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Part 3: minimum 1 page
Part 4: minimum 1 page
Part 5: minimum 1 page
Part 6: minimum 1 page
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Part 1: Nursing Research
1. Discuss the characteristics and requirements that research tools should have on quantitative research to give validity to the study.
2. Give 2 examples
Part 2: Nursing Research
Sample:
The population of interest in this project is school-going adolescent habitual smokers. School-going adolescents are the focus because it is between the age of 12 and 18 that most of them start to engage in smoking and substance abuse.
Method:
Convenience sampling is a non-probability and non-random sampling
1. Describe why you were to choose a specific method to select a sample over other methods.
a. Defend the method you preferred.
Part 3: Pathophysiology
You are caring for a patient who has been admitted to the coronary care unit for chest pain unrelieved by nitroglycerin and to rule out myocardial infarction. He is placed on a continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor, and there are orders for him to have 12-lead ECGs every 12 hours for the next 48 hours.
1. Discuss the type of information that can be yielded from continuous monitoring ECG versus a 12-lead ECG.
2. What factors should you consider in selecting the electrode placement and lead (electrical view of the heart) for continuous ECG monitoring?
3. What is the purpose of ordering 12-lead ECGs every 12 hours in this patient?
Part 4: Pathophysiology
A 56-year-old patient with newly diagnosed stage 1 hypertension has been referred to you for counseling regarding lifestyle modifications. He is married, with four children—two in high school, two in college. His job as a senior vice-president for a major retail chain requires that he work long hours and frequently eat at restaurants. He smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, has a body mass index (BMI) of 29 kg/m2, and a waist–hip ratio of 1.6. He usually drinks one to two dry martinis to relax after he gets home from work.
1. How would you develop a realistic plan to help this patient reduce his blood pressure and prevent complications?
2. Which risk factors would be among your top two or three priorities for this patient and why
3. What interventions or recommendations would you provide for modifying these?
Part 5: Health Care Policy
1. Describe the key concepts underlying community activism:
a. Social justice
b. Community
c. Consciousness-raising
d. Critical reflection
e. Praxis
f. Empowerment
a.give examples of how each of these concepts applies to a specific context.
2. Examine how Advanced Practice Nurses can engage in community activism to limit further negative health impacts from Big Tobacco in their respective health communities.
Attached below is an additional resource, an article, that details various ways by which nursing professionals can engage in community activism.
Patient Advocacy in the Community and Legislative Arena:
http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-17-2012/No1-Jan-2012/Advocacy-in-Community-and-Legislative-Arena.html?css=print
Part 6: Nursing Research
1. What type of analysis you are conducting in your research studies? (Inferential data analysis)
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both inferential analysis and qualitative analysis?
