Principles of Research and Evidence-Based Practice

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Discuss the principles of research and evidence-based practice and how to effectively implement them for advanced practice nurses.

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Professor and class,

 

Collecting, analyzing, interpretating, and presenting data is statistics (Zach, 2022). Understanding your data is key to statistics, not over computing calculations (Holmes et al., 2017). Working on a medical/surgical unit, two different forms of data that I work with are daily blood pressure and temperature checks on my patients to assess their condition and overall health. Temperature checks can alert staff of an indication of infection, and or hypothermia. Blood pressure checks will provide knowledge of hypertension, hypotension, hypervolemia, hypovolemia, and sepsis. The average patient to nurse workload is eight to ten patients per shift. These are both classified as quantitative data related to numerical measurements and values. Blood pressure is usually classified as continuous due to having an infinite number of values within a range with a normal blood pressure of 120/80. Whereas temperatures are discrete due to being measured in finite increments such as tenths of a degree. Temperatures level of measurement is Interval due to being quantitative, can be ordered, meaningful differences between data can be collected and does not have an inherent zero, it is just a position on the scale. Blood pressure is measured on a ratio scale related to the numbers are equal in magnitude and rank on a numerical scale that has an absolute 0. The type of sampling used is cluster due to dividing the population into groups and selecting all the patients in one cluster but not the whole population.

Holmes, A., Illowsky, B., & Dean, S. (2017). 
Introductory Business Statistics. Houston, TX: OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics

Zach. (2022, August 29).
The importance of statistics in Healthcare (with examples). Statology. https://www.statology.org/importance-of-statistics-in-healthcare/

HIV/AIDS

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Discuss the potential controversy when considering a patient’s right to know whether a caregiver has AIDS, and the caregiver’s right to privacy and confidentiality.  Consider the following: A physician cut his hand with a scalpel while he was assisting another physician. Because of the uncertainty that blood had been transferred from the physician’s hand wound to the patient through an open surgical incision, he agreed to have a blood test for HIV. His blood tested positive for HIV and he withdrew himself from participation in further surgical procedures. Discuss the ethical and legal issues. 

Nursing Clinical Assignment: Quality Improvement Project Part 1

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Goal:

  • To assess a clinical issue that is the focus of your Quality Improvement Project.
  • Create a description of the clinical issue to be addressed in the project.

Content Requirements:

  1. Identify the clinical issue that will be the focus of your Quality Improvement project.
  2. Provide rationale for the need to change the status quo.
  3. Identify best practices from the literature related to the issues.

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Your written assignment for this module is a worksheet that describes the following:

  • The difference between hypothermia and hyperthermia and the impact to the patient?
  • Patient education for client and family in order to avoid extreme temperature variations?

You should be using complete sentences to answer the questions. Ensure

dimension

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For this writing assignment, complete the Information Technology Self-Assessment Tool.

When completed review and determine at least three new goals you would like to achieve. Submit your completed form with a brief description of your experience and comfort level with the use of technology not only in your Program but as a practicing nurse.

Describe your experience and comfort level with the use of technology.

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Week 8

Midweek Comprehension Questions

Discussion

Purpose

NI knowledge, skills, and competencies are so pervasive in the modern technology-rich healthcare environment it is difficult to imagine one without the other. This course provided foundational and introductory knowledge regarding informatics with an emphasis on developing an understanding of concepts of nursing informatics (NI) and becoming knowledgeable about the application of informatics in advanced practice. Reflect upon one NI competency relevant to APNs which you learned in this course. Provide a brief summary (100 words or less) 

DPwk2

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After you complete this week’s readings, including the Clinical Microsystems Greenbook,
describe one reading that relates most closely to your project topic and how this
microsystem will help you develop your change project.

More than 300 words.

This one will be done after the current one.

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please follow all directions

Nursing

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1. Give an example of how you have advocated for a patient, peer or subordinate and the outcome.  How did acting as an advocate help you grow as a leader? (application).

2. Describe an example of strategic or operational planning you have seen in your place of work and appraise the outcome (pros and/or cons) of this planning (evaluation).

3. Analyze the type of organizational structure at your place of work, (which structure does it most closely resemble and why?) How does the structure influence mission, vision, philosophy, and values (evaluation)

4. Which power-building strategies (organizational, political and or personal) have you found to be the most effective for enhancing your personal power and why?  Which has been the least effective or hardest to achieve and why?