NURS 8114 Week 1 Discussion: Philosophy of Nursing Practice

 
Week 1 Discussion: Philosophy of Nursing Practice
Imagine the illustrated “cloud” in this image could represent your thoughts as you consider your nursing practice, your nursing experiences, and the influences that shape your attitudes and beliefs about nursing and health care. Then imagine other clouds within view that represent perspectives on nursing practice held by others—and that if this image were enlarged, the clouds would multiply, to signify the full complement of professionals with whom you interact in a health care setting. How would it benefit you, the success of those health care teams—and, most importantly, patient care—to have clarity on the foundational beliefs that guide your practice, and that of others?
 
For this first week, you will work toward achieving that clarity as you frame—or review, revise, expand on—your philosophy of nursing practice and engage with peers who have joined you in pursuing their Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Through the Discussion this week, and the Assignment you will begin, you will articulate your philosophy of nursing practice as you look for insight into what shapes your philosophy and contrasting philosophies of others. That understanding can be invaluable in your future work as a DNP leader advocating for change—often difficult for individuals and organizations—that promotes positive outcomes for patients and the larger society.
 
Learning Objectives
 
Students will:
Explain philosophy of nursing practice
Analyze factors that influence philosophy of nursing practice
Recommend strategies for social change advocacy for the role of the DNP
Contrast philosophies of nursing practice
Analyze middle range nursing theories in relation to philosophies of nursing practice
Analyze interdisciplinary theories in relation to philosophies of nursing practice

Why do job descriptions often fail to accurately reflect the true roles and responsibilities of a position? What steps can an organization take to keep job descriptions relevant and aligned with the organization’s needs? What is job crafting? Share examples of how job crafting might relate to employee satisfaction and engagement.

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Why do job descriptions often fail to accurately reflect the true roles and responsibilities of a position?
What steps can an organization take to keep job descriptions relevant and aligned with the organization’s needs?
What is job crafting? Share examples of how job crafting might relate to employee satisfaction and engagement.
How does job crafting relate to organizational success? Share some strategic reasons to enable job crafting.
How can an organization encourage job crafting?

How would it benefit you, the success of those health care teams—and, most importantly, patient care—to have clarity on the foundational beliefs that guide your practice, and that of others

Part 1: Research Remote Access Policies (0/1 completed)
Note: In this part of the lab, you will review internet resources on remote access policies in order to form a basis for their purpose and usage. Understanding the reason behind a remote access policy is key to understanding the component policies and procedures. Please take the time to review the research thoroughly and think through the concepts of the policy itself.
1. In your browser, navigate to and read the ?Remote Access Policy? template at https://www.sans.org/information-security-policy/.
2. Using your favorite search engine, locate a remote access policy for a higher education institution.
3. Using your favorite search engine, locate a remote access policy for a healthcare provider.
4. Write a brief summary of the information during your research. In your summary, focus on the key elements of the remote access policy. You should also identify any unique elements of remote access policies for higher education and healthcare institutions. Be sure to provide links to the remote access policies you identified in steps 2 and 3.
 
Part 2: Create a Remote Access Policy (0/7 completed)Note: As you found in your research, different industries have similar but different policies. When using a policy template, it is important to ensure that the template matches the needs of your specific industry and business.
Review the following risks and threats found in the Remote Access Domain:

The organization is a local credit union that has several branches and locations throughout the region.

Online banking and use of the internet are the bank?s strengths, given its limited human resources.

The customer service department is the organization?s most critical business function.

The organization wants to be in compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and IT security best practices regarding its employees.

The organization wants to monitor and control use of the internet by implementing content filtering.

The organization wants to eliminate personal use of organization-owned IT assets and systems.

The organization wants to monitor and control use of the e-mail system by implementing e-mail security controls.

The organization wants to implement security awareness training policy mandates for all new hires and existing employees. Policy definitions are to include GLBA and customer privacy data requirements, in addition to a mandate for annual security awareness training for all employees.

1. Identify a security control or countermeasure to mitigate each risk and threat identified in the Remote Access Domain. These security controls or countermeasures will become the basis of the scope of the Remote Access Domain policy definition to help mitigate the risks and threats commonly found within the Remote Access Domain.
2. Review the following characteristics of the fictional Healthwise Health Care Provider:

Healthwise has several remote health care branches and locations throughout the region.

Online access to patients? medical records through the public Internet is required for remote nurses and hospices providing in-home medical services.

Online access to patients? medical records from remote clinics is facilitated through a virtual private network (VPN) and a secure web application front-end over the public Internet.

The organization wants to be in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and IT security best practices regarding remote access through the public internet.

The organization wants to monitor and control the use of remote access by implementing system logging.

The organization wants to implement a security awareness training policy mandating that all new hires and existing employees obtain remote access security training. Policy definition is to include HIPAA and electronic protected health information (ePHI) security requirements and a mandate for annual security awareness training for all remote or mobile employees.

1. Create an organization-wide remote access policy for Healthwise Health Care:

Healthwise Health Care
Remote Access Policy for Remote Workers and Medical Clinics
Policy StatementDefine your policy verbiage.
Purpose/ObjectivesDefine the policy?s purpose as well as its objectives and policy definitions
ScopeDefine whom this policy covers and its scope. What elements, IT assets, or organization-owned assets are within this policy?s scope?
StandardsDoes the policy statement point to any hardware, software, or configuration standards? If so, list them here and explain the relationship of this policy to these standards. In this case, Remote Access Domain standards should be referenced, such as encryption standards and VPN standards; make any necessary assumptions.
ProceduresExplain how you intend to implement this policy for the entire organization.
GuidelinesExplain any roadblocks or implementation issues that you must overcome in this section and how you will surmount them per defined guidelines. Any disputes or gaps in the definition and separation of duties responsibility may need to be addressed in this section.
 
Challenge Exercise Note: The following challenge exercise is provided to allow independent, unguided work – similar to what you will encounter in a real situation.
For this portion of the lab, you will create training documentation for remote employees of Healthwise Health Care. This training will provide remote employees with methods they can use to secure their home network before connecting a company computer, as well as guidance on how to access the corporate network while traveling.
Use the internet to find information about remote access policies and home network protection, and then use this information to create a training document for remote employees.

Identify the target market and your secondary market for your company. Note: Be as specific as possible (e.g., women 30-45, with a high school education and some college; people working full time and living in the Midwest, etc.). 2.Describe your unique selling proposition (USP). Explain the key factors that make your company different than competitors within your industry. Describe the primary way in which the USP for your company targets the two (2) markets you identified in Question 1.

Click on the “Create Journal Entry” button at the top of this page to start your journal. This is not a timed activity.
Journal 2: Marketing Plan Part C:Unique Selling Proposition
 
Due Week 6 and worth 100 points
You will now complete your secondary market research and consider what distinguishes your company from your competitors, their products, and / or the price of their products and services.
The key word in Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is “unique.” There are very few products or services that are truly one of a kind. In order to target the demographic for your company, you need to pinpoint what makes your business standout among the competitors (e.g., Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Neiman Marcus sells luxury and customer service. Wal-Mart sells bargains. Amazon is earth’s biggest bookstore.)
Use the Internet to research two (2) of your favorite companies and two (2) companies that are similar to your company. Identify the USPs of these companies, and consider what the USPs mean to you. Next, prepare to create a USP for your company.
 
Tips on creating a USP for your company:
•   Put yourself in your customers’ shoes. Consider what your customers really want. Consider what could make them your repeat customers and instead of your competition‘s.
•   Research what motivates your customers’ behaviors and buying decisions. You need to know what drives and motivates customers.
•   Uncover the real reasons why customers buy your product instead of a competitor’s. As owner of a start up, ask people why they buy your future competitors’ product. This will help you uncover why they might buy yours. Ask yourself the following questions:
•                   What does our product or service do better than anyone else?
•                   How is our business model different from that of our competition? How could our product or service be different?
•                   What market category or niche is not being served by our industry?
 
Write a four to six (4-6) paragraph journal entry in which you:
1.Identify the target market and your secondary market for your company. Note: Be as specific as possible (e.g., women 30-45, with a high school education and some college; people working full time and living in the Midwest, etc.).
2.Describe your unique selling proposition (USP). Explain the key factors that make your company different than competitors within your industry. Describe the primary way in which the USP for your company targets the two (2) markets you identified in Question 1.
Example of a USP:
 
•   My product is t-shirts and coffee mugs with fun and empowering logos for women.
•   My target market is women ages 35-55, college educated, working full time. My secondary market trends a little younger at 25-35, women passionate about their professional life and their personal pursuits.
•   My USP is “Be Authentic, no Apologies.”
•   My reasoning is I want women to buy my sassy slogans, because they want to show their authentic voice on a shirt or mug.
Note: Insert the information from the completed Journal 3 entry into “Section 3: Unique Selling Proposition” in the provided Marketing Plan Template (located in Week 4).
 
 

A student in your class does not speak English as their first language. The student’s family, who also speak minimal English, would like to meet and discuss concerns about their child’s behavior at home. What resources are available to prepare for this meeting? What strategies will you implement to communicate with families with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds to establish a positive rapport with the families?

  per paragraph explaining the following which should include a reference for each paragraph.
1. A student in your class does not speak English as their first language. The student’s family, who also speak minimal English, would like to meet and discuss concerns about their child’s behavior at home. What resources are available to prepare for this meeting? What strategies will you implement to communicate with families with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds to establish a positive rapport with the families?
2. Effective communication is key to building professional collaborative relationships between home and school. What are two ways to build effective communication?

 A multiplexer is a device that selects between several analog or digital  input signals and sends this selected input to a single output line. In  this discussion let’s discuss four major applications of multiplexers  and also talk about the advantages of using multiplexers in these  applications.     Answer the following: Data selection Multiplexed displays Logic function generation Simple communications systems

 A multiplexer is a device that selects between several analog or digital  input signals and sends this selected input to a single output line. In  this discussion let’s discuss four major applications of multiplexers  and also talk about the advantages of using multiplexers in these  applications.  
 
Answer the following:

Data selection
Multiplexed displays
Logic function generation
Simple communications systems

Suppose Alice, Bob, and Carol want to use secret key technology to authenticate each other. If they all used the same secret key, K, then Bob could impersonate Carol to Alice (actually any of the three could impersonate the other to the third). Suppose instead that each had their own secret key; so Alice uses KA, Bob uses KB, and Carol uses KC. This means that each one, to prove his or her identity, responds to a challenge with a function of his or her secret key. Is this more secure than having them all use the same secret key? Hint: What does Alice need to know in order to verify Carol’s answer to Alice’s challenge?

Please review the below.  Your responses for each prompt must be submitted as two to three paragraphs and as a Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format. 
Review the following questions from Network security: Private communication in a public world and provide your responses in a Word document. In answering each prompt, be sure to defend your answers and explain how you have arrived at your solution.

Random J. Protocol-Designer has been told to design a scheme to prevent messages from being modified by an intruder. Random J. decides to append to each message a hash of that message. Why does this not solve the problem?

Hint: We know of a protocol that uses this technique in an attempt to gain security.

Suppose Alice, Bob, and Carol want to use secret key technology to authenticate each other. If they all used the same secret key, K, then Bob could impersonate Carol to Alice (actually any of the three could impersonate the other to the third). Suppose instead that each had their own secret key; so Alice uses KA, Bob uses KB, and Carol uses KC. This means that each one, to prove his or her identity, responds to a challenge with a function of his or her secret key. Is this more secure than having them all use the same secret key?

Hint: What does Alice need to know in order to verify Carol’s answer to Alice’s challenge?

Assume a cryptographic algorithm in which the performance for the good guys (the ones that know the key) grows linearly with the length of the key and for which the only way to break it is a brute-force attack of trying all possible keys. Then, suppose the performance for the good guys is adequate (e.g., it can encrypt and decrypt as fast as the bits can be transmitted over the wire) at a certain size key. Finally, suppose advances in computer technology make computers twice as fast. Given that both parties— the good guys and the bad guys— get faster computers, does this advancement in computer speeds work to the advantage of the good guys? The bad guys? Or does it not make any difference?

Kaufman, C., Perlman, R., & Speciner, M. (2011). Network security: Private communication in a public world. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR. (note: this textbook is a reference for the assignment and not a required resource for learners)
In each of your responses to the above scenarios, please ensure that you provide a brief explanation of why you chose to take your mentioned actions.

Describe how blockchain technology meets an identified organizational need. Discuss additional uses of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency. Analyze the various forms of cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, etc.).

Create a 10–15 slide PowerPoint presentation that introduces, explains, and provides potential benefits and drawbacks of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Your presentation should note other uses of blockchain technology outside of cryptocurrency as well as a discussion on one or more of the various digital currencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum or another currency of your choice).
Describe how blockchain technology meets an identified organizational need.
Discuss additional uses of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency.
Analyze the various forms of cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, etc.).
Justify the selection of an emerging technology based upon an analysis of the technology’s capabilities against identified needs.
Demonstrates professional tone with credible and reliable sources of information about emerging technology.

Perception of Middle Age When do you think middle-age is?  How long does it last?  What should people be able to do physically and cognitively at this time of life?  What are their limitations due to being “middle-aged?” 

 
Discussion 6.1: Perception of Middle Age

When do you think middle-age is? 
How long does it last? 
What should people be able to do physically and cognitively at this time of life? 
What are their limitations due to being “middle-aged?” 
What do they think people in this stage of life experience emotionally, socially, and sexually? 
What are their biggest concerns about reaching this stage of life? 
What do they most look forward to about reaching this stage? 
If you are in or have experienced this stage of life, share how your thoughts may have changed.

Discussion Expectations:  
The minimum requirements for class discussions are to respond directly to the discussion prompt and to respond to at least two other posts, by other students or the instructor, by the end of the week. The discussion will close on the due date and will NOT be reopened for a late submission. 

Submit one main post responding directly to each part of the discussion prompt(s) by
   3.  Responses to other individuals’ posts should:

Expand on their ideas.
Discuss the differences between your thoughts and theirs.
Explain why you agree or disagree.
Always remain respectful.

Describe the changes to Medicare that are direct results of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Analyze and explain the possible impacts upon the health care system as more Americans gain access to health care.

 Week 5 DiscussionDiscussion Topic Due September 15 at 11:59 PM
Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.
For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.
Medicare
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the changes to Medicare.
Based on your research and understanding, respond to the following:

Describe the changes to Medicare that are direct results of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Analyze and explain the possible impacts upon the health care system as more Americans gain access to health care.
Explain the ways in which increased access to health care may affect baby boomers either positively or negatively.
Explore the role technology plays in accessing health care and on the Patient Protection and Affordable Act.
Analyze and explain the two new technologies that have affected health care in the past five years.
Analyze and describe the two new technologies that will be needed in the years ahead to keep up with the aging baby boomers.