Mission

 Develop and share your personal nursing mission statement. How will this guide and impact your nursing practice now and in the future? 

EVIDENCE-BASED PROJECT, PART 1: IDENTIFYING RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources below and identify a clinical issue of interest (psychiatric related) that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry. Keep in mind that the clinical issue you identify for your research will stay the same for the entire course. 
  • Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden University Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
  • Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
  • Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies

After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template attached under files to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:

  • The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
  • A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
  • A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
  • A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
  • A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Resources:

  • Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2023). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (5th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
    • Chapter 2, “Asking Compelling Clinical Questions” (pp. 37–60)
    • Chapter 22, “Generating Evidence Through Quantitative and Qualitative Research” (pp. 731–776)
  • Grant, M. J., & Booth, A. (2009). A typology of reviews: An analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information and Libraries JournalLinks to an external site., 26, 91–108. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x

Discussion 6

  Florida Nurses Association 

Go to the FNA website and critically read and review the topics under the tabs “legislative” and “get involved”.  Based on the textbook reading and FNA website discuss at least 2-topics below:

  • The Nursing Legislation and Advocacy page on the FNA website identifies 4-different ways for you to get involved with advocacy.  Discuss which way(s) you would most likely get involved with and why?
  • Find and peruse the Barbara Lumpkin Toolkit (BLT).  What are your thoughts about the information provided in the toolkit and what did you learn that you didn’t know before?
  • The Florida Keys community experiences unique healthcare needs.  Identify 1-healthcare issues or trends would you consider advocating for that would have an impact on nursing in the Florida Keys.  Based on the BLT how would you go about advocating for the healthcare issue?

Nursing Assignment

MODULE 3
. AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) AND EARLY ATTENTION. 

Note: include and develop achievements that reflect the data provided and the capabilities acquired, provide examples where required.

I need the work in APA Style and with references.

 

 

 

SUBJECT 12: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND BASIC ASPECTS OF EARLY CARE

1. Make a conceptual map showing the historical evolution of early care in chronological order, from its inception to the present. Find and add information about early care today.

 

SUBJECT 13: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND MODELS OF ACTION IN EARLY CARE

1. 1. What is a Child Development and Early Care Center (CDIAT)? Do you think it is important to implement it for children? Why? Reason your answer. Give an example of a center that you know about your Early Care community, its characteristics, functions, who they are made up of… and an example of a situation where the need to use such a centre is reflected. 

       

SUBJECT 14: DETECTION OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) IN EARLY CARE

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1. Why does the delayed recognition of Autism Spectrum Disorder occur? Reason your answer. Find information about a questionnaire that is used to assess ASD and state the information.

Organizational Planning/Planned Change

 

Choose one of the following questions to answer for this week’s discussion board. Make sure to repost the question you selected at the top of your posting.

  1. How do you typically respond to change? Do you embrace it? Seek it out? Accept it reluctantly? Avoid it at all cost? Is this behavior like that of your friends and that of your family? Has your behavior always fit this pattern, or has the pattern changed throughout your life? If so, what life events have altered how you view and respond to change?
  2. Try to remember a situation in your own life that involved unnecessary change. Why do you think that the change was unnecessary? What types of turmoil did it cause? Were there things a change agent could have done that would have increased unfreezing in this situation?

Managing Student Incivility and Misconduct

 Dealing with student misconduct and incivility is part of the nurse educator role.  The Week 4 Overview in Canvas has links to many good articles on the subject.  As you peruse the articles, take note of the things you found interesting or surprising.

Initial post: In your initial post, describe at least three things you noted in the readings and share your thoughts about them.  Use at least two of the sources. Feel free to share relevant personal or professional experiences as well.  

https://crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/disruption

https://cetl.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2016/03/ClassroomIncivility.pdf

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/57349/281_ftp.pdf?sequence=1

https://crlt.umich.edu/sites/default/files/StrategiesforPreventingDisruptionandDisrespect_0.pdf

https://crlt.umich.edu/sites/default/files/PreventionStrategies.pdf

Nursing Assignment

What challenges to completion do you anticipate you will encounter in your doctoral program? What strategies for successful completion do you anticipate will be the most useful for you, and how will you work toward implementing these strategies to meet your goals?

Review the Marshall et. al. (2017) Reading Excerpt linked 

Marshall, S. M., Klocko, B., & Davidson, J. (2017). Dissertation completion: No longer higher education’s invisible problem. Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 7(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.5590/JERAP.2017.07.1.06 

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Assessment 4

Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators

Instructions- Prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.

Introduction- The focus of Assessment 4 is on how informatics support monitoring of nursing-sensitive quality indicator data. You will develop an 8–10 minute audio (or video) training module to orient new nurses in a workplace to a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator critical to the organization. Your recording will address how data are collected and disseminated across the organization along with the nurses’ role in supporting accurate reporting and high quality results.

Preparation- As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to complete the Conabedian Quality Assessment Framework activity. Quality health care delivery requires systematic action. Completion of this will help you succeed with the assessment as you consider how the triad of structure (such as the hospital, clinic, provider qualifications/organizational characteristics) and process (such as the delivery/coordination/education/protocols/practice style or standard of care) may be modified to achieve quality outcomes.

This assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. To successfully prepare for your assessment, you will need to complete the following preparatory activities:

· Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose from the following list:

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Staffing measures.

· Nursing hours per patient day.

· RN education/certification.

· Skill mix.

· Nurse turnover.

· Nursing care hours in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.

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· Skill mix in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.

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Quality measures.

· Patient falls.

· Patient falls with injury.

· Pressure ulcer prevalence.

· Health care-associated infections.

· Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

· Central line catheter associated blood stream infection.

· Ventilator-associated pneumonia.

· Ventilator- associated events.

· Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.

· Restraint prevalence.

· Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.

· Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment (air) cycle.

· Falls in ambulatory settings.

· Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health records.

· Hospital readmission rate

· RN satisfaction survey options.

· Job satisfaction scales.

· Job satisfaction scales – short form.

· Practice environment scale.

· Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.

· Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report quality indicator data.
 You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:

· What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?

· What challenges have you experienced?

· How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?

· What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How effective is this process?

· Watch the 

Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Video Exemplar
.

Recording Your Presentation

To prepare to record the audio for your presentation, complete the following:

· Set up and test your microphone or headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear and high quality when captured by the microphone.

· Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.

· Review 

Using Kaltura
 for Kaltura to record your presentation.

· View 

Creating a Presentation: A Guide to Writing and Speaking
. This video addresses the primary areas involved in creating effective audiovisual presentations. You can return to this resource throughout the process of creating your presentation to view the tutorial appropriate for you at each stage.

Notes:

· You may use other tools to record your tutorial. You will, however, need to consult 

Using Kaltura
 for instructions on how to upload your audio-recorded tutorial into the courseroom, or you must provide a working link your instructor can easily access.

· You may also choose to create a video of your tutorial, but this is not required.

· If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact 

[email protected]
 to request accommodations.

Instructions- For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.

The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.

As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality indicator data.

You determine that you will cover the following topics in your audio tutorial script:

Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator

· What is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators?

· What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?

· Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?

· Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?

· Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of care and patient safety.

· Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care?

Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data

· According to your interview and other resources, how does your organization collect data on this quality indicator?

· How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?

· What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and high-quality results?

· As an example, consider the importance of accurately entering data regarding nursing interventions.

After completing your script, practice delivering your tutorial several times before recording it.

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Additional Requirements-Audio communication: Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.

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Length: 8–10 minute audio recording. Use Kaltura to upload your recording to the courseroom, or provide a working link your instructor can access.

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Script: A separate document with the script or speaker's notes is required. 
Important: Submissions that do not include the script or speaker's notes will be returned as a non-performance.

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References: Cite a minimum of three scholarly and/or authoritative sources.

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APA: Submit, along with the recording, a separate reference page that follows APA style and formatting guidelines. For an APA refresher, consult the 

Evidence and APA
 page on Campus.

Context-The American Nursing Association (ANA) established the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) in 1998 to track and report on quality indicators heavily influenced by nursing action.

NDNQI® was established as a standardized approach to evaluating nursing performance in relation to patient outcomes. It provides a database and quality measurement program to track clinical performance and to compare nursing quality measures against other hospital data at the national, regional, and state levels. Nursing-sensitive quality indicators help establish evidence-based practice guidelines in the inpatient and outpatient settings to enhance quality care outcomes and initiate quality improvement educational programs, outreach, and protocol development.

The quality indicators the NDNQI® monitors are organized into three categories: structure, process, and outcome. Theorist Avedis Donabedian first identified these categories. Donabedian’s theory of quality health care focused on the links between quality outcomes and the structures and processes of care (Grove et al., 2018).

Nurses must be knowledgeable about the indicators their workplaces monitor. Some nurses deliver direct patient care that leads to a monitored outcome. Other nurses may be involved in data collection and analysis. In addition, monitoring organizations, including managed care entities, exist to gather data from individual organizations to analyze overall industry quality. All of these roles are important to advance quality and safety outcomes.

Reference

Grove, S. K., Gray, J. R., Jay, G. W., Jay, H. M., & Burns, N. (2018). 
Understanding nursing research: Building an evidence-based practice (7th ed.). Elsevier.

Competencies Measured-By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Describe nurses' and the interdisciplinary team's role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.

· Describe the interdisciplinary team’s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

· Competency 3: Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.

· Explain how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

· Competency 4: Recommend the use of a technology to enhance quality and safety standards for patients.

· Justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.

· Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.

· Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Scoring Guide

CRITERIA

NON-PERFORMANCE

BASIC

PROFICIENT

DISTINGUISHED

Describe the interdisciplinary team’s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Explain how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.

Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.



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compare and contrast

GH4004 Compare and Contrast Template

Instructions: Complete the Compare and Contrast Template by recording the information in the template as either a bulleted list or in complete sentences. Be sure to reference the scholarly resources consulted in obtaining the information recorded below.

For this Performance Task Assessment, you will compare and contrast health problems and healthcare system data from the United States to health problems and healthcare system data from one other country that is demographically different from the United States.

1.
Explain the health problem you selected and why you chose that problem.

Identify and record the health data for each country for the health problem you selected.

Task

United States

Other Country

2a. Identify the following for each country:

Population and demographics

2b. Identify the following for each country:

Annual per capita income

2c. Identify the following for each country:

Annual per capita spending on healthcare

3. Describe the incidence of the health problem in each country.

4. Describe the prevalence of the health problem in each country.

5. Describe the healthcare system of workers/professionals who are available to serve the population for the health problem in each country:

6a. Explain the following list of factors that may contribute to the existence of the health problem in each country:

Describe the elements of the epidemiological triangle, if applicable

6b. Explain the following list of factors that may contribute to the existence of the health problem in each country:

Describe environmental impacts (including the healthcare delivery system) that may apply to the health problem in each country

7a. Explain the multifactorial relationships for the health problem in each country:

Nutritional considerations, if applicable

7b. Explain the multifactorial relationships for the health problem in each country:

Economic considerations

7c. Explain the multifactorial relationships for the health problem in each country:

The costs of medication and/or treatment in the healthcare system

8. Explain at least two current efforts for containment/mitigation by the healthcare system for the health problem in each country.

6003N-43

PRESIDENTIAL AGENDAS

Rather than focus on the treatment of chronic disease, policies that influence population health tend to emphasize prevention and wellness; the reduction or elimination of waste and the eradication of health disparities based on race, ethnicity, language, income, gender, sexual orientation, disability and other factors. The reasoning is that good health belongs to the whole, not just an individual. (New York State Dept. of Health, n.d.)  

Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen has a stake in healthcare policy decisions. Hence, it is little wonder why healthcare items become such high-profile components of presidential agendas. It is also little wonder why they become such hotly debated agenda items.

Consider a topic (mental health, HIV, opioid epidemic, pandemics, obesity, prescription drug prices, or many others) that rises to the presidential level. How did the current and previous presidents handle the problem? What would you do differently?

Reference:
New York State Department of Health. (n.d.). 
Making New York the healthiest state: Achieving the triple aim. Retrieved June 21, 2021 from https://www.health.ny.gov/events/population_health_summit/docs/what_is_population_health.pdf

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 



WEEKLY RESOURCES

To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and reflect on the importance of agenda setting.

· Consider how federal agendas promote healthcare issues and how these healthcare issues become agenda priorities.

BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 1

Post your response to the discussion question: Consider a population health topic that rises to the presidential agenda level. Which social determinant most affects this health issue? How did two recent presidents handle the problem? What would you do differently?

BY DAY 6 OF WEEK 1

Respond to at least 
two of your colleagues
* on two different days by expanding on their response and providing an example that supports their explanation or respectfully challenging their explanation and providing an example.


*Note:

 Throughout this program, your fellow students are referred to as colleagues.

LEARNING RESOURCES


Required Readings

· Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). 
Health policy and politics: A nurse's guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

· Chapter 1, “Informing Public Policy: An Important Role for Registered Nurses” (pp. 11–13 only)

· Chapter 2, “Agenda Setting: What Rises to a Policymaker’s Attention?” (pp. 17–36)

· Chapter 10, “Overview: The Economics and Finance of Health Care” (pp. 171–180)

· Chapter 12, “An Insider’s Guide to Engaging in Policy Activities”

· “Creating a Fact Sheet” (pp. 217-221)

· DeMarco, R., & Tufts, K. A. (2014). 

The mechanics of writing a policy briefLinks to an external site.

Nursing Outlook, 62(3), 219–224.

· Kingdon, J.W. (2001). A model of agenda-setting with applications. 


Law Review M.S.U.-D.C.LLinks to an external site.


., 2(331)

· Lamb, G., Newhouse, R., Beverly, C., Toney, D. A., Cropley, S., Weaver, C. A., Kurtzman, E., … Peterson, C. (2015). 

Policy agenda for nurse-led care coordinationLinks to an external site.

Nursing Outlook, 63(4), 521–530. doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2015.06.003.

· O’Rourke, N. C., Crawford, S. L., Morris, N. S., & Pulcini, J. (2017). 

Political efficacy and participation of nurse practitionersLinks to an external site.

Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 18(3), 135–148.

· Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Enhancing Environmental Health Content in Nursing Practice, Pope, A. M., Snyder, M. A., & Mood, L. H. (Eds.). (n.d.). 


Nursing health, & environment

Links to an external site.
:
 Strengthening the relationship to improve the public's health.

· USA.gov. (n.d.). 


A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies

Links to an external site.
. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a

· USA.gov. (n.d.). 


Branches of the US government

Links to an external site.
. https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government

· The White House. (n.d.). 


The cabinet

Links to an external site.
. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-trump-administration/the-cabinet/

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Document: 

Agenda Comparison Grid Template (Word document)