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Manager Effectively Handled Staffing   Staffing shortages are at an all time high. The pandemic has caused burnout for many nurses. As a nurse manager it is important to be an advocate for employees to ensure there is adequate and safe staffing. During the height of the pandemic our manager offered an incentive. The incentive motivated employees to pick up extra shifts. “Shift pay is […]

Frequently Involved Causing Painful Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are severe and life-threatening mucocutaneous reactions characterized by extensive necrosis and detachment of the epidermis (Hasegawa & Abe, 2020). A typical presentation of a patient with SJS/TEN experience a prodrome period with fever that often is greater than 39 degrees Celsius and generalized influenza-like symptoms of malaise, myalgia, and arthralgia. Other common symptoms […]

Pustules Wheals Erosion Excoriation Replies to Christopher Fichera CAT 1 Skin Lesions Most of you will have difficulty with the various skin lesions. As a class, Describe the following lesions. Include primary characteristics, potential causes, and images.  Pustules Wheals Erosion Excoriation Abrasion Ulceration Atrophy Comedone Papule Cysts Nodule Acne vulgaris Acne rosacea Pruritus Erythema Dermatitis Erythema multiforme Ichthyosis Benign Nevi WE ALL KNOW CLASSWORK IS […]

Comprehensive Multisystem Evaluation Including CUTANEOUS SARCOIDOSIS    Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease mostly characterized by its pulmonary involvement. Sarcoisosis is an inflammatory condition that is associated with the presence of granulomas found inside and surrounding involved organs (Khawar, Chatta & Sandhu, 2021). Over 90% of patients with sarcoidosis have airway, lung, and parynchmeal tissue involvement (Khawar et al., 2021). Sarcoidosis is a diagnosis of exclusion and […]

Nurses Company Cell Phones Week 7 Discussion: Technology in Healthcare  Purpose The purpose of this discussion is for learners to review the technology and the security of patient information in the workplace. Course Outcomes This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcome: CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision-making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2) CO 3: Explain […]

Indicators Advanced Nursing Practice   Assignment: Journal    Critical reflection of your growth  and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting  has the benefit of helping you to identify opportunities for improvement  in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your strengths and  successes.  Use this Journal to reflect on your  clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement, the progress you  made, and what insights […]

Reply Posts Reply   Initial Post In your initial post, please identify the current trends of opioid addiction in your state and region (Massachusetts). Provide demographic data for incidence and occurrence and list what community resources are available to you. Reply Posts Reply to one of your classmates, identifying strategies that they, as a NP, can begin to help clients with an opioid addiction and […]

Residence Hall Counselor Choose one of the following scenarios which illustrate a variety of incidents that have occurred on a university campus. Imagine that you are a residence hall counselor on campus, and the student described in the incident has come to you to ask for advice. What sort of advice would you give to the student? Explain why your advice represents the best course […]

Proposed Implementation Time Line   To assess a clinical issue that is the focus of the Quality Improvement Project. Create an outline of the action plan for the project. Content Requirements: Identify stakeholders that will be impacted by the quality improvement project. Identify and discussed resources including budget needed to implement the quality improvement project. Develop an action plan for change including a proposed implementation […]

Support Practice Changes    Some theories are used without modification in nursing such as Lewin’s Change Theory to support practice changes. Other theories are used as a foundation for the development of nursing theories such as Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations founded on the work of Harry Stack Sullivan. Clearly, many non-nursing theories are used in the development of middle-range theories in nursing. Identify a […]