For your initial post, research the two diseases HIV and HCV. Based on your research, discuss whether you think that a vaccine will be developed for either of these diseases within the next ten years. Why or why not?

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here are many opinions on the need and/or importance of vaccines in preventing the spread of disease. Our children are required to get vaccinations before entering school, and health care workers must have them when working in environments where they can encounter bloodborne pathogens.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) are the two more prominent concerns for medical staff and for the worldwide community. Despite precautions, these diseases are both considered emerging infections. Neither of them have had vaccines developed that are effective at preventing the contraction of the disease.

For your initial post, research the two diseases HIV and HCV. Based on your research, discuss whether you think that a vaccine will be developed for either of these diseases within the next ten years. Why or why not?

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. Genetic information has become part of our culture and it is difficult to tell the difference between unmodified and genetically modified food sources such as plant and animals. After reading this module’s material regarding vectors in biotechnology, consider the potential for nanotechnology and scientific advancement. Research nanotechnology and its potential use in biotechnology. In one or two paragraphs, explain the potential advantages and disadvantages of nanotechnology in health care, agriculture, or industry and discuss whether you would or would not support further research.

View the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards (CLAS) categories aimed at equity and quality care (HHS, n.d.). Notice how these standards overlap with many of the expectations and standards in professional nursing practice!

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Go to the link https://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas/standards  (Links to an external site.)

View the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards (CLAS) categories aimed at equity and quality care (HHS, n.d.). Notice how these standards overlap with many of the expectations and standards in professional nursing practice!

This weeks discussion topic asks you to identify overlaps in the standards with the expectations and standards in professional nursing practice.

Your discussion posting must provide a response to the following questions:

  • In what ways are you and your peers using these standards in your areas of nursing practice?
  • Discuss one nursing action you might incorporate to improve cultural competence in your organization.Remember to cite both the weekly readings (not systematic reviews) and an external source.

Justin is a front-office assistant at a local physician’s office. On a busy day at the office, Justin is consumed by patients and their needs. While helping a patient, Sarah, the other front-office assistant, calls Justin over to answer questions regarding the patient intake process. Justin explains the process to Sarah and then continues to work with the patient at his window.

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Respond to the prompts after each scenario.

Scenario 1:

Justin is a front-office assistant at a local physician’s office. On a busy day at the office, Justin is consumed by patients and their needs. While helping a patient, Sarah, the other front-office assistant, calls Justin over to answer questions regarding the patient intake process. Justin explains the process to Sarah and then continues to work with the patient at his window. Later that day, Justin reflects on the situation and is frustrated that he had to stop working with his patient to explain a process to Sarah that he has already explained a dozen times. Justin takes to social media to express his frustrations with Sarah and her inability to take care of patients properly even though she has been trained.

Write a 175- to 260-word response to the following prompts:

  • Explain how Sarah might perceive Justin’s actions.
  • Explain the ramifications of using social media as an outlet for voicing frustrations about a co-worker.
  • Provide an example of a more effective communication method to use in this situation.

Scenario 2:

Jana works in a long-term care facility that cares for all types of patients. She receives emails from multiple co-workers throughout the day, and today she receives the following email from Sean:

“Hi Jana,

I noticed that I DIDN’T receive your monthly report yesterday. I NEED to get it as soon as possible TODAY so that I can finish the final report.

Thanks, Sean”

Write a 175- to 260-word response to the following prompts:

  • Explain how Jana might perceive the tone of this email.
  • Describe whether you perceive Sean’s tone to be appropriate or inappropriate.
  • Provide an example of a more effective communication method to use in this situation.

Scenario 3: 

Robert is an older patient checking in at the window of his local retail health clinic. The office assistant is taking Robert’s insurance card and asking a couple of follow-up questions. Robert asks the assistant to speak up because of some background noise. The assistant starts speaking slower and enunciates her words instead of speaking louder.

Write a 175- to 260-word response to the following prompts:

  • Explain how Robert might perceive the office assistant’s reaction.
  • Explain the ramifications of communicating with patients in this manner.
  • Provide an example of a more effective communication method to use in this situation.

Cite a minimum of one reference to support your assignment.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment (the three responses) in one document.

Write a 4-6-page analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications

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Write a 4-6-page analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.

Introduction

In your health care career, you will be confronted with many problems that demand a solution. By using research skills, you can learn what others are doing and saying about similar problems. Then you can analyze the problem and the people and systems it affects. You can examine potential solutions and their ramifications. This assessment allows you to practice this approach with a real-world problem.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
    • Use scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
  • Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
    • Analyze a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.
    • Discuss potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution.
  • Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care.
    • Analyze the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented.
  • Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
    • Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
    • Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.

Instructions

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

  1. Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece) and provide details about it.
    • Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
    • Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
  2. Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
    • Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
      • You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles? library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
      • You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.
      • You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
    • Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following:
      • Assess the credibility of the information sources.
      • Assess the relevance of the information sources.
  3. Analyze the health care problem or issue.
    • Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
    • Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
    • Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
    • Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
  4. Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
    • Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
    • Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
    • Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
  5. Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented.
    • Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
    • Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view.
    • Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

  • Length: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • APA template: Use the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX] as the paper format and the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOC] for guidance.
  • Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
  • References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper.
  • APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citations of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.

Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:

  • Title page. A separate page.
  • Introduction. A brief one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.
  • Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the elements of the problem or issue or question.
  • Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue.
  • Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
  • Solution. Choose a solution, response, or answer.
  • Ethical implications. Ethical implications of implementing the solution.
  • Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.
  • Conclusion. One paragraph.

Patient and family education is important in increasing adherence. To provide education to patient and families, you are going to create a poster about a gastrointestinal disorder that will be displayed in a physician’s office.

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Module 08: GI poster

Competency
Select appropriate nursing interventions for clients with upper and lower gastrointestinal disorders. SIGN UP FOR YOUR TOPIC HERE: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a9aocm6ahrPHEhRBuFtYaXiR19DmdkmDTdYLacyj0Es/edit?usp=sharing

Scenario
Patient and family education is important in increasing adherence. To provide education to patient and families, you are going to create a poster about a gastrointestinal disorder that will be displayed in a physician’s office.

Instructions
Please be sure to include the following in your poster design.

Overview of the disorder
Causes of the disorder
Diagnostic tests to diagnosis the disorder
Assessment findings
Multidimensional nursing care interventions for the disorder
Resources
For assistance with research, refer to the Nursing Research Guide.

For assistance creating a poster, refer to the following FAQ.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Please make your initial post by midweek, and respond to at least two other student’s post by the end of the week. (Minimum 200 words in each reply, build on their presentation with something you found in your research) Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

 

For this assignment on UCCO, complete a minimum 2-page summary to explain why the organization should devote time to planning and why a strategic plan is needed.

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Barbara was recently hired as a regional manager for the Urgent Care Clinic Organization (UCCO). One of her first tasks is to compile a strategic plan for the executive committee to review. The overall goal of the strategic plan is to identify specific actionable items that can better position the clinic organization.

For this assignment on UCCO, complete a minimum 2-page summary to explain why the organization should devote time to planning and why a strategic plan is needed.

Visit the Rasmussen online Library and search for a minimum of 4 articles covering the topics of strategic planning and healthcare management. Conduct academic research using the library’s databases, like:

Discovery
Business Source Complete via EBSCO
Business via ProQuest
What can a healthcare organization accomplish with the strategic planning process?
What would you recommend as areas of focus for Barbara’s strategic plan?
Discuss how Barbara can achieve a balance between historical and current topics in healthcare?
How should she apply them for her strategic plan?
What type(s) of primary and secondary research would you recommend Barbara conduct? What are the benefits? Explain.
Remember to integrate citations accurately and appropriately for all resource types; use attribution (credit) as a method to avoid plagiarism. Use NoodleTools to document your sources and to complete your APA formatted reference page and in-text citations.

 

 1. Eleven-month-old Bianca is being assessed in the chest clinic today by the respiratory nurse. Bianca requires continuous portable oxygen via nasal prongs at 0.5 L/min. Her mother has tried to wean Bianca from oxygen during the night, but Bianca’s O2 saturation often will drop to 92% and her respiratory rate will increase.

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1. Eleven-month-old Bianca is being assessed in the chest clinic today by the respiratory nurse. Bianca requires continuous portable oxygen via nasal prongs at 0.5 L/min. Her mother has tried to wean Bianca from oxygen during the night, but Bianca’s O2 saturation often will drop to 92% and her respiratory rate will increase. Bianca was born at 30 weeks gestation and was ventilated for the first 2 weeks of life. She has been on continuous oxygen since birth. There is a student nurse observing today. Outside the exam room, she states to the respiratory nurse that Bianca must have asthma.

-How would the respiratory nurse respond?

-What things would you be concerned about as Bianca gets older?

2. APA Style

3. 3 paragraphs of 3 sentences each

4. 2 references not older than 2015

Reflect on a patient experience where you encountered a health disparity that was a determinant to the patient’s health. In hindsight, was there an opportunity where you should have acted to help eliminate this but did not?

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  • Watch the video Health Determinants: A Framework for Reaching Health People 2020 Goals. Reflect on a patient experience where you encountered a health disparity that was a determinant to the patient’s health. In hindsight, was there an opportunity where you should have acted to help eliminate this but did not? Explain. What would you do differently next time you encounter a similar situation?

1 page and at least 1 reference not older than 2015

Link to framework video below

Start by asking why do we immunize?

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Start by asking why do we immunize? In order to educate and help people to make informed decisions they need to realize how some diseases have become rare due to the use of vaccines. We have to continue to vaccinate until the diseases are completely eradicated or they can become prevalent again. Why do you think that today’s generation have begun to push back on vaccinations for their children and what is the best way to educate them in a way they will identify with?

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/why.htm

1 page and at least 1 reference not older than 2015