Provision 4: “The nurse is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse’s obligation to provide optimum patient care.”

Imagine you are the head nurse in a senior living facility. You have 36 residents; normally there are two nurses with four nursing assistants. It is night shift, and the other nurse was in an accident on the way to work. Hence, it is you, 36 residents, and four CNAs. One of the CNAs is due to graduate from nursing school in one month. 30 of the 36 patients have 9 PM medicine due.

1. To get medicine to the patients on time, would you allow the CNA who is close to finishing school to help administer the medicine? Would this be an appropriate delegation of tasks, considering that an RN must complete medication administration? Which is more important: delegation of tasks or timely medication administration for patients?

An overall healthy, 10-year-old child with Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory-Wheezing heard throughout, productive cough.

Gastrointestinal: Hyperactive bowel sounds, loose frothy stools (multiple per day)

Measurements, wt 32 (kg) 70. 4(lb)

Self-concept: Appropriate for development Level school-age child.

Activity/ Exercise: School physical education and softball 3-4 times a week.

Sleep/rest: 9 hours / night.

Nutrition: Diet as tolerated.

Live with parents

Recommendations: Educate on physical, diet, exercise, medications, respiratory therapy.

Four separate Nursing Diagnosis for 10 years ago with cystic fibrosis based on Nanda nursing diagnosis (In priority order subjective/Objective)

Patients Centered goals (Short term goal/ Long term goal.)

Nursing interventions/ Rationales

Evaluation (Mets OR not Mets with reasons)

Do you think that there is any connection between the cognitive shifts that children make between about five and seven years of age and the fact that most cultures with formal education systems begin children's schooling at this age period? Are these shifts continuous or discontinuous?

To answer this question, address the following points, some of which are covered in detail in one of Watson's lectures:

Detail the many shifts that occur between five and seven years of age.

Talk about the cognitive characteristics of the end product, the child in the concrete operational stage.

Discuss the differences between the preschooler (age 3-5) and the school age (age 7-11) child in terms of how they think differently.

Speculate as to why this shift might or might not make children ready for school.

Are these shifts continuous, as Bandura would assert, or they discontinuous, as Piaget believed? Defend your answer.

1. A researcher conducted a study to determine differences in reading ability between children who began Kindergarten at the required age of 5 years old (“on time”) compared to students who were eligible to have started school, but were held back at home for another year (“red-shirted”), by parental choice, and began Kindergarten at age 6. The research tested the Kindergarten children of both groups on reading ability in one school in the district. Respond to the following questions related to this study.
   1. Write the null hypothesis (in words or using symbols) for this study: [3 Points]

2. What can you say about the Levene’s test for homogeneity of variance if the p-value associated with this test is greater than 0.05?                                           [3 Points]

3. What are some aspects of this study that could be improved (e.g., sampling technique for selecting students, matching, sample size, and target population) and why?                                                                                                                          [4 Points]

After graduating from college, you landed a $75,000 job and were happy with it until your friends started going back to school. Now the MBA is on your mind as well. The cost of a good MBA program is $40,000 a year and such programs require that your are a full-time student. It will take you two years to graduate and you will have to leave your job, while attending school. You expect that the starting salary for an MBA professional will be $120,000 by the time you graduate and will increase by 2 percent every year. If you stay at your current job, your salary will be $77,500 at age 25 and will increase by 1% until you retire. Your opportunity cost of capital is 12%. Is this a good decision, if you start your MBA program when you are 25 and retire when you turn 55 (assume the same retirement age for both options.)

Scenario # 2 Your facility is a large children’s hospital in north Texas. Until recently your facility was part of a larger health care facility run by the state. The facility is now corporately owned and operated. During this reorganization period a major fire occurred at a local elementary school. Over 100 injured children were sent to your facility for care. You encountered many problems: care was delayed and inappropriate for many children because of the nature of their injuries due to lack of parental consent for treatment and smoke inhalation and burns. Your task is to develop a disaster plan specifically to address the deficiencies and to reshape your public image following the fire at the elementary school.

Discuss cultural issues that the situation presents

Explain budgetary plans or concerns

Explain credentialing or accreditation issues the situation present

Describe your response to the situation

The table below gives the number of hours spent unsupervised each day as well as the overall grade averages for seven randomly selected middle school students. Using this data, consider the equation of the regression line, yˆ=b0+b1x, for predicting the overall grade average for a middle school student based on the number of hours spent unsupervised each day. Keep in mind, the correlation coefficient may or may not be statistically significant for the data given. Remember, in practice, it would not be appropriate to use the regression line to make a prediction if the correlation coefficient is not statistically significant. Hours Unsupervised 0 1.5 2 2.5 3 4 5.5 Overall Grades 96 93 86 85 79 74 66 Table

Step 1 of 6 : Find the estimated slope. Round your answer to three decimal places.

The family college data set contains a sample of 792 cases with two variables, teen and parents, and is summarized in Table below. The teen variable is either college or not, where the teenager is labeled as college if she went to college immediately after high school. The parent variable takes the value degree if at least one parent of the teenager completed a college degree.

A) If at least one parent completed a college degree, what is the chance their teenager attended college right after high school?    Answer format: .###

B) What is the probability that a selected individual is a teen going to college?

Answer format: .###

C) Are teenager college attendance and parent college degrees independent or dependent?    Choose one of the 2 letters: Y or N

Show your work, the formulas used, and the substitutions to answer the questions about the following data:

Can your high school GPA predict your college GPA? To try to answer this, the following data were collected:

High School GPA:      1.72     3.51     2.45     2.85     2.84     3.46     1.97            3.47

College GPA:             2.61     3.66     3.25     3.23     3.46     3.07     2.88            3.16

1. Create a scatter plot of the data
2. Find the equation of the regression line
3. Calculate the correlation coefficient.
4. Is there a significant correlation between HS GPA and College GPA? Use α=.05.
5. Calculate the coefficient of determination. What does this value say about the relationship between HS GPA and College GPA?
6. What would you expect the college GPA to be of a person with a HS GPA of 2.88?
7. Create a 90% prediction interval for the college GPA of a person whose HS GPA was 2.88.

Mr. Conway is an elementary school teacher who is a follower of Carl Rogers and believes that unconditional positive regard leads to psychological health and positive behavior. Mr. Conway obtains a sample of 40 children from other teachers' classrooms. At his school and through home observation, he categorizes each child as receiving unconditional positive regard 1) frequently,
2) sometimes and 3) rarely. He then has each child's teacher classify the child as behavior problem or not. The following summarizes the results: use an alpha level of  α = .05. Use all four stages of test, show all work and round to two decimals.