DE Nursing Education I&II-1st-2nd block Fall 2023 Assignments

Attach ATI practice test

Download your report and turn it in.

Setting up your senior portfolio: Create a website on Google Sites that showcases your journey through the health science program at Alcoa High School. It should reflect you as a person, and be professional. You may show this to college/program admissions or potential employers.

The following topics should have an area in your portfolio:
Resume and Cover Letter 
Letter of Recommendation (1)
Education and Training (Classes, GPA if you want to share, highlight any honors courses and EPSO attainment. Will you be a ready graduate? Will you graduate with honors? Include relevant info that showcases you.)
Achievements and Certifications (Any special awards/certifications you received. Attach copies of those certs.)
Presentations and Projects (At LEAST one per Health Science course. Include a summary of what each is, what you learned, and why you included them.) 
Contact Information 
Future Goals (Where do you want to continue school/training? Where do you hope to work? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10?)
Personalized Learning Plan (Make sure it is complete and attach it)


If you already have artifacts that you can attach, go ahead and attach them in the correct places. 

We will review exemplar portfolios that you can use as a guide/inspiration. You will see that some students combined Nursing Education and Work-Based Learning information all on one portfolio.  Please make this portfolio yours- I do not want you to make yours exactly like the exemplar- be creative and original and YOU.


**Make sure to check ALL permissions for your attachments. Share your link with a peer and have them check to see if they can view all documents included on your website. 

To submit....Do NOT attach your portfolio here. Instead, in the comments of this assignment, include a link to the main site page. Just hit submit when you feel your portfolio is complete.

1. Create Account / Login
2. Input WBL info (Fairpark & BMH)
3. Exit Survey

Hapoy Thanksgiving! Attach your assignment and thank you for being awesome❤️

Complete the following modules AND submit a report showing test grade and time spent in modules

- Clinical Judgement Process
- Documentation

- Read and annotate/take notes on Ch. 3 in your Nursing Fundamentals book. 
***BRING FUNDAMENTALS BOOK AND FUNDAMENTALS WORKBOOK TO CLASS THIS WEEK***

- Complete Module 34: Gas Exchange and Oxygenation
--- When complete, click on the tab toward the top that looks like an award ribbon. Find the reports for the module, and click on the LESSON report. Click Download report and upload a PDF of that report to this assignment. Your report should include your test score, and the amount of time you spend on the module. See Mrs. Everett with questions.

Complete the following modules. When complete upload the module completion report to this assignment and click submit. 
- Module 3: Health Care Delivery 
- Module 29: Stress and Coping

 Use Google Drawings to create a collage of pictures showing different assistive devices. Include a brief caption (text box) for each that includes: the name of the device, what it is used for, and what type of therapy it would most likely be used with. Your goal is to have 4 pictures for each type of therapy (Physical, Occupational, and Speech).  

As you read through Chapter 9, note normal and abnormal changes that occur throughout the body systems of geriatric patients. 

While reading, create a "field guide" of reportable signs/symptoms in your pocket notebook for each system. You need to read each system's section in the book and summarize significant signs/symptoms you would need to report to the nurse if you observed them. Pay attention to the yellow boxes titled "How the NA Can Help" and include any of this information you feel is important. 

Make sure your work is organized, neat, and clear!

Nutritional Needs of the Elderly and Special Diets

Part One. You are working and still in orientation at a local LTC facility. You and your mentor are admitting a new resident. Your resident does not have any specific diet orders yet Dietary is short-staffed today and has asked you to complete a food preferences questionnaire for this resident. Review the food preferences form and research any questions you may have. Then, choose a “resident”. Your resident can be someone in your home. Professionally interview your resident to complete the food preferences form. Next, research your assigned, special diet. Your resident has medical needs that require them to be on this diet. Research and document (on the form) a list of conditions/diseases that might require this diet. Next, research your assigned liquid consistency. Your patient has a medical need that requires them to have this consistency of liquids. Research and document (on the back of the form) a list of conditions that might require liquids to be thickened. Also, research additional safety precautions/eating considerations for patients requiring thickened liquids and list them on your form. 

 
Part Two. After you complete this form and return it to Dietary, your mentor asks you to observe how Dietary processes the information and uses data to create meals for the residents. You and the dietary employee you are working with are tasked with creating a "food tray" for the resident that follows the USDA MyPlate recommendations and the resident’s specific diet needs. Use whatever craft supplies you wish to use. 

When finished, take a picture of your food tray that clearly shows the tray and place it in a Google doc with a written summary that addresses the following:
Nutritional needs of the elderly (detail how each of the foods included meets nutritional requirements)
Food preference considerations (What food preferences did your patient have? How did that affect your food choices?)
Special diets (what special diet was your patient on? research and detail why they might be on this diet)
Swallowing issues and dysphagia (What type of patient might experience this? What considerations or protocols might need to be followed if a resident has this? Did your patient have this? How was your patient’s diet affected by this?)

Create a short google slide presentation on the specific communication topics assigned to you. Include demonstrations of “what not to do” and then include strategies for “what to do” in your presentation. You will present this in class.


TOPICS:
Changing the subject/ Emotions, Mood & Environment: Trinity & Layna
Offering False Reassurance / Attitude Perceptions and Self-Concept: Bianca & Olivia
Giving Advice & Using Cliches: Bella & Ana
Asking Prying/Probing Questions: Jackson & Melissa
Listening Inattentively: Tessa & Casey
Patient is Hearing-Impaired: Ashlynn & Lizette
Patient has aphasia: Amelia & Alex
Speaks a different language/culturally diverse: Emma & Sam
CVA/ Stroke: Lilly & Linda
Vision impairment: Mrs. Everett
Combative/ Angry behavior: Dr. Bell
Inappropriate behavior: Dr. Bell

Residents Rights Letter

Imagine you are the director of an LTC facility. Your best friend, who lives out of town, is searching for a facility for her 90-year-old mother and requests information about your facility. Write a letter explaining how your facility manages the following: 

- Healthy, safe and respectful environment that includes family and friends
- Quality of life 
- Rights regarding services provided
- Right to participate in own care
- Right to choose
- Informed consent
- Right to privacy/ confidentiality
- Security of possessions 
- Dealing with grievances

Describe specifically how your facility ensures each right is honored for all patients. For example: DON’T: we make sure people can choose their activities. DO: Our facility has an Xbox and Wii game consoles in each resident’s room. Volunteers or CNAs help residents select the game they want to play. (Don’t use this example. Use something that is more appropriate for a geriatric resident.) 

Make it personable and be creative. It may help to research different LTC facilities. You can find more traditional facilities or patient-centered facilities, whichever you prefer. 

Use the patient rights and responsibilities in your textbook as a guide when composing your letter. You may need to research if you do not fully understand an area you need to discuss.

1. Restraints discussion: 
- Why are restraints used? What types of restraints are there? 
- What are some physical/psychological problems associated with restraints? 
- Review restraint guidelines. 
- Read and summarize restraint facility guidelines

(Read Chapter 6, Sections 4-7)


2. Restraints Alternatives Module completion (Watch and answer questions on attached EdPuzzle)

3. PLP: Complete Identifying a possible placement

4. Skills: ROM Hip and Knee, ROM Shoulder

HIT SUBMIT BUTTON WHEN EDPUZZLE/LESSON IS COMPLETE.

Read the attached assignment

Using the dolls provided, work with a partner to place the dolls in the positions listed in the textbook. These should be a review for you from Medical Therapeutics. Take a picture of the dolls in each position (make sure to include all 3 Fowler's positions). Insert these pictures into a Google Doc and include a label for each. 

Then, work with your partner to create a SHORT patient scenario that includes why this position is necessary for the patient, and information for a CNA to ensure the patient is comfortable. This should be written in first person. 

For example: "My name is Cecil. I had a stroke earlier this year and can choke easily when I eat. Please make sure I am in HIGH FOWLER'S POSITION when eating, and for 30 minutes after I eat. Please make sure a pillow is behind my head and that the head of my bed is raised to between 60-90 degrees." Don't copy this example :) 

When complete, one person needs to MAKE A COPY of the document, and BOTH students need to submit assignment INDEPENDENTLY.