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 Justify and explain with an example from current health issues, the reasons under which confidentiality can be breached in the public interest?

PSMJ 4 – Final Reflection & Reflecting on the Personal Change Process!

Often, when reading and learning about the process of growth and change, these processes can appear to be smooth, staged, and charted-like movements. However — in reality — change can be more of a “start-stop-opps!-wait!-okay–here we go again-going forward!” kind of process!

Something often neglected in the teaching about change and learning processes are that both change and learning are actually quite messy and even uncomfortable processes! Often a plan for change needs to be re-worked or revised. People learn and grow as they change — and as a result — new information needs to be added or old information needs to be revised. Sometimes the pace of change may need to be amended. A person may need to slow down, take a breath and revise their change process. Alternately, because of new insights or confidence, a person may want to and to speed up their plan. Sometimes, a person may even realize they have missed a step and they need to work on some small points of change before they can move into the next step. As I said — it’s often messy 🙂 Oh, and did I mention? Change takes work, patience, and perseverance — stick-to-it! Care for yourself and celebrate your process — even the smallest parts.

Remember your first journal entry? It was your “Initial Reflection.” Take a minute to dig that out of your files and read over them. Now, after you finish reading it, take a minute or so and think about just how much you have learned this semester. You have read, talked about, written about, made observations about yourself and others – all with the underlying goal of learning more about stress and ways to address stress. Wow! I mean it, think for a minute just how much you have accomplished!

For this first part of your last journal entry, I’d like to review your previous PSMJ journals (PSMJ Initial Reflection, PSMJ 1, 2, and 3) and write about what you have learned about the process of change. You’ve read a lot about ways to change your reactions to stress and ways to alter health patterns to cope with stress healthfully. Plus you created a plan to address one of your stressors and you put that plan into action for one week.

Remember, this can be done in paper format, Q & A (remember it needs to be more than 5 sentence answers for credit) or video (remember to follow the regulations set in the Discussion Board Protocol): After looking back at all your journals, answer the following questions regarding your PSMJ journals.

1. How is all this stress management really going for you?
2. What was your biggest “a-ha” moment? What insights have you gained?
3. How do you plan to use these insights to grow or modify your personal change process? Give a specific example or two.
4. What is the most significant thing you have learned about the personal change process?
5. If a friend or family member wanted to embark on a personal change process, what knowledge could you pass on to them to support their efforts?

For this second part of your last journal entry, I’d like to follow the list below and reflect on what you have learned and how you have grown your self-awareness. One purpose of this assignment is for you to develop a clearer understanding of just how much you have learned – and, give yourself some well-deserved pats on the back for your work! Another purpose is for you to consider where you want to take your learning from here. Learning does not end with a class or a degree – The world is a great big place and there is always more to know/learn/explore!

1. What do you now know about stress in yourself that you learned during this class?
2. What do you now know about stress in your community that you learned during this class?
3. Describe if you handle stress differently based on what you’ve learned in this class. How?
4. Revisit your biggest questions and/or concerns about stress in yourself and in your community. Were any of these questions answered or concerns addressed?
5. What have you learned that has lead to a change in the way you handle stress and why?
6. Did you gain any new awareness of or are using any new resources as a result of this course?
7. Did you learn what you wanted to from this course? Why or why not?
8. What is the one thing you would change about this course that you believe would make it better?
9. What was the most helpful top 3 chapters of the textbook you felt really gave you insight?
10. What is did you learn during this course that you think you will keep using over and over?

Write a bedside shift report on George Carlton. It is just on page long or depends on the information that are in the case study and need to be reported to the other nurse. The report should include everything about the patient.

These videos will help you understand how shift report is going to be. It is short but it will help.

Opportunities & Challenges with Patient Safety Goals

After studying Module 7: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following:

• Select one of the 2021 National Patient Safety Goals.
• Share your thoughts about the opportunities and challenges related to achieving the goal in your work environment.

You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts and supporting your opinion with a reference.

Prognosis

In the Asian culture, there is often a belief that terminally ill patients should not be informed about their prognosis. Would you respect the cultural practice and not inform a patient about the prognosis? Is there a way for health care providers to balance the patient’s right to know with respect for the cultural practices and beliefs of the family? Is not fully disclosing information to the patient an ethical breach?

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. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
• You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.)
• All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
• Please post your initial response by 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.
• You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.

Grading Rubric

Your assignment will be graded according to the grading rubric.

Personal Philosophy of Culturally Competent Nursing

Apply a model of cultural competence to personal practice beliefs. For this assignment:

1. 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)
2. Review the Mission statements and values of St. Thomas University and its Nursing programs.
3. Reflect on your learning during this course.
4. Evidence of reflection on Campinha-Bacote’s cultural competency model and/or STU mission and values.
5. Your personal beliefs.
6. Your philosophy statement(s) related to culturally competent nursing care.
7. Implementing your beliefs.
8. Continuing your journey towards cultural competence.

Ritter, L.A., Graham, D.H. (2017). Multicultural Health (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
ISBN: 9781284021028
Chapter 10

Prognosis

In the Asian culture, there is often a belief that terminally ill patients should not be informed about their prognosis. Would you respect the cultural practice and not inform a patient about the prognosis? Is there a way for health care providers to balance the patient’s right to know with respect for the cultural practices and beliefs of the family? Is not fully disclosing information to the patient an ethical breach?

You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. 

Reading: Ritter, L.A., Graham, D.H. (2017). Multicultural Health (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
ISBN: 9781284021028
Chapter 10

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

Vision of Nursing

What is your vision for the future of nursing? How does your vision fit with the recommendations in the IOM report? What two action steps do you plan to take to promote this vision?

Use the quantitative research study assigned to you by your instructor and prepare a quantitative research article critique by following closely the 10 steps to analyzing quantitative nursing research studies found in Table 6-1 (pp. 96–97) in Keele’s Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice. Sample critiques are also provided in Chapter 6, pp. 98–104. While you can use each step as a heading, use full sentences and paragraph format in your paper. Be sure to include a cover page and a reference page.

Article and steps attached.

Keele, R. (2011). Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Ten Steps to Success. Jones & Bartlett. ISBN #: 978-0-7637-8058-6.