Week 2: The Clinical Issue and Research Questions Developed Using PICOT PICOT is an acronym used to help develop clinical research questions and guide you in your search for evidence: P = Patient population I = Intervention or issue of interest C = Comparison of interventions or comparison of interests O = Outcome T = Time frame For example, you may wish to research […]

  Select an issue related to healthcare that was addressed by each of the last three U.S. presidential administrations. Reflect on the focus of their respective agendas, including the allocation of financial resources for addressing the healthcare issue you selected. Consider how you would communicate the importance of a healthcare issue to a legislator/policymaker or a member of their staff for inclusion on an agenda. […]

 Instructions Human Research Protection  This week you will examine the concept of protecting human subjects in research. The aim is to familiarize you with the ethical issues associated with research and gain firsthand information of the processes used to protect research participants. Search YouTube for the following videos to review: Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich Research Ethics involving Human Subjects The […]

  Interdisciplinary Paper Research and organize literature for the Interdisciplinary paper due in week 13.  Incorporate health outcomes of the health promotion, detection of disease and disease prevention.  Organize an interdisciplinary paper for your client and the delivery of safe and effective care. Choose a disease process and apply standards that are evidenced based which help support for the protection of your client.  Incorporate concepts […]

     NUTRITION RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC GUIDELINES Obesity among adolescents Guidelines:  The paper body will have a minimum length is 2400 words. (Max 2900). Single page in APA format is about 250-300 words per page.  This does not include the title page or reference page.  The paper is to be in APA format and grammatically correct. Use word count to ensure the paper is the proper […]

    The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem. For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be […]

The Assignment (2-3 pages): Developing Organizational Policies and Practices Add a section to the paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following: Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor. Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor. Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the […]

   Disease prevention is the process of preventing disease, especially a disease an individual may be at high risk for developing. In disease prevention, health care providers help the patient move away from disease. For this assignment, groups will select one of the patient populations from the Health Promotion Table prepared for the Topic 1 assignment and identify a major disease or health concern this […]

   Scenario 3: A 34-year-old Hispanic-American male with end-stage renal disease received kidney transplant from a cadaver donor, as no one in his family was a good match. His post-operative course was uneventful, and he was discharged with the antirejection drugs Tacrolimus (Prograf), Cyclosporine (Neoral), and Imuran (Azathioprine). He did well for 3 months and had returned to his job as a policeman. Six months […]

  Review the national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the Resources and reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study. Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. Identify and review two additional scholarly resources (not included in the Resources for this module) that focus on change strategies implemented by healthcare organizations […]