Course Project—Part 2 Instructional Unit: Goals, Objectives, and the Teaching Plans This week you will submit your instructional unit, which should include three lesson plans: one focused on patient education, one on family education, and one on staff development. Remember, your plans should demonstrate a logical approach to teaching, communicate what is to be taught and how, and outline how objectives are to be evaluated. […]

Scenario  Your CEO has informed you that the Hospital has been invited to appear on a local cable television news station to discuss the proposed QI plan and how it will be applied. You are instructed to create a presentation with narration to put on the television show. Instructions You may use any presentation tool you want, but your narration must specifically discuss how the […]

Case Study Evidence based practice in pediatric pharmacology entails integration of knowledge and skills at all levels of decision making. Initial weeks of encounter tend to determine the minimum working doses that can be tolerated by client with desired effects. This reduces side effects and ensures that the client receives the right dose to cause the desired effect. In this paper, the decision levels shall […]

The suppliers of legislative benefits are legislators, and their primary goal is to be re-elected. Thus, legislators need to maximize their chances for re-election, which requires political support. Legislators are assumed to be rational and to make cost-benefit calculations when faced with demands for legislation. However, the legislator’s cost-benefit calculations are not the cost-benefits to society of enacting particular legislation. Instead, the benefits are the […]

Week 2: Lesson Policy Making Process: How Nurses Can Make an Impact Introduction Last week, the course included an overview of policy, healthcare policy, and policy making. In addition key historical figures in nursing and their important contributions to the profession and to healthcare in general were reviewed. Finally, ethical principles were reviewed with application to healthcare policies and policy making. This week, you will […]

Week Two Assignment: Identification of Healthcare Policy Concern Guidelines and Grading Rubric Purpose In this course, the students will have the opportunity to identify a healthcare policy concern and community healthcare concern which can be improved with a change in policy, ordinance or the language in existing law. The outcome would be the potential for improved health for a population group. Students will present a proposed […]

Initial Post Instructions Evidence-based practice requires…evidence. The careful collection of evidence is the first job of every medical practitioner, not least the nurse, who has the most extensive and intimate contact with the patient. However, it does not stop with the nurse. Whatever your role – social worker, hospital administration, human services – whether your problem is the allocation of scarce resources, where to add […]

Week 5 Source Evaluation Worksheet First read the notes that begin on p. 2 of this handout and the table on p. 3. Then, complete the analysis for each of your sources. 1. Using APA format, identify the source and write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. A sample annotation can be found in the directions […]

Introduction and Alignment Lest you be left with the impression, after the previous two exercises, that you are learning a skill set you will never use, you are challenged in this exercise to write about how you would respond if an unexpected outbreak of disease or other health condition were to unexpectedly occur in the kind of workplace where you serve or expect to serve […]

#1 PHI-413V READ Topic 5 Overview to complete the assignment for this topic PHI-413V Topic 5 Overview Intervention and Ethical Decision-Making Different models of ethical decision-making suggest different steps and priorities, but the important thing to note is that all models are attempting to organize all of the relevant information in a case so that nothing is left out of consideration. Still, the way in […]