Nursing
Nursing home facility
You will be taking care of a patient in a nursing home for the first time. Your assignment is to care for an older man who has heart disease. In addition, he has five other medical problems and takes 20 medications. While developing a plan of care for this patient, you can identify 8 to 10 nursing problems. You have no previous experience with nursing homes, and most of what you have heard and read about them is negative. Will you find yourself dreading the clinical day and expecting a negative experience before you even begin?
· Follow the discussion questions participation and submission guidelines.
· Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per DQ, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph.
· All answers or discussions comments submitted must be in APA format
· Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.
Requirements: 3 paragraph
Cultural Models of Nursing
Many different definitions exist for culturally related terms. Models such as the Campinha-Bacote model, Giger and Davidhizar model, Papadopoulos, Tilki, and Taylor model, Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity and Universality theory and model, and the Purnell model identify the importance of understanding the patient’s culture into the nursing process.
Professional Nursing Practice
· Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.
Chapter 4: Competencies for Professional Nursing Practice
1. You are assigned to care for Ms. C., an 81-year-old patient who was admitted today with symptoms of increasing shortness of breath over the last week. She is currently receiving oxygen through a nasal cannula at 3 L/min. You go into the room to assess her. You find that she is sitting up in bed at a 60-degree angle. She is restless and her respirations appear labored and rapid. Her skin is pale with circumoral cyanosis. You ask if she feels more short of breath. Because she is unable to catch her breath
Evidence-based practice
Clinical judgment in our daily practice can influence how we (nurses) take care of our patients. Our everyday care of our patients also incorporate ethical care and charting. Why should nursing include evidence-based practice into their daily routine?
Requirements: one page
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Toxics Release Inventory
discuss the following two questions in your response:
1. Discuss one of the environmental issues that adversely impacts the health of your community (Brooklyn NY)
2. Review the website regarding the Toxic Release Inventory. What facilities/industries in your community (Brooklyn NY) are required to report the release of hazardous chemicals into the environment according to the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The results may surprise you. Hospitals, for example, produce a lot of hazardous waste.