Chapter 14, Medical Errors: An Ongoing Threat to Quality Health Care .A nurse manager is reviewing occurrence reports of medical errors over the last six months. The nurse manager knows that medical errors are not the only indicator of quality of care. They are, however, a pervasive problem in the current health care system and one of the greatest threats to quality health care. The nurse manager is putting together a list of possible solutions to decrease the number of occurrences of medication errors.

1. Recognizing that health care errors affect at least one in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization’s World Alliance for Patient Safety and the Collaborating Centre identified priority program areas related to patient safety. What are the patient safety program areas the nurse manager should consider for implementation?

2. Describe the Joint Commission 2017 National Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals.

3. Discuss the Institute of Medicine’s four-pronged approach to reducing medical mistakes?

Please abide by APA 7th edition format in your writing. 

Answers should be 2-3 Paragraphs made up of 3-4 sentences each, at least 250 words (more or less) in length

 Chapter 13, Comfort and Pain Management

With the realization that pain is highly prevalent among older adults, please answer the following questions:

• What are some ways you as the nurse can utilize to determine pain in the older adult?
•  What are some of the potential barriers related  to self-reporting of pain in the older adult?

Please use your textbook as, at least, one reference

Please abide by APA 7th edition format in your writing. 

Answers should be 2-3 Paragraphs made up of 3-4 sentences each, at least 250 words (more or less) in length.

tart by reading and following these instructions:

1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.

2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources. Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.

3. Consider the discussion and the any insights you gained from it.

4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.

Assignment:

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

• Demographics, life time education and career/employment
• Two most significant (positive) times in their lives
• What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?
• Two personal strengths
• Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills
  
  • Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now
• Three (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?
• Support the client in taking the Geriatric Depression Scale.pdf
• Support the client in taking the Fulmer SPICES Assessment.pdf
• Perform a Mini Mental State Exam.pdf and Patient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf (attach here)
• Perform a Hall, Hall, and Chapman Article.pdf
• Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient Stress Questionnaire, and the Mini-Mental Status Exam
• Discuss your older adult’s level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?
• Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.  
• Create a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with two nursing interventions each.

The assignment should be written in an APA-formatted essay. The essay should be at least 1500 words in length and include at least two scholarly sources other than provided materials.

Discussion: Unit 3

Analyzing the Digital Divide

Instructions:

In this discussion, you are asked to analyze ethical dilemmas related to the digital divide This assignment proceeds through the following steps:

• First, choose a digital divide – rural-urban, racial, intergenerational, or international – that is most relevant to your life.
• Second, describe ways you are advantaged and/or disadvantaged by this digital divide.
• Third, reflect upon the ethical dilemmas of this divide while recommending reforms to change this inequality.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The Health Workforce 

This discussion highlights on the health workforce as central to the health care system, and any changes in its deployment and utilization will have significant effects on health care quality and costs. The ACA and rising concerns about the efficiency of health care delivery are bringing renewed attention to on the current makeup of the health care workforce, the challenges posed by shortages in certain professions, and how these shortages are being addressed. 

Grading Rubric for Healthcare Workforce 

Most healthcare in the United States is delivered in traditional setting such as hospitals, physician organizations, and long-term care organizations. As access is becoming more readily available, the demand for care is increasing as physician shortages is also increasing.

PLEASE  READ AND ANSWER ALL THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS LISTED BELOW!!!! APA Format, English punctuation, and spelling. NO plagiarism, proof of Turnitin document. 

1. With the increase in number of non-physician providers, discuss how it may affect cost, quality, and access to care in the U.S. healthcare system?

2. Discuss on the possibility of changes to scope of practice regulations for Advanced Practice RNs and how it could help to abate health worker shortages?

3. Why is primary care so important?