Knowledge assignments

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• Knowledge Assignment: Getting Started

  Using the pre-assessments as your guide, think about your level of professional confidence and competence with nursing skills and knowledge. Where are the gaps? What experiences, situations, and relationships do you believe are important to support you as you move into professional practice?

  • Categorize your thoughts into either professional skills or professional knowledge.
  • Draft one goal to meet each of your professional development needs.
  • Develop a plan for goal achievement. How will you achieve your professional development goals? With whom do you need to meet? What resources do you need?
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit as an attachment in the assignment area.
  • Once approved, add these goals and objectives as the first entries on your Clinical Log and Checklist.
  • Share your goals with your preceptor.

• Knowledge Assignment: Communication and Conflict Management

  Reflect on Miller and colleagues·research on new graduate preparedness in working with electronic medical records (EMR). What challenges and benefits do you anticipate, or have you experienced, when interfacing with the EMR? What strategies can you implement to ensure that you have a smooth transition in your documentation while using the EMR?

  • Respond in one well-developed paragraph.
  • Cite Miller and colleagues·research/references in proper APA Style.
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit as an attachment in the assignment area.

• 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? family arrives to take her home, and they discover that she now has an IV and will not be discharged for 2 days. They ask, ?hat happened? Did our mother catch something in the hospital? We thought this is a place of healing.·How will you respond? Your response may have legal implications.In one well-developed paragraphs (12-point font):

  • Describe one strategy you will incorporate in your practice to ensure that you are providing evidence-based care in the prevention of HAIs.
  • Cite your references in proper APA Style.
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit as an attachment in the assignment area.

• 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.
  • Check your answers against the answer key.
  • 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 the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit your score and objectives as an attachment in the assignment area.
  • You may wish to add these objectives to your Clinical Log and Checklist.

• Knowledge Assignment: Alarm Fatigue

  Alarms are intended to alert caregivers of potential patient problems. But if alarms are not properly managed, they can compromise patient safety.After completing the assigned readings:

  • Respond in one strategy per level.
  • Develop one alarm management and patient safety strategies for each of the following levels of care:
    • Organizational
    • Unit
    • Individual caregiver
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit as an attachment to the assignment area.

• Knowledge Assignment: Pain Management

  • Complete the Pain Competency Self-Assessment.
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit the assessment form to the assignment area.

• Knowledge Assignment: Fall Prevention

  • Complete the Fall Risk and Cognition Assessments Case Study, including the Hendrich II Fall Risk Assessment available in the Resources folder.
  • Complete the Mini-Cog screening (see Borson, n.d., in the Resources section) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI; see Buysse, Reynolds, Monk, Berman, & Kupfer, 1989, in the Resources section) to develop a comprehensive assessment for Mrs. L.? risk of falling.
  • Develop a one-paragraph summary describing Mrs. L.? risk for falls.
  • Create one goal for each category.
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit the three fall risk assessment tools and your summary as attachments to the assignment area.

• Knowledge Assignment: End-of-Life Care

  E. L. is an 88-year-old widow who has advanced dementia. She is a retired secretary and is cared for in the home of her divorced daughter, who is her power of attorney for health affairs. E. L. requires assistance with all activities of daily living. She spends most of the day sitting in her orthopedic recliner (she has had bilateral hip replacements) or lying in bed. She does not speak or acknowledge the presence of others. Recently, E. L. has stopped eating all meals except for small banana slices. She resists a spoon when it is brought to her mouth, and she pockets food in her cheeks without swallowing. E. L. was admitted to the hospital several months ago for influenza and bilateral pneumonia. She was treated in the intensive care unit for three days and then sent home. The possibility of a feeding tube insertion was discussed during her hospitalization. E. L.? daughter is seeking guidance on artificial nutrition and hydration.

  • Use the assigned readings to guide you in the development of five discussion points
  • Discussions points should reflect best practices that you will include as you speak with E. L.? daughter regarding her mother? end-of-life care.
  • Cite your references in proper APA Style.
  • Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
  • Submit as an attachment to the assignment area.