Search Engines & Databases

 

1. What is known and unknown about the topic

2. Discuss the gaps, consistencies, and inconsistencies in the literature

3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the literature provided?

4. Describe the theoretical/ conceptual framework that guides the study. 

5. Provide recommendations for future research, education, or policy changes in your facility based on your chosen literature review.

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Post your week eight assignment, a narrated powerpoint presentation, showcasing your business plan to the week eight discussion 

Use week 7 business plan to make power point presentation 

Expectations

Initial Post:

  • Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
  • Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

ALSP 01

 Review the resources and clinical skills in the PMHNP Clinical Skills List document. It is recommended that you print out this document to serve as a guide throughout your practicum. 

Review the “Developing SMART Goals” resource on how to develop goals and objectives that follow the SMART framework.

Review the resources on nursing competencies and nursing theory and consider how these inform your practice.

Download the Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form to complete this Assignment.  

Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form to complete the following:   

Rate yourself according to your confidence level performing the skills identified on the Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form.  

Based on your ratings, summarize your strengths and opportunities for improvement.   

Based on your self-assessment and theory of nursing practice, develop 3–4 measurable goals and objectives for this practicum experience. Include them on the designated area of the form

REply 1

  1-What is the role of the Nurse Practitioner in the use of psychotropic medications? What is so important the knowledge of these class of medications?  

2-Define psychopharmacology and pharmacodynamics and describe the neuron’s cellular structure. Include the definition of synapses as well as their significance to the nervous and psychological system. 

Nursing Homework

Aron Ralston, an avid outdoorsman, was hiking in a narrow canyon in Southern Utah when he upset a large boulder that rolled down the canyon after him. As it fell, the boulder relodged itself between the narrow canyon walls and in the process pinned Aron’s right wrist between the boulder and the canyon wall. Aron was alone and was unable to free himself from the situation. After being trapped for five days, with no help arriving, Aron eventually made the decision to free himself by breaking the bones in his forearm with the weight of his body and amputating his hand with a dull pocketknife. After freeing himself, he hiked an additional seven miles before the search and rescue crews found him. His arm required further surgery to repair it. After the surgery, the nurses would ask Aron, “On a scale of 0-10, what is your pain level with 0 being no pain and 10 being the most pain you have ever experienced?”. Aron would reply, “0.25”. When asked about giving such an odd answer, he stated that even though he was in pain after the surgery, it was minimal compared to the pain he experienced when he cut through his ulnar nerve to free himself from being trapped by the boulder.

1. As you reflect on this story, how does it help you understand that pain is a subjective experience for your client? What types of questions will you ask your client to adequately assess their pain level?

2. Why is it important to understand that not all clients experience pain the same?

3. What objective data may be noted when a client is in pain?

4. How might pain be manifested in vital sign measurements?

5. What effects might chronic pain have on the general health of a client?

Nursing homework

 

I need brief and concise answers to the assignment attached below. 

I will like to have it done in 24 hours.

Discussion

1) Review your state’s Nurse Practice Act and rules and regulations.

2) As a coworker, what are you required to do if you believe a nurse has a problem with chemical dependency? As the nurse manager, what are your obligations? Please cite the Nurse Practice Act. 

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Margo is a 49-year-old divorced woman who works as a bank teller. She tells her primary care provider (PCP) that she feels tired all the time and that she is gaining weight because she has no interest in her usual exercise activities, and that she has been overeating, even though she is often not really hungry. She notices that she has difficulty falling asleep at night and awakens around 4 a.m. most mornings, without her alarm, and cannot go back to sleep even though she still feels tired. She finds little joy in her life but cannot pinpoint any particular concern or event causing this problem. The PCP asks Angela to fill out a Beck’s Depression Scale, which indicates she has moderate depression.

  • Choose a pharmacologic intervention for Margo.
  • Provide Margo with written education regarding her prescription. (Include what she should expect when first taking the drug, appropriate activity warnings, when to expect improvement, side effects she may experience, and anything she should report to the provider).

instructions: It is a discussion post, one page to one page and a half is long enough. APA format. must have 3 references please.

reply- week 6

Hospitals have noises that are buzzing day and night. Emergency Rooms, ICU’s and monitored patient floors to mention a few, have high rates of noise saturation. The most common attribution to the noise is alarms. Alarms are designed to alert staff of a change or potential change in patient status (Hebda et al., 2019). Often, the alarm going off is false or has no patient threat. This is due to parameters not being set, patches not sticking, or positioning of a sensor. This can cause alarm fatigue, “The desensitization of a clinician to an alarm stimulus that results from sensory overload causing the response of an alarm to be delayed or missed” (West et al., 2014).

The result of alarm fatigue can lead to harmful patient situations. For example, if a nurse on a busy med-surg floor has several patients on beds with alarms, patients with IV pumps infusing and on telemetry monitoring, the alarm noise from all the devices could cause the nurse to tone out some of the sounds. If one of her patient’s bed alarms continues to go off repeatedly and every time she enters the patient’s room, finds the patient in bed, she determines the sensor is set to sensitive for the patient. But if the sensor is not reset, and the alarm continues to go off, the nurse may start to ignore the alarm. The last time the alarm sounds, the patient does get out of bed and falls, injuring his hip. This can turn into a legal issue as the safety measure was in place to protect the patient from harm, but due to a failure to change the bed setting, and the nurse’s desensitization of the alarm, the patient had a poor outcome. There is an ethical responsibility for the nurse to assess the injured patient, report the fall to appropriate change according to hospital policy and discuss the incident with the patient or family members. According to Kadivar et al., (2017), that despite measures put into place in the health care setting, there are still numerous threats posed to patient safety.

Evidence suggests that alarm fatigue is a patient safety and quality concern. As health care delivery becomes more digitalized, it is increasingly important to develop a safety culture to address alarm fatigue. The research suggests establishing safe alarm management and response processes. The use of multilevel sharing practices and prevention strategies is also a way to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on strategies for reduction in alarm fatigue (Winter et al., 2021). By decreasing the number of false alarms with use of proper management, nurses can better care for patients needs without disruptions. Thus, reduce potential missed or ignored alarms resulting in poor patient outcomes.

 

References:

Kadivar, M., ManooKian, A., Asgharican., & Zarvani, A. (2017). Ethical and legal aspects of patient's safety: A clinical case report.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine,
10, 15.

 

Winters, B., Slota, J., & Bilimoria, K. (2021). Safety Culture as a Patient Safety Practice for Alarm Fatigue.
Journal of the American Medical Association,
326(12), 1207-1208.

https://doi.org/chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/10.1001/jama.2021.8316


Links to an external site.

 

Hebda, T., Hunter, K., & Czar, P. (2018). Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals (6th ed.). Pearson Learning Solutions.

https://ambassadored.vitalsource.com/books/9781323903148


Links to an external site.

 

West, P., Abbott, P., & Probst, P. (2014). Alarm fatigue: A concept analysis.
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics,
18(2), 1.


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