Category: Essays

n light of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and the myriad of citizens using the new health care insurance system, you, as a health care administrator for a hospital, are responsible for reporting to the hospital’s CEO regarding the new plan’s cost to the hospital and the issues with patients who can afford regular health care coverage.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Give your opinion of the rising cost of health care’s overall impact on the U.S. economy. Justify your response.
Compare and contrast at least two (2) areas of the economy that the new health care act impacts. Explain your rationale.
Debate the main pros and cons of using private insurance versus using the new affordable health insurance system.
Analyze the cost associated with implementing ACA and its impact on access to health care access for different demographic groups. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use at least four (4) recent (i.e., last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific 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:

Analyze the different ways of financing the health care system and the impact on individuals.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization.
Write clearly and concisely about health services organization using proper writing mechanics

Substance abuse counseling lends itself nicely to the integration of positive psychology and spirituality. While both of these therapy approaches have been explored for many years, the integration into substance abuse counseling is a relatively new development. As such, many clients may not be aware of the techniques in positive psychology and spirituality that can be of use in their recovery.

Juanita has been seeking treatment for her marijuana use from you for a month now. While she has significantly cut back on her substance use, she is having difficulty quitting and remaining abstinent for periods that last longer than a few days. In your counseling sessions, Juanita has mentioned that she feels very badly about herself—she feels guilty about being unable to quit and explains that she doesn’t think she is strong enough to quit altogether. She has also expressed nervousness that her boyfriend would no longer like her if she quit smoking, and she has expressed concern that if he leaves her, she wouldn’t be able to find a new boyfriend because she doesn’t believe she is pretty enough. Juanita is also unsatisfied with her job as a cashier at the local grocery store, but has expressed her opinion that she doesn’t think she is smart enough to get a better job. You know from Juanita’s history, that her mother was very critical of Juanita when she was a child and that her father was absent for most of her childhood. In high school, Juanita excelled at classes in biology and math, but she never attended college.

To help Juanita overcome her barriers to marijuana abstinence, write a summary of what the counselor should cover in the next meeting with Juanita. Ensure that you cover the following points:

Explain the concepts of positive psychology to Juanita.
Examine the goals of positive psychology and explain how this approach will help Juanita obtain sobriety, focusing specifically on the concerns and dissatisfactions she has expressed.
Design at least two exercises based on positive psychology for Juanita to work on in between counseling sessions.
Explain spirituality to Juanita, emphasizing the differences between spirituality and religion.
Examine how spirituality and positive psychology can work together to help Juanita achieve her goals.

Write a 4–5-page paper in Word format. Use scholarly resources, including the textbook to support your ideas

Investigate a published case study that deals with conditions affecting a biological system.

Write a 1,050- to 1,500-word paper describing a single biological system of the body, such as respiratory or immune.

Include the following in your paper:

Describe normal, healthy functioning.
Explain how unhealthy lifestyle choices can compromise the system.
Describe the biological system discussed in the case study and this system’s normal functioning in a healthy person.
Evaluate how vulnerabilities in the system can lead to behavioral problems, impairments, or illnesses.
Recommend behavioral or lifestyle changes to improve health.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Cite at least three peer-reviewed sources

Social justice has been defined in different ways, but the definitions usually include similar ideologies. As you study the concept of social justice, you will come across some of the following ideas:

Historical inequities that affect current injustices should be corrected until the actual inequities no longer exist or have been perceptively “negated.”
Wealth, power, and status should be redistributed for the good of the individual, the community, and the society.
It is the responsibility of the government (or those who hold significant power) to ensure a basic quality of life for all its citizens.

From country to country social justice is defined in different ways, and the definitions usually include ideologies as well as differences. Research the definition of social justice in the United States using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Select another country to examine its definition of social justice in order to analyze the ideologies and similarities using the following steps:

Analyze the ideologies.
Identify the similarities.
Using your reasoning skills, give supporting statements or arguments that support your position(s) about the social justice.

Your comparing and contrasting must consider the following:

Historical values and ideologies of the country
Economic structure of the country
Discrimination issues, if any exist

Develop a 2–3-page analysis of the definitions of social justice in the U.S. and a country of your choice. Analyze the ideologies, identify their similarities, and explain how these factors support your statements or arguments about the social justice you’ve selected. Support your explanations with a minimum of two scholarly sources in addition to the course text and apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Social justice has been defined in different ways, but the definitions usually include similar ideologies. As you study the concept of social justice, you will come across some of the following ideas:

Historical inequities that affect current injustices should be corrected until the actual inequities no longer exist or have been perceptively “negated.”
Wealth, power, and status should be redistributed for the good of the individual, the community, and the society.
It is the responsibility of the government (or those who hold significant power) to ensure a basic quality of life for all its citizens.

From country to country social justice is defined in different ways, and the definitions usually include ideologies as well as differences. Research the definition of social justice in the United States using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Select another country to examine its definition of social justice in order to analyze the ideologies and similarities using the following steps:

Analyze the ideologies.
Identify the similarities.
Using your reasoning skills, give supporting statements or arguments that support your position(s) about the social justice.

Your comparing and contrasting must consider the following:

Historical values and ideologies of the country
Economic structure of the country
Discrimination issues, if any exist

Develop a 2–3-page analysis of the definitions of social justice in the U.S. and a country of your choice. Analyze the ideologies, identify their similarities, and explain how these factors support your statements or arguments about the social justice you’ve selected. Support your explanations with a minimum of two scholarly sources in addition to the course text and apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Review the project case. Determine the scope of the District 4 Production Warehouse Move project from the information provided in the case. Using the Project Scope Checklist, prepare a scope document for review and approval by the project sponsor prior to starting the project.

Project Scope Checklist

Project objective
Deliverables
Milestones
Technical requirements
Limits and exclusions
Reviews with customer

Submit your report to M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox by Week 1, Day 7.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points

Prepared a project scope document that is ready for sign-off.

30

Determined the complete scope of the project.

30

Included all sections from the scope checklist.

30
Used correct grammar, spelling, and word choice and cited all sources using correct APA style

ONLY if you are EXPERIENCED in this kind of project send me a handshake. It is due in 2 hours from when the test is started. I will send the questions when I start the test anytime today or tommorow and you must finish it in 2 hours. These are the topics that will be covered on this Exam. There will be 5 essays

To focus your studying for the Final Exam, the essay questions address the following topics:
1. The software industry
2. Meanings of IT acronyms
3. ERP systems
4. As-Is vs. To-Be systems

5. The role of testing in the SDLC, RAD, and extreme Programming methodologies

Be sure to cite and reference any source(s) that you use for answering essay questions. Also, you will have 2 hours to complete the exam.

The final test has 5 essay questions. Each question is worth 40 points for a total of 200 points. Once started, this test must be completed in one sitting. Do not leave the test before

Management information systems.

Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World( Michael Smith).

Assignment 2: Case Study—The Case of the Misguided Supervisors

Writing Assignment

Read The Case of the Misguided Supervisors in Chapter 14 of your text book. Use the Argosy University online library for additional research, and do the following in a Word document:

In 1–2 paragraphs, summarize the case and your research that relates to the case.

In 2–3 pages, answer the following:

Why would an organization care whether its supervisors speak in favor of or against union representation? Explain and justify your answer.

How could the hospital in this example have prepared its supervisors to understand their proper role during an organizing campaign? Explain and justify your answer.

With your answers demonstrate that your understanding of the concepts is thorough and complete. Support your assertions with evidence, citing the appropriate sources.

Apply the APA current guidelines to your work and use at least three resources in your response.

Use the following file naming convention:

LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M4_A2.doc

By Wednesday, August 12, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Clearly and concisely summarized the case in 1–2 paragraphs.
15
Identified, explained, and justified why an organization would care whether its supervisors speak in favor of or against union representation.
35
Identified, explained, and justified how the hospital in this example could have prepared its supervisors to understand their proper role during an organizing campaign.
35
Applied current APA guidelines and supported assertions with evidence by using appropriate sources. Demonstrated a thorough and complete understanding of the concepts.
15
Total:
100

THIS IS THE ARTICLE ON WHICH THE ASSIGNMENT IS BASED:

The Case of the Misguided Supervisors

Recently, when a union sought to organize the nurses at a California hospital, the nursing supervisors, called charge nurses, didn’t understand their proper role in the process. While the union was distributing cards for the nurses to indicate their desire for a representation election, several of the charge nurses participated in the union’s meetings and decided they wanted to join. Some of these charge nurses also encouraged nurses who reported to them to support the union as well.

One month before the election, the hospital discovered that charge nurses had supported the union even though their positions in the organization qualified them as supervisors. The charge nurses stopped advocating for the union, and some even encouraged nonsupervisory nurses to vote against representation. The election went ahead, and the union won representation.

The hospital challenged the election because of the pro-union activity by the nurses. However, the NLRB and the court both upheld the union.

SOURCES: National Labor Relations Boards, “The NLRB Process,” http://www.nlrb.gov, accessed May 3, 2012; National Labor Relations Board, “NLRB Representation Case Amendments Take Effect Today,” news release, April 30, 2012, http://www.nlrb.gov; Duane Morris LLP, “Two NLRB Rules Effective April 30 Affect Most Private-Sector Employers,” Mondaq Business Briefing, April 20, 2012, http://galenet.galegroup.com