Harriet is a 51-year-old married woman with a past history of alcohol and cocaine abuse. She has been attending AA and NA meetings regularly and does not report urges to drink or use drugs during the 4 years you have been her psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She needs carpal tunnel surgery and the typical […]

This week, you are going to participate in a discussion on a novel or movie.  Please choose one of the stories below and read the novel or watch the movie.  You’ll participate in the discussion thread below related to the story you choose. Fault in Our Stars novel by Green (2012) or Fault in Our Stars movie […]

  Nature offers many examples of specialization and collaboration. Ant colonies and beehives are but two examples of nature’s sophisticated organizations. Each thrives because their members specialize in tasks, divide labor, and collaborate to ensure food, safety, and general well-being of the colony or hive. Of course, humans don’t fare too badly in this regard […]

Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations. For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work […]

Purpose The purpose of this discussion is to discuss organizational changes and ethical-legal influences in a clinical scenario at an out-patient family practice. Students will explore potential effects on patient outcomes and ethical and legal implications for members of the heath care team as a result of illegal behaviors.  Students will develop strategies that result […]