NR 395 Week 1 Discussion Topic

NR 395 Week 3 Discussion Topic: Quality Improvement Education

NR 395 Week 5 Discussion Topic

NR 395 Week 7 Discussion Topic

NR 395 Hot Topic In an article written by Richard Pérez-Peña titled Unneeded Drugs Killed Hundreds at U.K. Hospital, Inquiry …, it as been … that there were many unnecessary deaths … misuse of pain medication. The article discusses a hospital in London that had found that “as many as 650 patients at a small British hospital died from overdoses of powerful painkillers that they did not need” (NYTimes, 2018)……….continue

NR 395 Week 7 Discussion Topic Have you … asked to work mandatory overtime? If so, what was your response? Did you work the requested hours, or did you refuse? If you … , what were the consequences, if any? What is your opinion about the use of mandatory overtime? Explain the pros and cons of this practice and how you lean toward either allowing or disallowing it.

NR 395 Week 6 Hot Topic New York Times Nurses Strike in New York: Threat Increases Over ‘Safe Staffing’ Levels ( On March 30th, 2019, Patrick McGeehan wrote an article that focused on the major threat of the nursing walk out that was to occur in New York City Hospitals. In McGeehan’s article, he interviewed a nurse in the NICU, Shanna Murphy, who remembers an issue where she was taking care of a critical/unstable infant while a mother of a crying baby felt her child was being ignored.

NR 395 Week 5 Discussion Topic What principles do you use when delegating to unlicensed personnel? Because the licensed nurse is … for care performed by an unlicensed person, how do you protect yourself and your patients?

NR 395 Week 3 Discussion Topic: Quality Improvement Education Do you believe there is a culture of academic integrity in your nursing program? What evidence do you have that supports this notion, or disputes it? How can you promote academic integrity within yourself, and your classmates?