Reading and understanding food labels can often feel like having to understand an entirely new language. However, it is important that consumers are able to read and interpret the nutrient content in the foods they consume.
For this assignment, you will need to compare the nutrition labels (provided) for two types of crackers, and then answer a series of questions. Use the Food Label Worksheet below.
File:
Food Label Worksheet
Topic: Staffing needs and Scheduling policies
Apply the differences between negligence and malpractice to the practice of nursing. Provide examples to illustrate your points.
Instructions Unit 1 Assignment – Clinical Preparation Tool- Instructions- 800w-4 references- due 11-4-23
Topic: Suicidal Ideation
Suicide Assessment C-SSRS
The Columbia Lighthouse Project. (2016).
Identify risk. Prevent suicide
Links to an external site.
. https://cssrs.columbia.edu/
For this week utilize the tool listed above to complete the assignment.
Overview
As you will learn throughout the program, the diagnosis of a variety of psychiatric illnesses is not always an easy or straightforward process. Multiple observations and assessment methods are often employed to reach a diagnosis. This approach can include the use of standardized assessment instruments. This then aids you in defining a treatment plan and choosing specific treatment plans to use in the care of your clients.
You are tasked with
identifying a standardized assessment instrument/tool to measure the disorders listed for each week. You will keep these instruments in the form of a “portfolio” that you can use in your clinical practice to assess clients who present with a variety of symptoms.
Instructions:
Instrument/ Tool criteria:
For each assessment, you are tasked with selecting, you will identify an instrument and:
1. List what
DSM diagnosis the tool/instrument is used for.
2.
Identify an assessment/diagnosis instrument.
3. Appraise a scholarly, peer-reviewed article that addresses the use of the instrument to support your choice as an evidence-based instrument for practice.
4. Evaluate the instrument’s appropriateness for diagnosing the condition it is designed to assess or if the developers of the instrument reported that the instrument is only part of a comprehensive assessment for the disorder.
5. Describe whether or not the instrument can be used to measure patient response to therapy/treatment or if it is strictly for assessment and diagnosis.
6. Discuss the psychometrics/scoring of the instrument, including reliability and validity.
7. Discuss any limitations associated with the use of the instrument.
8. Include a link to view the assessment if possible.
Use the following template in completing your portfolio assignments. Your information can be in a bulleted format or just a couple of sentences for each criterion listed above. However, you must use APA citations. You are NOT required to write this in a paper format. Turn in one document for each week’s topics. (However, create a file on your desktop to compile your portfolio as you move through the term.) This will ensure you can have easy access to show the full portfolio and once you begin clinicals and practice. Throughout the program, you will continue to add to the portfolio in each course.
Anxiety and Related Disorders
Week 4
DSM: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Instrument: Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2
(GAD-2)
Article: Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7)
in the General Population. Medical Care
Appropriateness for Dx: The GAD-7 and GAD-2 is screening tools for initial assessment for
mental health screening. The screening is the process used by healthcare provider to assess the
need to further evaluate for anxiety disorders. This helps determine the need for further
questioning on the anxiety the individual may be experiencing.
Response to Therapy/Treatment: This screening is effective for self-reporting of anxiety for
the healthcare provider. The evidence supports the validity and reliability of the GAD-7 and
GAD-2 for screening for anxiety disorders (Löwe et al., 2008).
Assessment Instruments
Psychometrics: The questionnaire is a self-reporting tool used for the individual to report any
problematic areas dealing with anxiety. The screening tool has 7 questions in the GAD-7 and the
shorter briefer questionnaire has 2 questions. The questionnaire asks the individual “Over the last
2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?”. Then list 7 different
items relating to anxiety and the GAD-2 is the same just stops after question 2. The is effective
screening tool to help see the problem areas. The individual has several different choices to
provide feedback. It is on a scaled system to calculate a score. For example, the first choice “0”
has the words “not at all” and the last choice is “nearly every day” with the score of “+3”. The
calculated score at the end is broke down by minimal, mild, moderate, severe anxiety based on
the scoring.
Limitations:
Limitations: The limitations on the screening tool is the individual answering truthfully or to the
best of their ability. The assessment and further evaluation by the healthcare provider is
necessary for validation of the diagnosis.
References
Löwe, B., Decker, O., Müller, S., Brähler, E., Schellberg, D., Herzog, W., & Herzberg, P. Y.
(2008). Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in
the General Population. Medical Care, 46(3), 266–274.
Discussion 1
Language barrier can be a problem in hospitals.
Discussion 2
Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships discusses 4 phases of the nurse-patient
Fill out the Table below comparing the Acute Complications of Diabetes.
ARTHRITIS
This paper should integrate HP2030 and CDC information into your paper.
Link to HP2030Links to an external site.
1. Identify your target population (for instance, age or other demographic, aggregate population); this must be in your city or state.
2. Discuss population-based health education interventions for your target population that is aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality for the problem. Be sure to review the research literature and HP2030 for interventions.
3. Identify how and what data for interventions is being tracked.
4. In a four (4) page paper, address the following. Refer to rubric for expanded details related to grading expectations.
·
· Identify the problem in the introduction section.
· Provide an overview of the problem in your state/national.
· Review of descriptive epidemiological and demographic data on mortality/morbidity and risk.
· HP2030: Present the goal, overview and objectives of Healthy People 2030 for the paper topic.
· Population level prevention and health promotion review. Describe population and/or primary health care focused interventions. Use of scholarly literature and HP2030 is required. There should be direct correlation to evidence for all strategies.
Respond to the following prompts and, if it's relevant, include your own personal experience
· What are some barriers and challenges to the transition of care from one level to another? Describe at least two. Examples: transition from hospital to primary care follow-up or long-term care to home care.
· Give an example from your experience or the literature of a procedure aimed at improving the process of care transitions. What impact do you suppose it will have on patient safety?
Write at least 2 paragraphs with intext citations and references in APA 7th edition format.
· Choose
one
life stage (adolescents, middle age, or older adults). Based on your readings, personal experiences, and/or research of evidence-based practices, discuss the following:
· What are the priority health promotion assessments for those clients? How would you approach that assessment?
· Would you change your approach to
teaching health promotion?
Write at least 2 paragraphs with intext citations and references in APA 7th edition format.
4 exercises in the attached word file
A patient who has Parkinson’s disease takes levodopa and carbidopa. The patient reports experiencing tremors between doses. The primary care NP should:
a. add amantadine.
b. increase the dose of levodopa.
c. discontinue the carbidopa.
d. add entacapone.
2.
A patient who takes levodopa and carbidopa for Parkinson’s disease reports experiencing freezing episodes between doses.The primary care NP should consider using:
a. selegiline.
b. apomorphine.
c. modified-release levodopa.
d. amantadine.
3.
A 65-year-old patient is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The patient has emphysema and narrow-angle glaucoma. The primary care NP should consider beginning therapy with:
a. ropinirole hydrochloride.
b. selegiline.
c. carbidopa/levodopa.
d. benztropine.
