Category: Essays

Health Care Delivery

 

Write 400 words

Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

No other country in the world has a health care system like that of the United States. For this Discussion Board assignment, complete the following:

Choose a developed country and discuss how its model of health care (e.g., national health insurance, national health system, or socialized health insurance) differs from that of the United States.
Discuss some of the strengthens and weaknesses of that model in comparison to what is offered in the United States

Human Resource Management

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400-450 words on how performance management can enhance organizational performance
link it to ‘managing the psychological contract’
3-4 references (minimum 3)

Discussions

Gay Parenting

After viewing the required video for this discussion, please address each of the following questions:

What core social values are most challenged by legalized gay adoption?
How have these “values” been defined and reinforced?
Assuming these values are changing, at least for some individuals or societies, how have experts explained or described the change?
How has your personal view of “the family” changed over your lifetime?
Supporters and opponents of gay adoption both claim to have children’s best interests at heart. Which do you think is in the best interest of children: banning or permitting their adoption by gay parents? Why?

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.
Reinventing Healthcare

While we do not want to replicate our Week One discussion of obesity, this issue certainly overlaps with the growing healthcare challenge. Remember that the focus of the previous discussion was on our sociological imaginations. Keep your imaginations going, but we will shift gears a bit for this discussion with a focus on solutions.

In addition to the required video and text, please complete a web search for additional information. All sources should be authoritative, so your search should focus on scholarly papers, government reports, and other expert sources. After reviewing all of these resources, please discuss the all of the following:

According to experts on all sides, does the government have the right to enforce, legislate, or regulate behaviors such as obesity, health, and nutritious eating?
Are these expert opinions biased in any way? Provide examples.
Now that we have heard from the experts, do you personally believe the government has a right to enforce, legislate, or regulate behaviors such as obesity, health, and nutritious eating? Why or why not?

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Focus on example of bias. How can we know who to trust?

Project 2 Task: Literary works are often adapted for other media. For this project, choose one of the readings for this term and create an extensive plan for adapting it to some other medium. Would any of the readings for this term make a good sitcom? Board game? Motion simulator ride? Fantasy adventure role-playing game? Movie? Ad campaign? Ballet? Music video? Your adaptation should center around/highlight a central theme (hopefully, the one you have developed over the course of the term). Your plan should give a description of your adaptation, and, in addition, justify the choices you make with respect to that theme. Of course, you can write in the form of an academic essay, but you could decide to submit this as a proposal to a movie studio executive or to a game manufacturer. Your instructor may even allow for other types of presentations—perhaps a Website or a poster—that include a substantial amount of text combined with graphics/other elements. Whichever frame you use, though, make sure you cite your sources using MLA format and that you include at least one scholarly article as evidence. Audience, role, and purpose: Your objective is to adapt a work of literature to another medium, drawing on evidence from the text to support your decisions. Your audience is your classmates and instructor. You may adopt a different writing role for this project, depending on the frame you use. Research and evidence: You should draw heavily on the texts that you have read in LIT for this project, but should also cite at least one scholarly article about the work, perhaps one that clarifies the theme you are addressing. Steps toward success: 1) Work hard on the topic development stage for this project. There are interesting alternatives here, so you should be able to pursue a project that appeals to your interests. 2) Take advantage of the process. 3) Checklist: • Length: 1000 to 1250 words. • Form: Varies depending on the type of project you pursue. • Sources: For this project,

Consider the chronic care needs of the patient population that you have chosen for your course project. Describe the leadership strategies that you would implement with the goal of enriching the microsystem data and information environment. Explain the rationale behind your choices of strategies. Respond to at least two of your colleagues, citing the literature to support your position.

ASSIGNMENT 2

For most of you, the course project assignment has required that you take on the challenge of creating an ideal clinical microsystem to meet the needs of patients living with a specific chronic illness. Reflect upon the process that you used to complete the first two parts of the course project. How did you organize and plan your work? What resources did you use? Were your approaches effective? Did you enjoy the process? Are you pleased with the outcome?

Assignment 3

From your professional experience, examine a time when a team of which you were a member or that you observed was tasked with making a decision. Assess their decision-making approach, management of conflict, and success at collaborating. Recommend what the team should do to improve their collaborative decision making

Write a two to three (2-3) page report in which you:

Calculate the mean, median, and standard deviation for ounces in the bottles.
Construct a 95% Confidence Interval for the ounces in the bottles.
Conduct a hypothesis test to verify if the claim that a bottle contains less than sixteen (16) ounces is supported. Clearly state the logic of your test, the calculations, and the conclusion of your test.
Provide the following discussion based on the conclusion of your test:

a. If you conclude that there are less than sixteen (16) ounces in a bottle of soda, speculate on three (3) possible causes. Next, suggest the strategies to avoid the deficit in the future.

Or

b. If you conclude that the claim of less soda per bottle is not supported or justified, provide a detailed explanation to your boss about the situation. Include your speculation on the reason(s) behind the claim, and recommend one (1) strategy geared toward mitigating this issue in the future.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. No citations and references are required, but if you use them, they must follow APA format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Calculate measurements of central tendency and dispersal.
Determine confidence intervals for data.
Describe the vocabulary and principles of hypothesis testing.
Discuss application of course content to professional contexts.
Use technological tools to solve problems in statistics.
Write clearly and concisely about statistics using proper writing mechanics

Review the assignment instructions in the University of Phoenix Material: Integrative Network Design Project.

Review the following Learning Team assignments:

Analog and Digital Comparison Paper
Protocol Paper
Hardware and Software Paper

Consider how the information presented in each assignment applies to your chosen Virtual Organization.

Write a cumulative 10- to 12-page paper incorporating your prior work. Solve the design problems of your Virtual Organization. Illustrate all network design using Microsoft® Visio® or Toolwire®.

Address the following in your paper:

Include a final network design.
Include a timeline for the project.
Explain the design approach and rationale.
Analyze the detailed design.
Prove that the design meets the data rate requirements.
Analyze the existing security situation in the organization.
Identify the predominant electronic and physical threats to communications networks.
Explain the importance of explicit enterprise security policies and procedures.
Describe potential threat detection and protection techniques.
Explain the importance of explicit enterprise security policies and procedures.
Describe how firewalls mitigate some network attack scenarios.
Describe common security concerns inherent to wired, wireless, and mobile networking.
Design a security hardware and software environment that will protect the organization

Review the document at the bottom of this rubric called Concierge Care Backgrounder.

Ø To prepare for this Assignment, you might also want to view the PBS NewsHour video, Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee, found here: Source: Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee: PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec12/medicine_07-09.html

Ø Prepare a 3–4 page (1000-1200 words) analysis for Dr. Green that demonstrates your consideration of your practice’s current capabilities with regard to 1) adopting a concierge care business model or 2) expanding the existing practice. (Feel free to look at sample SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces Framework template

As the human resources manager, it is your responsibility to keep all human resources employees informed about current employment law. You want to empower employees with resources that they can use independently to research employment law issues and policies. Using Excel, create a table that will be placed on the company’s Intranet as an employment law reference. You and your employees will be able to add to this document, so you will focus on the following 4 areas of employment law to begin:

Wages and Hours of Work
Safety and Health Standards
Family and Medical Leave
Whistleblower Protection

For each area of employment law, complete the following:

List the federal agency (or agencies) that regulates this area.
Describe how the agency implements the relevant law and policy.
Provide a link to the agency’s Web site.
You should organize the information within your table so that it is logical and able to be edited in the future.

Please submit your assignment.

Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials

Leadership Interview Nursing leader

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Interview a nurse leader. Ask the leader the following questions:

How would you describe your leadership style?
What changes have you made in your leadership style as a result of your evolving leadership role?
What challenges have you faced as a leader in today’s health care systems?
What is the effect of formal and informal power in your organization?

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word summary of the interview.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines