Foundations of Nursing; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  Discuss each question below in a paragraph (4 to 5 full sentences). 1. What is the difference between wants and needs? (in your own words) 2. How do you think health care professionals can help patients at each level of Maslow’s Hierarchy? (make sure to give an example for ALL levels) Wellness Discussion Click this link for Wellness Wheel and Assessment. Read each wellness topic on the wheel and choose one that you feel you may need some more work on. Post a discussion about the wellness topic you would most like to improve and why. Vital Signs Activity Click on the attached file named "Vital Signs Cross Word" and complete the puzzle using vital signs terms. You may submit your assignment in either Word document or type into the space provided. You may also write on the crossword and submit it back with your answers. Make sure to number your answers to match the numbers on the crossword document. Nursing Process Activity 1. Write down EACH of the FIVE nursing processes 2. Discuss their purpose 3. Describe the activities that take place during that process. Pathophysiology Assignment Assignment - Hemostasis 1. Explain the things that work to prevent platelet activation and blood clotting? 2. Describe the red blood cell disorders of: - Spherocytosis - Sickle cell - Thalassemia - Iron deficiency - Megaloblastic - Anemia - Polycythemia Assignment - Cardiovascular System 1. Explain how lipid metabolism, processing, and transportation can be dysfunctional and contribute to vascular disease? 2. Describe venous circulation issues including varicose veins, venous insufficiency, venous ulcers, and DVTs? 3. Explain heart failure and the symptoms of failure on the right and left side of the heart? Assignment - Reproductive System Answer the following questions below in your own words, as the assignment is intended to display your understanding. 1. Name and describe FIVE (5) common disorders of the reproductive system? 2. What are the signs, symptoms, and risk factors for breast cancer? 3. Describe the normal physiology of the menstrual, ovarian, and follicular cycle? Assignment - Ethical Decision Discussion Patient M, a woman, 34 years of age, is in critical condition and is scheduled for emergency surgery following a severe motor vehicle accident. You have been informed that her two children have been killed in the crash. She is almost hysterical and is asking you repeatedly about the condition of her children as you prepare her for emergency surgery. Do you tell the mother the truth about her children at this time or wait until after the surgery? Forensic Nursing 1.How important is mental health screening in a correctional facility? 2. How has deinstitutionalization of persons with mental illness affected jails and prisons in the ensuing years? Mary has been a registered nurse for 9 years, working 4 days a week on a busy obstetrics/gynecological unit. Five years ago, she began taking call 7 days a month for a sexual assault response team (SART) program, 24-hour on-call shifts. She averages four forensic examinations a month. The SART nurses are independently contracted, and all have other full-time nursing jobs outside of SART. The examinations are performed at a free-standing site, and little opportunity exists for collegiality. For those who have the time to attend, opportunities exist for peer review and occasional in-services. Mary prided herself on her ability to do what others considered “tough work.” Other nurses at her hospital often told her, “I don’t know how you do it; it must be so sad to do that work.” Mary replied that she did not consider it as sad, and that this work was what she signed on to do. Lately, Mary has been calling in sick more often at her hospital job, disorganized in her SART examinations, and increasingly critical of her peers. She has voiced frustration to her colleagues about the patients she has been seeing: “I can’t believe how stupid some of these women are, walking alone at night, taking rides from strange guys, getting drunk.” She told her partner that she “dreads” her cell phone ringing on the days she is on-call, because “getting a call means I have to hear all those stories, and I just don’t think I can care about that anymore.” Mary feels guilty about this, and has begun drinking “to feel better” when she is not on-call. She has not shared these feelings with her nurse colleagues, for fear of being judged as “weak”; no one else has said they feel like this, so there must be something wrong with her. What are the concerning feelings that Mary is experiencing? Who is Mary’s support? Identify at least three strategies Mary use for managing VT and promoting resiliency.