• Why is it important to provide evidence-based care? Discuss some of the challenges nurse administrators face in creating an environment in which bedside nurses use evidence-based care.
• Discuss the use of run charts and control charts to improve quality.
• Discuss how Lean thinking and Six Sigma can be used together to improve healthcare quality.
• What are ways to promote employee safety?
• Describe how complexity theory applies to your practice.
• Explain reasons that chaos theory offers hope for the future of health care.

 Assignment:Write a 800-1500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be four sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

• There are various types of families discussed in Chapter 10. What type of family do you come from? Explain using all the factors in the chapter.
• Imagine you are the leader of a religious organization. Give nine examples – one for each characteristic ­– of what your organization’s beliefs are and what you believe each does for the religion.
• Attending primary and secondary school is not an option in the United States up to the age of 18. If you were a teacher, how would you use the Functionalist Perspective to make the most of your classroom educational experience?
• There are four models/explanations to Patterns of City Growth. What are the models? Give an example of each from the time period to which each model refers.

Discussion 1

CAT: What is hypothesis testing? Please illustrate the five steps of doing hypotheses testing with an example.

Discussion 2

CAT: Significance level of 0.1 and 0.5

CAT:

Researchers routinely choose an alpha level of 0.05 for testing their hypotheses. What are some experiments for which you might want a lower alpha level (e.g., 0.01)? What are some situations in which you might accept a higher level (e.g., 0.1)

Discuss how the PSQRD framework might have been better used during this project’s planning phase to identify strategies that promote the adoption and use of the technology.

·        How might this framework have led to more significantly improved patient outcomes?

Short, easy! 

Medscape assignments:

• Sign into your Medscape.com account. Search for “Putting GI Risk in Perspective: How Safe are OTC Analgesics?” in the search bar – linked below for your convenience.(You will need to copy and paste url into a new tab).  
  • https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/931873 (Links to an external site.)

Once you complete  the Medscpae CME, upload your completion certificate to the assignment submission in Canvas. Log back into Medscape, Click on the middle heading of CME and education, in the top right corner will be a box that says view tracker- click that.  If you scroll down you will see your completions listed. One of the options on the right side of the screen will be to view your certificate.