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Diverse Populations, Age and Interprofessional Health Promotion Resources

This paper is a 3–4 page project that is an analysis of a condition and resources on one health topic for the adult population throughout the lifespan. Consider the influence of socioeconomic status (SES), culture, gender, ethnicity, and spirituality on mental and physical health, as it relates specifically to age in adulthood. What interprofessional resources exist for the topic? The adult lifespan, young, middle and older adult, related risks to the issue should be addressed. (This topic is for the adult population, not adolescents). Are there interventions that benefit the outcome? Consider physiological, psychological and/ or iatrogenic risks. Epidemiological support should be included in the paper.

Be creative in how you address the Assignment. You may choose a specific health topic, social health issue, a health condition or create a family scenario. Consider life transitions and role change. Be sure to include behaviors affecting the risks for the issue or topic, addressing this across the adult lifespan. Again, resources on interprofessional collaboration should be clear and supported with evidence based sources. Analysis of health promotion issues and interprofessional collaboration covers all aspects of nursing. Master’s-prepared nurse educators, leaders, nurse practitioners and all specialty nursing fields are contributors to health promotion in populations across the life span. This Assignment is focused on the adult. You should choose a topic that affects your area of specialty focus as it relates to health promotion and epidemiology.

APA 7 Format/ 3 peer reviewed references

Liability Discussion

Find a news article (not an article from a lawyer’s website) on a medical error. Summarize the case, and discuss how the error could have happened, . Include the Hippocratic oath and what it means to you. What is the difference between maleficence and negligence? Who accepts the responsibility and the liability in a medical error? What outside sources exist to help prevent, or help in reporting medical errors?

Some examples of cases with medical errors (do not limit yourself to just these, you can find your own):

Faith LeGrand

Jessica Santilian

Benjamin Houghton

Willie King

Donald Church

Part 1 250 words The nursing process is commonly used to manage change or to problem solve. 

• Using the nursing process, apply the steps of the nursing process (assessment, analysis and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) to describe your change topic to your peers. 
• You are required to use 1 scholarly resource in addition to your textbook
• Part 2
• Change Description 
  • Change Implications for Nursing 
  • Change Impact on Quality of Care and Safety Concerns for Patients 
  • Implementation Plan for Change 

In this section, you are to describe the activities and methods that will be used to measure short-, medium- and long-term outcomes. Here is where you will use a series of logic models.

What is the project?

• How will you divide the following tasks?
  • What are the possible INPUTS (concrete things that could allow the program to be implemented) for this program?
  • What are the OUTPUTS of this program, needs assessment or evaluation?
    • Describe the activities associated with the program, needs assessment or evaluation (actual service to be delivered)
    • Describe the target population: type of participant(s) for the service, and their level of participation with the program, needs assessment or evaluation
  • Process Evaluation
    • Consider how you are assessing the ways in which the ACTIVITIES described above will actually be implemented.
    • What are some types of data that will be used to assess activities?
    • Consider how you are assessing who is PARTICIPATING in the program, needs assessment or evaluation and to what degree they are participating.
    • What are some types of data you are using to assess participation?
  • Outcomes and Outcome Evaluation
    • Describe the short-term outcome(s) (e.g., learning)
      • What are the types of data that will be used to assess this outcome(s)?
    • Describe medium-term outcome(s) (e.g., behavior)
      • What are the types of data that will be used to assess this outcome(s)?
    • Describe long-term outcome(s) (e.g., conditions)
      • What are the types of data that will be used to assess this outcome(s)?

Include the following:

• Full description of evaluation methods (e.g., focus groups, observations, self-completion surveys, face-to-face interviews, etc…)
• Who will take part in the evaluation (numbers and characteristics) and details of any sampling that will be undertaken
• How data will be analyzed

Create a 3-5-page annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best practices addressing one of the health care problems or issues in the Assessment Topic Areas media piece faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Introduction

In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and your plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing health care environment. Being adept at research will help you find the information you need. For this assessment, you will review the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues to research a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
  • Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.
• Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
  • Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.
  • Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
  • Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.
• Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
  • Summarize a health care problem or issue and describe a personal interest in it and experience with it.
  • Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references. 

Instructions

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

For this assessment, research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 3. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking.

1. View the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues in the media piece to research. Write a brief overview of the selected topic. In your overview:
   • Summarize the health care problem or issue.
   • Describe your interest in the topic.
   • Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
2. Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to health care issue or problem.
   • Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
     • You will want to access the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide related to your degree (found at the NHS Learner Success Lab) for tips to help you in your search.
   • Use keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.
3. Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find.
   • Determine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.
   • Determine if the publication is current.
   • Determine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
4. Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
   • Identify the purpose of the article.
   • Summarize the information.
   • Provide rationale for inclusion of each article.
   • Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
   • Write your annotated bibliography in a paragraph form. The annotated bibliography should be approximately 150 words (1–3 paragraphs) in length.
   • List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography. 
   • Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.
5. Summarize what you have learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
   • Summarize what you learned from your research in a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper.
   • List the main points you learned from your research.
   • Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.

Module 5 Discussion – Fraud or Abuse 

Directions: Bioethics and life support of two of the most controversial topics in the more recent history of healthcare cases. Some have presented issues on fraudulent and improper billing, as well as false statements to protect bioethical issues.

Using the readings this week, summarize your thoughts on fraud and abuse. Find a legal case or reference in support or refute the case of fraud or abuse (or some form or fraud or abuse, such as negligence). Defend your response. In your response post, respond to an opposing viewpoint.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a health & medical question and need support to help me learn.

Module 5 Discussion – Fraud or Abuse

Directions: Bioethics and life support of two of the most controversial topics in the more recent history of healthcare cases. Some have presented issues on fraudulent and improper billing, as well as false statements to protect bioethical issues.

Using the readings this week, summarize your thoughts on fraud and abuse. Find a legal case or reference in support or refute the case of fraud or abuse (or some form or fraud or abuse, such as negligence). Defend your response. In your response post, respond to an opposing viewpoint. (Submit 1 page Due date: 9/4/20221, 11:59PM)

Module 05 Course Project – Procedures for Compliance

Module 05 Content

It’s time to describe the monitoring tools for your two compliance plans in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility where you are the Compliance Officer.

Your assignment is to write a 2-3 page section describing the monitoring tools for each compliance plan. (That means a total of 4-6 pages for the two plans; you can write them in one Word document.)

Then, create a 1-page procedure based on one of your monitoring tools. Monitoring tools you should cover for each plan should relate to the policies and procedures you developed in previous modules.

You chose policies/procedures under the key compliance areas of Compliance Standards, High-Level Responsibility, Education, Communication, Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety), Enforcement/Discipline, and Response/Prevention. (Check them out if you forget! Remember, you may have written about different policies/procedures for the two different compliance plans.)

Note: you are required to include research references throughout your compliance plan – for a total of 12 references for the whole project. That means one or two references per each monitoring tools section for your two compliance plans.)

I’m studying and need help with a Nursing question to help me learn.

Your patient is a 23-year-old female with a history of headaches. This morning she was experiencing a really bad headache as her boyfriend was driving her to the university. He thought she was sleeping and by the time they got to the school, 45 minutes later, she was not waking up. She was diagnosed with a cerebral aneurysm and you are taking care of her in the Neurological ICU.

• What testing do you expect to be performed to diagnose brain death?
• What is the procedure when a patient is determined to be brain dead?
• Who should approach the family about organ donation?

Can you help me understand this Nursing question?

The concept of health and wellness differs greatly between people. Health can be the absence of disease, while wellness can imply a positive state of health in holism, encompassing the mental, emotional, spiritual, and even social aspects. Think about your own state of health. Do you consider yourself a healthy person? If so, what motivates you to be healthy? If not, what would motivate you to become so?