Rural Community Health Assessment

Instructions

Please review provided documents for instructions. Read instruction carefully as there is
provided data that will need to be used.

Rationale for Program Application

RATIONALE FOR PROGRAM APPLICATION

You are required to submit a personal essay of no more than 500 words (approximately two pages double spaced) explaining why you should be admitted to this program.

The scholarliness of your response will be evaluated during the application review process.

Grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity of writing, and organization of the essay will be considered.

1. Applicants to the Master of Nursing: Nurse Practitioner (MN:NP) should include the following in their personal essay: Your primary reasons for applying to the Graduate Centre for Nursing and Health Studies, Master of Nursing: Nurse Practitioner (MN:NP) program.

The specific skills, resources, and experiences that will facilitate your success in this program.

What your personal and professional aspirations are and how participation in this program relates to your future career goals?

How you plan to balance other competing factors in your life or work with the demands of this program.

NP stream applicants, please also describe your interest in primary healthcare.

The scholarliness of your response will be evaluated during the application review process.

Grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity or writing, and organization of the essay will be considered.

Benefits of and Barriers to Vaccination of Children

Benefits of and Barriers to Vaccination of Children

Required

Literature review (5 pages, APA style)

Emerging Adulthood

Objective:
The purpose of this assignment is to gain further understanding of issues related to college and
career among emerging adults.
Instructions:
For this homework assignment, you will nee to read pages 295-313 in your textbook and the
vignette given below. Once you have read the textbook and vignette answer the questions that
follow. Be sure you are answering the questions completely and using your own words.
Vignette:

After graduating from high school in the middle of his class, David looked forward to pursuing his
dream of becoming a lawyer. But his freshman year at Sate U was a nightmare. His courses felt
irrelevant. He zoned out during lectures. The work seemed impossibly hard. Especially after a
night of clubbing, he couldn’t make it to class. David knew he was too immature to get through
sophomore year, much less graduate. The only solution seemed to be to drop out for a while and
extend his part-time sales associate job to 40 hours a week.
David was getting by financially—and having much more fun—although he still needed to rely on
his parents for help with the car payments and rent. Then, headquarters eliminated his branch
store, and David was suddenly fired. What followed was a series of temporary jobs that never
paid more than $500 a week. Finally, David’s parents intervened and encouraged their wayward
son to enroll in bartending school.
After getting his certificate, David spent some time with a buddy in Florida, then moved to
California and got a job tending bar at a Hilton. Next came a year at the Amsterdam Marriott,
followed by some exciting months traveling through the Far East. Then, at age 25, completely
broke, David moved back home with his parents for six months.
David thought about returning to college, but rejected that idea. Academics just aren’t his thing.
He’s passionate to go into business—perhaps get a loan to start his own restaurant. The reason
is that he met a wonderful woman named Clara. If things continue to progress, they plan to get engaged. After all, David’s life plan was to be established in a career and have a family by age
35. Life should be an eternal adventure, but at age 28, it’s time for a person to consider growing
up! (Belsky, 2016, p. 295)
1. After reading the vignette about David above and reading pages 296-313 in the textbook,
identify 3 ways David is a typical emerging adult. For each characteristic identified provide
evidence from the textbook and connect it to David’s experience.
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2.Given what you know about David from the vignette above and based on the information
presented in the textbook (pages 305-308), would David be identified as a worker or a player?
Support your answer based on the inforamtion (research and David’s experience) presented in
the textbook.
3.Given David’s current situation (described in the vignette above) with work and his grappling
with finding a career, according to the textbook (pages 309-311), what 4 things would you
suggest David do that might help him gain clarity and movement regarding his decision. Be specific, complete, and descriptive regarding your suggestion based on your reading from the
textbook. Be sure to use your own words.
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4.If David were to return to college, according to the textbook what are 6 things he could do to
increase the likelihood he will succeed? List and describe them and be sure to use your own
words.
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Evidence Based Practice Case Study

PICOT QUESTION: Does skin to skin care promote bounding and help reduce stress level with neonates in the NICU compare to neonates that don’t receive skin to skin care.

  1. Provide background information based on PICOT
  2. Appraisal/Summary/Rating Evidence

(Answer all the following question for each article- 5 article total)

***ARTICLE MUST BE WITHIN 5 YEARS *****

3. Complete attached John Hopkins Appraisal (Research or Non-Research- one for each article)

4. Recommendation from all the article

Research Critiques and PICOT Statement

Instructions

Prepare this assignment as a 1,500-1,750 word paper using the instructor feedback from the
previous course assignments and the guidelines below.
PICOT Question
Revise the PICOT question you wrote in the Topic 1 assignment using the feedback you received
from your instructor.
The final PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project (the project students
must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).

Research Critiques
In the Topic 2 and Topic 3 assignments, you completed a qualitative and quantitative research
critique on two articles for each type of study (4 articles total). Use the feedback you received
from your instructor on these assignments to finalize the critical analysis of each study by making
appropriate revisions.
The completed analysis should connect to your identified practice problem of interest that is the
basis for your PICOT question.
Answer each Questions under each heading should be addressed as a narrative in the structure
of a formal paper.
Quantitative and Quantitative Studies
Introduction
Background
1. Summary of studies. Include problem, significance to nursing, purpose, objective, and
research question.
How do these two articles support the nurse practice issue you chose?
1. Discuss how these articles will be used to answer your PICOT question.
2. Describe how the interventions and comparison groups in the articles compare to those identified in your PICOT question.
Method of Study:
1. State the methods of the articles you are comparing and describe how they are different.
2. Consider the methods you identified in your chosen articles and state one benefit and one
limitation of each method.
Results of Study
1. Summarize the key findings of each of the studies into a comprehensive summary.
2. What are the implications of the four studies you chose in nursing practice?
Ethical Considerations
1. Discuss two ethical consideration in conducting research.
2. Describe how the researchers in the four articles you choose took these ethical considerations
into account while performing their research.
Outcomes Comparison
1. What are the anticipated outcomes for your PICOT question?
2. How do the outcomes of the four articles you chose compare to your anticipated outcomes?

Proposed Evidence-Based Practice Change
Discuss the link between the PICOT question, the research articles, and the nursing practice problem you identified. Include relevant details and supporting explanation and use that
information to propose evidence-based practice changes.
General Requirements
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located
in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Rural Community Health Assessment

Instructions

Please review provided documents for instructions. Read instruction carefully as there is
provided data that will need to be used.

Values, beliefs, culture and self-concept, and effect on nurse practitioner/client relationships

Instructions

Discuss how your values, beliefs, culture and self-concept affect the nurse practitioner/client
relationships. Identify strategies in epidemiology that offers or demonstrates culturally sensitive
care.
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Include in your Discussion your personal cultural heritage and its impact in your life. (Support
your
answer with 3 references not including your textbook).My text book is Melanie Mcwen and
Evelyn m wills.iam Discuss how your values, beliefs, culture and self-concept affect the nurse
practitioner/client
relationships. Identify strategies in epidemiology that offers or demonstrates culturally sensitive
care.
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Include in your Discussion your personal cultural heritage and its impact in your life. (Support
your
answer with 3 references not including your textbok.Iam from an Indian background.

Nursing Professionalism

Nursing Professionalism.
Watch video at National Council of the State Boards of Nursing. Link is
https://www.ncsbn.org/464.htm Following watching video, write a 3 page reflection paper. The
specific guidelines are located below.
Description
1. Describe your personal connection to the video topic. (i.e. situation where you experienced
boundary issues or came close to a boundary issue or situation you observed in co-worker).
2. Reflection of video.
– Incorporate concepts of why you feel this is an important topic in nursing.
– How you plan to incorporate this into your own practice.
– Cite video using APA format.

Quality Improvement Proposal

Required

Identify a quality improvement opportunity in your organization or practice. In a paper, describe
the problem or issue and propose a quality improvement initiative based on evidence-based
practice. Apply “The Road to Evidence-Based Practice” process, illustrated in Chapter 4 of your
textbook, to create your proposal.
Include the following:
Provide an overview of the problem and the setting in which the problem or issue occurs.
Explain why a quality improvement initiative is needed in this area and the expected outcome.
Discuss how the results of previous research demonstrate support for the quality improvement
initiative and its projected outcomes. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources
published within the last 5 years, not included in the course materials or textbook, that establish
evidence in support of the quality improvement proposed.

Discuss steps necessary to implement the quality improvement initiative. Provide evidence and
rationale to support your answer.
Explain how the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated to determine whether there was
improvement.
Support your explanation by identifying the variables, hypothesis test, and statistical test that you
would need to prove that the quality improvement initiative succeeded.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is
expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines,
which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.