Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. 

 Instructions:
During the first two weeks, we have explored Principles of Disease and Pathology and the Primary Mechanisms of Disease. Review the material covered and provide a minimum of five key points about one of the key content areas covered that are listed below.  You may include sign/symptoms, diagnostic tools, and/or treatments.

Genetics & Congenital Alterations
Cancer
Immune Responses
Infection
Malnutrition & Obesity
Aging
Trauma
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references. 

1. You are the nurse caring for a patient with a tracheostomy. What communication strategies can you
promote with your patient in order to effectively interact and communicate?
2. You are the nurse caring for a patient with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
a) What is MRSA?
b) Describe the precautions required when providing care to this patient.
c) List topics to include in the patient and family education.
3. Describe the assessment cues and nursing interventions for infiltration and extravasation of an
intravenous (IV) catheter

 Due 9/24/23    4 pm EST 

• For this assignment, you must complete a matrix table for three research articles (see template provided below).
• You will be identifying the following to complete the table:
  • Articles/reference (in APA format)
  • Purpose of the article/Study question
  • Variables (i.e. independent vs dependent)
  • Study design: Quantitative/Qualitative/Mixed
  • Sampling
  • Methods
  • Instruments
  • Findings/Result
• You will be identifying the concepts being explored in the study: the “what” of the study, the methods or the “how” of the study, participants in the study or the “who,” along with the instruments/tools used in the study to collect data, i.e., surveys, interviews, etc.
• Lastly, you will state the findings of the study.
• Remember, the studies should support your ideas and should be less than five (5) years old.
• They should not be from the Web, but from the library databases. Use the resources found in the library.
• In addition, you must follow APA 7th edition guidelines when documenting the reference in the first column.
• Please use, at minimum three scholarly references for this assignment.

USE THIS TOPIC AND ARTICLES

Topic and 3 articles that were used previously TOPIC:  Healthcare Equity among the Elderly in Europe · Article 1: “ Equity in healthcare access and service coverage for older people: a scoping review of the conceptual literature. “The article evaluates the various interventions on health equity, impact on health outcomes, healthcare access, and reductions in health disparities.· Article 2: “Evaluating Policy Reforms for Healthcare Equity Among the Elderly in Europe”It investigates the impact of policy reforms on health disparities and access to healthcare services.· Article 3: “Socioeconomic Factors and Health Outcomes Among European Elderly: A Critical Analysis of Healthcare Equity Policies”It critically examines the role of socioeconomic factors in healthcare equity and disparities. 

PROFESSIONAL NURSING AND STATE-LEVEL REGULATIONS

Boards of Nursing (BONs) exist in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands. Similar entities may also exist for different regions. The mission of BONs is the protection of the public through the regulation of nursing practice. BONs put into practice state/region regulations for nurses that, among other things, lay out the requirements for licensure and define the scope of nursing practice in that state/region.

It can be a valuable exercise to compare regulations among various state/regional boards of nursing. Doing so can help share insights that could be useful should there be future changes in a state/region. In addition, nurses may find the need to be licensed in multiple states or regions.

Required Readings

· Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). 
Health policy and politics: A nurse's guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

· Chapter 4, “Government Response: Regulation” (pp. 57–84)

· American Nurses Association. (n.d.). 


ANA enterprise

Links to an external site.
. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from http://www.nursingworld.org

· Bosse, J., Simmonds, K., Hanson, C., Pulcini, J., Dunphy, L., Vanhook, P., & Poghosyan, L. (2017). 

Position statement: Full practice authority for advanced practice registered nurses is necessary to transform primary careLinks to an external site.
. 
Nursing Outlook, 65(6), 761–765.

· Halm, M. A. (2018). 

Evaluating the impact of EBP education: Development of a modified Fresno test for acute care nursing


 Download Evaluating the impact of EBP education: Development of a modified Fresno test for acute care nursing
. 
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 15(4), 272–280. doi:10.1111/wvn.12291

·

National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)Links to an external site.
. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm

· Neff, D. F., Yoon, S. H., Steiner, R. L., Bumbach, M. D., Everhart, D., & Harman J. S. (2018). 

The impact of nurse practitioner regulations on population access to careLinks to an external site.
. 
Nursing Outlook, 66(4), 379–385.

· Peterson, C., Adams, S. A., & DeMuro, P. R. (2015). 

mHealth: Don’t forget all the stakeholders in the business caseLinks to an external site.
. 
Medicine 2.0, 4(2), e4.

To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and reflect on the mission of state/regional boards of nursing as the protection of the public through the regulation of nursing practice.

· Consider how key regulations may impact nursing practice.

· Review key regulations for nursing practice of your state’s/region’s board of nursing and those of at least one other state/region and select at least two APRN regulations to focus on for this Discussion.

Post a comparison of at least two APRN board of nursing regulations in your *state/region with those of at least one other state/region. Describe how they may differ. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain how the regulations you selected may apply to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who have legal authority to practice within the full scope of their education and experience. Provide at least one example of how APRNs may adhere to the two regulations you selected.

*My State is Florida

**minimum of three (3) scholarly references are required