_{Health Care Delivery System}

_{compare the Health Care Delivery System of the US to that of Canada.}

Note

_{Pay attention to grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and APA formatting .700 word count}

Creating Your Professional Identity

Instructions

This formation will include the following:

• Describe the meaning of nursing professionalism identity
• Identify the most important professional identity characteristics/attributes
• Explain how you will adapt these characteristics/attributes in the clinical setting
• Reflect on your educational journey and describe how this shaped your professional identity.
• Create your goals for continued professional identity formation during your career as a nurse.
• Provide stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.

Competency

• Determine the attributes that help form the professional nurses’ identity.
• Apply principles of professional identity and professionalism.

Scenario

As a nursing student, you have a vision of your core values and expectations as a professional nurse. In this assignment, create a plan to guide you as you form your professional identity.

 

Political campaign advertisements

Thesis statement that you are defending (be sure to refer back to your thesis at the end of your paragraph):Political campaign advertisements should be required to be truthful and accurate.Topic sentence (use exactly as it is to start your paragraph):Political candidates use the brain’s own power of forgetting to spread and reinforce false rumors about the opposition. “Even if they do not understand the neuroscience behind source amnesia, campaign strategists can exploit it to spread misinformation. They know that if their message is initially memorable, its impression will persist long after it is debunked.

Note

”Grading rubric:

PPT presentation

PPT presentation with speaker notes  attention deficit disorder -peds – discuss 3 most common related problems or associated differential diagnoses and treatments for each

The instructions actually say “discuss 3 most common related problems or associated differential diagnoses,” so for your topic, it would be 3 most common related problems related to ADHD, so 3 common problems that NPs see with children who have ADHD. For example, medication noncompliance or violent outbursts and treatment for each

Note

Your presentation should include an overview of the health problem identified, an in-depth review of the associated anatomy and physiology, an overview of treatment methodologies, and information related to the needs of the patient and/or family related to the problem. Your presentation should be prepared in PowerPoint, and recorded with voice over narration.

 

Week 3: Assignment 1: Sensory Activity Worksheet

Sight Activity

Supplies Needed

• Sunglasses or glasses. Place a small amount of Vaseline (or lotion) on the lens of the sunglasses/glasses. Do not over apply.
• Textbook
• Pen or pencil

 

Activity Description

Imagine you are in class and you have just been told of a pop quiz. You will be allowed to use your textbook but you only have 5 minutes to complete the quiz. Put on the sunglasses and complete the following fill-in-the blank quiz (answers really are in your textbook)

1. Among the most significant age-related changes is lowered efficiency of gas exchange and reduced ability to handle ________________.
2. The most significant age-related changes in the arteries are reduced _______________ and _________________.
3. In normal aging, the heart valves separating the chambers _______________ and ______________ as a result of lipid deposits and collagen cross-linking.

 

Answer the Sight Activity Reflection Questions:

1.      Was the activity easy or difficult for you? Why? (provide a rationale)

2.      List 3 thoughts or feelings you experienced when you were looking up the answers.

A. B. C.

3.      Describe 3 thoughts/feelings you experienced in this exercise due to the time constraints (i.e., pressure to finish on time).

A. B. C.

 

Hearing Activity

Supplies Needed

• The “Unfair Hearing Test” audio file located under the Module 3 Assignment just above where you retrieved this document (click on the audio file). There are two versions (both are the same) because some browsers work better with one file format than others.

 

Activity Description

As you listen to the sounds on the audio file, write down (or type) what you hear being said. The tape will go through the words three times, simulating different levels of hearing loss each time (Series A, series B, series C). Do not worry about not being able to hear everything clearly, that is the point. If you do not hear anything or have no guess, place a “?” in the box but make sure something is in every box.

 

Series A	Series B	Series C
1.	1.	1.
2.	2.	2.
3.	3.	3.
4.	4.	4.
5.	5.	5.
6.	6.	6.
7.	7.	7.
8.	8.	8.
9.	9.	9.
10.	10.	10.

 

 

Answer the Hearing Activity Reflection Questions:

4.      Compare the words you heard to the key below. How many and which words did you hear correctly?

5.      As the nurse, provide two explanations of what this would mean while teaching an elderly patient about their Digoxin dosage.

A. B.

6.      In a situation where you are the patient with hearing loss, describe two compensatory methods you could use in a conversation in which you are receiving discharge instructions if you could understand only about a quarter of the words? (The person speaking to you does not know you have hearing loss.)

A. B.

 

** Unfair Hearing Test Answer Key:

 

1. Fill
2. Catch
3. Thumb
4. Heap
5. Wise
6. Wedge
7. Fish
8. Shows
9. Dead
10. Juice

 

 

 

 

Smell/Taste Activity

Supplies Needed

• Chocolate kiss candy (or some other piece of chocolate). If you do not like chocolate (or are allergic) please choose something edible that you enjoy the taste and smell of for this activity.

 

Activity Description

Unwrap or open the candy. Now pinch your nostrils closed while eating the candy. Describe the taste. Because you can’t smell the chocolate, it should taste different. This is similar to what happens as we age. When we can’t smell the food, it doesn’t have the same appealing taste, either.

 

Answer the Smell/Taste Activity Reflection Questions:

7.      Identify 2 implications this could have for individuals regarding diet and nutrition?

A. B.

8.      Provide 3 methods of how this activity will help you relate to older people in real-life situations?

A. B. C.

9.      Explain how loss of taste and smell affect how older individuals interact with others socially.

Smell: Taste:

 

 

 

Touch and Dexterity Activity

Supplies Needed

• transparent tape • deck of playing cards
• gloves                         • 12 inches of ribbon or string
• coin purse with coins/change • amber or yellow glasses
• medicine bottle with colored buttons (or candy)

 

Activity Description

Place transparent tape around each of your upper finger joints so your fingers will feel stiff. Place a glove on each hand so you feel as if you have a reduced sense of touch. Once you have the transparent tape and gloves on your hands, complete up to four routine tasks. The tasks include:

1. Tie the ribbon into a bow.
2. Use the coin purse to count out change for an item.
3. Shuffle cards.
4. Open a medicine bottle. Count out two pills (buttons, etc.).

 

Answer the Touch and Dexterity Activity Reflection Questions:

10.  List 3 sensations you felt during these activities?

A. B. C.

11.  Were the routine tasks easy/difficult for you? Explain your feelings.

12.  List 2 methods these activities help you relate to older people in real-life situations

A. B.