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What are your actions to ensure culturally competent care? What patient information is pertinent to foster culturally competent care?
What questions should you ask yourself in this situation? What teaching (and to whom) could be involved in resolving the situation?
Define the terms broad-spectrum and narrow-spectrum antibiotics. List factors that determine which antibiotics are ordered.
Hospitalized patients frequently require antibiotic therapy. Identify a patient in the clinical setting who is receiving antibiotic therapy.
Why the patient has failed multiple agents prior to this prescription, the nursing case manager.
The patient's physician recommends checking blood pressure three times per week to determine efficacy of the patient's antihypertensive medications.
The nursing case manager is concerned about the increase in the number of falls. In order to identify those people at greater risk of readmission, the nurse.
In synthesizing data for a disease management program, the nursing case manager uses which source of data triangulation to validate a conclusion?
The nursing case manager discovers the patient lives alone, has no support at home and lacks dexterity to perform the infusion. What is the nurse's next step?
Determine two internal and two external potential barriers to your project. What steps can be taken to mitigate these barriers?
Explore several different perspectives on the strategic planning process. How do these approaches compare with the approach described in this chapter?
Discuss the pathophysiology of the Hypertension, typical clinical manifestations, evaluation methods used to monitor hypertension and best-practice treatment.
Compare compliance and collaboration. Compare and contrast patient education in the past with that practiced today.
Describe your experience with this insurance plan. Identify 2-3 problems with the plan. Identify 2-3 recommendations for improvements to the plan.
What are some resiliency factors that can help some families recover from crisis while others remain in the disorganization phase?
Develop a meal plan for an athlete for 3 days, including a day of competition. What type of athlete are you meal prepping for?
How do you think living under Mongol rule centuries ago might have helped make this kind of brutality acceptable to modern-day Russian culture?
What forces do you think might motivate a competitor to throw caution to the wind and buy and take unproven supplements sold as ergogenic aids?
What are three nursing interventions when treating someone with MARS? What are the nutritional changes with tracheostomy?
Include any appropriate environmental or nutritional interventions and discuss any appropriate assistive devices for this particular population.
Pick a concept of nursing and provide a short description of the selected theory and your rationale for choosing the theory.
Although standards put forth by Meaningful Use initiative are good place to start, why are the initiatives not enough to advance best practices in all settings?
What will you do to help you and your colleagues succeed? Put your best foot forward, but always present an authentic picture of yourself.
Discussion Post: Research & Evidence Based Practice- Discuss the credibility of the sources and the research/researchers findings.
In one page, describe your philosophy of nursing. It can also include your attitudes about working in healthcare facilities, working as part of a team.