Assignment: Resistant to Medications

Assignment: Resistant to Medications

Assignment: Resistant to Medications

1. I choose this topic to engage and inform my readers about the vicious nature of hospital acquired infections, how it attacks a patient’s immune system, replicates, while reprograming itself to become extremely resistant to medications, with the hope of taking total control of their victim’s immune system. As hospital acquired infections such as staphylococcus are becoming more and more resistant, healthcare workers need to play their part in the fight against them. According to Arefian, H. et al (2016) “hospital acquired infections are associated with increased health care cost, owing primarily to increased hospital length of stay”. I believe to fight its also important to know what it cost to treat one of such infections, the increase in length and time of hospital stay for that patient who wants to get home in time for thier granddaughter wedding, and the possibility of accidentally infecting the patient next door.

Research for this topic if presented and put in to practice by my organization and coworkers, will be a win for all, firstly for the patients who will not be put in harm’s way and for the hospital who will save money towards other projects since hospital acquire infections while at the hospital is paid for by that hospital.

2. RESPONSE 2 DOMINIC

I have chosen to talk about nurse fatigue because too often I have seen new nurses come into the field and become fatigued quickly. Their empathy begins to wear down and they become lazy in their work and too comfortable taking the easy route and not going the extra mile for their patients anymore. This is an issue I have witnessed at multiple settings. I would like to say it is just based on management of the unit but I believe it is an issue around the board. I have seen nurses never take out a stethoscope to examine patients in my practice. This is saddening when our core is built on a strong assessment. Not only that the patient begins to suffer, not getting the time and attention they deserve. When all went to nursing school and learn that teaching begins at admission, but why is it I have seen patients that come in with a new diagnosis of diabetes and at the time of discharge I am scrambling to complete 3 days worth of education in order to discharge my patient? I have chosen to write about this topic because as you can see I am very passionate about patient care and would like to find out more information about why nurses become so lackadaisical in their roles and let our patients down.

“Nurse fatigue is defined by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as impaired function resulting from physical labor or mental exertion. There are three types of fatigue: physiological (reduced physical capacity), objective (reduced productivity) and subjective (weary or unmotivated feeling).” (Brunt, 2017)

3. QUESTION FROM THE PROF BASE ON MY POSTING

Felicia, as you explore hand-hygiene, how would you advocate for funding to support this nursing focused research? Dr. Davis

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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

 

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: 
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.