QUESTION You are managing community care for Katie, age 17, who has cerebral palsy and is severely disabled. Because of the impact of this adolescent’s disability, you are also providing care to her mother, Monica, age 50, who is a single parent. Monica has cardiac disease, and all three of her siblings died in their late 50s. She is not able to work and is […]

QUESTION ame: Mrs. Patricia Warren Gender: female Age: 42 years old Background: Patricia was brought in under a emergency evaluation order after her best friend, Felicia, after the police for Patricia locking herself in a closet and screaming loudly for over an hour. EMS was able to calm her with a small dose of Ativan enroute to the emergency department. This is Patricia’s third presentation […]

QUESTION Bob, a licensed physical therapist with 20 years of home health experience, used his personal cell phone to take photos of a resident in the group home where he worked. Prior to taking the photo, Bob asked the resident’s brother if it was okay for him to take the photo. The brother agreed. The resident was unable to give consent due to her mental […]

QUESTION REMEMBER: SMART goals are SPECIFIC/MEASURABLE/ATTAINABLE/RELEVANT/TIME-LIMITED SMART goals should activate your knowledge, skills and judgement on a critical thinking level expected for a semester 4 student, rather than strictly skills based tasks. (For example “I will recognize the early signs of post partum hemorrhage, and understand its’ management by the end of this clinical rotation” verses “I want to put in a foley catheter by […]

QUESTION Provide a literature review of six sentences of the following articles. Vazquez, G., Duval, S., Jacobs, D. R., & Silventoinen, K. (2007). Comparison of body mass index, waist circumference, and waist/hip ratio in predicting incident diabetes Vicks, W. S., Lo, J. C., Guo, L., Rana, J. S., Zhang, S., Ramalingam, N. D., & Gordon, N. P. (2022). Prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes vary by […]

QUESTION Sentence topic proposal on Parkinsons Disease. As a reminder, your proposal should include the name of your disease or disorder, the reason(s) why you would like to study this disease or disorder, and any facts that you know about this disease or disorder so far. After submitting your proposal, find three (3) citations that could be used for this topic. Include the citations in […]

QUESTION Based on this scenario: 7 yo typically developing Anya was recently diagnosed with Sickle Cell disease and has been hospitalized for an extended period of time for a pain crisis. Anya has a 4 year and old 11-year-old sibling at home who lives 5 hours away from the hospital and can only visit on weekends. Anya’s dad is staying with Anya working from the […]

QUESTION Informatics has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. The changes in health care alone have forced organizations to do things far differently than they once imagined. The massive amounts of data available grow every day. You are a member of a planning committee in your organization whose purpose is to research and report on future trends in the field of informatics. You will […]

QUESTION Scenario Oak Township Medical Center (OTMC) in Georgia, a 600-bed hospital, has expanded significantly over the past 3 years. In an effort to respond to the increased workload of all hospital staff, the chief information officer (CIO) and the vice president of patient care services (VP-PCS) at OTMC determined the need to analyze hospital processes throughout the organization. The OTMC organizational analysis revealed a […]

QUESTION  Your patient has a medication order for Metformin XR 1000 mg PO Daily.  What information will you need to educate them on this medication?  The medication, dose, side effects, and nursing interventions.  Describe the signs and symptoms of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) and your priority actions when taking care of this patient. You have an order for NPH Insulin 30 units and Regular Insulin 5 […]