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Week 7: Applying and Sharing Evidence to Practice After the data have been analyzed, conclusions are made regarding what the findings mean. Then, this information must be shared with your healthcare team. 1. Choose one of the articles from the Week 5 RRL assignment, and discuss the findings. Would you apply the evidence found to your practice? Explain your answer. 2. Translating research into practice is the final and most important step in the research process. Review information you found y...

Week 6: Data Results and Analysis No unread replies.No replies. This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcomes (COs). • CO1 Examine the sources of evidence that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO 7) • CO2 Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (POs 4 and 8) After the data are collected, it is time to analyze the results! 1. Discuss one of the four basic rules for understanding result...

Week 5: Data Collection & Measurement 4949 unread replies. replies. Access the following information. You may read the PDF online or download it. American Nurses Association. (2014). Fast facts: The nursing workforce 2014: Growth, salaries, education, demographics & trends. ANA. 1. Review these facts, & describe what the results say about this sample of the nursing workforce. 2. What do you believe was the intent of the researcher who designed the survey? 3. The next process for our study ...

NR439 Week 4 Discussion, Ethical and Legal Issues An ethical responsibility is acting about principles and values that according to given standards within a field. “Ethical responsibilities are mandates that are clearly spelled out in the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct….It can be helpful to think of ethical responsibilities as being very similar to legal responsibilities” (Feeney & Freeman 2016). An ethical dilemma is a situation where a choice needs to be made between two choices, but nei...

Week 3: Research Problems, Designs, and Sample This week, we will discuss the research design and sample for your nursing clinical issue. The research design flows from the research question and outlines the plan for the study that will answer the research question. The design identifies the major components of the study. It is important to remember that there is no one best design for a research study. 1. After you review the designs, describe which research design you would expect to find wh...

Week 2: Search for Literature & Levels of Evidence 3737 unread replies.9494 replies. 1. Reflect on your practice, & identify a significant nursing clinical issue or change project that you would like to search for evidence in online sources. Formulate searchable, clinical questions in the PICO(T) format for your nursing clinical issue. 2. Next, review the guidelines for the PICOT Assignment due Week 3. Use your PICOT elements to search for one report of a single, original study that has been ...

NR 439 Week 1 Discussion, Role of Research and the Importance of the Searchable Clinical Question This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO5 Recognize the role of research findings in evidence-based practice. (POs 7 and 8) The practice of nursing is deeply rooted in nursing knowledge, and nursing knowledge is generated and disseminated through reading, using, and creating nursing research. Professional nurses rely on research findings to info...

NR 443 DISCUSSION QUESTION WITH ANSWERS WEEK 1 TO 8

NR443 Week 8 Discussion, Future Directions • What future concerns are likely to impact public health? • How do you see global health concerns impacting your community? • Identify one way that you can implement population health in your community or workplace. Hello Professor and class, The biggest challenge is the continued failure of decision-makers to reach a consensus on how to address the major health care problems facing the country. Historically, disparities in access to hea...

NR_443 Week 7 Discussion, Healthcare Policy • Provide a brief overview of the article, and include the URL link. • As a healthcare professional, has this raised any ethical questions or concerns for you? • How can a community health nurse (CHN) be involved as a change agent for related healthcare policies? While millions of people have gained coverage through the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), state decisions not to implement the expansion leave many witho...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health For this week’s discussion I chose to look at the My Health tab on the EPA (2018) website. The 2014 risk for cancer due to inhalation of toxins in the air in Williamson County, Texas is 32 per million. One surprising thing I learned is that the largest contributor to toxic air in my county are secondary sources at 67.3% and that is a measure of ambient concentrations of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. This is important information to hav...

Week 5: Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness Preparing for disasters or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. Visit the website . Review the steps for being prepared for a disaster. • As a community health nurse, what elements do you think are important to stress to the community? • How well is your community prepared for a potential outbreak or disaster? Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2014). Ready: Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed. Re...

NR_443 Week 5 Discussion, Disaster Preparedness Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. • Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years. o Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article. • Describe how your community was impacted. • Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness. Hurricane Irene impacted ...

NR443 Week 4 Discussion, Community Settings Community health nurses practice in a variety of settings. Choose one of the following CH settings, and describe what you have learned about the setting and the role(s) of the nurse in that setting (see Nies & McEwen, 2019, Chapters 30-34). Please do not choose school nursing for this discussion because your paper is on school nursing. • Home health nursing • Occupational health nursing • Forensic nursing • Hospice nursing Next study le...

NR443 Week 3 Discussion, Caring for Vulnerable Populations Choose one of the three attached case studies, and reflect on the vulnerable population that the case study portrays. Identify which case you chose. Discuss several risk factors that may impact health outcomes for the vulnerable population in your case study. Identify one agency in your community that can assist this vulnerable group and assess this agency in terms of the 4 A's (see the lesson). Discuss each of the A's separately t...

NR 443 Week 2 Discussion, Demographic and Epidemiological Assessment 1 For this discussion, you will collect assessment data about your city or county. This post will include information about demographics (general characteristics). You will then find epidemiological data (disease or health behavior rates) about one priority health problem in your community. I currently live in the town of West Orange. I’ve been there since 2000. According to the US Census Bureau, the population of West ...

Week 1: Determinants of Health This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO1) What are some factors that make some people healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020 identifies five determinants of health that influence the health of individuals and populations. Healthy People 2020 describes them as "a range of pe...

NR447 Week 8 Discussion Question, Closing the Loop 1. Compare your scores from Week 2 to Week 8. My score from week 2 was 46 and week 8 was 53. This course has assisted me in improvement in several areas but mostly in the leadership area. It has enhanced the qualities that I have as a leader and afforded me with the knowledge to apply the concepts, skills, decision making, communication skills that are essential to becoming a successful leader. 2. Describe how far have you come and how mu...

Week 7: Our Future Leaders 1 1 unread reply. 22 22 replies. In Huston’s (2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for 2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it? 1. Select one of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own leadership of nurses and nursing. This should promote a robust discussion as we come from different clinical and noncl...

NR_447 Week 6 Discussion Question, Civility in the Workplace Reflect on what you observed in the video as you answer the following: 1. Based on what you observed, what leadership skills should you, as Masaya’s preceptor, model for your fellow coworkers to promote his acceptance into the work-group or team. 2. Does incivility seem to be an issue in the scenario? 3. Describe any common themes you discovered among the article, the video and the Civility Index 4. Share how you may improve you...