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I’m working on a nursing discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Lifelong learning involves a commitment to remain current within a rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and technologically reliant healthcare world.

• Why is it important for nurses to commit to lifelong learning in relation to patients, organizations, and self?
• How can organizations such as Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) assist nurses in their lifelong learning journey?

PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION ON THE ATTACHED PAGE BELOW. ALSO USED SAFE-ASSIGN TO CHECK FOR PLAGIARISM. Template: The paper is not a summary of the article. You must include your own ideas and the following information in the paper.

1. Introduction: Must include a description of the topic and purpose of your paper.
2. Explain why this is an important topic in nursing. How has it impacted the profession?
3. What are some suggestions made in the article to address this issue?
4. Explain what you believe you believe is a good solution to address this issue and why?
5. Conclusion- An overall analysis of the significance of your findings. Not just a summary

Interview of an Older Adult

Purpose of Assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to examine the life experiences of aging itself and more specifically, aging in US society. The assignment is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to reflect upon their own thoughts, attitudes and beliefs about aging and develop empathy for the experience of aging in America and apply those reflections to clinical practice in the care of the older adult. This assignment will address course SLOs #1, #5, and #6.

Procedure for Completing Assignment:

1. Identify an individual over the age of 65 who is willing to be interviewed for this assignment. This person can be a patient, relative or friend. Because the information that you are seeking can be reflective, thoughtful and possibly intimate, discuss this assignment with the individual carefully to determine that the individual is willing to engage in the interview. Expect the interview to last one hour.

2. Qualitative information: Provide a thoughtful and thorough written description of the interviewee. Use language which is rich in description as an introduction to the interviewee. Feel free to include interviewee’s thoughts an opinions.

3. Quantitative information: (DO NOT USE THE PATIENT’S NAME, ADDRESS, ZIPCODE, DATE OF BIRTH, PHONE NUMBER, SSN OR ANY IDENTYFING INFORMATION. Interviews that are submitted with any of this information will be returned to the student unread and ungraded. There will be no opportunity to resubmit the paper in this instance.

a. age in years

b. gender

c. race/ethnicity

d. occupational history

e. position in family of origin

f. educational background

g. marital or partner history

h. religious beliefs

i. cultural influences

j. living arrangements

k. transportation

l. abilities and support systems

4. POSSIBLE Interview Topics: (You may decide to ask more questions, ask these questions in a different manner or delete questions that are not pertinent to the conversation).

a. Tell me about your childhood, growing up years, family and what school was like for you

b. Tell me about your life right now: what is going well for you, not so well

c. Talk about the experience of aging. What is it like? How do you feel? Has it changed the way

you live or work? What advice would you give anyone about aging?

d. Does religion or spirituality play a role in your life? Has it always? Have your views on

religion/spirituality changed over the years? If so, how?

d. Do you have any health issues?

1) if yes, what do you know/understand about the issues? How do they affect your

daily living

e. Talk about your experience with the health care system. What do you like about your

experiences with health care? What could the health care system do to better meet your

needs? What would you say to a physician about the best way to take care of you? A nurse? A hospital administrator? Anyone else?

5. Reflection questions:

a. What did you learn from the interview about aging adults that was new and/or surprised

you?

b. What did you learn that will be helpful to you in your own experience of aging?

c. What did you learn from the interview about aging adults that will be helpful to you in your

practice? How might the information you used inform the development of nursing

interventions when interacting with older patients?

d. If given the opportunity to repeat this interview experience, would you do anything

differently? If so, why, and what would you do?

e. include any additional reflections about this interview, your thoughts about aging or anything

else that informed/informs your thinking about older adults.

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a health care risk management program.

Conduct research on approaches to risk management processes, policies, and concerns in your current or anticipated professional arena to find an example of a risk management plan. Look for a plan with sufficient content to be able to complete this assignment successfully. In a 1,000‐1,250-word paper, provide an analysis of the risk management plan that includes the following:

1. Summary of the type of risk management plan you selected (new employee, specific audience, community‐focused, etc.) and your rationale for selecting that example. Describe the health care organization to which the plan applies and the role risk management plays in that setting.
2. Description of the standard administrative steps and processes in a typical health care organization’s risk management program compared to the administrative steps and processes you identify in your selected example plan. (Note: For standard risk management policies and procedures, look up the MIPPA-approved accrediting body that regulates the risk management standards in your chosen health care sector, and consider federal, state, and local statutes as well.)
3. Analysis of the key agencies and organizations that regulate the administration of safe health care in your area of concentration and an evaluation of the roles each one plays in the risk management oversight process.
4. Evaluation of your selected risk management plan’s compliance with the standards of its corresponding MIPPA-approved accrediting body relevant to privacy, health care worker safety, and patient safety.
5. Proposed recommendations or changes you would implement in your risk management program example to enhance, improve, or secure the aforementioned compliance standards.

In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of three peer‐reviewed references.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Outline of your Project Description/Narrative (at least 2 pages, double spaced)

Article: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa120030…

▪Study limitation I am focusing on is: “incorporation of biasness through changes of the control group mid-study”

Clearly note in this section which part(s) are your improvements of the previous

project’s limitation

The Harvard outline (atleast 2 pages, double spaced) includes the following components from the project description:

1. Hypothesis and Specific Aims (see Week 5 slides)
   • ○ Aim #1, Hypothesis #1
   • ○ Aim #2, Hypothesis #2
2. Methods (see Week 4 slides)
   • ○ Study Design
   • ○ Sample selection
   • ○ Data Collection
   • ○ Data Analysis
3. Ethics (see Week 5 slides)
   • ○ Protection of human subjects
   • ○ Consent and confidentiality
4. Data sharing (see Week 5 slides)

○ If and how you will be sharing raw data with other researchers

5. Timeline

To analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.

Chapter 6, Case 1Trisha is a 28-year-old, unemployed white female. She is no stranger to therapy, having seen counselors for most of her teen and adult years. Her friends would describe her as a “wild woman” who takes no crap from anyone. She has held various part-time jobs for the last few years because she usually gets angry at her boss or coworkers and quits. While she has had a string of boyfriends over the years, she has been seeing one man for the last year or so. He too is unemployed and has both an alcohol and methamphetamine problem. She describes the relationship as “addictive and dysfunctional, yet exciting and hot.” Trisha is back in treatment at the urging of her parents, who describe her behavior as erratic and unpredictable. They also claim that she has periods where she “sleeps little and parties lots.” There were also several occasions in the last five years when she was so depressed she didn’t eat or want to leave the house. Her father also admits to periods of depression, and Trisha’s grandfather was diagnosed with manic depression, resulting in numerous hospitalizations in the 1950s and 1960s. Trisha’s only brother died in a car accident several years ago. He was drunk at the time, but she claims he had a long history of depression. Recently Trisha was arrested for disorderly conduct at a friend’s party. She had not slept for nearly 24 hours and was drunk and combative. When she was first approached by police, she solicited them for sex. They report that she was rather hyperverbal and hyperactive. They later had to investigate a complaint from local storeowners for bad checks she wrote in excess of $7,000.Questions:Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and clinical guidelines to create your evidence-based treatment plan. At all times, explain your answers. 

1. Summarize the clinical case.
2. Create a list of the patient’s problems and prioritize them.
3. Which pharmacological treatment would you prescribe? Include the rationale for this treatment.
4. Which non-pharmacological treatment would you prescribe? Include the rationale for this treatment.
5. Include an assessment of treatment’s appropriateness, cost, effectiveness, safety, and potential for patient adherence.

There are two (2) parts to this assignment. Both parts must be completed and presented in a singular post. Creativity in communication style utilized is encouraged, provided all the required responses are easily and succinctly identified.

The first part is to go to this Hospital Compare webpage and perform a comparison of two (2) hospitals. The hospitals can be local or opportunities for your future employment. To complete the first part of this assignment, the following five (5) comparative questions must be answered:

1. What is the type of hospital (acute, rehab, etc).
2. How do the hospitals’ overall rating details? (i.e. 3/5 stars)
3. Describe at least three (3) patient survey rating responses. Identify how each response compares against the national average along with how it impacts patient care.
4. Select one (1) element under timely and effective care, such as sepsis care or heart attack care, and compare hospitals’ ratings to the national average. Locate a research or scholarly article describing this element and cite it in proper APA format.
5. Select another element under unplanned hospital visits, such as readmission of heart attacks or COPD, and compare the hospitals’ ratings against the national average. Locate a research or scholarly article describing ways to prevent the element under unplanned hospital visits and cite it in proper APA format.

The second part of this assignment is to examine the cost of a diagnosis or procedure for the same two (2) hospitals utilized in Part 1. To complete the second part of this assignment, the following three (3) tasks must be addressed.

1. Identify and describe a diagnosis or procedure, either outpatient or inpatient.
2. Compare the associated cost of the selected diagnosis or procedure at the two (2) hospitals using the following websites, or your personal insurance resources if available.
   • Texas Hospital Association
   • Texas Price Point
   • Hospital Cost Compare
   • Fair Health Consumer
3. Identify how would you utilize these webpages for patients and/or family/friends?

Older adults (OA) are at risk for potential hazards of hospitalization, these include: immobility, delirium, medication side effects, malnutrition, pressure ulcers, procedures, peri- and postoperative periods, and hospital-acquired infections and more. Discuss in detail three potential hazards for this population while in the hospital and identify potential prevention strategies for each hazard.

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one current (<5years) scholarly source other than the textbook. ). Please write in APA Format.

Learning Materials

• Bickley, L. (2017). Bates’ guide to physical examination and history-taking (12th ed.) Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 978-1469893419. Review Chapters 16 & 17.

Based on what you have learned so far in this course, create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Please ensure a thorough answer to each bullet question and follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Make sure to include lots of media, images, pictures, diagrams, charts to entertain the audience.

Locate the American Red Cross in your area: http://www.redcross.org/ or in person (My area is Fort Worth, Texas).

• Identify what is necessary for emergency supplies to have on hand for a healthy older adult (OA).
• Visit with an older family member or friend to identify specific needs for this older adult (reasonable for this person).
  • Assist the OA in creating their Personal Emergency Plan ( Please use our old family friend, a 76-year-old man who lives alone in a senior living apartment).
• Why is this important for OA singles or couples who live independently without services?
  • Title Slide (1 slide)
  • Objective Slide (1 slide)
  • Necessary Emergency Supplies for OA (1 -2 slides)
  • OA Personal Emergency Plan (1-2 slides)
  • Importance for Independent OAs (1 slide)
  • References (1 slide)

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 6-8 slides

Structure: Include a title slide, objective slide, content slides, reference slide in APA format.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of two (2) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Learning Materials

• Bickley, L. (2017). Bates’ guide to physical examination and history-taking (12th ed.) Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 978-1469893419. Review Chapters 16 & 17.