The influence patient education

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Write a 500-750-word essay on the influence patient education has in health care using the experiences of a patient. Interview a friend or family member about that person’s experiences with the health care system. You may develop your own list of questions.

Suggested interview questions:
Did a patient education representative give you instructions on how to care for yourself after your illness or operation?
Did a health care professional, pharmacist, nurse, doctor, or elder counselor advise you on your medication, diet, or exercise?
Who assisted you at home after your illness or operation?
Do you know of any assistance services, i.e., food, transportation, medication, that would help you stay in your home as you get older?

chronic renal failure

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Explain what happens physiologically with chronic renal failure and the GFR. Support with evidence. Include important labs that are monitored in the process.

Explain the role of Angiotensin II and proteinuria as they relate to advancing renal disease. List at least three other body systems that are impacted by chronic kidney disease and why.

Please add to the Reference list; McCance, S.H. K. (2018). Pathophysiology (8th Edition). Elsevier Health Sciences (US).

Alfredo’s health promotion behavior

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The Theory-Guided Practice Paper Assignment provides you the opportunity to identify and present an actual practice experience, retrospectively evaluated through the lens of middle-range theory. You will describe nursing and borrowed middle-range theory and discuss the application of each theory to the identified practice experience. You will evaluate selected theories for substantive foundation, structural integrity, and functional adequacy. Furthermore, you will discuss the implications of the selected theories on nursing practice within the Christian worldview.

The grading rubric serves as a guideline for the Theory-Guided Practice: Paper Assignment.

Actual practice experience

Alfredo is a 45-years-old Hispanic man rushed to hospital after collapsing at work. His vital signs show elevated blood sugar levels and obesity. According to his wife, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) one year ago.

Outline

  1. Daily Lifestyle- Alfredo works two jobs- a waiter and cleaner at night. According to the wife, they have three children, and Alfredo spends his income taking care of the different family needs, like household bills and school fees.
  2. Medication Compliance- due to the enormous responsibility burden on Alfredo’s shoulders, he has not bought the recommended medications for two weeks. The money he had set aside for the prescription purchase was used to pay the house’s water bill.
  3. Middle-Range Nursing Theory- Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Theory.
  4. The theory’s primary objective is to promote Alfredo’s health through behavioral changes (Karataş & Polat, 2021).
  5. There is the need to examine Alfredo’s pat actions attributed to the onset of T2DM (Karataş & Polat, 2021). It also includes personal factors, such as psychological, sociocultural, and biological variables.
  6. The next step is identifying specific aspects that limit medication compliance, including perceived action barriers, self-efficacy, situational and interpersonal influences.
  • The analysis, as mentioned above, will help determine his commitment to any developed behavior change intervention plan.
  1. Most importantly, an examination of competing demands and preferences must be performed (Khoshnood et al., 2020). The analysis will aid in identifying the behavioral outcomes.
  2. Borrowed Theory – The social cognitive theory (SCT) by Albert Bandura
  3. a) The theory describes a person’s health behaviors through various aspects, such as personal experiences influence, other people’s actions, and environmental variables (Luszczynska & Schwarzer, 2015).
  4. Self-efficacy- Alfredo must display a belief that he has control over any behavior, including health promotion habits (Luszczynska & Schwarzer, 2015).
  5. Behavioral Capability- Alfredo needs to apprehend and have the skills required to perform health promotion behavioral changes.
  • Self-Control- The patient must regulate and monitor their behaviors.
  1. The theory’s four stages comprise attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation; they will help Alfredo develop and integrate health-promoting behaviors in his daily life to help manage T2DM.
  • Evaluation of Selected Theories- both theories align with the need to adjust Alfredo’s behavior to help manage T2DM’s negative symptoms. They also incorporate various biblical worldviews.
  1. Nola Pender’s HPM
  2. The paradigm describes various factors supporting or hindering Alfredo’s health promotion behavior change. Most inherently, any identified barrier is mitigated through incorporating ideal interventions.
  3. The theory aligns with various ideologies in the bible. For instance, different bible quotes describe the need to adopt healthy behaviors. In 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Apostle Paul explains that Christians’ bodies are the Holy Spirit’s temple (Mackie, 2013). Therefore, they must maintain a healthy lifestyle to ensure their bodies are well, consequently honoring God.
  4. SCT
  5. The concept also highlights facilitators and barriers to health promotion behavioral change in Alfredo’s life.
  6. The Psalms and Proverbs describe different scriptures emphasizing changing habits to align with God’s laws and commandments. More so, they describe how community, including friends, influences a person’s behavior.
  7. Implications to Nursing Practice- both theories, directly and indirectly, impact advanced nursing practices.
  8. Nola Pender’s HPM
  9. The theory describes crucial health determinants that advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) must understand, primarily because they offer community-based setting services (Khoshnood et al., 2020). Thus, they can modify their routine operations to cater to the health determinants, leading to high-quality patient care and health outcomes in society.
  10. SCT
  11. APRNs have continually adopted the paradigm to promote health outcomes through teaching new habits to patients with chronic ailments (Desbiens et al., 2012). Hence, the model enables the emergence of unique lifestyles that lead to the nursing profession’s transformation by promoting health outcomes.

 

 

 

 

 

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Complementary Therapy for Constipation

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Probiotics as Complementary Therapy for Constipation
Find two peer-reviewed research articles on the Complementary Therapy for Constipation or complementary nutrition-related topic of your choice. These articles should be original research (no literature review or meta-analyses).

Create a PowerPoint presentation for the class using your research from your articles. Use slides that are clear, concise, and engaging. The PowerPoint presentation should include:- Title page with your name
– Brief introduction of the problem or overview of the research subject
– Clearly stated research question
-For each article, address the following:
Overall conclusion. To whom the conclusion(s) is applicable. Broadly applicable or to certain populations? Recommendations for areas of future research.
Population studied
Methods, including the statistical method
Results
Conclusions
Strengths and limitations, including the statistical methods, used
References (AMA format)

The Importance and the Future of Nursing Education

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The IOM published report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” makes recommendations for lifelong learning and achieving higher levels of education.

In 1,000-1,250 words, examine The Importance and the Future of Nursing Education and discuss your overall educational goals. Include the following:

  1. Discuss your options in the job market based on your educational level.
  2. Review the IOM Future of Nursing Recommendations for achieving higher levels of education. Describe what professional certification and advanced degrees (MSN, DNP, etc.) you want to pursue and explain your reasons for attaining the education. Discuss your timeline for accomplishing these goals.
  3. Discuss how increasing your level of education would affect your competitiveness in the current job market and your role in the future of nursing.
  4. Explain the relationship of continuing nursing education to competency, attitudes, knowledge, and the ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics.
  5. Discuss whether continuing nursing education should be mandatory. Provide support for your response.

RUBRIC

Job Options Based on Educational Level Options in the job market based on the educational level are thoroughly discussed. All options listed are realistic for the educational level. The response demonstrates an awareness of job options based on educational level.

Goals for Professional Education. The goals and timeline for professional certification and advanced degrees are thoroughly described. Clear and compelling reasons for wanting to attain an education are discussed.

Increase in Level of Education and Effect on Competitiveness in Job Market and Role in the Future of Nursing. A well-developed discussion of how increasing level of education would affect competitiveness in the current job market and personal role in the future of nursing is presented. The claims are substantiated and realistic for the current job market.

Relationship of Continuing Nursing Education to Competency, Attitudes, Knowledge and ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics. A well-supported discussion clearly establishing the relationship of continuing education in nursing to competency, attitudes, knowledge, and the ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics is presented. The discussion demonstrates insight into the importance of education to the nursing profession.

Five Criteria for Mandatory Continuing Education Nursing. A well-developed discussion of whether continuing nursing education should be mandatory is presented. Compelling rationale and evidence-based support for the argument are provided.

Asthma treatment and Management

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Presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma Asthma treatment and Management. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.
  • Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
  • Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.

The importance of ethics in forensic psychology

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Read the ethics complaint via the three module resource documents—an evaluation, the complaint, and the ethics board’s decision. Would you be able to identify the ethical problems? And more importantly, would you understand how to avoid committing them in the first place?

In a post to this discussion topic, answer these questions:

  • What does this case illustrate about the importance of ethics in forensic psychology?
  • What problems did this psychologist’s poor ethical thinking cause for the family involved?
  • Would you have been able to read the evaluation and spot the ethical problems? What did you catch? What did you miss? Explain.
  • What could the psychologist have done differently that would have made this an ethical evaluation?

The patriarchal perspective on relationship violence

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You have been asked to participate in a radio show about relationship violence. You know that one of the other guests is an ardent supporter of the patriarchal perspective on relationship violence.  In preparation for the show, you want to make sure you understand her perspective and the critique you will make about the patriarchal perspective.  What are two points that you will make as a critique of this model of violence?  That is, what will you say to explain why the patriarchal model is an inadequate explanation for relationship violence?

Cardiovascular disease risk factors

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A study examined lower life satisfaction, active coping, and cardiovascular disease risk factors (diastolic and systolic blood pressure, body mass index, and circumferences) in older African Americans over the phases of an 18-month church-based intervention, using a quasi-experimental design. Participants (n = 89) were 45 years of age and older from six churches (three treatments, three comparisons) in North Florida. Lower life satisfaction had a persistent unfavorable effect on weight variables.

Active coping showed a direct beneficial effect on selected weight variables. However, active coping was adversely associated with blood pressure and did not moderate the association between lower life satisfaction and cardiovascular risk factors. The intervention had a beneficial moderating influence on the association between lower life satisfaction and weight variables and on the association between active coping and these variables. Yet, this pattern did not hold for the association between active coping and blood pressure. The relationship of lower life satisfaction and selected cardiovascular risk factors and the positive effect of active coping were established, but findings regarding blood pressure suggest further study is needed.

Discuss the psychotherapeutic modalities

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Robert Johnson, a 55-year-old man, is married with two adult children and five grandchildren. He is the assistant president of a large bank. In the first session, he tells you that it is becoming more difficult for him to hide his homosexuality. He has kept his homosexuality a secret his entire life. He knew he preferred men when he married his wife thirty years ago, but he thought he needed to get married to hide the fact that he was gay. During his marriage, he has had affairs with many men. Because he has been very discrete, his wife and family do not suspect that he is homosexual and that he has had several affairs.

Now he is having a relationship with a man he loves and with whom he wants to grow old.  Mr. Johnson’s lover threatens to leave him if Mr. Johnson does not get a divorce and makes their relationship public. Mr. Johnson is afraid because if he makes his homosexuality public, he may lose his job and the respect of his children.

He tells you that he is worrying so much about his over leaving that he is unable to concentrate at work. Being the vice president of the bank means a lot to him. He has worked very hard and sacrificed a lot to obtain this position. He does not want to lose it.

 

1. Provide a provisional DSM 5/ICD 10 diagnosis

2. Examine and discuss the psychotherapeutic modalities you would choose to use to treat this client. Choose between Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, gestalt, behavior, cognitive behavior, choice/reality, feminist, and postmodern therapy. You may combine therapies (integrative approach), but you must justify the combination. Be sure to include a list of the specific techniques (therapeutic processes and content), not just the theory you would use for this client. Be specific in how you would treat each client.