The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) has determined nine broad areas of core competence that apply to all nurse practitioners, regardless of specialty or patient population focus. NONPF created the first set of Nurse Practitioner Competencies in 1990; the most recent updates were incorporated in 2017. This course was designed to prepare you […]
Required reading Textbooks: Family Health Care Nursing • • Read Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15. This week we will study the role of the family healthcare nurse when caring for families from childbearing through geriatric care. We will discuss topics important in the childbearing family, child health, adult medical-surgical, and gerontological family. For this discussion, […]
Find and read a nursing scholarly article that relates to your clinical practice and is found in a peer-reviewed journal. Follow the instructions for the format in course textbook and write a 1-page summary. The weekly article summary assignment starts from Module 1 through Module 6. Each summary is due in the following module. For […]
Personal Goal and Objectives: Personal goals and objectives are centered on improvement the quality of our practice improvement project based upon healthcare in a nursing environment and or improving the institutional healthcare environment in interprofessional delivery model. The patient, a problem and or a population are the target audience. Interventions are based upon the specific […]
As an advanced practice nurse, you will likely experience patient encounters with complex comorbidities. For example, consider a female patient who is pregnant who also presents with hypertension, diabetes, and has a recent tuberculosis infection. How might the underlying pathophysiology of these conditions affect the pharmacotherapeutics you might recommend to help address your patient’s health […]
Caso Clínico: mujer de 81 años admitida a la Sala de Emergencias procedente de un hogar para envejecientes. La cliente presenta síntomas de dolor al orinar con micciones de orina frecuentes, fiebre 38 ° C con dolor en la parte baja de la espalda. El médico le diagnostica UTI (infección del tracto urinario) y prescribe […]
The interpretation of research in health care is essential to decision making. By understanding research, health care providers can identify risk factors, trends, outcomes for treatment, health care costs and best practices. To be effective in evaluating and interpreting research, the reader must first understand how to interpret the findings. You will practice article analysis […]
NUR4636 – Community Health Nursing Case Study Chapter 2: History and Evolution of Community Health Nursing During the student nurses’ first lecture in their community health nursing course, the specialty of community health was reviewed historically with students. The students received information about the contributions of selected nursing leaders throughout history to the advancement of […]
NUR4636 – Community Health Nursing Case Study Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics in Community Health Nursing The student nurse starts the day with the community health nurse with a discussion about the implementation of evidence-based practice. The nurse reviews with the student the importance of including appropriate research and evidence-based practice principles each day […]
Patient Safety Case study During remodeling and renovation of two patient care areas at a hospital, a new nurse call system was installed. A Code Blue alarm specific to each room was a component of the new nurse call system. The other patient care areas in the hospital were to receive the new nurse call […]
