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Practicum: Decision Tree

| August 7, 2019

Childhood psychosis is extremely rare; however, children that present with psychosis must be carefully assessed and evaluated with appropriate interviewing of parent, child, and use of assessment tools. For this Assignment, as you examine the client case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat clients presenting with early onset […]

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Wellness And Prevention

| August 7, 2019

What is the role of health care reform in shifting the focus from a disease-oriented health care system toward one of wellness and prevention, and how does nursing fit into this shift? Trying to find a way to defray health care costs, it was decided that it is much less expensive to prevent disease than […]

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Nursing Pender Outline

| August 7, 2019

Running head: Nola Pender: Health Promotion Model 1 Nola Pender: Health Promotion Model 8 Nola Pender: Health Promotion Model Name Institution Nola Pender: “Health Promotion Model” (University of Michigan – Deep Blue, 2011) I am not sure writing/saying this here is right or correct? University of Michigan? HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL I. BACKGROUND: OVERVIEW A. Nola Pender (born […]

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SOAP Note and Time Log

| August 7, 2019

Select a patient who you examined during the last 3 weeks. With this patient in mind, address the following in a SOAP Note: · Subjective: What details did the patient or parent provide regarding the personal and medical history? Include any discrepancies between the details provided by the child and details provided by the parent, […]

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Preparing the Presentation

| August 7, 2019

1. Must be a professional, scholarly prepared PowerPoint presentation of 8-10 slides including at least five scholarly references. 2. You should have at least 8-10 slides, not including the title slide and reference slides. 3. Speaker notes are present for each slide. It is important to note that if you could not give your presentation […]

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Cardiopulmonary disease

| August 7, 2019

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Obstructive lung diseases Obstructive disease process Patients have difficulty exhaling all the air from the lungs Exhaled air comes out more slowly than normal At the end of full exhalation, an abnormal amount of air may still linger in the lungs Obstructive lung diseases The most common causes of obstructive lung […]

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Community Assessment And Analysis Presentation

| August 7, 2019

Community Assessment and Analysis Presentation The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect […]

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Evidence-Based Project

| August 7, 2019

Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”? When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your […]

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Assessing Neurological Symptoms

| August 7, 2019

Imagine not being able to form new memories. This is the reality patients with anterograde amnesia face. Although this form of amnesia is rare, it can result from severe brain trauma. Anterograde amnesia demonstrates just how impactful brain disorders can be to a patient’s quality of living. Accurately assessing neurological symptoms is a complex process […]

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Group Management For Just Culture

| August 7, 2019

Discussion: Group Management for Just Culture The concept of a fair and just culture refers to the way an organization handles safety issues. Humans are fallible; they make mistakes. In a just culture, ‘hazardous’ human behavior such as staff errors, near–misses and risky actions are identified and discussed openly in hopes of finding ways to […]

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