Identify three culturally sensitive nursing diagnoses from your client’s cultural perspective.

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  1. Research and select a culture of interest to you.
  2. Following approval by your faculty, write a5-page scholarly paper on the approved culture.
  3. The paper must be typed in APA format and submitted via Turnitin by the due date. Seek assistance in the Coppin University Academic Resource Center for help with grammar, sentence structure, or American Psychological Association (APA) style formatting.
  1. Submit a 5-page scholarly paper (not included reference or cover page) written in APA style, with the use of references when appropriate. (10 points).
  1. Content should consist of the following topics: (45 points)
  • Family and community structure and hierarchies.
  • Attitudes and beliefs about pregnancy and childrearing.
  • Attitudes and beliefs about death and dying
  • Attitudes and beliefs about health/wellness & illness (prevention, management, and hospitalization)
  • Attitudes and beliefs about mental illness.
  • Dietary & nutrition practices
  • Care of the elderly.
  • Social practices.
  • What are typical patterns of communication?  Include both verbal and nonverbal communications.
  1. Using the Nursing Process, discuss the care you will provide in regards to collecting data, diagnosing the problem, and planning for care. Be culturally appropriate (45 points).
  2. Individualize your assessment, diagnosis, and plan for each of the following situations:
  3. An extended family living arrangement for the 81 year-old grandmother who just suffered a Cerebral Vascular Accident (stroke) with severe hemiparesis.
  4. A new immigrant couple whose first child born at 28 weeks gestation.
  5. A nuclear family with teenage children. The father recently diagnosed with diabetes.
  6. How should questions for you assessment be directed for your cultural group?
  7. Identify three culturally sensitive nursing diagnoses from your client’s cultural perspective.
  8. How should you plan to provide care for your cultural group?
  1. How should care be provided for your cultural group?

Identify a health care need that would benefit from political advocacy by nurses.

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Question 1

  • Identify a health care need that would benefit from political advocacy by nurses.
  • Describe how nursing could influence legislation in this area.

Question 2

In the media, there has been much debate about the effectiveness and affordability of the ACA. Let’s consider how this legislation will influence your nursing practice and work environment.

  • Summarize the key components of the ACA. (Affordable Care Act)
  • Describe how you have observed this policy influencing health care and nursing practice in your organization

Capstone: Planning Your Project

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“Capstone: Planning Your Project”.
Preview and utilize the “Topic 1 Checklist.” This resource will assist you in organizing your work and will provide additional information regarding the assignment.Consider the clinical environment in which you are currently working or have recently worked. Collaborate with a leader or educator in the clinical environment to identify a problem, issue, or educational deficit upon which to build a proposal for change.In a paper of no more than 800 words, describe the nature of the problem, issue, or educational deficit. Include the following in your discussion:The setting and/or context in which the problem, issue, or educational deficit can be observed.
Detailed description of the problem, issue, or educational deficit.
Impact of the problem, issue, or educational deficit on the work environment, the quality of care provided by staff, and patient outcomes.
Gravity of the problem, issue, or educational deficit and its significance to nursing.

Discuss how the BSN-prepared nurse can assist a nurse leader in the budgeting process by contributing data readily available to the staff nurse.

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In Huston’s (2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for 2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it?

Select one of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own leadership of nurses and nursing. This should promote a robust discussion as we come from different clinical and nonclinical perspectives.

Discuss how the BSN-prepared nurse can assist a nurse leader in the budgeting process by contributing data readily available to the staff nurse.