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Clinical Issue

Kevin Carbonell Fuentes

West Coast University

02/06/21

Clinical issue

The influenza disease is a common pathogen involved in respiratory tract impurities, yearly infecting up to twenty percent of the overall inhabitants, and pneumonia is a prominent reason for demise after influenza contagion. Post-influenza pneumonia is predominant in the aged and chronically sick patients. The danger of post-influenza pneumonia is meaningfully amplified, rendering to the number of synchronized comorbidities. Immunization is the central extent used to subside influenza spates and related difficulties. It has been acknowledged for numerous years that individuals sixty-five years and above are more susceptible to having acute influenza difficulties than young, fit grownups. This jeopardy is due in part to variations in insusceptible fortifications with the growing phase (Alotaibi, 2019). At the same time, influenza periods differ in sternness, individuals who are sixty-five years and more abide by severe flu disease’s great encumbrance thru most seasons. This paper will discuss why patients sixty-five years and more, in what way the use of a flu injection associated with not getting the injection, affect pneumonia during flu season.

For example, in current years, it’s projected that 70% and 85% of recurrent flu-related bereavements have happened in individuals sixty-five years and more. Among 50% and 70% of periodic flu-related hospitalizations have happened amongst individuals in this age set. The most acceptable method to safeguard against influenza and its possibly solemn difficulties is with an influenza injection. CDC commends that nearly everybody six months of age and more get a seasonal flu injection each year by the end of October (Alotaibi, 2019). Though, as long as flu infections are flowing, immunization must remain through the flu season. NURS 350 Pneumonia Analysis Topic.

Influenza immunization is essential for individuals sixty-five years and more since they are a great possibility of emerging acute influenza difficulties. Influenza injections are modernized every time as desired to possess with varying viruses. Likewise, immunity diminishes over a year, so yearly immunization is required to guarantee an adequate conceivable safeguard against influenza. A flu injection safeguards against the flu illnesses that the study shows will be of utmost corporate throughout the upcoming season.

Due to age-related variations in their immune structures, individuals, sixty-five years and more might not answer and immunization of younger individuals. Though immune reactions might be lesser in older individuals, readings of external icons have reliably initiated that the influenza injection has efficiently bridged the jeopardy of medicinal appointments and hospitalizations related to influenza. Individuals, sixty-five years and more, ought to get an influenza shot, not a slurred nosegay injection (Carrillo, 2016). They may get any influenza vaccine permitted for use in their age set with no one injection inclination over another. There are consistent flu shots that are accepted for use in individuals of sixty-five years and more. There likewise are two shots intended explicitly for this set: great dose influenza shot, which encompasses four times the quantity of antigen, and adjuvant influenza shot, which is a chemical that may generate a more robust immune reaction to an immunization.

Importance to nursing

Season of flu has moral repercussions for nurses, who should keep patients not endangered from preventable difficulties. Nurses are in undeviating interaction with susceptible people each day. Some patients might be a great possibility of flu contamination since they get an autoimmune illness, have chemotherapy, or have established an organ transfer needing immunosuppressant treatment (Carrillo, 2016). Babies, kids, pregnant females, persons with precise severe infections, and grownups age sixty-five and more are likewise particularly susceptible. If an infested nurse passes a flu infection straining to some immunocompromised people, that person is at greater risk of acute difficulties, such as pneumonia, sepsis, or demise. They must safeguard the individuals near them, specifically patients who can’t get one of the suggested recurrent cold shots. NURS 350 Pneumonia Analysis Topic.

The critical objective of flu inhibition agendas is to decrease the illness’s effect on slight, reasonable, and acute circumstances. Removal of contaminations or illness is not possible (Wiley, 2016). The struggle of immunizing whole residents on a yearly foundation executes the necessity for a detailed prioritizing implementation targeted at describing designated inhabitants sets. Decreasing the number of acute circumstances offers the dual benefit of evading individuals’ misery and decreasing the healthcare organization’s encumbrance due to hospitalization.

PICOT questions

1) For patients sixty years and more (P), in what way does the usage of a flu injection (I) related to not acknowledging the injection (C) affect the jeopardy of getting pneumonia (O) through the cold period (T)?

2) patients who have gone through severe myocardial infarction (P), how does being a chain-smoker (I) related to a not smoking (C) effect decrease and infarction amounts (O) through the initial five years afterward the myocardial infarction (T)?

3)  In children with spastic cerebral palsy (P), what is the consequence of strapping and molding (I) related to restraint prompted treatment (C) on two-handed ability improvement (O)?

References

Alotaibi, F. Y., Alhetheel, A. F., Alluhaymid, Y. M., Alshibani, M. G., Almuhaydili, A. O., Alhuqayl, T. A., … & Almasabi, A. A. (2019). Influenza vaccine coverage, awareness, and beliefs regarding seasonal influenza vaccination among people aged 65 years and older in Central Saudi Arabia. Saudi medical journal, 40(10), 1013-1018.

Carrillo-Santisteve, P., Ciancio, B. C., Nicoll, A., & Luigi Lopalco, P. (2016). The importance of influenza prevention for public health. Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 8(1), 89-95.

Wiley, S. K. (2016). Nurses’ most important role this flu season: Get vaccinated. Nursing2020, 46(10), 58-60.

Clinical Issue

Kevin Carbonell Fuentes

West Coast University

02/06/21

Clinical issue

The influenza disease is a common pathogen involved in respiratory tract impurities, yearly infecting up to twenty percent of the overall inhabitants, and pneumonia is a prominent reason for demise after influenza contagion. Post-influenza pneumonia is predominant in the aged and chronically sick patients. The danger of post-influenza pneumonia is meaningfully amplified, rendering to the number of synchronized comorbidities. Immunization is the central extent used to subside influenza spates and related difficulties. It has been acknowledged for numerous years that individuals sixty-five years and above are more susceptible to having acute influenza difficulties than young, fit grownups. This jeopardy is due in part to variations in insusceptible fortifications with the growing phase (Alotaibi, 2019). At the same time, influenza periods differ in sternness, individuals who are sixty-five years and more abide by severe flu disease’s great encumbrance thru most seasons. This paper will discuss why patients sixty-five years and more, in what way the use of a flu injection associated with not getting the injection, affect pneumonia during flu season.

For example, in current years, it’s projected that 70% and 85% of recurrent flu-related bereavements have happened in individuals sixty-five years and more. Among 50% and 70% of periodic flu-related hospitalizations have happened amongst individuals in this age set. The most acceptable method to safeguard against influenza and its possibly solemn difficulties is with an influenza injection. CDC commends that nearly everybody six months of age and more get a seasonal flu injection each year by the end of October (Alotaibi, 2019). Though, as long as flu infections are flowing, immunization must remain through the flu season.

Influenza immunization is essential for individuals sixty-five years and more since they are a great possibility of emerging acute influenza difficulties. Influenza injections are modernized every time as desired to possess with varying viruses. Likewise, immunity diminishes over a year, so yearly immunization is required to guarantee an adequate conceivable safeguard against influenza. A flu injection safeguards against the flu illnesses that the study shows will be of utmost corporate throughout the upcoming season.

Due to age-related variations in their immune structures, individuals, sixty-five years and more might not answer and immunization of younger individuals. Though immune reactions might be lesser in older individuals, readings of external icons have reliably initiated that the influenza injection has efficiently bridged the jeopardy of medicinal appointments and hospitalizations related to influenza. Individuals, sixty-five years and more, ought to get an influenza shot, not a slurred nosegay injection (Carrillo, 2016). They may get any influenza vaccine permitted for use in their age set with no one injection inclination over another. There are consistent flu shots that are accepted for use in individuals of sixty-five years and more. There likewise are two shots intended explicitly for this set: great dose influenza shot, which encompasses four times the quantity of antigen, and adjuvant influenza shot, which is a chemical that may generate a more robust immune reaction to an immunization. NURS 350 Pneumonia Analysis Topic.

Importance to nursing

Season of flu has moral repercussions for nurses, who should keep patients not endangered from preventable difficulties. Nurses are in undeviating interaction with susceptible people each day. Some patients might be a great possibility of flu contamination since they get an autoimmune illness, have chemotherapy, or have established an organ transfer needing immunosuppressant treatment (Carrillo, 2016). Babies, kids, pregnant females, persons with precise severe infections, and grownups age sixty-five and more are likewise particularly susceptible. If an infested nurse passes a flu infection straining to some immunocompromised people, that person is at greater risk of acute difficulties, such as pneumonia, sepsis, or demise. They must safeguard the individuals near them, specifically patients who can’t get one of the suggested recurrent cold shots.

The critical objective of flu inhibition agendas is to decrease the illness’s effect on slight, reasonable, and acute circumstances. Removal of contaminations or illness is not possible (Wiley, 2016). The struggle of immunizing whole residents on a yearly foundation executes the necessity for a detailed prioritizing implementation targeted at describing designated inhabitants sets. Decreasing the number of acute circumstances offers the dual benefit of evading individuals’ misery and decreasing the healthcare organization’s encumbrance due to hospitalization.

PICOT questions

1) For patients sixty years and more (P), in what way does the usage of a flu injection (I) related to not acknowledging the injection (C) affect the jeopardy of getting pneumonia (O) through the cold period (T)?

2) patients who have gone through severe myocardial infarction (P), how does being a chain-smoker (I) related to a not smoking (C) effect decrease and infarction amounts (O) through the initial five years afterward the myocardial infarction (T)?

3) In children with spastic cerebral palsy (P), what is the consequence of strapping and molding (I) related to restraint prompted treatment (C) on two-handed ability improvement (O)?

References

Alotaibi, F. Y., Alhetheel, A. F., Alluhaymid, Y. M., Alshibani, M. G., Almuhaydili, A. O., Alhuqayl, T. A., … & Almasabi, A. A. (2019). Influenza vaccine coverage, awareness, and beliefs regarding seasonal influenza vaccination among people aged 65 years and older in Central Saudi Arabia. Saudi medical journal, 40(10), 1013-1018.

Carrillo-Santisteve, P., Ciancio, B. C., Nicoll, A., & Luigi Lopalco, P. (2016). The importance of influenza prevention for public health. Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 8(1), 89-95.

Wiley, S. K. (2016). Nurses’ most important role this flu season: Get vaccinated. Nursing2020, 46(10), 58-60.

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NURS 125 Life Span Development and Nursing Practice
Name of Assignment: Cultural Awareness Project
COURSE OUTCOME: Outcome met by completing this assignment is in bold.
Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Explain the concept of lifespan development—human growth and learning from conception to death
2. Identify major theorists and theories in developmental psychology.
3. List and describe the major stages of human growth and development and patient teaching and learning implications.
4. State appropriate behavioral expectations and developmental tasks associated with each major stage of development.
5. Describe the biological, nutritional, psychological, social changes and cultural implications that occur at each stage of the life cycle.
6. Explore the processes involved in death and dying.
7. Relate lifespan development concepts to the nursing process, and apply leadership skills to health promotion/restoration.

Nursing Program Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Employ critical thinking and reasoning to utilize the nursing process as a framework to deliver comprehensive, safe, and culturally sensitive care across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate clinical competence in the performance of nursing skills utilizing quality measures to provide safe effective nursing care.
3. Apply best current evidence and appropriate nursing judgment in collaboration with the patient to guide clinical decision making in the delivery of nursing care.
4. Collaborate and communicate effectively with patients, families and their social support system, and the members of the health care team to achieve mutually agreed upon patient outcomes.
5. Practice within the ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks of professional standards for nursing, including employing agencies’ standards of care, assuming students had no past conduct or convictions, which prevent such practice.
6. Construct a framework of personal accountability for lifelong learning with an entry-level set of knowledge, skills, and behaviors to provide safe, effective nursing care.
7. Employ information literacy skills through the effective use of informatics to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, and support decision-making.

INSTITUTIONAL OUTCOMES:
1. Employ information literacy skills through the effective use of technology and information resources to accomplish a goal.
2. Follow established, habitual, and scientific methods to create opportunities for growth and increase critical awareness of one’s responsibilities as a contributor to society.
3. Develop thinking processes and utilize learning strategies to understand their metacognitive abilities.
4. Transfer knowledge from life lessons and formal instruction to new situations as evidence of relational learning. NURS 125 Herzing Framework for Cultural Assessment of the Nigerian Culture
5. Demonstrate proficient mathematic and communication (written and oral) skills as required in the workplace.

Purpose of the assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to continue to enhance the student’s writing skill in Writing in the Discipline (WID) and communication.  The assignment will allow the student to enhance their knowledge regarding caring for individuals and families from diverse cultures.  The assignment will also assist the students by enhancing their skills in using various databases for research and APA style of referencing citations.  NURS 125 Herzing Framework for Cultural Assessment of the Nigerian Culture
Description of the assignment:
1. Each student will be given a culture to research.
2. The student will research the specific culture.
3. The research paper must be a minimum of 4 pages.
4. APA format.
5. Must use scholarly journals, websites, books and / or articles.
6. The researched information should include:
a. The thesis / purpose of the assignment.
b. Discuss the framework for the cultural assessment which includes
• Communication
 Language spoken, pronunciation, use of silence, use of non-verbal communication
• Space
 Degree of comfort one feels in proximity to others in body movement and perception of personal, intimate and public space
• Social
 Family role and function
 Religious beliefs and practices
 Work, leisure and friends
• Time
 Perception of time in relation to duration of events, time as an external entity and outside of control
• Biological variation
 Body structure, body weight, skin color, internal biological mechanisms such as genetic and predisposition to certain diseases, drug interactions and metabolism
• Environment
 Type of dwelling
 More than just the place one lives, should also include the processes that influence the individual/group.
• Hygiene
• Nutritional preferences
c. Illness and wellness behaviors
• Beliefs regarding illness and wellness
• Medicine vs no use of medication
• Use of healers … etc.

d. Cultural values
e. Implications for nursing care
• Select at least 1 QSEN competency to discuss the nursing implications for the knowledge, skills and attitudes for competent and safe patient care.
f. Student Learning outcome
• Provide a paragraph identifying how one of the student learning outcomes was met through completing this project. (student learning outcomes are located on the syllabus)

Remember failure to properly cite your information can lead to a zero for the entire paper.

ORAL POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
It is important for nurses to have the ability and a comfort level to communicate and care for a diverse population of patients.  The student will articulate their Cultural Awareness Project on the assigned date.  An oral report of their findings will assist the student with gaining a level of comfort for completing oral patient education.

1. The oral PowerPoint presentation should be an overview of their Cultural Awareness Presentation which includes some pertinent researched information.
2. The presentation should be at least 5 minutes in duration.
3. PowerPoint requirements
a. Content:
i. Communication, space, social, time, biological variation, environment, hygiene, nutrition, illness/wellness behaviors, cultural values
b. Slides must all be formatted the same
c. Use the 7×7 rule – no more than 7 bullets per slide, no more than 7 words per bullet.
d. No full sentences on the slide. Leave those for your notes field.
e. Detailed notes in your note field
f. Make sure to properly cite information and pictures on the slides
g. APA format
4. Grading will be based on the attached rubric.
5. Test questions may be drawn from any of the topics presented.
6. Presentations must be completed prior to the scheduled date.  Students that come to class late on the date of their scheduled presentation will have points deducted.  Also students that are not prepared to present at the beginning of class will have points deducted.

Possible Points: 50 points. See rubric

Due Date: All Cultural Awareness Projects are due at the beginning of the class period- see tracking calendar.
Completed Power point and Research Paper are both due at the beginning of class. No exceptions
Please see the tracking calendar for dates designated for the presentations.
Late Policy:   Late assignments will only be accepted if the criteria described in the NURS 125 Supplemental Syllabus has been met and the required documentation provided.
Cheating / plagiarism / dishonesty will result in a zero for the project
Please feel free to ask the instructor if you do not understand any of these Guidelines.