Category: Health & Medical

Carotid care plan

Discussion 1

In modern nursing, the nursing metaparadigm – encompassing person, environment, health, and nursing – profoundly influences culturally proficient care. Reflecting on this relationship, consider:

• How does the nursing metaparadigm inform the delivery of culturally proficient care?
• Discuss the integration of the nursing metaparadigm’s core concepts with culturally diverse patient populations.
• In what ways can nursing theory shape nursing education to better prepare nurses for culturally proficient care?

Discussion 2

Describe the legislative process of a health policy you are familiar with. What were the major steps and challenges in its development?

Submission Instructions:

• Be sure you have first submitted your initial discussion post to this modules Initial Post Screening before proceeding to post to the discussion board.
• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Sources should be current (published within last five years).
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• Supplemental Materials:
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• American Nurses Association. (2020). Nurses serving in Congress.
• Minnesota Nurses Association. (2018). Nurse’s dos and donts of lobbying [Video]. YouTube.
• Anderson, A. L., Waddell, A., Brennan, P., Burnett, C., Anderson, C., & Short, N. M. (2020). Advancing health policy education in nursing: American Association of Colleges of Nursing faculty policy think tank. Journal of Professional Nursing: Official Journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 36(3), 100105.

Please respond to these 2 different discussions separately. The response should be minimum 250 words per discussion paper (not including references ).

references must be cited in APA format 7th Edition and must include a minimum of 2 scholarly resources published within the past 5 years.

REFERENCES Must have DOI Numbers for professor to look them up

word count 500-750.

Prompt ESSAY QUESTION

The mission of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is to build healthy communities by supporting qualified health care providers dedicated to working in areas of the United States with limited access to care. With this mission, we know that patients often need health care providers to better understand them as a whole person. This is particularly important among underserved populations receiving care. Please describe an experience in which you have contributed to the well- being of an underserved community and the impact/result of your contribution.

What i have

The mission of the National Health Service Corps is a personal one for me because I have spent my life navigating the gaps in our healthcare system across two different continents. My journey into medicine did not begin in a pristine classroom. It started at thirteen years old, when I became the primary caregiver for my mother after her diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). While my peers were focused on school and sports, I was learning the heavy weight of medical responsibility. Watching her face each day with courage and grace gave me a lifelong calling to serve those whom the formal healthcare system often overlooks.

That calling deepened during my time as a home care aide for Mrs. Nancy, an elderly woman with advanced dementia. The healthcare system consistently failed to provide the consistent hours of care her family desperately needed. On many occasions, I stayed long after my shift officially ended to ensure her safety and comfort. Those unpaid hours taught me a lesson I carry into every patient interaction today: in underserved communities, the medical problem is rarely separate from the human one. Mrs. Nancys family did not just need a caregiver; they needed a medical advocate who understood the danger of being left behind by a system not built with their needs in mind.

My ability to connect with patients like Mrs. Nancy is rooted in my Cameroonian heritage. Having lived in Cameroon for eleven years, I gained a deep sense of cultural humility and a sacred respect for elders. In my culture, caring for those who came before us is a duty. I bring this reverence to every patient I care for, ensuring they feel heard and seen regardless of their socioeconomic status. This cultural bridge is essential in Health Professional Shortage Areas, where trust between the provider and the community is often the first barrier to effective care.

For the past four years, I have worked as a Float Pool Patient Care Technician at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, which serves a high volume of low-income and uninsured patients. My role requires a mission-first mindset, a discipline I honed during my five years as a Logistics Specialist in the Army National Guard. That discipline was put to the test when I discovered a patient who had coded in a hospital bathroom. Without hesitation, I initiated CPR and called for help, maintaining compressions until the medical team arrived. While I am proud of my ability to remain calm during a Code Blue, these experiences reinforced a troubling pattern: in the Emergency Department, I saw the same people returning for preventable crises simply because they lacked a regular doctor.

I recently contributed to breaking that cycle with a patient I will call Ms. T, a middle-aged woman with Type 2 diabetes admitted following a blood sugar crisis. She was medically stable, but when I entered her room she was visibly overwhelmed. Her discharge paperwork listed four medications with complex instructions, and she had been told to monitor her glucose at home. No one had told her where to get an affordable monitor, or what the numbers would mean for her daily decisions. She looked at me and said, They just keep sending me back here. I dont know what Im doing wrong.

She was not doing anything wrong. The system had failed to meet her where she was.

I recognized that feeling. I had seen it in Mrs. Nancys family, the exhaustion of people trying to do right by someone they loved inside a system that kept moving too fast to notice them. I sat with Ms. T well beyond my duties as a Patient Care Technician and approached her not as a discharge to complete, but as a whole person navigating an overwhelming situation with limited resources. What made the difference was simple but meaningful. I helped her with her bath, made sure she knew where to purchase an affordable glucose monitor because no one had told her, and connected her with the free Uber service the hospital offers so she could get to the pharmacy to pick up her medications. Many patients leave without ever knowing these resources exist. When I checked in before her discharge, she thanked me. Not for anything clinical, but for treating her with dignity and not looking down on her. For the first time, she had a way to get to the pharmacy to pick up her medications without having to figure out a ride on her own. The pharmacy was right near her home, and now she had a guaranteed way to get there. That moment stayed with me because it revealed something important: in underserved communities, feeling seen as a human being is sometimes the care that matters most.

As a Physician Assistant, I want to stop being the person who only reacts to the crisis. I want to be the primary care provider who knows Ms. T before the crisis arrives, who tracks her glucose trends over time, addresses her needs in January so they do not become a hospitalization in March, and builds the kind of trust that makes her feel safe enough to call before things get critical. My military service taught me that a mission is not over until the objective is secured. In this case, the objective is the long-term health of the community. By joining the NHSC, I am committing my caregivers heart, my Cameroonian values of respect, and my soldiers discipline to a lifelong career in underserved medicine. I am ready to stay until the mission of community healing is complete.

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Preassessment

The Module Pre-Assessment is your opportunity to practice applying module content before submitting the final Competency Assessment. In the Final Assessment, you will be asked to create an opportunities analysis that explores the roles and responsibilities of two different administrative and/or managerial positions in two different healthcare settings.

To prepare for your Final Assessment, consider the roles and responsibilities of different administrative and/or managerial positions healthcare settings. Which role would you like to hold and why? What knowledge and skills are required to be effective in the role and how do your skills meet those requirements? Also, think about what opportunities you have to practice innovative leadership in the role you have chosen.

For your Module Pre-Assessment, respond to the following prompts contained within the Module 3 Pre-Assessment template to help you formulate your Final Assessment:

• Describe the roles and responsibilities of the administrative and/or managerial position you selected and why you selected it.
• Describe specific leadership, knowledge, and competency skills are required to be effective in that role. Which ones will you need to enhance to be effective in that role?
• Describe two opportunities for employing innovative leadership in the role you have selected and the results they might yield.

Note that you do not need to resubmit your Pre-Assessment to address feedback.

Answer the questions at the end of Chapter 5. Due on Sunday by 11:59 PM.

Discussion Questions

1. What are guiding principles? What are some examples for guiding principles in HIS implementation?

2. Describe the concept of a balanced HIS portfolio. How does the HIS planning framework provide insight into that arena?

3. How important is the contract between a vendor and a healthcare provider? Explain what might be covered in the contract guidelines.

4. Explain the phrase, no decision is a decision, in terms of the budgeting process.

5. What is the different between an HIS Strategic Plan and an HIS tactical plan?

6. Who are some of the potential department and organization leaders who will make way for new HIS initiatives?

Essential Activities:

1. Read Chapter 5: HIS Tactical Planning

Notes:

1. This assignment must be formatted in APA Style 7th edition.

HIS Project Five-Year Cost Estimate and Template

Required:

1. Read Chapter 5 text regarding HIS Tactical Planning Tools including Figure 5.2 and Exhibit 5.1.

2. Compose the business plan for a hypothetical HIS project for a new HIS application for a healthcare organization of the students choice. Choose from a new EHR system, a new EPR system, or a new analytics system.

3. Present the business plan in written format and presentation format such as PowerPoint or other presentation tool, and should describe the new HIS system in the context of the HIS Planning Framework as presented in Figure 5.2.

Essential Activities:

1. Read Chapter 3: Medical Diagnosis
2. Read Chapter 5: HIS Tactical Planning

Notes:

1. This assignment must be formatted in APA Style 7th edition.

This is a discussion; it does not need to be an essay, it does not need to be more than 400 words maximum.

Describe deep medicine and medical diagnosis. How is medical diagnosis performed, how has it evolved, and what is the future for medical diagnosis?

Essential Activities:

1. Read Chapter 3: Medical Diagnosis
2. Read Chapter 5: HIS Tactical Planning

Videos:

Watch: 6 Strategies: Competitiveness in Healthcare

Watch: Technology in Healthcare

Note:

The chapters, along with the PowerPoint files will be attached below.

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment when providing an assessment with findings for adult and geriatric clients with Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Musculoskeletal, Abdomen, HEENT

This assignment will be

i.PowerPoint presentation

ii.Each PowerPoint will include:

a.Definition

b.Head to toe assessment by system

i.Review of system

ii.And Head to Toe assessment

c.Signs and Symptoms

d.Client Education

Instructions:

1. Students will work individually.

2. The assignment will be presented by:

a)PowerPoint will be based on a case scenario.

b)All topics need to be mastered to obtain a maximum grade.

3. Identify the disorder for which a patient would seek care and work it out.

4. Incorporate therapeutic communication techniques in the client-nurse relationship.

5. Include key elements/symptoms and behaviors you identified to substantiate your diagnosis and provide appropriate assessment findings.

6. A lottery will be done with the topics

6. Present by creating a case scenario with one of the following themes:

HEET

Acromegaly

Cushing Syndrome

Cachectic

Hyperthyroidism

Hypothyroidism

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Down Syndrome

Hydrocephaly

Eczema

Cataract

Conjunctivitis: All

Menier Disease

Otitis Media

Peripheral vascular

Peripheral Venous Disease

Peripheral Arterial Disease

Heart

Right Side Congestive Heart Failure

Left Side Congestive Heart Failure

Angina

Myocardial Infarction

Hypertension

Abdomen

Cholecystitis

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B

Gastritis

Peptic Ulcer

Crohn Disease

Ulcerative Colitis

Appendicitis

Peritonitis

Intestinal Obstruction

Colon Cancer

Pyelonephritis

Cystitis

Ectopic Pregnancy

Stomach Cancer

Colon Cancer

Pancreatitis

Umbilical Hernia

Inguinal Hernia

Musculoskeletal

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Osteoarthritis

Osteoporosis

Bursitis

Epicondylitis

Scoliosis

Neuro

Bell Palsy

Hemorrhagic Stroke

Ischemic Stroke

Parkinson

Headache: All types

Epilepsy

Brain Cancer

Alzheimers

Male

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Prostate Cancer

Hemorrhoids

Rectal Cancer

Sexually Transmitted Disease

Female

Breast Cancer

Leiomyoma

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Endometriosis

Sexually Transmitted Disease

Skin

Pressure Ulcers

Systemic Erythematous Lupus

Skin Cancer

Respiratory

Asthma

Pneumonia

COPD

Sinusitis

Covid 19

Upper Respiratory Infection

Lung Cancer