Develop a proposal for a specific program for older adults and/or their families. Assume that your budget is flexible but consider real world limitations to implementing the program.
What is your theoretical and research informed rationale for the program you propose?
Who will be targeted to participate?
Who will staff the program?
What will their qualifications be?
What pre-service and in-service training will they receive?
What obstacles do you anticipate encountering with the development and implementation of the program?
How will you determine the effectiveness of the program?
How will you market the program (advertising, a logo, the name of the program, etc.)?
How will you meet the needs of diverse constituents served by the program?
This must be an original proposal and may not duplicate one prepared for another course. To make sure you cover every important topic
I suggest you organize your paper with the following subheadings:
Goals of the Program
Factors to consider (market considerations, laws and regulations, financing)
To what extent will your program promote aging in place?
Coordinate services?
Provide new services?
Target different populations?
Integrate services with other agencies or programs
How will you finance your program?
Who benefits from the program
Who will perform the tasks, and what do tasks entail?
Additional information to include
Research literature and other sources:
Retrieve and read at least 10 recent peer-reviewed journal articles, government websites (not more than 3 websites) and/or book chapters on your topic.
Sources should be from 2006 to present.
Recommended databases include: PsycInfo, CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health Literature), AgeLine, Social Work Abstracts.
Final Project should be 10-15 double spaced pages, not including the title or reference page. Include page numbers. Written assignments may include exhibits or other attachments, but these will not be considered part of the page requirements. Typesetting 12pt Arial

 

Read the following case study and submit a 3-page essay in a Microsoft Word document using APA 6th edition in response to the questions.Support your responses with relevant examples and journal articles

Case Study:

Until recently, the risk of criminal prosecution for nursing practice was nonexistent unless nursing action rose to the level of criminal intent, such as the case of euthanasia leading to murder charges. However, in April 1997, three nurses at the Centura St. Anthony Hospital, outside of Denver, were indicted by a Colorado grand jury for criminally negligent homicide in the death of a newborn. Public records show that one nurse was assigned to care for the baby. A second nurse offered to assist her colleague in caring for the baby. A third nurse was a nurse practitioner in the hospital nursery. Because the baby was at risk for congenital syphilis, the physician ordered that the nurses give 150,000 units of intramuscular penicillin, which would have required five separate injections.

In relation to other problems the same day, the baby was subjected to a lumbar puncture, which required six painful attempts. To avoid inflicting further pain, nurse two asked the nurse practitioner whether there was another route available for the administration of the penicillin. Nurse two and the nurse practitioner searched recognized pharmacology references and determined that intravenous administration would be acceptable. The nurse practitioner had the authority to change the route and directed nurse two to administer the medication intravenously rather than intramuscularly. Unrecognized by the nurses, the pharmacy erroneously delivered the medication, prepared and ready to administer, in a dose ten times greater than was ordered—1.5 million units. As nurse two was administering the medication intravenously, the baby died. The Colorado Board of Nursing initiated disciplinary proceedings against nurse two and the nurse practitioner, but not against nurse one. The grand jury indicted all three nurses on charges of criminally negligent homicide but did not indict the pharmacist (Calfee & Plum, 1997).

Respond to the following:

• Identify and explain what emotions evoke on you the Colorado Board of Nursing case stated above
• Should the courts take into consideration the fact that the nurses’ error occurred because they wanted to avoid causing the baby unnecessary pain? Discuss your thinking.
• Identify and provide examples of other occupations in which the consequences of unintentional errors have greater legal implications.
• Explain how the nursing profession should respond to this frightening new legal threat.
• Identify and describe the sections of the State Nurse Practice Act that the nurses violated in this case.
• Reference: Calfee, B. E, & Plum, S. D. (1997). Nurses indicted: Three Denver nurses face prison in a case that bodes ill for the profession. Retrieved from http://business.highbeam.com/4397/article-1G1-19588498/nurses-indicted-three-denver-nurses-face-prison-case