What are some prevalent medical conditions that can also be accompanied by psychiatric symptoms or complications?

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In completing the case study, students will be addressing the following learning objectives:
Identify common medical conditions that can have accompanying psychiatric complications or symptoms. Describe general nursing implications for clients experiencing psychiatric disorders that are intertwined with other nonpsychiatric illnesses.
1. Carla, a 27-year-old white single mother of two preschool-age children, is in the psychiatric hospital for treatment of anxiety and depression. Carla has a cardiac condition that requires surgery. Carla is concerned over the financial cost of the surgery and caretakers for her children while she is in the hospital and undergoing rehabilitation. Carla is also worried that she may be unable to continue in her present employment as a salesperson due to the physical demands of this position. Carla’s case is representative of many patients with medical conditions who develop psychiatric symptoms.
(Learning Objectives: 1, 2)
a. What are some prevalent medical conditions that can also be accompanied by psychiatric symptoms or complications?
b.What are some nursing implications for Carla that address both the psychiatric and nonpsychiatric illnesses?

Discuss the impact of both the identified internal and external forces on the organization’s ability to develop a competitive strategy.

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For all assignments assume that you are the administrator of a fictitious organization of your choice. The organization can be any type of health care organization such as a hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation center, clinic, etc. As the administrator, you are faced with the challenges of declining reimbursements from insurance providers and increasing demands for patient services due to dramatic changes in the external environment. Such changes include those imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Your first step in evaluating the position of your organization will be conducting an environmental analysis. The purpose of this is to determine your organization’s ability to continue to provide quality care and remain financially solvent in the face of these challenges.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Determine two (2) specific forces in the external environment that will have the most impact on your organization. Provide a rationale for your decision.
2. Determine two (2) specific internal factors that the organization’s leaders need to consider in preparing for the future of health care and the future of the organization. Provide a rationale for your decision.
3. Discuss the impact of both the identified internal and external forces on the organization’s ability to develop a competitive strategy.
4. Recommend one (1) strategy that involves the organization’s managers in implementing and maintaining the momentum of the strategic plan.

Professional Legal Issues with Medical and Nursing Professionals

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“Professional Legal Issues with Medical and Nursing Professionals” Please respond to the following:
• * From the scenario, analyze the different and overlapping general roles of physicians and nurses as they apply to professional credentialing and subsequent patient safety and satisfaction. Determine the major ways in which these overlapping roles may help play a part in health professional credentialing processes and conduct, and identify and analyze the ethical role these influences play in health care.
• Analyze the major professional roles played by physicians and nurses as they apply to physicians’ conduct in the medical arena and to nurses in the role of adjuncts to physicians. Evaluate the degree and quality of care that physicians, nurses, and medical technologists provide in their primary roles, including, but not limited to, patient safety and satisfaction as required in 21st Century U.S. hospitals.

Discuss the optimal setting for the effective implementation of the personal leadership style

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Leadership is such an important aspect of nursing. In this course, we considered various aspects of nursing that require strong, knowledgeable, flexible and compassionate leaders. While many nurses do not set out to be the “leader” on their floor, unit or facility, nurses must be the “leader” in sometimes even the smallest tasks or situations. This leadership paper is a discussion of those basic leadership principles.

The Leadership Paper will discuss the pros and cons of your personal leadership style, comparing and contrasting characteristics of nursing theorists with leadership theorists.  You will discuss leadership across developmental levels and community settings, and utilize evidence based practice and research to support various approaches to leadership. This paper should be approximately 8 to 10 pages with 4-6 references, and utilize APA format.

Make sure to view this assignment’s rubric for a detailed grading breakdown; as per this rubric, you are expected to:

•    Identify personal leadership style
•    Include examples of implementation of personal leadership style
•    Identify one other leadership style and compare characteristics of that  leadership style with your personal style
•    Discuss the optimal setting for the effective implementation of the personal leadership style
•    Compare the personal leadership characteristics  with a nursing theorist
•    Discuss the weakness of your personal leadership style and discuss how those weakness can be changed into strengths
•    Discuss the application of leadership theory to staff members with varying levels of experience and age gaps
•    Discuss the flow of leadership from positions of power in the work setting out into the community or vice-versa
•    Discuss one evidence-based practice article concerning leadership
•    Discuss how leadership influences change and change theory
•    Discuss how leadership influences quality improvement in the work place
•    Discuss how leadership manages conflict and conflict resolution