Explore the factors contributing to the development and recurrence of UTIs, such as urinary stasis, urinary catheterization, and antibiotic resistance. How can nurse practitioners assess and address these risk factors in patient care to prevent UTIs and minimize recurrence?
PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING IN 50 WORDS OR MORE:
One way I would get involved with is by participating in the FNA advocacy days. Each Advocacy Days, nurses from across the state gather in Tallahassee during legislative sessions to learn about current legislative issues and specific bills that may affect their practice or the overall healthcare environment in Florida. This allows nurses to meet with legislators face to face. Nurses are able to voice their concerns and take part in helping shape the life of nurses.
The Barbara Lumpkin Toolkit is a resource that can be used by nurses to speak to legislators. The toolkit discusses ways for nurses to get in contact with legislators as well as offering tips on how to do so. The BLT also details the correct way to communicate nursing concerns to legislators. Something I didn’t know is that it would be more helpful to communicate with new legislators than legislators who have a lot of experience. As new legislators could be more sympathetic to our concerns then experienced ones would.
In the Florida Keys there is a critical nursing shortage. Leading to higher nurse-patient ratios that are unsafe. Per BLT to advocate for safe nurse-patient ratios I would make a list of the media in the Florida Keys. In the Keys news travels very quickly. An advantage we have is that Key West is a fairly small town and alot of people know each other. If we use the correct media tools we can recruit nurses while also providing benefits, higher pay, and different incentives to retain our staff. If this does not work, writing letters and using other ways of getting in contact with legislators to decrease the turnover and patient-nurse ratios can be also helpful. As well as joining the Advocacy Days to advocate for a safe work environment.
Florida Nurses Association. Barbara Lumpkin Institute. (n.d.). https://www.floridanurse.org/Links to an external site.
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Scenario:
Your organization is planning to purchase a tool for data analytics. You have been asked to make a recommendation for two tools.
Your organization is also researching the application of data warehousing, big data, and data mining. You have also been asked to make an evaluation of how data warehousing, big data, and data mining can be beneficial to a healthcare system. Some members of your audience may be unfamiliar with these concepts, so part of your goal is to provide background information.
The Electoral College Argument, Politics and Social Media
Discussion
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
· Textbook: Chapters 5, 6 and 10
· Lesson: Read this Week's Lesson which is located in the Modules tab
· Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources). Follow-Up Post: minimum of 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
· Your Initial Post and your Follow-Up Post must be based on the same Option that you chose in order to receive credit for both posts.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
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Option 1: List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples.
Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.
Writing Requirements
· Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
· Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source) for your Initial Post, and 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
· APA format for in-text citations and list of references
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Assignment Guide: The Persuasive Letter
Assignment Prompt
For this assignment, you will be writing a letter compelling a friend or family member to change either a behavior or a belief with which you disagree. Choose your own topic, but for example, this letter could petition an enthusiastic neighbor to scale down his blinding Christmas decorations, an immature cousin to take a gap year between high school and college, a grandparent to vote to pass the new school district budget, a friend to stop drinking, or a spouse to reconcile with an estranged sibling. Because the letter will be written to an individual of your choosing, you must tailor your
language and
logic to the person to whom you are writing.
Assignment-Specific Requirements:
Length: This assignment should be at least 750 words.
Thesis
: Underline your
thesis statement or the main
claim of your letter.
Sources Needed: None required.
Cite if used, following
MLA guidelines.
Page Formatting: Use
MLA guidelines. Also add an opening salutation (e.g. Dear Sarah, or Hello, Jon.), and a closing salutation & signature (Best regards, Tom or Sincerely, Liza)
MLA
Requirements: See
Formatting your Essay: MLA 8th Edition
The goal of
persuasive writing is to get a
reader (your
audience) to agree with your
point of view.
Persuasive writing blends facts and emotion to convince the
reader that the writer is right. This
genre relies on opinion and emotion to a greater extent than argumentative writing, but in moving a
reader, the successful persuasive letter also deploys logically sound
argumentation and quite often researched support and fact.
Purpose:
The purpose of
drafting a persuasive letter is to move your
reader to agree with your
point of view.
Persuasion is single-minded; it is based on a conviction that a particular way of thinking or acting is the only way to go; all of the energy of the letter works toward this end. As a writer, you will present one side–your side. While an
opposing point should be mentioned, it is only mentioned to be refuted or dismissed in the service of your position.
Persuasive writing is almost always written with a particular
audience in mind. For this piece of writing, you will direct your persuasive letter to one person. Thus, your
audience is not imagined, but rather very real, and that person and their characteristics will inform many of the choices you make as a writer. The persuasive letter requires constant negotiation with another person’s mind. At every phase of the writing process, as you prewrite, draft, and
revise, this assignment will ask you to imagine and anticipate how your
reader feels, responds, and thinks.
Form:
This piece of writing will be presented using a letter format. Thus, while you still need an
MLA–
style heading to format your work for submission, you will address your letter directly to your
reader with a formal letter salutation.
Five Features of a Persuasive Letter
1.
Rhetorical Situation:
Persuasive Writing vs. Argumentative Writing:
Persuasive writing, in a way, is a form of argumentative writing; however, the goal of
persuasive writing is to get a
reader or group of readers to agree with you/your
point of view on a particular topic, and the goal of argumentative writing is to get the
reader to acknowledge that your side is valid and is worth considering.
Persuasive writing blends facts with emotion in an attempt to convince the
reader that the writer is “right,” while in argumentative writing, the writer cites relevant reasons, credible facts, and sufficient
evidence in order to convince the
reader to consider a particular perspective. The nuances are subtle but important to consider. (Later in this course you will be crafting an argument and will see the differences in these genres of writing with greater clarity. The letter makes balanced use of the three rhetorical appeals to persuade a
reader to change a behavior or belief. The three appeals, which come to us from that consequential deceased Greek, Aristotle, are:
1.
1.
Ethos
: a writer’s or speaker’s credibility. In your letter, therefore,
ethos is you, sort of. It’s the “you” that your writing transmits to your
reader, the sum total of your
tone and
language choices, and also the values and intelligence that your writing communicates. Therefore, be vigilant with your work because
ethos is the appeal that’s most immediately harmed by faulty word choices, punctuation mistakes, and lapses in
tone.
2.
Pathos
: the appeal to a
reader’s emotions and values. Get your
reader to feel. Play (in a non-evil way) on their emotions–their compassion, their fears, their sense of community.
2.
Logos
: the appeal to a
reader’s
logic or reason. Ensure your
claims are logical, free of fallacies, and backed with specific support.
3.
Organization
: Organize using argumentative structure: an
introduction with a
thesis/main
claim, body paragraphs that advance points in support of the
thesis/main
claim, and a
conclusion.
2.
Transition
s: Uses
transitional phrases to connect your ideas and move the
reader forward smoothly and logically between sentences.
3.
Known
Audience
: The letter’s appeals are personalized to the
reader’s characteristics–their professional role and its obligations, as well as their values and emotions.
4.
Formal or Informal Writing? The
tone of the letter depends upon the recipient and your relationship and also upon
subject matter. The
tone should enhance the letter’s persuasive efforts, not undermine them. Always strive for a respectful approach.
Mini-Lesson on
ETHOS
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PATHOS
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LOGOS
Plan to use these appeals heavily throughout your Persuasive Letter.
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Food for thought items:
From your reading assignments have you noticed any similarities among the cultures that you have read about, are there any distinct differences that would have you make an adjustment in your plan of nursing care?
Please review the criteria for your culturally diverse client interview. Do you have any special preparations? Are there any sensitivity issues you may want to be aware of during this process?
The actual discussion topic included:
In the evaluation of your current workplace or neighborhood. Have you noticed any additional population shifts? It seems that this topic as been explored already by several students. If this is the case, please continue to highlight noticeable changes with each other
This week, you will complete Case Study Part 1:
SECTION 1 BACKGROUND: IDENTIFYING A PROBLEM Eleanor is a 52-year-old patient who has had a hip replacement 1 day ago who is on your assigned patient care team. You complete patient care rounds and assess Eleanor’s vital signs, comfort level, intravenous (IV) site and wound dressing. Eleanor has an IV for fluid replacement and medication administration. She also has an indwelling urinary catheter. She tells you that her pain level is a 4 out of 10 and she is reluctant to move around because of the pain. You know that the patient’s pain control is a high priority and that the physician ordered the indwelling urinary catheter until the patient is able to get out of bed easily and tolerate fluids. The urinary catheter is convenient in that the patient will not experience pain getting up to the bathroom and it provides an accurate measurement of output. On the other hand, you know that the longer the indwelling urinary catheter is in place, the higher the risk of an infection. You ask a trusted senior nurse when is the right time to remove the catheter since Eleanor is now tolerating ice chips. The senior nurse tells you that the catheter is usually kept until the patient is able to get up and ambulate independently. You wonder if there are any contraindications or problems with removing Eleanor’s indwelling catheter now. You decide to follow the senior nurse’s advice, leaving the indwelling urinary catheter in place and reevaluate for removal in the morning.
SECTION II BACKGROUND: INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAMS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT This section is focused on the identification of a clinical problem and the steps of forming an interprofessional team to work on fixing the problem. The intent is to understand who are the stakeholders for this problem and the importance of engaging stakeholders in the quality improvement (QI) project. Examine the problem of CAUTIs holistically to identify stakeholders. You return to work the next day to learn that Eleanor has a low-grade fever of 99.8° F that was reported to the physician. The physician ordered an immediate urine culture and removal of the catheter the previous afternoon. The urine culture was positive for Escherichia coli, representing the presence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). During the bedside report, you find that although Eleanor states she is tired, she is able to get up to the bathroom with a walker independently. She is also tolerating oral fluids and foods. The presence of the CAUTI bothered you enough that you spoke to your Unit Director about looking into evidence-based interventions to reduce CAUTIs. The Unit Director tells you that the rate of CAUTIs for the medical–surgical unit has steadily risen over the past year and the monthly total is twice the number from 2 years ago. You volunteer to convene a committee to work on the problem. Your first step is to identify others who should be on your team. You know that the stakeholders are individuals who influence or are influenced by the clinical problem under investigation. Review the discussion on stakeholders in Chapter 15 for guidance on selecting appropriate stakeholders.
SECTION III BACKGROUND: LEADING A QI TEAM This section is focused on power gradients and leadership styles within an interprofessional team. Consider how to lead a team consisting of various healthcare professionals. You identified a variety of interprofessionals to include on your committee including two direct care nurses from the medical–surgical unit, one nurse from the operating room, two certified nurse assistants, a nurse supervisor, a physician, the medical–surgical clinical nurse specialist, a pharmacist, a laboratory representative, and a dietician. You feel that these individuals clearly represent all aspects of patient care. Review the information on communicating within a team and with different power gradients in Chapter 8. By working closely with the clinical nurse specialist (CNS), you are able to convene a meeting of the team.
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Discuss a social, political, or economic factor that has influenced the development of professional nursing in the United States.
Support your answer by including two references:
1) one reference from an English-titled, peer-reviewed nursing journal (less than five years old)
2) one from the course textbook.
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