NR451 Week 8 Discussion Question: The Future of Affordable, Safe, and Quality Healthcare What does the following statement mean to you?   In order to meet the challenges of taking care of older and sicker patients, incorporate patient safety and quality of care into practice, and understand economics and its effect on the workforce, nurses…

NR 451 Week 7 Discussion: Healthcare Economics Health care costs are on the rise. What is an example of wasted health care dollars in your clinical practice. And how do you propose improving the utilization of these dollars?

NR451 Week 7 Discussion Question: Health Federal Bills in Congress – HR3325 The Advancing Care for Exceptional Care for Kids Act There is much attention on federal health care policy and law. Health Bills: GovTrack.us provides a list of federal bills that are currently in process in Congressional Committees.   Go to https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/subjects/health/6130   Choose…

NURS 4010 Week 1: The Role of the Community and Public Health Nurse   This week, your Instructor assigned you a chapter in the course textbook that discussed the role of the public health nurse in a specific setting.Based on your assigned chapter and bearing in mind the primary prevention focus of the community/public health…

NR_451 Week 6 Discussion Question: Implementing Change Despite Resistance Change can be difficult to implement. Now that you are almost finished with your change project, if you were to implement your project in your clinical practice, what type of resistance do you expect from staff? List at least three ways that you can lessen the…

NR451 Week 7 Discussion Question: Health Federal Bills in Congress  There is much attention on federal health care policy and law. Health Bills: GovTrack.us provides a list of federal bills that are currently in process in Congressional Committees.   Go to https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/subjects/health/6130   Choose a health-related federal bill of interest to you. Read through the…

NR451 Week 5 Assignment: iCARE Paper As an acute clinician nurse we perform dialysis treatments on patients in the hospital setting. We utilize primary team care model. It allows us to provide optimal direct highest care to our clients with great level of autonomy and quality. As part of a team care we collaborate together…

NR451 Week 5 Discussion Question: Core Competencies for Nurses Explore the website for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative at http://www.qsen.org. How can the QSEN competencies for nurses be implemented into your workplace or professional nursing setting? If you are not currently employ as a nurse, consider a previous care setting that…

NR451 Week 4 Discussion Question: Evaluating Quality Patient Outcomes How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes?   Give an example of data that can reflect poor quality in care.   How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care?   Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with…

NR 451 Week 3 Assignment, Healthcare Policy  Presentation – H.R. 647: Palliative care and Hospice education and Training act   Bill Summary If Bill Passes If Bill Does Not Pass Community Benefits References …………………..Continued (09 Slides with References)