At some point in your professional career, you may work within or alongside inpatient and outpatient settings. Working in these settings can be similar to working in two completely different “health care worlds.” What exactly are the differences between outpatient and inpatient medicine? Fundamentally, inpatient means checking into the hospital or care facility, while outpatient defines health care that can be administered without staying at the hospital. However, what has been prescribed above is the most basic terms of outpatient and inpatient services. 

Please watch this short clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Llj2Om6QM

Outpatient Treatment vs. Inpatient Treatment: An Honest Comparison 

Develop a more complete appreciation of the inpatient setting. 

References should be no more than 5 years old. Web sites are only acceptable when accessing a government site. Web sites should only be from reliable sources.

Based on your findings, write a graduate level comparative analysis of inpatient and outpatient services that clearly addresses the following:

• 1. Identify and describe an inpatient setting (e.g., acute inpatient units, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, etc.) and an outpatient setting to include the services provided, key personnel within the department, and how this department supports or is supported by other departments.
• 2. Identify, describe, and evaluate a current trend that is currently impacting inpatient and outpatient services. These can be trends related to technology, supply and demand, political climate, regulatory, demographic changes, or patient care.
• 3. Analyze the trends, and thinking as a health care administrator, how do you capitalize on these trends to improve operation and bottom line performance? How can you mitigate the negative impact of the trends? 

Length: 3-4 pages, not including the title or reference page(s). 

For additional information on how to write a comparative analysis review the following source:

https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/how-write-comparative-analysis 

Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to justify/support your comparative analysis.
2. Limit your response to a maximum of 4 pages.
3. Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper. 
4. Support your case with peer-reviewed articles, with at least 3 or 4 references. Use the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals: http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.
5. You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
6. For additional information on reliability of sources review the following source: https://www.edb.utexas.edu/petrosino/Legacy_Cycle/mf_jm/Challenge%201/website%20reliable.pdf. 

4 pages only with 3-4 references required!

Locate an article from a peer-reviewed nursing journal where a practice change was made based on research, preferably a change that could relate to your area of practice or organization. Note: You are seeking to find an evidence-based article that describes some change in practice that was based on research; this is all about applying research, not doing research. Thus, you are not looking for a research article, but you are looking for an article that uses evidence from research to make a change.

Describe the change made and comment on the strength of the research evidence utilized and the whether the change led to improved patient outcomes.

Note any barriers to change that were identified and how they were overcome.

End your discussion with a reflection on how this article is useful to you as you consider your role as an advanced practice nurse leading others to use the best evidence to strengthen nursing practice and improve nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.

at least 3 references 

Immunization Presentation

Directions

For this Assignment you are creating a PowerPoint® presentation. Your presentation audience is the community. The topic is immunization/ vaccination. Information should include herd immunity, types of immunity related to vaccination, immunization effects on the individual, and community as well as the worldwide effects of immunization. Additionally, content should include vaccination trends, myths, disease statistics for those conditions prevented with vaccination, and pediatric vaccination schedule/s. Legal, ethical, and cultural considerations should be addressed.

Master’s-prepared nurse educators, leaders, nurse practitioners and all specialty nursing fields are contributors to health promotion in populations across the life span. This Assignment is focused on the child and adolescent immunization, health information, epidemiology and surrounding influences. You should apply the topic towards your area of specialty focus as it relates to health promotion and epidemiology.

The presentation must have speaker notes per slide; 1–3 paragraphs. There is no audio or voice in this assignment. The PowerPoint should be developed in a professional design and style; succinct, not overly wordy, with a tasteful amount of elegant text and visual appeal, as well as accurate and complete content. 

Number of content slides are 10, not to exceed 12. Title slide and reference slide required and not included in the total. This presentation should adhere to appropriate APA formatting and citation style.

Now that we have discussed why the library databases would be useful for your EBP project, what are some things you can utilize Google Scholar for?