Instructions

Analysis of an Age Related Topic

By the due date assigned, submit your assignment to the Submissions Area.

Conduct in-depth analysis of a pertinent topic related to aging. Define the problem, specific population affected, cultural implications, and financial/legal/ethical implications. What interventions can be used to improve the problem? What resources are available? What are the associated costs? Is this idea sustainable?

Submit your paper in a 6–7-page Microsoft Word document.

Support your responses with examples.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.

• Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.
• This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.
• You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

References must be within 3 years.

A company’s culture is often buried so deeply inside rituals, assumptions, attitudes, and values that it becomes transparent to an organization’s members only when, for some reason it changes.
—Rob Goffee

Culture is embedded within every organization. Yet, because culture is woven throughout the everyday interactions and atmosphere of an organization, it can be difficult to assess and explain how the culture influences the inner workings of the organization.

As a nurse leader-manager, developing a sound understanding of an organization’s culture can help you to achieve quality improvement initiatives and identify strategies for enacting sustainable change.

For this Discussion, you analyze the culture of an organization and consider how this relates to achieving goals related to quality improvement. You may wish to focus on the same organization that you have selected for your Course Project.

To prepare:

• Review the information on organizational culture in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Reflect on the culture of an organization with which you are familiar. Consider the following:
  • What elements of the organization’s culture seem most prominent or significant to you?
  • What beliefs, dispositions, and/or actions seem to be most valued? Why do you think so?
  • What do you notice about the expectations, assumptions, and more demonstrated among people within the organization?
  • What artifacts provide clues about the culture?
  • How do these cultural elements contribute to or detract from the organization’s ability to meet prominent goals and objectives?
• Consider how you, as a nurse leader-manager, could apply your knowledge of this culture to facilitate quality improvement initiatives within this organization. How would you leverage the strengths of the culture, and address limitations or obstacles that may arise within it?
•  Post an analysis of the culture of the organization that you selected. Explain how you think this particular culture contributes to or detracts from the organization’s ability to meet goals. Explain how you, as a nurse leader-manager, could utilize your knowledge of this culture to facilitate quality improvement initiatives within this organization. 

Groups: Three to four students will be randomly assigned to each group for the Week 5 Assignment 1:

• Group 1 – Survey Research
• Group 2 – Experimental Research
• Group 3 – Correlational Research
• Group 4 – Case Study
• Group 5 – Phenomenology…………………………………………………I am Group 5
• Group 6 – Ethnography
• Group 7 – Grounded Theory
• Group 8 – Focus Groups
• Group 9 – Mixed Methods (exploratory or explanatory)

Please My group Is Group 5 …Phenomenology

Work with your group to finalize an eight to ten slide (length does not include the cover or references slides) PowerPoint presentation with references about your group’s assigned research method: Phenomenology

• Description of the research method.
• Describe whether it is qualitative or quantitative, or both, and why.
• What are the steps to using this method? Explain in detail.
• Provide an example of one study where it has been used. Summarize the study and how it used your group’s assigned research method.
• Identification of challenges and limitations of this method.

Imagine you are a community health educator and you have been tasked with developing a presentation to be given in a setting to educate an audience on one type of diabetes.

Identify your audience. Examples include the following:

• Senior center
• Middle school
• A workplace

Create a resource (350 to 600 words) as a way to share this information. Examples include the following:

• A social media page
• An information pamphlet
• A presentation

Consider the best method so it is crafted in an appropriate and understandable way for your identified audience.

Choose from the two following options:

Option A: Type 1 Diabetes

• How society views Type 1 diabetes (what society thinks it is versus what it actually is, common beliefs and practices)
• Signs and symptoms
• Compliance with treatment regimens
• Making the right decisions to live a healthy life
• Impact on health care resources

Option B: Type 2 Diabetes

• How society views Type 2 diabetes (what society thinks it is versus what it actually is, common beliefs and practices)
• Preventive measures
• Signs and symptoms
• Making the right decisions to live a healthy life
• Compliance with treatment regimens
  Impact on health care resources

APA Cite sources Minimum 2

1. Detached Retina

Mr. Gray, a 65-year-old man, was in an automobile accident in which he suffered a concussion. Soon after he was released, he noticed what he described as a “gray spot” in his field of vision. At first he ignored it, thinking it would go away, but the spot seemed to darken and spread over his visual field. He didn’t report any pain with the problem. On calling his physician, he was advised to go to the nearest hospital immediately. A detached retina was diagnosed.

After treatment, he regained most of his normal sight back. Five years later, he began having problems again. The central area of his visual field was becoming blurred, and he was losing his depth perception. An initial eye examination revealed neovascularization in both eyes.

• Question 1:  Relate the patient history and circumstances of the injury and the signs and symptoms related to the pathophysiology of this condition.
• Question 2: Discuss the treatments available for the patient.
• Question 3: Relate the symptoms and signs to those of macular degeneration.
• Question 4: Discuss the treatment available and the prognosis for recovering his normal vision.

Resources to assist you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m__6QS8U_8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZe7VxtuQB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZQIZ_52YY

1. Cardiovascular Accident

Mr. Quinn, age 64 years, developed a severe headache several hours ago that has not responded to acetaminophen. Now his speech is slurred, and his right arm and the right side of his face feel numb. He is very anxious and is transported to the hospital. Mr. Quinn has a history of smoking and arteriosclerosis, and there is family history of CVA and diabetes. Assessment at the hospital indicated weakness on the right side, including facial asymmetry and a blood pressure of 220/110 Hg mm. A CT scan showed damaged tissue on the left side of the brain, and an angiogram indicated narrowing of the carotid arteries and middle cerebral arteries, with occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery.

• Question 1:  Discuss the pathophysiology related to CVA due to thrombus vs. embolus. Describe the stages in the development of an atheroma.
• Question 2: Explain the predisposing factors in this case, and relate Mr. Quinn’s initial signs to the pathological changes.
• Question 3: Discuss the treatments available after first aid for stroke patients and the patient’s prognosis.

Resources to help you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAI6KOwKII&t=16s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8s427-tv58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCvV11R2lgg&t=7s

1. Parkinson Disease

Mr. Nimmo, age 66, has noticed excessive fatigue, muscle aches, and weakness in his legs for some time. His hands were shaking slightly, although his wife reported that the shaking appeared to stop when he fell asleep. Some unintentional head movements were also apparent. He remembers that his grandfather died in his mid-60s after suffering for years from a condition with similar symptoms. After several tests and the elimination of some other neuromuscular conditions, a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease was made for Mr. Nimmo.

• Question 1: Discuss the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease and how it differs from other neuromuscular conditions affecting older adults.
• Question 2: Discuss the usual progression of the disease as the pathophysiology develops further. Indicate additional manifestations that will be noticeable.
• Question 3: Describe the complications that frequently develop, including the rationale for each and the early indications of each problem.
• Question 4: Discuss the treatments available to this patient.