...Assessment Tool Analysis Dorcas NUR/440 March 26, 2012 Vicki Clithero Assessment Tool Analysis Assessment is an important aspect of nursing care; it is the first phase of the nursing process. Assessment involves gathering information or data about and related to the patient. Data collected include physiological, psychological, environmental, sociocultural, economical, spiritual, developmental history of the patient. Data may be objective or subjective. Objective data refer to the measurable and observable signs, e.g. the patient’s facial expression, gait, pulse rate, heart rate, blood pressure, color, warmth, etc. Subjective data are obtained from the patient; and they are the patient’s account of his or her feelings, needs, and strength. Data are obtained by physical examination and by interviewing the patient, family, friends, and other health care providers. Assessment tools are used during the assessment phase of the nursing process to identify areas of actual or potential problems that need further exploring; they are developed to pinpoint areas of health issues with the aim of promoting, improving, and maintaining the health of the individual. The three assessment tools chosen for this paper are: Social Support Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, and Perceived Stress Scale. Social Support Questionnaire Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) is an assessment tool that measures individual evaluation of social support that may be available to them in case...
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...Assessment Tools Analysis Cindy Hall NUR/440 August 15, 2011 Dee Martinez Assessment Tools Analysis Assessing physical measures of patients can often be a difficult task. However, there are several assessment tools available to health care professionals to guide them in providing the best patient care possible. Along with proper assessment tools, Watson’s theory of human caring plays an important role in the integration of the mind, body, and spirit dimensions of each patient. This paper will state three assessment tools that evaluate a patient’s physical measures, describe each tool and the population for which it may be useful, and state data about each tool. Such data may include cost, length, ease in using the tool, for what population it is best designed, and the validity of the information. A description of how each tool enhances the assessment phase of the nursing process and affects the quality of health care delivered by the nurse will be discussed. Each of these tools will be applied to a chosen vulnerable population researched from the Vulnerable Population and Self-awareness paper. The vulnerable population I researched consisted of the elder population. Mrs. James was my subject. She is a 65-year-old widow who lives alone. She has become socially isolated with little to no support system. She has two sons who live out of state and very rarely keeps in contact with them. She does not work and has limited savings. Currently she relies on social...
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...Assessment Tool Analysis Joanna Przybyla NUR/440 June 4, 2012 Vicki Clithero Assessment Tool Analysis Nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient(Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia n.d.). It is a conversation with a patient, combined with an observation of the patient’s needs, signs, and symptoms of an illness, the patient’s social and medical history, and any other possible information. It is a difficult process, but at the same time, very important as it creates a basis in caring for a patient. Luckily, nurses have many assessment tools available to help them and to guide them through the process of assessment. What is also very important is knowledge of Watson’s model of nursing and how it is focusing on holistic care and establishing a relationship between patients and caregivers (De Chesnay & Anderson, 2012, Ch.6). In this essay I am going to describe three assessment tools that I have chosen and also how they can be used when caring for population I described in last week paper. The three assessment tools I want to present are the: Apgar Score, Finnegan Scale, and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). The Apgar Score was introduced in 1953 by the American doctor specializing in anesthesiology and pediatrics, Virginia Apgar (Kids Health, 1998). It was named after her and to this day doctors and nurses use it worldwide to evaluate how babies are doing after the delivery. It is the first test the newborn takes and it quickly allows making...
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...Assessment tools are useful for nursing care as they can act as a guideline while trying to assess patients. Finding the right assessment tool to match the nursing care going to be given is important. All assessment tools may not match the type of care going to be given. It is important to evaluate the assessment tool not only to match the care, but also to make sure the tool is thorough and useful. The three assessment tools discussed in this essay are an admission assessment by Pamela Craig, a nursing needs assessment tool by the Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety, and a physical assessment tool by F.A. Davis. The admission assessment by Pamela Craig was designed through evaluation of the previous admission assessment tool in which Pamela Craig redesigned it to fix the flaws of the old one. The tool begins with baseline vitals upon admission, with the inclusion of how the patient was brought to the facility and from where. The tool includes allergies, with a section specific to latex allergies. It includes who the information is obtained from, in case the information is not able to be obtained from the patient. There is a place for family history information, as well as history of past diagnoses for the patient. There is a section for nutrition that includes questions about weight loss, nausea and vomiting, enteral feeding, and changes in appetite. The physical assessment part of the assessment tool covers each system. There are boxes to check within each...
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...Running head: AN ANALYSIS OF THE VARK An Analysis of the VARK Assessment Tool Rebecca Milakovich Grand Canyon University: NUR429V December 16th, 2011 An Analysis of the VARK Assessment Tool Do you know how you learn best? There are many different ways to learn something new but do you know which one would benefit you the most? The VARK analysis tool can help you find the answer to that question. VARK stands for Visual, Aural/Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic which are the four categories of learning preferences. The online VARK questionnaire is free and consists of 16 questions that are based on real-life situations that users can easily answer and relate to. Users are able to check more than one answer to each question if more than one answer applies to them. After finishing the questions, the user is provided with a score in each of the 4 categories. If a person scores high in more than one area they are considered multi modal and are flexible in their learning styles (VARK, n.d.). The website then provides several study strategies for each learning preference that users can implement to improve their learning. The website cautions that “The results indicate a 'rule of thumb' and should not be rigidly applied. Remember that the questionnaire is not intended to 'box' respondents into a mindset that they have been 'diagnosed'. Rather, it is designed to initiate discussion about, and reflection upon, learning preferences” (VARK, n.d.) The author of this...
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...Assessment Tool Analysis Paper Assessment is the first and most important element of the nursing process. Assessment tools are not merely designed to measure the physical nature of the illness. They can also measure the psychosocial, spiritual, and emotional well-being of the patient. Watson felt that addressing the patient's mind, body and spirit can promote health and individual or family growth. She felt that nursing was distinctive through the science of caring and medicine involved curing (Suliman, Welmann, Omer & Thomas, 2009). In this paper I will be discussing three assessment tools that can be used by nurses to verify better, organize, and interpret a patient's emotional and spiritual well-being. I will describe the purpose of each tool and the population it might be useful. I will give data such as; cost, length of time to complete, ease of using and intended population. I will also describe how this tool enhances the assessment phase of the nursing process and the quality of care delivered by the nurse. Lastly, I will apply these tools to the vulnerable older population chosen from my Self Awareness paper. The three assessment tools that I selected were: The Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Derogatis Stress Profile, and the Perceived Stress Scale. The Spiritual Well-Being Scale This Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) is an easy assessment tool, designed for adults to self-assess their perceived spiritual well-being. There are twenty questions answered by paper and pencil...
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...Small business network management: just another job or an exciting career? Managing a small business network can be tough work, but it is a fun and exciting career, than provides endless opportunities for learning new technologies and ideas. Although this is a good career choice, there are many times where this job can be frustrating and tough. The frustrating times come when mission critical equipment fails, or a configuration file gets corrupted. First I will talk about the equipment needed to make a small business network function, with minimal errors. Next I will explain the pros and cons to managing a small business network. Lastly I will talk about what I recommend for a small business network. To start the body off, I will be explaining what equipment is needed to start a small business network. First we have our routers and switches. Routers perform many functions, one of which is serving as a firewall. Computers have tens of thousands of ports, or "doors" as this essay will refer to them as. Without a firewall, all the doors on the computer are unlocked and available for anyone to use. Anyone could be your brother sending an email, or hacker from Indonesia using your computer to send SPAM. Firewall's will recognize all the doors your computer isn't using and lock them, so no one can use the doors, unless you know the password for the firewall. Routers also have various other functions, which may or may not be used by businesses; it all depends on your application....
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...| Bachelor of Business (Incorporating Graduate Diploma in Business & Graduate Certificate in Business)Strategic Management467943Semester One 2013 | TABLE OF CONTENTS Item | Description | Page | 1 | Welcome to Paper Overview Paper Level & PointsHours TaughtDelivery ModeIndependent Study | 3 | 2 | Teaching Team & Contact Details | 3 | 3 | Paper Information 3.1 Pre-requisite Requirements 3.2 Paper Aim3.3 Learning Outcomes 3.4 Content | 34 | 4 | AUTonline Programme Organisation | 4 | 5 | TextsRequired TextsRecommended Texts | 4 | 6 | Weekly Programme | 4 | 7 | Assessment InformationBusiness Assessment & Study HandbookExtensions and other Special Consideration Applications (SCAs) Assessment StructureExam Timetable Location Pass RequirementsAssessment DetailsPeer Assessment FormMarking guides | 55556777-111213-15 | 1 Welcome to Strategic Management of the Bachelor of Business, Graduate Diploma in Business, Graduate Certificate in Business and BBus Conjoint Programmes. You are expected to read the contents of this study guide, also available on AUTonline under “All My Courses”. This paper runs for 14 weeks (12 in class and 2 reading/exam weeks), and has one 1.5 hour lecture per week and one 1.5 hour workshop. Students will be required to supplement each hour of class with 3-4 hours of their own work. This is a level 7 paper, worth 15 points. 2 Teaching Team and Contact Details Teaching Team | Phone | ...
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...| Vulnerability Assessment System Penetration and Analysis Testing | |Memo | Internal Penetration Testing Tool and Purchase | | | | With the recent attack/hack on agency's network town police department authorities came to a decision to conduct a complete assessment on network vulnerabilities. The main goal of this memo is to assess or evaluate the network penetration tools available in the market. Compare the tools. Cost to buy and implement these tools internally. Hire a professional service to evaluate these tools. In this memo we will cover the internal implementation at high level. In the market there are many penetration tools like a. Nmap - Worlds Best Port Scanner b. Nessus - Vulnerability Scanner c. Metasploit - Exploit framework For testing Vulnerabilities I picked the above three mentioned tools which are widely used in many organizations and would be perfect for this scenario. The penetration tools that could be used to conduct a vulnerability analysis are; Nmap and Nessus which provide a number of penetration testing techniques such as port scanning, Credentialed and uncredentialed scans, enumeration, patch...
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...How Financial Assessments Help Organizations Managerial Analysis Abstract Financial assessment provides management with the ability to make critical business decisions for their organization; this involves examining existing data to gain insight on the current and future condition of their organization through the balance sheet, income statement. In the book, What Every Manager Should Know about Financial Analysis, Alan Donahue states “The inability to understand and deal with financial data is a severe handicap in the corporate world”, which seems fitting to mention as I discuss in this paper the significance in doing a financial assessment and some of the necessary tools that are needed in order to do a financial assessment. Basic Concept of Financial Analysis for Organizations and its Importance Financial analysis is an assessment of an organization that will determine the organization’s risk and profitability through reported financial information; the two main sources for retrieving such information are the balance sheet and income statement. The balance sheet also provides a wealth of information that enables the organization to determine its stability, vitality, and profitability through utilizing ratios. Ratios can determine the overall performance of the company through such things called liquidity, leverage and profitability. Balance Sheet The balance sheet outlines the the financial and physical resources that a company has avaliable...
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...|Unit Title |Unit Code/No Unit12 |Date Issued | |Strategic Planning | | | |Student Name |Student ID |Date Received | |Lecturer Name |Internal Verifier Name | |Michael Brown |M. Azam | Rules and regulations: | | |Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly from the Web or books | |without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework;| |stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your own work. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and | |if found to have occurred will be dealt with according to the procedures set down by the College. Please see your student | |handbook for further details of what is / isn’t plagiarism. | Coursework Regulations 1. Submission of coursework must be undertaken according to the relevant procedure – whether online or paper-based. Lecturers will give information as to which procedure...
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...Running head: Analysis of Team Charter Analysis of Team Charter Analysis of Team Charter Analysis of Team Charter The five members of Team A have similarities that provide for a solid framework to develop a functioning team. The design of the learning team charter provides a map for each member to discover individual strengths and weaknesses to share with the team. This tool establishes the action plan for the team and provides a map for success. Learning team charter The learning team charter (LTC) is broken down into for The LTC is made up of four segments: individuals skill inventory, team goals, ground rules, and conflict management. Under each section, specific inquiries relating to one of the four topics help the team member isolate his or her goals that pertain to the team. Rules and guidelines The LTC established three simple rules for Team A to follow: open communication, accountability for individual actions, and full participation in every project. These simple rules provided the framework necessary to accomplish Team A's goals. Expectations The trust assessment provided insight to each member's ability to trust others. This key element helped the team to determine if any member would not be able to trust the others to complete his or her portions and lead the effectively. The expectations for Team A is a high final grade and trust is an important part of achieving this goal. Fair play Team A selected a leader for the team. This...
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...REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of SCIENTIFIC PAPER AFASES Brasov MANAGEMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES USED TO ENSURE THE INTERNAL AUDIT PERFORMANCE Marian SFETCU Phd. Student, Faculty of Economics Sciences and Business Administration of „Babeș - Bolyai” University of Cluj Napoca.E-mail: marian_sfetcu@yahoo.com. Tel: 0720 760 220 Abstract: This approach shows a research on the usage of managemental methods on the internal audit activity through qualitative and quantitative indicators of performance assurance. Balanced Scorecard, the management method and tool, referred to the Dashboard, contributes to the internal audit performance through resource planning, setting objectives and scope of the audit, communication and approval, following the recommendations, deferring to the code of ethics and how to achieve the objectives. The listed indicators, are components of the proposed management methods and tools, and they define efficency, effectiveness, economy and quality, all elements of the internal audit performance. Keywords: methods and techniques, audit, corporate governance, internal control system, performance indicators, Balanced Scorecard, Dashboard. JEL: M 42 1. INTRODUCTION The importance of using the management methods and techniques concerning the internal audit, is given by providing a new approach to this problem, which highlights the need to ensure the performance by applying new methods and techniques, based on scientific management. This approach...
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...Manage Project Time Assessment Activities & Exercises Candidate Details Assessment – BSB51407 - Time Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer for review. This forms part of your assessment. Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ Employer: _____________________________________________________________ Declaration I declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where I have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for me by another person. Signed: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________________________________ If activities have been completed as part of a small group or in pairs, details of the learners involved should be provided below; This activity workbook has been completed by the following persons and we acknowledge that it was a fair team effort where everyone contributed equally to the work completed. We declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where we have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for us...
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...Running head: Analysis of Team Charter Analysis of Team Charter MGT/521 October 25, 2010 Olivia Herriford Analysis of Team Charter Analysis of Team Charter The five members of Team A have similarities that provide for a solid framework to develop a functioning team. The design of the learning team charter provides a map for each member to discover individual strengths and weaknesses to share with the team. This tool establishes the action plan for the team and provides a map for success. Learning team charter The learning team charter (LTC) is broken down into for The LTC is made up of four segments: individuals skill inventory, team goals, ground rules, and conflict management. Under each section, specific inquiries relating to one of the four topics help the team member isolate his or her goals that pertain to the team. Rules and guidelines The LTC established three simple rules for Team A to follow: open communication, accountability for individual actions, and full participation in every project. These simple rules provided the framework necessary to accomplish Team A's goals. Expectations The trust assessment provided insight to each member's ability to trust others. This key element helped the team to determine if any member would not be able to trust the others to complete his or her portions and lead the effectively. The expectations for Team A is a high final grade and trust is an important part of achieving this goal. Fair play ...
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