Task: Advocating For The Nursing Role As their names imply, the honeyguide bird and the honey badger both share an affinity for honey. Honeyguide birds specialize in finding beehives but struggle to access the honey within. Honey badgers are well-equipped to raid beehives but cannot always find them. However, these two honey-loving species have learned […]

Assignment 12: Anti-depressive medications Review the following research questions. Is the use of soap and water or alcohol-based rubs more effective in preventing nosocomial infections? How effective are anti-depressive medications on anxiety and depression? For patients of 70 years and older, how effective is the use of the influenza vaccine at preventing flu as compared […]

Nursing Informatics Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise. With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to […]

WEEK 13 Discussion 1 Clinical Concepts The nursing instructor has gathered the obstetrics clinical group together at the end of their clinical day for a board game based on obstetrics. What is the rationale for the use of this activity?

Task: War against acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Please watch the film, And the Band Played On. This film may be available on the Internet through free sites such as Youtube and Vimeo (please note: accessing these sites is at your own risk). You may also view the film for purchase online through sites such as Amazon […]

Discussion 9: Process of immunosuppression A 34-year-old Hispanic-American male with end-stage renal disease received kidney transplant from a cadaver donor, as no one in his family was a good match. His post-operative course was uneventful, and he was discharged with the antirejection drugs Tacrolimus (Prograf), Cyclosporine (Neoral), and Imuran (Azathioprine). He did well for 3 […]

Week 9 Intimate Partner Violence/Substance Abuse For either format that you choose, you must include a reference page with at least three citations using resources that are less than five years old. Consider the following information when pulling your research together: · Summarize the models of care that have evolved in caring for victims of […]

Discussion: Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Watch the following YouTube interview with mathematician and Nobel prize winner John Nash Jr. and his son, both diagnosed with schizophrenia. Answer the questions below regarding John Nash Jr.’s son. Considering the history provided and what you can observe in the video, what symptoms of schizophrenia, positive and negative, does Johnny […]

Influenza Virus: Strains H7N9 and H5N1 As we learned in Week 1, it is hard to think of examples in life in which microbes do not play an important but silent or hidden role. Many of these roles are positive. However, most students enter a microbiology class only hearing about how there is “this epidemic”, […]

Task: Fundamentals Of Nursing 1. You are a nurse caring for a 58-year-old ironworker who has been admitted to your unit with acute hypertension. He became extremely symptomatic at work and was brought to your emergency department (ED) via ambulance. After receiving a report from the ED nurse, he is brought to your unit asymptomatic […]