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Family Health Assessment Part

| January 21, 2019

Understanding family structure and style is essential to patient and family care. Conducting a family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths, as well as potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies for support and guidance. Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The […]

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Cultural Considerations In Mental Health Nursing

| January 21, 2019

Submit an evidence-based practice paper about cultural competency in mental health nursing. An evidence-based practice paper allows you to explore best practice and help improve client outcomes on a psychiatric unit. Your paper should describe how you, as a nurse, will include – or have included – cultural awareness in a client diagnosed with a […]

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Principles Of Organizational Behavior

| January 21, 2019

Imagine you work for a successful company and have been asked to be a guest speaker for an entry-level organizational behavior course at a local college. The goal of this presentation is to help the college students gain a basic understanding of organizational behavior and be able to speak to its importance in an organization. […]

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Evolving Practice Of Nursing

| January 21, 2019

Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics. Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to […]

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Social Determinant of Health

| January 21, 2019

What are social determinants of health? How do social determinants of health contribute to the development of illness? What is a communicable disease chain? Are there steps that a nurse can take to break a link within the communicable disease chain?    Give a specific example. Get a 10 % discount on an order above […]

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Global Health Issues

| January 21, 2019

Select a global health issue impacting the international health community. Briefly describe the global health issue and its impact on the larger health care system (i.e., continents, regions, countries, states, and health departments). How can health care delivery systems work collaboratively to address global health concerns?Who are some of the stakeholders that may work on […]

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Health Insurance Financing Systems

| January 21, 2019

Compare the key components inherent in the national health insurance financing systems of two (2) different countries. Determine the impact that financing health insurance has on the economy of each country that you selected. Provide examples to support your rationale.  Examine the importance of health insurance with respect to the cost of the uninsured on […]

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Health Care Financing

| January 21, 2019

A.  Compare the U.S. healthcare system with the healthcare system of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland, by doing the following: Identify one country from the following list whose healthcare system you will compare to the U.S. healthcare system: Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland. Compare access between the two healthcare systems for children, people […]

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Healthcare Environment

| January 21, 2019

Change is part of our daily healthcare environment. Clinical nursing judgements based on quality and safety, as well as protocols and standards, reflect our patient-centered care values.   What steps could you take to develop more resilience in your practice setting? How might you communicate a change in practice to patients and nursing peers? Get a […]

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culture and environment of safety

| January 21, 2019

What should the “culture and environment of safety” look like when preparing and administering medications? Discuss a common breach of medication administration. Identify three  factors that lead to errors in documentation related to medication administration. What can I do to prevent medication errors? Get a 10 % discount on an order above $ 100 Use […]

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