Capella BSN4016 Unit 3 Assignment

Capella BSN4016 Unit 3 Assignment
Pharmacological Treatments
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For this assignment, you will select and examine a disease or health condition
that requires a pharmacological intervention. You may choose any disease
or health condition you wish, but the disease or health condition must be
relevant to nurses in a variety of settings (for example, the E.R.,
pediatrics, public health). Once you have selected and identified a
disease or health condition, identify the areas where nurses are likely to
see the disease or health condition.

Instructions

Identify
the disease or health condition.
Describe
the health issues or symptoms associated with the condition.
Identify
drugs most often used in the treatment of the condition.
Explain
the types of actions, side effects, indications, and contraindications
that could be expected from this pharmacological treatment.
Describe
the treatment regime (including pharmacology) that is most often
prescribed for this condition.
Explain
how this treatment regime, including pharmacology, impacts a client’s
lifestyle (including financials, ease of administration – complexity, how
hard are instructions to understand – frequency, length of medication).

Are
there any controversies related to the medication? For example, is there
a black box warning with this medication?

Describe
how a nurse should monitor a client being treated for this condition in
order to obtain a quality patient outcome.

Additional Requirements

Length
of paper:
Be as specific as possible, but try to limit this assignment to no more
than 4 pages, not including title page and reference page.
References: Support your
plan with references to at least two resources, in which one resource
should be outside the required readings for this course.
Formatting: Follow proper
APA style and formatting.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 5 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December
Patient Education Sheet
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This
assignment consists of two important techniques needed to ensure patient
safety and quality outcomes related to pharmacological therapies. For this
assignment, assume your supervisor has asked you to develop a patient
education tool for new “medication starts” in your current area
of practice. You will complete a literature search in order to discover
current information (less than 5 years old) on the medication. This
information will then be utilized to prepare a single-page, evidence-based
teaching tool that highlights patient safety. In the second part of the
assignment, you will describe the process of creating the tool, based on
your findings, in a short, scholarly report.

Instructions
Part 1: Patient Education Sheet

Create
a patient education sheet. You can either choose an idea from below or
choose your own topic:

Antibiotics
(Amoxil/Amoxicillin) for pediatric ear infections.
Statin
therapy (Zocor/Simvastatin) for a newly diagnosed patient with
hypercholesterolemia.
Antihypertensive
(ACE Inhibitors/Lisinopril/Zestril) for a patient who was discovered to
have hypertension at a work health screening.
Drugs
for treating gastric acidity: Proton pump inhibitors/antacids/H2 blockers
for a patient complaining of chronic indigestion and heart burn.
Ear
drops or eye drops for an elderly patient.
Any
newly released medication for a patient in your typical practice (can be
a new drug for diabetes, hypertension, or arthritis; or a new
antibiotic).

Research
the medication you have chosen and determine what information needs to be
included on a patient education sheet. As you are aware, different drugs
have different safety factors that have to be discussed to increase
compliance and patient safety.

What
information does the patient or caretaker of a patient need to know?
Choose
the categories that you feel are the most important to highlight for your
patients (remember that you are creating asingle-pageeducation
sheet.)

Limit
yourself to 3–5 categories to improve patient understanding. Examples of
categories could include, but are not limited to, common indications,
side effects, questions to ask your doctor, contraindications, and drug
storage and disposal.
Use
pictures that help reinforce education.

Attach
the patient education sheet as an appendix to your paper or attach it as a
separate document.

Part 2: Justification of Information

Justify
why you decided to highlight your specific educational topics.
Describe
your chosen categories and explain why you felt these were key issues for
patient safety.
Discuss
any consideration to the patient’s cultural needs that were incorporated
into the design of the patient education sheet.
Explain
why you feel those format or design elements were important.

Additional Requirements

Length
of patient education sheet: 1 page.
Length
of justification paper: 2–3 pages.
References: Support your
decisions with references to this week’s readings and other current (less
than 5 years old) peer-reviewed journal articles and evidence-based
materials. Demonstrate your understanding of the relationship between
patient safety, quality outcomes, and pharmacology.
Formatting: Follow proper
APA style and formatting.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 6 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Communication
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The Riverbend City mission in this unit illustrated the
importance of effective communication. For this assignment, describe two
strategies that you use in your nursing practice to effectively communicate
with other members of your team, and with your patients.
Instructions

Describe
two strategies that are used in your nursing practice to effectively
communicate with members of your team and with your patients.
Explain
how the communication strategies reflect your knowledge of pharmacology
policies and procedures, protocol, practice standards, and regulatory
guidelines.
Explain
how the communication strategies demonstrate respect for others and
cultural competence.
Explain
how the communication strategies ensure patient safety with regard to the
delivery of pharmacological agents

Additional Requirements

Length
of paper:
No more than 3 pages, not including the title page and reference page.
References: At least two
scholarly references, including this week’s reading assignment.
Formatting: Follow proper
APA style and formatting.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 7 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December
Health Disparities
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As you think about the patients you currently serve or hope to
work with in the future, it is important to be aware of the health disparities
some populations experience. In this assignment, you will examine health
disparities for a population of your choice and then offer a community-based
approach to improve patient outcomes. When selecting your population, consider
aspects of culture, geographical area, generational factors, and any other
factors that might be considered outside the perspective of the majority
population. Describe the types of health disparities for this group, and then
select one health care concern to focus on for the rest of the assignment. For
example, the elderly might be your population and the health care concern could
be heart disease.
Instructions

Specify
the selected population.
Identify
the types of health disparities for this group and select one health care
concern to focus on for this assignment.
Distinguish
factors that create health disparities for this population.

Why
does this group have health disparities?

Describe
the identified health concern for this population as well as the
pharmacological treatment for the condition.
Describe
and discuss how the cultural values, socio-economic status, and
traditional beliefs and practices impact the acceptance of pharmacological
treatment for this identified health concern.
Offer
at least one strategy for a community-based approach to improve the
current pharmacological treatment regimens for this population.

What
types of community outreach programs could be consulted to effectively
reach your target population?
Are
there education, access, or other issues that community programs could
help address?

Discuss
why you believe this strategy would be effective. Support your rationale
with references from at least three resources, at least two of which must
be from resources not required for this course.

Additional Requirements

Length
of paper:
3–4 pages, not including title page and reference page.
References: At least
three resources, two of which must be from resources not required for this
course.
Formatting: Follow proper
APA style and formatting.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 9 Assignment latest 2016 December
Issues in Pharmacology: A Nursing Perspective
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In a professional nursing practice, you will often have patients
whose personal or cultural views on medications may be quite different from
your own. For this assignment, assume that one of the issues below has become a
hot topic in your health care organization or community. You have been asked by
leadership to prepare a PowerPoint presentation to your nursing colleagues in
an effort to raise awareness of the topic. Please view the “Guidelines for
Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” linked in Resources, as well.
Topic
Choices:

The
use of medical marijuana.
The
use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) versus traditional
pharmacology.
Experimental
drug programs and disease management.
Mandated
vaccinations and the implications for parental choice not to vaccinate.

Instructions
To prepare your presentation, research current, peer-reviewed
journals for articles that present at least two perspectives on the topic. Your
PowerPoint presentation should include the following:

Discuss
the significance of the topic to your nursing practice and to patient
safety.

What
are the common types of diseases and health issues that are impacted by
this topic?
What
type of patient is typically impacted by this issue?
What
nursing departments or internal departments are impacted by this issue?

Present
a balanced overview of the issue, including pros and cons, supported by
peer-reviewed journal articles. The focus of this overview might vary
depending on the issue but be mindful of the following:

Community
impact.
Patient
outcomes.
Ethical
considerations.
Health
care organization impact.

Describe
how a patient’s cultural beliefs can impact the issue.

Additional Requirements

Length
of PowerPoint: 10–12 slides, not including the title slide and
reference slide
References: Use the
“presenter notes” section of the PowerPoint to include the
references that support your evidence as well as detailed information you
would include if presenting this information to an audience. The last
slide of the PowerPoint should include a list of the references. Please
review the “Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations,”
linked in the Resources.
Formatting: Follow proper
APA style and formatting.