Recommend a quality or safety initiative that addresses a shortfall in quality and/or safety (UTI) in your current precepted experience environment (or simulation). Include the principles of quality improvement, health care policy, ethical and legal considerations, cost-effectiveness and means to monitor the initiative over time. 

The paper needs to be between 5-8 pages in length in APA format in text citation  with a SWOT analysis and implementation timelines and plan as appendices. Please provide turnitin report. 

Grading Rubric:  

1-Identify the quality or safety concern within the clinical practice and implication of the concern.

2- Recommend an evidence-based quality or safety initiative.

3- Discussion of implementation of the safety initiative: include principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy, and cost-effectiveness.

4- Discussion the SWOT analysis and timeline.

5- How the weaknesses and threats to the initiative will be mitigated  

 

As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.

With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.

In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
• Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
• Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.

The Assignment: (  not including the title and reference page)

Create a  fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:

• Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
• Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
• Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
• Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.
• Use APA format and include a title page, in-text citations, and reference page.
• Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

Prepare a two to three page written assignment that includes the following:

Content:

Prepare a two to three page written assignment that includes the following:

• Introduction to the assignment (sections of the assignment)
• Describe the importance of the code of ethics in nursing
• Identify the American Nurses Association Standards of Practice for the licensure you are obtaining (LPN or RN)
• Conclusion (reflect on the criteria of the assignment)
• Use at least two credible resources to support your findings. For example, one of the resources could be the ANA Standards of Practice, and another resource could be the ANA Code of Ethics. These resources must be integrated into the body of your paper using at least two in-text citations. Be sure to use proper APA format and style.

Format:

• Two to three page written assignment
• Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
• Logical, original and insightful
• Professional organization, style, and mechanics in APA format
• Run your paper through Grammarly and make corrections to identified errors before submission. 

 

Discussion Board Assignment

How values affect choices – Student integrity

Due on: Wednesday  05.12 at 11:59 pm

Two nursing students cheated on several assignments.  Although the evidence is irrefutable, both students deny cheating.  Discuss these students in terms of virtue ethics.  

1. Do these students have integrity? 
2. Do these students have the character to become good nurses?
3. Should the instructor allow them another chance?

USE APA & TWO REFERENCES AT LEAST. 

 Topic 2 DQ 1

Child abuse is any Act of Violence either physical or emotional towards an individual under 18 years of age. Children of all age group are at risk of such forms of abusive activities. It is been estimated that globally around 1 million cases of child abuse (2 to 17 years) in form of physical, emotional and sexual violence and neglect occurred in the previous year(U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2019)

Types of abuse

Physical abuse : This involves all forms of activities that cause physical or physiological harm to a child, examples are beating, biting, shaking and burning, and it’s prevalent among children of all ages.

Psychological abuse: This might involve mental torturing such as verbal abuse or terrorizing a child as well as humiliation. All these forms may cause psychological illness in the victims. Usually toddler, preschool, and school-age years are exposed to psychological forms of abuse.

Sexual abuse: This includes involving minors or children below 18 years in sexual activities. Sexual abuse includes direct and indirect sexual activities that the child may not be able to comprehend, most victim of sexual abuse are preschoolers and school age children, but rare cases of infant and toddler abuse are also reported in many countries(U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2019)

Signs of abuse:

Adolescent/Child will likely exhibit the following characteristics:

• Failing grades at school
• Difficulties relating with others of engaging in any meaningful relationship
• Increased incidence of theft, arrest, and violence
• Promiscuous behaviors
• Poor hygiene, and unkempt
• Facial injuries with no cogent explanations
• Abnormal weight gain or loss.Frequent elopements (U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2019)

Cultural variations and child abuse:

According to UNICEF 2022 data on female genital mutilation, about 200 million girls in 31 counties are victim of such practices. In some part of Africa, this form of child abuse is a norm for the female especially teenagers, the main reason for genital mutilation is preventing victims from promiscuity(UNICEF : For every child, 2020)

Nurse’s role in reporting child abuse

Any forms of child abuse must be immediately reported to the police as well as child care authorities functioning under the state government.

When a nurse suspects a child abuse, it must be immediately reported to the physician or the senior in charge nurse.

If the child is with the person suspected to be an abuser, the further assessment must be done after eliminating the person from the room.

Ensure that the child is comfortable and then a head to toe assessment must be performed.

At the time of examination it is advisable to have a witness probably from the medical profession.

A nurse must properly record the significant assessment findings suggestive of abusive activity with date and time.

In my state the Department of child welfare referral are made who will take the incident of child abuse for further investigations.(U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2019)

References

Respond to the above post using 200-300 words APA format with references to support the post in discussion