Patient advocacy: Ensuring patients receive quality care, respect and ethical treatment. This includes advocating for patient rights, privacy, safety, comfort and informed consent. **Patient advocacy** is a critical aspect of nursing practice, ensuring that patients receive quality care, respect, and ethical treatment. As the first point of contact with the healthcare system, nurses play a […]
REGULATION FOR NURSING PRACTICE STAFF DEVELOPMENT MEETING Slide 1: Title: A Comparison of Boards of Nursing and Professional Nurse Associations Slide 2: Differences between Boards of Nursing and Professional Nurse Associations Boards of nursing (BONs) are governmental regulatory agencies that establish rules and regulations related to nursing practice and education within each state/territory. Their primary […]
Nursing Case Study Writing One of the many ways through which the research skills of nursing students are put to test is by writing a case study. Essentially, a case study is an in-depth analysis into a phenomenon of interest. One of the things that make this type of research to be unique is that […]
Pharmacology is the study of molecular processes to determine the impact of drugs and chemicals on biological systems. Professional pharmacologists are trained in various subject disciplines, which makes their understanding of drugs and chemicals unparalleled. However, students who are new to the subject often face challenges in mastering the process of drug preparation, dosage, dispensing, […]
Regulation for Nursing Practice Staff Development Meeting Nursing is a very highly regulated profession. There are over 100 boards of nursing and national nursing associations throughout the United States and its territories. Their existence helps regulate, inform, and promote the nursing profession. With such numbers, it can be difficult to distinguish between BONs and nursing […]
Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease Will is a 68-year-old male with a history of hypertension. Eight months ago, he started regular dialysis therapy for ESRD. Before that, his physician was closely monitoring his condition because he had polyuria and nocturia. Soon it became difficult to manage his hypertension. He also lost his appetite, […]
A) You must answer one (1) of the questions in detail and respond to one (1) of your fellow classmates. It is expected that you will research and write each response with a minimum of 200 words. Defend your answers with research. Need two different citation The Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted that a defendant […]
This week you were assigned Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital by Robert Putnam. Please comment on Putnam’s basic theme; that Americans are less social and that there has been a decline in civic involvement over the last 60 years or so. Do you agree with this or disagree? Give examples of why you think […]
PRAC 6675: PMHNP Across the Lifespan II Week 4: Case Study Objectives: Identify the signs and symptoms of three different psychiatric disorders. Explore psychopharmacology that may help with the treatment plan. Examine the diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 that can help lead to a diagnosis. Subjective: Chief Complaint (CC): “I think I have schizophrenia.” History […]
This week we are learning about ordinal/categorical, continuous, and dichotomous variables. Using the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset that is located in the tabs at the bottom of the Framingham dataset provided, perform the following problems using R Studio or Excel. Create a simple distribution graph (histogram) where we will explore the age of women after […]