Category: Health Care and Life Sciences : Nursing

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered. For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned and complete your participation for this assignment by Day 7. To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use resources from the South University Online Library.
As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Support your work, using your course lectures and textbook readings. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.
• APA Citation Helper
• APA Citations Quick Sheet
• APA-Style Formatting Guidelines for a Written Essay
• Basic Essay Template
Begin reviewing and replying to peer postings/responses early in the week to enhance peer discussion. See the rubric for participation points. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing viewpoints with a rationale, challenging aspects of the discussion, or indicating relationships between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress.
Mr. B is a 77-year-old African American man who complains of difficulty urinating.
What could be the underlying cause of these symptoms?
What are his risk factors?
What laboratory tests would be needed to confirm possible differential diagnoses?
What interventions would you expect?

Carefully Read these Check-In Assignment Preparation Instructions prior to completing the Change Process PICOT questionnaire for grading.
Read through the Week 6 Assignment page in the Week 6 Module and reach out to your instructor with any questions
Identify a clinical topic of concern that you think could benefit from a change of practice
Propose an independent nursing practice intervention as a change to current practice
Using the PICOT format develop each element of the PICOT (See Week 2 Illustration part of the lesson for a PICOT example from Nurse Daniel)
Please avoid using topics that are broad or are not able to be implemented as an independent nursing intervention as a BSN nurse.
Avoid using:
medical/doctor/physician problems such as medications, medication administration, errors, or effects, diagnostics, such as labs,
etc.
staffing, nurse-to-patient ratios, workforce issues which nursing cannot be impacted through an independent change intervention
DO –
Choose a clinical topic of concern that you think could benefit from a change and is important to you
Propose an independent nursing practice intervention as a change to current practice
Be prepared to identify each PICOT element
 Check-in InstructionsAnswer the questions within this questionnaire
Click the Take the Quiz button at the bottom of this page to record your answers. When completed, you will click Submit Quiz at the bottom of that page.
Your instructor will review your answers, score the items, and provide feedback. After scoring is completed, you may see your instructor’s comments in the Grades area.
My Population for PICOT question is:
My change Intervention for my PICOT question is:
My current practice Comparison for my PICOT question is:
My measurable Outcome for my PICOT question is:
My change process Timeframe for my PICOT question is:

Briefly discuss your state’s laws (New York) regarding gun control and its impact on healthcare.
Include a minimum of 2 scholarly sources meaningfully to demonstrate much depth. 

Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
Address each of these items:
Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
How was your compassion demonstrated?
How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
Reflect on the iCARE Self-Assessment and share an insight related to this discussion.

We begin our journey into discovering the new world of research and evidence-based practice (EBP) by exploring our past. After completing the required readings and lesson, answer the following:
Explain how research has evolved since the Florence Nightingale era.
Discuss how research and EBP are different; include how you believe research supports EBP for nursing.
Describe one past/historical unethical breach of research conduct; then, share how you would ensure care of a study participant using one ethical or legal research consideration (guideline/principle).

updated Statement of Goals outlining student professional goals pertaining to the updated program track. This Statement of Goals should be no more than 3 pages, typed, double spaced, Times New Roman, and 12-point font. 

Read the following article and respond to all questions below in your initial post: “Vaccine hesitancy and (fake) news: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Italy”Open this document with ReadSpeaker docReader  (Carrieri et al., 2019). Be sure to include a full APA reference for the article in your post.
Download and complete the CRAAP Test  Download CRAAP TestOpen this document with ReadSpeaker docReaderworksheet by filling in a score for each of the 5 categories. Based on the CRAAP Test, Is this a credible article? Why or why not?
Why is it important to be able to determine whether information is credible in your role as a nurse?
In the introduction section of the article, the authors point to something specific that lends credibility to the argument they’re trying to make. What is it?
What are strategies that you can use in the workplace to ensure that you are using credible sources?

A: A nurse manager at the local hospital recorded the number of admissions for the past three months, and the results are shown in admission.sav. Choose and compute measures of central tendency and variability. Report the most appropriate measures to describe the data in one paragraph as you might see written in a research report.
B: Falls.sav contains the number of falls from 52 nursing homes in Illinois over the past year. Choose and compute measures of central tendency and variability. Report the most appropriate measures to describe the data in one paragraph, as you might see written in a research report.
Download the .sav file for each above (from the Unit 2 Resources section).
Open the .sav file in JASP.
Run the descriptive statistics for the variables within the file (mean, median, mode, range, count, percentages, etc., as appropriate).
Write a one-paragraph summary of the results of your descriptive statistics, as would be seen in a research report. 
Add the tables generated by JASP into your document as an appendix. Textbook
Title:       Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing with Premier Navigate Technology access
Edition:       3E
Author:       Kim, Mallory, & Valerio
Publisher:       Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN:       9781284194678
Kim, M., Mallory, C., & Valerio, T. (2020). Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. 
Resources for the class text are online at: http://www.jblearning.com

I can provide the textbook, you can also use online resources, they need to be cited in APA. The explanations do not need to be long 5-10 sentences at most.

1- In our video this week, Dr. Michael Rabow stated that we don’t think of spirituality as a medical intervention.  In fact, spirituality in the healthcare setting is a philosophical discourse about ultimate human concerns between friends, between people who care…not a technique between friends.
When you are dealing with patients who are not friendly and seemingly do not care how can you and do you let your spirituality show through?  How can you and do you infuse your wisdom into this ultimate philosophical discourse about ultimate human concerns without becoming cold and simply making your interaction a technique?

2-The nursing relationship:  How much of it is an I -it rather than an I-thou proposed by Buber.  Is it possible to sustain an I-thou relationship in your everyday responsibilities as a nurse?  Is it just as important to be in the I – it relationship?  Is it a matter of balance? What might that balance be?
You are the authors of this week’s discussion questions.  After reading I and Thou and watching the videos on Buber, you are to post a discussion question pertaining to some part of Buber’s philosophy and how it pertains to the nursing practice.
3-What was the main takeaway you received from watching the two videos? 

4- Create a unique question from the readings this week