Treatments for Musculoskeletal & Neurological/Psychological Disorders

  1. Describe the diagnostic criteria of osteoarthritis versus rheumatoid arthritis
  2. Discuss types of headaches and their treatment 
  3. Discuss types of seizures and treatment
  4. Discuss Parkinson’s disease, its causes, symptoms, and treatment

sociology discussion 6

Respond to two (2) of the following prompts:

  1. Describe formal and informal education. From your experiences with schooling, provide specific examples of each and explain how they are built into the curriculum or culture of the school. (USLO 6.1)
  2. Reflecting on your own experience (or your child’s) with schooling, explain one sociological theory that best relates to your (or your child’s) academic journey. Describe two examples of how this theory applies to your schooling. (USLO 6.4)
  3. What do you think is the most significant concern with the education system today? Provide a suggestion for how this issue could be improved. (USLO 6.3)
  4. What is the difference between mainstreaming and inclusion? Which do you think is the optimal way to include people with disabilities in the classroom and why? (USLO 6.2)
  5. Karl Marx studied the social impact of religion and believed religion reflects the material base, which is comprised of the means and modes of production and the relations of production. Marx argued that religion maintains inequality and perpetuates the status quo. Is Marx’s argument that religion maintains inequality and perpetuates the status quo true? Present an example that supports your assessment of Marx’s argument. (USLO 6.8)
  6. Emile Durkheim argued that religion promotes social cohesion, and social control, as well as offering meaning and purpose to human life. Is Durkheim’s argument true? Present an example that supports your assessment of Durkheim’s argument. (USLO 6.8)
  7. What is required of a society for its political structure to be considered democratic? While this question might seem straightforward, it is not and is a topic of contentious debate in current political philosophy circles. The Democracy Index lists 60 different indicators that must be considered when discerning whether a nation is a democracy. While you in no way will be expected to discuss all indicators, please talk about a few of the conditions that must exist for a government to qualify as a democracy. Include textual evidence to support your view. (USLO 6.5, 6.6)
  8. In recent years in the United States, citizens have increasingly made claims that our judicial system is institutionally racist. Evidence provided for these claims has pointed toward unfair drug sentencing laws, stop and frisk policies, the use of police force, and the overwhelming number of black men in prisons and jails in comparison to the rest of the population. Select one claim and discuss whether these claims have merit, presenting specific examples to support your position. Include textual evidence to support your view. (USLO 6.7)

PLEASE CLICK ON LINKS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS

Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal

This assignment will be done in the classroom with discussion to follow.

1.  Read the following chapter from the book, “Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses” and provide a brief overview.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2681/

2.  List the National Patient Safety Goals from the Joint Commission’s website appropriate to the long-term care environment and what precautions should the nurse take relative to EACH safety goal? 

https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/tjc/documents/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/2022/npsg_chapter_alc_jan2022.pdf

3.  From the book, “Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses,” select one other chapter to read and provide a brief overview.  Apply the main concepts to the long-term care facility environment.  This could be a situation from work or from school or a personal experience. 

http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

4.  Select a Speak Up brochure developed by The Joint Commission. Follow this link to the proper website: https://www.jointcommission.org/topics/speak_up_campaigns.aspx and answer the following questions.

a.  Identify the brochure you chose and the demographic it applies to. Who else can utilize this information?

b.  Why is the brochure you chose important?

c.  What was done well? What could be improved?

d.  How will patient safety be improved from the chosen brochure?

e.  Discuss how current nursing or healthcare-related research supports the information presented in the brochure.

Title

Assignment:  National Patient Safety Goal

Put X in box to correspond with the SLO (s)

Put X in box to correspond with the Competency (s)

Knowledge/Practice/Ethical Comportment

K

P

E

Student Learning Outcome(s)

Patient-Centered Care

Communication Skills

 

Nursing Process

Learning Needs

Technology

Documentation

Informatics

Nursing Judgment

Prioritization

Nursing Judgment

Professionalism

Professionalism

Ethical/Legal

Quality Improvement

Patient Care Concerns

Systems

Safety

x

Patient Complications

Safe Nursing

x

x

x

Teamwork/Collaboration

Communication

Conflict Recognition 

Managing Care 

Managing Care of the Individual Patient

Assign/Monitor 

Where should this assignment be used:

Classroom

X

Clinical Setting

X

Independent Study

X

Online/Web Based

X

Skills Lab

Simulation

 

Revised from Linda Caputi © (What type of assignment is this?)

Patient Care Assignment

Non-Patient Care Assignments

Patient Care

The assignments are related to the student while providing patient care in the clinical setting.
Example:  Concept mapping care for one or multiple patients. 

Thinking Focused
Assignments encourages critical thinking and clinical reasoning and teaches students to think like a nurse.

Patient Focused

The student focuses on specific aspects of patient care such as safety, falls, diabetes, other diseases, etc.

Systems Focused

Assignments help the student understand the clinical world, the nurse’s work therein, and the effect of the system on the nurse and the patient.
Example:  How the system completes medication administration from order to delivery to patient.  

x

x

x

PP presentation

Introduction

As a current or future nurse leader, you may be called upon to present to stakeholders and leadership about projects that you have been involved in or wish to implement. The ability to communicate a plan—and potential implications of not pursuing such a plan—to stakeholders effectively can be critically important in creating awareness and buy-in, as well as building your personal and professional brand in your organization. It is equally important that you know how to create compelling presentations for others' delivery and ensure that they convey the same content you would deliver if you were the presenter.

You are encouraged to complete the Evidence-Based Practice: Basics and Guidelines activity before you develop the presentation. This activity consists of six questions that will create the opportunity to check your understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based practice as well as ways to identify EBP in practice. The information gained from completing this formative will help promote success in the Stakeholder Presentation and demonstrate courseroom engagement—it requires just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.

Demonstration of Proficiency

· Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.

· Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.

· Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.

· Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.

· Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.

· Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.

· Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.

· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.

· Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed speaker notes are provided.

· Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years) with an APA formatted reference list with few errors.

Professional Context

This assessment will provide you with an opportunity to sharpen your ability to create a professional presentation to stakeholders. In this presentation, you will explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and how it can be used to introduce the plan (P), implement the plan (D), study the effectiveness of the plan (S), and act on what is learned (A) to drive continuous improvement. By using this cycle, the stakeholders will have a tool and a proposal to expand on these ideas to drive workplace change and create improved processes to solve an interprofessional collaboration problem.

Scenario

In addition to summarizing the key points of Assessments 2 and 3, you will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluated—you will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study. However, by carefully examining the ways in which your plan 
could be carried out and evaluated, you will get some of the experience of the thinking required for PDSA.

When creating your PowerPoint for this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee's organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.

Instructions

Please follow the Capella 
Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX]. If you need technical information on using PowerPoint, refer to 
Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations.

Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

· Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.

· Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.

· Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.

· Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.

· Communicate the PowerPoint presentation of the interdisciplinary improvement plan to stakeholders in a professional manner, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and respectful with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.

There are various ways to structure your presentation; following is one example:

·
Part 1: Organizational or Patient Issue.

· What is the issue that you are trying to solve or improve?

· Why should the audience care about solving it?

·
Part 2: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Team Approach.

· Why is using an interdisciplinary team relevant, or the best approach, to addressing the issue?

· How will it help to achieve improved outcomes or reach a goal?

·
Part 3: Interdisciplinary Plan Summary.

· What is the objective?

· How likely is it to work?

· What will the interdisciplinary team do?

·
Part 4: Implementation and Resource Management.

· How could the plan be implemented to ensure effective use of resources?

· How could the plan be managed to ensure that resources were not wasted?

· How does the plan justify the resource expenditure?

·
Part 5: Evaluation.

· What would a successful outcome of the project look like?

· What are the criteria that could be used to measure that success?

· How could this be used to show the degree of success?

Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee's organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly. Remember, also, that another person will ultimately be giving the presentation. Include thorough speaker’s notes that flesh out the bullet points on each slide.

Additional Requirements

·
Number of slides: Plan on using one or two slides for each part of your presentation as needed, so the content of your presentation will be 8–12 slides in length. Remember that slides should contain concise talking points, and you will use presenter's notes to go into detail. Be sure to include a reference slide as the last slide of your presentation.

·
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old.

·
APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations on your slides and in your notes pages and reference slide reflect current APA Style and Format.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.

Self Assessment Questions

Summary of strengths:

Opportunities for growth:

Four (4) possible goals and objectives for this practicum experience. Ensure that they follow the SMART Strategy, as described in the Learning Resources. 

1.  Goal:

a.  Objective:

b.  Objective:

c.  Objective:

2.  Goal:

a.  Objective:

b.  Objective:

c.  Objective:

3.  Goal: 

a.  Objective:

b.  Objective:

c.  Objective:

4.  Goal:

a.  Objective:

b.  Objective:

c.  Objective:

Medication Errors

nursing 

Work Environment in Nursing Practice

 

  • Discuss the strategies for maintaining a healthy work environment; the legal implications of workplace violence and the responsibilities from organizations in providing a healthy work environment
  • Review the ANA Bill of Rights (Box 14-1 from your textbook) and discuss how it protects nurses.

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

CONTROVERSY ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONALITY AND PARAPHILIC DISORDERS

TO PREPARE

· Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders.

· Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the 
DSM-5-TR to use for this Assignment.

· Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations. 

THE ASSIGNMENT

In 2–3 pages:

· Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder.

· Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.

· Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.

· Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

Case Study

Case Study week 8ASSESSING AND TREATING PATIENTS WITH SLEEP/WAKE DISORDERS

Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treatment of Psychopathology (waldenu.edu)

Examine
 Case Study: Pharmacologic Approaches to the Treatment of Insomnia in a Younger Adult. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

· Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

· Which decision did you select?

· Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).

· Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

· Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).

· Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

· Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).

· Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

· Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

References to Include:

· American Psychiatric Association. (2022). 


Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

Links to an external site.
 (5th ed., text rev.). https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

· Fernandez-Mendoza, J., & Vgontzas, A. N. (2013). Insomnia and its impact on physical and mental health. 



Current Psychiatry ReportsLinks to an external site.


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