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Discuss why it is important to know the social history (marital status, tobacco use, drug use,...

Discuss why it is important to know the social history (marital status, tobacco use, drug use, living accommodations, etc.) of a patient. Does the social history effect the patient's health status both physical and/or mental.

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What term is used to describe the point in data analysis at which nothing new is...

What term is used to describe the point in data analysis at which nothing new is being revealed?

Select one:

a. Verbatim

b. Theme

c. Saturation

d. Reflexivity

e. Grounded theory

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Interview your Professional Nurse with these questions as your guide. All of these questions must be...

Interview your Professional Nurse with these questions as your guide. All of these questions must be addressed in the PowerPoint but you only need to submit the PowerPoint as your final file.

  1. Credentials [Initials of the person you have interviewed, degree of the interviewee, the role of the interviewee (such as AH, DNP, Nurse Educator) or (E.L., BSN, NICU charge nurse)]
  2. What are the aspects of leadership within your role?
  3. What are the skills and attributes needed in your role that help you to be successful? What does success mean to you in terms of your position?
  4. What are the challenges of this practice role that you have experienced?
  5. What are the advantages of this practice role that you perceive?
  6. What are some of the quality improvement processes that you are involved with or that are currently in place in your organization? What other QI projects need to be done and why? Are there any barriers to accomplishing these needed projects? If so, what are they, and what is the plan to move forward?
  7. What are the legislative issues and public policy issues affecting/impacting this role/practice?
  8. What are the opportunities for influencing public policy in this role?
  9. What are the social, political, cultural, and economic factors/trends recognized in this role?
  10. Summarize your interview, including your impression of the interviewee’s role.

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Ms. T, a 28 year old runway model has just been admitted to the rehab unit...

Ms. T, a 28 year old runway model has just been admitted to the rehab unit following an extensive stay at the burn unit in a local hospital. She was set on fire by her vengeful estranged husband 8 months ago and has spent many of those months in the hospital. She was burned about 54% of her body, including part of her face; the burn ranged from partial tissue loss to deep tissue loss. She also had contractures of her elbows, hands, and knees, which is why she was admitted to the rehab today. Some skin grafting has been done to part of her body. During admission data gathering, Ms. T. admitted to feeling worthless, guilty because she had been cheating on her husband before they broke up and he'd heard her tell her boyfriend on the phone that she'd married him for his money. She stated that she feels responsible for him killing himself after he burned her, that she should have done things differently. She stated that her famous "so-called friends" have abandoned her, that they don't even pick up her calls anymore. She said she'd heard that some people blame her for everything that happened. She expressed sadness that she'd lost her beauty, her friends, her job, her popularity, her good reputation, money, and even some of her family members. She says she doesn't see any point in continuing to live, that the health care professionals have done their best for her, but she'll still continue to look like a monster.

1. Write a SOAPIE note for this patient; 2 nursing diagnosis needed & address them separately, 1 goal, at least 6 interventions, evaluation.

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An employee of Riverside Family Practice is having difficulty getting all the faxed lab reports placed...

An employee of Riverside Family Practice is having difficulty getting all the faxed lab reports placed into patients' files each week. She decides to take the charts and faxed lab reports home over the weekend to get caught up on the filing. What are the legal implications for the employee and the practice due to this action? What are the ethical implications?

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Doctor's order :Diphenhydramine HCL 25 mg P.O.B.I.D.P.R.N. for agitation, available Diphenhydramine hydrochloride , Elixir, -----Elixir contains...

Doctor's order :Diphenhydramine HCL 25 mg P.O.B.I.D.P.R.N. for agitation, available Diphenhydramine hydrochloride , Elixir, -----Elixir contains 12.5mg diphenhydramine hydrochloride in each 5ml , alcohol 14%. Calculate the amount of medications you will administer.

2)---- Doctors order Erythromycin oral suspension 250mg, available Erythromycin suspension , Use the label below to determine how much solution is needed to administer the dose. --- a) Erythromycin oral suspension 200 mg/5ml- b) Erythromycin oral suspension 200 mg/5ml

3) Doctors order lithium carbonate 600mg p.o h.s Available lithium citrate syrup Each 5ml contains lithium carbonate 300mg , How many ml are needed to administer the required dose . How many containers of the drug will you need to prepare the dode.

4)-- Doctors order V-cillin K suspension 500,000 U.P.o .Q.I..d Available V-Cillin K oral solution , Using the label V-cillin K 125mg, per 5ml calculate the dose you will administer

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On the afternoon of May 20, the patient, Mr. Ard, began feeling nauseated. He was in...

On the afternoon of May 20, the patient, Mr. Ard, began feeling nauseated. He was in pain and had shortness of breath. Althoughhis wife rang the call bell several times, it was not until sometime later that evening that someone responded and gave Ard medicationfor the nausea. The nausea continued to worsen. Mrs. Ard then noticed that her husband was having difficulty breathing. He wasreeling from side to side in bed. Believing that her husband was dying, she continued to call for help. She estimated that she rang thecall bell for 1.25 hours before anyone responded. A code was eventually called. Unfortunately, Mr. Ard did not survive the code. Therewas no documentation in the medical records for May 20, between 5:30 PM and 6:45 PM, that would indicate that any nurse orphysician checked on Ard’s condition. This finding collaborated Mrs. Ard’s testimony regarding this time period.

A wrongful death action was brought against the hospital, and the district court granted judgment for Mrs. Ard. The hospital appealed.

Ms. Krebs, an expert in general nursing, stated that it should have been obvious to the nurses from the physicians’ progress notes thatthe patient was a high risk for aspiration. This problem was never addressed in the nurses’ care plan or in the nurses’ notes.

On May 20, Ard’s assigned nurse was Ms. Florscheim. Krebs stated that Florscheim did not perform a full assessment of the patient’srespiratory and lung status. There was nothing in the record indicating that she completed such an evaluation after he vomited. Krebsalso testified that a nurse did not conduct a swallowing assessment at any time. Although Florscheim testified that she checked on thepatient around 6:00 PM on May 20, there was no documentation in the medical record. Ms. Farris, an expert witness for the defense,testified on cross-examination that if a patient was in the type of distress described by Mrs. Ard and no nurse checked on him for 1.25hours, that would fall below the expected standard of care.

  • What happened?
  • Why did things go wrong?
  • What were the relevant legal issues?
  • How could the event have been prevented?
  • What is your verdict?

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Nurses continue to be rated the most honest and ethical Members of Congress, car...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Nurses continue to be rated the most honest and ethical
  • Members of Congress, car salespeople get lowest ratings
  • Ratings of bankers and business executives declined this year

Read and Summarize below article using APA format.

Americans Rate Nurses highest on Honesty, Ethical Standards.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In 2014, Americans say nurses have the highest honesty and ethical standards. Members of Congress and car salespeople were given the worst ratings among the 11 professions included in this year's poll. Eighty percent of Americans say nurses have "very high" or "high" standards of honesty and ethics, compared with a 7% rating for members of Congress and 8% for car salespeople.

Americans have been asked to rate the honesty and ethics of various professions annually since 1990, and periodically since 1976. Nurses have topped the list each year since they were first included in 1999, with the exception of 2001 when firefighters were included in response to their work during and after the 9/11 attacks. Since 2005, at least 80% of Americans have said nurses have high ethics and honesty. Two other medical professions -- medical doctors and pharmacists -- tie this year for second place at 65%, with police officers and clergy approaching 50%.

Historically, honesty and ethics ratings for members of Congress have generally not been positive, with the highest rating reaching 25% in 2001. Since 2009, Congress has ranked at or near the bottom of the list, usually tied with other poorly viewed professions like car salespeople and -- when they have been included -- lobbyists, telemarketers, HMO managers, stockbrokers and advertising practitioners.

Although members of Congress and car salespeople have similar percentages rating their honesty and ethics as "very high" or "high," members of Congress are much more likely to receive "low" or "very low" ratings (61%), compared with 45% for car salespeople. Last year, 66% of Americans rated Congress' honesty and ethics "low" or "very low," the worst Gallup has measured for any profession historically.

Other relatively poorly rated professions, including advertising practitioners, lawyers, business executives and bankers are more likely to receive "average" than "low" honesty and ethical ratings. So while several of these professions rank about as low as members of Congress in terms of having high ethics, they are less likely than members of Congress to be viewed as having low ethics.

No Professions Improved in Ratings of High Honesty, Ethics Since 2013

Since 2013, all professions either dropped or stayed the same in the percentage of Americans who said they have high honesty and ethics. The only profession to show a small increase was lawyers, and this rise was small (one percentage point) and within the margin of error. The largest drops were among police officers, pharmacists and business executives. But medical doctors, bankers and advertising practitioners also saw drops.

Honesty and ethics ratings of police dropped six percentage points since last year, driven down by many fewer nonwhite Americans saying the police have high honesty and ethical standards. The clergy's 47% rating last year marked the first year that less than 50% of Americans said the clergy had high ethical and honesty standards -- and the current 46% rating is, by one percentage point, the lowest Gallup has measured for that profession to date.

Bottom Line

Americans continue to rate those in medical professions as having higher honesty and ethical standards than those in most other professions. Nurses have consistently been the top-rated profession -- although doctors and pharmacists also receive high ratings, despite the drops since 2013 in the percentage of Americans who say they have high ethics. The high ratings of medical professions this year is significant after the Ebola outbreak which infected a number of medical professionals both in the U.S. and in West Africa.

At the other end of the spectrum, in recent years, members of Congress have sunk to the same depths as car salespeople and advertising practitioners. However, in one respect, Congress is even worse, given the historically high percentages rating its members' honesty and ethics as being "low" or "very low." And although November's dialectic elections did produce a significant change in membership for the new Congress that begins in January, there were also major shakeups in the 2006 and 2010 midterm elections with little improvement in the way Americans viewed the members who serve in that institution.

Previously in 2014, Gallup found that Americans continue to have low confidence in banks, and while Americans continue to have confidence in small businesses, big businesses do not earn a lot of confidence. This may be the result of Americans' views that bankers and business executives do not have high honesty and ethical standards, and the fact that their ratings dropped since last year.

Survey Methods

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 8-11, 2014, with a random sample of 805 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

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What is the common error between Type I diabetes and one form of diabetes insipidis. And,...

What is the common error between Type I diabetes and one form of diabetes insipidis. And, what is the common error between Type II diabetes and another form of diabetes insipidis

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As a health care manager, how would learning about a fraud or abuse violation in your...

As a health care manager, how would learning about a fraud or abuse violation in your organization make you feel? How would you respond professionally to these violations?

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Not more than ten sentences summarize the growth and development in the infant.

Not more than ten sentences summarize the growth and development in the infant.

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  Why is it important to articulate your Personal Philosophy of Nursing? ·         What is the relationship between...

  Why is it important to articulate your Personal Philosophy of Nursing?

·         What is the relationship between your Personal Philosophy of Nursing and your professional practice?

·         What theories of nursing have you studied?

·         Does your nursing practice follow any particular theorist(s)? Explain.

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Not more than ten sentences, discuss prenatal influences on healthy development and any public or social...

Not more than ten sentences, discuss prenatal influences on healthy development and any public or social program available to pregnant women.

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Not more than ten sentences, summarize the growth and development in early childhood.

Not more than ten sentences, summarize the growth and development in early childhood.

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The World Health Organisation (2015) states: “Healthy ageing is a process of developing and maintain the...

The World Health Organisation (2015) states:
“Healthy ageing is a process of developing and maintain the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age. Functional ability is about having the capabilities that enable all people to be and do what they have reason to value”
Interdependence of healthy ageing elderly with the community?

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