Nuclear med

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Assignment 2: Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear medicine is a specialized branch of modern medicine that exploits the process of radioactivity for imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Many imaging techniques inject small amounts of radioactive material into the body, which are then tracked by a sensing device specific to the type of radiation emitted from that material. Radiation has also been used to destroy diseased tissue, typically beyond the reach of standard surgical techniques.

Using the readings for this module, Internet, write a paper on nuclear medicine. Address the following:

  • Explain the scientific and technical concepts related to nuclear medicine. Consider the following questions when you construct your response:
    • What type of radiation is typically exploited in most nuclear medicine procedures?
    • How are patients prepared for nuclear medicine procedures?
    • What are the advantages and limitations of nuclear medicine?
    • What ailments are typically diagnosed and treated via nuclear medicine procedures?
  • Evaluate a minimum of three applications of nuclear medicine relating to any of the following topics:
    • Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans
    • Gallium scans
    • Indium white blood cell scans
    • Iobenguane scans (MIBG)
    • Octreotide scans
    • Hybrid scanning techniques employing X-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
    • Nuclear medicine therapy using radiopharmaceuticals

Support your statements with examples. Provide a minimum of three scholarly references.

Write a 2 -page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

why it has been so difficult to develop a vaccine against human immunosufficiency virus (HIV)

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PAPER ASSIGNMENT

  • (1) Explain with references why it has been so difficult to develop a vaccine against human immunosufficiency virus (HIV) and (2) discuss one promising new immune approach and one promising non-immune approach for understanding and/or treating AIDS

Instructions

  1. Write a paper consisting of at least 2 pages of text that answers these questions. Use 1 x 1 x1 x 1 inch margins all around, double space, with 12 point font and submit electronically only as a MicrosoftWord document. Do not count a figure as text.
  2. When you find reference(s) to answer these questions, provide a PDF copy of the reference. Summarize the paper’s findings only in your own words.

All references must come only from the peer review literature as found in PubMed

Discussion

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Why is a risk-management program an important component of quality-improvement programs in healthcare?

What value do specific types of healthcare organizations receive by addressing risk management proactively as opposed to reactively?

Please follow all requirements and answer each question.

  • Include introduction and conclusion.
  • Please use Peer Reviewed Articles
  • APA format is required and each reference must be cited in the paper.
  • Use headings to organize the content in your work.
  • Please no plagiarism and sources should be no more than 5 years old.

Design an OPT Phase I Stabilization program

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Design an OPT Phase I Stabilization program for your Personal Training client; the same client you began training in Assignment #1. As previously stated, this is the beginning –and now the continuation- of a programming plan that you will be creating for your client. The protocol that you develop now can serve as a blueprint for your future work as a personal trainer or coach.

In designing this OPT Phase I Stabilization program, you will follow the guidelines provided by NASM (be sure to review your text and other resources available to you). In addition, you will design a personalized program for your personal training client based on the test results of their Fitness Assessment, strengths, weaknesses, daily habits, and, of course, their individual goals.

For this assignment you will be responsible for providing the following information regarding your client’s OPT Phase I Stabilization program:

  • Background of your client, their goals, the findings of the initial Fitness Assessment & review of postural/movement issues, illnesses, previous injury, or medication precautions, goals & and an idea of the type of training schedule they will maintain.
  • Phase I Stabilization program Including: Cardiorespiratory training protocols, SMR & Flexibility training protocols, Core & Balance training protocols, Reactive training protocols, Speed Agility Quickness (SAQ) training protocols, and Resistance training protocols.
  • Completed OPT Template (Refer to Chapter 10 of your text book). Be sure to include sets, reps, tempo, rest, and pertinent coaching tips & instructions.
  • Narrative discussing why you chose specific training protocols for your client and how your choices will help your client reach his/her training goals.

Please submit your assignment using a combination of narrative & any charts/graphs that you think are appropriate (see attachments). Be sure to provide a detailed (and appropriately referenced) rationale for why you have chosen each one of your exercises (based on the items from the Fitness Assessment from Assignment #1).

Format

The narrative of your paper should be at least 3 – 6 pages, not including your title and reference pages. Any charts or tables you add are extra. Using charts and tables will help to provide visual guidance as to your client’s health status and your thought process. Please support your rationale with appropriate academic sources (minimum of 3 + textbook = minimum 4 references). Our APUS Library Search Engines are a good place to begin.

The writing component must meet all rules of APA formatting (6th edition) and MUST be submitted in WORD document format only.

  • title page
  • headers
  • page numbers
  • in-text citations
  • reference list

formal risk management plan demonstrates, health and medicine homework help

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A formal risk management plan demonstrates a health care organization’s approach as well as support for risk management and, ultimately, patient safety. Access information from your own employer/organization or using the Internet to find an allied health care organization located in your city or region, and identify the goals and objectives, scope, and functions of an existing risk management plan. How does the plan “measure up” in terms of meeting ethical and legal responsibilities to stakeholders? How might you improve it? Explain.

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​Reaction assey

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I have Reaction Papers about this video.

** You must be watching the entire video **

Reaction paper will be 4-5 pages in length and will include a summary of the article’s main points and the student’s critical evaluation of the perspective presented. Students will also be prepared to give a verbal presentation of his/her reaction paper to the class. Reaction papers will be worth 30% of the final grade.

** PLEASE GOOD SENTENCES, GOOD STRUCTURES AND GOOD GRAMMAR **

Discussion assinment

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Health Promotion and Risk Reduction

Cultural Diversity and Community Nursing

Environmental Health

  1. Discuss various theories of health promotion, including Pender’s Health Promotion Model, The Health Belief Model, the Transtheoretical Theory and the Theory of Reasoned Action.
  2. List and discuss health behaviors for health promotion and disease prevention.
  3. Apply and discuss the principles of transcultural nursing to community health nursing.
  4. Apply and discuss the basic concepts of critical theory to environmental health nursing problems.

please present the assignment in an APA format, word document, Arial 12 font. The assignment must include at least 2 evidence-based references (excluding the class textbook) no older than 5 years. References must be quoted in the assignment in order to comply with APA.

Ethical Issues In Nursing Related to Ethical Issues and Professional Relationships

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Ethical issues facing nurses may involve not only patient care but also issues among healthcare providers and facilities. Professional codes of ethics and ethical principles will help guide the nurse through these workplace problems.

In this assignment, you will examine ethical issues that can arise in professional relationships in healthcare facilities.

Tasks:

Consider workplace issues related to professional issues and/or institutional conflicts.

In a maximum of 300 words, post your response to the following:

For professional nurses, conflicts of loyalty to the profession and to the organization related to shrinking institutional budgets and resulting in cutbacks of nursing staff result in ethical conflicts.

  • Select two of the conflicts described in the textbook.
  • Analyze the conflicts and describe how the nurse can resolve the conflicts in an ethical manner.

Consider sharing your own experiences and interpretation of the research needs with their chosen cultural groups. Support your findings with examples and scholarly references. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

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1) Why are natural sciences also referred to as “pure” sciences?

a)They are considered standalone bodies of unique knowledge.

b)They are the only sciences to which the scientific method can be applied.

c)They are the original sciences upon which all others are based.

d)They are not affected by subjectivity in the way other sciences are.

2)Which of the following does not represent an example of the applied sciences as they are used in health care today?

a)Social work

b)Psychotherapy

c)Examination of care disparities

d)Pathology

3)Roberta firmly believes that individual experiences are the source of all knowledge in the world. As a scientist, she acknowledges her role as a participant in the experiments she performs and does consider herself merely a disconnected observer of phenomenon. Roberta’s views are most closely reflective of which school of scientific thought?

a)Natural science

b)Human science

c)Applied science

c)Soft science

4)What is the ultimate goal of the scientific method?

a)Application of scientific results to a related body of knowledge in order to meet some type of human need.

b) Examination of the decisions made by scientist to understand the ways in which subjectivity was introduced to the experiment.

c) Reproducible experimental results that do not take researcher individuality into account.

d) Improving the situation or process used in the experiment to yield more accurate results in repeat experiments.

5) Which of the following best describes the aim of natural sciences?

a) Affirmation of the importance of cultural understanding by uncovering the common subjective biases of different disciplines.

b) Improvement of the quality of life by understanding what helps people maximize their functional abilities.

c) Utilization of knowledge by applying it to a specific purpose in order to better a situation or change viewpoints.

d) Development of knowledge for the sake of developing knowledge, discovering truth, and controlling outcomes.

6) Which of the following statements most accurately encapsulates Thomas Kuhn’s proposed philosophy of science?

a) Science philosophy should address both the conceptual and empirical problems of science and serve as merely a problem-solving activity.

b) Science philosophy should focus on concept . clarification and concept analysis based on theory development and synthesis.

c) Science philosophy should resolve conceptual problems in science without being limited to the development of theories.

d) Science philosophy should examine the process of science, rather than the product of science, according to a disciplinary matrix known as a paradigm.

7) Which of the following philosophies is not part of the larger philosophical tradition known as postmodernism?

a) Historicism

b) Hermeneutics

c) Critical social theory

d) Feminism

8) Which of the following best describes the theoretical basis behind the postmodern understanding of knowledge?

a) Knowledge is a series of classical “truths” that are colored by gender biases, and it gives rise to the theory of masculine superiority.

b) Knowledge and the knower are inseparable, and class and gender have significant influence on what is considered knowledge.

c) Knowledge is developed through observation of the natural world, and can be best applied to hard science.

d) B and C

9) A nurse who adopts a pluralistic view of nursing science would most likely do which of the following?

a) Follow the espoused values and overall worldview of the nursing discipline even it conflicted with his or her personal beliefs.

b) Utilize a problem-solving approach based on Laudan’s philosophy while applying the latest disciplinary trends to his or her practice.

c) Rely on research-proven nursing diagnoses and taxonomies and focus on universal, rather than individual, trends observed in his or her patients.

d) Draw upon a variety of perspectives from the many eras of nursing development to guide his or her personal practice.

10) The consensus statement crafted at the Knowledge Consensus Conference in Boston in 1998 addressed all of the following areas except:

a) The nature of the human person

b) The role of nursing theory

c) The nature of the nurse as an individual

d) The links of each area of understanding to nursing practice

Addressing behavioral risk factors

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Discussion: Addressing Behavioral Risk Factors

“It is unreasonable to expect that people will change their behavior easily when so many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change”

(Kovner and Knickman, p. 139).

When seeking to lessen behavioral risk factors in different populations, one of the greatest challenges is addressing the systemic issues within the population that enable the risky behavior to occur in the first place. Consider the health risks of school-age children not being immunized or drug users sharing needles. As Dr. Beilenson discussed in the Week 4 media program, these risky behaviors led to increases in individual and population health problems. Thus, when planning health prevention programs, it is important to consider how to effectively address risky behaviors at both the individual and the population level.

The Discussion this week focuses on the use of the Population-Based Intervention Model outlined in the course text Health Care Delivery in the United States, as well as how this model can be applied to strengthen advocacy programs.

To prepare:

  • Select one of the behavioral risk factors from the Healthy Population 2010 Objectives (listed in Table 7.1 on p. 122 of the course text) that is of interest to you.
  • Using the Walden Library and other credible websites, research how this risk factor is affecting your community or state.
  • With your selected risk factor in mind, review the information on the Population-Based Intervention Model on pp. 132-137 in the course text, Health Care Delivery in the United States. In particular, focus on the concept of downstream, midstream, and upstream interventions. Consider at least one intervention that could be put into place at each stag

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