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What useful health data and public health websites did you locate to support your position?

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Practicum Discussion: This week your assignment is to collect and then refine health data about the issue that affects your population group. You will use scholarly professional literature to support your ideas about the population at risk. If data is not available for your population on a local level, then use county or state data. Some examples of health data that you might consider gathering are epidemiologic information related to health conditions, reproductive outcomes, causes of death, vital statistics, socioeconomic data including poverty and/or educational levels, quality of life issues, and/or lack of access to health care due to lack of health insurance or access to providers. You will want to compare local data with state and national trends to fully understand the extent of the selected problem in your community.
Please address the following points in your Practicum Discussion:
Describe the specific health problem and population you have selected.
What data did you find to support your decision? Help each other further refine and clarify the problem and population.
What useful health data and public health websites did you locate to support your position?
What other evidence did you find? You can include scholarly articles in this discussion.

What are the different types of evidence and how does one evaluate a source’s reliability in nursing?

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What are the different types of evidence and how does one evaluate a source’s reliability in nursing?
Understanding the different levels, or hierarchy, of research evidence and how they relate to your research question will help you in determining the appropriate levels of support when engaged in the research process. To that end, you must consider how primary and secondary sources contribute to research as well as the meaningfulness of peer-reviewed articles and meta-analyses for promoting future research.
To prepare for this Discussion,
By Day 3
Post the following:
Explain the challenges of performing a literature search. Then, describe the search engines and the search terms that you used in your online search related to your specific clinical problem for your EBP Project. Explain what went well, what were the challenges, and the amount of time needed to complete the search. In the responses to classmates’ posts please discuss what recommendations that you would give your classmates to improve their searches.

conduct an interview with a representative from a local organization and document the responses

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Instructions:
You will conduct an interview with a representative from a local organization and document the responses. Examples of quality improvement teams in your community might be: local public health department, hospital, long-term care facility, physicians’ group practice, radiology department.
Requirements:
The interview responses must address the following elements in an essay format. This Assignment should be submitted as a Word document.
Team Design and Structure
Goals and Design of the project itself
Data Collection/Analysis
Feedback/review processes
Questions specific to the organization
Application: Based on the results of the interview, create a way to improve a process at this organization through the design of quality assessment and management tools.

Ethical Challenges in Health Care for Practicing NPs

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Discussion: Ethical Challenges in Health Care for Practicing NPs
Consider the following case study:
Mrs. ABC is a 35 year old woman who has a scheduled business trip today. It is currently 8 am, and her plan is to leave at 6 pm. Mrs. ABC has a sore throat and she thinks it is strep because her 5 year old daughter was recently treated for strep. Mrs. ABC calls her physician for an appointment, but there are no appointments available until next week. She has a mother who is a nurse practitioner and her office is 5 minutes away from where she lives. She calls and schedules an appointment with her mother. Her mother was surprised to see her daughter at the office. Mrs. ABC is frantic and begs her mother for an antibiotic. Her mother tests her and the rapid strep test is negative in office. Her mother (NP) sends out a strep DNA probe. Her mother prescribes an antibiotic and the patient (her daughter) is very satisfied. The results returned for the DNA probe 48 hours later and it confirmed negative for strep.
By Day 3
Post an explanation of whether NPs should treat family members. What are the ethical dilemmas in this situation? What are the laws in your state for NPs treating themselves, family, or friends?
****I live in Texas**** but you can choose any state in the US
Resources
http://midlevelu.com/blog/should-providers-treat-their-friends-and-family

http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Ethical-Dilemmas-2.aspx