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A few years ago Clare Applewood started a small outdoor equipment business called Mountain Top View. The company is a sole proprietorship. The company began as a single storefront and has grown rapidly to include online ordering through the company website. The company’s website includes the statement, “We are committed to keeping customer information secure…
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Post your answers to the following: Explain why a developmental assessment of children and adolescents is important. Describe two assessment instruments and explain why they are used for children and adolescents but not adults. Describe two treatment options for children and adolescents that may not be used when treating adults. Explain…
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The case study is on an 8-year-old boy, manifesting psychiatric symptoms. The mother reported that the client had become very nervous and worried. He also spends most of the time cleaning his hand because he fears his hands could get contaminated and become sick like he previously did. The client has also been avoiding playing…
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Week 1 Discussion Comprehensive psychiatric assessment is a complete evaluation of the patient/client’s appearance, behavior, and motor functions. This looks at exploring the client’s judgment, mood, affect, thought process, level of insight, speech, memory, and orientation. For children and adolescents, gaining a comprehensive evaluation is tied to the therapist’s ability to build a therapeutic relation…
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Based on your work in previous modules, you will wrap up the course with a Discussion on challenges in translating and applying evidence to implement a quality improvement initiative. Draw on your experience in your current or previous health care settings to consider specific barriers to address and opportunities to leverage in advocating for evidence-based…
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Throughout this course you have focused on practice problems to address in applying nursing and interdisciplinary theories, and in the application of evidence-based practice for quality improvement. This week you begin exploring the components of evidence-based practice by framing a practice problem as a critical question. You will begin a search of the literature for…
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Write a critical assessment of your search outcomes that synthesizes the evidence from your literature review. Demonstrate clear connections between the practice problem that informs your critical question, your appraisal of evidence that addresses the critical question,and resulting clarification on the need for a practice change initiative focusing on quality improvement. Be specific and provide…
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As a DNP, you will have a significant voice in your health care setting to advocate for evidence-based nursing practice. Understanding how evidence can inform better nursing care and patient outcomes is fundamental to successful advocacy, as are examples of where, why, and how evidence-based practice is needed. Photo Credit: steheap / Adobe Stock…
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EXPLORING EBP QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Continue working on your Module 3 Assignment to complete this week. Keep in mind that the key requirements are to identify a hypothetical practice problem as the focus of an evidence-based quality improvement project; a hypothetical health care setting for the project based on investigating actual sites; stakeholders for project approval…
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Week 2: Applying Middle Range Theories to Nursing Practice As a registered nurse or APRN, no doubt the issue of managing patient pain is one you have dealt with repeatedly. In identifying successful approaches to addressing and alleviating pain, you may have looked to theories of pain management to inform your practice. The work…