Month: October 2020

1. Explain the role of the consumer in fostering environmentally supportive agricultural practices.

Your response must be a minimum of 75 words.

2. Briefly describe what an allele is, then discuss the differences between dominant and recessive alleles. Provide an example of each type of allele in your discussion.

Your response must be a minimum of 75 words.

3. What are carbohydrates and how are they used by the body? How do complex carbohydrates differ from regular carbohydrates? List five foods that are rich in carbohydrates.

Your response must be a minimum of 75 words.

4. What are Darwin’s four observations concerning natural selection? List and briefly explain each one with an example. How does natural selection impact evolution?

Your response must be a minimum of 200 words.

Competency

Differentiate the legal and professional policies influencing healthcare decisions.

Scenario

You recognize your role as a client advocate and have decided to work with the American Nurses Association related to health policy issues. You choose to write a letter to your national legislator in your voting district addressing legal policies associated with genetic discrimination that you have seen either in person or in the news. Write a professional letter to your federal senator demonstrating your client advocacy about genetic discrimination and how it correlates to legal and professional policies.

Instructions

Include the following in your message:

Describe the background of genetic discrimination of your choice to include the significance of this specific problem.
Discuss how the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 applies to the genetic discrimination you identified.
Include in your letter how clients, families, and communities could benefit from your recommendations.

Scenario

You are a nursing manager of the education and innovations department at a large nonprofit academic medical center. You do work at the flagship hospital, but there are three additional campuses and several affiliated facilities throughout three additional states. Therefore, technology is heavily relied upon for consistent and reliable communication for interdisciplinary care. Recently, the CNO sent you a patient satisfaction survey highlighting how impressed this patient was with their nurses timeliness of answering their questions. The patient continued to share that the nurse used their personal cell phone to reach out to the patients provider to get clarification of the patients discharge instructions. The patient loved their quick response and wanted to highlight this as a best practice for all healthcare professionals.

Instructions

You have just completed a technology usage assessment of the healthcare staff across departments, and it has come to your attention that several nurses occasionally communicate with medical providers through text on their personal cell phones, using their phones messaging service. The nurses found that they are able to meet their patient needs more quickly. Your assessment also discovered that a nurse used their personal cell phone to take a picture of a patients foot ulcer. The picture was posted on social media as a reminder to diabetics the importance of managing their blood sugars. As the nursing education manager it is your responsibility to ensure staff are following the hospital polices and your technology assessment has highlighted that the staff is in urgent need of HIPAA training and Smart Phone use.

Using the scenario above create a mandatory training for all staff using PowerPoint with voice over including the following:

Examine personal Smart Phone use and its implications in Healthcare
Identify and explain a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Smartphones in healthcare (including text messaging and pictures)
Discuss potential benefits to appropriate Smartphone use in healthcare
Examine judicious use of Social Media and its implications in Healthcare
Potential benefits to appropriate use of Social Media in healthcare
Identify a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Social Media (as reviewed by NCSBN)
Describe regulatory bodies and Ethical Frameworks used to protect Personal Health Information (PHI)
Investigate the role of HIPAA, HITECH, and Nursing Code of Ethics
Determine the legal consequences associated with unethical or illegal Smart Phone and Social Media use.
Format

Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
Logical, original and insightful
Professional organization, style, and mechanics in APA format
Submit document through Grammarly to correct errors before submission