Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of a facility using supplemental and floating staff. Compare and contrast how a staffing plan would differ with different nursing units. How does that affect the staffing budget? Utilizing supplemental (e.g., agency or per diem nurses) and floating staff (employees reassigned temporarily from one unit to another) is a common […]
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Patient is a 70 year old female presenting with shortness of breath, cough and fever. Denies chest pain. She reports symptoms for 4 days. She has history of hypertension and COPD and is regularly on 2L O2 at home.Vital signs – HR: 120, BP: 105/60, RR: 28, O2: 86% on 2L, Temp: 102F Develop a
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PL is a 63-year-old male with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes presenting for follow-up and treatment optimization. Current medications include dicyclomine 10 mg po QID prn abdominal pain, pantoprazole 40 mg po daily 30 minutes before breakfast, losartan 50 mg po daily, and probiotics daily. His lab work today includes: BG 196 mg/dL, A1C 8.6%,
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RC is a 58-year-old female that presents to the clinic today with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. What would you prescribe? Consider her labs and provide a drug therapy plan. Include complete medication orders. How would you monitor therapy? Labs: TSH 3.4 mU/L, vitamin D 22 ng/mL, B12 501 pg/mL, Hgb 12.8 g/dL, BG 96 mg/dL, A1C
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AB is a 34-year-old female presenting to the clinic with ongoing migraine headaches. “I’m still getting migraines once a week, even though I take Ubrelvy when they start.” She reports experiencing 3 to 4 migraine attacks per month, typically associated with throbbing pain on one side, light sensitivity, and nausea. Migraines can last from 6-24
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What are the errors in the following prescriptions (5 total)? Rewrite each prescription correctly. What is each medication classification? What is the mechanism of action (MOA)? fluticasone/salmeterol (Advair) 115/21 mcg 1 inhalation BID #1 Diskus 3 RF albuterol 4 mg po 15-30 min before exercise #30 2 RF budesonide/fluticasone (Symbicort) 160/4.5 mcg, 2 puffs inhaled
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A 41-year-old male patient presents at the community walk-in clinic with complaints of severe elbow pain radiating into the forearm. His 13-year-old daughter is serving as a translator because her father is unable to speak English and understands only a few words in English. The daughter explains that he has been taking Tylenol to manage
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Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. General Instructions Advanced practice nurses must be equipped to critique scholarly literature and discern its value for application to practice. Select one current clinical practice guideline (CPG) related to your PICOT question. If a relevant CPG
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Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. General Instructions Investigate population health and epidemiological data to learn about prevalent disease trends within your geographic region. Compare and contrast the prevalence of diseases in the selected region with disease rates and trends in a different
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Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. General Instructions Locate a scholarly article describing population-based research using a case-control or cohort study design. Provide a detailed critique of the selected article, addressing the questions below. Include the following sections: Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with
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