Describe two professional development resources or opportunities that could assist you in delivering effective end-of-life care.

Nurse as Leader

Analyze the leadership role of the nurse in preventing and managing health problems across the lifespan in health care practice settings. Overview Have you contemplated the role of the professional nurse? As a nurse, you have many roles, including advocate, educator, and collaborator. However, with the ever-changing practices in healthcare, nurses must stay abreast of the evolving role of the professional nurse. Nurses are being exposed to complementary and alternative healthcare, hospice and palliative care, and mental healthcare, in addition to the areas of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases and their prevention and antimicrobial stewardship. These areas of practice reflect unique opportunities where you, as a professional nurse, can take the lead to advocate for patients and provide quality and effective patient care. For this Written-Response Assessment, you will address the role of the nurse in preventing and managing healthcare across the lifespan. Submission Length: 4 written response items Competency Statement: Analyze the role of the professional nurse in preventing and managing health problems across the lifespan Type of Assessment: Written Response For this Written Response Assessment, you will respond to a series of prompts addressing the role of the nurse in preventing and managing health care across the lifespan. Be sure to include references to support your responses to each series of prompts. Questions 1. Mr. Norton just finished speaking with his wife’s physician. Susan, Mrs. Norton’s nurse, enters the room and sees that Mr. Norton is crying uncontrollably. He tells Susan that the doctor is sending his wife for hospice care and wants to know if the doctors are giving up on his wife. In your response, explain the role of the nurse in hospice and palliative care by addressing the following: Item 1 Explain the difference between hospice care and palliative care. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 2 Provide two examples of how the nurse’s role in hospice and palliative care might impact patient outcomes. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 3 Explain how one of the specific roles of advocate, educator, and communicator contributes to health care delivery for hospice and palliative care. Support your response with appropriate resources. (2–3 paragraphs) Item 4 Describe two professional development resources or opportunities that could assist you in delivering effective end-of-life care. Explain the benefits of each. Support your response with appropriate resources. (2–3 paragraphs) 2. Maria is a new nursing graduate and is thinking about working at the state hospital in mental healthcare. She has consulted her curriculum and has reviewed resources for mental healthcare nursing practice on the Internet. Explain the role of the nurse in mental healthcare to Maria by addressing the following: Item 1 Explain the impact that the mental health care nurse may have on patient outcomes. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 2 Explain how one of the specific roles of advocate, educator, or communicator contributes to healthcare delivery for mental health. Support your response with appropriate resources. (2–3 paragraphs) 3. Some of the nurses on the unit you are working in have been discussing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in healthcare. They want to be more informed so they can provide a more holistic form of care for their patients. The charge nurse would like a short presentation on CAM. Explain the role of the nurse in CAM in health care by addressing the following: Item 1 Provide one example of how you might integrate a CAM approach in your current practice. Explain one potential benefit of this approach. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 2 Describe one complementary or alternative health care intervention that could be used in your current practice and explain why you selected this intervention. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 3 Describe one challenge associated with the nurse’s role in providing alternative therapies for patient care. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 4 Provide two examples of additional educational opportunities needed for nurses to be current in complementary and alternative healthcare. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) 4. After the recent Ebola crisis, some nurses on your unit have been discussing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The nurses want to be more informed and better prepared to take care of their patients and themselves. It is decided that each nurse will research an emerging or re-emerging infectious disease and provide feedback as part of his or her continuing education. Explain the role of the nurse in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases by addressing the following: Item 1 Describe one specific emerging or re-emerging infectious disease that you might encounter in your nursing practice. Support your response with appropriate resources. (2–3 paragraphs) Item 2 Explain the nurse’s role in preventing and managing the impact of infectious diseases both from the patient and nurse perspective. Support your response with appropriate resources. (2–3 paragraphs) Item 3 Describe one intervention that nurses might apply to protect themselves from infectious diseases when managing patient care. Support your response with appropriate resources. (1–2 paragraphs) Item 4 Explain how the nurse’s role might contribute to antimicrobial stewardship. Then, explain one challenge the nurse might experience in promoting antimicrobial stewardship.