APA, 3 SCHOLARLY REFERENCES FOR EACH DISCUSSION, NOT GREATER THAN 5 YEARS OLD, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Instructions
#1 This week you have read about geriatric care. With this information in mind, think about your previous practice experiences in the context of the content presented, and reflect on how they may have impacted your engagement with the field.
Discuss several factors that influence quality of life in older adults. Identify questions that you would ask an elderly patient in order to determine quality of life. Explain lifestyle recommendations that you would provide to enhance quality of life, minimize age-related decline, and improve health outcomes.
For this discussion, take the role of the provider. Provide additional signs and symptoms that you discover upon further evaluation. Also, fill in significant patient details that were not mentioned. These may include ethnicity, medical history, psychosocial factors, and family history. Then, according to these clinical manifestations and personal variables, write your discussion post.
#2 QSEN Standards
Instructions
In this module, you have read about what QSEN stands for and the six QSEN competencies. With this information in mind, think about your previous practice experiences in the context of the frameworks presented, and reflect on how they may have impacted your engagement with the field.
For this module’s discussion, please respond to the following prompts:
Describe which QSEN competency aligns most closely with a unit-specific practice problem you have seen at your facility.
Tell me how your facility incorporates the knowledge, skills, and attitudes within the six competencies during new staff orientation for new nurses. If you do not have this process integrated into orientation, explain how you would like them integrated for new nurses joining your unit.
In follow-up responses to peers’ posts, address the followi