Capella BSN4016 Full Course latest

BSN4016 Unit 1 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December

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Basic
Principles of Pharmacology

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• For
  this discussion:

• Think
  about the daily aspects of your nursing practice.
• Identify
  and describe the basic principles of pharmacology as they relate to
  nursing and patient care.
• Discuss
  how pharmacology impacts your daily practice.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one other peer. Your response
should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at least one
reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in accordance with any
of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to follow proper APA
style and formatting for any citations and references.

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Medication
Errors

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• One
  important responsibility nurses have is the administration of medications
  to patients. Nurses must know and understand the principles involved in
  the delivery of medications for the treatment of both physical and
  psychological diseases. For this discussion:

• Refer
  to the journal articles you read for this unit, as you explain what are
  considered medication errors and what can be done to prevent them.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to the post of one of your peers. Has
your peer identified information that is different from what you identified?
Your response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and
contain at least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is
in accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure
to follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 2 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December

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Evidence-Based
Practice

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• Nurses
  must be able to understand the application of evidence-based research in
  their nursing practices. This type of research requires nurses to evaluate
  outcomes while using evidence-based practices. The readings in this unit
  demonstrate that evidence-based practice is part of nearly everything we
  do in nursing and they are meant to have you think about it from many
  angles. After reading about the use of evidence-based research in nursing:

• Describe
  an example of how you currently use evidence-based practice in your
  workplace.
• Offer
  a rationale for this practice.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to the post of one of your peers. Your
response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at
least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in
accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to
follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

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Pharmacological
Protocols and Guidelines

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For
this discussion:

• Consider
  the different groups of patients to whom you provide nursing care, and the
  setting in which you generally work—telemetry, orthopedics,
  medical-surgical floor, ICU, et cetera.
• Identify
  the setting and the groups of patients in this setting.
• Identify
  a specific disease or condition you have worked with in the past and
  discuss the current pharmacological treatments used.
  • Is
    it an evidence-based therapy?
  • If
    not, describe the possible medication errors, as outlined in the
    Drach-Zahavy et al. article or the information on the AHRQ Web site.
• Describe
  the protocols, guidelines, and evidence-based practices that are in place
  in your current or past work place (be sure to maintain confidentiality of
  your work place) to assist nurses in evaluating quality patient outcomes.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one other peer and discuss the
similarities and differences between the protocols, guidelines, and
evidence-based practices used in your work place and his or her workplace. Your
response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at
least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in
accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to
follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 3 Discussion 1 latest 2016 December

Pharmacology
and Psychopharmacology

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• Nurses
  must have specific knowledge when administering medications to patients.
  Each category of medication has its own unique indications, interactions,
  and contraindications. All of these need to be monitored both before and
  after administrating a medication. For this discussion:

• Select
  a high risk medication that you administer in your current practice and
  which is prescribed for one of the health conditions you read about this
  week. Assume you are starting a patient on this medication for the first
  time.
  • If
    you were initiating treatment with this drug on a patient, what will the
    patient need to know from a safety perspective?
• List
  the drug, its indication, and three safety tips you would want to cover
  during education for the initial dose.

As an example, consider the following:

A newly diagnosed Parkinson’s patient has been
started on Levodopa therapy for treatment. The patient has asked for
information on his diet while taking this drug, and what it means when the
physician tells him that he will have to take a drug holiday at times. How
should a nurse answer his questions? What specific information would a nurse
give him regarding his treatment, diet, and drug holiday?

Response
Guidelines

Respond to the post of one of your peers. Your
response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at
least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in
accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to
follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 4 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December

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Safe
Medication Practices

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• For
  this discussion, review this week’s Internet resources, linked in the
  Resources, and answer the following questions:

• What
  do the Internet sites have in common and how do they take different
  approaches to providing information to health care workers about improve
  patient safety?
• Which
  of these sites would you be most likely to consult for policy development
  or education on safe medication administration for your current practice?
  Why?
• Support
  your position with references from this week’s readings.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one of your peers to advance the
discussion on incorporating safe medication practices into patient care. Your
response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at
least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in
accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to
follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

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Patient
Rights

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• Many
  of us were taught that there were five rights of patient medication. Now,
  according to the textbook or Web site you reference, there are six, seven,
  and even eight rights. For this discussion, respond to the following:

Does increasing the number of patient rights
make it easier or harder to ensure patients receive the medications that are
ordered in a safe, effective manner?

• Describe
  the version of the rights of patient medication you would find the most
  effective and describe the rationale for this choice.
• Review
  the “Nurses’ Six Rights for Safe Medication Administration.”
  • Do
    you agree with the author’s points on medication safety?
  • Incorporate
    this into your decision of the patent’s medication rights. Support your
    position with references from this week’s readings as well as outside
    sources as needed.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one of your peers to advance the
discussion on rights of patient medication. Your response should indicate that
you have read the weekly readings and contain at least one reference.
Additionally, make sure that your response is in accordance with any of the
established faculty expectations. Always be sure to follow proper APA style and
formatting for any citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 5 Discussion 1 latest 2016 December

Communication
Tools

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• For
  this discussion:

• Identify
  and describe the different types of communication tools that you use in
  your workplace when administering medication to patients.
  • How
    do these tools facilitate effective communication and eliminate
    medication errors? For example, how does the Pyxis machine provide
    effective communication?
  • How
    do these tools promote patient safety?
  • Are
    there potential barriers to the effective use of these tools?
• Support
  your response with references to this week’s readings.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one other learner. Are the tools
identified similar, or did your peer identify tools that you do not use in your
workplace? Are these tools truly an effective way to communicate when
administering, ordering, or counting pharmacological agents? Explain. Your
response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at
least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in
accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to
follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 6 Discussion 1 latest 2016 December

Pharmacology
and Cultural Competence

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Cultural sensitivity and cultural competence
are important aspects of the care nurses provide and they are vital components
in the nurse-client relationship. For this discussion:

• Describe
  the type of training offered in your workplace to promote cultural
  competence.
  • How
    has this training helped you to provide quality care for patient
    populations with different types of health disparities?
  • How
    has the training helped you specifically with the pharmacological aspects
    of the care you provide?
  • Are
    there other types of training that you feel would be beneficial with
    regard to cultural competence?
• Support
  your observations with references in the current scholarly literature and
  the reading assignments for this unit.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to the post of one of your peers. How
is the training at his or her workplace similar or different from the training
provided at your workplace? Are there aspects of your peer’s training that you
think would be useful for you? Your response should indicate that you have read
the weekly readings and contain at least one reference. Additionally, make sure
that your response is in accordance with any of the established faculty
expectations. Always be sure to follow proper APA style and formatting for any
citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 7 Discussion 1 latest 2016 December

Health
Disparities

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• For
  this discussion:

• Review
  Leading Health Indicators on the HealthyPeople Web site.
• Select
  one of the health indicators and respond to the following:
  • How
    prevalent is this issue in your community or workplace?
  • What
    community health promotion strategies are in place to assist with this
    issue?
  • What
    pharmacological agents are typically used to treat the issue? Is there a
    particular procedure performed in conjunction with the drugs?
  • How
    do you educate the group of patients?
  • What
    cultural factors or barriers contribute to the group’s health disparity?
  • Are
    the outcomes being measured? If so, how? If not, how might they be
    measured?
• Support
  your observations and strategies with information found in this week’s
  reading assignment and the scholarly literature

For instance, obesity is one of the major
health disparities that nurses encounter in their practices today.

• Consider
  the patient population you care for, is obesity a common health concern
  among a specific group?
  • What
    type of pharmacological agents do you typically administer as part of the
    treatment for obesity?
  • Is
    there a particular procedure performed in conjunction with the drugs?
  • How
    do you educate this group of patients?
  • What
    cultural factors or barriers contribute to the group’s health disparity
    (obesity)?

Response
Guidelines

Respond to the post of one of your peers. Try
to respond to a peer who selected a different health indicator than you.
Discuss the similarities and differences in your communities. What
interventions would you suggest that might improve the situation? Your response
should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and contain at least one
reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is in accordance with any
of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure to follow proper APA
style and formatting for any citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 8 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December

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Scope
of Practice

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• As
  discussed previously in this course, the administration of medications is
  primarily the responsibility of the nurse. For this discussion:

• Think
  about your own nursing practice—can you think of a pharmacological agent
  that requires a second nurse to verify the medication and dosage before it
  can be administered to the patient?
  • How
    is this typically done?
  • What
    is the rationale for this process?
  • Do
    you find that your coworkers implement this practice as ordered, or are
    shortcuts and work-arounds used to provide “lip service”
    compliance?
  • What
    are the potential problems with these work-arounds?

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one other learner. Are you familiar
with the medication he or she identified? Do you think the safeguards that have
been put in place are sufficient? What is your opinion regarding the identified
medication and how it is administered? Your response should indicate that you
have read the weekly readings and contain at least one reference. Additionally,
make sure that your response is in accordance with any of the established
faculty expectations. Always be sure to follow proper APA style and formatting
for any citations and references.

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Sensitivity
Reports

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• For
  this discussion, respond to the following:

• How
  does your current workplace define the responsibilities of a nurse
  regarding antibiotics sensitivity and resistance to an organism?
• Do
  you think that the identification of a culture and sensitivity reports
  should be part of a nurse’s responsibility?
• Support
  your position with references.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to the post of one of your peers. What
similarities and differences are there in the way that sensitivity reports are
handled? Do you agree or disagree with how your peer believes sensitivity
reports should be handled? Explain. Your response should indicate that you have
read the weekly readings and contain at least one reference. Additionally, make
sure that your response is in accordance with any of the established faculty
expectations. Always be sure to follow proper APA style and formatting for any
citations and references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 9 Discussion latest 2016 December

Clinical
Trials

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For this discussion, respond to the following:

• Have
  you participated in clinical trials at some point in the development and
  release of a new drug (for example, the Eli Lilly Phase III trials for
  Xigris [drotrecogin alfa] in the treatment of sepsis, or the Novartis
  Phase III EXPEDITION trial program for QVA149 [indacaterol/glycopyrronium]
  in patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  [COPD])?
• What
  was your role in this process?
• Did
  your role follow your scope of practice during the trial? Explain why or
  why not, using support from the literature and this week’s readings.

If you have not participated in a clinical
trial in your practice:

• Describe
  the rationale for a step in the research and development of a new drug
  that does apply to your practice.
• Support
  your description with findings in the literature as well as your review of
  this week’s readings.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one of your peers by adding to his
or her description. Your response should indicate that you have read the weekly
readings and contain at least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your
response is in accordance with any of the established faculty expectations.
Always be sure to follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and
references.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 10 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December

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Health
and Wellness

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Nurses play an important role in planning
patient care for different disease processes. It is vital that nurses know and
understand how to implement treatment plans that address aspects of health promotion
and wellness. Unfortunately, many times patients create their own barriers that
hamper improvement. For this discussion:

• Think
  about the clients you see in your own nursing practice and describe at
  least two barriers that hinder a plan of care that includes health
  promotion and wellness.
• Explain
  how each barrier works to inhibit the concepts of health promotion and
  wellness, using information found in this week’s readings as well as other
  scholarly sources.

Response
Guidelines

Respond to one other peer. What strategies can
you suggest to help overcome at least two of the barriers your peer described?
Your response should indicate that you have read the weekly readings and
contain at least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your response is
in accordance with any of the established faculty expectations. Always be sure
to follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and references.

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Reflection

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Over the past 10 weeks, you have examined
pharmacology from a patient safety perspective. for this discussion:

• Reflect
  back on what you have learned and how you might apply it to your current
  nursing practice:
  • What
    three things did you learn that you feel will improve your nursing
    practice?
  • Cite
    any of the readings from this course to support these observations.

Response
Guidelines

Review the posts of other peers and respond to
at least one. Your response should indicate that you have read the weekly
readings and contain at least one reference. Additionally, make sure that your
response is in accordance with any of the established faculty expectations.
Always be sure to follow proper APA style and formatting for any citations and
references.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 3 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Pharmacological Treatments

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• For
  this assignment, you will select and examine a disease or health condition
  that requires a pharmacological intervention. You may choose any disease
  or health condition you wish, but the disease or health condition must be
  relevant to nurses in a variety of settings (for example, the E.R.,
  pediatrics, public health). Once you have selected and identified a
  disease or health condition, identify the areas where nurses are likely to
  see the disease or health condition.

Instructions

• Identify
  the disease or health condition.
• Describe
  the health issues or symptoms associated with the condition.
• Identify
  drugs most often used in the treatment of the condition.
• Explain
  the types of actions, side effects, indications, and contraindications
  that could be expected from this pharmacological treatment.
• Describe
  the treatment regime (including pharmacology) that is most often
  prescribed for this condition.
• Explain
  how this treatment regime, including pharmacology, impacts a client’s
  lifestyle (including financials, ease of administration – complexity, how
  hard are instructions to understand – frequency, length of medication).
  • Are
    there any controversies related to the medication? For example, is there
    a black box warning with this medication?
• Describe
  how a nurse should monitor a client being treated for this condition in
  order to obtain a quality patient outcome.

Additional Requirements

• Length
  of paper:
  Be as specific as possible, but try to limit this assignment to no more
  than 4 pages, not including title page and reference page.
• References: Support your
  plan with references to at least two resources, in which one resource
  should be outside the required readings for this course.
• Formatting: Follow proper
  APA style and formatting.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 5 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Patient Education Sheet

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• This
  assignment consists of two important techniques needed to ensure patient
  safety and quality outcomes related to pharmacological therapies. For this
  assignment, assume your supervisor has asked you to develop a patient
  education tool for new “medication starts” in your current area
  of practice. You will complete a literature search in order to discover
  current information (less than 5 years old) on the medication. This
  information will then be utilized to prepare a single-page, evidence-based
  teaching tool that highlights patient safety. In the second part of the
  assignment, you will describe the process of creating the tool, based on
  your findings, in a short, scholarly report.

Instructions

Part 1: Patient Education Sheet

• Create
  a patient education sheet. You can either choose an idea from below or
  choose your own topic:
  • Antibiotics
    (Amoxil/Amoxicillin) for pediatric ear infections.
  • Statin
    therapy (Zocor/Simvastatin) for a newly diagnosed patient with
    hypercholesterolemia.
  • Antihypertensive
    (ACE Inhibitors/Lisinopril/Zestril) for a patient who was discovered to
    have hypertension at a work health screening.
  • Drugs
    for treating gastric acidity: Proton pump inhibitors/antacids/H2 blockers
    for a patient complaining of chronic indigestion and heart burn.
  • Ear
    drops or eye drops for an elderly patient.
  • Any
    newly released medication for a patient in your typical practice (can be
    a new drug for diabetes, hypertension, or arthritis; or a new
    antibiotic).
• Research
  the medication you have chosen and determine what information needs to be
  included on a patient education sheet. As you are aware, different drugs
  have different safety factors that have to be discussed to increase
  compliance and patient safety.
  • What
    information does the patient or caretaker of a patient need to know?
  • Choose
    the categories that you feel are the most important to highlight for your
    patients (remember that you are creating asingle-pageeducation
    sheet.)
    • Limit
      yourself to 3–5 categories to improve patient understanding. Examples of
      categories could include, but are not limited to, common indications,
      side effects, questions to ask your doctor, contraindications, and drug
      storage and disposal.
    • Use
      pictures that help reinforce education.
• Attach
  the patient education sheet as an appendix to your paper or attach it as a
  separate document.

Part 2: Justification of Information

• Justify
  why you decided to highlight your specific educational topics.
• Describe
  your chosen categories and explain why you felt these were key issues for
  patient safety.
• Discuss
  any consideration to the patient’s cultural needs that were incorporated
  into the design of the patient education sheet.
• Explain
  why you feel those format or design elements were important.

Additional Requirements

• Length
  of patient education sheet: 1 page.
• Length
  of justification paper: 2–3 pages.
• References: Support your
  decisions with references to this week’s readings and other current (less
  than 5 years old) peer-reviewed journal articles and evidence-based
  materials. Demonstrate your understanding of the relationship between
  patient safety, quality outcomes, and pharmacology.
• Formatting: Follow proper
  APA style and formatting.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 6 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Communication

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The Riverbend City mission in this unit illustrated the
importance of effective communication. For this assignment, describe two
strategies that you use in your nursing practice to effectively communicate
with other members of your team, and with your patients.

Instructions

• Describe
  two strategies that are used in your nursing practice to effectively
  communicate with members of your team and with your patients.
• Explain
  how the communication strategies reflect your knowledge of pharmacology
  policies and procedures, protocol, practice standards, and regulatory
  guidelines.
• Explain
  how the communication strategies demonstrate respect for others and
  cultural competence.
• Explain
  how the communication strategies ensure patient safety with regard to the
  delivery of pharmacological agents

Additional Requirements

• Length
  of paper:
  No more than 3 pages, not including the title page and reference page.
• References: At least two
  scholarly references, including this week’s reading assignment.
• Formatting: Follow proper
  APA style and formatting.

Capella BSN4016 Unit 7 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Health Disparities

Resources

As you think about the patients you currently serve or hope to
work with in the future, it is important to be aware of the health disparities
some populations experience. In this assignment, you will examine health
disparities for a population of your choice and then offer a community-based
approach to improve patient outcomes. When selecting your population, consider
aspects of culture, geographical area, generational factors, and any other
factors that might be considered outside the perspective of the majority
population. Describe the types of health disparities for this group, and then
select one health care concern to focus on for the rest of the assignment. For
example, the elderly might be your population and the health care concern could
be heart disease.

Instructions

• Specify
  the selected population.
• Identify
  the types of health disparities for this group and select one health care
  concern to focus on for this assignment.
• Distinguish
  factors that create health disparities for this population.
  • Why
    does this group have health disparities?
• Describe
  the identified health concern for this population as well as the
  pharmacological treatment for the condition.
• Describe
  and discuss how the cultural values, socio-economic status, and
  traditional beliefs and practices impact the acceptance of pharmacological
  treatment for this identified health concern.
• Offer
  at least one strategy for a community-based approach to improve the
  current pharmacological treatment regimens for this population.
  • What
    types of community outreach programs could be consulted to effectively
    reach your target population?
  • Are
    there education, access, or other issues that community programs could
    help address?
• Discuss
  why you believe this strategy would be effective. Support your rationale
  with references from at least three resources, at least two of which must
  be from resources not required for this course.

Additional Requirements

• Length
  of paper:
  3–4 pages, not including title page and reference page.
• References: At least
  three resources, two of which must be from resources not required for this
  course.
• Formatting: Follow proper
  APA style and formatting.

Capella
BSN4016 Unit 9 Assignment latest 2016 December

Issues in Pharmacology: A Nursing Perspective

Resources

In a professional nursing practice, you will often have patients
whose personal or cultural views on medications may be quite different from
your own. For this assignment, assume that one of the issues below has become a
hot topic in your health care organization or community. You have been asked by
leadership to prepare a PowerPoint presentation to your nursing colleagues in
an effort to raise awareness of the topic. Please view the “Guidelines for
Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” linked in Resources, as well.

Topic
Choices:

• The
  use of medical marijuana.
• The
  use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) versus traditional
  pharmacology.
• Experimental
  drug programs and disease management.
• Mandated
  vaccinations and the implications for parental choice not to vaccinate.

Instructions

To prepare your presentation, research current, peer-reviewed
journals for articles that present at least two perspectives on the topic. Your
PowerPoint presentation should include the following:

• Discuss
  the significance of the topic to your nursing practice and to patient
  safety.
  • What
    are the common types of diseases and health issues that are impacted by
    this topic?
  • What
    type of patient is typically impacted by this issue?
  • What
    nursing departments or internal departments are impacted by this issue?
• Present
  a balanced overview of the issue, including pros and cons, supported by
  peer-reviewed journal articles. The focus of this overview might vary
  depending on the issue but be mindful of the following:
  • Community
    impact.
  • Patient
    outcomes.
  • Ethical
    considerations.
  • Health
    care organization impact.
• Describe
  how a patient’s cultural beliefs can impact the issue.

Additional Requirements

• Length
  of PowerPoint: 10–12 slides, not including the title slide and
  reference slide
• References: Use the
  “presenter notes” section of the PowerPoint to include the
  references that support your evidence as well as detailed information you
  would include if presenting this information to an audience. The last
  slide of the PowerPoint should include a list of the references. Please
  review the “Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations,”
  linked in the Resources.
• Formatting: Follow proper
  APA style and formatting.