Critical thinking activities 1. Your community is at risk for a specific type of natural disaster (e.g., tornado, flood, hurricane, and earthquake). Use Nightingale’s principles and observations to develop an emergency plan for one of these events. Outline the items you would include in the plan. 2. Using Nightingale’s concepts of ventilation, light, noise, and cleanliness, analyze the setting in which you are practicing nursing […]

Privacy breaches are serious offenses that negatively affect the trust between nurses and patients. To maintain this trust, nurses must maintain the privacy and security of patient information. Read the scenarios below related to the protection of health information. Scenario 1  A nurse posted the following comment on her social media page: “Can this shift be any longer? It started out with a waiting room […]

J.J is a nurse practitioner who works in a primary care facility. He believes that one of the most important aspects of his work is to foster a therapeutic relationship with his clients. He is using effective communication techniques. Many of his clients have altered sensory perception such as blindness and deafness. Because of these conditions, He has to be extremely patient with his clients. […]

   T.D. enjoys caring for the children and young people in the schools where she works, but sometimes she is faced with tough situations such as suspected child abuse and neglect, teen pregnancy, and alcohol and drug use among teenagers. She works hard to ensure that the children in her schools receive the best care possible. Several third graders reports having received no breakfast at […]

  For learners to best achieve the desired educational outcome, learning styles must be considered when creating a plan. Complete “The VARK Questionnaire,” located on the VARK website, and then complete the following: Click “OK” to receive your questionnaire scores. Once you have determined your preferred learning style, review the corresponding link to view your learning preference. Review the other learning styles: visual, aural, read/write, […]

Describe a policy initiative implemented by nurse leaders from a national professional nursing association, the processes used by the organization in formulating and implementing a policy agenda and the current outcomes of the initiative.  Suggested organizations include (but are not limited to): American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) American Nurses’ Association (A.N.A.) American Association of Nurse Practitioners (A.A.N.P.) American Association for Nursing Leadership (AONL), […]

Think back on a piece of media you’ve consumed recently–whether a television show, a movie, a book, or a podcast–and try to look at it through the lens of some of the key terms we learned in this week’s PowerPoint.  Does the media show us an example of intersectionality, sisterhood, sexism, the male gaze, etc.? Or does it subvert these tripes in different ways? In […]

Search the GCU Library and find two new health care articles that use quantitative research. Do not use articles from a previous assignment, or articles that appear in the Topic Materials or textbook. Complete an article analysis for each using the “Article Analysis: Part 2″ template. Refer to the “Patient Preference and Satisfaction in Hospital-at-Home and Usual Hospital Care for COPD Exacerbations: Results of a […]

For my weekly article assignments I use search engines like Google to assist me in finding articles. The search engine can lead to many accurate sources that I can use as articles. It provides me with information like the date the article was published and the original sources the article came from. This will help me to filter out sites that are not the most […]