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 Analyze the subjective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.

Analyze the objective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.

Is the assessment supported by the subjective and objective information? Why or why not?What diagnostic tests would be appropriate for this case, and how would the results be used to make a diagnosis?

Would you reject/accept the current diagnosis? Why or why not? Identify three possible conditions that may be considered as a differential diagnosis for this patient. Explain your reasoning using at least three different references from current evidence-based literature.

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Explore the factors contributing to the development and recurrence of UTIs, such as urinary stasis, urinary catheterization, and antibiotic resistance. How can nurse practitioners assess and address these risk factors in patient care to prevent UTIs and minimize recurrence?

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Introduction

The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a shared vision and team goals (Mulvale et al., 2016). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.

You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.

Demonstration of Proficiency

· Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.

· Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought by the plan.

· Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.

· Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

· Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

· Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.

· Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.

· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.

· Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Reference

Mulvale, G., Embrett, M., & Shaghayegh, D. R. (2016). 'Gearing up' to improve interprofessional collaboration in primary care: A systematic review and conceptual framework. 
BMC Family Practice, 
17.

Professional Context

This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.

Scenario

Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.

Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee's organization.

Instructions

For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.

The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.

Using the 
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX]
 Download Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX]will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

· Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

· Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.

· Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

· Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.

· Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.

Additional Requirements

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Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise. Most submissions will be 2–4 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.

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Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.

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APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.

Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The 
Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.

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Module 04 Content

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You are a Training Specialist hired by Universal Medical Supplies, Inc. This organization has been experiencing low productivity and errors in communication in the workplace. As part of an ongoing professional development series, the Vice President of the Human Resources department has tasked you with creating Critical Thinking training materials. The materials will be presented in many forms and by various means to help improve productivity and communication in the organization.

As part of the company’s training plan, they want to provide articles for the staff on the company’s intranet as required reading prior to other training activities. You will create one of those articles in the form of a blog post. It should provide an overview and give concrete examples of logical fallacies being used in the news and social media.

Instructions

Use online resources to create a blog post that illustrates how logical fallacies and audience manipulation appear in the news and social media. Social media may include sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others.

Your blog post should be a minimum of 5 paragraphs that includes the following elements:

· An introduction to the topic of logical fallacies.

· 2 examples of audience manipulation in the
news with a clickable link to the articles inserted in the blog post. Explain each fallacy example and how it is being used to manipulate the audience.

· 2 examples of audience manipulation in
social media. Explain each fallacy example and how it is being used to manipulate the audience. The two examples can be from the same or different social media sites. Example: One from Facebook and one from Twitter. Insert a screenshot image of each social media post.

· A summarizing paragraph.

· References with links to your sources.

Write your blog post in a Word document. Be sure to proofread for grammar and spelling.

For assistance with logical fallacies in advertising, news, and social media, please see:

·

What is a logical fallacy?

For assistance with writing a blog post, see:

·

Blog Writing: Tips and Best Practices to Keep Readers Engaged

·

The Art of Digital Marketing

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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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comprehension patient history

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Explore the factors contributing to the development and recurrence of UTIs, such as urinary stasis, urinary catheterization, and antibiotic resistance. How can nurse practitioners assess and address these risk factors in patient care to prevent UTIs and minimize recurrence?

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Assessment 3

Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues

INSTRUCTIONS-Develop a 20-minute video presentation for nursing colleagues highlighting the fundamental principles of care coordination. Create a detailed narrative script for your presentation, approximately 4-5 pages in length. This is a video presentation.

INTRODUCTION- This assessment provides an opportunity for you to educate your peers on the care coordination process. The assessment also requires you to address change management issues. 

PREPARATION– You are encouraged to complete the Managing Change activity. Completing course activities before submitting your first attempt has been shown to make the difference between basic and proficient assessment.

Scenario

Your nurse manager has been observing your effectiveness as a care coordinator and recognizes the importance of educating other staff nurses in care coordination. Consequently, she has asked you to develop a presentation for your colleagues on care coordination basics. By providing them with basic information about the care coordination process, you will assist them in taking on an expanded role in helping to manage the care coordination process and improve patient outcomes in your community care center.

To prepare for this assessment, identify key factors nurses must consider to effectively participate in the care coordination process.

You may also wish to:

· Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete.

· Allow plenty of time to rehearse your presentation.

Recording Equipment Setup and Testing

Check that your recording equipment and software are working properly and that you know how to record and upload your presentation. You may use Kaltura (recommended) or similar software for your audio recording. A reference page is required. However, no PowerPoint presentation is required for this assessment.

· If using Kaltura, refer to the 

Using Kaltura
 tutorial for directions on recording and uploading your video in the courseroom.

Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact 

[email protected]
 to request accommodations.

INSTRUCTIONS- Complete the following:

· Develop a video presentation for nursing colleagues highlighting the fundamental principles of care coordination. Include community resources, ethical issues, and policy issues that affect the coordination of care. To prepare, develop a detailed narrative script. The script will be submitted along with the video.

Note: You are 
not required to deliver your presentation.

Presentation Format and Length

Create a detailed narrative script for your video presentation, approximately 4–5 pages in length. Include a reference list at the end of the script.

Supporting Evidence

Cite 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your video. Include your source citations on a references page appended to your narrative script. Explore the resources about effective presentations as you prepare your assessment.

Grading Requirements

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

· Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes.

· Provide, for example, drug-specific educational interventions, cultural competence strategies.

· Include evidence that you have to support your selected strategies.

· Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.

· Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making.

· Consider the reasonable implications and consequences of an ethical approach to care and any underlying assumptions that may influence decision making.

· Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.

· What are the logical implications and consequences of relevant policy provisions?

· What evidence do you have to support your conclusions?

· Raise awareness of the nurse's vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation.

· Fine tune the presentation to your audience.

· Stay focused on key issues of import with respect to the effects of resources, ethics, and policy on the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.

· Adhere to presentation best practices.

Additional Requirements-Submit both your presentation video and script. The script should include a reference page. See 
Using Kaltura for more information about uploading multimedia files. You may submit the assessment only once, so be sure that both assessment deliverables are included.

Portfolio Prompt: Save your presentation to your ePortfolio. Submissions to the ePortfolio will be part of your final Capstone course.

Course Competencies- By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 2: Collaborate with patients and family to achieve desired outcomes.

· Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes.

· Competency 3: Create a satisfying patient experience.

· Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.

· Competency 4: Defend decisions based on the code of ethics for nursing.

· Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making.

· Competency 5: Explain how health care policies affect patient-centered care.

· Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.

· Competency 6: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead patient-centered care.

· Raise awareness of the nurse's vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues Scoring Guide

CRITERIA

NON-PERFORMANCE

BASIC

PROFICIENT

DISTINGUISHED

Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes.

Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.

Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making.

Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.

Raise awareness of the nurse's vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation.