Category: Health Care and Life Sciences : Nursing

Decide on the main point or argument of your essay. This could be about the impact of COVID-19 on public health, economy, mental health, or any other aspect. Your thesis statement should be clear and specific.

Create a rough outline for your essay. Divide it into introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Each body paragraph should focus on a specific subtopic or supporting point related to your thesis.

Part I: Choose EITHER prompt 1 OR 2
1- Choose one aspect of co-teaching/collaborating you want to refine (if you already co-teach or collaborate) or one aspect you would want to work on (if you don’t currently teach, co-teach or collaborate) and briefly discuss an actionable, detailed strategy for doing so. (Note: saying you will communicate better is not an actionable, detailed strategy.)
2- Choose one aspect of the parent-teacher relationship you want to refine (if you are already in the classroom) or one aspect you would want to work on or start with (if you are not currently in the classroom) and briefly discuss an actionable, detailed strategy for doing so. (Note: saying you will communicate better is not an actionable, detailed strategy.)
Part II: Choose EITHER prompt 1 OR 2
1- If you already work with a Paraeducator, watch this video Supervision of Paraeducators (https://fod.infobase.com/OnDemandEmbed.aspx?token=44759&wID=102587&loid=0&w=420&h=315&lti=1&ConKey=102587&TitleName=Supervision+of+Paraeducators&ThumbnailUrl=https%3a%2f%2fcdnsecakmi.kaltura.com%2fp%2f1067292%2fsp%2f106729200%2fthumbnail%2fentry_id%2f0_zma8l8fq%2fversion%2f100001%2fwidth%2f252).  Choose one of Dr. French’s 7 leadership functions you want to refine or implement and briefly discuss an actionable, detailed strategy for doing so. (Note: saying you will communicate better is not an actionable, detailed strategy.)
2- If you don’t work with a Paraeducator, read this article: Roles and Responsibilities of Paraprofessionals: In Their Own Words( attached). Briefly discuss your thoughts regarding the 5 main themes in the results section.

How and why have certain Americans tended to view themselves and their nation as “exceptional”?  How has this notion shaped American culture, politics and economics?

In this module, you begin laying the foundation for your academic and professional success. Your efforts begin with a vision that includes your own definition of success. Your vision may vary from those of your colleagues, but this does not mean you have to take these first steps alone.
Walden University and the College of Nursing also have a vision and mission, which include helping you to make your own vision a reality. Members of your new academic community, such as faculty, support teams, and fellow students, can also be helpful. Current practitioners and other member of the professional community can also help you to clarify your vision.
This Module’s Discussion asks you to consider how the Walden mission and vision as well as the College of Nursing’s mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. You will also begin to identify individuals and teams who can help you along the way as you begin designing the “blueprint”—your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan—that will guide you toward your own vision for academic and professional success. Finally, you will explain the importance of networking and how it can help you achieve your professional and academic goals.
Post a brief introduction of yourself to your colleagues. Include an explanation as to how Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Also include an explanation for how the Walden MSN Program Outcomes and perspectives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Finally, explain why networking is important and how it may help you achieve your professional and academic goals.

Rather than focus on the treatment of chronic disease, policies that influence population health tend to emphasize prevention and wellness; the reduction or elimination of waste and the eradication of health disparities based on race, ethnicity, language, income, gender, sexual orientation, disability and other factors. The reasoning is that good health belongs to the whole, not just an individual. (New York State Dept. of Health, n.d.) 
Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen has a stake in healthcare policy decisions. Hence, it is little wonder why healthcare items become such high-profile components of presidential agendas. It is also little wonder why they become such hotly debated agenda items.
Consider a topic (mental health, HIV, opioid epidemic, pandemics, obesity, prescription drug prices, or many others) that rises to the presidential level. How did the current and previous presidents handle the problem? What would you do differently?
Reference:
New York State Department of Health. (n.d.). Making New York the healthiest state: Achieving the triple aim. Retrieved June 21, 2021 from https://www.health.ny.gov/events/population_health_summit/docs/what_is_population_health.pdf
Post your response to the discussion question: Consider a population health topic that rises to the presidential agenda level. Which social determinant most affects this health issue? How did two recent presidents handle the problem? What would you do differently?

As healthcare organizations become more complex and our focus on the patient experience expands, nurses are leading and participating in evidence-based practice (EBP) projects and quality improvement (QI) initiatives with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
In what ways is EBP applied where you work or where you do clinicals?
Discuss the findings of a QI initiative or study from either your clinical location/hospital website or another online source.
CAN BE 1 PARAGRAPH ONLY .
In order to receive full credit, you will need to clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets AND cite at least one scholarly reference in your response.

Use the criteria headings on this outline as the headings on your properly APA-formatted paper.
Headings:  Name, Author, Endorsement, Operation, Aesthetic, Purpose, Clinical Decision Making, Safety, Privacy/Security, User, Distribution, Credibility, Relevance.
Provide one example of an appropriate patient or clinical scenario for this app. The example should include the following details:
Patient Age-population (Adult)
Clinical Setting (Hospital)
History of Present Illness and Diagnosis or Condition
Provide a detailed description of the app in your example. When will the app be implemented (at the Point-of -care or elsewhere)? Who will use the app? What potential impact will it have on the scenario? Incorporate the critical appraisal information from the previous section. Provide one evidence-based scholarly article as a reference to support clinical decision-making.
Create this assignment using Microsoft Word. The length of the paper is to be between 1000 and 1500 words, excluding the title page and the reference list.

Informatics for Quality Improvement Project
The student will develop a paper that explores an actual problem and analyzes implementation considerations, challenges, and strategies that may be useful for practitioners.
            Example topics in major areas of emphasis include, but are not limited to:
1.    Patient Care Delivery: enhanced efficiency of nurse access to relevant and timely patient information, reduction of nursing errors during patient care delivery, challenges with technology integration or limiting system failures, ergonomics of information technology, or evaluation of new technology impacting patient care.
2.    Consumer Health Promotion: best practice for synthesizing and delivering consumer health information, optimal technologies to deliver consumer health promotion, determining factors for consumer health information collected in relation to communicating with the patient, social media use, or protecting against data breaches.
3.    Information Technology and Education: utilization of information technology to further nurse education, use of simulation, use of social media, and information literacy.
4.    Nursing Research and Informatics: defining nursing data sets (nomenclatures and terminologies), enhancing patient confidentiality (privacy and security), or best practice to organize and disseminate data.
You will identify one, or more, potential informatics-based solutions to the problem identified.
The paper should be formatted according to APA guidelines n.
Here is a suggested format for the paper:
Introduction
Problem         
•    Define and/ or describe the problem
•    Detail the significance and impact of the problem
o    Who are the stakeholders? (Examples: executive leadership, clinical departments, IT department, medical staff, legal counsel)
o    Why is the problem important to the stakeholders?
Gap Analysis
•    Resources used to gather data regarding the problem
o    Include the Healthcare Management Information System (HMIS) accessed (Example: Electronic Health Record – EHR)
•    Stipulate the steps that were taken to investigate the problem
Workflow Analysis
•    Visual depiction (step by step) of the existing process or practice (a process map) – this must be included!
•    Analyze and describe where inefficiencies, breakdown of process, and/ or communication occurs
o    Differentiate Value Added versus Non-Value Added Steps
Proposed Solution
•    Outline the proposed solution(s)
o    Clearly outline what you are trying to accomplish; compelling vision
o    Define the technology(ies)
o    Articulate how the technology(ies) will facilitate workflow and/ or transform practice to improve patient outcomes
o    Specify at least three (3) data points to be measured and the monitoring tool that will be used to show opportunities for improvement, modifications, and/ or sustainability
•    Explain implementation issues and challenges for the identified informatics prioritiy(ies) (Example: ethical, human and financial resources, coordination with other entities, composition of the workflow redesign team)
•    Framework: Performance Improvement (PI) Model
•    Define and describe selected PI Model including rationale for its fit to the proposed solution (Examples: Waterfall Model; PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Act; Six Sigma)
•    Role of the leaders in introducing a change strategy
o    Consider organizational readiness, strengths, and barriers
o    Suggested model for leading organizational change (Examples: Kotter’s 8-step process, Lewin’s Change Management Model) including rationale for selection
o    Proposed communication plan
Summary: Final recommendations and conclusions

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. This is the scientific method adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).
You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements. For this assessment, you will not be implementing all of the PDSA cycle. Instead, you are being asked to interview a health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace. This interview, in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.
It would be an excellent choice to complete the PDSA Cycle activity prior to developing the report. The activity consists of four questions that create the opportunity to check your understanding of best practices related to each stage of the PDSA cycle. The information gained from completing this formative will promote your success with the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification report. This will take just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.
Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.
Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
Describe change theories and a leadership strategy that could help develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
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.
This assessment will introduce the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model to create change in an organization. By interviewing a colleague of your choice, you will begin gathering information about an interprofessional collaboration problem that your colleague is experiencing or has experienced. You will identify a change theory and leadership strategies to help solve this problem.
his assessment is the first of three related assessments in which you will gather interview information (Assessment 2); design a proposal for interdisciplinary problem-solving, (Assessment 3); and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement plan could be implemented in a place of practice (Assessment 4). At the end of the course, your interviewee will have a proposal plan based on the PDSA cycle that he or she could present to stakeholders to address an interdisciplinary problem in the workplace.
For this assessment, you will need to interview a health care professional such as a fellow learner, nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational problem that he or she is experiencing or has experienced, or an area where they are seeking improvements. Consult the Interview Guide [DOCX] Download Interview Guide [DOCX]for an outline of how to prepare and the types of information you will need to complete this project successfully.
Remember: this is just the first in a series of three assessments.
For this assessment, you will report on the information that you collected in your interview, analyzing the interview data and identifying a past or current issue that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach. This could be an issue that has not been addressed by an interdisciplinary approach or one that could benefit from improvements related to the interdisciplinary approach currently being used. You will discuss the interview strategy that you used to collect information. Your interview strategy should be supported by citations from the literature. Additionally, you will start laying the foundation for your Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal (Assessment 3) by researching potential change theories, leadership strategies, and collaboration approaches that could be relevant to issue you have identified. Please be certain to review the scoring guide to confirm specific required elements of this assessment. Note that there are differences between basic, proficient and distinguished scores.
When submitting your plan, use the Interview and Issue Identification Template [DOCX],  Download Interview and Issue Identification Template [DOCX],which will help you to stay organized and concise. As you complete the template, make sure you use APA format for in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that are informing your plan, as well as for the reference list at the end.
Additionally, be sure to address 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.
Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
Describe potential change theories and leadership strategies that could inform an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could facilitate establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
Communicate with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, and using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Length of submission: Use the provided template. Most submissions will be 2 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.
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.
APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.