The Op-Ed must be your original work.  Develop an Op-Ed to a newspaper of your choice based on the information below.

Topic

For a country of your choice:  (Africa)

1. Select the key nutrition issues faced by the country.

2. Determine who they most affect.

3. List key risk factors.

4. Describe their link with health and economic development.

5. Discuss the impact that globalization has had on these issues.

6. Discuss what might be done to address the nutrition issues in cost-effective ways.

Format

1. Your Op-Ed should be written as you are the expert on the subject.

2. It should be a minimum of 300 words to a maximum of 700 words.

3. Use Times Roman 12-point font.

4. Use a 1-inch margin.

5. No figures or tables.

6. Include resources. Opinions necessitate evidence and support. Whatever your statistics, numbers and data have to say about your issue, work them into the article in an interesting and compelling way. You can’t just be good with words. You need to back up your words.

7. Use professional language.

8. Submit via Turnitin

NO Plagiarism 

Textbook : Global Health 101

4thEdition

Author: Richard Skolnik

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Learning

Year: 2019

****Submit in PDF form****

****20 paragraphs total****

Link to access the Ebook below:

 file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/(AUPHA_HAP%20Book)%20Robert%20H.%20Lee%20-%20Economics%20for%20healthcare%20managers%20(2019).pdf

Chapter 2 Exercises: **** attached are snippets of the questions as well****

On Page 1:

• 2.1—Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 45-55 words.

On Page 2:

• 2.2—Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 45-55 words.

On Page 3:

• 2.3—Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 45-55 words.

On Page 4:

• 2.4—Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 45-55 words.

On Page 5:

• 2.14—Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 45-55 words.

1) Minimum 7 full pages (Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part)

Parts 5, 6, and 7 must be different. Different writing and perspective, but always answering questions objectively

              Part 1: minimum 1 page

              Part 2: minimum 1 page

              Part 3: minimum 1 page

              Part 4: minimum 1 page

               Part 5 : minimum 1 page 

              Part 6: minimum 1 page 

              Part 7: minimum 1 page 

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms, please use headers

          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs

          Bulleted responses are not accepted

          Dont write in the first person 

          Dont copy and pase the questions.

          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

         Submit 1 document per part

3) It will be verified by Turnitin and SafeAssign

4) Minimum 3 references per part not older than 5 years

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question.

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.doc 

__________________________________________________________________________________

Part 1:

1. Jeff is 11 years old and slightly overweight. His father is a truck driver who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. His mother is a licensed practical nurse at the local hospital. At a recent health science fair at his school, a student-led screening clinic documented Jeff’s blood pressure at 140/92 mm Hg.

a. Is Jeff at risk? If so, for what?

b. Utilizing the Guidelines for High Blood Pressure in Adults (American College of Cardiology, 2017), what is Jeff’s future risk from adolescence through adulthood?

c. How does epidemiologic data define hypertension in a child of Jeff’s age?

d. Are there health promotion activities that you would recommend?

Part 2:   Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

There are different treatments used for the diagnosis of PTSD. 

Please, select one of them (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) 

1. Discuss it. 

2. Explain why you selected that particular treatment.

Part 3:   

The gerontological nurse is responsible to conduct a complete “head-to-toe” physical assessment. There are several considerations of common changes in late life during physical assessment discussed in your textbook. 

1. Mention at least 3 common changes in late life that the gerontological nurse needs to have in consideration during a physical assessment.

2. Explain each one of them.

Part 4:   

Case Study, Chapter 8, Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and the Registered Nurse 

The increased use of unlicensed assistive personnel presents both opportunities and challenges for the American health care system. The nurse manager has to deal with the challenge that unlicensed assistive personnel only be used to provide personal care needs or nursing tasks that do not require the skill and judgment of the RN.

1. The nurse manager reviews the national effort to define the scope of practice for unlicensed assistive personnel. In 2007, the American Nurses Association made recommendations for a national and/or state policy for nursing assistive personnel. What are the six actions that should be taken to create a national and/or state policy agenda about the educational preparation of unlicensed assistive personnel and the competencies they should have for safe practice?

2. The need in health care today is for today’s nurses to have highly developed delegation skills in working effectively and efficiently with unlicensed assistive personnel. This is critical to ensure the clients’ needs are met and their safety is not jeopardized. What are the key general principles that the nurse manager needs to review with professional registered nurses in delegating to unlicensed assistive personnel?

Part 5:   

Select the state (Florida) where you plan to practice as a nurse practitioner and/or nurse leader and

1. Investigate the state’s policies on access to maternal health resources such as contraceptive care including abortion for women with and without health insurance coverage. 

2. Identify what are the state’s infant and maternal mortality rates and discuss the possible relationship between these factors. 

Part 6:   

Select the state (Florida) where you plan to practice as a nurse practitioner and/or nurse leader and

1. Investigate the state’s policies on access to maternal health resources such as contraceptive care including abortion for women with and without health insurance coverage. 

2. Identify what are the state’s infant and maternal mortality rates and discuss the possible relationship between these factors. 

Part 7:   

Select the state (Florida) where you plan to practice as a nurse practitioner and/or nurse leader and

1. Investigate the state’s policies on access to maternal health resources such as contraceptive care including abortion for women with and without health insurance coverage. 

2. Identify what are the state’s infant and maternal mortality rates and discuss the possible relationship between these factors. 

What are your thoughts 

When working and discussing issues with my preceptor, we have discussed what impacts hospitals the most especially right now and we both concluded that emergency rooms are still busy and now with Covid patients, the stress level is even higher. Patients are waiting to see their primary care providers because they are scared to go out and their medical problems that are normally managed are out of control. Due to an increase in sick medical patients and sick Covid patients, emergency rooms remain impacted. 

     Emergency rooms continue to face issues that arise and it seems to be the nurses that have the best suggestions to improve. A clinical problem that busy emergency rooms face is customer satisfaction. Patients are our customers and they want to be treated with high-quality care and with compassionate nurses. Nurses can work together to create a safe and comforting environment. Nurses provide a service to the communities that we serve and live in and it is our job to make sure they have a positive one. One implication or tool that nurses can use is AIDET. AIDET is a tool that “can improve patients’ perceptions of how they are treated; acknowledge, introduce, duration, explanation, thank you—is a framework that gives health care workers tools to improve communication with patients” (Barber, 2018, pg. 3). This tool can be used by nurses to help improve overall satisfaction. Another implication that nurses can use is to engage frontline staff by encouraging them to round on their patients and informing them of their plan despite delays. 

     Due to the increase in Covid patients, nurses and staff of hospitals are becoming sick with Covid. Despite personal protection equipment, nurses and emergency technicians in the ED are becoming sick. “We need to be extremely careful in decreasing the transmission of this nasty virus in the future” (AHC Media, 2020). Nurses and hospital staff are becoming sick with Covid-19 and are fighting the virus but are fearful of coming to work. With staff becoming sick, there is an increase in nursing shortage and this creates challenges among staff and schedules. It is our job to protect ourselves and protect our loved ones by practicing good hand hygiene and respecting good practices.

 When you decide to purchase a new car, you first decide what is important to you. If mileage and dependability are the important factors, you will search for data-focused more on these factors and less on color options and sound systems.

The same holds true when searching for research evidence to guide your clinical inquiry and professional decisions. Developing a formula for an answerable, researchable question that addresses your need will make the search process much more effective. One such formula is the PICO(T) format.

In this Discussion, you will transform a clinical inquiry into a searchable question in PICO(T) format, so you can search the electronic databases more effectively and efficiently. You will share this PICO(T) question and examine strategies you might use to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search on your PICO(T) question.

To Prepare:

• Review the materials offering guidance on using databases, performing keyword searches, and developing PICO(T) questions provided in the Resources.
• Review the Resources for guidance and develop a PICO(T) question of interest to you for further study.

Post your PICO(T) question, the search terms used, and the names of at least two databases used for your PICO(T) question. Then, describe your search results in terms of the number of articles returned on original research and how this changed as you added search terms using your Boolean operators. Finally, explain strategies you might make to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search on your PICO(T) question. Be specific and provide examples.