Identify a professional organization and then complete the following tasks: Analyze and discuss the selected organization′s aim and activities.

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Identify a professional organization and then complete the following tasks: Analyze and discuss the selected organization′s aim and activities. Explain how the organization meets, supports, or advocates the EBP standards and concepts of professional nursing. In addition, explain the concepts of professional nursing—caring, communication, critical thinking, professionalism, and holism

Describe your experience in assessing and managing the patient and his or her family

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Reflect on a patient who presented with cardiovascular or genetic disorders during your Practicum experience. Describe your experience in assessing and managing the patient and his or her family. Include details of your “aha” moment in identifying the patient’s disorder. Then, explain how the experience connected your classroom studies to the real-world clinical setting. If you did not have an opportunity to evaluate a patient with this background during the last 8 weeks, you may select a related case study from a reputable source or reflect on previous clinical experiences.

What are the three reasons why United States expenditures on health differ from other OECD countries?

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This module looks at who the stakeholders are in the U.S. health care system and how and why their wants and needs vary. This module also explores the incentives and disincentives to lower costs and improve quality of care in the US, and it illustrates the fragmentation and lack of centralized oversight of the system. Particular attention is paid to regional variation.
Gawande, A. (2009). The cost conundrum. New Yorker, 85(16), 36.
Shi, Ch. 12: Cost, Access, and Quality
Bohmer & Knoop, 2006, “The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System” (606096)
Questions
• 1. What are the three reasons why United States expenditures on health differ from other OECD countries?
• 2. What factors explain why the United States has a health disadvantage compared to other wealthy nations?

How does the media positively or negatively influence the public’s image of nursing

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The media, and Hollywood in particular, represent one avenue in which the general public becomes familiar with the role of nurses. How does the media positively or negatively influence the public’s image of nursing? What other avenues may better educate the general public on the role and scope of nursing as well as the changing health care system?