Community Health Nursing

1. Design the nursing process to promote health with community partners across the life span in community settings with both predictable and unpredictable circumstances. 2. Create partnerships with communities in the customized therapeutic care process to protect, promote, and restore optimal community health. 3. Analyze practice decisions within the community utilizing critical thinking. 4. Evaluate…

Drugs and the Body

1.      1. Briefly describe the phases involved in each step of developing and approving a new drug in the United States. 1.      The process of dynamic equilibrium determines drug concentration in the body. Describe how the phases of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion impact drug concentrations.

Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement

Read the articles by All Things PLC as well as the resources by Hord (1997), Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement. As you reflect on professional learning communities and continuous improvement in an organization, what big ideas or insights have you discovered?  What ideas have you learned related to professional learning communities…

Groups and Group Interventions

In completing the case study, students will be addressing the following learning objectives: Discuss the advantages of group therapy. Discuss the nurse’s role in working with groups. 1. Mary, a student nurse, is studying for an upcoming examination in her psychiatric–mental health nursing class.  Mary is reviewing group psychiatric therapy and made some practice test…

Health Care Timeline

Complete the following timeline. Select seven events that have helped shape health care as it is today. Write a 50- to 150- word summary per event that discusses the event and its effect on the health care industry. An example has been provided for you. Health Care Through Out the Years Date Event and Significance…