Identify a specific evidence-based practice proposal topic for the capstone project.

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USE THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT AS SAMPLE AND SELECT THE SAME TOPIC IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT. 

TOPIC: CHILDWOOD OBESITY

Identify a specific evidence-based practice proposal topic for the capstone project. Consider the clinical environment in which you are currently working or have recently worked. The capstone project topic can be a clinical practice problem, an organizational issue, a quality improvement suggestion, a leadership initiative, or an educational need appropriate to your area of interest as well as your practice immersion (practicum) setting. Examples of the integration of community health, leadership, and an EBP can be found on the “Educational and Community-Based Programs” page of the Healthy People 2020 website.

Write a 750 word description of your proposed capstone project topic. Make sure to include the following:

  1. The problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need that will be the focus of the project
  2. The setting or context in which the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need can be      observed.
  3. A description providing a high level of detail regarding the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or      educational need.
  4. Impact of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need on the work environment, the      quality of care provided by staff, and patient outcomes.
  5. Significance of the problem,  issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and its implications to      nursing.
  6. A proposed solution to the identified project topic

You are required to retrieve and assess a minimum of 8 peer-reviewed articles.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

Identify the strategy, technique, skill, activity or method to further promote Health & Wellness in your life

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Health & Wellness Research Paper

A. Identify the strategy, technique, skill, activity or method to further promote Health & Wellness in your life. Choose a topic related to your future career, field of study, personal interest or something you just want to learn more about. There are two ways to choose your topic.

Choose a method, strategy, technique or activity to reduce, manage or eliminate stress.

Examples include, but are not limited to: Nutrition, meditation, physical activity,

art therapy, journal writing, anger management, support groups, pets, yoga, or music.

B. Your research paper needs to support the strategy, technique, skill, activity, method or theory that would be beneficial for Health & Wellness.

1.  Prepare a 3-5 page, typed, 12-point font, double-spaced, MLA or APA reference style summary of your research, including a reference page.

2.  Your references should be recent, research articles or book chapters, from professional and reliable sources. Your references must be more recent than the year 2004.

3.  All your sources must be referenced MLA or APA style (author, year, title, journal, volume, pages). For example: Taylor, S. E., Klein, L.C., Lewis, B. P. Gruenwald, T. L., Gurung, R. A. R., & Updegraff, J. A. (2000) Biobehaviroral responses to stress in females; Tend-and befriend, not fight-or-flight. Psychological Review, 107, 411-429.

4.  You need a minimum of 3 recent reliable references demonstrating how to increase health & wellness, reduce stress, etc..

After a brief one on one discussion about how to detect and enhance the responsiveness to the needs of a person having a stroke the family member can verbalize feelings of confidence in stroke detection mnemonic FAST and meaning.

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Reflect on a lesson you would like to teach to a friend or family member. Determine the level of your learning objectives using Bloom’s taxonomy. Construct three learning objectives containing appropriate active verbs. Identify a possible teaching strategy for each of your objectives. Indicate how you plan to measure each objective.

STROKE RECOGNITION

Learning Objective: After reading a handout, family member can properly recite the acronym used as a mnemonic to help detect and enhance responsiveness to the needs of a person having a stroke.

Measurement: When asked to recite and explain FAST family member is able to state (FAST) Facial drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulties and Time to call 911.

Teaching Strategy: Self instruction

Taxonomy: Cognitive

Learning Objective: After a brief one on one discussion about how to detect and enhance the responsiveness to the needs of a person having a stroke the family member can verbalize feelings of confidence in stroke detection mnemonic FAST and meaning.

Measurement: Question & Answer

Teaching Strategy: One on one discussion

Taxonomy: Affective

Learning Objective: After 30 minutes of teaching and demonstrations how to detect and enhance the responsiveness to the needs of a person having a stroke, the family member can perform a return demonstration on FAST mnemonic and stroke detection.

Measurement: Family member can perform return demonstration on how to enhance responsiveness to the needs of a person having a stroke and the mnemonic FAST.

Teaching Strategy: Demonstration and return demonstration

Taxonomy: Psychomotor

identify the general/societal and health care industry issues and the second phase deals with service area competitor issues.

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APA Format

500-700 words

You will select a service category and a service area and conduct an external environment and a service area competitor analysis for a new health care service for your selected hospital organization

Select a service category and a service area and conduct a complete external environment and service area competitor analysis for a new health care service.

-The project tends to have two phases – one is to identify the general/societal and health care industry issues and the second phase deals with service area competitor issues.

For this portion of the project, students should identify the general issues (legislative/political, economic, social/demographic, technological, and competitive; I recommend actual statistic facts and figures for this information) that affect all industries and organizations.

Some recommended sources to use for your external environment and service area competitor analysis.

https://www.census.gov/

http://www.city-data.com/

http://www.esri.com/data/esri_data/ziptapestry

Intro

following outline as an initial guide:

I. Specify the Service Category.

II. Delineate the Service Area.

o General

o Economic

o Demographic

o Psychographic

o Health Status

III. Perform a Service Area Structure Analysis.

o Threat of New Entrants

o Intensity of Rivalry

o Threat of Substitutes

o Power of Customers

o Power of Suppliers

What should the “culture and environment of safety” look like when preparing and administering medications?

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Provide your answers to the following questions in a 2-page paper. Use APA Editorial Format for all citations and references used.

  1. What should the “culture and environment of safety” look like when preparing and administering medications?
  2. Discuss a common breach of mediation administration.
  3. Identify three (3) factors that lead to errors in documentation related to medication administration.
  4. What can I do to prevent medication errors?

How      will increasing your level of education affect how you compete in the      current job market?

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In a reflection of 450-600 words, explain how you see yourself fitting into the following IOM Future of Nursing recommendations:

  1. Recommendation      4: Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by      2020.
  2. Recommendation      5: Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020.
  3. Recommendation      6: Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.

Identify your options in the job market based on your educational level.

  1. How      will increasing your level of education affect how you compete in the      current job market?
  2. How      will increasing your level of education affect your role in the future of      nursing?

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Generally define & describe the policy issue to be addressed

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Policy Analysis Paper

Purpose: To investigate & integrate knowledge of advanced nursing practice, scholarly

inquiry, & leadership by examining a policy at the level of clinical practice, health care

systems, or public/social health policy. Submit a paper between 7-10 pages

long excluding title page and reference pages. Paper must be organized according to the

guidelines below and should include all the identified sections as required. Paper must be

completed in APA format and contain current scholarly sources dated from 2010 until

current.

Introduction

3 points

▪ Generally define & describe the policy issue to be addressed.

▪ Identify the purpose of analysis, the targeted level of policy (i.e., clinical

practice, health care systems, or public/social health) & significance of topic.

▪ Identify questions the policy analysis is intended to address.

Background

3 points

▪ Provide details of the issue or problem, including its nature/scope, relevant

literature & history, & the context within which the issue exists.

▪ Describe existing policy addressing the issue, if any.

▪ Discuss strengths & shortcomings in existing policy.

▪ Identify & describe key stakeholders (individuals & groups) that are or will

be affected by the policy & why.

Analysis

9 points

▪ Identify alternative policies to achieve objectives.

▪ Establish/identify criteria that will be used for selection of “best” policy.

▪ Evaluate each alternative & its potential impact relative to the healthcare &

patient outcomes.

▪ Assess the trade-offs between alternatives.

Recommendations

6 points

▪ Based on the analysis, identify the “best” alternative to address the current

issue & policy situation.

▪ Provide rationale forselection.

▪ Describe possible strategies to implement selected alternative.

▪ Identify barriers to implementation of selected alternative.

▪ Describe methods to evaluate policy implementation.

Discussion

6 points

▪ Discuss analysis & recommendations relative to the original questions

identified, & the level of policy it is intended to address (i.e., clinical

practice, health care systems, or public).

▪ Identify limitations of analysis.

▪ Discuss implications for practice, education, research, & policy-making.

Conclusion

1.5 points

▪ Summarize findings & recommendations of analysis

▪ Identify questions to be addressed in future studies or policy analyses.

References

1.5 points

▪ List all references cited in paper. Must be completed in APA format.

Appendices ▪ Table displaying results of analysis, including, for example, a list of

alternatives & the degree to which each alternative may be most

effective. Other tables & appendices as needed to support analysis.

Description   of the clinical manifestations and assessments

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Pancreatic Cancer

Written Research Project Guidelines:

 

Select a cancer either in the adult or pediatric   population to research( Pancreatic   Cancer ) You   will write a paper based on the rubric below. This assignment is an opportunity   for you to explore a particular cancer of interest to you. Its purpose is to   assess your understanding and demonstrate your practical application of the   pathophysiologic processes that occur in diseases. This comprehensive paper   will be 10 pages in length and should include the following components:

 

Abstract

10%

 

Introduction

10%

 

Pathophysiology   of the disease

10%

 

Description   of the clinical manifestations and assessments

10%

 

Diagnostic   Studies/ Laboratories

10%

 

Clinical   Management/ Treatment Modalities

10%

 

Evaluation   of Treatments

10%

 

Patient   Education and Safety (QSEN)

10%

 

Choose one   case study related to the disease   process. Articles must be less than 5 years old, from a scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

10%

 

APA format   (title page, headers, heading, in-text citations, reference page)

10%

 

TOTAL

100%

Specific writing requirements

REWRITES ARE NOT ALLOWED

  1. All paper submitted must be in APA format according to      Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th      ed.). 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5. Use precise APA format that includes correct punctuation,      spelling, sentence structures, and references.
  2. Must include at least 5 peer-reviewed references,      including McCance, K. L., &      Huether, S, E. (2015). 7th ed and Publication Manual American Psychological      Association (APA) (6th ed.).

3. Type must be Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced.

4. Use the spell check function on the computer (will help with #1).
5. Use a COVER page following APA guidelines 

6. Paper must be sent via email on due date. Papers will be submitted to Turn It In for evaluation of plagiarism. A similarity index of 20% or above will result in the paper receiving a failing grade.

7. Papers turned in past the due date will receive an automatic deduction of 10 points with the grade to start with a B (89).

If page numbers are limited, pages that exceed the limit will NOT be read and further points may be removed if critical content was included on the excess pages.

Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost.

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Imagine that you are the clinic manager of an urgent care center. Recently, your center has seen an increase in complaints regarding long wait times, inadequate or incomplete information from staff during visits, and the relatively small number of insurance types accepted at the facility.

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you:

  1. Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support your response with examples of the successful application your chosen quality initiatives.
  2. Defend your position on the decision to accept Medicare or Medicaid as potential pay sources for your urgent care center. Provide support with at least two (2) examples that illustrate your position.
  3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Provide a summary/conclusion about this experience/assignment and what you learned about nursing care models.

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  1. Read your text, Finkelman (2016), pp- 111-116.
  2. Observe staff in delivery of nursing care provided. Practice settings may vary depending on availability.
  3. Identify the model of nursing care that you observed. Be specific about what you observed, who was doing what, when, how and what led you to identify the particular model.
  4. Write a 5-7 page paper.
  5. You are required to complete the assignment using the Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version)
  6. Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including your text) related to the nursing care model you observed in the practice setting.
  7. Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including your text) related to a nursing care model that is different from the one you observed in the practice setting.
  8. Discuss your observations about how the current nursing care model is being implemented. Be specific.
  9. Recommend a different nursing care model that could be implemented to improve quality of nursing care, safety and staff satisfaction. Be specific.
  10. Provide a summary/conclusion about this experience/assignment and what you learned about nursing care models.
  11. Write your paper using APA format using Microsoft Office 2010 or later.
  12. Plagiarism free because your paper will automatically load on to Turn-it-in when you submit.