Environmental Issues

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Environmental Issues

Instructions:

  1. Choose one of the assignments below and post your answers or ‘editorial’ in this forum.
    1. Select an article from the mass media (newspaper) that deals with an “environmental” health issue. Analyze and critique the article by answering the following questions:
      • What are the characteristics of the community involved?
      • What appears to be the sources of the problem?
      • What evidence is provided in the article to substantiate the cause?
      • Does the news coverage describe health effects?
      • What population is at risk?
      • Does the coverage provide adequate information for consumers to understand the problem and seek any needed assistance?
      • How would you improve this article for better public awareness?
    2. Identify an environmental health problem in your community.
      • Familiarize yourself about this problem by interviewing or talking with experts in the area, reading recent literature and research reports, and searching the Internet for information about the problem.
      • Contact your Senator or Congressperson who has been involved in legislation related to the problem and learn what he or she plans to do about it.
      • Summarize what you have learned and present it in writing as a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
      • Share the letter in this Discussion Forum
  2. Your response should be 50 – 100 words. APA style

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Evidence-Based Practice  [provide definitions for a) e

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Evidence-Based Practice  [provide definitions for a) evidence-based practice, b) quality improvement, and c) research.  Please include references using APA format.]

Describe how you would use each process (e.g. EBP, QI, and research) to address the selected quality indicator in Ambulatory Care.

 

A.     Description of Clinical Problem/Situation: Nursing Turnover within the Ambulatory Care (ACS) Setting

 

 

B.     PICO Question

The following PICO question has been devised to guide this exploration of the scientific literature and other essential forms of evidence.

 

PICO Question Components:

P:  [patient, population, or problem] Nurse Retention within the Ambulatory Care Setting

I: [intervention or treatment] Factors that may positively influence retention rate

C:  [comparison with other treatments, when warranted] Factors that may negatively influence retention rate

O:  [outcome]  ?

 

Question:  What factors may positively (I) or negatively (C) impact nursing retention within the Ambulatory Care Nursing setting (P), (O)?

 

C.     Sources of Evidence & References [types of evidence – published, expert opions, patient preferences, etc.]

 

Article 1 –

 

Article 2 –

 

D.     Critical Appraisal of the Evidence [briefly describe how this was done – used the Johns Hopkins Nursing EBP criteria, provider an evidence rating for each article/evidence source used [e.g. 1A, 3C etc.]

[ex:  Each article was critically appraised using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidenced-based Practice Research criteria.  As an example, the article ……

Questions to consider – should we implement the practice recommendations? Would this change improve nurse retention outcomes? Would it improve overall unit/pavilion operations e.g. costs, workload, culture? Can the evidence be translated inn other ways e.g. policy/procedure development?

 

 

E.     Translation [would you put the evidence you appraised into practice? How would that be done? Should we implement the practice recommendations? Would this change improve our nurse retention outcomes? Would it improve overall unit/pavilion operations (e.g. costs, workload, and culture)? Can the evidence be translated in other ways (e.g. policy/procedure development)?

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As with research, concepts play a critical role in theory developme

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 Components of Theory

As with research, concepts play a critical role in theory development.

Consider for a moment the purpose of theory and its application to nursing practice. At the heart of any theory—which seeks to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe—lies the concept or concepts to be explored or addressed. Within the iterative process of theory development, concepts must be defined and refined as the relationships between them are identified in order to articulate “ reality” and inform effective practice.

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What is your definition of “Spiritual Care?”

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What is your definition of “Spiritual Care?” How does it Differ or Accord with the description given in the topic readings? Explain.

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