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Assignment: Part 1: Topic: Infection control and prevention

Dissemination of EBP and research, such as presenting results at a conference or writing an article for a journal, is an important part of professional practice.

1. Identify one professional journal and one nursing or health care conference where you might present your project.

2. Discuss why each of your choices is the best option for you to disseminate your new knowledge.

Part 2: Topic: Infection control and prevention

1. Discuss why EBP is an essential component of the practice of a BSN-prepared RN.

2. Identify two ways in which you will continue to integrate evidence into your practice and encourage it within your work environment.

3. What obstacles could challenge this plan, and what steps will you take to minimize their impact?

Part 3: Case Study:

Richard is a 40-year-old man with a history of 4 weeks of cluster headache once each year. These began when he was 35 years old. His cluster periods occur in the fall. The cluster period begins slowly, increasing over 1 week, reaching a peak where Richard has two or three severe cluster attacks each day. They occur from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Each cluster headache lasts from 40 to 90 minutes, and the headaches are severe. The pain is always on the right side, with eye tearing and nasal congestion.

Richard comes into our office 1 week into this fall's cluster series. The headaches are increasing in intensity, and he is miserable with the pain.

Please complete the following questions:

1. Describe Cluster Headache and its epidemiology.

2. What would be your goals for therapy for Richard? Give rationale with evidence from articles.

Part 4: Community Nursing

A neighbor, who is 3 months pregnant, asks to talk to you because she has felt tired for the last 2 days, has a headache, a rash, and does not feel like eating. You take her vital signs and find that she has a low-grade fever. She has recently traveled to an area where there is risk for Zika virus disease.

1. To what could your neighbor have been exposed

2. how could the exposure have occurred?

3. What advice would you give your neighbor?

Part 5: Crisis intervention

1. Discuss what is complicated grieving.

2. Mention at least 3 clues for identifying complicated grief reaction and explain them.

Part 6: Aging

When caring for older adults, it is important for the nurse to understand special considerations for medication use in the older population.

1. List at least two considerations and education you would provide for following medication: Analgesics: Aspirin, acetaminophen and Diuretics: Thiazides, loop diuretics, potassium-sparing diuretics? You are the nurse caring for an 82-year-old patient with a diagnosis of: Ineffective Breathing Pattern.

2. List two (2) interventions for this diagnosis with supporting rational. +

Part 7: Clinical performance evaluation is subjective and involves the judgments of the evaluator. It is filtered by the evaluator's perspective, values, and biases. With this in mind,

1. select three clinical evaluation strategies that you believe are fair and accurate in order to measure student learning, and determine their competency and safety in the clinical setting.

2. Explain your rationale for why you selected each of the strategies, and how they align with your personal philosophy of teaching.

Make sure the strategies that you selected include ways to evaluate students cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learning.

Part 8: What is your position on assigning grades based on a curve (a relative scale)? Explain and defend your position.