Practicum: Decision Tree For this Assignment, you examine the client case study in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how you might assess and treat pediatric clients presenting with symptoms noted in the case. Note:  For these assignments, you will be required to make decisions about how to assess and treat clients. Each of your decisions will have a consequence. Some consequences will be insignificant, and […]

Assignment: Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise. With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders. In this Assignment, you […]

REPLY1 Marial, I think that mentoring of new nurses is a great way to ensure that new nurses have a great role model.  What other ways do you think advocacy can be learned? REPLY2 Being an advocate means standing up for someone in support of their cause. As a nurse, being an advocate means preserving human dignity, promoting patient equality, maintaining freedom from suffering, and […]

   Gastrointestinal (GI) and hepatobiliary disorders affect the structure and function of the GI tract. Many of these disorders often have similar symptoms such as abdominal pain, cramping, constipation, nausea, bloating, and fatigue. Since multiple disorders can be tied to the same symptoms, it is important for advanced practice nurses to carefully evaluate patients and prescribe treatment that targets the cause rather than the symptom. […]

Assignment 2: Practicum – Week 2 Journal Entry Learning Objectives Students will: Apply documentation skills to examine family therapy sessions * Develop diagnoses for clients receiving family psychotherapy * Analyze legal and ethical implications of counseling clients with psychiatric disorders * * The Assignment related to this Learning Objective is introduced this week and submitted in Week 3. Select two clients you observed or counseled […]

Link for pathways to safer opioid use simulation https://health.gov/hcq/trainings/pathways/index.html Character: James Parker (Previous paper attached) These are the decisions used in the previous Simulation, please pick different answer from the ones below. 1. Tell him is an 8 explain why 2. Ask about alternative treatment options 3. Risk having to stay longer 4.Yes ask why it is necessary 5.Do Both 6.Go see a pyschologist You […]

Updated 01/2019 Purpose The purpose of this assignment is: · To apply a change process using the ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation and a systematic review after identifying a clinical topic of concern and related nursing practice issue. · The information from the ‘Illustration’ part of our lessons in Weeks 1-6 will mentor you through this process. Your change process is to be set […]

  Assign CPT code(s) and appropriate modifiers to each statement. 1)      After performing an emergency cesarean section, the physician noticed that the appendix was distended, resulting in medical necessity for an appendectomy performed during the same operative session. 2)      The physician freed intestinal adhesions. 3)      The physician resected two segments of small intestine and performed an anastomosis between the remaining intestinal ends. An open approach […]

REPLY1   When referring to the recipients of nursing care, I agree with this change, because I consider as a patient the person who suffers pain or discomfort and receives the services of a health professional, and undergoes an examination, treatment or to an intervention. As a nurse I refuse to use the term Client, because it may refer to Mercantilism, I also understand that if […]

  In the determination of people’s conduct and behavior, it is crucial to create and employ several factors and indicators necessary to evaluate and determine communal or a person’s behavior and conduct. These moral and ethical indicators are derived from principles like beneficence, nonmaleficence, social justice, procedural justice, integrity, autonomy, confidentiality, and fidelity. Most of these principles share the same ideologies and concepts with Kant’s […]