Discuss the nurses role in caring for this patient before and after the procedure.

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The nurse is caring for a patient with diabetes type 1 who comes in for Day Surgery and takes insulin (aspart and NPH). On admission to the unit, the patient’s blood sugar is 200.

Discuss the pathophysiology of this disease process, assessment of the patient, lab work and diagnostic tests appropriate for this patient before he goes to surgery.

Discuss the pharmacology, discuss what you would do pertaining to the blood sugar and the administration of the insulins- provide rationale,

Discuss the nurses role in caring for this patient before and after the procedure.

Maintaining Standards

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Maintaining Standards

Choose a topic and discuss the standards in detail.  Analyze how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively.

  • Affordable Care Act
  • Agency for Healthcare, Quality and Research
  • Benchmarking Tools and Organizations
  • Certification for Nursing
  • Electronic Health Care Record
  • Electronic prescribing / Telehealth
  • Institute for Healthcare, Quality Improvement
  • Lean Project Management
  • Outcomes Management
  • Patient Care Pathways
  • Population Health Management
  • Practice Guidelines
  • Quality Management
  • Risk Management
  • Sentinel Event Management
  • Standards of Nursing Practice
  • Standards of Patient Care
  • Structure Standards
  • TJC Accreditation
  • Utilization Management
  • alue based care

Support your discussion and opinions with facts and relevant examples from personal nursing practice.

All submissions must have a minimum of two scholarly references to support your work.

Examples of work to show mastery:

  • 2-3 page paper – APA format

 

  • Management and Leadership – Maintaining Standards

    Description: The baccalaureate-graduate nurse will examine the concepts/ processes that assist in maintaining standards that promote patient safety.

    Component: Essential II

    Area Gold Mastery

    Silver Acceptable

    Bronze Developing

    Unacceptable

    Choose a Topic Selects a topic from the list above and discusses the standard in detail

    Selects a topic from the list above but does not discuss the standard in detail

    Selects a topic from the list above and lists details of the standard

    Selects a topic from the list above but does not discuss the standard

    Analyze the Influence

    Discusses how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace

    issues, both positively and negatively.

    Mentions how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively.

    Lists how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively.

    Does not discuss how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively.

    Support the Discussion

    Supports the discussion and opinions with facts and relevant examples from personal nursing practice

    Supports the discussion and opinions with either facts or relevant examples from personal nursing practice

    Lists facts and relevant examples from personal nursing practice with no discussion

    Does not support the discussion and opinions with facts and relevant examples from personal nursing practice

Diabetes And Drug Treatments

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Each year, 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes (American Diabetes Association, 2019). If left untreated, diabetic patients are at risk for several alterations, including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, neuropathy, and blindness. There are various methods for treating diabetes, many of which include some form of drug therapy. The type of diabetes as well as the patient’s behavior factors will impact treatment recommendations.For this Discussion, you compare types of diabetes, including drug treatments for type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.Reference: American Diabetes Association. (2019). Statistics about diabetes. Retrieved from http://diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/

To Prepare
  • Review the Resources for this module and reflect on differences between types of diabetes, including type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes.
  • Select one type of diabetes to focus on for this Discussion.
  • Consider one type of drug used to treat the type of diabetes you selected, including proper preparation and administration of this drug. Then, reflect on dietary considerations related to treatment.
  • Think about the short-term and long-term impact of the diabetes you selected on patients, including effects of drug treatments.
By Day 3 of Week 5

Post a brief explanation of the differences between the types of diabetes, including type 1, type 2, gestational, and juvenile diabetes. Describe one type of drug used to treat the type of diabetes you selected, including proper preparation and administration of this drug. Be sure to include dietary considerations related to treatment. Then, explain the short-term and long-term impact of this type of diabetes on patients. including effects of drug treatments. Be specific and provide examples.
5 references not more than 5 years   ZERO PLAGIARISM

Clinical Case Decision Instructruction

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  • CLINICAL CASE DECISION INSTRUCTIONS

    Grading Criteria for Clinical Case Decisions:

    The highest potential points for each Clinical Case Decision Question are 15-points.  Students are required to upload their response as a word document attachment to the assignment drop box.

    Each uploaded response is worth a possible 15 points.

    1. Your comments should be substantiated and substantive. Postings require two citations from 1 scholarly journal and/or 1 outside textbook. Textbooks assigned to this course may be used for an additional citation only.
    2. Each of the two references must be from a different reference source.
    3. To gain full credit for the assignment, the response must be a full page, but no more than three (3) pages in length, which includes the reference list.
    4. Students are required to use APA format, proper citations, and references.  Students using direct quotes from referenced sources in the body of the paper must include quotations.
    5. Students will be assigned to a question.

    Clinical Decision Cases

    Begin with a Head-Toe assessment, you decide if it should be treated as episodic with rationale.

    You have been assigned two (2) cases to provide analysis. All cases should include the following

    a. Pathophysiology and pharmacology of the disease

    b. Expected signs and symptoms of the disease.

    c. Nursing Diagnosis with a plan of care.

    C3. Mrs. Muller is a 78-year-old homemaker who arrives in the emergency department with a history of chest discomfort and indigestion two days ago that lasted about 12 hours. She was severely fatigued after this and within the past 2 hours has become increasingly short of breath. Her initial ECG shows that she recently experienced an anterior AMI. Her skin is cold, and she is very diaphoretic and cyanotic. She is diagnosed with acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock.

    a. What will be the intent of her management, and what will be included in her management plan?

    C4. John lacerates his radial artery while cutting a bagel. He loses approximately one-fourth of his blood volume before arriving at the hospital.

    a. What physiological responses do you expect in response to this blood loss?