CHAPTER 6 – ASSIGNMENT

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CHAPTER 6 – ASSIGNMENT

What types of advocacy exist for nurses today? Certainly we can see how there are many ways and different groups to advocate for as a nurse.

Definition of Advocate:

  1. Defends or promotes the rights of others.
  2. Changes systems to meet the needs of others.
  3. Empowers and promotes self-determination in others.
  4. Promotes autonomy of diverse cultures.
  5. Ensures respect, equality, and dignity for others.
  6. Cares for the humanness of all.

Instructions:

  1. Examine the term advocate as defined above, and think of how advocacy can be demonstrated in everyday practice.
  2. Select at least three (3) of the factors that make up the definition and give a very specific explanation of how you or someone you know has demonstrated they were/are an advocate.
  3. Your paper should be:
    • Typed according to APA style for margins, formatting and spacing standards
    • Typed into a Microsoft Word document or complete the Staffing Table, save the file, and then upload the file

Reducing Hospital Readmissions

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Reducing Hospital Readmissions

Question descriptionIn patients with Congestive Heart Failure, would providing a scale for patients at discharge, education regarding weighing daily & follow-up telephone calls reduce hospital readmissions within 30 days?
You are to create a Design for Change proposal inclusive of your Practice Issue and Evidence Summary worksheet from your Capstone Project Milestone 1. Your plan is to convince your management team of a nursing problem you have uncovered and you feel is significant enough to change the way something is currently practiced. In the event you are not currently working as a nurse, please use a hypothetical clinical situation you experienced in nursing school, or nursing education issue you identified in your nursing program.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

  • CO1: Applies the theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines to individuals, families, aggregates, and communities from entry to the healthcare system through long-term planning. (PO1)
  • CO2: Proposes leadership and collaboration strategies for use with consumers and other healthcare providers in managing care and/or delegating responsibilities for health promotion, illness prevention, health restoration and maintenance, and rehabilitative activities. (PO2)

Due Date
Milestone 2 consists of the proposal for your Design for Change Capstone Project. Use the Turnitin Inbox to submit this assignment by the end of Week 4.
Points
Milestone 2 is worth 225 points.
You are required to use the assignment specific item(s) (article/systematic review/topic/form/templates) or you will earn a “0” for the assignment. In addition, assignments that do not follow the current guidelines or use the required item, as defined above, will be evaluated for evidence of an academic integrity violation.
After the due date, there will be no opportunity for revision or resubmission of assignments that have been uploaded to the submission area. This includes blank, incomplete, incorrect file, and/or incorrect file format documents. It is your responsibility to submit the correct completed assignment in the correct format to the correct submission area. Your last submission before the due date will be graded. You may not resubmit after the due date with a different file and incur a late deduction per the Late Assignment policy.
Directions

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describe the impact of illness on nutrition

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describe the impact of illness on nutrition

Question descriptionFor the Paper
Write a 3 page 500 words minimum paper for the concept of nutrition. Paper must use 3-4 peer review journal from 2000 to present. Describe the impact of illness on nutrition by using 2 concepts from the text on page 935 or select two other concepts. For each concept use in-cite citation to describe its relationship to the impact of illness on nutrition, the nursing implications (nursing related consequences, not the medical side effect, but things which may occur which are up to the nurse to resolve) and this paper must include client teaching involved on each concept.
Use the latest APA format .Please have a separate reference page using 3-4 references.The attached has the concepts.
The textbook name is Nursing:A Concept -Based approach to Learning,Volume 1/edition 2 by Pearson Education

Public Health

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Public Health

Question descriptionAs a public health leader, it is important to understand your own personal mission, vision, and values statement.
Your leadership philosophy and style will be reflected to those you work with.
Use the bullets below to develop your leadership philosophy:

  • Identify three examples of personal success (e.g., at work, in your community, at home). Is there a pattern or theme to your successes?
  • Develop a list of five core values that you believe in. Which value is most important to you?
  • How do you want to make a difference? How do you contribute to your employer, your family, and/or the world?
  • What are your short- and long-term goals? Prioritize them.
  • Write your mission, vision, and values statement (can be placed either in the body of the paper or in the Appendix section).
  • In your conclusion paragraph, describe the process of writing this mission statement. Did you learn anything new about yourself? How can you use this mission statement in the future?

Your assignment can either be written in Word (2–3 pages in length, excluding title and reference pages) or you can use PowerPoint or any other presentation software. Use current APA formatting to style your paper/presentation and to cite your sources. Integrate your sources into the paragraphs. Use internal citations pointing to evidence in the literature and supporting your ideas. You will need to include a reference page listing those sources.