400-600 words APA 6 format, 2 cited sources- more can be used if needed. Provide sources used.

As a health care manager, you will be involved in strategic management. Discuss the following in regard to this:

• Does strategic management involve long-term or short-term activities?
• Describe how strategic management helps your facility control the future.

*NOTES FROM PROFFESOR*

While the first question may seem more “yes or no” in nature, it is also a point that you can expand upon using the knowledge from this course.  The Learning Materials in Unit 3 have a specific section dedicated to strategic management that might be helpful in expanding upon this first prompt.  Identifying examples of both long term and short terms strategic activities can also demonstrate knowledge of the subject area.  

For the second prompt, you can also consult the course materials.  Feel free to bring in real-life examples or references from outside of your course materials to support your ideas.  For instance, as a manager I can say that strategic management has helped me in many ways control the trajectory of my department and my employees in the context of a larger organization.  Being involved in a strategic management plan helps me grow my department, budget for the future, and inform and train my personnel.  When you are responding to peers, reflect on what their experiences might be with strategic management and looks for both similarities and differences to your own experience and those you have read about in the course materials. Strategic management is concept that is not seen just in healthcare; it used across the entire business world to help manage and grow companies for the future.  Even not-for-profits use them to help define their missions, goals, and vision for the future.

 
1 postsRe: Topic 4 DQ 2

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was put into effect in 2010, it is also referred to as Obama Care. The goal was to make insurance more accessible to those who were previously unable to afford insurance coverage. The ACA prevented insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, and it changed the age a child to stay on their parents plan to 26, it also removed benefit limits on insurance, and made preventative care at no cost service to the patient.

The most important role is to provide coverage for all citizens. It allows people to obtain care and not have high out-of-pocket costs. It promotes primary prevention through preventative care. The system also rewards people for having health coverage. Patients are rewarded through tax breaks for providing proof of coverage each year, and physicians are rewarded for meeting goals in patient care.

As a nurse it is our responsibility to make sure patients are properly educated on the services available to them. We can promote primary prevention, through education. We must advocate and provide them the knowledge to make appropriate health decisions and to take initiative of their own care to prevent any unnecessary medical expenses.

Using 200-300 words APA format with references to support the discussion.

 What are the most important elements of the Affordable Care Act in relation to community and public health? What is the role of the nurse in implementing this law? 

  

  

Part I

Please define and give the historical significance/importance of each identifications(IDs) and include the information below each.  Use only the provided reference materials.   Due 4 May at 11:59 PM

· Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) 

– “Doll Babies”

· NAACP 

· Civil Rights Act (1964)

– Significance, 

-we do not discriminate based on…, 

· War on Poverty 

– 1 of 4 in poverty

– 1) , 2)School lunch programs, 3)Food stamps, Medicare

– 1960 $25B spent on poverty, 1970 $60B spent and both still averaged $250 per person

· Sputnik 

– Explorer 1 1958(scared Americans)

– How longe before Nuclear bombs hit America

– Bomb shelters was built

– NASA was created

– $400M invested in Math and Science

· “Watergate”

– Plummer’s worked at WH

– Woodword & Brunsteen started to investigate

– Argibal Cox took Nixon to Court(fired by Nixon)

– Nixon wouldn’t turn over tape 

– Congress files for impeachment, 1) Obstruction of Justice, 2) violated……, 3)Contempt of Congress

· Gulf of Tonkin resolution 

– USS Maddox is attacked

– CIA

– Resolution passed(Senate 88-2)(House 416-0); gsve president authority to protect forces and prevent …

– LBJ quote

– Brought us deeper into Vietnam

· Yalta Conference (1945)

– Stallin promised free elecctions for Poland and Eastern Europe(he reniged on promise)

· Cuban Missile Crisis (

-October U2 fly over

-JFK gets pics

-Orders blockade that was called quarantine

-JFK get on Radio and said we will respond

-Back and Forth on phone with Russia, Russia blinked

-Closest we ever been to a nuclear war

· SALT I/II1972/78)- froze the number……

-Example of detaunt 72-79

– what is SALT

-SALT I Nixon/Breznew

-SALT II Carter/Reznet(not ratified by Congress because of distrust of Russia/giving up to much)

-Carter/Regan did follow guidelines

INF Treaty(Intermediate Nuclear Forces.

Part II (at least 2 pages)

Essay: Answer the following questions in a clear and coherent essay. Be sure to include specific examples from lectures and readings.

b. Civil Rights in the Twentieth century began to gain momentum in the 1950s with the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of the US Supreme Court. Discuss the importance of this decision, as well as other civil rights legislation, in terms of events that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. What is the significance of the year 1965 in American civil rights? Get specific and offer numerous examples to support your argument.

Include:

· NAACP-1909(IDs)

· CORE – 1942 Congress of Racial equality

· SCLC – 1955 Southern Christian Leadership

· SCC – 1960 – Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

· Emmitt Till

· Watts, CA 1964

· 1966 –There are 43 riots, worst are from Chicago and Cleveland

· 1967 – 8 Major Riots, Worst was Detroit. 43 people killed, 33 Black

· “White Flight” – get out of city and went into suburbs.

· Malcolm X(killed in 1965

· Rodney King

· Civil rights act of 1964(ID)

· Brown vs Board of Education(ID)

 Instructions: Read the following case study and answer the reflective questions. Please provide  rationales for your answers. Make sure to provide citations/references for your answers in APA  format. 

  CASE STUDY: Active Labor: Susan Wong Mrs. Wong, a first-time mother, is admitted to the birthing suite in early labor after spontaneous rupture  of membranes at home. She is at 38 weeks of gestation with a history of abnormal alpha-fetoprotein  levels at 16 weeks of pregnancy.  She was scheduled for ultrasonography to visualize the fetus to rule out an open spinal defect or Down  syndrome, but never followed through. Mrs. Wong and her husband disagreed about what to do (keep  or terminate the pregnancy) if the ultrasonography indicated a spinal problem, so they felt they did not  want this information. 

Reflective Questions

 1. As the nurse, what priority data would you collect from this couple to help define relevant interventions to meet their needs? 

2. How can you help this couple if they experience a negative outcome in the birthing suite? What are your personal views on terminating or continuing a pregnancy with a risk of a potential anomaly? What factors may influence your views? 

3. With the influence of the recent Human Genome Project and the possibility of predicting open  spinal defects earlier in pregnancy, how will maternity care change in the future 

Topic: The EU as a regional organization—how important is it?

Thread: Of the many regional organizations that exist today, the EU is arguably among the most important (Asia is obviously critically important). But why? Acknowledging vastly unequal national capabilities among EU members from East to West, Europe is a more prosperous region than any other in the world. Yet some states, like the UK (Brexit), have questioned membership in the EU and its many commitments. Other members have expressed their hesitations with less drama, yet with no less intent to free ride as much as possible on the benefits of EU membership, while focusing most resources and attention on their own domestic needs. Given the readings, video presentations, and your own research, answer the following prompts in any order or manner you wish, separately or integrated:

• Why is the EU as important to the collective well-being of its member states as member states are to their own people? One useful hint here is to ask if the logic of collective action driving the emergence of the EU has any comparative example in American history—can you guess what that very famous example would be?
• Why is the EU important to the well-being of other regions and states? Why should China, the US, or Russia care, for example, about the long-term viability of the EU?
• Using biblical and extra-biblical sources to inform your own reasoning (leave Bible prophecy aside for now), on what basis might Christians plausibly justify support for, indifference to, or even opposition to contractual arrangements like the EU? In plain English, can biblical wisdom and worldview better inform the practical and moral boundaries of interaction with regional institutions like the EU (think of other regional bodies as well)? What might some of those boundaries be?

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