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The independent variable is the condition that you change in an experiment, its value doesn’t depend on by the state of another variable (Helmenstine, 2019). The independent variables that would be evaluated by assessment, providing postpartum depression (PPD) screening and resources to mothers with babies admitted to the NICU.

The dependent variable is the condition that is measured in an experiment, it is dependent on another variable to create a response (Helmenstine, 2019). The dependent variable would be the information that is collected after evaluation of the EBP project, such as the feelings and responses that mothers exhibit after the implementation of resources to assist them.

Role of the Health Care Administrator Presentation

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  1. Role of the Health Care Administrator Presentation
    Introduction
    By now you know that administrative responsibilities in health care facilities are managed by professionals who oversee medical facility processes, have in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements, and have a thorough understanding of the complexities involved in patient care. Drawing upon what you have learned in this course, imagine you have been invited to an annual meeting for a large national health care company. You have been asked to speak to a group of managers and directors about the strategic role of health care administrators and must prepare a comprehensive overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects of the health care administrator’s role.
    Instructions
    For this assignment, create a professional, narrated presentation focused on the political, legal, and ethical aspects of the health care administrator’s role. Your target audience are professionals in the industry who do not have a thorough understanding of your work.
    Create a PowerPoint (or Prezi) and record the presentation using Kaltura. Follow the content outline below and use speaker notes to cover the required topics listed here:

    1. Provide an overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects specific to the health care administrator’s role (2–3 slides).
    2. Summarize how the different aspects identified in 1., above, overlap and interface (1–2 slides).
    3. Provide three examples of the duties and responsibilities involved in health care administration, such as risk management, policy and procedure, regulatory compliance, ethics board, compliance officer, et cetera (2–3 slides).
    4. List two types of jobs or titles often found in health care delivery settings that are focused on risk management and regulatory compliance; include review of the importance and benefits of these functions within the health care system (1–2 slides).
    5. Summarize how the political, legal, and ethical issues affect patients and staff including the patient benefits (2–3 slides).
    6. Summarize how the political, legal, and ethical issues affect the financial and business operations of a health care facility (2–3 slides).
    7. Summarize the health care administrator’s role in regard to political, legal, and ethical issues related to an issue such as a data breach, a HIPAA or EMTALA violation, et cetera). Review the implications of this function if mishandled. (2–3 slides)
    8. Note: The presentation should not exceed 15 slides (with speaker notes) including a title slide and reference slide.
      Grading Criteria
      The grading criteria for this presentation is as follows. It must include the elements listed below so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed:
    9. Prepare an overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects specific to the health care administrator’s role.
    10. Summarize how the political, legal, and ethical aspects of the administrator’s role overlap and interface.
    11. Analyze three examples of the duties and responsibilities involved in health care administration.
    12. Evaluate two types of jobs found in health care delivery settings that are focused on risk management and regulatory compliance.
    13. Analyze how political, legal, and ethical issues affect staff, patients, and business operations.
    14. Create a professional slide presentation with speaker notes.
    15. Use a minimum of three quality academic resources to support your strategy and decisions.
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Academic Success Plan (paper)

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Purpose: To assist students in identifying areas to improve on in order to be academically successful, formulating strategies to implement and meet goals, and determining the effectiveness of the strategies (outcomes).

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Describe her/himself as a learner.
  • Demonstrate improvement of study skills through a variety of exercises.

Instructions:

  1. Write a 4-8 page paper on the goals to improve, the outcomes, and the effectiveness of the strategies that you implemented this semester (use the chart below to guide you. Address each area.). Use the literature to provide the evidence to support your strategies.
  2. Create two (2) strategies for each provided “Goals to Improve” that you plan to implement this semester.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness (Outcomes) of each strategy you implement in meeting the goal of improving academically.
  4. Include a minimum of three (3) current (≤ 5 years), peer-reviewed, nursing journal articles.
  5. Your paper should be 4-8 pages, excluding title and reference pages. No abstract is needed. Current APA formatting is required.
  6. Upload each article in pdf form that is used in your paper to the Dropbox.
  7. Please refer to the OWL at Purdue APA for questions. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
  8. Do not include any block quotes (direct quotes ≥ 40 words) or direct quotes in your paper.  Instead, paraphrase the information in your own words and cite appropriately.
  9. Include a conclusion. Use headers in your paper.
  10. No more than 25% Turnitin score. 

Submit your paper to the appropriate Dropbox, in a Word docx, by the specified date/time. If the document is uploaded in a format that will not open, meaning the faculty cannot grade it as it was uploaded, then the student will receive a grade of zero (0). It is the student’s responsibility to verify that their paper is in the correct format.

Only assignments that are uploaded to the correct location will be graded. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure they upload the correct assignment to the correct location and by the posted due date/time. It is also the student’s responsibility to ensure that they upload the correct version of their assignment. Only the version that is uploaded/posted will be graded. If a student inadvertently uploads the incorrect version of an assignment, it is the student’s responsibility to contact their instructor prior to the due date/time.

Role and Scope DQ11

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Read Chapter 11: Informatics in Professional Nursing Practice and answer:

Discuss issues of the digital divide. Explore resources in your city and county for the general public to have free Internet access and assistance. What other technologic resources are available for underserved populations?

APA style (intext citations and references)

Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.

Plagiarism FREE

(3×3)

NUR501- REPLY TO ALEXANDER

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Principles of Evidence-Based Practice and its Implementation

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is an essential concept in healthcare settings as it entails the use of quality and resent evidence while making the most accurate decision regarding patient care and needs. Incorporation of evidence-based preparation when giving patient care involves a range of abilities that will help the nurse in locating the appropriate resources after research. Furthermore, nurses must understand the information used in deducing, recording, and evaluating the repercussions of different interventions on a patient treatment plan. As a result, this essay will highlight the principles of evidence-based research and how they are implemented in advanced nursing practice.

Evidence-based Practice is founded on two principles. According to (Islas et al., 2018), the first principle states that recognition of scientific evidence can result at times insufficient to guide decision-making that can be of great importance. Nurses need to gather relevant evidence before settling on their final decision. Thus, the principle requires nurses to take into account evidence from multiple sources instead of basing their final decisions solely on their judgment. Therefore, nurse practitioners should rely on findings from empirical studies, facts, and figures gathered from the organization, the professional practitioners, and judgment from stakeholders involved in the study and are known trustable.

Consequently, the second principle suggests that within the available sources of evidence, hierarchies exist. According to (Vere & Gibson, 2020), the hierarchies available within the sources allows nurses to employ a top-down approach in deciding the best evidence to be used. Following the hierarchies make nurse practitioners first to consider the recent well-conducted systematic reviews. They then move to the next level of evidence when the previous level fails to yield a solution for their query. (Vere & Gibson, 2020) It is believed that the postulate of the hierarchies in EBP rank will show the variety of studies based on their strengths of research methods. Thus, different hierarchies exist for a variety of questions making it possible for nurses to make decisions based on the appropriate outcome that can provide simultaneously the best results.

While EBP is considered as the best practice that guarantees patients the best health outcome, most hospitals encounter many challenges that come along with the same. Therefore, its effective implementation is necessary. In advanced nursing practice understanding the data behind the evidence (Stavor et al., 2017) postulates that understanding the data will help in considering whether the available data is satisfactory in supporting the implementation of a new practice, or additional data is required for efficiency.

Furthermore, there is a need to consider the available resources at their disposal. Advanced nurse practitioners need to modify evidence-based Practice to fit the resources available to them since the availability of resources varies in different organizations (Thompson-Brenner et al., 2018). Besides, implementation of the philosophies of EBP, nurses must develop goals based on the outcomes of patients and not on the process itself. Implementation of the principles is dependent on the nurse’s preferences since their partialities play a vital role in the success of the implementation process.

In summary, Evidence-Based Practice is the application of updated proof in arriving at the best decision for better patient outcomes in terms of care delivery. EBP is based on the principle that states that scientific evidence is insufficient in the decision-making process and that hierarchies are present within the sources of evidence provided. Hence, the successful implementation is dependent on a better understanding of the presented data that was able to be collected, considering this way all the available resources, while the development of goals is based on the patient’s needs, and considering the preferences of the nurse practitioner.

References

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Islas, O., Arribas, A., & Gutiérrez, F. (2018). The contribution of Alvin Toffler to the theoretical and conceptual imaginary of communication. https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2018-1274en

Stavor, D. C., Zedreck-Gonzalez, J., & Hoffmann, R. L. (2017). Improving the Use of Evidence-Based Practice and Research Utilization Through the Identification of Barriers to Implementation in a Critical Access Hospital. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 47(1), 56–61. https://doi.org/10.1097/nna.0000000000000437 (Links to an external site.)

Thompson-Brenner, H., Brooks, G. E., Boswell, J. F., Espel-Huynh, H., Dore, R., Franklin, D. R., Gonçalves, A., Smith, M., Ortiz, S., Ice, S., Barlow, D. H., & Lowe, M. R. (2018). Evidence-based implementation practices applied to the intensive treatment of eating disorders: Summary of research and illustration of principles using a case example. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 25(1), e12221. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpsp.1222

Vere, J., & Gibson, B. (2020). Variation amongst hierarchies of evidence. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13404

Assignment

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When you decide to purchase a new car, you first decide what is important to you. If mileage and dependability are the important factors, you will search for data focused more on these factors and less on color options and sound systems.

The same holds true when searching for research evidence to guide your clinical inquiry and professional decisions. Developing a formula for an answerable, researchable question that addresses your need will make the search process much more effective. One such formula is the PICO(T) format.

In this Discussion, you will transform a clinical inquiry into a searchable question in PICO(T) format, so you can search the electronic databases more effectively and efficiently. You will share this PICO(T) question and examine strategies you might use to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search on your PICO(T) question.

To Prepare:

  • Review the materials offering guidance on using databases, performing keyword searches, and developing PICO(T) questions provided in the Resources.
  • Review the Resources for guidance and develop a PICO(T) question of interest to you for further study.

Role and Scope DQ8

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Read Chapter 8: Safety and Quality Improvement in Professional Nursing Practice and answer the questions: How can the commitment to quality improvement be integrated throughout all roles and at all levels of professional nursing practice?

 Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per DQ, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph.

·      All answers or discussions comments submitted must be in APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.) 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

·      Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.

APA format (intext citation and references)

Plagiarism FREE

The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy-Making

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Word cloud generators have become popular tools for meetings and team-building events. Groups or teams are asked to use these applications to input words they feel best describe their team or their role. A “word cloud” is generated by the application that makes prominent the most-used terms, offering an image of the common thinking among participants of that role.

What types of words would you use to build a nursing word cloud? Empathetic, organized, hard-working, or advocate would all certainly apply. Would you add policy-maker to your list? Do you think it would be a very prominent component of the word cloud?

Nursing has become one of the largest professions in the world, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve the delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients. Hence, policy-making has become an increasingly popular term among nurses as they recognize a moral and professional obligation to be engaged in healthcare legislation.

  • Visit the Congress.gov website provided in the Resources and consider the role of RNs and APRNs in policy-making.
  • Reflect on potential opportunities that may exist for RNs and APRNs to participate in the policy-making process.

Explore an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples.

Introduction to Nursing

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Prepare a two to three page written assignment that includes the following:

Content:

  • Introduction to the assignment (sections of the assignment; roles of the nurse, scope of practice, compare and contrast scope of practice)
  • Describe the roles of the nurse for the program you are currently enrolled
  • Identify the scope of practice for the nurse in the state where you intend to practice
  • Using the Nurse Practice Act for the state where you intend to practice, compare and contrast the scope of practice for the LPN and RN
  • Conclusion (reflect on the assignment including how you will use the scope of practice to support your role)
  • Use at least two credible resources to support your findings. For example, one of the resources could be the State Board of Nursing website, and another resource could be a textbook. These resources must be integrated into the body of your paper using at least two in-text citations. Be sure to use proper APA format and style.

Leadership and Group Collaboration

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Write a 3–4 page letter in which you analyze your leadership skills and how you would use them to lead a project requiring group collaboration.

Assessments 1 and 2 are scenario-based, so you must complete them in the order in which they are presented.

Leadership is an integral element in any job, regardless of the work title. However, it is important to recognize that leadership is not just one single skill; instead, success in leadership depends on a broad range of skills, among them decision making, collaboration, and communication.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Apply qualities, skills and practices used by effective healthcare leaders.
    • Describe the leadership qualities desirable for the proposed project.  
    • Compare one’s own leadership skills against those of a chosen health care leader.
    • Explain one’s role as project leader, using approaches from a selected leadership model.
  • Competency 2: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.
    • Describe an approach to effectively facilitate collaboration among a professional team.
  • Competency 4: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
    • Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences. 

 

Preparation

Read the Assessment 1 Scenario found in the Resources. Information in your assessment should be based on information from the scenario.  

Instructions

Develop a professional response to the supervisor using the template provided. The letter will have two main components:

  1. Identify the qualities of a successful leader and compare them to your own leadership characteristics.
  2. Make recommendations on how to lead and foster teamwork.

Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how you your assessment will be evaluated.

Submission Requirements

  • Your letter should be 3–4 double-spaced pages in length.
  • Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
  • Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
  • Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.
  • Use correct grammar and mechanics.
  • Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current, scholarly or professional sources.
  • Proofread your writing.

Grading Rubric:

1- Describe leadership qualities desirable for the proposed project. 

Passing Grade:  Describes in detail desirable leadership qualities that are specifically appropriate for the proposed project. 

2-  Compare one’s own leadership skills against those of a chosen health care leader. 

Passing Grade:  Compares one’s own leadership skills against those of a chosen health care leader, using specific examples or actions that illustrate the similarities and differences. 

3-  Explain one’s role as project leader, using approaches from a selected leadership model. 

Passing Grade:  Explains one’s role as project leader in detail, referencing approaches from a selected leadership model with support from academic resources. 

4-  Describe an approach to effectively facilitate collaboration among a professional team. 

Passing Grade:  Describes multiple approaches to effectively facilitate collaboration among a professional team. 

5-  Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences. 

Passing Grade:  Presents a focused purpose through strong organizational skills. Presents evidence through strong paraphrasing/summarizing and appropriate tone and sentence structure.