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NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion

Week 1 Discussion

My name is xxx. I am currently enrolled in my first year at Walden University with a major in FNP MSN. I have been a nurse since 2006. Since graduating from The University of Texas and obtaining my RN BSN, I worked in the ER, ICU, Med-Surg, Home health, and finally Dialysis. I currently am a Clinical Manager of an In-Center Hemodialysis clinic in Crockett Texas. I have been in my current position for five years, and I have managed two different clinics. I live and work in East Texas. I completed my MBA in 2020.

My Goals and University Vision and Mission
 

My personal vision is to leave my community, patients, and society in a better position than I found them. This aligns with Walden’s Vision of immediately solving societal challenges and  advancing the greater global good. My mission is to provide support and the highest level of care in my personal and professional life, thereby promoting positive social change. Walden’s Goals for multicontextual educational opportunities, learner-centered education, diverse process-learning approaches, and producing agents of positive social change are similar goals I have for my patient population (Walden University, n.d., 2021). By providing this type of patient education and promoting positive social change through action and example, I can make positive social change happen in my community NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.
 

MSN Program Outcomes and Perspectives to Professional and Academic Goals
 

The goal for my future is a continuation of my current career goals. I will continue to provide the highest level of care to every patient every day. I have many contacts in my local community. I look forward to partnering with local practitioners to provide clinic based family care to our community with a free clinic option on Saturdays. Achieving my FNP MSN from Walden would allow me to achieve these academic and professional goals. Receiving the highest level of education will give me the best opportunity to give patients the best care NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

Academic and Professional Collaborators for Academic and Professional Success

I will use the knowledge and experience provided by Walden’s instructors, academic advisors, enrolment specialists, the Writing Center,  and (most importantly) other students to learn and grow my academic and professional knowledge. I will continue to work with RNs, FNPs, MDs, and other healthcare professionals in my area to further grow my knowledge base specific to our local patient population needs. Many healthcare professionals work together in a common goal to improve patient care.
 

Concepts for Walden Student Readiness

Time management will be the most important concept for student readiness. Effectively managing my time will allow me to reap the full benefits from Walden’s education program, and not have to limit my time dedicated to my patient. I gained a lot from the Student Readiness Orientation. Knowing how to navigate the home page and Blackboard will limit the learning curve of starting a new program. I now know where resources are located in the event I need them. Working with other healthcare professionals through collaboration in assignments and feedback will help each of us grow as professionals NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.
 

Individuals and Teams in the MSN Program
 

I will be working with many individuals and teams to achieve my FNP MSN over the next two years. I anticipate I will be hearing from my course instructor and my student teams on this submission in the next few days. I’m sure we are all nervous about our first submission. I want to submit enough information to fulfill the grading rubric, but I also want to remain “brief”. The primary teams and individuals that will help us all through this program are our Instructors, Academic advisors, writing department, Financial Aid, families, professional colleagues,  and on and on. This list could go on for pages.
 

 I want to thank you all for your time and energy throughout this process. We can all help each other in our common goal NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

References:

Walden University. (2020). Vision, mission, and goals. Retrieved March 2, 2020, from 
https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=178&navoid=63595

Walden University. (2020). Master of science in nursing (MSN). Retrieved March, 2, 2020, from 
https://catalog.waldenu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=178&poid=70112&returnto=64000

Schmidt, K. (n.d). 5 reasons nurses should engage in professional networking. https://www.bibme.org/apa/website-citation/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.bluepipes.com%2F5-reasons-nurses-should-take-professional-networking-seriously%2F

Discussion: Networking Opportunities

In this module, you begin laying the foundation for your academic and professional success. Your efforts begin with a vision that includes your own definition of success. Your vision may vary from those of your colleagues, but this does not mean you have to take these first steps alone.

Walden University and the College of Nursing also have a vision and mission, which include helping you to make your own vision a reality. Members of your new academic community, such as faculty, support teams, and fellow students, can also be helpful. Current practitioners and other member of the professional community can also help you to clarify your vision NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

This Module’s Discussion asks you to consider how the Walden mission and vision as well as the College of Nursing’s mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. You will also begin to identify individuals and teams who can help you along the way as you begin designing the “blueprint”—your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan—that will guide you toward your own vision for academic and professional success.

To Prepare:

Review the Walden and College of Nursing mission and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes presented in this Module’s Learning Resources.

Reflect on your professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.

Consider how the information in these resources fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.

Also consider academic and professional individuals and teams with whom you may collaborate in support of your efforts as a student at the university and as a professional within your organization and career.

By Day 3 of Week 1

Post
a brief introduction of yourself to your colleagues. Include an explanation as to how Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Also include an explanation for how the Walden MSN Program Outcomes and perspectives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

By Day 6 of Week 1

Respond
 to at least 
two
 of your colleagues’ posts by suggesting additional individuals and/or teams with whom you wish to collaborate or by offering additional networking strategies.

 

sample response 1

I enjoyed reading your discussion post and was very impressed by your own personal goal to “leave my community, patients, and society in a better position that I found them”. You could not have said it any better. I believe that we are all in our profession for a reason. That each and everyone of us innately cares about how we leave this world and how much of a impact we can bring to society no matter how big or small.  We all have made an impact on people, patients, community and society as nurses. Now we all have the opportunity to make an even bigger impact as we are continuing our education and become Scholar-practitioners.

I agree that during this journey, support from our instructors, academic advisors, writing department, families and professional colleagues will help up succeed through this program. I do have one suggestion to add to your success.  I think that joining Family Nurse Practitioner associations or Student NP groups would also benefit as well. Being members of those associations would be a great way to not only network within the associations but would also be kept up to date on CEU opportunities, conferences, policies and laws that may be changing within the field NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

I look forward to collaborating with you in the future. Good luck this quarter!

response 2

I enjoyed reading your post. You have a lot of experience as a nurse in many different specialities, which I am sure has given you a great foundation in your career. It is so wholesome to see how committed you are to your community, with the consideration of providing a free clinic on Saturdays. I can see how underserved communities would deeply benefit from a resource like this, and from a nurse like you! I am from Iowa and lived near The University of Iowa for four years. The University of Iowa has a mobile clinic that provides free care to underserved populations such as “immigrants, refugees, migrant farmworkers, individuals experiencing homelessness, low-income individuals, and people who live in rural communities” (Palma et al., 2020). 44% of the recipients report that this is the only healthcare that they receive, and 97% of recipients report that their quality of care is good or excellent (Palma et al., 2020).  With this information, it is clear that you have huge potential to make a great difference in the lives of your patients. I also agree that time management is extremely important as an online student. Many of us are working, managing families, and studying full-time. According to Martin et al., students who participate in online courses benefit from self-discipline and time management to meet deadlines (2020). This will be a learning experience for me, and I am sure that I will have to improve my time management skills over the next two years in order to be successful NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

References

Martin, F., Stamper, B., & Flowers, C. (2020). Examining Student Perception of Readiness for Online Learning: Importance and Confidence. Online Learning, 24(2), 38–58.

Palma, M. L., Arthofer, A., Halstead, K. M., Wahba, J. M., & Martinez, D. A. (2020). Service Learning in Health Care for Underserved Communities: University of Iowa Mobile Clinic, 2019. American Journal of Public Health, 110(9), 1304–1307. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305755

sample response 3

Your goals, vision, and mission agrees with Walden University for academic and professional expertise, in leadership, clinical and academic practice, training future nurse practitioners s well as building infrastructures for classroom teaching, clinical teaching, and training. The preparation of nurse practitioners in Walden University incorporates fearless confidence, advocacy, the ability to withstand adverse circumstances when the health of the society or any specific targeted population is at stake. The Walden University produces nurse practitioners equipped with the absolute integrity of measuring outcomes in the classroom, in a clinical setting, on the job, etc. (Wofford, 2018).

In conclusion, the advanced preparation of the nurse practitioner in Walden University lays the foundation for competent, confident primary care providers who are committed to perfection in health care delivery.  The foundation in networking reinforces and incorporates the political drive to meet the needs of patients, families, and their health care services (Walden University, n.d., 2018) NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

References

Nurse.org. (n.d.). List of nursing organizations. Retrieved November 14, 2018, 
https://nurse.org/orgs.shtml

Schmidt, K. (n.d.). 5 reasons nurse should in professional networking. [Blog post]. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from 

5 Reasons Nurses Should Engage in Professional Networking

Walden University. (n.d.). Connect to Walden. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from 
https://www.waldenu.edu/connect

Wofford, P. (2018). 10 networking tips for nurses who hate networking. Retrieved from 
https://nurse.org/articles/tips-for-nurse-networking/

sample discussion post 2

A Need for Change

My name is xxxx. I have been in the medical field for 38 years as a nurse. I must say I have an addiction to floor nursing. The down side of this is floor nursing has had a negative effect on my health due to the physical nature of the job. Nursing is everything to me and I do not see myself doing any other profession. So, I decided in order to continue to do the thing I most cherish in my life, I would have to enhance my knowledge by returning to college in order fulfill my dream. I decided to get my Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN). Most of my clinical experiences have been in the field of cardiology and critical care. After much research I found the area of Adult Gerontology Acute Care as a Nurse Practitioner (AGAC-NP). Voila! I immediately knew that was the perfect fit for me.

 Why Walden?

One of the reasons I chose Walden was what was written in the School of Nursing’s (SON) mission statement. Walden SON focuses on the scholar-practitioner model. The scholar-practitioner model allows one use the knowledge they possess to enhance their educational goals, in combination with developmental research (Walden 2021 para. 6)I figured that my many years of experience and knowledge would definitely be an asset as I move from novice to expert.

A Walden Promise: Social Change

Walden University promotes social change. When I hear that term I think of the way we as a society interact with one another and the byproduct of those interactions.  I wait in anticipation to see the impact Walden will have on my journey towards my contribution with regards to social change. I have been fortunate to have been in this field long enough to see the changes in nursing as it has evolved into an entity that promotes wellness. Back in the day we practiced basic nursing and now it is more of a preventative/health promotional nursing practice. The doctors wrote the orders and the nurses followed them without question. Very little patient education was used and you did not dare give your suggestion to that doctor. Thank God for change. Preventative/health promotional nursing essentially places the responsibility of maintenance care in the hands of the patient. We as nurses are responsible for providing the necessary tools the patient requires to maintain a state of individual wellness. I love nurturing and providing my patients the empowerment of knowledge. I believe this is an example of how social change can be utilized to achieve positive outcomes. Walden uses terms like dignity, individual development, and worth and how imperative they are to the advancement of social change (Walden 2021 para.4). It is like growing a garden. Walden provides the talented professors and positive role models, and we are the seeds. Once watered and nurtured we will bloom into the same if we follow the guidelines set by Walden. And in return we will follow suit and like perennials we have the ability create social change. And so the cycle begins. It’s just my analog NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

 A Meeting of the Minds

The University of Walden has three noted “cornerstones” in their mission and vision statement, quality, integrity, and student-centeredness (Walden 2021 para.8).  Of the three cornerstones noted one stuck and sealed the deal for me, student-centeredness.  Walden stated “it believes that academic programs must be learner-centered, incorporating learners’ prior knowledge and allowing them to focus their academic work on their needs and interests (Walden 2021 para. 11). Again this fits my goals to a tee. This is what we describe in the spiritual realm, as being equally yoked.

References

Walden University. Vision, Mission, and Goals. Retrieved from 
https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=178&navoid=63595&hl=MISSION+VISION+STATEMENT&returnto=search

Walden University. FAQ about Walden’s Online Program. Retrieved from

https://www.waldenu.edu/

NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion

sample discussion post 3

Week 1 Main Post

My name is Emelia Korkor, originally from Ghana. I am a mother of three boys. I have been a Registered Nurse for six years and graduated from Shenandoah University. It is worth to state that I have been in the nursing profession for twenty years since I have imparted into the lives of the elderly to celebrate their individualities, the middle age to manage their medications and pain levels and a preceptor to nursing students. I started as a Certified Nurse Assistance (CNA), then pursued to become a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and currently as a Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) instructor with both American Heart Association and American Red Cross.

As stated by Education Producer (2018), obtaining a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) allows nursing professionals to pursue careers in focus areas such as neonatal or psychiatric care. This writer however, decided not to return back to school because of financial constrain, time management and changing shift from full time to part time. Surprisingly, I came across the mission statement of Walden University Catalog (2019) “To provide diverse community of career professionals with opportunities to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so they can effect positive social change.” as well as the mission statement of Walden School of Nursing (2011-2012), “for a diverse array of nursing professionals seeking enhancement of critical thinking skills, abilities to select and implement evidence-based practices, and core and specialty nursing knowledge in order to transform society’’.  These statements caught my attention as they were in alignment with my thought pattern as I continuously make efforts to improve on my critical skills and to seek knowledge to be responsive to the needs of my patients NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

Further, my goal to pursue MSN program connects with Walden University’s mission, vision, and social change, to become a Mental Health Nurse practitioner who has acquired knowledge, put into practice to benefit the community by providing emotional needs and being able to assess patients progress in an efficient manner.

Lastly, for academic and Professional Success, this writer will make good use of any available resources at her disposal provided by Walden University such as instructors, academic advisors, enrolment specialty and other knowledgeable experienced health professionals including physicians and nurses I am currently working with to gain more knowledge NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

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References

Education (Producer). (2018). The Walden Journey to a master’s in nursing.

Walden University (2011-2012) School of Nursing Mission and Vision. Retrieved from

https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=41&navoid=5304

Walden University Catalog (2019). Retrieved from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/Laureate

response

I enjoyed reading your post and how you have worked your way from a CNA to an LPN, an RN, and a CPR instructor. I tell my daughter, an RN, that nursing is a field of opportunity and growth that you cannot get in some careers. Moving into the MSN program to become a nurse practitioner is a big step, but I am glad you came across Walden’s mission statement, as I did too, and after reading To provide a diverse community of career professionals with opportunities to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so they can effect positive social change.” as well as the mission statement of Walden School of Nursing (2011-2012),  “for a diverse array of nursing professionals seeking enhancement of critical thinking skills, abilities to select and implement evidence-based practices, and core and specialty nursing knowledge in order to transform society.” These two essential values and missions aligned with my own, and I contacted Walden that day, which I had not done with any other school as I had been searching. As a senior in high school, did I ever get that chance to have that feeling of when visiting a college campus, “yes, this is it”, but I did get that feeling when I read Walden’s Mission and Values NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion. I took a deep breath and took the next step, and I am so thankful I did. Welcome to class

Nicole

References:

Walden University (2011-2012) School of Nursing Mission and Vision. Retrieved from

https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=41&navoid=5304

Walden University Catalog (2019). Retrieved from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/Laureate

sample discussion post 3

Week 1 Discussion:

 
Hello, My Fellow Walden Classmates:                  

My name is xxx, RN. I have currently enrolled in the RN to MSN with a major in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner through Walden University. I recently completed the bridge classes and excited as this is one of two of my first master program courses. I have been a registered nurse for over 16 years but have been in the nursing field for 26 years. I obtained my ADN through Waukesha County Technical College. As a single mother, this was my best and most affordable option to reach my goal and dream still to be a nurse. I have worked in various nursing areas from medical-surgical, ICU, burn units, local travel, cardiac clinic, and I currently work at a rural family medicine clinic in Baraboo, WI, as a triage and POD RN. I have been in this role for five years NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

My vision is to be an active member of my community to provide the citizens, patients, and society in general in a better position than I found them. This also is within Walden’s Vision of immediately solving societal challenges and advancing the greater global good. My mission is to provide support and give compassion, and the highest level of care in my professional life and personal life. I want to deliver and be a part of positive social change within my community. Walden’s Goals for educational opportunities, learner-centered education, diverse process-learning approaches, and producing positive social change agents are similar goals I have for my patient population (Walden University, n.d., 2021). By giving this type of patient education and promoting positive social change through action, tools, and lead by example, I can make positive societal within my rural community.

In MSN Program Outcomes and Perspectives to Professional and Academic Goals, I have vital goals for my future to continue my career goal of becoming an AGAC NP. I have deep compassion for the nursing profession and currently and in the future to continue to provide the highest level of care to patients and families I encounter every day. Though I have only been in this area of Wisconsin for nine years, I have developed multiple contacts and professional relationships in the community, such as ADRC, Sauk County Health Department, and Nurse-Family Partnership Program.

I look forward to networking further with local practitioners with a primary focus on cardiac and vascular in providing acute care to our community by working in the local hospital to provide quality evidence-based practice care to the patients I care for. Achieving my AGAC MSN from Walden would allow me to achieve these academic and professional goals. Receiving the highest level of education will give me the best opportunity to provide patients the best care.

I will use the knowledge and experience that Walden University provides. I will utilize the provided resources of my academic professors, academic advisors, the Writing Center, and networking with other students to learn and grow within the nurse practitioner profession as I work through the AGAC- NP program for professional academic collaborators for academic and professional success. I will continue to work with RNs, PAs, NPs, MDs, and other healthcare professionals in my work profession and friends to build on my knowledge and gain experience to provide high-quality care to the patients in my small community.  Healthcare is a web of teamwork as multidisciplinary professionals work together to provide and improve patient care NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

Time management has always been a concept I struggle with, but I know it is an important concept for students’ success. After being out of school for sixteen years, I struggled with managing and balancing work, home, family, and school life in the first year of classes in the Walden program. As each course began and completed, I felt that time management that eluded me was becoming better and more accessible, and I think I am better. Effectively managing and balancing my time and energy will allow me to learn and take full advantage of Walden’s education program. This will allow me to provide excellent patient care when I reach my goal of being an AGAC-NP. I reviewed the Student Readiness Orientation several times over the last year as I would forget about resources at the click of a mouse key through Walden University. After reviewing the Readiness, my first class helped me with blackboard from the home page and easy navigation to messages, class content, and additional resources such as the writing center (Walden University, n.d., 2021) NURS – 6003N Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing week 1 discussion.

I currently and will continue to work as an individual and part of a team to achieve my career goal of becoming an AGAC- NP; just like in an organization, being a team member and an active participant is essential in the program. We all have strengths and weaknesses and can help each other achieve our end professional and personal goals. I remember the first time I wrote 
RN
 after my name and the sense of accomplishment and pride I felt and still do today. The following credentials to write after our names will be exciting and a sense of self-pride. I cannot wait to get to know all of you, and we learn from each other. As reading through the discussion and class café posts, we can offer and help each other. Nursing is a challenging but rewarding field. Still, my favorite quote I have as my screensaver “
Nursing is the hardest job you’ll ever love.”

 

References:

Walden University. (2020). Vision, Mission, and Goals. 
https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=178&navoid=63595

Walden University. (2020). Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). 
https://catalog.waldenu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=178&poid=70112&returnto=64000

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nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay

Health Promotion in Minority Populations

America is known as the most culturally diverse countries in the world and Hispanics make up one, if not the largest minority groups in America. When I used to think of Hispanic families, I shamefully knew nothing about their heritage, culture, or beliefs. Then 14 years ago I met a Hispanic who turned out to be the most incredible man I have ever met, he is now my husband of 7 years, and the father of my children. Over the past 14 years I have learned so much about the Hispanic culture, traditions, and health habits, and also that they are some of the most caring and loving people I have ever met, and their culture puts a huge emphasis on family, traditions, and faith nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay.

However, unfortunately, Hispanics do not have the greatest health habits and according to (“Hispanic/Latino – The Office of Minority Health,” 2021) some of the main perpetrators of illness and death among Hispanics include that of heart disease, cancer, accidental injuries, and strokes. Hispanics also have higher rates of obesity than other ethnic groups, which could be a reason why they also suffer greatly from diabetes and diabetes complications. Race and ethnicity can play a large role in the influence of health for Hispanics. According to (“RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS,” n.d.) genetics and biology can account for some of the variation in health status of racial and ethnic groups, social science research shows the powerful influence on health of risk taking and preventive behavior, social and economic inequalities, communities and environments, health policy, and racist practices. These imbrication dynamics play a role in explaining how racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.

Health disparities are things that happen with one’s health that according to (Health disparities,” 2019) that have preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by.  Though some of the health indicators have improved some, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, a lot of minorities experience a disproportionate burden of preventable disease, death, and disability compared with non-minorities. Some of the health barriers that Hispanics have socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups, and communities nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay.

A covid study that was done, and article published by (National Institute of Health, 2021) showed that minority health disparities are most likely attributable to the continuous effects of residential racial segregation and poverty, which, more than likely influences multiple relevant risk factors and describe health barriers that includes economic, population health, housing, and health care characteristics. An example would be residing in an overcrowded or multi-generational housing due to economic hardship, cultural factors, or the use of public transit may facilitate the spread of the disease within the community.  Also, economic pressures that can arise from being a single parent, limited English proficiency or from living in communities that have a large unemployment or housing costs may cause individuals to continue working even if they are ill. In addition, individuals living on incomes below poverty, or racial and ethnic minorities may have a higher risk of major illness or a higher mortality rate because of their greater burden of underlying chronic diseases and having limited access to health care nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay.

Nutritional challenges among Hispanics are very prevalent, due to the large number of family celebrations and excess of food that is high in calories and fats. With Hispanics being known for their strong family bond and sharing meals at home, it can be extremely hard for one family member to make healthy changes with nutrition. There is also the aspect of culture where turning down food is seen as rude, impolite, and disrespectful. According to (“Hispanic/Latino Americans and type 2 diabetes,” 2021) Hispanics/Latinos are known to have a much higher rate of obesity then other ethnic groups and are also thought to be less physically active than non-Hispanic whites. Some, however, see being overweight as a sign of health instead of as a health problem, thus not changing eating habits and making healthier lifestyle choices.

Hispanics from what I can find from researching and my own experiences, the do not practice a lot of health promotion activities. While researching I found an article that had this quote and I just fell in love with it, it states in (Mikell & Snethen, n.d.) “As Jesus directs us to glorify God in our good works, approaching health promotion from a faith perspective provides additional support for Latino parishes as safe places where nurses can connect faith and health, address disparities in health outcomes, and increase access to health programs.” Nurses should educate on health promotion activities with the understanding of all aspects I have covered so that they will see you have a cultural respect, which will enhance trust and establish a relationship in which they feel cared and understood, then in return will improve the quality of care and eliminate disparities nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay.

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Health promotion prevention that would be the most beneficial and effective for Hispanics would be having a primary goal of a healthier diet and promoting exercise. Making sure to provide resources to help with ideas on healthy food options and exercises to do at home, since Hispanics have a higher rate of poverty, making sure they have the understanding that they can achieve this at home without added expense would improve chances of the prevention being achieved and maintained. Secondary prevention is to address any prediabetes, checking hgA1C, to treat and prevent the need for a tertiary management, which would be to prevent any further complications of diabetes, including correct treatments of wounds to prevent limb removal. Making sure to provide all education in Spanish so that they fully understand.

Culture practices should be considered when creating a care plan for Hispanics, making sure to include support of religious beliefs, family participation, and culture respect. In doing this the best way would be to use the cultural competence theory to provide the best knowledge, polices, and skills to provide the best treatment to patient.

References

Health disparities
. (2019, February 15). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
https://www.cdc.gov/aging/disparities/index.htm

Hispanic/Latino – The Office of Minority Health
. (2021, April 5). U.S Department of Health & Human Services. 
https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=3&lvlid=64

Hispanic/Latino Americans and type 2 diabetes
. (2021, April 7). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/hispanic-diabetes.html

Mikell, M. J., & Snethen, J. (n.d.). 
CEArticlePrint
. Lippincott NursingCenter | Professional Development for Nurses. 
https://www.nursingcenter.com/ce_articleprint?an=00005217-202004000-00014

National Institute of Health. (2021, June 29). 
Race, ethnicity, poverty and the social determinants of the coronavirus divide: U.S. County-level disparities and risk factors
. PubMed Central (PMC). 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8240081/

RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS
. (n.d.). American Sociological Association |. 
https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/images/research/docs/pdf/race_ethnicity_health.pdf

nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay

Health Promotion in Minority Populations

 

Select an ethnic minority group that is represented in the United States (American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander). Using health information available from Healthy People, the CDC, and other relevant government websites, analyze the health status for this group.

In a paper of 1,000-1,250 words, compare and contrast the health status of your selected minority group to the national average. Include the following:

Describe the ethnic minority group selected. Describe the current health status of this group. How do race and ethnicity influence health for this group?

What are the health disparities that exist for this group? What are the nutritional challenges for this group?

Discuss the barriers to health for this group resulting from culture, socioeconomics, education, and sociopolitical factors.

What health promotion activities are often practiced by this group?

Describe at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that is likely to be the most effective in a care plan given the unique needs of the minority group you have selected. Provide an explanation of why it might be the most effective choice.

What cultural beliefs or practices must be considered when creating a care plan? What cultural theory or model would be best to support culturally competent health promotion for this population? Why?

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and public health content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay.

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Class Code

Assignment Title

Total Points

NRS-429VN

NRS-429VN-O502

Health Promotion in Minority Populations

200.0

Criteria

Percentage

Unsatisfactory (0.00%)

Less than Satisfactory (75.00%)

Satisfactory (79.00%)

Good (89.00%)

Excellent (100.00%)

Content

80.0%

Identification and Description of Selected Minority Group

10.0%

Description and health status for ethnic minority group is not presented.

Description of ethnic minority group is partially presented. Health status for this group is vague. It is unclear how race and ethnicity influence health for this group.

Summary of ethnic minority group is partially presented. Health status for this group is generally discussed. Explanation of how race and ethnicity influence health this group is generally presented. It is unclear how the health status of this ethnic minority group compares to the national average. A general comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented.

Description of ethnic minority group is partially presented. Health status for this group is discussed. Explanation of how race and ethnicity influence health for this group is presented. A comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented.

A detailed description of ethnic minority group is partially presented. Health status for this group is thoroughly discussed. Explanation of how race and ethnicity influence health for this group is clearly presented. A well-developed comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented.

Health Disparities and Nutritional Challenges for Minority Group

15.0%

Health disparities and nutritional challenges for this group are not presented.

A summary of the health disparities and nutritional challenges for this group is presented. Significant details have been omitted. Summary lacks evidence to support statements.

A discussion of the health disparities and nutritional challenges for this group is generally presented. Most significant findings related to the ethnic minority group have been included. A general comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Some support is needed to support statements.

A discussion of the health disparities and nutritional challenges for this group is presented. The significant findings related to the ethnic minority group have been included. A comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented.  Some detail is needed for clarity.

A thorough discussion of the health disparities and nutritional challenges for this group is clearly presented. All relevant findings related to the ethnic minority group have been included. A well-developed comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented.

Barriers to Health for Minority Group

15.0%

Barriers to health for ethnic minority group are not presented.

Barriers to health for ethnic minority group are partially presented. The summary is not consistent with the assignment criteria. There are significant inaccuracies. Summary lacks evidence to support statements.

Barriers to health for ethnic minority group are summarized. The summary includes barriers resulting from culture, socioeconomics, education, and sociopolitical factors. There are some inaccuracies. A general comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Some evidence is needed to support statements.

Barriers to health for this ethnic minority group resulting from culture, socioeconomics, education, and sociopolitical factors are discussed. A comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Minor evidence is needed to support statements.

Barriers to health for this ethnic minority group resulting from culture, socioeconomics, education, and sociopolitical factors are thoroughly discussed. A well-developed comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Compelling and accurate evidence is provided to support statements.

Health Promotion Activities Practiced by Minority Group

10.0%

Health promotion activities practiced by minority groups are not presented.

Health promotion activities practiced by minority groups are partially summarized. There are significant inaccuracies. Summary lacks evidence to support statements.

Health promotion activities practiced by minority groups are generally described. There are minor inaccuracies. A general comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Some evidence is needed to support statements.

Health promotion activities practiced by minority groups are described. A comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Minor evidence is needed to support statements.

Health promotion activities practiced by minority groups are accurately identified and described in detail. A well-developed comparison for how the ethnic minority group compares to the national average is presented. Compelling and accurate evidence is provided to support statements.

Three Levels of Health Promotion Prevention

15.0%

A care plan, with at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention, is not presented.

A care plan, with at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention, is partially presented. It is unclear how this plan meets the unique needs of the ethnic minority group selected. There are inaccuracies.

A care plan, with at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention, is summarized. A general explanation of how this plan meets the unique needs of the ethnic minority group selected, and why it is the most effective choice, is presented. Some support or rationale is needed.

A care plan, with at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention, is described. An explanation of how this plan meets the unique needs of the ethnic minority group selected, and why it is the most effective choice, is presented. Minor support or rationale is needed.

A care plan, with at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention, is thoroughly described. A well-supported explanation of how this plan meets the unique needs of the ethnic minority group selected, and why it is the most effective choice, is presented. The discussion demonstrates a clear understanding of the three levels of health promotion prevention and their application to a unique group.

Cultural Competent Health Promotion for Ethnic Minority Population

15.0%

Cultural beliefs, practices, and relevant cultural theory significant to supporting a culturally competent health promotion for this population are not presented.

Cultural beliefs and practices to be considered are presented but are incomplete or inaccurate. The cultural theory or model proposed is partially presented; or, the model is not relevant. Overall, the content does not support a culturally competent health promotion for this population. There are significant inaccuracies.

Cultural beliefs and practices to be considered are summarized. A relevant cultural theory or model is proposed. Overall, the content generally supports a culturally competent health promotion for this population. There are some inaccuracies. More evidence or rationale is needed.

Cultural beliefs and practices to be considered are discussed. A relevant cultural theory or model is proposed. Overall, the content generally supports a culturally competent health promotion for this population. Some evidence or rationale is needed.

Cultural beliefs and practices to be considered are thoroughly discussed. A relevant cultural theory or model is proposed. Overall, the content strongly supports a culturally competent health promotion for this population. Strong evidence and rational are provided for support. The discussion demonstrates aptitude for understanding cultural competence and developing culturally competent health promotions.

Organization and Effectiveness

15.0%

Thesis Development and Purpose

5.0%

Paper lacks any discernible overall purpose or organizing claim.

Thesis is insufficiently developed or vague. Purpose is not clear.

Thesis is apparent and appropriate to purpose.

Thesis is clear and forecasts the development of the paper. Thesis is descriptive and reflective of the arguments and appropriate to the purpose.

Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.

Argument Logic and Construction

5.0%

Statement of purpose is not justified by the conclusion. The conclusion does not support the claim made. Argument is incoherent and uses noncredible sources.

Sufficient justification of claims is lacking. Argument lacks consistent unity. There are obvious flaws in the logic. Some sources have questionable credibility.

Argument is orderly, but may have a few inconsistencies. The argument presents minimal justification of claims. Argument logically, but not thoroughly, supports the purpose. Sources used are credible. Introduction and conclusion bracket the thesis.

Argument shows logical progressions. Techniques of argumentation are evident. There is a smooth progression of claims from introduction to conclusion. Most sources are authoritative.

Clear and convincing argument that presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.

Mechanics of Writing  (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

5.0%

Surface errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning. Inappropriate word choice or sentence construction is used.

Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader. Inconsistencies in language choice (register), sentence structure, or word choice are present.

Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but they are not overly distracting to the reader. Correct sentence structure and audience-appropriate language are used.

Prose is largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present. A variety of sentence structures and effective figures of speech are used.

Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.

Format

5.0%

Paper Format  (use of appropriate style for the major and assignment)

2.0%

Template is not used appropriately or documentation format is rarely followed correctly.

Template is used, but some elements are missing or mistaken; lack of control with formatting is apparent.

Template is used, and formatting is correct, although some minor errors may be present.

Template is fully used; There are virtually no errors in formatting style.

All format elements are correct.

Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style)

3.0%

Sources are not documented.

Documentation of sources is inconsistent or incorrect, as appropriate to assignment and style, with numerous formatting errors.

Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, although some formatting errors may be present.

Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is mostly correct.

Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.

Total Weightage

100%

nrs 429vn health promotion in minority populations essay

Presidential Agendas Discussion 

Presidential Agendas

Population health emerges as an important practice towards better health outcomes and health status within populations. In most instances, the health care providers, including employers, insurers, and care providers, look at population health in relation to their specific patients’ needs. However, population health is a broad practice according to health reform and should include everyone by evaluating social determinants that affect health (New York State Department of Health, 2021). Political class is among the part of the actors that are actively involved in the population health especially when it comes to developing policies. In this response, the different presidents in the United States have had diverse opinions when it comes to population health reforms and responses. For instance, during the rise of pandemics in the United States presidents have shown different ways of responding to pandemics because pandemics are fast spreading and may wipe populations within days when not adequately managed (Kerr et al., 2021). In this response, there is a need to explore the presidential agendas in response to pandemics specifically during the reign of President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

President Trump and Biden are referred to as pandemic presidents due to their tenures in office during the rise of major pandemics, including Covid-19, H1N1, Ebola Outbreak, and Zika Virus. Among these pandemics, Covid-19 emerges as the biggest and the most widely spread across the United States. The rise of COVID-19 got President Trump off-guard and this led to America seeing huge losses in terms of lives where it accounted for over 21% of all global cases and 21% of all deaths came from the United States (Kerr et al., 2021). President Trump was not prepared for the pandemic and this is the reason the federal government left all the responsibilities to the states and the national government only served as a backup and offered supplies as a last resort. This demonstrated a lack of proper understanding of pandemics and guidelines by the national government hence leading to worse community spread. At first, Trump capitalized on closing the border between the United States and China, which came late, and community transmission was becoming immense. The travel restrictions and testing of the arriving passengers were not as effective since there was little information about the pandemic to public health and their capacities. It was unfortunate that the president downplayed the first incidences of COVID-19 cases in the country and moving forward gave contradicting information and unsupported reports about the control and the causes of the pandemic (Himmelstein, 2021).

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On the other hand, President Biden has been a critical part of population health since his time as the Vice president during Obama’s administration and as the current president of the United States. As a vice president, he spearheaded the management of H1N1 in 2009, the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and the Zika virus in 2016 (Schiff, 2023). The Obama administration was effective in coming up with a ‘Global health security agenda’ that aimed to protect the world from being destroyed by infectious diseases. Biden has put across several measures that will help respond to pandemics like COVID-19 moving forward including having an effective national emergency response made of frontline workers for saving lives and reducing spread. He also believes in coming up with decisive economic measures to support the worst-hit families and businesses. Biden believes that the federal government must be on the frontline in offering solutions to Coviod-19 including better vaccine research and development and ethical task force that works to eliminate racial disparities in times of pandemics (Himmelstein, 2021).

Conclusion

The presidential agendas are an important part of population health advancement and this helps in policy development. Through the time of pandemics, presidential agendas are crucial in helping reduce the spread and mortalities. The coming of Covid-19 reflected the major failures of President Trump in making vital decisions and his inconsistencies led to huge spread and loss of lives. However, the reign of President Biden has worked to restore sanity in the response to pandemics by developing practical solutions that will be used in responding to COVID-19 and other future pandemics.

References

Himmelstein, D. U., & Woolhandler, S. (2021). Recovering from Trump: Biden’s first 100 days. 
Lancet (London, England)
, 
397
(10287), 1787–1791. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00979-X

Kerr, J., Panagopoulos, C., & van der Linden, S. (2021). Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States. 
Personality and individual differences
, 
179
, 110892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110892

New York State Department of Health. (2021). Making New York the healthiest state: Achieving the triple aim. Retrieved June 21, 2021 from https://www.health.ny.gov/events/population_health_summit/docs/what_is_population_health.pdf

Schiff, E., & Mallinson, D. J. (2023). Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola. 
Administration & Society
, 
55
(1), 158–183. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997221112308

 

Presidential Agendas Discussion

Initial Post

Healthcare reform has been a major political topic over the past two decades. Policies have been debated on and implemented over the past ten to fifteen years that has changed the way healthcare works in America.

George W. Bush

George W. Bush stated in his state of the union address, that he proposed an agenda to make health care more affordable, transparent, portable, and efficient. In 2003, President Bush signed a bill into law that started the healthcare savings account. He also implemented policies changes that helped pave the way to bring more generic medication to pharmacies to lower the cost of prescription drugs. In 2004, President Bush started the initiative that all medical records would be electronic and available to the American people over the next 10 years (
Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century
, 2006). There is a significant reduction in cost for the consumer when buying generic prescriptions. This plan signed by President Bush was a gamechanger for consumers, especially the “baby boomers” that have many prescription medications that they rely on for their healthcare. The consumer can take advantage of the tax-free healthcare savings account putting money aside for expected costs of healthcare each year.  This lowers the taxable income each year and essentially saves the consumers at tax time.  Electronic medical records streamline the process of access to your medical record so any healthcare facility can get your records quickly in the case of any emergency Presidential Agendas Discussion.

Barack Obama

 
President Obama is most known for the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.  In this legislation, he started a National Health Insurance Exchange (NIE), savings for preventative coverage, prescription drug coverage savings for generic medications (Ventola, 2009).  The National Health Insurance Exchange offers private insurance options for those that are not offered insurance by their employers, those who are self-contractors, and those whose employers offer insurance that is too costly. These plans have specific tiers of coverage ranging from low-cost premium to low deductibles. The plan for Obama to lower cost of prescription drugs were to make it legal to have them imported from other countries at a discounted cost to the consumers Presidential Agendas Discussion.
 

Donald J. Trump

President Trump on day one of his term started trying to dismantle Obamacare. One of the changes he made was to get rid of the individual mandate for coverage. Another change was the federal government stopped paying the cost sharing reduction subsidies. He also expanded access to short term plans (Simmons-Duffin, 2019). The individual mandate was a penalty for those who did not have insurance and did not apply on the national insurance database.  The whole reasoning behind Affordable Healthcare Act was to ensure that most Americans had an opportunity to have health coverage which would lower the cost of healthcare because Americans could become healthier by having some health coverage. By taking away this mandate, there would be no penalty enforced to those who did not sign up for healthcare. Cost sharing subsidies were a way to keep insurance cost down by the government payments sent to the insurers to stay in the national database. Apparently, President Trump decided he did not want the government to pay this any longer, so they stopped paying. “What ended up happening is, insurers, by and large, addressed this by increasing the price of the silver plan on the health insurance exchanges.” (Simmons-Duffin, 2019) Presidential Agendas Discussion.

What Would I do Differently?

I would fist start by not entirely changing the healthcare system, like President Obama did. The ideas he had, some of them were good, but this type of healthcare system does not work in a democracy that is America. The point of a reduced option for healthcare is a great idea for those that are unemployed and self-contractors that can not afford the cost on their own.  I would have, instead of making a penalty for those that did not sign up for healthcare, make a tax break for those that did sign up. I would also not limit this tax break to income limitations.  The problem with Obamacare is that a family of 4 may not pay a high premium, but the deductible is high. I would change the plans in the national database to preventative care only plans. This would cover any primary care visits, preventative care, wellness visits, lab work, and so on.  There would be a copay, but everything would be 100% covered after your copay.

References:

Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century
. (2006, February 15). Https://Georgewbush-Whitehouse.Archives.Gov/. 
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/2006/healthcare/#:%7E:text=In%20his%20State%20of%20the,world%20in%20cutting%20edge%20medicine
.

 

Ventola C. L. (2009). President Obama’s health care reform policies: Issues of interest to P&T committees. 
P & T: a peer-reviewed journal for formulary management
, 
34
(6), 296–308 Presidential Agendas Discussion.

Simmons-Duffin, S. (2019, October 14). 
Trumps Five Big Changes to Obamacare: Shots
. WWW.NPR.ORG. 
https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/14/768731628/trump-is-trying-hard-to-thwart-obamacare-hows-that-going

Discussion: Presidential Agendas

Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen has a stake in healthcare policy decisions. Hence, it is little wonder why healthcare items become such high-profile components of presidential agendas. It is also little wonder why they become such hotly debated agenda items.

Consider a topic that rises to the presidential level. How did each of the presidents (Trump, Obama, and Bush) handle the problem? What would you do differently?

To Prepare:

Review the Resources and reflect on the importance of agenda setting.

Consider how federal agendas promote healthcare issues and how these healthcare issues become agenda priorities.

By Day 3 of Week 1

Post
 your response to the discussion question: Consider a topic that rises to the presidential level. How did each of the presidents (Trump, Obama, and Bush) handle the problem? What would you do differently?

By Day 6 of Week 1

Respond
 to at least 
two
 of your colleagues
* on two different days
by expanding on their response and providing an example that supports their explanation or respectfully challenging their explanation and providing an example Presidential Agendas Discussion.

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Topic that Rises to the Presidential Level

Health care policies and plans have been an important issue and topic that our presidents have had to discuss during and prior to elections, this is primarily due to the size of the health care system in America, and how it budgets a large sector in our economy (Lambrew, 2018). That being said, Americans are monitoring every move of our presidential candidates with their health care policies, because the American voting citizens can affect the election outcomes regarding how our presidential candidates discuss health care plans (Lambrew, 2018). Although, our recent presidents; George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump have been modifying ideas and making improvements in our health care system to benefit the needs of American citizens, we have been struggling with this reform since the 1940’s according to Milstead and Short (2019).

Former President George W Bush, Republican party, had a similar style as to the now former President Donald Trump regarding health care priorities. The Bush administration put their focus on private plans, primarily in Medicare. The idea of this is great because you participate more in your health care and be treated ‘fairly’ for your prices (premiums, deductibles, etc.) since it would be based off your annual income (Reinhardt, 2006), but there are several pitfalls that come along with this idea. Such as some of the financial burdens, which would greatly impact those individuals with co-morbidities that are causing them to be chronically ill. Although, former president Bush did recommend and encourage individuals to enroll into Health Savings Account (HSA) which is tax deductible and in theory should decrease some of the financial burden on some individuals’/families (Reinhardt, 2006).

After an eight-year term from Republican George W. Bush, Former Democratic President Barack Obama was elected, and his administration had a different approach with our health care policy. During his eight-year term he was able to make several changes such as making health care available for everyone even if there were pre-existing health conditions and attempt to lower costs for all. For in the past, insurance companies had the opportunity to deny individuals/families for pre-existing conditions (Lambrew, 2018). This is how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was created and implemented. Although, many great movements occurred within this program, one of the biggest downfalls was that individuals that declined this or still could not afford this, would be taxed on their yearly taxes because they did not participate in this program. Basically, a loophole to have all Americans have health care to bring money into our economy, but also receive money from those who do not participate in the ACA, making it an equal playing field on participating within our growing economy Presidential Agendas Discussion.

Lastly, our most recent former Republican President, Donald Trump, sought very similar ideas as George W. Bush as I previously mentioned. Near the beginning of his term the Trump foundation eliminated the mandate that required individuals under the ACA have health coverage, meaning individuals will not be taxed additional if they do not have health care coverage. Trumps ultimate goal was to repeal the ACA completely, but approximately halfway through his four-year term had been engulfed with the current pandemic and was trying to maintain calmness while our health care facilities where becoming overwhelmed and millions of Americans were having astronomically high medical bills due to COVID-19 (Melillo, 2020). While dealing with the pandemic he continued to work on similar items are George W. Bush, such as “expand access to health care, lower Americans health coverage costs, negotiate lower prescription drug prices… Medicaid expansion (Melillo, 2020, para. 9).”

All three of our former presidents had great intentions to reform our health care system and I agree that our system does need to be reformed. My belief is health care should be readily available for everyone (previously chronic/acute health issues), rates that are reasonable (monthly premium and affordable deductibles), education to the general public for what they are being charged for with a standard price across all health care facilities, and to look at the foundation of the use of ICD10 codes. The fact that one ICD10 code could cover the cost for a test that is required, but a different ICD10 will charge the patient and their insurance more, does not make sense. I do not have all the answers on the ‘best’ way to reform our health care system or even that bad ways, but I know we have to learn from the plans that did pan as anticipated and to consider what is happening in the current day within the health care society. As I mentioned we have been struggling with this issue since the 1940’s with our health care system and I am sure we will continue to until we can figure out what works best for the largest number of Americans (Milstead & Short, 2019) Presidential Agendas Discussion.

References

Lambrew, J. M. (2018, June). 
Getting ready for health reform 2020: What past Presidential campaigns can teach us
 (Rep.). Retrieved March 1, 2021, from The Commonwealth Fund website: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/Lambrew_getting_ready_hlt_reform_2020_presidential_0.pdf

Melillo, G. (2020, June 25). Trump administration, republican attorneys general ask supreme court to repeal ACA. 
The American Journal of Managed Care.
                              https://www.ajmc.com/view/republican-attorneys-general-file-briefs-to-repeal-aca

Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). 
Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide
 (6th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). 
Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide
 (6th ed., pp 11-13). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Reinhardt U. (2006). President Bush’s proposals for healthcare reform. 
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
, 
332
(7537), 314–315.                                                               https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7537.314 Presidential Agendas Discussion

Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion

Initial Discussion Post

This week, we will evaluate how former presidential administrations handled health care and how federal agendas promote healthcare. Healthcare issues are one of the biggest problems in elections. Some believe in universal healthcare, and some think universal healthcare would result in sub-standard healthcare. Whichever side you are on, we can not deny that health care prices and availability need to be improved. Healthcare funding often depends on the political party that is in control of the executive and legislative branches Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion.

The implementation of healthcare coverage has taken on many forms throughout the history of the United States. Until the turn of the century, most healthcare was the states’ responsibility ( Gluck & Huberfield, 2018). The state’s healthcare funding was often not enough to provide healthcare, so the federal government began programs to help cover the elderly and poor. President Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid to ensure healthcare for the elderly and poor ( Gluck & Huberfield, 2018). Medicare and Medicaid are still funding healthcare and have been modified several times to include more people. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the most recent federal government attempt to provide broader healthcare access.

President George W. Bush helped lay the groundwork for future healthcare reform laws. President Bush was the first president to focus on the electronic health record and Health Saving Accounts (HSA) (Bush, 2004). Before 2001, there were very few systems in place to create and maintain patient charts electronically.  Electronic health records have helped with patient safety and quality of care because providers can access prior medical information like allergies and diseases. President Bush passed laws to reduce prescription drug prices, which helped relieve some of the financial burdens on the elderly and poor (Bush, 2014). Overall, President Bush created an environment of future healthcare reform Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion.

President Barrack Obama came into office with the hope of reforming healthcare. President Obama, with the help of congress, passed the  Patient Protection

and Affordable Care Act (ACA).  The ACA expanded Medicaid coverage and created insurance exchanges that offered lower-priced insurance options. The ACA did not see its full potential because some states refused to implement the changes (Oberlanger, 2012). The federal government had to step in to provide insurance options in states that did not participate. The ACA was the most extensive health care reform since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. The federal government’s involvement in providing healthcare to its citizens is criticized as being socialistic. The United States current healthcare is currently the most expensive globally and does not offer universal healthcare.

President Donald Trump promised to repeal the ACA in his campaign. President Trump offered to replace the ACA with a better plan. The planned replacement for the ACA never materialized. One of the problems in repealing the ACA is that public opinion was split between the government offering healthcare and private insurance coverage (Keckley, 2017).  President Trump tried many avenues to repeal the ACA. His administration has attempted to undermine the ACA by limiting funding and participation (Jones et al., 2018). President Trump successfully streamlined vaccine approvals for COVID-19. The vaccine approval usually would have taken years to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Overall, President Trump’s healthcare policies centered on repealing the ACA, but he never offered a viable replacement plan. One of his only successes in healthcare was streamlining the COVID-19 vaccine Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion.

Universal healthcare is a significant debate. The opinion often depends on political affiliations. I feel like healthcare should be a right instead of a privilege. Many countries have implemented universal healthcare and spend much less than the United States. The argument is that with universal health coverage, you will have low healthcare quality. The reforms and policies to date have attempted to provide access to health for more Americans. If I were to offer more access to Americans, I would try to personalize the uninsured struggle.

Bush, G.W. (2004). Ensuring access to health care: The Bush plan. 
JAMA, 
292(16), 2010-2011. 
https://doi:10.1001/jama.292.16.2010

Gluck, A.R., & Huberfield, N. (2018). What is federalism in healthcare for?. 
Stanford Law Review, 
70(6), 1689–1803. 
https://www-proquest-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/docview/2064333592?accountid=14872

Jones, D.K., Gusmano, M.K., Nadash, P., & Miller, E.A. (2018). Undermining the ACA through the executive branch and federalism: what the Trump administration’s approach to health reform means for older Americans. 
Journal of Aging & Social Policy
, 30(3-4), 282-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2018.1462684

Keckley, P.H. (2017). What’s ahead on healthcare? The new administration favors a state-run, market-driven approach to crafting policy. 
Healthcare Executive, 
32(2), 66-69. https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=f1330a19-ae27-4bd5-adbe-c82d59cf5815%40sessionmgr101 Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion

Oberlander, J. (2012). Unfinished journey-a century of health care reform in the United States. 
The New England Journal of Medicine, 
367(7), 585-590. https://doi:10.1056/NEJMp1202111

Discussion: Presidential Agendas

Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen has a stake in healthcare policy decisions. Hence, it is little wonder why healthcare items become such high-profile components of presidential agendas. It is also little wonder why they become such hotly debated agenda items.

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Consider a topic that rises to the presidential level. How did each of the presidents (Trump, Obama, and Bush) handle the problem? What would you do differently?

To Prepare:

Review the Resources and reflect on the importance of agenda setting.

Consider how federal agendas promote healthcare issues and how these healthcare issues become agenda priorities.

By Day 3 of Week 1

Post
 your response to the discussion question: Consider a topic that rises to the presidential level. How did each of the presidents (Trump, Obama, and Bush) handle the problem? What would you do differently?

By Day 6 of Week 1

Respond
 to at least 
two
 of your colleagues
* on two different days
 by expanding on their response and providing an example that supports their explanation or respectfully challenging their explanation and providing an examplePresidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion.

sample post 2

Healthcare Reform

I chose overall Healthcare Reform as my topic that rises to the presidential level. It’s been a significant issue, often being a cornerstone of presidential campaigns in recent years. The United States spent nearly 18% of the GDP on healthcare, more than any other country (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2020).

Trump

            
As the White House pages have been deleted, it has been challenging to find information sources on Trump’s Healthcare plan. While the Trump Administration claimed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they seemingly only seemed to weaken the ACA throughout the administration. In 2017, Republicans in House and Senate voted in a year-end tax cut that reduced the penalty for failing to have health insurance (one of the underlying tenets of the ACA) to zero.

In October of 2020, Trump announced his “America First Healthcare Vision”. This entailed protecting patients with pre-existing conditions and protecting healthcare consumers from “surprise billing” – an effort to have more transparency in hospital costs and reduce the occurrence of unforeseen hospital bills (Brownstein et al., (2020). It also expanded access to “Association Health Plans”, which small businesses could utilize to have access to health insurance savings typically associated with large group medical coverage seen in larger companies previously.

Obama

            
Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act in 2010. This provided avenues for more people to gain health insurance, utilizing subsidies for people with household incomes between 100% and 400% of the poverty level (Healthcare.gov, n.d.). The plan had a focus on individual market coverage, providing subsidies for these plans. He also expanded Medicaid to cover all adults below 138% of the poverty level. Over 20 million Americans gained health insurance from 2010-2018 under this plan (CDC, 2018).

Bush

            
George W. Bush enacted several specific policy changes rather than one comprehensive healthcare reform, aiming to continue privatized insurance policies but adding options to have more people covered. These included Medicare reforms, including a prescription drug policy which provided more access to better prescription drugs (the Heritage Foundation, 2004). Bush also created Health Savings Accounts; a tax-free savings account for health expenses Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion. He also increased funding for medical research. The president expanded flexibility for states to cover more people under Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP).

Conclusion

I don’t pretend to have a complete understanding of this complex issue. However, I think the success of other countries in implementing centralized, socialized healthcare plans for universal healthcare cannot be ignored. It seems America is spending more on healthcare with the same or even worse results than other first-world countries. Healthcare costs are crippling here. I have been fortunate in not having any major health issues thus far, but even the minor issues I have had have been enormous financial burdens. Taking away the concern over expensive healthcare scenarios would have an immediate positive effect on the overall morale of the entire population.

At the same time, I realize the importance of figuring out policies that gear a population towards more preventative, primary care solutions rather than medical interventions once a health issue is out of hand. The mentality of many in the US needs to change – and the realization that preventative steps can prevent significant health issues down the road; but this begins with people being able to afford basic primary care to nip health issues in the bud before they potentially require expensive solutions like inpatient stays. I also would like to see some of the efforts to provide incentives for good health, like workplace checkups with bonuses for making improvements to health – such as quitting smoking, improving Body Mass Index, etc Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion.

References

Center for Disease Control, (2018). National Center for Health Statistics. National Health Interview Survey Early Release Program. Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-June, 2018. 
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201811.pdf

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (2020). National Health Expenditure Data – Historical. 
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/NationalHealthAccountsHistorical#:~:text=U.S.%20health%20care%20spending%20grew,spending%20accounted%20for%2017.7%20percent
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Healthcare.gov, (n.d.). Affordable Care Act (ACA). 
https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/affordable-care-act/

The Heritage Foundation, (2004). An Examination of the Bush Healthcare Agenda. 
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/examination-the-bush-health-care-agenda

Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, and Schrek, (2020). Overview of the Trump Administration’s America First Healthcare Vision’. 
https://www.bhfs.com/insights/alerts-articles/2020/overvi

sample response

I agree with your statement that healthcare insurance is a complex topic that is hard to grasp a broad understanding of. Our country working towards preventative care versus secondary and tertiary care would drastically decrease the amount of spending on the federal level. “Policymakers and the general public also have little knowledge of the efficacy of primary care, its impact on individual and population health, and its role in today’s healthcare delivery” (Shi, 2012). As registered nurses working towards furthering our education; I agree it is vital for us to be the voice of change to help recognize the importance of primary preventative care Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion.

I think your idea of incorporating more workplace health incentives is great. Most Americans spend a majority of their time at their workplace, often without other daily activities. “Therefore, programs aimed at the workplace have the potential to reach a large segment of the population who might not be exposed to other health promotion initiatives” (Pescud, Teal, Shilton, et. al., 2015). Incorporating incentives for a healthier lifestyle into other mandatory daily activities is a great way for populations to be reached and preventative care to be addressed.

References

L. Shi. (2012, December 31). The impact of primary care: a focused review. National Institute of Health. Retrieved March 4, 2021 from 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3820521/

M. Pescud, R.Teal, T. Shilton, et. al. (2015, July 11). Employers’ views on the promotion of workplace health and wellbeing: a qualitative study. National Institute of Health. Retrieved March 4, 2021 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499225/ Presidential Agendas -NURS 6050 week 1 Discussion

NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief

Access to Mental Healthcare

Walden University
 
 

Introduction

Public policies structured and passed by governmental units play a significant role in the public’s access to healthcare and clinical professionals and practitioners’ relative delivery. Health policies that the U.S. government has approved must be carried out to establish effective healthcare services and regulations that benefit the country’s citizens. The U.S. healthcare system heavily relies on nurses’ service as they have adept skills in communication, biomedical science, education, psychology, and direct patient care (Milstead & Short, 2019). Thus, nursing is a critical stage in carrying out health and social policies for the public’s benefit. One of the country’s healthcare system’s significant concerns is delivering adequate and accessible mental healthcare services NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief. According to Russell (2010), one in four Americans aged 18 and above have a mental illness or diagnosable mental disorder. This rate tallies to around 26% of Americans who are diagnosed within a given year. The prevalence of such mental illnesses calls for more health policies to address the public health issue and provide adequate care to those with such illnesses.

The purpose of this paper is to underscore the significance of health policies relating to mental healthcare and dissection of possible mental healthcare agendas that can help provide effective nursing care. Tangent to this, the paper compares the mental healthcare policies that were addressed over three presidential terms. This paper also intends to discuss and compare the agendas, and budget allocation accomplished by former U.S. Presidents Trump, Obama, and Bush and establish which policies were most effective under the three political reigns. From this information, the paper gathers an in-depth analysis of mental healthcare and nurses’ role in helping political bodies provide the most effective healthcare services and agendas NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

Agenda Comparison Grid

Identify the Population Health concern you selected.

 

Access to Mental Healthcare

Describe the Population Health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.

The need for healthcare accessibility is a necessity for any given population. Thus, the government’s policies should cover the support for all individuals who require medical attention and treatment. That said, the recipients of healthcare should include individuals who suffer from mental illnesses. According to Russell (2010), 44 million adults and 13.7 million children suffer from mental health disorders each year, caused by psychological, physiological, and social factors. Individuals who suffer from these disorders have a higher risk of committing suicide by up to 80 to 90 percent. Russell (2010) further stressed that healthcare systems must provide equal and quality services for these individuals, similar to general medical healthcare provisions.

Administration (President Name)

President Trump

President Obama

President Bush

Describe the administrative agenda focus related to this issue for the current and two previous presidents.

Upon the republican party representative President Trump’s election, the administration stressed the reformation or entire replacement of ACA, which was passed in the former term by former democrat President Obama (Milstead & Short, 2019). Contrary to this, the recent COVID-19 pandemic and its effects drove the administration to sign Executive Order 13594, Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental and Behavioral Health Needs, to ameliorate mental healthcare services in the country (SAMHSA, 2020). Consequently, the Department of Health and Human Services (2021) revealed the fiscal year 2021 budget to increase for SAMHSA to address substance abuse illnesses and mental health issues.

In comparison with two other terms, the Obama administration’s agenda was to provide adequate mental healthcare in parity with the general medical care through health insurance NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief. In President Obama’s term from 2009 to 2017, he promoted his goal to provide healthcare access for all citizens. Thus, his main objective was to mandate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or otherwise known as Obamacare and ACA (Milstead & Short, 2019), which was ordered to regulate health insurance provisions.

President Bush’s main agenda towards mental healthcare was the establishment of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, with which he signed an Executive Order to discuss the parameters and responsibilities of the commission (Hogan, 2003). After passing the Executive Order and pushing the commission’s agenda, former President Bush was commended by mental health associations and organizations for its initiative. While the initiative to bring mental healthcare to the youth and break the stigma surrounding the relative mental health conditions began as a notable goal for the commission, the agenda was surrounded by the debate on the addition of promotional, supposedly ineffective, and expensive medication.

Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.

Since the Trump administration aimed to reduce the expansion of ACA due to the spike in taxes for middle-class earners, the budget proposal made last 2020 revealed a significant decline in the budget for mental healthcare, as discussed by Canady (2019). The report revealed a 1.5 trillion-dollar budget cut for Medicaid alone and 845 billion dollars for Medicare. Canady (2019) further discussed these concerns as National Alliance on Mental Illness grew concerned over the number of insurance beneficiaries who will lose their coverage due to limited budget allocation NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief. However, the latest fiscal year report of 2021 shows that the administration provides 5.7 billion dollars to SAMHSA to cover substance abuse control, mental health services and prevention, and mental health needs for students (Department of Health and Human Services, 2021). Other budget allocations were provided to cover the support for mental health accessibility.

As the Obama administration was focused on providing medical health insurance for all, the Medicare and Medicaid budget in 2015 increased by up to 3.2 trillion dollars or around 9,990 dollars per person or beneficiary, which also covers those who receive health insurance for mental illness (Milstead & Short, 2019). According to the study conducted by Frank, Beronio, and Glied (2014), this agenda made for the enhancement of Medicare and Medicaid significantly increased resources needed to provide enough mental health and substance use care for the majority of the population. However, Milstead and Short (2019) discussed the cons of such an agenda, not only for mental healthcare but for the general provisions of ACA. Concerns were raised concerning insurance funding by former premium holders and its effects on the raised collection of taxes. This debate became the primary hurdle for financing the agenda and encouraging its objective.

Apart from developing the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the Bush administration also passed SAMHSA in 2000 to enhance the care given for mental health patients. According to Sundararaman (2009), the National Health Expenditure Account (NHEA) reported an expenditure of 142 billion dollars in 2005 to deliver mental healthcare. However, the report shows that health insurance coverage was lesser among the patients with mental health conditions, which is in large disparity with the insurance coverage received by general medical patients. Although, it is essential to note that the administration increased the budget allocation for mental healthcare services by over 20 billion dollars from 1996 to 2006, which covered training of mental health professionals, primary and specialty care in community mental health institutions, facilities, equipment, education, medication, and treatment (Russell, 2010).

Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.

The current administration dedicated much of the budget for Medicare and Medicaid to be reduced, affecting the insurance holders that were initially supported during the previous administration. Although the repeal or reformation of Obamacare and ACA was to correct the gaps and missteps in the executive order, the Trump administration continuously made significant budget cuts and limitations to the accessibility of health insurance (Milstead & Short, 2019). These were made to address concerns by middle-wage earners who were subject to higher tax fees due to higher funding for health insurance. Concerning the recently passed executive order, the agenda covers services to care for the accessibility of prevention and treatment services for individuals with mental health and substance abuse concerns within community-based institutions and school settings (SAMHSA, 2020).

In line with the efforts for making health insurance more accessible, President Obama passed the Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act (MHPEA) in 2010 to provide mental health services at par with other healthcare services for almost 103 million individuals of the population (Executive Office of the President, 2016). The motion by this administration effectively made insurance accessible to those who were formerly non-holders of health insurance. Along with providing these individuals with healthcare, medication, premiums, and insurance coverage, the ACA, in partnership with MCPHEA, extended its service to provide the same benefits for insurance holders diagnosed with mental illness and substance use disorders.

The commission’s agenda was to pursue mental health promotion among the youth in school settings to provide them healthcare services that are inaccessible to them (Mills et al., 2006). The commission intended to provide easier access to mental health services such as screening, suicide prevention, proper medication. The purpose of President Bush’s agenda was initially acclaimed as he appointed a whole commission to carry out the regulations and recommendations for mental healthcare. However, Bush received backlash for the commission after other researchers claimed that the agenda was used to promote ineffective and harmful pharmaceutical medications such as those pushed by the Texas medication algorithm project (TMAP) (Lenzer, 2004).

Agenda Comparison Analysis

After analyzing all three administrations, it was observed that the three presidents were able to pass agendas that were inclined towards providing mental healthcare services to address the rise in the prevalence of this health issue among the U.S. population. Although the initiative of former President Bush to carry out a governing commission to regulate the provision of mental healthcare services (Hogan, 2003), the target of the commission was less inclusive of the more significant population as it focused mainly on treatment through pharmaceutical medication (Mills et al., 2006) NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

The best possible administrative agency most likely to address the healthcare issue is the Obama administration basing on the number of ameliorated mental health cases alone. According to the Executive Office of the President (2016), mental healthcare services became more accessible to the population, rounding up to about 15 million people more because of the ACA. The budget allocated for promoting low-cost, accessible health insurance through the ACA and the MHPEA allowed an estimated 62 million people for mental healthcare (Frank, Beronio, & Glied, 2014). However, it is essential to note that there were several gaps in delivering mental healthcare insurance as many individuals suffered from the consequences of higher tax payments and mandated insurance.

The issues raised during the Trump administration concerning the need for a reform of the ACA were relevant to addressing these concerns. However, drastic changes were made by the Trump administration, which caused a significant decline in the budget for mental healthcare (Milstead & Short, 2019) and an overall decreased accessibility ruling out the initial objectives of ACA NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

Overall, the Obama administration was closer to providing mental healthcare and thus is the most likely responsible for carrying out services for the issue. However, the Trump administration’s points must be addressed to devise budget solutions that anticipate budgeting concerns and alleviate the probability of higher tax collection. Taken from the agenda of President Bush (Hogan, 2003), the best possible sponsor for the success of tackling mental healthcare issues is a governing commission that can integrate the help of mental health organizations and institutions in devising the provisions and regulations for the benefit of the patients and beneficiaries without monetizing any service or support.
 

Narrative

Healthcare policies legislated by the government have significant impacts on citizens’ individual lives, especially those having limited access to proper healthcare. One of the country’s recent health issues today is the prevalence of mental health illness and inadequate support and healthcare service. Earlier data from 2010 showed about 40 million adults suffering from mental health disorders (Russel, 2010) NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief. Last 2019, the rate was observed to increase as the National Institute of Mental Health reports that almost one out five adults in the U.S. have a mental illness, which correlates to about 51.5 million adults in the population (NIMH, 2019). This data alone suggests the need for more support, medication, treatment, and other health services to alleviate the prevalence of such conditions. Providing a specific agenda for advancing mental healthcare can steadily provide millions from the population with adequate mental healthcare to improve the mental health state of these patients and decrease the increasing rate of suicide.

Mental healthcare requires the skills and expertise of mental health professionals trained to provide care and treatment for their patients. Among these professionals are nurses who directly contact these patients and have professional communication, education, medical training, psychology, and patient care (Milstead & Short, 2019). Because of this, nurses play a critical role in carrying out policies that can discuss regulations, provisions, and enhancements tailored to patient needs. According to Mrayyan and Huber (2003), nurses are actively committed to ensuring their patients’ health, which is supported by the statement of the president of the American Nurses Association, saying that “nurses are the quality and safety monitors.” Since nurses carry the responsibility of improving patient outcomes, they can directly observe which policies pose optimal care delivery effectiveness NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief. Through this observation, Ellenbecker and Edward (2016) suggest that nurses conduct research that can present evidence for policy-makers to be well-informed and knowledgeable about patient conditions.

Conclusion

Legislators hold a critical responsibility to deliver policies and agendas that can benefit the entire population. Policies made for healthcare have a significant role for the country as citizens push the need for accessible medical service (Milstead & Short, 2019). The effects of proper healthcare predetermine the effectiveness of serving citizens of the country. The government must adhere to policies and agendas that can deliver optimal healthcare for patients without compromising the country’s socioeconomic aspects. In line with this, mental health is one of the public and global health issues that require further analysis and support as it continues to increase in rate (Department of Health and Human Services, 2021). Mandating medical and mental healthcare policies requires the help of legislators and the aid of medical health professionals, especially nurses, who have firsthand knowledge of the needs of patients. Through this inclusive, multidisciplinary approach in policy-making, the government can improve solutions and responses to citizens’ needs for medication, treatment, support, education, and care NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

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Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief

It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember.

Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed legislation requiring that 20 cents per month of a sailor’s paycheck be set aside for covering their medical bills. This represented the first major piece of U.S. healthcare legislation, and the topic of healthcare has been woven into presidential agendas and political debate ever since.

As a healthcare professional, you may be called upon to provide expertise, guidance and/or opinions on healthcare matters as they are debated for inclusion into new policy. You may also be involved in planning new organizational policy and responses to changes in legislation. For all of these reasons you should be prepared to speak to national healthcare issues making the news.

In this Assignment, you will analyze recent presidential healthcare agendas. You also will prepare a fact sheet to communicate the importance of a healthcare issue and the impact on this issue of recent or proposed policy NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

To Prepare:

Review the agenda priorities of the 
current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations.

Select an issue related to healthcare that was addressed by each of the last three U.S. presidential administrations.

Reflect on the focus of their respective agendas, including the allocation of financial resources for addressing the healthcare issue you selected.

Consider how you would communicate the importance of a healthcare issue to a legislator/policymaker or a member of their staff for inclusion on an agenda.

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Comparison Grid, 1-Page Analysis, and 1-page narrative) with a title page, an introduction, purpose statement, and a conclusion. This is an APA paper.

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid

Use the Agenda Comparison Grid Template found in the Learning Resources and complete the Part 1:
Agenda Comparison Grid based on the current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations
and their agendas related to the public health concern you selected. Be sure to address the following:

Identify and provide a brief description of the population health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.

Describe the administrative agenda focus related to the issue you selected NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.

Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.

At least 3 resources must be used

Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis

Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid on the template, complete the Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis portion of the template, by addressing the following:

Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?

How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the agenda for the current and two previous presidents? How does it stay there?

Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected for the current and two previous presidents?

Part 3: Narrative

Using the information recorded on the template in Parts 1 and 2, develop a 1-page narrative that you could use to communicate with a policymaker/legislator or a member of their staff for this healthcare issue. Be sure to address the following:

Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation.

Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.

The response fully integrates at least 2 outside resources and 2-3 course specific resources that fully supports the summary provided NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

 

NURS_6050_Module01_Week02_Assignment_Rubric

Grid View

List View

Excellent

Good

Fair

Poor

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid-

-Identify a population health concern

-Describe the Population Health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.

5 
(5%)
 – 5 
(5%)

The response clearly and accurately identifies and describes a population health concern.

4 
(4%)
 – 4 
(4%)

The response vaguely identifies and describes a population health concern.

3.5 
(3.5%)
 – 3.5 
(3.5%)

The response inaccurately identifies and describes a population health concern.

0 
(0%)
 – 3 
(3%)

Identification and description of a population health concern is missing or incomplete.

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid-

– Describe the administrative agenda focus related to this issue for the current and two previous presidents.

– Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.

– Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.

18 
(18%)
 – 20 
(20%)

The response clearly and accurately describes the presidential administrations’ focus related to the concern, the financial and resource allocation dedicated to the concern, and explains how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue. At least 3 resources are used.

16 
(16%)
 – 17 
(17%)

The response vaguely describes the presidential administrations’ focus related to the concern, the financial and resource allocation dedicated to the concern, and explains how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue. Only 2 resources are used.

14 
(14%)
 – 15 
(15%)

The response inaccurately describes the presidential administrations’ focus related to the concern, the financial and resource allocation dedicated to the concern, and how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue. Only 1 resource is used.

0 
(0%)
 – 13 
(13%)

The description of the presidential administrations’ focus related to the concern, financial and resource allocation dedicated to the concern, and explanation for how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue is missing. No resources are used.

Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis- Address the following:

-Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?

-How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the agenda? How does it stay there?

-Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected for the current and two previous presidents?

23 
(23%)
 – 25 
(25%)

-The response clearly and accurately identifies an administrative agency most likely to be responsible for addressing the selected healthcare issue.

-Response clearly and accurately explains how the healthcare issue gets on the agenda and remains there.

– The response clearly and accurately identifies the entrepreneur/champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue selected.

20 
(20%)
 – 22 
(22%)

-The response vaguely identifies an administrative agency which may be responsible for addressing the selected healthcare issue.

-Response adequately explains how the healthcare issue gets on the agenda and remains there.

-Identification of the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue selected is vague NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

18 
(18%)
 – 19 
(19%)

-Identification of an administrative agency responsible for addressing the selected health care issue is inaccurate.

-Explanation of how the healthcare issue gets on the agenda and remains there is vague or inaccurate.

-Identification of the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue selected is inaccurate or does not align with the healthcare issue.

0 
(0%)
 – 17 
(17%)

-Identification of an administrative agency responsible for addressing the selected healthcare issue is missing.

-Explanation of how the healthcare issue gets on the agenda and remains there is vague and inaccurate or is missing.

-Identification of the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue selected is vague and inaccurate or is missing.

Narrative:

Based on your Agenda Comparison Grid for the healthcare issue you selected, develop a 1-2-page narrative that you could use to communicate with a policy-maker/legislator or a member of their staff for this healthcare issue.

-Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation.

 

-Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues

32 
(32%)
 – 35 
(35%)

Creates a well-developed, accurate, and narrative.

The response provides a complete, detailed, and specific synthesis of two outside resources reviewed on why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation. The response fully integrates at least 2 outside resources and 2-3 course specific resources that fully supports the summary provided.

Responses accurately and thoroughly justify in detail the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.

28 
(28%)
 – 31 
(31%)

Creates an accurate and thorough narrative.

The response provides an accurate synthesis of at least one outside resource reviewed on why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation. The response integrates at least 1 outside resource and 2-3 course specific resources that may support the summary provided.Responses accurately justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

25 
(25%)
 – 27 
(27%)

Creates a narrative that is partially accurate or incomplete.

The response provides a vague or inaccurate summary of outside resources reviewed on why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation. The response minimally integrates resources that may support the summary provided.The responses partially justifies the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.

0 
(0%)
 – 24 
(24%)

The response provides a vague and inaccurate summary of no outside resources reviewed on why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation, or is missing. The response fails to integrate any resources to support the summary provided.

Responses justifying the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues is inaccurate and incomplete or is missing.

Written Expression and Formatting – Paragraph Development and Organization:

Paragraphs make clear points that support well developed ideas, flow logically, and demonstrate continuity of ideas. Sentences are carefully focused–neither long and rambling nor short and lacking substance. A clear and comprehensive purpose statement and introduction is provided which delineates all required criteria NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief.

5 
(5%)
 – 5 
(5%)

Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity.

A clear and comprehensive purpose statement, introduction, and conclusion is provided which delineates all required criteria.

4 
(4%)
 – 4 
(4%)

Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity 80% of the time.

Purpose, introduction, and conclusion of the assignment is stated, yet is brief and not descriptive.

3.5 
(3.5%)
 – 3.5 
(3.5%)

Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity 60%- 79% of the time.

Purpose, introduction, and conclusion of the assignment is vague or off topic.

0 
(0%)
 – 3 
(3%)

Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity < 60% of the time. No purpose statement, introduction, or conclusion was provided. Written Expression and Formatting – English writing standards: Correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation 5  (5%)  – 5  (5%) Uses correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation with no errors. 4  (4%)  – 4  (4%) Contains a few (1-2) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. 3.5  (3.5%)  – 3.5  (3.5%) Contains several (3-4) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. 0  (0%)  – 3  (3%) Contains many (≥ 5) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors that interfere with the reader’s understanding. Written Expression and Formatting – The paper follows correct APA format for title page, headings, font, spacing, margins, indentations, page numbers, parenthetical/in-text citations, and reference list. 5  (5%)  – 5  (5%) Uses correct APA format with no errors. 4  (4%)  – 4  (4%) Contains a few (1-2) APA format errors. 3.5  (3.5%)  – 3.5  (3.5%) Contains several (3-4) APA format errors. 0  (0%)  – 3  (3%) Contains many (≥ 5) APA format errors. Total Points: 100 Name: NURS_6050_Module01_Week02_Assignment_Rubric NURS 6050 Week 2 Assignment Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief

Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis

Week 4 | Part 4:
Research Analysis

I have identified one topic of interest for further study. I have researched and identified one peer-reviewed research article focused on this topic and have analyzed this article.  The results of these efforts are shared below.

Directions: Complete Step 1 by using the table and subsequent space below identify and analyze the research article you have selected. Complete Step 2 by summarizing in 2-3 paragraphs the results of your analysis using the space identified.

 
Wound care remains an important means of ensuring that physical injury does not result in medical problems arising from the infection of such wounds. The science of wound care is well defined; however, there are still possible niches in wound care that continue to benefit from the continuous exchange of information that characterizes scholarship. Lynn Welsh (year), for instance, reviews recent evidence, education, and knowledge of wound care among nurses.  The semi-systematic literature review sought to acquire an ethnographic understanding of how nurses are using evidence-based practice methods in wound care (Chapman, 2009). The emerging understanding is that evidence-based nursing practice consistently pursues optimal outcomes in wound care compared to ritualistic practice, even when the latter emerges from a structured educational background at both pre- and post-registration levels Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis.
 

Step 1: Research Analysis

Complete the table below

Topic of Interest:

Wound Care

 

Research Article:

Include full citation in APA format, as well as link or search details (such as DOI)

Dreifke, M., Jayasuriya, A., & Jayasuriya, A. (2015). Current wound healing procedures and potential care. 
Materials Science And Engineering: C
, 
48
, 651-662.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2014.12.068

Professional Practice Use:

One or more professional practice uses of the theories/concepts presented in the article

The article has exploited the aim of the health care concept to the core. Fundamentally, the aim of health care revolves around the need to help all persons to various objectives such as the deterrence of untimely death and incapacity, personal growth and development, and the maintenance and enhancement of quality life. The article has sought to enlighten its readers on the contemporary healing procedures and possible care that they can embrace whenever they are hurt. This way, they will not lose any blood that might make them die prematurely. The healing procedures will also enable the article’s readers to avoid contracting new infections on the wounds that they will be having.

Research Analysis Matrix

Add more rows if necessary

Strengths of the Research

Limitations of the Research

Relevancy to Topic of Interest

Notes

The research has provided a comprehensive outlook of the article. Thanks to the research, the readers will be able to understand what will be expected of them if they have wounds. For instance, I have known that the modern-day standard of care for enduring injuries includes swabbing for infection, washing, and dressing the wound. As a result, if I get a wound, I will easily treat it.

 

The research article has made a minimal effort to depict the disadvantages of the failure to follow the current day wound healing procedures, and potential care is concerned Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis. I find it to be of no essence for the author to emphasize making the readers of the article know what is expected of them when they are wounded without informing them of the adverse impacts that are likely to be upon them if they fail to do as outlined.

The research that is provided in the article is highly relevant to the topic of interest, ‘wound care.’ Once individuals have fully ready and internalized the information in the scholarly article, they will be in the position to care for the wounds that might either befall them or their friends. Thus, the research is relevant to the topic of interest.

 

Wound care is quite significant.

The benefits of the practice are so many; hence, all persons need to be aware of its set-down procedure.

 

 

one-paragraph justification explaining whether or not you would recommend the use of this article to inform professional practice Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis.

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Step 2: Summary of Analysis

Craft a summary (2-3 paragraph) below that includes the following:

Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research

Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research

Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research

 

I experienced no difficulties while searching for the article because it is in an electronically available and indexed repository. The benefit of having  open-source articles from peer-reviewed journals is that it improves the quality of information that is available to the public on a subject. The database is useful to nursing colleagues of all demographics. Subscription-based repositories are restrictive in the sense that professionals in impoverished surroundings are not able to access such information. The result is the unfortunate reliance on habits or outdated practice that does not acknowledge the annotation of current evidence  about wound care in patients.

The article shows that wound care practice could benefit from increased knowledge-sharing among nurses (Smith-Strøm et al., 2016). Therefore, the issue of continuous professional development for nurses in this context should not only exist for the purposes of certification, but also for benevolence in patient care Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis.

Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis

Architect Daniel Libeskind is credited with saying “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.” The suggestion is that his work does not copy the efforts of others but relies on it.

Understanding the work of others is critically important to new work. Contributions to the nursing body of knowledge can happen when you are able to analyze and articulate the efforts of previous research. Research analysis skills are therefore critical tools for your toolbox.

In this Assignment, you will locate relevant existing research. You also will analyze this research using a tool helpful for analysis.

To Prepare:

Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources this Module’s Learning Resources in support of locating and analyzing research.

Use the Walden Library to identify and read one peer-reviewed research article focused on a topic in your specialty field that interests you.

Review the article you selected and reflect on the professional practice use of theories/concepts described by the article.

The Assignment:

Using the “Module 4 | Part 4” section of your 
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template
 presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the following:

Your topic of interest.

A correctly formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search details.

Identify a professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.

Analysis of the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template

Write a 1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to inform professional practice.

Write a 2- to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan that includes the following:

Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.

Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research.

Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research.

Note:
 Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

By Day 7 of Week 7

Submit
 your analysis, including your completed section of the 
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template
sections and your matrix and summary Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 4: Research Analysis.

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.

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.

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NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline

I am going to respond to this discussion by stressing the importance of asking questions. I wanted to see what was out there concerning asking questions. Shiver (2015) explains her take on asking questions as:

One of the most important things that I’ve learned in graduate school is how to ask for help when I need it. Knowing when and how to ask for help can make navigating this unknown terrain much easier and save you time by avoiding the mistakes (or experiments) that others have made. This skill cannot be underrated, as you will encounter the unknown regularly in your studies as a graduate student NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

The trick is knowing when, and how, to ask for help. The point of graduate school is for students to become independent scholars of their chosen disciplines who can ask and answer their own questions.

When starting out it’s quickly apparent that graduate school is different from undergrad. It can be difficult to know what is expected of you in terms of being instructed on what to do versus independently figuring out what to do. This is a huge change from undergrad, where a lack of knowledge was assumed and professors were there to show you what and when things needed to be completed. Now, there are still professors to ask for assistance, but by and large graduate students are expected to take the lead in their training and reach out for what they need.

Here are some tips for asking questions in order to improve learning:

General Strategies for Asking Questions

When planning questions, keep in mind your course goals.
For example, do you want students to master core concepts? To develop their critical thinking skills? The questions you ask should help them practice these skills, as well as communicate the facts, ideas, and ways of thinking that are important to their learning in your course. For more information about course goals NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

Aim for direct, specific questions. 
During class discussions, rather than beginning with a single question that is multilayered and complex, use a sequence of questions to build depth and complexity. Essay questions on exams or paper assignments, on the other hand, often provide an appropriate opportunity to ask multi-layered questions. If your course goals include preparing students to answer multi-layered questions, use questions during class time to walk students through the process.

Ask questions throughout your class and ask only one question at a time.
 When you ask more than one question, students often do not respond because they are unsure which question you want them to answer. In course planning, include notes about when you will pause to ask and answer questions. Asking questions throughout the class will not only make it more interactive but will also help you measure and improve student learning. Do not wait until the last two minutes of class to ask for questions. Students are unlikely to ask questions when they know that only a few minutes remain.

Ask open-ended questions.
 Open-ended questions work best for engaging students in discussion, as they offer the opportunity for debate. Avoid asking leading questions, those that prompt or suggest the answer, and yes/no questions. If a yes/no question is warranted, be ready with a follow up question to encourage students to critically evaluate the material and engage in discussion.

Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to be sure you are addressing various types of cognitive processes in your questions.
Bloom’s Taxonomy provides a useful way to think about kinds of cognitive processes that students use to engage with knowledge. Bloom’s Taxonomy can be used in all stages of course planning. The previous table shows six types of cognitive processes ordered according to the level of complexity involved. Ideally, you should combine questions that require “foundational thinking” to assess students’ knowledge and comprehension with questions that require “complex processing” to assess students’ abilities to apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

Refine and reflect on questions after class.
 After teaching a class session, teaching a help session, collecting an assignment, or administering an exam, take brief notes on which questions were the most effective at achieving the goals you had set and which questions led to answers that you did not expect. Keep these notes with your lecture notes or lesson plans and use them to refine your questions for the next time you will teach or meet with students.

Reference

Shiver, K. (2015, November 3). The importance of asking for help
. Inside Higher Ed: gradhacker.
 https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/importance-asking-help

The Teaching Center. (2019). Asking questions to improve learning. https://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/resources/teaching-methods/participation/asking-questions-to-improve-learning/

Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions

In Module 1, you began building a foundation for your success by considering a network-individuals and teams who can help you to clarify and execute on the vision. A network is most helpful when you are comfortable asking questions. Chances are other members of your network have experienced similar questions and may have helped guide others toward resolutions that can now be helpful.

In this Discussion, focus on the questions you are ready to ask as your journey begins. Keep in mind that sharing questions is often a great way to help others who have similar questions even if they do not realize it!

To prepare:

Reflect on questions or concerns you might have as you begin the MSN program.

Consider the individuals, teams, and departments you previously considered in Module 1 as well as how they may provide support with addressing these questions and concerns.

By Day 3 of Week 2

Post
 any questions or concerns that you are willing to share with the group. The Discussion board represents an opportunity to network with your course colleagues, and others may have the same questions or concerns.

By Day 6 of Week 2

Respond
 to at least 
two
of your colleagues’ posts by offering a possible resolution to their questions/concerns with supporting documentation, if possible, or expanding on their thinking and providing an example as support NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

 

NURS_6003_Module02_Week02_Discussion_Rubric

Grid View

List View

Excellent

Good

Fair

Poor

Main Posting

45 
(45%)
 – 50 
(50%)

Answers all parts of the discussion question(s) expectations with reflective critical analysis and synthesis of knowledge gained from the course readings for the module and current credible sources.

Supported by at least three current, credible sources.

Written clearly and concisely with no grammatical or spelling errors and fully adheres to current APA manual writing rules and style.

40 
(40%)
 – 44 
(44%)

Responds to the discussion question(s) and is reflective with critical analysis and synthesis of knowledge gained from the course readings for the module.

At least 75% of post has exceptional depth and breadth.

Supported by at least three credible sources.

Written clearly and concisely with one or no grammatical or spelling errors and fully adheres to current APA manual writing rules and style.

35 
(35%)
 – 39 
(39%)

Responds to some of the discussion question(s).

One or two criteria are not addressed or are superficially addressed.

Is somewhat lacking reflection and critical analysis and synthesis.

Somewhat represents knowledge gained from the course readings for the module.

Post is cited with two credible sources.

Written somewhat concisely; may contain more than two spelling or grammatical errors.

Contains some APA formatting errors.

0 
(0%)
 – 34 
(34%)

Does not respond to the discussion question(s) adequately.

Lacks depth or superficially addresses criteria.

Lacks reflection and critical analysis and synthesis.

Does not represent knowledge gained from the course readings for the module.

Contains only one or no credible sources.

Not written clearly or concisely.

Contains more than two spelling or grammatical errors.

Does not adhere to current APA manual writing rules and style.

Main Post: Timeliness

10 
(10%)
 – 10 
(10%)

Posts main post by day 3.

0 
(0%)
 – 0 
(0%)

0 
(0%)
 – 0 
(0%)

0 
(0%)
 – 0 
(0%)

Does not post by day 3.

First Response

17 
(17%)
 – 18 
(18%)

Response exhibits synthesis, critical thinking, and application to practice settings.

Responds fully to questions posed by faculty.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by at least two scholarly sources.

Demonstrates synthesis and understanding of learning objectives.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are fully answered, if posed.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.

15 
(15%)
 – 16 
(16%)

Response exhibits critical thinking and application to practice settings.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are answered, if posed.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by two or more credible sources.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.

13 
(13%)
 – 14 
(14%)

Response is on topic and may have some depth.

Responses posted in the discussion may lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are somewhat answered, if posed.

Response may lack clear, concise opinions and ideas, and a few or no credible sources are cited.

0 
(0%)
 – 12 
(12%)

Response may not be on topic and lacks depth.

Responses posted in the discussion lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are missing.

No credible sources are cited.

Second Response

16 
(16%)
 – 17 
(17%)

Response exhibits synthesis, critical thinking, and application to practice settings.

Responds fully to questions posed by faculty.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by at least two scholarly sources.

Demonstrates synthesis and understanding of learning objectives.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are fully answered, if posed.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.

14 
(14%)
 – 15 
(15%)

Response exhibits critical thinking and application to practice settings.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are answered, if posed.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by two or more credible sources.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.

12 
(12%)
 – 13 
(13%)

Response is on topic and may have some depth.

Responses posted in the discussion may lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are somewhat answered, if posed.

Response may lack clear, concise opinions and ideas, and a few or no credible sources are cited.

0 
(0%)
 – 11 
(11%)

Response may not be on topic and lacks depth.

Responses posted in the discussion lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are missing.

No credible sources are cited.

Participation

5 
(5%)
 – 5 
(5%)

Meets requirements for participation by posting on three different days.

0 
(0%)
 – 0 
(0%)

0 
(0%)
 – 0 
(0%)

0 
(0%)
 – 0 
(0%)

Does not meet requirements for participation by posting on 3 different days.

Total Points: 100

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sample post

Post any questions or concerns that you are willing to share with the group. The Discussion board represents an opportunity to network with your course colleagues, and others may have the same questions or concerns.

 

One of the biggest concerns I have, is time management.  Dr. Phyllis Morgan, a Walden Core Faculty, states in this weeks second video, “time management is a key strategy.  You have to be able to balance your schoolwork, your professional life, along with your personal life” (Strategies and Resources for Success, 2018).   I am still working full time and have a wife and daughter at home whom I owe time as well.  I knew this was a big concern coming in, so I have set up a daily planer, with specific times to study and specific times when I need to step away and enjoy some quality time with the family.  Knowing things will come up, and the schedule will need to change is also important.  Being flexible and able to adapt to minor changes or larger challenges will also we important to my success NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline. 

The second, and final concern I wanted to share, was the concern am I ready for this next step in my nursing career.  Having only been a nurse for two years, I wondered if I had learned enough to become a Nurse Practitioner.  It was an impossible question to answer on my own.  I took some time and reached out to fellow nurses, a previous instructor, my nursing school capstone mentor, and two Nurse Practitioners with whom I work.  The resounding answer I received is that they believed in me and they felt if I was considering this step, then it was time to move forward.  Perhaps the most reaffirming statement I received was from my nursing school capstone mentor, who told me he knew after my capstone that I would not be a nurse for long, meaning he believed I would take this step sooner than later.  These statements were just the positive affirmation I needed to apply.    

I have had a lot of questions, in just these short eight days of school.  Most of them, with some research I have been able to answer.  However, the most important question I have deals with finances.

How does repaying federal student loans work?

I have never had to use any federal student loans, due to having the GI Bill.  It is a great advantage, but it is running low, and I only have it for about eight months of this program.  I will be using a program through my work and federal student loans for the remainder of the program.  I looked online but am totally confused with paying them off.  For example, are they paid monthly, and it so how much?  How long do you have to repay them?  There are so money things with this program that confuse me.  I almost just applied for a personal loan, just to avoid the entire problem.  I know the financial people at Walden are here to answer those questions, but maybe I can receive some simpler ideas from my peers. 

The second question I have pertains to continued registration of classes. 

How do we register for our second semester of classes? 

These classes were taken care of by my student advisor.  I am not sure if they would continue to register us for classes, off our requirements, or is it something we need to do.  I was planning on emailing my student advisor about halfway through this course, to find an answer.    

These were the two main questions I had, coming into this week.  I am sure, with our group, I will get some great answers.  I am looking forward to your assistance and feedback this week.

Respectfully,

Reference:

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). 
The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Strategies and Resources for

     Success
 [Video file]. Balitmore, MD: Author.

 

 

sample response

It sounds like you have a lot to manage in regards to work, school, and family. I am lucky that I do not have children yet. I knew if I had children, I would never find the strength to put myself through school while being a parent, so I applaud you and your dedication. I would not be able to do what you are doing. I considered doing this program part-time, which I believe is three years to complete. However, I decided to hit the books hard and proceed with a full-time commitment. I have heard that a planner helps plan out daily activities with time management. I use a planner to write down many things, and I find that this helps me stay on track with daily activities and academics. I write almost everything that “needs to be done” in my planner. Planning out activities to manage time can help decrease stress and anxiety and increase productivity (Sainz et al., 2019) NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

Student loans can be stressful! I would recommend that you speak to a financial advisor. If you take out a federal loan, you have to do some interactive online activities before the loan is disbursed to your school. These are called “Entrance Counseling” and “Master Promissory Note.” In the entrance counseling, they discuss repayment thoroughly. As an undergrad, I took out private loans because dealing with “FAFSA” intimidated me, and I did not understand much of the terminology used. At this point, I wish I would have just done federal student loans because I now have a higher interest rate since I went with a private loan company. I have heard that federal student loan rates are higher now and that private student loan rates are more competitive with the federal rate. When you take out a federal student loan, you have the option to select your repayment plan. Interest will start accruing when the loan is disbursed, but payment will not be due until six months after graduation. Some borrowers elect to pay off interest monthly while in school to save money in the long run (Hoyt, 2020, p. 74).

 

Hoyt, A. A. (2020). The top five mistakes of federal student loan borrowers. Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 74(6), 73–80.

Sainz, M.A., Ferrero, A. M. & Arantza Ugidos. (2019). Time management: skills to learn and put into practice. Education + Training, 61(5), 635–648. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1108/ET-01-2018-0027

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sample response 2

Time management is a skill and necessary for nursing school success (Mohamadkhani Ghiasvand et al., 2017). I think it is one of those things that has to be personalized to fit an individual’s unique lifestyle and usually requires the sacrifice of something personal, for something professional. Many studies have shown the difficulty associated with demanding family roles being integrated with professional careers and higher education (Majomi et al., 2003). I too have always continued to work full-time while attending school and I am also a single parent of two children. The sacrifice I chose was to work graveyard, where I can work and do schoolwork at the same time, allowing me to spend time with my children during the day NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

References

Majomi, P., Brown, B., & Crawford, P. (2003). Sacrificing the personal to the professional: community mental health nurses. 
Journal of Advanced Nursing
, 
42
(5), 527–538. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02652.x

Mohamadkhani Ghiasvand, A., Naderi, M., Zagheri Tafreshi, M., Ahmadi, F., & Hosseini, M. (2017). Relationship between time management skills and anxiety and academic motivation of nursing students in Tehran. 
Electronic Physician
, 
9
(1), 3678–3684. https://doi.org/10.19082/3678

sample response 3

Time management seems to be immensely popular in this week’s discussion post. Without the proper Time management skills, online schooling can be both challenging and overwhelming. I like Dr. Redden’s response to you regarding completing the discussions ahead of time to have ample time to complete assignments. My personal experience is, when I wait to compose my discussions close to the due date, I get very anxious, which affects my thinking skills. Strategies to be successful are organizing time set aside to adequately do the reading and assignment, to participate in the discussions ( Laureate 2018) NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

I am not too familiar with a student loan, as for me, I have been working overtime to pay some of my classes out of pocket. I plan to minimize the student loans by the time I graduate from school. Eventually, my schedule will not allow me to work overtime. My co-workers mentioned the federal credit union offered much lower interest. Average interest rates on federal student loans range from 
2.75% to 5.30%
. (Gravier, 2021). Average interest rates on private student loans are generally higher but can range from 
3.34% to 12.99% fixed
 and 
1.04% to 11.98% variable
. (Gravier, 2021). I know finances can be another burden that you do not need right now.

Reference

Gravier, E. (2021, March 10). 
Here’s the average interest rate on private and federal student loans-plus what to look out for
. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-interest-rate-on-private-and-federal-student-loans/.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). 
The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Strategies and Resources for Success [Video file]. 
Baltimore, MD: Author NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

sample response 4

I enjoy reading your posts. I also have a family with children, work, and school to juggle. We have five children, but we’re fortunate that four of them are beginning their adult lives away from home. We just have a 12-year-old still living at home. My wife is also working on her Master’s in Social Work. We believe what we’re doing sets an example for our children to maintain a habit of lifelong learning. Three of our other children are in college and live near. We all work together to assist each other.
 

Time management is something we all struggle with. We are all nurses, and time management is something we constantly improve upon. I have found a few things that work for me. I carry a small notepad with me at all times. I use a scheduling app that works across many platforms and syncs all of my work and personal calendars together. This app (Any.Do) also allows me to set tasks and prioritize them. According to Indeed, Prioritizing Tasks (n.d), one should determine the urgency of each task, who is most affected, prioritize, and set deadlines. Setting aside time to complete assignments is essential to success (Laureate 2018). I have a Blackboard app on every device I use. I’ll read assignments at lunch, in between work tasks, and even in more private areas. I’ll have my phone read and write (using voice-to-text in Google Docs) assignments when I’m driving. There are a lot of ways to combine time to create efficiency, but we will still have to set some dedicated time for proofreading and editing NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.
 

Good luck and I wish you all the best in your journey.

William Jud Humphries

 

Reference

Prioritizing Tasks: a How-To Guide for Business Operators. (n.d.). Indeed.Com. Retrieved March 12, 2021, from 
https://www.indeed.com/hire/c/info/prioritizing-tasks?aceid=&gclid=Cj0KCQiAv6yCBhCLARIsABqJTjYtPkhTJEwEOtcf3oOr4ay0GCVM3vtJa3w1eaqQuHc6yRuZ1lCkb5caAqqGEALw_wcB

 

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Strategies and Resources for Success [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author NURS 6003 week 2 Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions guideline.

Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example

The reflections and pondering on numerous questions and concerns as the journey of MSN program at Walden University begins gears one’s academic and professional growth toward not only a positive ending for the student but also for the positive well-being of the patients, families, and the health care requirements of our society at the moment as well as for the future (Laureate Education, 2018).

The questions one is ready to ask as the journey of the MSN program in Walden University begins may address academic resources and strategies. Some of these questions may include: Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example

How to approach the course works.

Where are these resources available for the course works

How to have access to these available resources.

How to utilize these available resources.

In order to successfully execute the utilization of the available resources it is deemed a good idea for the student to cultivate excellent strategies, acquire useful tools and materials directed toward making the student’s visions, missions, goals, and dreams become a reality. Some useful strategies may include:

What are the student’s weaknesses and strengths: The question here is to devise ways to improve on the areas of weaknesses. Turn these weaknesses into strengths. As well as ensure that the strengths the student have been strengthened (Online Colleges, 2018).

What are the student’s goals: In order to achieve academic goals in life, the student needs to think about time allocation to study time, home works, discussions, assignments, projects and meeting up with academic requirements to foster success (Online Colleges, 2018).

What makes or accounts for the student’s academic fulfillment: The idea of fulfillment for any student equates to success.  Most times goal achievements resonate with the student motivation for academic, professional, and personal endeavors.  A healthy mind is a wealthy student. The positive engagement of the student mind, hard work, and time on academic accomplishments guarantees the pathway to academic and professional success (Online Colleges, 2018).

What constitutes a student persistence, resilience and determination pathway to success: Life is an array of ups and downs, positives, and negatives Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.  The ability to withstand and  overcome the negatives and be strongly positive for the sake of academic, professional and personal fulfillment, the student may have to incorporate into the success pathway the following- plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D, plan, etc. The student must have to learn to have the zeal and quest for enduring success (Online Colleges, 2018).

How to achieve a balance in life between pursuing academic progress and de-stressing: The student learns how to achieve mind, body, and soul healing. In other words, the idea of quality rest maybe include adequate sleep, enjoying family quality time, and quality pleasurable leisure time (Online Colleges, 2018) Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.

In conclusion, when the student turns weaknesses into strengths and strengths, strengthened the possibility of academic, professional, and personal dreams may come true.  It is good to understand that an aspect part of academic success is the adequate allocation of time to academic workload.  The idea of academic, professional, and personal fulfillment is beneficial to the definition of the meaning and purpose of life. Students, patients, families, and society are defined by the resilience of their mind-set, the willpower to attempt to move in the positive direction of the path of success. The quality of sleep, quality family time and quality pleasurable leisure correlates to paying good attention to details on completing studies, projects, and assignments (Laureate Education, 2018).

The individuals, teams, and departments previously considered in Module 1 as well as how they may provide support with addressing these questions and concerns include:

The Enrollment Specialist: Has been my backbone from the first day I enrolled in Walden University. The enrollment specialist ensured proper enrollment and admission process, proper student orientation, updates, guides, response to e-mails, answers my dump questions gently. The cornerstone of the student expertise academically, professionally, and personal achievement (Laureate Education, 2018).

The instructors: Always available to lay down foundations of academic and professional growth.  The cornerstone of the student academic, professional, and personal expertise   (Laureate Education, 2018) Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.

The almighty writing Center: The cornerstone of the studentship (Walden University Writing Center (n.d.). 2018).

Colleagues: The solidarity of the student’s career (Laureate Education, 2018).

 Walden University College of Nursing: The foundation of nursing academic, professional and personal excellence (American Nurses Association, 2018).

References

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). 
Your Toolbox for Success [Video file].
 Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). 
The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Strategies and Resources for Success [Video file]. 
Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). 
Tips for effective online composition and communication [Video file]. 
Baltimore, MD: Author.

American Nurses Association. (2018, November 14). (n.d.). 
Resources to succeed.
 Retrieved November 14, 2018, from 
https://www.nursingworld.org/resources/

Kauffman, H. (2015). 
A review of predictive factors of student success in and satisfaction with online learning. 
Research in Learning Technology, 23, 1–13. Retrieved from 
https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/1648/pdf_13

Online Colleges. (2018, November 14). (n.d.). 
10 traits of a successful online learner.
 Retrieved November 14, 2018, from 
https://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/07/14/10-traits-of-a-successful-online-learner/

Walden University Writing Center. (2018, November 14). (n.d.). 
Scholarly voice: Active and passive voice Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.
 Retrieved November 14, 2018, from 
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice/activepassive

sample response

I totally agree with you time management is a struggle for most of the students especially with full time job. However, going through the discussion posts gave me the strength that we can do it especially if someone else did it. also reading through the 10 Traits of a Successful Online Learner, provide me with more strength to stay motivated and adapt for the new time set with school, work, and life so I can get a balance. An independent approach to learning, self-direction in getting started in each course, and staying on schedule with assignments will be helpful as you begin your online experience (Online Colleges, 2018).

Also, adhering to specific due dates for activities and assignments will force you to manage your time wisely. From my previous experience with Walden online study they have a lot of resources that can assist you with all of your assignments and projects you will have through out the MSN journey.

Regards,

References

Online Colleges. (2018, November 14). (n.d.). 10 traits of a successful online learner. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/07/14/10-traits-of-a-successful-online-learner/

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). 
Tips for effective online composition and communication [Video file].
Baltimore, MD: Author Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.

sample discussion post

Week 2 Discussion-Questions

I have asked myself multiple times since the start of my journey with Walden if this is the right time for me to pursue my MSN-FNP degree. Nursing school was challenging, but back then, I had the privilege of not working full time, and my husband and I did not have any kids at the time. Now, being a mom to two little ones under three, working full time (Monday-Friday), and trying to balance family and work life with the addition to school, it has been quite an adjustment. Finding the time to do school work after work every evening after the kids are put to bed or on the weekends during regular family time days has been challenging.  I have questioned my decision to go back to school every day since the start of the course, but my personal goal has made me stay focused to accomplish this degree and succeed in the program. As stated in the second video of this week’s module, “If you are successful academically that will lead to professional success, and your professional success will guide your academic venture” (
The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing
, 2018)

A few questions I have attending school at Walden are Time Management, Clinical Preceptorships, and Passing the Boards.  I know that Time Management is a huge part of success attending any university. As stated in the second video, “Time management is a key strategy; you have to be able to balance your schoolwork, your personal life, along with your professional life”(
The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing
, 2018).  However, I want to know about online universities: ‘What are some of the best time management tips and strategies for online students to ensure success?’ Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example

Another concern of mine while attending Walden is during the latter portion of the program; the clinical setting field experience. Walden has been very transparent about being the student’s responsibility to find preceptor sites.  It is encouraged to “take the initiative to search for answers through all the services available from the program” (
10 Traits of a Successful Online Learner
, 2021, 6 section). As adult learners, we are encouraged to be self-efficient and “self-regulated” and expected that “students take control of their learning, developing appropriate strategies such as planning, staying organized and motivated” (Kauffman, n.d./2015, p. 7). However, my question is: ‘Will we be given resources and orientation as to how to go about this process?’ and  ‘Will there be an orientation on how to use and implement Meditrek during our clinical rotations?’

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 Lastly, my final question involves passing the state boards. While in Nursing school, we were given opportunities and tools every semester to prepare for the NCLEX, including practice questions.  ‘Will we have a similar type of support or preparation at Walden to prepare for state boards?’. As the course progresses and as I am transitioning back into student mode, I hope that I have become more comfortable with online learning. I know that there will be hiccups along the way, but I feel very confident with the resources, support of the staff and classmates at Walden that I will have a great learning experience.

References

 
10 Traits of a Successful Online Learner. (2021). Online College.org. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from 
https://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/07/14/10-traits-of-a-successful-online-learner/
.

Kauffman, H. (2015). A review of predictive factors of student success in and satisfaction with online learning. 
Research in Learning Technology
, 
23
, 7. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from 
https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v23.26507
 (Reprinted from)

The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Strategies and Resources for Success [Video]. (2018). Laureate Education. 
https://class.content.laureate.net/4e404b6cab951d050b8862042b2d3a49.html

sample response

I do feel your struggle. I must admit that having full-time employment, young children under the age of three, is demanding. The time management thing took me years to perfect, and it is only because of floor nursing that I have accomplished this feat. Developing a routine was my first step. NCBI (2018), in an article, agreed that forming a routine varies from person to person and could take a while, not requiring conscious effort or thought (Arlinghaus & Johnston, 2018). These are some other things that worked for me. I have a top five Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example. I have some suggestions I could make if you do not mind:

Develop a routine: Helps to promote organization.

Make a daily to-do list: checking off your list makes you feel good; accomplishments look good at the end of the day; at the end of the day, create your new to-do list for the next day.

Prioritize: Helps to organize your tasks

Stay focused: Deal with distractions one at a time. Turn off phones when possible. The ones you cannot change; do not dwell; try to delegate

*Do not procrastinate: only causes higher stress level and is non-productive

I learned about the effects of procrastination the hard way; it is not an ingredient in my cup of soup anymore. I read a peer-reviewed article in the NCBI (2018) that “procrastination is a form of self-regulation failure that is characterized by the needless delay of things one intends to do despite the expectation of negative consequences (Steel, 
2007
; cf. Klingsieck, 
2013
)”. It further states that we as students on a majority, practice procrastination, consider ourselves procrastinators, and one out of five adults is chronically affected (Steel, 2007).

I think you are an ambitious, intelligent young lady with success in her future. I hope I did not offend you in any way. I have been around for quite a while, and I hear most of you are mentioning time management and thought I might share what helped me. And one last thing I would add is to take small breaks; make date times with the husband, it is essential. Dates could be quick at-home meals when kids are napping. Get creative. These things will help you not to feel so guilty about not having the time. I will also leave you with do not become too frustrated if things do not go as planned. These suggestions are not full proof but they helped me to survive. Sounds simple, right? But seriously, it takes a lot of practice, and if you are spiritual much prayer Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.

References

Arlinghaus, K. R., & Johnston, C. A. (2018). The Importance of Creating Habits and

Routine. 
American journal of lifestyle medicine
, 
13
(2), 142–144. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/1559827618818044
 Retrieved from 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378489/

 

Prem R, Scheel TE, Weigelt O, Hoffmann K, Korunka C. Procrastination in Daily Working Life:

A Diary Study on Within-Person Processes That Link Work Characteristics to Workplace Procrastination. 
Front Psychol
. 2018; 9:1087. Published 2018 Jul 5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01087 Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042014/ Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Questions example.