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Reflect on your Practicum Experience and select a female patient whom you have examined with the support and guidance of your Preceptor.

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***Must have a medical background to be able to complete this assignment without it sounding ridiculous. I have uploaded an outline.
For this assessment the patient will be a 63 year old female with a cystocele, and chief complaint urinary incontinence. The rest of the info can be made up such as medical history meds labs just make it believable to the pt age and diagnosis.
Comprehensive Patient Assessment
When completing practicum requirements in clinical settings, you and your Preceptor might complete several patient assessments in the course of a day or even just a few hours. This schedule does not always allow for a thorough discussion or reflection on every patient you have seen. As a future advanced practice nurse, it is important that you take the time to reflect on a comprehensive patient assessment that includes everything from patient medical history to evaluations and follow-up care. For this Assignment, you begin to plan and write a comprehensive assessment paper that focuses on one female patient from your current practicum setting.
By Day 7 of Week 9
This Assignment is due. It is highly recommended that you begin planning and working on this Assignment as soon as it is viable.
To prepare
· Reflect on your Practicum Experience and select a female patient whom you have examined with the support and guidance of your Preceptor.
· Think about the details of the patient’s background, medical history, physical exam, labs and diagnostics, diagnosis, treatment and management plan, as well as education strategies and follow-up care.
To complete
Write an 8- to 10-page comprehensive paper that addresses the following:
· Age, race and ethnicity, and partner status of the patient
· Current health status, including chief concern or complaint of the patient
· Contraception method (if any)
· Patient history, including medical history, family medical history, gynecologic history, obstetric history, and personal social history (as appropriate to current problem)
· Review of systems
· Physical exam
· Labs, tests, and other diagnostics
· Differential diagnoses
· Management plan, including diagnosis, treatment, patient education, and follow-up care

Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Influenza is a virus that can be easily spread from person to person and kills thousands of people each year. Healthcare workers are at risk of exposing themselves to infectious diseases from patients and material and therefore can also potentially transmit these diseases to others. Preventing and controlling the spread of vaccine preventable diseases in the health care setting is vital to ensure proper infection control practices should an outbreak occur. As such, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommend vaccination of health care workers.
You are a public health researcher. You have been asked to identify a vaccine-preventable disease and create a 10- to 12-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint on a research design. Your research design should focus on determining why health care workers are not receiving the vaccination for your selected vaccine-preventable disease in their place of employment.
The presentation should also include the following:
Researched and identified the disease to create a research plan
An introduction and synopsis of the selected disease
History of the public health issue or disease
Social or behavioral antecedents related to the disease
Epidemiological relevance of the disease
Proposed research design
Sampling plan
Strengths and weaknesses of chosen research design
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Submission Details
Name your presentation SU_PHE3025_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.ppt.
Submit your presentation to the W3 Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, October 24, 2017.
Assignment 2 Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsResearched and identified the disease to create a research plan.

Describe the selected smoking cessation program and the behavioral theory that provided the foundation for the program.

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Public health interventions are now guided primarily by theoretical frameworks. There is a strong correlation between behavior and how it influences attitudes and beliefs about health issues. The relationship is complex and includes several aspects including individual environmental, social, and political factors.
For this assignment, conduct a literature review of journal articles, not more than three-years old, on a smoking cessation program. Write a 5–6-page paper in Microsoft Word format.
Include the following:
Describe the selected smoking cessation program and the behavioral theory that provided the foundation for the program.
Examine how the behavioral theory was selected for the specific target population.
Explain whether you agree or disagree with the selected behavioral theory and list two other behavioral health models that you might have used to address this issue.
Provide examples of how the authors of the journal articles you reviewed incorporated components of the theoretical framework into the planning and implementation processes and then explain the significance of the selected theoretical framework.
Submit your assignment to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, October 24, 2017.
Name your document SUO_PHE4095_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Cite all sources using the APA format.
Assignment 2 Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsAdequately described the selected smoking cessation program and the behavioral theory that provided the foundation for the program.40Examined

Reflect on the information presented in the Learning Resources, focusing on personal health records and patient portals as used by the VA.

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Personal Health Records
Consider the PHRs of today. Patient-accessible health records are currently web-based and have seen little consumer use when compared to the total U.S. population. The VA has had notable success with its veterans logging on; however, other web-based portals have struggled. Google Health, a free PHR site, shut its services down effective January of 2012 citing too few and inconsistent users to maintain the site.
PHRs can eliminate the plethora of patient charts and help to assimilate a lifetime of medical documentation. What do you think will motivate society to fully embrace these electronic resources?
To prepare:
Reflect on the information presented in the Learning Resources, focusing on personal health records and patient portals as used by the VA.
Consider your personal and professional experiences with personal health records and patient portals.
What benefits, concerns, and challenges do these types of systems bring to the health care profession? How might they influence your professional practice and your patient’s health outcomes?
Explore one patient portal. If you do not have access to one through your practice setting, utilize a free service such as FollowMyHealth http://followmyhealth.jardogs.com/ or Microsoft HealthVault http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/.
Assess the kind of information that you would put in your own personal health record. What concerns (if any) would you have about the security of your personal information in a personal health record?
Think about your stance on the value of PHRs. Do you believe that every individual should be required to maintain a PHR?
What capabilities and/or features might entice people to use them?
What factors might inhibit people from using them?
By tomorrow Tuesday 10/24/17, write a minimum of 550 words essay with at least 3 references in APA format from the list of required readings below. Include the level one and level two headings per APA guidelines as numbered and lettered below:
Post a cohesive response that addresses the following:
1) Appraise your selected personal health patient portal.
2) Evaluate the influence of PHRs on health care delivery and clinical practice.
3) Take a position for or against mandating PHRs. Justify your stance addressing the following points:
Personal health records via patient portals are part of Meaningful Use 2 and the debate over mandating them is essentially over.
What capabilities and/or features might motivate individuals to maintain PHRs?
What factors may deter individuals from signing up for this service?
What concerns might you and your patients have about a PHR’s capability to securely maintain personal information?
How might PHRs influence your professional practice and your patients’ health outcomes, positively or negatively?
Required Readings
Course Text: Ball, M. J., Douglas, J. V., Hinton Walker, P., DuLong, D., Gugerty, B., Hannah, K. J., . . . Troseth, M. R. (Eds.) (2011). Nursing informatics: Where technology and caring meet (4th ed.). London, England: Springer-Verlag.
Review Chapter 16, “Personal Health Record: Managing Personal Health”
This chapter focuses on the future of personal health records and consumerism, as well as the initiatives being developed to strengthen health literacy in the patient population. The nurse’s role in the development of personal health records is also discussed.
Reti, S. R., Feldman, H. J., Ross, S. E., & Safran, C. (2010). Improving personal health records for patient-centered care. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17(2), 192–195.
Several key elements that designers and practitioners need to be aware of when developing patient-centered electronic health records are outlined in this article.
Schneider, J. M. (2010). Electronic and personal health records: VA’s key to patient safety. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 14(1), 12–22.
This article begins with a brief overview of the benefits and challenges of EHRs and moves into an exemplary example of the record systems currently being used at the VA.
Wagner, P. J., Howard, S. M., Bentley, D. R., Seol, Y., & Sodomka, P. (2010). Incorporating patient perspectives into the personal health record: Implications for care and caring. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 7(Fall), 1–12.
Within this study, the authors integrate patients into a preexisting personal health record system to analyze the overall feelings that patients have about its design and usability options.
Required Media
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: Electronic records. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.
This week’s media presentations explain how electronic access to patient information is changing the way that health care is practiced.
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: The way to good health! Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes.
This week’s media presentations explain how electronic access to patient information is changing the way that health care is practiced. This media segment is from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and allow you to take a look into the workings of patient portals. VA professionals who work closely with these systems look at the devices, benefits, and future of interoperable technology systems.
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: VA & DoD sharing of electronic health information. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.
This week’s media presentations explain how electronic access to patient information is changing the way that health care is practiced. This media segment is from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and allow you to take a look into the workings of patient portals. VA professionals who work closely with these systems look at the devices, benefits, and future of interoperable technology systems.
Optional Resources
Jones, D. A., Shipman, J. P., Plaut, D. A., & Selden, C. R. (2010). Characteristics of personal health records: Findings of the Medical Library Association/National Library of Medicine Joint Electronic Personal Health Record Task Force. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 98(3), 243–249.
Page, D. (2010). The two paths to PHRS. Hospitals & Health Networks, 84(9), 44, 46.