Week 3 Research Paper

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 Threat ModelingA new medium-sized health care facility just opened and you are hired as the CIO. The CEO is somewhat technical and has tasked you with creating a threat model. The CEO needs to decide from 3 selected models but needs your recommendation. Review this week’s readings, conduct your own research, then choose a model to recommend with proper justifications. Items to include (at a minimum) are:

  • User authentication and credentials with third-party applications
  • 3 common security risks with ratings: low, medium or high
  • Justification of your threat model (why it was chosen over the other two: compare and contrast)

You will research several threat models as it applies to the health care industry, summarize three models and choose one as a recommendation to the CEO in a summary with a model using UML Diagrams (Do not copy and paste images from the Internet). In your research paper, be sure to discuss the security risks and assign a label of low, medium or high risks and the CEO will make the determination to accept the risks or mitigate them.Your paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page. (Remember, APA is double spaced)
  • Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
  • Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
  • Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Ques/5 P

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Instructions: Response must be in current 7th edition APA format with at least four cited academic sources. Must be 500 words per case study so 1000 words in total. Must be grammatically correct.

Musculoskeletal Function:
G.J. is a 71-year-old overweight woman who presents to the Family Practice Clinic for the first time complaining of a long history of bilateral knee discomfort that becomes worse when it rains and usually feels better when the weather is warm and dry. “My arthritis hasn’t improved a bit this summer though,” she states. Discomfort in the left knee is greater than in the right knee. She has also suffered from low back pain for many years, but recently it has become worse. She is having difficulty using the stairs in her home. The patient had recently visited a rheumatologist who tried a variety of NSAIDs to help her with pain control. The medications gave her mild relief but also caused significant and intolerable stomach discomfort. Her pain was alleviated with oxycodone. However, when she showed increasing tolerance and began insisting on higher doses of the medication, the physician told her that she may need surgery and that he could not prescribe more oxycodone for her. She is now seeking medical care at the Family Practice Clinic. Her knees started to get significantly more painful after she gained 20 pounds during the past nine months. Her joints are most stiff when she has been sitting or lying for some time and they tend to “loosen up” with activity. The patient has always been worried about osteoporosis because several family members have been diagnosed with the disease. However, nonclinical manifestations of osteoporosis have developed.

Case Study Questions

  1. Define osteoarthritis and explain the differences with osteoarthrosis. List and analyze the risk factors that are presented on the case that contribute to the diagnosis of osteoarthritis.
  2. Specify the main differences between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, make sure to include clinical manifestations, major characteristics, joints usually affected and diagnostic methods.
  3. Describe the different treatment alternatives available, including non-pharmacological and pharmacological that you consider are appropriate for this patient and why.
  4. How would you handle the patient concern about osteoporosis? Describe your interventions and education you would provide to her regarding osteoporosis.

Neurological Function:
H.M is a 67-year-old female, who recently retired from being a school teacher for the last 40 years. Her husband died 2 years ago due to complications of a CVA. Past medical history: hypertension controlled with Olmesartan 20 mg by mouth once a day. Family history no contributory. Last annual visits with PCP with normal results. She lives by herself but her children live close to her and usually visit her two or three times a week.
Her daughter start noticing that her mother is having problems focusing when talking to her, she is not keeping things at home as she used to, often is repeating and asking the same question several times and yesterday she has issues remembering her way back home from the grocery store.

Case Study Questions

  1. Name the most common risks factors for Alzheimer’s disease
  2. Name and describe the similarities and the differences between Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Frontotemporal dementia.
  3. Define and describe explicit and implicit memory.
  4. Describe the diagnosis criteria developed for the Alzheimer’s disease by the National Institute of Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association
  5. What would be the best therapeutic approach on C.J.

Assignment: Assessing and Treating Patients With Anxiety Disorders

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 PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTION BELOW

ZERO PLAGIARISM

FIVE REFERENCES NOT MORE THAN FIVE YEARS

PLEASE FOLLOW THE ATTACHED RUBRIC/7TH APA FORMAT

Common symptoms of anxiety disorders include chest pains, shortness of breath, and other physical symptoms that may be mistaken for a heart attack or other physical ailment. These manifestations often prompt patients to seek care from their primary care providers or emergency departments. Once it is determined that there is no organic basis for these symptoms, patients are typically referred to a psychiatric mental health practitioner for anxiolytic therapy. For this Assignment, as you examine the patient case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat patients presenting with anxiety disorders.

To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources, including the Medication Resources indicated for this week.
  • Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for the assessment and treatment of patients requiring anxiolytic therapy.

The Assignment: 5 pages

Examine Case Study: A Middle-Aged Caucasian Man With Anxiety. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

  • Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

  • Which decision did you select?
  • Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
  • Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

  • Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
  • Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

  • Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
  • Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

  • Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of five academic resources. While you may use the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement. You should be utilizing the primary and secondary literature

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Middle-Aged White Male With Anxiety

Decision Point One

Begin Zoloft 50 mg orally daily

RESULTS OF DECISION POINT ONE

  • Client returns to clinic in four weeks
  • Client informs you that he has no tightness in chest, or shortness of breath
  • Client states that he noticed decreased worries about work over the past 4 or 5 days
  • HAM-A score has decreased to 18 (partial response)

Decision Point Two

Increase dose to 75 mg orally daily

RESULTS OF DECISION POINT TWO

  • Client returns to clinic in four weeks
  • Client reports an even further reduction in his symptoms
  • HAM-A score has now decreased to 10. At this point- continue current dose (61% reduction in symptoms)

Decision Point Three

Maintain current dose

Guidance to Student
At this point, it may be appropriate to continue client at the current dose. It is clear that the client is having a good response (as evidenced by greater than a 50% reduction in symptoms) and the client is currently not experiencing any side effects, the current dose can be maintained for 12 weeks to evaluate full effect of drug. Increasing drug at this point may yield a further decrease in symptoms, but may also increase the risk of side effects. This is a decision that you should discuss with the client. Nothing in the client’s case tells us that we should consider adding an augmentation agent at this point as the client is demonstrating response to the drug. Avoid polypharmacy unless symptoms cannot be managed by a single drug.

Quasi- experiments

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  1. Researchers Owens, Belon, & Moss (2010) wanted to investigate the impact of school start time on the sleep patterns of adolescents. They studied teenagers who were enrolled in an American high school, both before (fall semester) and after (spring semester) the entire school had decided to shift its start time from 8:00 am to 8:30 am. Students completed a survey asking what time they went to bed the night before, how many hours of sleep they’d gotten, and their daytime sleepiness and level of depressed mood. The researchers found that after the 8:30 start time was implemented, students reported getting 45 minutes more sleep each night, and the percentage of students who reported more than 8 hours per night jumped from 16.4% to 54.7%. In addition, students’ level of daytime sleepiness and depressed mood decreased after the 8:30 start time began.
    1. Is this study a nonequivalent control group design, a nonequivalent control group pretest/posttest design, an interrupted time-series design, or a nonequivalent control group interrupted time-series design?
    2. Graph the results of the study, according to the results in the description. (There are multiple dependent variables; choose only one to graph).
    3. What causal statement might the researchers be trying to make, if any? Is it appropriate? Use the results and design to interrogate the study’s internal validity
    4. If you notice any internal validity flaws, can you redesign the study to remove the flaw?
    5. Ask one question to address construct validity and one to address external validity.

Poetry Essay- First Draft

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Our time is limited, so we are going straight to the draft. However, you should still do an outline for yourself. You will likely be using more quotes and smaller quotes. If you do several words from one line separately, you only need to do an in-text citation for one of them. If you mention the line number in the signal phrase, like I do below, you don’t even have to do an in-text citation. Remember to start small with single words and then work your way out to phrases and lines. Also, remember that your controlling idea should be about the element. Don’t use the meaning of the entire poem as the controlling idea. That works less here than even with short fiction, and it did not work well with short fiction. The meaning of the poem is less important than how it works, the things the author does in the poem. That is the point of poetry, to paint a picture with words. It is not about the destination but the journey. The contemporary poet Billy Collins is a creative writing teacher as well as a poet, and he often writes about his classes and students. He did a really nice job of writing about the idea that I am talking about here. Read the poem below and apply that idea to the way you read and write about poetry:

Introduction to Poetry

BY BILLY COLLINS (Links to an external site.)I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem’s roomand feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author’s name on the shore.But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.Don’t use “enhanced interrogation” on your poem. Enjoy the poem. Allow it to breathe. Collins chose a great metaphor for student analysis of poetry. Despite what you see on television shows like 24, studies have found that torture does not work. The reason for this is that the person being tortured wants the torture to stop. Therefore, they don’t tell the truth; they say what they think the torturer wants to hear. In the same way, if you decide a poem means something, you will find a way to make it mean that. However, it may not be the truth. A poem may mean what you decide it does to a degree, but, undoubtedly, the poem will mean more than that as well. Like I said, poetry, because of how few words is used, is always packed with meaning. Each word is packed with meaning. Every single word is a choice by the author. Examine those choices. Expand the meaning of the poem to the point that a single idea or particular meaning cannot encompass the poem. Don’t read your own ideas into it, but, even more importantly, don’t choke the meaning out of it that is there. Even if the author does it subconsciously, you can find a world of meaning in each choice the author makes, the way the poem sounds, the way the poem looks, the way the poem creates images, the connotations, the denotations. Why does Collins use so many words with scientific connotations? That is an example of a good question that you could seek to answer. Why does collins use implied metaphors? What are the implied metaphors? For instance, when he says he wants to “hold it up to the light” in line two, he is talking about the poem when he says “it,” but that is only the named literal object. What is the implied figurative object? He continues with the simile “like a color slide,” but that doesn’t mean he is saying that it is a color slide, only like one. So, what is it figuratively? It is almost like he is making an imaginative 3D visual representation of the poem.  Figuring out what the implied figurative object is may lead to interesting analytical pathways. Leave no stone unturned when analyzing and writing about your poem. 

Initial Coin Offering

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For this assignment, you’ll create a lightweight white paper for a fictitious Initial Coin Offering (ICO). You will use your imagination to create a brand new, hopefully unique, ICO, and develop a lightweight white paper that presents your ICO to prospective investors. A full white paper takes considerable time and effort to create. For this assignment, you’ll only be asked to provide the most essential elements. 

The goal is for you to be creative in your application of blockchain technology, and the explain your ideas. 

To start, read the following article: How to Write a Good White Paper for Your ICO

–  https://applicature.com/blog/token-offerings/write-good-white-paper-ico

Then, explore new and existing blockchain projects in any domain that interests you. You can start with an Internet search for “blockchain use cases” and “current blockchain projects.” Identify a few that you find interesting and learn about each one. Then, think of a new idea how you could apply blockchain in a new and useful way. 

Once you have your idea, create your white paper. Your 6-9 pages paper should be in APA format, and have the following sections:

1) Title – a headline that will catch your reader’s imagination

2) Abstract – Summary of what your whitepaper contains

3) Introduction – Introduce readers to the problem you will solve, the motivation to solve it, and how you’ll present your solution.

4) Problem/Market consideration – Explain the current situation (expand the problem from the introduction).

5) Solution – Describe your solution.

6) Summary – Close the sale.

7) Reference Lists

Environment factors

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The growth, development, and learned behaviors that occur during the first year of infancy have a direct effect on the individual throughout a lifetime. For this assignment, research an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants and develop a health promotion that can be presented to caregivers.

Create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint health promotion, with speaker notes, that outlines a teaching plan. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice over or a video. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for references at the end.

In developing your PowerPoint, take into consideration the health care literacy level of your target audience, as well as the demographic of the caregiver/patient (socioeconomic level, language, culture, and any other relevant characteristic of the caregiver) for which the presentation is tailored.

Include the following in your presentation:

  1. Describe the selected environmental factor. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
  2. Create a health promotion plan that can be presented to caregivers to address the environmental factor and improve the overall health and well-being of infants.
  3. Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
  4. Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. At least three scholarly resources are required. Two of the three resources must be peer-reviewed and no more than 6 years old.
  5. Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.

Essay2

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FORMAL
WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2

 

ROUGH DRAFT: The first version of your rough draft should be
prepared and submitted via our Blackboard page by the end of the day on Monday, April 26. Your first draft
should be typed and must be at least 4-5 double-spaced pages in length (with
margins of no more than one inch). You can submit your rough draft as a Word,
PDF, or Google Docs document. Any rough
drafts submitted after Monday, April 26 will be considered late and penalized
accordingly.

 

RECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM ME: Once you have submitted your rough
draft of this essay, you will have two choices in terms of receiving feedback
from me: 1) I will send you written comments on your draft, which you will
receive by Friday, April 30; or 2) you can have a 10 minute individual meeting
with me (via Zoom), in which I will provide spoken comments on your draft—that
meeting will take place by Friday, April 30. I will post a sign-up sheet where
you can let me know your preference for either written comments or else an
individual meeting. (Please note: if you submit your rough draft after April
26, I will only be able to provide you with written comments, since I’ll
already have arranged times for all the individual meetings.)

 

FINAL DRAFT: The final draft of your essay will be due by the end
of the day on

Monday, May 10. Please submit your final draft via Blackboard; you
can submit it as a

Word, PDF, or Google Docs
document. The final version of your essay must be at least 5-6 double-spaced
typed pages in length. Any final drafts
submitted after Monday, May 10 will be considered late and penalized
accordingly.

 

There are, of course, many
similarities between Angela Davis’ Are
Prisons Obsolete? and Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing
California. The primary similarity is that both books deal with prisons and
policing, analyzing what both authors would describe as “the prison industrial
complex” and arguing for the abolition of this system. But there are also
important differences between these two books, at the level of style, approach,
and writing techniques, and also in terms of the arguments that each author is
making. 

 

For this essay, I will ask you to
discuss some of the similarities and differences between Davis’ and Gilmore’s
texts. This will involve a careful analysis of selected sections of these two
books, with a number of specific references to passages from their texts; that
is, be sure to cite and analyze some specific quotes from their texts, rather
than just making general statements about each book. Try to go beyond the
obvious points that can be made too easily. For example, rather than just
pointing out some of the very apparent differences, talk about how these
differences affect the work that they do as writers. That is, how do these
differences affect their language, their tone, their approaches to writing, the
way they tell their stories, the audiences they choose to address, and the
arguments that they make? Are there similarities in their experiences and in
their approaches? Are there differences in the conclusions that they reach
about their topics, and in the suggestions they make about how to address the
problems that they describe? How would you imagine them responding to each
other if they were brought into a dialogue? (This is something that you, as the
writer, can do: invite Davis and Gilmore to have a conversation, and figure out
how to stage it.) 

 

Obviously, you will not be able
to write about everything in these
two books, so your job is also to figure out how to focus your comparison of
these books around a central argument or main idea of your own. In doing so,
feel free to draw on points you have already made about Are Prisons Obsolete? in your first essay—although you should work
to expand and adapt these ideas to fit your argument in this essay—and also
points that you have raised in your weekly informal writing assignments and in
the Discussion Forum. You are also welcome (but not required) to bring in other
writers we have read this semester. My only concern is that in discussing the
similarities and differences between Angela Davis’ and Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s
texts, and in bringing them into some sort of conversation with each other, you
bring in your own perspective and your own arguments as well. 

 

I look forward to reading your
drafts! Please be in touch with any questions.

 

Analyzing and visualizing data

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At UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own career.

Assignment:

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 

You should not, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

Be sure to not self-plagiarize as this assignment is similar in multiple courses.

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week3discussionreply2 (NUR6050-POLICY &ADVOCACY FOR POPULATION)

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A healthcare worker needs to understand the process of how healthcare laws and policies are implemented. What are the tools being used to study proposals by legislators? A cost-benefit analysis is a method conducted to determine probable costs and benefits related to a proposed project to determine whether the benefits outweigh the costs or the costs outweigh the benefits. Then, a decision is made based on the data (Stobierski, 2019). Legislative leaders utilized the cost-benefit analysis to assess whether to continue, modify or terminate policies.

In March 2010, during the Obama administration, healthcare reform was passed called Affordable care act (ACA), most commonly known as the Obamacare (Healthcare, n.d.). In 2017, legislators attempted to repeal and replace the Affordable care act (ACA) to the American health care act (Aafp foundation, 2020). According to the National Council for social studies (n.d.), legislators continuously review and study laws and policies. Their decision-making process affects by three different influences. First, to make a good policy, they want to be a part of a good government. Second, they have a passion for the issues they use their values and beliefs. Third, they base their decision on how they can remain in the office and the intention to get re-elected. Policymakers are more concerned about how the changes will affect their own re-election chances than how the changes will impact the citizens (Milstead & Short, 2019). Overall, legislators will continue to attempt to repeal or replace any policies to gain their interests for re-election, which disregards the citizens who will gain or suffer from the change.