Media Research: Middle Childhood and Preteen Messages

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Media Research: Middle Childhood and Preteen Messages
Conduct a study of media messages from the perspective of children in the stage of middle childhood.
1. Visit a mall, visits shops in the mall, study store window displays, notice billboards, review popular magazines such as at supermarket check-out counters and in book stores/drug stores, discuss prime-time television programs and commercials, discuss major motion pictures that are PG-13 rated, listen to music on popular radio stations.
2. Identify a theme of the data collected, which implies a message to children, and base your paper and presentation on that theme. Prepare a four-to-five-page paper (350 words per page or Power Point Presentation).
3. The theme may be of any nature – such as beauty as a cultural value, fitness/health, aggression, sexuality, commitment, or something else. It might be positive or negative.
4. Include reference to theoretical material as you describe the impact you believe these media messages have on child development.

Describe an ethical dilemma that might be encountered in this nursing role.

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Application
The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse
Using Chapter 2 in the course textbook, your assigned reading on the role of the nurse in a specific public health setting, and this week’s media presentation, address the following in a 2- to 3-page paper:
Trace the history of the public health nurse including the contributions made by Lillian Wald and the Henry Street Settlement. Also, summarize the role of the nurse in the practice setting assigned. Include the following in your summary:
• Explain how the core functions of community/public health nursing and the standards of practice are met with that specific role.
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• Describe the population served by the nurse in this role.
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• Which interventions might the nurse in this role utilize?
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• Explain the level of practice used in this practice setting (primary/secondary/tertiary).
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• Describe an ethical dilemma that might be encountered in this nursing role.

What differentiates the role of the community and public health nurse from other health professionals?

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The Role of the Community and Public Health Nurse

This week, your Instructor assigned you a chapter in the course textbook that discussed the role of the public health nurse in a specific setting.Based on your assigned chapter and bearing in mind the primary prevention focus of the community/public health nurse, respond to the following:
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• What differentiates the role of the community and public health nurse from other health professionals?
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• What skills and knowledge are necessary for the type of decision making inherent in population-focused nursing practice?
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• How do these skills differ from those required in the institutional setting?

The Role of the Leader in Evaluating Data to Improve Quality and Safety

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The Role of the Leader in Evaluating Data to Improve Quality and Safety Paper
The nurse’s position in between the patient and the health care agency provides a unique platform for viewing and addressingquality-care issues.Nurses can gain personal feedback from their patients, who may trust them more and speak with greater openness. They can also work collaboratively with their colleagues to create strategies toimprovepatient care.

Recall how nurses can usedatatoimprovepatientsafetyandquality-care delivery. In NURS 4005, you analyzed a Dashboard to determine nursing practice improvements. This week, you reviewed the importance of and focus on patientqualityandsafety.

The followingdataare shared by the unit manager with her staff at a recent staff meeting. There has been a higher than acceptable level of patient falls on the telemetry unit in the last 4 months. The distribution of falls is outlined below. Information about the unit also includes the following:
• The average age of the patients is 72.4 years old, and every patient has a cardiac diagnosis.
• The majority (68%) of the patients are women.
• Recently, 1 FTE of nursing assistants were moved from the night shift (11P–7A) to the evening shift (3P–11P).
• The rooms on this unit are all private.
• 94% of the patients are on diuretics.
• 12% of the patients have secondary diagnoses of confusion or disorientation.
In a 3–5 pagepaper, respond to the following:
• Describe some possible interpretations of thedatarelated to the patient fall rate on the telemetry unit.
• Discuss thequalitymanagement process you would follow toimprovepatient fall rates on the unit.
• What change management strategies would you incorporate in yourqualityimprovement plan?
• What leadership characteristics are needed to assist in improving the patient fall rates?