Archive for month: January, 2021

1. RQ1: Which of the eight groupness factors are present within our group at this point in the season?

• Distinctiveness from other similar groups, Members explicitly share and genuinely buy into 1+ common goals, Belief in a shared common fate among group members, Regular and meaningful interactions between members, Members exert mutual influence on each other, Members genuinely believe they are a group

2. RQ2: Of the groupness factors that are present, how effectively has our group made use of each of those factors?

Table 4. Jenny’s ABC changes for our use of “Distinct and meaningful roles”.

• See my role description, below in Table 3 (Students, I don’t provide the table in this example, FYI) Page 4 of 5

• Increased my role clarity/decreased my role ambiguity and increased my role performance. I knew exactly what I was supposed to do to help my team play better, and I actually did play better – more catches, better decision making, way less freezing on the court. (Behavior and Cognition changes)

• Knowing the specific voluntary behaviors I have do every game helps keep my arousal from going past (or too far past) my arousal threshold, which has greatly reduced the state anxiety symptoms I feel while playing dodgeball (my cognitive symptoms are negative thoughts and a general feeling that things are going to go badly; my somatic state anxiety symptoms are increased muscle tension and reduced coordination, especially for catching). This has also helped me play a lot better and more consistently! For example, since we cleaned up our roles, I have caught at least 4 dodgeballs every game day – I used to barely ever catch any! (Behavior and Cognition changes)

• Having high role clarity also increased my MI and enjoyment. Since we came up with evaluation and feedback components for my role, I had a way to get pretty immediate feedback on how I was doing in terms of helping my team play better. As a person that is highly motivated to play dodgeball by external regulation (I like when my teammates tell me I am doing a good job and tell me specifically what I am doing well), and by intrinsic regulation (I actually like the challenge of trying to get better at things, I find that really fun and stimulating – even if I don’t get much better or take a long time to get better), getting feedback between games really increased my MI; I have found myself trying much harder, and trying that hard consistently during games, and I am also enjoying the games much more! (Affect and Behavior changes)

In this Assignment you will again record your food and beverage intake for 5 days and analyze for nutrients using the same program as in Unit 2. Write a 2 page report (in APA format) on how things have changed in your diet and note if there were improvements in your nutrient status and include a screen shot of their diet analysis summary results. Address where else can you make improvements going forward including where you may still be deficient in any vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Has the information in this course influenced your dietary choices in any way?

1. Identify and explain what HIPAA covers and the penalties for noncompliance. Who is subject to HIPAA requirements? 200 words
2. 1. many different forms for patient records and maintenance. How does the development of new technologies impact patient privacy? Provide specific examples and identify potential problems with health informatics. 200 words
   3. You are returning to your office from lunch, and you pass by the nurses’ station on the floor. When you get a little closer, you notice that there are a lot of people staring at some information on the screen. When you ask them what is going on, one of the nurses tells you that John Morris, a heartthrob celebrity, is staying in the hospital for treatment. None of the nurses looking at his records are actually treating this patient. None of the nurses are going to sell or leak the information, but they were just curious about his medical history.

      Is this still an example of a breach of patient confidentiality? Why, or why not? How would you handle this situation? What, if any, laws have been broken in this incident? Your best answer will include any valid defense that could be raised by the nurses. 200 words

   4. Question 4

      1. A patient of the medical practice where you work is demanding his original x-ray films. You, as the receptionist, have explained to him that you can send them to another provider and give him a copy of the paper report that explains the results of the x-rays, but you cannot give him the original films. The patient is getting angry and demands you give him the actual films. He tells you, “They are mine; I paid for them.”

         What do you tell the patient? Is he correct? Who actually owns these types of medical records?

The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem.

For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem. To support your PICOT question, identify six supporting peer-revised research articles, as indicated below. The PICOT question and six peer-reviewed research articles you choose will be utilized for subsequent assignments.

Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” to complete this assignment.

1. Select a nursing practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research. Start with the patient population and identify a clinical problem or issue that arises from the patient population. In 200–250 words, provide a summary of the clinical issue.
2. Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT question in your selected nursing practice problem area of interest. The PICOT question should be applicable to your proposed capstone project (the project students must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).
3. The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project.
4. Conduct a literature search to locate six research articles focused on your selected nursing practice problem of interest. This literature search should include three quantitative and three qualitative peer-reviewed research articles to support your nursing practice problem.

Note: To assist in your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow or broaden your main topic. For example: Search for diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what research design was used in the articles the search produced, review the abstract and the methods section of the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods. Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews, and Metanalysis articles are good resources and provide a strong level of evidence but are not considered primary research articles. Therefore, they should not be included in this assignment.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be 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.