identify the environmental factors related to influenza
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what are the delimination of occupational stress
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Using short essay format and in your own words, answer the following questions. These do not need to be lengthy. Turn it as a word document via the View/Complete Assignment link below.
1. What is a nutrient? Name the six classes of nutrients found in foods. What is an essential nutrient?
2. Which nutrients are inorganic, and which are organic? Discuss the significance of that distinction.
3. Which nutrients yield energy, and how much energy do they yield per gram? How is energy measured? Explain how variables might be correlational but not causal.
4. What happens when people get either too little or too much energy or nutrients? Define malnutrition, undernutrition, and overnutrition.
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Congratulations you are now a Registered Nurse.
Today you are getting handover from Jack.
Jack has been looking after 16-year-old James. James is a newly diagnosed diabetic.
During handover Jack tells you he forgot to give James insulin at 9 am, but he signed for it
anyway because he planned on asking you to provide James with a double dose before tea
Jack said he told James’ Mum, he gave the insulin when she asked as she’s really anxious
and he didn’t want to cause her any stress.
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56-year-old male client received an open cholecystectomy three days earlier. He is recovering on the surgical unit. During the morning assessment, the nurse auscultated diminished lung sounds anteriorly in the right lung base and the client complained of a cough. Vital signs are: blood pressure 138/89, pulse 126, respirations 26, temperature 101.1oF, and an oxygen saturation of 88%. The surgeon ordered a STAT chest x-ray, complete blood count (CBC), a basic metabolic panel (BMP), arterial blood gases (ABGs). Arterial blood gas results are pH of 7.3, PCO2 of 55, and HCO3 of 26. The nurse completed the assessment. The client has refused to get out of bed due to unrelieved pain.
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How will you become comfortable discussing sexuality with patients who have a different sexual orientation than you?
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Physicians make up a primary external stakeholder group in your health care organization. You need to approach them about a decreasing patient satisfaction score, and their impact on this score. How would you approach this group? What would be the challenges? Have you experienced this before in your workplace? What was the outcome?
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1- What are complications of a Foley?
2- Which patients are candidates for Foley catheter and what are the benefits of its use?
3- Why is irrigation used for foley care and what's the purpose ?
4- What measures are necessary for the nurse to take before inserting a Foley?
5- For how long should a Foley catheter be in place and why?
6- Describe the differences between a lower and upper UTI.
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Assess barriers to the adoption for specific health information technologies and design a study to measure their impact on workflow within an Advanced Nursing Practice context.
Based upon any clinical setting where you have experience or interested in analyzing examine how a particular technology is being utilitized (for example an EHR, or CPOE, or CDS within an EHR, or even a bar code reader). Within a Donebidian context: describe the structure (e.g., clinical/organizational setting), the process of how it is used and works (multiple steps like access, sign-on, interface), and how you would measure the outcomes to determine the effectiveness of the technology.
Following this assessment see if you can think of any barriers to the use of the technology and what can be improved (including the technology itself).
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Which of the following is an example of a famous intervention study?:
Which of the following is an example of a famous cohort study?
One advantage of a case-control study is that they _______.
All of the following factors influence the validity of results except:
The purpose of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to ensure:
A false positive means that:
An estimated 24% of Americans have metabolic syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome is characterized by all of the following except:
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Describe how an advanced practice nurse would alter the medication dose of Bactrim in a patient with chronic kidney disease. Discuss the physiologic rationale for altering the dose and monitoring its effectiveness.
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