-Describe the health care beliefs of the Japanase and the Jewish culture and if there is any similarity in both cultures.

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-Describe the health care beliefs of the Japanase and the Jewish culture and if there is any similarity in both cultures.

-How religion influence the delivery of community nursing care.

– APA format

– A minimum of 500 words

– A minimum of 2 evidence based references

What would you hope to achieve for the organization by undertaking this project? What are the objectives of this initiative?

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THIS IS A 2 PART ASSIGNMENT. THE ORGANIZATION THAT I NEED THIS TO BE ON IS : Regional One Health, located in Memphis, TN. The quality improvement issue is RN/nurse Retention.

Project: Promoting Health Care

Section 3: Quality Measurement and Assessment

This week you continue working on Section 3 of your Course Project, which was introduced in Week 6. Through your work in previous weeks of this course, you have likely gained critical insights into the organization that serves as the focus for your quality improvement plan. Integrating this knowledge of the organization into your plan for addressing a quality improvement issue is essential for successfully facilitating change.

As you deepen your analysis of your selected organization, consider how the information presented in this week’s Learning Resources relates to strategic priorities as well as to the uniquely collaborative and competitive dynamic that binds organizations in health care.

To prepare:

  • Think about the quality improvement issue that you are addressing and the associated plan that you are developing. Consider the following:
    • What is the overall purpose, or aim, of doing this work?
    • What would you hope to achieve for the organization by undertaking this project? What are the objectives of this initiative?
    • What value would this work add to the organization?
    • How would this work improve practice and create outcomes with impact?
  • Review Chapter 7 of the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot course text. Consider how addressing this quality improvement issue would align with the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic goals and objectives. How does it relate to regulatory issues, and other matters that are significant for the organization? If you notice a misalignment, use this as an opportunity to refine your focus.
  • With this in mind, continue to hone your development of this Assignment, integrating the concepts addressed here into Section 3.

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper that includes:

  • An introduction to your quality improvement plan, including the overarching aim of this initiative and an explanation of how it aligns with the mission, vision, values, and strategic goals and objectives of the organization, as well as regulatory issues and other matters that are significant for the organization
  • An overview of the current situation with regard to this quality improvement issue in the organization
  • A description of measures and indicators
  • A presentation on data related to this issue, including:
    • Actual historical and current data and/or a description of the methods that you would use to collect and analyze the data
    • Methods for collecting and analyzing data in the future, including when you would do this
  • A description of realistic, evidence-based targets

Be sure to cite evidence from the literature to justify your selection of the measures and indicators, as well as the performance targets. This section of the Course Project serves as the Portfolio Assignment for this course.

Due by Day 7 of Week 8.

Section 4: Quality Improvement Strategies

Through your work on Section 3 of the Course Project, you have examined the gap between current performance and evidence-based targets and considered how addressing this gap relates to organizational priorities and large-scale aims for quality improvement.

In this section of the Course Project, you begin to think about quality improvement strategies that could help to bridge this gap. As noted in the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text, this is referred to as performance-driven planning.

Since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” a good deal of attention has been paid to the need to examine processes that contribute to outcomes (Ernst, Wooldridge, Conway, Dressman, Weiland, Tucker, and Seid). As the USAID has noted, interventions “will not create the desired outcome to improve the quality of care unless the overall process of care delivery is also improved.” Therefore, attention to process redesign is a central aspect of cultivating strategies for improvement.

To prepare:

  • Refer to the modified Donabedian model (access, structure, process, outcome, and patient experience) presented in Chapter 9 of the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text.
  • Recall the performance targets that you identified for Section 3 (in Week 6). What does the recommendation that performance-driven planning should “begin with the end in mind” suggest given your established goals?
  • Review the information presented in Chapter 9 of the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text, and think about how you would assess the organization’s strengths and weaknesses related to the performance gaps you identified in Section 3 (Week 6).
  • Based on the above, start to think of specific evidence-based strategies that could be implemented to close/minimize the performance gaps you have identified. Consider both interventions (what) and processes (how). Focus on strategies that are supported by the latest research and could create systems-level change. These may be tentative for now, but be sure to identify at least one that specifically lends itself to a change in process (i.e., practice, protocol, pathway, activity).

Additional instructions for Section 4 are presented next week. To complete this Assignment, you will create a process map and write a paper describing quality improvement strategies. This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 8.

PART 2 OF THIS ASSIGNMENT:

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days using one or more of the following approaches:

  • Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information or research.
  • Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
  • Validate an idea with your own experience and additional resources.

This is a discussion post, about 250 words, tittle page not require In- text citation is required original work please, reference source. QUESTION According to the textbook, nurses in various settings are adopting a research-based (or evidence-based) practice that incorporates research findings into their decisions and interaction with clients. How do you see this being applied in your workplace?

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This is a discussion post, about 250 words, tittle page not require In- text citation is required original work please, reference source.

QUESTION

According to the textbook, nurses in various settings are adopting a research-based (or evidence-based) practice that incorporates research findings into their decisions and interaction with clients. How do you see this being applied in your workplace?

What advantages or disadvantages do you see in using both types of methods in a nursing study? Support your answer with current evidence-based literature

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This is a discussion post, about 250 words, tittle page not require In- text citation is required original work please, reference source.

QUESTION

The theoretical foundations of qualitative and quantitative methods are very different, but many researchers believe both methods should be used in the research study to increase validity and reliability. What advantages or disadvantages do you see in using both types of methods in a nursing study? Support your answer with current evidence-based literature

How does the strength of the evidence determine translation into practice?

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What are some of the models and frameworks of EBP currently in use? How does the strength of the evidence determine translation into practice? Why is it important to integrate both evidence-based practice and patient and family preferences? What is the nurse’s responsibility when EBP and patient and family practice do not match?

Name two (2) ways WWI and WWII affected the awareness of mental health disorders among the federal government and the American public? Name one (1) result of that awareness?

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Discussion Board Assignment #8

Chapter10–Mental Health Services

Answer the following questions on Mental Health Services:

  1. The recipients of mental health services in the U.S. represent only a small percentage of those in need of services. State two (2) factors that impede access to mental illness treatment.
  2. Name two (2) ways WWI and WWII affected the awareness of mental health disorders among the federal government and the American public? Name one (1) result of that awareness?
  3. From colonial times through the 1960s, the primary mode of mental illness treatment was institutional. In the 1960s, mental health treatment shifted to a community-based orientation. Name two (2) factors responsible for this shift? What were the effects on patients and on the community?
  4. As mental illness treatment shifted from the institutional to the community setting, public dollars were allocated on the basis of units of service delivered, not on results of care. Discuss the implications of this policy on the deinstitutionalized severely mentally ill.
  5. The author states, “In contrast to widely held assumptions, mental disorders can now be diagnosed and treated as effectively as physical disorders.” Identify and discuss two (2) factors that have contributed to the persistence of erroneous assumptions about mental illness treatment.  Identify one (1) factor that “allow mental disorders to be diagnosed and treated as effectively as physical disorders.”

· Reflect on your Practicum Experience and select a female patient whom you have examined with the support and guidance of your Preceptor.

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***Must have a medical background to be able to complete this assignment without it sounding ridiculous. I have uploaded an outline.

For this assessment the patient will be a 63 year old female with a cystocele, and chief complaint urinary incontinence. The rest of the info can be made up such as medical history meds labs just make it believable to the pt age and diagnosis.

Comprehensive Patient Assessment

When completing practicum requirements in clinical settings, you and your Preceptor might complete several patient assessments in the course of a day or even just a few hours. This schedule does not always allow for a thorough discussion or reflection on every patient you have seen. As a future advanced practice nurse, it is important that you take the time to reflect on a comprehensive patient assessment that includes everything from patient medical history to evaluations and follow-up care. For this Assignment, you begin to plan and write a comprehensive assessment paper that focuses on one female patient from your current practicum setting.

By Day 7 of Week 9

This Assignment is due. It is highly recommended that you begin planning and working on this Assignment as soon as it is viable.

To prepare

· Reflect on your Practicum Experience and select a female patient whom you have examined with the support and guidance of your Preceptor.

· Think about the details of the patient’s background, medical history, physical exam, labs and diagnostics, diagnosis, treatment and management plan, as well as education strategies and follow-up care.

To complete

Write an 8- to 10-page comprehensive paper that addresses the following:

· Age, race and ethnicity, and partner status of the patient

· Current health status, including chief concern or complaint of the patient

· Contraception method (if any)

· Patient history, including medical history, family medical history, gynecologic history, obstetric history, and personal social history (as appropriate to current problem)

· Review of systems

· Physical exam

· Labs, tests, and other diagnostics

· Differential diagnoses

· Management plan, including diagnosis, treatment, patient education, and follow-up care

Describe the selected smoking cessation program and the behavioral theory that provided the foundation for the program.

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Public health interventions are now guided primarily by theoretical frameworks. There is a strong correlation between behavior and how it influences attitudes and beliefs about health issues. The relationship is complex and includes several aspects including individual environmental, social, and political factors.

For this assignment, conduct a literature review of journal articles, not more than three-years old, on a smoking cessation program. Write a 5–6-page paper in Microsoft Word format.

Include the following:

Describe the selected smoking cessation program and the behavioral theory that provided the foundation for the program.

Examine how the behavioral theory was selected for the specific target population.

Explain whether you agree or disagree with the selected behavioral theory and list two other behavioral health models that you might have used to address this issue.

Provide examples of how the authors of the journal articles you reviewed incorporated components of the theoretical framework into the planning and implementation processes and then explain the significance of the selected theoretical framework.

Submit your assignment to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, October 24, 2017.

Name your document SUO_PHE4095_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Cite all sources using the APA format.

Assignment 2 Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsAdequately described the selected smoking cessation program and the behavioral theory that provided the foundation for the program.40Examined

Evaluate the influence of PHRs on health care delivery and clinical practice.

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Consider the PHRs of today. Patient-accessible health records are currently web-based and have seen little consumer use when compared to the total U.S. population. The VA has had notable success with its veterans logging on; however, other web-based portals have struggled. Google Health, a free PHR site, shut its services down effective January of 2012 citing too few and inconsistent users to maintain the site.
PHRs can eliminate the plethora of patient charts and help to assimilate a lifetime of medical documentation. What do you think will motivate society to fully embrace these electronic resources?
To prepare:

  • Reflect      on the information presented in the Learning Resources, focusing on      personal health records and patient portals as used by the VA.
  • Consider      your personal and professional experiences with personal health records      and patient portals.
  • What      benefits, concerns, and challenges do these types of systems bring to the      health care profession? How might they influence your professional practice      and your patient’s health outcomes?
  • Explore      one patient portal. If you do not have access to one through your practice      setting, utilize a free service such as FollowMyHealth http://followmyhealth.jardogs.com/ or      Microsoft HealthVault http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/.
  • Assess      the kind of information that you would put in your own personal health      record. What concerns (if any) would you have about the security of your      personal information in a personal health record?
  • Think      about your stance on the value of PHRs. Do you believe that every      individual should be required to maintain a PHR?

 

  • What       capabilities and/or features might entice people to use them?
  • What       factors might inhibit people from using them?

By tomorrow Tuesday 10/24/17, write a minimum of 550 words essay with at least 3 references in APA format from the list of required readings below. Include the level one and level two headings per APA guidelines as numbered and lettered below:

Post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

1) Appraise your selected personal health patient portal.

2) Evaluate the influence of PHRs on health care delivery and clinical practice.

3) Take a position for or against mandating PHRs. Justify your stance addressing the following points:

 

  1. Personal       health records via patient portals are part of Meaningful Use 2 and the       debate over mandating them is essentially over.
  2. What       capabilities and/or features might motivate individuals to maintain PHRs?
  3. What       factors may deter individuals from signing up for this service?
  4. What       concerns might you and your patients have about a PHR’s capability to       securely maintain personal information?
  5. How       might PHRs influence your professional practice and your patients’ health       outcomes, positively or negatively?

Required Readings

Course Text: Ball, M. J., Douglas, J. V., Hinton Walker, P., DuLong, D., Gugerty, B., Hannah, K. J., . . . Troseth, M. R. (Eds.) (2011). Nursing informatics: Where technology and caring meet (4th ed.). London, England: Springer-Verlag.

  • Review      Chapter 16, “Personal Health Record: Managing Personal Health”

This chapter focuses on the future of personal health records and consumerism, as well as the initiatives being developed to strengthen health literacy in the patient population. The nurse’s role in the development of personal health records is also discussed.

Reti, S. R., Feldman, H. J., Ross, S. E., & Safran, C. (2010). Improving personal health records for patient-centered care. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17(2), 192–195.

Several key elements that designers and practitioners need to be aware of when developing patient-centered electronic health records are outlined in this article.

Schneider, J. M. (2010). Electronic and personal health records: VA’s key to patient safety. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 14(1), 12–22.

This article begins with a brief overview of the benefits and challenges of EHRs and moves into an exemplary example of the record systems currently being used at the VA.

Wagner, P. J., Howard, S. M., Bentley, D. R., Seol, Y., & Sodomka, P. (2010). Incorporating patient perspectives into the personal health record: Implications for care and caring. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 7(Fall), 1–12.

Within this study, the authors integrate patients into a preexisting personal health record system to analyze the overall feelings that patients have about its design and usability options.

Required Media

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: Electronic records. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.

This week’s media presentations explain how electronic access to patient information is changing the way that health care is practiced.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: The way to good health! Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes.

This week’s media presentations explain how electronic access to patient information is changing the way that health care is practiced. This media segment is from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and allow you to take a look into the workings of patient portals. VA professionals who work closely with these systems look at the devices, benefits, and future of interoperable technology systems.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: VA & DoD sharing of electronic health information. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.

This week’s media presentations explain how electronic access to patient information is changing the way that health care is practiced. This media segment is from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and allow you to take a look into the workings of patient portals. VA professionals who work closely with these systems look at the devices, benefits, and future of interoperable technology systems.

Optional Resources

Jones, D. A., Shipman, J. P., Plaut, D. A., & Selden, C. R. (2010). Characteristics of personal health records: Findings of the Medical Library Association/National Library of Medicine Joint Electronic Personal Health Record Task Force. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 98(3), 243–249.

Page, D. (2010). The two paths to PHRS. Hospitals & Health Networks, 84(9), 44, 46.