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Discuss current research that links patient safety outcomes to ADN and BSN nurses.
Topic 3 DQ 1

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Discuss current research that links patient safety outcomes to ADN and BSN nurses. Based on some real-life experiences, do you agree or disagree with this research?
Topic 3 DQ 2

What is the difference between a DNP and a PhD in nursing? Which of these would you choose to pursue if you decide to continue your education to the doctoral level?

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Analyze the systems errors and/or human factors errors that should be considered with regard to this safety risk.
Application: Patient Safety Risks

As noted in the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, “It may be part of human nature to err, but it is also part of human nature to create solutions, find better alternatives, and meet the challenges ahead” (Institute of Medicine, 1999, p. 15).

What are the most common—or most significant—risks to patient safety? How do these risks vary in different health care settings or with disparate groups of patients? What can be done to address these risks? You will explore these questions and more in this Application Assignment.

To prepare for this Application:

Begin by brainstorming types of health care organizations and groups of patients (e.g., geriatric patients requiring chronic care, pediatric patients admitted for acute care). Identify a particular type of setting and/or patient population to help you pinpoint your focus for the following step.
Review the National Patient Safety Goals, the CDC’s NHSN Web site, and the information on patient safety concerns presented in the other Learning Resources. Select a specific patient safety risk (e.g., patient falls, medication reconciliation) to focus on for this assignment.
Analyze the systems errors and/or human factors errors that should be considered with regard to this safety risk.
Reflect on related insights that could be gained from high-reliability organizations. What approaches do these organizations use that might be applicable within a health care organization?
Consider the strategies and tools (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean) that could be used to assess and reduce this particular risk.
Evaluate the potential benefits of patient and family

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As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
Mock Individual Assessment (Rough Draft)

Create a mock forensic assessment report based on a patient in a selected vignette. Provide your diagnostic impressions based on the DSM-5 criteria. Name the file M4_A2_LastName_LASA_Draft.doc and submit the paper to the M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Your instructor will provide feedback by critiquing the rough draft so that you can make corrections and additions to your final submission due in M5 Assignment 2 LASA.

For this assignment you are to:

Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3.
Use the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3 for this assignment.

Next, create and document a set of mock interview questions and potential referral questions to ask your client and yourself. You can determine the questions in relation to the case vignette that you choose.

You might also want to consider some of the example referral questions listed below.

Analyze all the information provided in the case vignette and begin to formulate a hypothesis as to why the individual needs referral.

Example Referral Questions:

As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
What are your assessment options in working with the client?
What standards and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in forensic settings? Select from the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
How will you recognize and evaluate your client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?
What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your treatment recommendations?
What is the case scenario you have selected?
What is the reason for referral?
What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and the significance they have in this case?
What is the mental status of your client? Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental status examination.
What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
What tests are appropriate to use in your forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one objective personality test, and one projective test.
What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
How will you present your impressions of the client?
Write a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report.

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A GROUP OF MEDICAL RESEARCHERS INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF DRUG X ON LOWERING CHOLESTEROL LEVELS IN A GROUP OF MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 50 AND 70 YEARS OLD. THE RESEARCHERS DID THE FOLLOWING EXPERIMENT AND OBTAINED THE INDICATED RESULTS: ONE GROUP OF 150 MEN TOOK A TABLET CONTAINING DRUG X FOR 3 WEEKS – 95 OF THESE MEN DECREASED THEIR CHOLESTEROL LEVELS BY AT LEAST 10% (THREE MEN FROM THIS GROUP DROPPED OUT OF THE STUDY).

1. What is the correct sequence of steps in the scientific method?

Make observations and ask a question
Analyze the data
Develop a hypothesis
Share the results with other scientists
Design and perform an experiment to test the hypothesis

a) I>II > III > IV > V

b) III > I > V > II > IV

c) V> IV > III > II > I

d) I> III > V >II > IV

e) V > II > I > III > IV

2. You have formulated a hypothesis: “Apples contain more vitamin C than oranges.”

To test your hypothesis you measure vitamin C levels in 20 oranges and 20 apples from trees that were grown in the same orchard under the same environmental conditions (temperature, rain, sunlight). This experiment was conducted twice. The control in the experiment is__________________________________.

a) type of soil, temperature, amount of rain and sunlight in the orchard

b) vitamin C levels

c) oranges

d) apples

e) a large sample size and repeated experiment

***Use the following information to answer questions 3, 4,5 & 6 below***:

A group of medical researchers investigated the effects of Drug X on lowering cholesterol levels in a group of men between the ages of 50 and 70 years old. The researchers did the following experiment and obtained the indicated results: One group of 150 men took a tablet containing Drug X for 3 weeks – 95 of these men decreased their cholesterol levels by at least 10% (three men from this group dropped out of the study). Another group of 150 men was given a tablet with no added Drug X for 3 weeks – 10 of these men decreased their cholesterol levels by at least 10% (two men from this group dropped out of the study).

3. Which of the following is the best hypothesis for this experiment?

a) Will drug X lower cholesterol levels in men between the age of 50 and 70 years?

b) Drug X will lower cholesterol levels in men.

c) Since high cholesterol levels significantly increases several health risks for men, drug X is most likely beneficial.

d) Men between the age of 50 and 70 years will have reduced cholesterol levels if they take drug X over a 3 week period.

e) There is no significant difference in cholesterol levels between men that take drug X and those that don’t take it.

4. Which of the following was the control group in this experiment?

a) The amount of Drug X contained in the tablet

b) The number of participants in each group at the end of the experiment

c) The group of participants that received tablets containing Drug X

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Describe any ethical challenges that have arisen as you have researched your social issue that may be related to the stakeholders involved.
TOPIC: PRISONS AS MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTIONS

USE ORDER 323935, 323299, 324577, AND 325281

PART1: begin by reminding the class of your final project in a brief sentence or two. Next, identify the stakeholders (and potential stakeholders) of your chosen issue. Then identify any ethical considerations you believe may be of importance for your project, particularly as related to the sources you have identified for your analysis.

Describe any ethical challenges that have arisen as you have researched your social issue that may be related to the stakeholders involved. Be sure to include your references, in either APA format or with direct links to the sources.

PART2: In response to your classmates, comment with attention to what ethical considerations might be relevant for the research they are conducting.
PEER RESPONSE: I chose prisons as mental health institutions. The issue being addressed is how prisons are taking over the roles of mental health institutions. This issue is important because prisons are becoming drop off zones for those with mental health issues, rather than them being taken to proper institutions.
The stakeholders would be the corrections systems and the government (state facilities). Ethical considerations would be the proper medical treatment of the mentally ill within the corrections systems, proper education of the public and the healthcare providers of mental illness, and the humane treatment of the mentally ill when incarcerated. Human Rights Activists have started to protest for the humane treatment and rehabilitation of those incarcerated and to act for mentally ill to be free of abuse and given proper healthcare when incarcerated. The issue has created an up rise with the Americans with Disabilities Act in order for prisons to start providing proper treatment while the mentally ill are incarcerated, along with the ability for rehabilitation, in order to help them recover and adapt back into society. This would also allow for safety while incarcerated and limit the time they spent in solitary confinement (for prevention of suicide, self-harm, etc.). With more knowledge about prison systems and the mentally ill available to society, the media showing how the number of mentally ill is on the rise in prisons and why utilizing a prison as a mental health facility is negative option can become more beneficial to reduce stigmas and numbers. Reporting to media on how largely the population is growing and how beneficial state hospitals really are is going to help fundamentally in the long run. According to the article, Report: Loss of Psychiatric Beds in NH, Nation is ‘Beyond Disastrous’,

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