Explain each of the following programs in 1-2 paragraphs each:

• Virtual Dementia Tour
• Music and Memory
• Snoezelen rooms
• Hand in Hand dementia training
• Certified Dementia Practitioner
• Validation therapy
• Reminiscence therapy
• essentiALZ certification
• It’s Never 2 Late

For each program, describe a scenario in an assisted/senior living organization where its tenets could be applied. How would the program help a senior with dementia? Which behaviors would be alleviated, and how?

Assessing Older Adults

1. A nurse is about to create a teaching plan for an older adult patient that focuses on health promotion and risk reduction.

a. Which areas of health promotion and counseling are specific to the older adult?

b. Which screening tools are appropriate in the assessment of older adults?

L.C. is a 76 year old female. She had a right total hip replacement 3 days ago, without any complications.

PMH- HTN and Type 2 DM. Diet- 2 Gm Na 1800 Cal ADA diet Activity- OOB with assistance;

PT 2 x/day PRN- Oxycontin 5 mg po q 4 hrs prn pain.  

11 am-Your patient c/o 8/10 right hip pain. You give her oxycontin 5 mg po for pain.

1120 am- The CNA enters the room to assist with her am care. When she is finished she neglects to place the call bell within the patients reach.

1130 am- your patient needs to use the restroom and falls when she attempts to get OOB. You find the patient lying on the floor screaming in pain. Of course she fell on her newly operated hip.

1. Please include your initial assessment of the fall.

2.Your nursing interventions that you would implement after the fall?

3.Any SBAR report that you may need to give to the nursing supervisor, MD, or anyone you feel you must notify;

4. What treatment do you think will be ordered in this situation?

If the article was not current, what would your approach be? Why is a basic understanding of evidence-based research appraisal important to nursing?

Discuss how you would summarize your understanding of how to appraise evidence for your co-workers.

Your adult family member has been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia. They know you are studying pathophysiology and want to know more about this type of anemia. 1. Describe the etiology and pathogensis. 2. What symptoms may your family member have had to lead to the diagnosis? (give at least 2) 3. What are treatment options?

Identify individual, group, and organizational factors associated with employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and engagement?

Please include references

Thank you

What specific medical problems can CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) used to treat?

1. Explain the effects of hypocalcemia in the body. Why muscle cells (cardiac vs skeletal) are affected differently? Explain the symptoms seen in the heart and compare them to skeletal muscle symptoms.

10. What is a myocardial infarction? Explain the process of how a myocardial infarction in the left ventricle can lead to congestive heart failure?

As a hospital nurse, you fully understand the importance of spirituality in your practice. During your night shift assessments, patients frequently engage you in spiritual conversations that have a definite impact on their perception of treatment. Your current patient, a 71-year-old retired nurse, will undergo bilateral, above-the-knee amputations tomorrow morning in response to her gangrenous feet.

1. What are the elements of spirituality?

2. Describe how a nurse might pray with a patient.

SURGICAL NURSING FOR MIDWIVES I ASSIGNMENT ON INFLAMMATION

A 50-year-old woman is admitted into your ward with the diagnosis of cellulitis (inflammation) of the right leg.

1. Describe the process of inflammation under the following headings:

1. Vasodilation                                  
2. Increased vascular permeability      
3. Leukocytic cellular infiltration         

2. State FIVE (5) CARDINAL signs and symptoms of inflammation.

Please describe two health disparities which are specific to the Hispanic/Latinx communities.  How might cultural factors play a role in these disparities?