You are a Home Health RN who is making an initial visit to the home of an elderly couple to assess and develop a plan of care. Mr. Juarez, an 88-year-old man, broke his right tibia due to a fall. He was recently discharged from a skilled rehabilitation center where he had developed a catheter-associated urinary […]
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End-of-life care becomes an issue at some point for elderly patients. Discuss the difference between palliative care and hospice care programs. Discuss what you can do as a nurse to support your patients regarding end-of-life care in accordance with their wishes. Explain the use of advance directives versus Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
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J.C is an 82-year-old white man who was evaluated by GI specialist due to abdominal discomfort, loss of appetite, weight lost, weakness and occasional nausea. Past Medical History (PMH): Patient is Diabetic, controlled with Metformin 500 mg by mouth twice a day, Lantus 15 units SC bedtime. Hypertensive, controlled with Olmesartan 20 mg by mouth
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list the parts of a comprehensive mental status examination (MSE) for mental health patients. Give examples of each and describe the significance to the advanced practice nurse. 3 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract, and references page. Requires an abstract. Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal
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L.W. is a nurse practitioner in an urban community. Many of her clients recently immigrated to the United States from various countries. She is challenged by the many different cultures she encounters and the different values and beliefs they hold toward Western medicine. She is determined to earn her clients’ trust. She does this by
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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.
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Take Action! Take an advocacy action for a health issue of their choice. Step One: Find a health or social service organization that has an advocacy web page. It is common for an advocacy group to have some kind of action you can take or a link to take action on their home page. Here
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Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. Describe your assigned client’s situation. Why are they presenting to the clinic? What medications are they currently taking? Assess the applicable clinical practice guideline (CPG) for your assigned client linked on the same page in the lesson where the client case is located. What treatment is recommended
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Use the table below to identify the cybersecurity breach assigned based on the first letter of your first name. For example, if your first name is Gilda then your assigned app is malware. Create a fictional scenario involving the assigned breach. First initial of your first nameCybersecurity breach A-EPhishing F-JMalware K-ORansomware P-SInsider Threat T-ZSpoofing Include the
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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
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