Purpose Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based practice intervention used to identify, reduce, and prevent problematic use, abuse, and dependence on substances such as tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. The SBIRT model was incited by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation that called for community-based screening for health-risk behaviors. The purpose of this assignment is to integrate SBIRT into […]

Course Project: Part 1—Identifying a Researchable Problem One of the most challenging aspects of EBP is to actually identify the answerable question.   —Karen Sue Davies   Formulating a question that targets the goal of your research is a challenging but essential task. The question plays a crucial role in all other aspects of the research, including the determination of the research design and theoretical […]

As a nurse embarking on an advanced degree, you are developing the characteristics of a scholar-practitioner, which includes strong communication skills. Writing in a scholarly manner involves supporting your thoughts with evidence from the literature and appropriately using APA formatting. One of the challenges of scholarly writing is paraphrasing the thoughts of others in your work. Paraphrasing, and correctly citing the original author for his […]

  Select a public health issue and write a 750-1,000 word policy brief that provides a brief summary of the issue, options to solve the issue, and the best way to solve this issue. Select a public health issue from one of the following American Public Health Association websites: Climate Change  Follow this outline when writing the policy brief: Identify issue. Background information – (a) […]

Apply a model of cultural competence to personal practice beliefs. For this assignment: Reflect on the 5 constructs of Campinha-Bacote’s model of The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services: Cultural desire, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Knowledge, Cultural Skill, and Cultural Encounters. (See Chapter 2) Ritter, L.A., Graham, D.H. (2017). Multicultural Health (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. ISBN: 9781284021028 Review […]

Reply1 Patient safety and effective quality of care is very important to provide when a nurse.  This case was very sad to listen too as a nurse and mother. We should be able to help prevent hospital-acquired infections by doing proper sterile technique when needed and cleaning equipment properly. This scenario is very devastating to know they lost such a young patient due to continue […]

Lorraine  NUR 502 Case Studies Case Study 1 Constipation is a clinical symptom that manifests itself as too little frequency of bowel movements (≤2 times per week) or hard, hard stool, which can result from both mechanical and functional reasons. The first group includes obturation of the colon lumen with any organic substrate (often tumor tissue), which was excluded using colonoscopy in the presented clinical […]

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment. An important role of nursing is to provide health promotion and disease prevention. Review the 2020 Topics and Objectives on the Healthy People website. Choose a topic of interest that you would like to address, in conjunction with a population at-risk for the associated topic. Submit the topic and associated group to your instructor for approval. Create […]

      Benchmark   – Policy Brief Research public health issues on the “Climate Change” or Investigate a public health issue related to an environmental issue within the U.S. health care delivery system and examine its effect on a specific population. Write a 750-1,000-word policy brief that summarizes the issue, explains the effect on the population, and proposes a solution to the issue. Follow this outline when […]

  A nursing student at a college that has decided to implement affirmative action policy would likely have mixed feelings on the colleges decision. XYZ nursing would likely feel that they need to make sure that they are giving opportunities to frequently marginalized communities. By instituting affirmative action, the college has successfully worked to provide ample opportunities for students that might otherwise have been overlooked, […]