Assignments

After completing this week’s reading, consider the following statement: Never before has nursing been so important to a health care organization. Nurses are responsible for upholding the public’s trust as well as their health care organization’s reputation and its financial viability. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not? Provide at…

Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky’s developmental theories offer us two frameworks for understanding our cognitive processing as we age. Aspects of cognition, such as information processing, attention, or memory can be different in childhood as compared to senior adulthood. To prepare for this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider what Piaget and Vygotsky had…

Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research. Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives. Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library. Validate an idea with your own experience…

Students should introduce the bioethical issue (Heroin Abuse: Nurses Confronting a Growing Trend) to include key concepts, decision making, a theoretical framework model and the significance of the decision in nursing. Discuss what concepts are highlighted and the effects on the nurse or the nursing profession. Only Nursing scholar journal in USA should be use…

Development of an evidence-based practice project must include the direct and indirect impact that will be encountered through implementation. Staff retention of newly hired nurses specific to the night shift is the focus of my project and its impact on the nurses, facility and community that is served. According to published reports, a supportive work…

A PICOT starts with a designated patient population in a particular clinical area and identifies clinical problems or issues that arise from clinical care. The intervention should be an independent, specified nursing change intervention. The intervention cannot require a provider prescription. Include a comparison to a patient population not currently receiving the intervention, and specify…

Define selective presentation and evaluate the ethics of its use in negotiations. Provide an example of its use in negotiations and analyze the appropriateness of the technique in reaching a settlement and preserving long-term relationships.

Create a 15-minute oral presentation (3–4 pages) that examines the moral and ethical issues related to triaging patients in an emergency room. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: Competency 1: Explain the effect of health care policies, legislation, and legal issues on health…

A new initiative has been introduced to educate nurses, health care workers, and social services workers on how to prevent workplace violence where you work. Write a 750–1,000-word article on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies…

  Review the secondary data presented in the ANA Fast Facts and describe what the results say about this sample of the nursing workforce. Describe the purpose and the intent of the ANA sharing these results? The next process for our study is to collect data. The research design will indicate the best data to…

A broad range of cultures exists in the world today. Nursing professionals often interact with people from cultural backgrounds that differ from their own. Share an experience where you cared for a patient in the healthcare setting who was from a culture different from your own. How did you accommodate this patient’s needs? How would…

In Huston’s (2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for 2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it? Select one of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own leadership of nurses and…