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Assignment: Self-Assessment Discussion

• Reflect on topics they have covered over the last 15 weeks

• Discuss the application of Middle Range Theories and Nursing Practice.

• Discuss the impact of mentors during the course

Student Learning Outcomes (Outcome 1-3, &, 4)

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Critically analyze the philosophical underpinnings of nursing theories.

• Critique nursing’s conceptual models, grand theories, and mid-range theories.

• Examine the influence that nursing models and theories have upon research and practice.

• Apply nursing theory or theories to nursing research.

Please use APA 7th Edition. 400 words. Attached Word document with course topic. Scholarly references (Within 5 years) if applicable.

Discussion topics

1. The development of nursing knowledge is an ongoing process. Discuss the case for the ongoing development and use of nursing grand theories and conversely, make a case for the obsolescence of nursing grand theories for today’s practice and research.

2. Making judgement as to whether a theory could be adapted for use in research is very important. Describe the internal and external criticism that is used to evaluate middle range theories.

3. Using the theory of unpleasant symptoms as a guide, what would you look for in an assessment tool for patient symptoms?

4. Using the criteria presented in week 2, critique the theory of Self-Efficacy using the internal and external criticism evaluation process.

5. The use of spirituality in nursing practice is not new. However, it is more studied and utilized in a more structured format in nursing. Identify and discuss tools used to evaluate spirituality.

6. Analyze the potential effectiveness resulting from professional or nurse-provided social support versus enhancement of social support provided by personal relationship and social networks for parents of children with chronic mental illness.

7. Select any middle range nursing theory and do a PowerPoint presentation on ways in which the theory is applicable to your practice.

8. The surrogate role is not one that is frequently mentioned in recent nursing practice literature. Is that role as defined by Peplau relevant to nursing practice as currently experienced. If so, in what way. If not, why?

9. Based on the theory of attachment, what behaviors would a nurse attempt to stimulate when working with parent to promote health attachment?

10. Evidence suggests that patients do better when their expectations about specific benefits of nursing care are discussed and met. Design a “comfort contract” whereby patients or their surrogates designate an expected level of postsurgical overall comfort, and where they can specify chronic discomforts and interventions that they use at home for relief.

11. Discuss the underlying assumptions and potential ramifications of having proxy subjective health status or evaluation measures for children or those unable to speak for themselves.

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determine the GDP.

b) Calculate the GDP using only those numbers that
may be relevant from the following numbers

Consumption $60B

Government purchases $10B

Taxes $15B

Private Sector Gross
Investment $10B

Savings $10B

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Exports $8B

c) Explain
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GDP?

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we generally come across and which of these are included in the definition of
natural unemployment.

b) Is there a relationship between potential GDP and
Natural unemployment rate? Explain.

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the decrease in the unemployment rate even when many new jobs were not being
created in the economy at that time?

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growth in the economy?

b) How can we attain a faster growth rate in the
economy in the future?

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about half the size of the US economy. But if the Chinese economy continues to
grow at 10% annually while the US economy grows at 3% (our historic average
growth over past many years!), using the Rule of 70 what can we say about the
two economies in the future?

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determine the equilibrium in the economy.

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expenditure and then what happens after the multiplier process works through
the economy.

c) What is likely to be the effect of such increase
in consumption expenditure on the budget balance for the government?

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to perform and how is such money currently created in our economy?

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monetary policy by lowering the money supply in the economy, what will be its
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