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Develop a 3-4 page preliminary care coordination plan for a selected health care problem. Include physical, psychosocial, and cultural considerations for this health care problem. Identify and list available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
The first step in any effective project is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate the coordination of care for a particular health care problem. Include physical, psychosocial, and cultural considerations for this health care problem. Identify and list available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
For this assessment, you will develop a 3–4 page preliminary care coordination plan for a
selected health care problem. Include physical, psychosocial, and cultural considerations for this
health care problem. Identify and list available community resources for a safe and effective
continuum of care.
Before you complete the instructions detailed in the courseroom, first select one of the following
health care problems or issues: 
• Homelessness
• Physical considerations: Homelessness can cause physical health problems such
as exposure to the elements, malnutrition, and injuries. 
• Psychosocial considerations: Homelessness can cause emotional distress, social
isolation, and difficulty with daily activities. 
• Cultural considerations: Cultural beliefs and practices may influence an individual’s
willingness to seek help for homelessness. 
• Community resources: Homeless shelters, transitional housing programs, and
outreach programs can provide resources and support for individuals experiencing
homelessness.
• Aging and Elder Care
• 
Physical considerations: Aging can cause physical health problems such as
chronic diseases, mobility limitations, and cognitive decline.
• Psychosocial considerations: Aging can cause emotional distress, social isolation,
and difficulty with daily activities. 
• Cultural considerations: Cultural beliefs and practices may influence an individual’s
willingness to seek help for aging-related issues. 
• Community resources: Senior centers, home health care services, and caregiver
support groups can provide resources and support for older adults and their
caregivers. 
After you have selected one of the problems/issues from the list above, return to the detailed
instructions in the courseroom to complete your assessment  
Develop the Preliminary Care Coordination Plan
Complete the following:
Select one of the health concerns in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Preliminary Care Coordination Plan [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Preliminary Care Coordination Plan [PDF]resource as the focus of your care coordination plan. In your plan, please include physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs.
Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
Document Format and Length
Your preliminary plan should be an APA scholarly paper, 3–4 pages in length.
Remember to use active voice, this means being direct and writing concisely; as opposed to passive voice, which means writing with a tendency to wordiness.
In your paper include possible community resources that can be used.
Be sure to review the scoring guide to make sure all criteria are addressed in your paper.
Study the subtle differences between basic, proficient, and distinguished.
Supporting Evidence
Cite at least two credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications that support your preliminary plan.
Grading Requirements
The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Preliminary Care Coordination Plan Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Analyze your selected health concern and the associated best practices for health improvement.
Cite supporting evidence for best practices.
Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.
Describe specific goals that should be established to address the health care problem.
Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
Write with a specific purpose with your patient in mind.
Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and current APA formatting requirements.

Scenario
The Board of Nursing in your state has decided to utilize a tool developed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing called the Taxonomy of Error, Root Cause Analysis Practice- Responsibility (TERCAP). Your nurse manager has provided you with a summary of the completed TERCAP report by your Board of Nursing’s Disciplinary Action Committee. She has asked you to review this summary and to develop a proposal of suggestions for continuing education topics on ways to minimize legal risks for your hospital’s practicing nurses. The nurse educators will develop an education series based upon your recommendations.
Instructions
Prepare a proposal based on the summary of the TERCAP with recommendations and suggestions on minimizing legal risks that:
Part One – Review summary of completed TERCAP report below.
A patient, aged 54, admitted for back surgery secondary to compressed vertebrae and intense pain. The difficulty with pain management has caused the patient some depression and insomnia over the last month. During her first post-operative day, the patient fell attempting to go from the bed to the bathroom without assistance. Her injury was serious and involved significant harm requiring two additional days of hospitalization and an addition six weeks of physical therapy.
A review of the case determined that her assigned nurse on night shift was an RN (age 24) with nine months of experience in this unit. This was her third 12 hours shift in a row, and she was 29 weeks pregnant. There were 28 beds occupied with only two RNs and one patient technician, due to one vacancy and a call-in for illness. This community facility has experienced a turnover rate of 12% in the last year (community average of 4.5%), and has a high number of new graduates working on medical surgical units, particularly on the 7 pm- 7 am shift.
A review of the chart showed that the patient had been advised by the out-going nurse, who admitted her to the unit post-operatively, that she needed to ask for assistance with toileting for at least the next 24 hours due to the extensive back surgery and post-anesthesia response and pain medication. The RN coming on shift had received bedside shift report at 7 pm and noted the patient sleeping, so the issue of patient assistance was not repeated. She checked on her again at 8 pm and administered the requested prn medication (morphine) for pain. She was busy with other patients and did not see the patient again until the patient fell at 9:51 pm.
The patient reported that she did not recall having been instructed to ask for assistance, as she was very groggy from the anesthesia. She stated that she had pushed the nurse call button for assistance and “no one came.” There was no clerical support at the nursing station and the three staff members had been very busy with patients, so this statement could not be substantiated.
The risk manager found that the RN had not followed nursing policy for patient assessment 20 minutes after receiving pain medication, and had not done the recommended hourly rounding on the patient to assess for the need for elimination, pain, and patient comfort. The note in the chart indicated only that the patient requested pain medication, but did not provide specific nursing assessment details or comment that the patient had received the same dosage of morphine two hours earlier.
Part Two – Factors and Actions
Discusses the factors that contributed to event and how these factors could be addressed to minimize legal risks.
Situational factors
Nursing factors
Human factors
Organizational factors
Explains whether the nurse was negligent or did her actions reach the level of malpractice and support your reasoning with research.
Determines what options the nursing board had regarding this nurse’s license to practice nursing.
Describes your reasoning for what action would you recommend (warning, probation, revocation of license) if you were on the disciplinary committee of your Board of Nursing.
Explains how the level of nursing behavior relates to your proposed recommendation on licensure.
Part Three – Continuing Education
Summarizes a list of topics to be provided to the education department based on the summary of the TERCAP report.
Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the proposal.

Reflect on your experience with library research, noting the challenges you faced and the strategies you used to overcome them. Consider how this research process has contributed to your growth as a nursing student.
This should be no longer than one page.

offer suggestions/strategies for working with this database from your own experience, or offering ideas for using alternative resources.
Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.

Take ‘Conflict Self-Assessment’ on page 186 of your ‘Leading and Managing’ eBook (box 8.2) and tally your results according to the instructions.
On a Word document, record your answers to the following questions and upload them below. Be specific and thorough in your answers. Provide examples when appropriate and always give credit to your sources.
According to the self-assessment, which ‘conflict handling approach’ best describes you? Do you think this accurately describes you? How does one react to conflict with this style? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this style? 
Which conflict handling style do you think is most effective in resolving conflict? Describe a time where you have seen this approach in action. What was the outcome?
How can you be a more effective communicator – both in normal conversation and during a conflict? What modifications to your current nonverbal and verbal communication pattern can you make to be a more effective communicator?
On a Word document, record your answers and upload them below.
Give credit to your sources using APA 7th edition format; use both in-text citations and a reference page. Please visit the Writing Center if you need assistance.
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The Chronic Health Paper and reviewed the article by Belsky, Moffitt, & Caspi (2013) is due this week.
This paper should clearly and comprehensively discuss a chronic health disease. Select a topic from the list provided by your course faculty.
The paper should be organized into the following sections:
Introduction (Identification of the problem) with a clear presentation of the problem as well as the significance and a scholarly overview of the paper’s content. No heading is used for the Introduction per APA current edition.
Background and Significance of the disease, to include: Definition, description, signs and symptoms. Incidence and prevalence of statistics by state with a comparison to national statistics pertaining to the disease. If after a search of the library and scholarly data bases, you are unable to find statistics for your home state, or other states, consider this a gap in the data and state as much in the body of the paper. For instance, you may state something like, “After an exhausting search of the scholarly data bases, this writer is unable to locate incidence and/or prevalence data for the state of…” This indicates a gap in surveillance that will be included in the “Plan” section of this paper.
Surveillance and Reporting: Current surveillance methods and mandated reporting processes as related to the chronic health condition chosen should be specific.
Epidemiological Analysis: Conduct a descriptive epidemiology analysis of the health condition. Be sure to include all of the 5 W’s: What, Who, Where, When, Why. Use details associated with all of the W’s, such as the “Who” which should include an analysis of the determinants of health. Include costs (both financial and social) associated with the disease or problem.
Screening and Guidelines: Review how the disease is diagnosed and current national standards (guidelines). Pick one screening test (review Week 2 Discussion Board) and review its sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and cost.
Plan: Integrating evidence, provide a plan of how a nurse practitioner will address this chronic health condition after graduation. Provide three specific interventions that are based on the evidence and include how you will measure outcomes (how will you know that the interventions have utility, are useful?) Note:  Consider primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions as well as the integration of health policy advocacy efforts. All interventions should be based on evidence connected to a resource such as a scholarly piece of research.
Summary/Conclusion: Conclude in a clear manner with a brief overview of the keys points from each section of the paper utilizing integration of resources.
The paper should be formatted and organized into the following sections which focus on the chosen chronic health condition.
Adhere to all paper preparation guidelines (see below).
Preparing the Paper
Page length: 7-10 pages, excluding title page and references.
APA format current edition
Include scholarly in-text references throughout and a reference list.

Preparing the Discussion
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions
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.
Ransomware
Include the following sections:
Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
Identify and define your assigned breach. 
Describe the type of organization in which the breach occurred. 
Identify who was involved. 
Describe how the breach occurred. 
Examine how the threat could impact the organization. Discuss what consequences the breach may cause. 

Edit the following brochure to include the following: 
The project is focused on the Diabetic population and preventing Metabolic syndrome, information directed to the patient is what is expected to be within the brochure.  As you have been learning about this population while working on your project the information you’ve gained should assist you in educating your population. 
1. What specific information did you recognize they need to prevent Diabetes from developing into Metabolic Syndrome?
2. what signs and symptoms do they need to recognize and report to a provider?
3. What actions should they take, what specific follow-up should they expect?
4. what types of foods should they eat?
5. what type of exercise can they do?
6. how often should they be self-monitoring, etc. 
These are just some examples; you can be creative. Always keeping in mind that when you are educating a population you do not assume to know their education level and must present information in as simple and clear laymen’s terms as possible. 
Please use the following references:
Altmiller, G., & Hopkins-Pepe, L.
(2019). Why quality and safety education for nurses (QSEN) matters in
practice. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 50(5),
199–200.
American Diabetes Association. (2023).
Diabetes Statistics.       http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-statistic.
American Diabetes Association. (2022).
Standards of medical care in diabetes—2022 abridged for primary care providers.
Clinical Diabetes, 40(1), 10–38.
Antonio, J. P., Sarmento, R. A., &
de Almeida, J. C. (2019). Diet quality and glycemic control in patients with
type 2 diabetes. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 119(4),
652-658.

For this assessment, develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma faced by a health care professional. In your assessment:
Select one of the case studies presented in the Assessment 03 Supplement: Applying Ethical Principles [PDF] Download Assessment 03 Supplement: Applying Ethical Principles [PDF]resource.
Note: The case study may not supply all of the information you need. In such cases, you should consider a variety of possibilities and infer potential conclusions. However, please be sure to identify any assumptions or speculations you make.
Summarize the facts in the selected case study and use the three components of an ethical decision-making model to analyze an ethical problem or issue and the factors that contributed to it.
Identify which case study you selected and briefly summarize the facts surrounding it. Identify the problem or issue that presents an ethical dilemma or challenge and describe that dilemma or challenge.
Identify who is involved or affected by the ethical problem or issue.
Access the Ethical Decision-Making Model media piece and use the three components of the ethical decision-making model (moral awareness, moral judgment, and ethical behavior) to analyze the ethical issues.
Apply the three components outlined in the Ethical Decision-Making Model media.
Analyze the factors that contributed to the ethical problem or issue identified in the case study.
Describe the factors that contributed to the problem or issue and explain how they contributed.
Apply academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to an ethical problem or issue as evidence to support an analysis of the case.
In addition to the readings provided, use the Capella library to locate at least one academic peer-reviewed journal article relevant to the problem or issue that you can use to support your analysis of the situation. The NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Library Guide will help you locate appropriate references. You will select at least one current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
Cite and apply key principles from the journal article as evidence to support your critical thinking and analysis of the ethical problem or issue.
Review the Think Critically About Source Quality resource.
Assess the credibility of the information source.
Assess the relevance of the information source.
Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches present in a case study.
Describe how the health care professional in the case study communicated with others.
Assess instances where the professional communicated effectively or ineffectively.
Explain which communication approaches should be used and which ones should be avoided.
Describe the consequences of using effective and non-effective communication approaches.
Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by a professional to deal with problems or issues involving ethical practice in a case study.
Describe the actions taken in response to the ethical dilemma or issue presented in the case study.
Summarize how well the professional managed professional responsibilities and priorities to resolve the problem or issue in the case.
Discuss the key lessons this case provides for health care professionals.
Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to an ethical problem or issue described in a case study.
Describe the proposed solution.
Discuss how the approach makes this professional more effective or less effective in building relationships across disciplines within his or her organization.
Discuss how likely it is the proposed solution will foster professional collaboration.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Apply the principles of effective composition.
Determine the proper application of the rules of grammar and mechanics.
Write using APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
Determine the proper application of APA formatting requirements and scholarly writing standards.
Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Assessment 3 Example [PDF] Download Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
Ethical decision-making at an individual level and one’s ethical behavior can be viewed in three primary steps using an ethical decision-making model. 
First is one’s moral awareness, recognizing the existence of an ethical dilemma. This is the pathway to establishing the need for an ethical decision. This awareness is an individual sensitivity to one’s values and personal morals. 
Once a personal awareness is evident, we can make a judgment in deciding what is right or wrong. This sounds simple, yet there are a number of variables driving this personal judgment. One variable is the individual differences and cognitive bias we all have based on our personal history and experiences. A second variable is the organization. This variable may be influenced from a group, organizational or cultural perspective. A code of conduct or standards of behavior may also influence our judgment. 
This model, operating in a dynamic fashion, leads us to our ethical behavior; taking action to do the right thing. Is the right thing the same decision for everyone? Obviously not. We are all influenced my multiple factors in our decision-making. 
This decision-making model can help us understand the pathway to our ethical decisions.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
APA tutorial: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] for guidance.
Written communication: Use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least two references (the case study and an academic peer-reviewed journal article) and three in-text citations within the paper.
APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citation of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page

Assessment Description
One of the five elements of emotional intelligence is self-awareness. Explain what it means to be self-aware and describe why emotional intelligence is crucial for effective leadership. Discuss what behaviors someone with a high degree of self-awareness would demonstrate within the context of leading and managing groups. Provide an example.
Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include one reference. Refer to “RN-BSN Discussion Question Rubric” and “RN-BSN Participation Rubric,” located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and participation posts, respectively.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education
This assignment aligns to AACN Core Competencies 2.2, 9.3, 9.5.