Nursing

QUESTION The ‘NMBA Standards of practice for Enrolled Nurses’ are the core practice standards by which your performance may be assessed to retain your license to practice as an Enrolled Nurse in Australia. Which domain and competency element in the NMBA Practice Standards specifically refers to the enrolled nurse working in collaboration with the registered […]

QUESTION Applying the Chronic Care Model to Improve Care and Outcomes at a Pediatric Medical Center – ScienceDirect please read through the article and post a brief summary of your understanding of the purpose of the study. As you read through the article, please also take note of the “clearest and muddiest points” and include […]

QUESTION A client is hospitalized when presenting to the emergency department with right-sided weakness. Within 6 hours of being admitted, the neurologic deficits had resolved and the client was back to his presymptomatic state. The nurse caring for the client knows that the probable cause of the neurologic deficit was what? ANSWER Resolving Neurologic Deficits: […]

QUESTION Kenneth Bronson is a 27-year-old male who was just admitted to the Medical Unit from the Emergency Department. He presented to the Emergency Department two hours ago with chest tightness, difficulty breathing, a productive cough for a week, and fever. Chest x-ray revealed right lower lobe pneumonia. IV was started of normal saline at […]

QUESTION List the PPE and describe the dress code required to be worn when compounding non-sterile pharmaceutical products. What personal hygiene measures need to be undertaken and how is the compounding work area cleaned before compounding commences? How should sharps and residues be correctly and safely disposed of? ANSWER Ensuring Safety and Hygiene in Compounding […]

QUESTION Access a copy of the SHPA Guidelines for medicines prepared in Australian hospital pharmacy departments at your workplace or Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC/S) Guide to good practices for preparation of medicinal products in healthcare establishments a) What is the rationale for these guidelines? b) Summarise the key features of these guidelines ANSWER General […]

Episodic/Focused SOAP Note Template Patient Information: Initials, Age, Sex, Race S. CC (chief complaint): This is a brief statement identifying why the patient is here in the patient’s own words, for instance, “headache,” not “bad headache for 3 days.” HPI: This is the symptom analysis section of your note. Thorough documentation in this section is […]

Focused SOAP Checklist SUBJECTIVE: Chief Complaint: Did I state briefly in the patient’s own words History of present illness: Did I write a paragraph in the order of the 7 attributes & did I put the 7 attributes in a concise list in the chart (OLD CART-if you don’t know it, please look it up) […]

QUESTION LEARNING RESOURCES Required Readings Stevens, D. L., Bisno, A. L., Chambers, H. F., Dellinger, E. P., Goldstein, E. J. C., Gorbach, S. L., Hirschmann, J. V., Kaplan, S. L., Montoya, J. G., & Wade, J. C. (2014). Executive summary: Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update.Links to […]

Quantitative Research Critique Paper Give a short introduction (3-5 sentences) about the article and what you will be looking at in the paper. Title  The title of the article,  insert the title of the article in italics , accurately describes the type of study. If the title does not accurately describe the type of study […]