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Activity 4

Prioritization of Care

The Prioritization of Care digital activity provides a safe and convenient environment for students to practice clinical judgement and decision-making skills related to identifying and prioritizing patient care and needs.

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Complete the Prioritization of Care virtual simulation activity which can be found by clicking Enter Virtual Simulation. Then debrief on the experience by creating a VoiceThread, video or a written essay.

Once you enter Sentinel Hospital

1. Click BEGIN
2. You’ll enter the lobby and be led to the hospital map
3. Clicking SKIP will take you directly to map
4. Select Location: Emergency Department or SIMPath Competencies: • Evidence-Based Practice OR Population Health OR Baccalaureate Generalist OR Application of Patient Care Technology

All levels of simulation fidelity or reality have become an integral component in the preparation of healthcare workers for practice in recent years. This new digital technology increases new skill retention and performance through immersive engagement while learning. The digital environment offers reproducible conditions that can contribute to the development of non-technical skills of communication, teamwork, and decision-making, essential in today’s healthcare (Peddle, Bearman & Nestel, 2016).

Virtual simulation has been used in the airline industry for many years, requiring new pilots to train on flight simulators before commanding a passenger flight (Alinier, Hunt, Gordon & Harwood, 2006).

The United States military has used virtual worlds to train military personnel for disaster and emergency preparedness (Foronda, Godsall & Trybulski, 2013). Simulation has also been used in the preparation of physicians and the training of nurse anesthetists (Bremner, Aduddell, Bennett & VanGeest, 2006).

A team of Nurse Educators and Instructional Designers created Prioritization of Care to provide a learning environment unique to nursing and complementary to existing curricula.

From the safety of the home or the office, digital activities like Prioritization of Care, presents students with situations they might not encounter in the course of clinically-based preparation.

Watch this brief video demo of Prioritization of Care.

Additional Instructions:

1. All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
2. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
3. Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
4. Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
5. Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.

Submission Options:

Activity 3

Critical Thinking Incident

Think about and analyze a specific situation that has occurred in your work setting and the impact critical thinking had on that specific situation.

• Think back to a critical incident in your workplace that affected patient safety, had an unintended outcome, or did not contribute to the well-being of the patient. Reflect on the incident to identify why the breakdowns in quality and safety occurred.
• Refer to Box 5-4, Guidelines for Analyzing CT (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015) to examine an event/incidence, to synthesize what happened, and how to prevent it in the future.

In the format you have chosen to show mastery:

• A description of a critical incident that occurred in your workplace that had an unintended outcome or did not contribute to the well-being of the patient.
• An analysis of the event using the questions from box 5-4. Use these questions to analyze the event- it is not necessary to use all of them, but the ones that pertain to your event. You can then use the information from your answers to identify and talk about the incident, what worked well and what did not.
• Your reflection of the incident, what the breakdowns were and why they occurred.
• What steps a leader/manager can take to prevent future incidents or describe how you would create an environment where these incidences are less likely to happen; for example, what would you do differently?

Reading and Resources

Read Chapter 7 In Rubenfeld, M. G., & Scheffer, B.K. (2015). Critical thinking TACTICS for nurses: Achieving the IOM competencies (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

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Additional Instructions:

1. All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
2. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
3. Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
4. Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
5. Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.

Think about and analyze a specific situation that has occurred in your work setting and the impact critical thinking had on that specific situation.

• Think back to a critical incident in your workplace that affected patient safety, had an unintended outcome, or did not contribute to the well-being of the patient. Reflect on the incident to identify why the breakdowns in quality and safety occurred.
• Refer to Box 5-4, Guidelines for Analyzing CT (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015) to examine an event/incidence, to synthesize what happened, and how to prevent it in the future.

In the format you have chosen to show mastery:

• A description of a critical incident that occurred in your workplace that had an unintended outcome or did not contribute to the well-being of the patient.
• An analysis of the event using the questions from box 5-4. Use these questions to analyze the event- it is not necessary to use all of them, but the ones that pertain to your event. You can then use the information from your answers to identify and talk about the incident, what worked well and what did not.
• Your reflection of the incident, what the breakdowns were and why they occurred.
• What steps a leader/manager can take to prevent future incidents or describe how you would create an environment where these incidences are less likely to happen; for example, what would you do differently?

Submission Options:

Purpose: The Current Event paper is intended to help you put into practice critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills that are essential to your success in this course (and in your academic and professional careers!).

Description: Your task is to write a short paper on a public health-related news article connected to any of the topics we covered in the course modules this semester. The article must have been published any time between March 21, 2021 and May 1, 2021. You may search for public health-related articles online through a variety of sources, such as NPR Health, WHO weekly newsletters, health sections of online newspapers, WebMD, PubMed, public health journals, medical journals, health policy briefs, local newspapers, etc.

Instructions: Your paper should be between 450-500 words in length, typed in 12-point font, follow appropriate writing structure (e.g., complete sentences, free of typos), and written in an analytical style. An analytical writing style involves reviewing what you have read, showing the thought processes you went through to arrive at a given conclusion, and discussing the implications of what you read. Below is an outline designed to help guide your writing of this paper. You must follow this 3-paragraph formatting structure:

• Paragraph 1: State the article title, source, date and author, and provide a link to the article. Include a brief synopsis of the article, not a repetition. For example: What are the main points? Turnitin plagiarism review will be used for this assignment, so please ensure the originality of your work before you submit your paper. Copying/pasting directly from the article is considered plagiarism and will not be allowed.
• Paragraph 2: Discuss how you evaluated the source’s credibility. It may be helpful to go back and review the PowerPoint slides for Module 3 on evaluating the credibility of health information, especially information obtained from the web (slides 20-29).
• Paragraph 3: Address the article’s relevance to what you have learned in class about the specific health topic discussed in the article. For example: Reflecting on what you have learned throughout the course, why is this topic important? Did this article point out a critical issue about a topic we discussed in class? Note: These are only examples of questions you may want to consider as you write your paper, but you do not need to answer these questions exactly.

Choose only Five questions to answer:

Q1. Advocate for an international health issue. Explain what the issue is and how you will do your advocacy (e.g. you will work against world hunger by….), What you did, what internet sites you found, Make a short list of websites of possible groups that advocate for this issue.

Q2. How ethics can be considered in health education and promotion?

Q3. Discuss four major health ethical issues facing health educators?

Q4. Scenario: You work for a local school and have been asked to assist in the development of a policy to combat bullying in the school. Discuss the main steps you would take in order to develop the policy.

Q5. Discuss how schools can improve health?

Q6. How advocacy will become more important for health education specialists in future.

Q7. Discuss the implication of Vision 2030 as future trend of health education and promotion

1. How does global health affect us locally? How can your role have a global effect? Why is this important?
2. Do you see yourself working in global health?
3. What are the professional roles available in global health? What is the route to this career path?
4. What skills do you need to work in global health?
5. You will create a video response (five minutes or less) using the Kaltura Recording Tool, answering the questions above. See “Getting Started with Kaltura” under the resources section of the menu on the left side of the classroom.

Please watch the . It is about 40 minutes long without commercial. After watching the video, please reflect on the documentary by focusing on the following questions. 

Simply copy and paste the questions into the textbox that appears when you click on “Submit Assignment” and add your responses directly into that textbox – no file upload is required.

1. What is something that you did not know about a heart attack?
2. Do you think – based on your personal diet and medical history – that you are at risk for having a heart attack?
3. Do you have any family members that are at risk? Why or why not?
4. Do you think that you can change your diet to become a vegan to reducing your risk for a heart attack?
5. Many documentaries are not free from bias – did you find any evidence of bias in this film? Please explain.

The goal of this paper is to construct a fair-minded, unbiased, analytical analysis of a topic in a comprehensive essay.

• This is not an opinion piece or a persuasive essay that simply aims to prove or reinforce what you already believe. This would be confirmation bias, and bias must be avoided in this project.
• This project needs to avoid harsh rhetoric or language that is harmful and hurtful in nature. The point is to be objective and unemotional in your approach.
• This essay should be written in a fair, academic, respectful, and analytical manner regardless of any of your opinions, feelings, or preconceived notions about the topic.
• Both sides of your topic must be treated with equal attention, both in terms of the number and quality of sources and in the depth and breadth of their presentation in your essay. Both sides should be addressed in the same number of paragraphs in roughly equivalent detail, and should be supported by the same number of quality sources.
• You must identify and define rhetorical devices and logical fallacies on both sides of the argument. Be sure you indicate which specific rhetorical device and fallacy you have found, and there is evidence in your sources of these course concepts in practice that is cited in your paper.
• You will present statements and claims for analyzing both sides of the topic. Only then should you state you own conclusion as an objective, critical thinker given the information presented.

Essay Format: Your essay must be 5–7 pages (1600–1900 words) in length. The abstract, title page, and reference list do not count in the page or word count. The essay must have the following elements:

• Times New Roman
• 12-point
• Double-spaced
• 1-inch margins
• Proper Level I and Level II APA section headings for all major sections of the essay
• All other applicable APA formatting

Required Elements:

• A properly formatted APA title page
• A properly formatted APA abstract
• Body of the paper
  • Introduction: Identify the issue. Provide the necessary background and/or important recent developments. Define key terms and concepts. Engage the reader and explain the broader significance of the issue.
  • Arguments and Counterarguments: Summarize the best arguments on both sides of the issue. Include relevant research from credible sources used to support each conclusion. Devote at least one paragraph to each side.
  • Evaluation of Critical Thinking: Assess the strength of the arguments and the quality of thinking surrounding this issue.
    • Identify weaknesses in critical thinking such as fallacies, rhetorical devices, vague language, and cognitive biases. Provide specific examples of how these weaknesses appear in arguments you encountered, using terminology and definitions from the course. Be specific! Present evidence from your sources that show these fallacies/biases being used.
    • Evaluate the quality of scientific and anecdotal evidence using the standards of inductive and deductive reasoning described in the course. Consider the quality of causal relationship, analogies, generalizations, and/or moral reasoning.
  • Conclusion: Analyze the totality of research and offer a critical thinker’s response to the issue. Identify your own position and experience with the issue and explain how your thinking of the subject has evolved as a result of your analysis. Your conclusion does not have to be absolute, but it should not be equivocal. If both sides have good arguments, which is better, even if only slightly better, and what is the argument that tips the scales in the sides’ favor? Why does that point tip the scales?
• A properly formatted APA reference list
  • Sources should appear in alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author listed on the source.
  • If there is no author(s), then the source should be cited by title or organization.

Sources and Research Sources: You must use five scholarly or academic sources and all research should be published within the last five years. Sources not scholarly or academic in nature may affect your grade. It is highly recommended that most of your research be conducted via the WCU Library.

Eligible sources listed best-to-worst:

• Peer-reviewed journal articles
  • Peer review is the process that allows scientists to trust the reliability of published journal articles. The only way to tell if a journal article has been peer reviewed is to look for information about the journal, normally on the publisher’s website. Most databases do not indicate if an article is peer reviewed or not.
  • The WCU library contains many of peer-reviewed sources. This is going to be the most desired type of evidence to use for any paper at WCU.
• Scholarly research articles
  • Research articles (original research articles, primary research articles, or case studies) are your standard scientific articles. Most often published in peer-reviewed journals, primary research articles report on the findings of a scientist’s work.
  • They almost always include a description of how the research was conducted and what the results mean. This is also a highly desirable type of research to use for your papers.
• Government and state reports
  • Many government agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may have studies and statistics that may be useful for your topic. However, these sources are usually informational reports in nature, and therefore they rarely dig into the critical arguments used by the sides of a topic.
  • Though usually credible and reliable source, government reports should generally be used as supplemental, secondary sources to support or rebut academic sources. They should not be the main sources of your argument.
• Other articles or sources
  • When this general term is used for an assignment, get clarification from your instructor about the source requirements. These are articles or sources that have been well researched and include a lot of citations. When you assess these resources, make sure that they are appropriate to use as evidence because they may contain bias. You should look at the sources these articles are using, determine if they are legitimate, reputable, and credible, and then make a judgment call.
  • These types of articles are the least desirable type of articles from the list of acceptable types to use (depending on each course’s expectations).
    • Review articles
    • Editorials, opinion, commentary, and perspectives
    • Trade publication articles
    • Technical reports
    • Documentaries
    • Interviews or TED talks

Sources that may not be used on this essay include the following:

• • Wikipedia and information from freelance websites (check with your professor before using these sources)
  • Information from general or reference sources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, general information websites, or other reference works online or in print. Check with your teacher regarding textbooks from other courses or other sources if you are not sure.
  • Articles from publications or magazines that lack research to back up their claims
  • Religious texts of any kind
  • Obviously or highly biased sources that contain no credible or reputable support

Avoiding plagiarism: Remember that avoiding plagiarism is priority number one for credible academic writers.

• • It is always better to cite and attribute to a source than not to cite. If you are ever unsure, cite and attribute.
  • Anything that you copy word-for-word from a source must be quoted, attributed to its original source, and parenthetically cited in APA Style.
  • Anything that you take from a source and put into your own words must be both attributed to its original source and parenthetically cited in APA Style.

Discussion post question 350 word minimum: Using at least two peer-reviewed papers, discuss any (or all) of the following concepts as related to COVID-19: factors that increase the global threat of infectious disease, virulence factors for SARS-COV19, how the virus can invade and replicate in the host cells (and which cells might be affected), how vaccination might be protective (or not).  

The course covered the regulatory framework in the U.S. for medical device development throughout the product lifecycle. We reviewed the different routes to market, quality testing and quality design, device classification, FDA actions, and post-market surveillance.

Reflection paper 500 words max

APA Format

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the history of US medical device regulations
• Identify the FDA regulations and guidance’s applicable to the development of medical devices
• Identify medical devices in the three classifications.
• Apply the device controls to determine device classification.
• Identify various materials used in the design of medical devices and concerns/issues with the materials.
  • Device Classification
  • Medical Device Definition
  • Classification by Risk

• Class I – General Controls
• Cass II – General Controls + Special Controls
• Class III – General Controls + Special Controls + Proof of Safety & Efficacy
• Panels and device subsets by medical specialties http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulation…
• Format of device classification
• Examples of Class I, II & III devices
• Enforcement of CFRs
• Define predicate devices and substantial equivalence.
• Describe the use of predicate devices and substantial equivalence in medical device development and submission of 510(k) applications to the FDA.
• Summarize the 510(k) route to market.
• Summarize the PMA application process for marketing approval of a device
• Define IDEs and the requirements of clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy
• Describe the required contents of the PMA.
• Define and describe the actions the FDA can take when reviewing and approving PMAs.
• Discuss the importance of communication and meetings with the FDA during the PMA submission process.
• Define combination medical devices and explain Primary Mode of Action
• Identify and explain the importance of meetings and communication with the FDA during the submission process.
• Analyze safety issues with medical devices and identify tests, assessments, and steps to prevent the safety issue.
• Discuss the need for and types of postmarket surveillance of medical products.
• Describe and discuss CAPAs.
• Identify and describe the contents of the sections of a 510(k) application