Assignment Description Effective Communication The Joint Commission reported that [poor] communication was the root cause of 66% of Sentinel Events between 1995-2005. Examine the communication and collaboration in your workplace. Include these aspects: The components necessary for effective interpersonal communication. Discuss the importance of interprofessional collaboration. Apply components of interpersonal communication to interprofessional collaboration. Discuss strategies to promote interprofessional collaboration. Describe effective strategies to build […]

  Instructions Develop: Infographic or Timeline Evaluation Title: Kinds of Pop Culture As media grows and changes, we incorporate new forms of communications into popular culture. However, the previous communication methods continue to be used as well. Your assignment this week has two parts: First, you will create a timeline or infographic to address the following questions: Research and provide examples or comparisons that demonstrate […]

REFERENCE:  Incorporate a minimum of 2 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. NO WEBSITE REFERENCE!!!!!! ASSIGNMENT: Find and read a nursing scholarly article that relates to your clinical practice and is found in a peer-reviewed journal.  Write a 1-page summary using an outline of the steps of the research process, discuss […]

Assignment 2: Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) Photo Credit: Getty Images As you establish your goals and objectives for this course, you are committing to an organized plan that will frame your practicum experience in a clinical setting, including planned activities, assessment, and achievement of defined outcomes. In particular, they must address the categories of clinical reasoning, quality in your clinical specialty, and interpersonal collaborative practice.  For this […]

                                                               As noted in the Learning Resources, systems theory provides a meaningful and beneficial means of examining challenges in health care organizations. To do this effectively, however, it is essential to assess all system components, as some may be relatively healthy while others are problematic. For this Assignment, you apply systems theory to the examination of a problem in a department or a unit […]

   Across health care settings, many different terms are used to describe the same or similar conditions. For example, a bed sore may alternatively be called a pressure sore, a pressure ulcer, or a decubitus ulcer. While it may be fairly manageable for a nurse to make the connection among these terms, the same cannot be said for a computer system. Nurses have the ability […]

The requirements for this essay are: 1. 500-600 words; 5-paragraph structure (can have more than five).  2. Your idea about the story itself—the value of the story (at least a paragraph) 3. How it applies to life in general (at least a paragraph) 4. How it applies to you.  Write about an item that is important to you, one that has been passed down to […]

   As health care consumers, we all expect quality care and positive outcomes. It is important as professionals that we meet these demands of health care consumers. Consider the work of the major theorists you examined in this week’s Resources, and think about how these theories apply to your own experience as a health care customer and/or practitioner. By Day 3 Post your definition of […]

Benchmark – Capstone Change Project Objectives  Review your problem or issue and the cultural assessment. Consider how the findings connect to your topic and intervention for your capstone change project. Write a list of three to five objectives for your proposed intervention. Below each objective, provide a one or two sentence rationale. After writing your objectives, provide a rationale for how your proposed project and […]

  Assignment 1: Applying Current Literature to Clinical Practice Literature in psychotherapy differs from other  areas of clinical practice. Generally, there are no clinical trials in  psychotherapy because it is often neither appropriate nor ethical to  have controls in psychotherapy research. This sometimes makes it more  difficult to translate research findings into practice. In your role,  however, you must be able to synthesize current literature […]