implementation? 

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.

The patient is a 68-year-old man who sustained a head injury after falling in the bathroom. He arrives in the emergency department (ED) cheerful, alert, and oriented to person. On physical examination, he has a large hematoma on his left forehead. He reports a headache in the left temporal area, which he rates as an 8/10. His wife was present during the incident. Admission vital signs are: blood pressure, 170/92 mm Hg; pulse, 92 beats/min; respirations, 14 breaths/min; and temperature, 98.7° F. The physician orders a one-time dose of acetaminophen 650 mg orally for the patient’s headache, which the nurse promptly administers. The patient reports a pain level of 5/10 at 1 hour after the intervention. 

1. Why is it important to determine the circumstances of the fall for this patient? 

2. Discuss the importance of obtaining baseline behavior and information from the wife. 

3. The ED physician orders computed tomography (CT) of the brain for the patient. What is the purpose of this test, and what are the nursing responsibilities in preparing the patient for this procedure? 

4. Because the patient is at risk for increased intracranial pressure, explain how the patient should be positioned and moved in bed.

5. The CT and other diagnostic results are negative and the patient is diagnosed with a minor head injury and contusion to the right extremity. He is discharged to home. Review the patient teaching instructions that should be given to the patient and his wife. 

6. The wife appears unwilling to take her husband home and she states that she doesn’t understand the discharge instructions. What can the nurse do in this situation? 

7. Use the focus charting method (also known as the DAR method—data, action, response) to document the administration of acetaminophen, including appropriate follow-up. 

 In thinking on the issues of religion, secularity, culture, and conflict that are discussed in this chapter, fully analyze at least two aspects through which Israel can be redefined.  In turn, what are two of the most important ways in which Shavit discusses Israeli and Jewish identity?  Think of this through two manners which you found to be the most new or differen