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Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some…
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Politics and the Patient Prot Regardless of political affiliation, individuals often grow concerned when considering perceived competing interests of government and their impact on topics of interest to them. The realm of healthcare is no different. Some people feel that local, state, and federal policies and legislation can be either helped or hindered by interests…
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For this assignment, you will prepare a 3 to 4 page review of the literature pertinent to a selected problem for healthcare research and to use that review to propose a methodology to address the problem. TOPIC SELECTED: Restrictive scope of practice for APRNs A. Conduct a search of literature relevant to the problem/topic. Identify…
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1. State the topic of the study (This is a combination of the information that you provided in Module 1 and the top half of the Module 2 assignments but in a more condensed manner.) In addition, you will include the research problem. 2. Review the studies that have addressed the problem ( The bibliography…
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Technology helps strategy and operations in many ways. For example, it helps reduce human error, double-checks other data, and increases the speed of a process. Some mathematics and statistics can take hundreds of hours to complete with pencil and paper; however, with computer programming, these same problems can be run in under 4 hours. This…
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Last year, iHiker signed a contract with the United States Olympic Committee and USA Climbing, the national governing body of the sport of competition climbing in the United States, to sponsor the USA Climbing team in the upcoming Olympics. The marketing team hoped that sponsoring climbing at the Olympics would be good publicity to promote…
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In your role working as a paralegal or legal assistant at iHiker, discuss whether users that install the iHiker app on their phone should consent to a terms of use agreement. A terms of use agreement may also be called a licensing agreement or an end user license agreement (EULA). What clauses should the terms…
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As a nurse, how often have you thought to yourself, If I had anything to do about it, things would work a little differently? Increasingly, nurses are beginning to realize that they do, in fact, have a role and a voice. Many nurses encounter daily experiences that motivate them to take on an advocacy role…
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Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse. Fortunately, there are strategies…
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When politics and medical science intersect, there can be much debate. Sometimes anecdotes or hearsay are misused as evidence to support a particular point. Despite these and other challenges, however, evidence-based approaches are increasingly used to inform health policy decision-making regarding causes of disease, intervention strategies, and issues impacting society. One example is the introduction…