Assignments

Last week, you met with Jackie about her time and attendance issues. She said that she understood and would try to do better. A few days ago, one of the female employees calls you and tells you that Jackie is passed out in the Lady’s Room. You rush over, having called the EMT’s. When you…

Question 1 The nurse is disappointed with not being able to provide educational materials in a non-English-speaking patient’s primary language.What can the nurse do to serve as an advocate when providing  culturally competent care? 1. Find or create materials to meet the patients’ needs. 2. Teach the patient in English. 3. Provide educational materials written…

Question 1 Besides being important public health issues and motivating people to action, what purpose do the Healthy People 2020 objectives serve? 1. Measure the impact of prevention activities 2. Provide monetary worth to the nation 3. Replace other tools 4. Identify people needing secondary health services Question 2 A group of health care providers…

Research the different nursing care facilities in your community. Discuss the pros and cons of the facility in terms of what they offer. Provide a brief report with the following questions: • What is the basic rate for room, board, and services (it’s a good idea to get this information in writing)? • What services…

Popular health information websites (such as the ones noted above) have consumers logging on to acquire health information. Yet, research shows that many of today’s consumers need assistance searching for information as well as understanding and applying it. Lack of technological expertise, low levels of health literacy, and an inability to distinguish relevant facts are…

The following is a generic case study. Apply this case to any one group of your choice. The client presents with concerns regarding alcohol and marijuana use. The client reports an increase in use, over the past year, to daily use. The client’s social support system has changed from a culture of origin and bicultural…

Qualitative data has been described as voluminous and sometimes overwhelming to the researcher. In what ways could a researcher manage and organize the data? Nursing research is used to study a dilemma or a problem in nursing. Examine a problem you have seen in nursing. Why should it be studied? Justify your rationale

An Appalachian patient in your health care facility wishes to stop treatment for his stage 4 bone cancer. His family is adamant that he continue the treatments. There have been multiple incidents where the family have verbally abused the nursing staff for consenting to the patient’s wishes. You decide to convene the ethics committee. Discuss this in a paper…

as you watch the film food insecurity in America and answer these questions 1-think about how one might approach the problem of food insecurity from the perspectives of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. using data and stories from the film, assess the utility of the three theoretical approaches for helping us to understand the…

1. List and discuss the decision making steps in the ethical cycle from a global perspective.   2. How do decisions made during the ethical cycle affect corporate culture?   3. What are the three potential conflicts of interest that can take place during the auditing process? Explain.   4. Consider your current or previous place of work and…

Select an article from a peer-reviewed nursing journal regarding an EBP process or implementation. Write a summary of 750-1,000 words that includes the following criteria: An introduction that explains the focus of the article. A summary of key points of the article. A list of the steps taken by nursing to develop and implement an…

Read and analyze a multinational corporation’s ( MNC’s) list of values/ value statement/or code of ethics. Share one ethical or one legal global situation the company is currently involved in. Explain how corporate culture or values should have influenced its decision making. Submit two recommendations on how this situation could have been avoided.   Explain…