Knowledge Assignment: Infection Control: A patient is ready for discharge when she spikes a fever of 101.3°F. A call to the physician results in an order for IV antibiotics to be administered every 12 hours for 48 hours… Knowledge Assignment: Infection Control A patient is ready for discharge when she spikes a fever of 101.3°F. A call to the physician results in an order for IV antibiotics to be administered every 12 hours for 48 hours. The patient’s family arrives to take her home, and they discover that she now has an IV and will not be discharged for 2 […]

Healthcare Finance Issues: As decisions are made to address changes in reimbursement in your work place, how are these changes shared with the nursing staff… Healthcare Finance Issues As decisions are made to address changes in reimbursement in your work place, how are these changes shared with the nursing staff? What suggestions do you have that could increase nurses’ awareness of health care financing issues?

Emergency Preparedness & Health Policy: How your work environment prepares and responds to emergency preparedness (you may choose natural or man-made emergencies)… Emergency Preparedness & Health Policy How your work environment prepares and responds to emergency preparedness (you may choose natural or man-made emergencies)?  How do you see health policy impacting nursing practice in preparing for emergencies?

Knowledge Assignment: Evidence-Based Skin Care: Maintaining patients’ skin integrity decreases hospital-acquired infection rates and reduces patients’ length of stay… Knowledge Assignment: Evidence-Based Skin Care Maintaining patients’ skin integrity decreases hospital-acquired infection rates and reduces patients’ length of stay. Respond in one well-developed paragraph. Complete the Pieper Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Test (Links to an external site.). Check your answers against the answer key (Links to an external site.). Provide your score and, in no more than one paragraph, develop three to five objectives that will help you enhance your knowledge about providing safe care to patients who may have challenges to their skin integrity. Review […]

Conduct a critical appraisal of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected by completing the Evaluation Table within the Critical Appraisal Tool Worksheet Template. Choose a total of four peer- reviewed articles that you selected related to your clinical topic of interest in Module 2 and Module 3. Note: You can choose any combination of articles from Modules 2 and 3 for your Critical Appraisal. For example, you may choose two unfiltered research articles from Module 2 and two filtered research articles (systematic reviews) from Module 3 or one article from Module 2 and three articles from Module 3. You can […]