Focused SOAP Note for Schizophrenia Spectrum, Other Psychotic, and Medication-Induced Movement Disorders

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please follow the instructions follow

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zero plagiarism

Psychotic disorders change one’s sense of reality and cause abnormal thinking and perception. Patients presenting with psychotic disorders may suffer from delusions or hallucinations or may display negative symptoms such as lack of emotion or withdraw from social situations or relationships. Symptoms of medication-induced movement disorders can be mild or lethal and can include, for example, tremors, dystonic reactions, or serotonin syndrome.

For this Assignment, you will complete a focused SOAP note for a patient in a case study who has either a schizophrenia spectrum, other psychotic, or medication-induced movement disorder. 

To Prepare

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the insights they provide about assessing, diagnosing, and treating schizophrenia spectrum, other psychotic, and medication-induced movement disorders.

Photo Credit: Getty Images/Wavebreak Media

  • Review the Focused SOAP Note template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. There is also a Focused SOAP Note Exemplar provided as a guide for Assignment expectations.
  • Review the video, Case Study: Sherman Tremaine. You will use this case as the basis of this Assignment. In this video, a Walden faculty member is assessing a mock patient. The patient will be represented onscreen as an avatar.
  • Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.
  • Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.

The Assignment

Develop a focused SOAP note, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate a primary diagnosis. Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:

  • Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life? 
  • Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?  
  • Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, and list them in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5 criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
  • Plan: What is your plan for psychotherapy? What is your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan. Also incorporate one health promotion activity and one patient education strategy.
  • Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this patient if you could conduct the session again? Discuss what your next intervention would be if you were able to follow up with this patient. Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion, and disease prevention, taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).
  • Provide at least three evidence-based, peer-reviewed journal articles or evidenced-based guidelines that relate to this case to support your diagnostics and differential diagnoses. Be sure they are current (no more than 5 years old).

Sociobiography Narrated PowerPoint – Comparative Case Study

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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook:      Chapter 1-16
  • Lesson:      Week 1-7
  • Minimum      of 4 outside scholarly sources in addition to the textbook/lesson
  • One      personal interview of another adult of your choosing

Introduction
As you learned in Week 3, for your Socioautobiography Narrated PowerPoint assignment, there is a strong tradition of creating both sociologically informed biographies and sociologically-informed autobiographies in the discipline of sociology. The socioautobiography is a “disciplined, systematic exploration of one’s life from a sociological point of view” (Hill, 2009, p. 3). Also, the sociobiography is the systematic exploration of another person’s life from a sociological point of view.

For this assignment, you will be building upon the work you began in your Week 3 Socioautobiography Narrated PowerPoint. For this week’s assignment, you will interview an adult person of your choosing and complete a sociobiography of that person, and present that in a narrated PowerPoint. You will also compare and contrast that person’s sociological characteristics with your own.

To begin this assignment, consider the sociological concepts you focused on for your Week 3 assignment about yourself and consider what sociological concepts you would like to compare and contrast with the person you interview.

Interview
Locate an adult willing to be interviewed about their life story. The person can be any adult you choose, whether in your family or outside your family. Be sure to inform that person that you will be writing up your observations from the interview in a presentation for your Society and Culture course.

Present
In a narrated PowerPoint, compare and contrast your sociological observations about yourself that you shared in your Week 3 assignment with your sociological observations of the person you interview. Address the following 2 important sections:

  1. Explore the interconnections between the life story of a person you interview and the larger social structure or culture.
  2. Compare and contrast the sociological themes and concepts related to your own personal story with the sociological themes and concepts related to the story of the person you interviewed. Apply the sociological imagination in the analysis.

Include the following in your analysis:

  • Quotes or paraphrases and citations from 4 outside scholarly sources and assigned readings (online Lessons or textbook readings), to support your observations in your presentation.
  • 6 different concepts, key words, or vocabulary words from Chapters 1-16 in your analysis and observations on your slides, formatted in boldface and underlined on slides.
    • You may repeat these 6 terms throughout the PowerPoint presentation if you want to, but you are not required to.

Instructions
For this comparative case study project, you are required to create a narrated presentation PowerPoint file. 

The presentation must include the following:

  • Part or Parts of the Life Story of the Person You Interview: Explain and analyze the life story of the person you interview, or parts of the life story of the person you interview, as a sociologist might, examining sociological categories relevant to that person’s life story.
    • Include details of family, culture, and background.
    • Consider what types of categories a sociologist might use to describe the person.
  • Comparison and/or Contrast of the life story of the person you interview with your own life story that you presented in your Week 3 assignment
  • Engagement:  Be sure to deliver the presentation in a professional and engaging manner.
  • Visual  Aids: Images or symbols as visual aids should still be included. Include photos or symbols that represent the sociological concepts you are analyzing in your presentation. If you use any images from the Internet or from any sources other than your own personal photographs, you must include citations for those and those citations are *not* part of your required 4 outside scholarly sources plus the online Lesson or textbook. Key Words in Bold and Underlined: Be sure to include 6 different concepts, keywords, or vocabulary words from Chapters 1-16 in your analysis and observations on your slides, formatted in boldface  and underlined on slides
  • Visual Appeal and Organization: Do not include slides with large blocks of text. Use bullet points, brief text, and clear organization to create an organized and visually appealing presentation.
  • Citations:      Include parenthetical in-text citations in the slide presentation citing at least 4 outside scholarly sources and assigned textbook/lesson reading to support observations made in the presentation. Remember, cite sources for all images, too, that are not your personal photographs and those sources do *not* count as part of your 4 required outside scholarly sources plus the textbook/lesson.
  • Questions to Consider

Consider the following questions for potential use in your interview:

How might a sociologist introduce you?

How have social influences shaped you?

What were the social forces that constructed your life or lifestyle?

How have you negotiated the crisscrossing pressures of autonomy and conformity?

Who are you in social context and what does it mean to understand your life using the “sociological imagination,” or utilizing a sociological perspective?

What sociological concepts would be most helpful in understanding and interpreting your life experiences, whether class, or reference group, conformity, agents of socialization, gender socialization, racial socialization, norms, roles, significant others, total institutions (particularly if you were in the military), achieved status, ascribed status, deviance, subculture, culture, culture shock, ethnocentrism, folkways, mores, peer groups, and any others described in the textbook chapters, to interpret your life experiences?

What events, moments or relationships in your life have impacted you significantly?

Presentation Requirements (APA format)

  • Slide Length: 8 slides (not including title slide and references slide)
  • Speaker notes to elaborate your bullet points
  • APA-style parenthetical in-text citations on slides for a minimum of 4 outside sources plus the textbook/lesson
  • Title Slide
  • At  least one Comparison/Contrast Slide; though you are welcome to include more than one slide comparing and contrasting your life story characteristics with those of the person you interview
  • References slide (minimum of 4 outside scholarly sources in addition to the textbook/lesson)

JM Research Questions, Thesis Statement, and Rhetorical Analysis

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Instructions

The purpose of this assignment is to try to help you to see writing as it is—an important means of communication. To accomplish this, please analyze your research topic more fully by identifying your research questions and thesis statement and then carefully considering your rhetorical situation.   Remember: your challenge in the research paper is to communicate your purpose clearly to your reader.

Place your research questions and thesis statement at the top of the page, below the required heading, and answer the questions shown below. Be sure that the questions are copied to your assignment; each question should be followed by a one to two paragraph answer. The purpose of this assignment is to help direct your research and organize your thinking on the topic.   Remember that your thesis statement should be a single, complete sentence that is NOT a question. 

Write three of your research questions here (remember that, if the question can be answered by YES or NO, it is a closed-ended question that does not invite discussion and so should be revised):

Question 1.

Question 2.

Question 3.

Write your thesis statement here (one complete sentence that is not a question):

Write paragraphs that respond to the questions below: 

  1. What is my purpose in writing this paper?
  2. What do I already know about my topic?  What are my feelings toward this topic?
  3. What do my readers already know? What are my readers’ feelings toward the topic?
  4. What do my readers need to know to understand my point?
  5. What information do I need to research and add to my paper?

Begin by looking at the research question(s) which triggered this thesis statement.  Then explain your purpose (passing the course is not the purpose here). Your thesis statement is a good place to start, but you need to go a bit further. Are you trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or do something else?  Consider the “audience take-away.” What do you want your readers to know, feel, or believe when they finish reading your research paper? A clear understanding of your purpose will help you decide what information to include in your paper and how to organize your paper.

Next, consider your audience; in this case, your audience is your classmates. Consider how much they know about your topic and what they need to know to understand your purpose. Will you need to explain complex terminology? Will graphs help your audience? If your topic is a controversial one, think about the best way to present it to your audience. For example, think about your tone and word choice here.

Once you have an understanding of your purpose and audience, consider your subject. How much information do you already know about the topic? What information do you need to research and present to your audience in order to fulfill your purpose? Careful consideration here will help direct your research.

Here is a FAQ and answer from the APUS Library that may help you:

What is the difference between a thesis statement and a research question?   

http://apus.libanswers.com/writing/faq/102559

EnterpriseWeek-2 Research Paper

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No Plagiarism, NO Grammar Mistakes, minimum of 4 pages content required 

Enterprise Risk Management Integrating with Strategy and Performance Executive Summary. (2017, June). Retrieved from https://www.coso.org/Documents/2017-COSO-ERM-Integrating-with-Strategy-and-Performance-Executive-Summary.pdf

Do, H., Railwaywalla, M., & Thayer, J. (2016). Integration of ERM with Strategy (p. 35). Retrieved from Poole College of Management, NCSU website: https://erm.ncsu.edu/az/erm/i/chan/library/Integration_of_ERM_and_Strategy_Case_Study.pdf

The reading above describes the strategy and how ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy. Prepare a research paper on some of the various issues, protocols, methods, frameworks you found and discuss how – if possible – organizations can use ERM as a strategy. It is perfectly acceptable if you deem ERM cannot be used as a strategy, just back up your claim with scholarly research and justifications. Your paper should meet these requirements: 

  • Be approximately four pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Week 10 Assignment – Professional Cover Letter

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Week 10 Assignment – Professional Cover Letter

Overview

Completing this assignment will help you identify the skills and abilities that will move your career forward. You will develop a job application cover letter. For this assignment, you may present yourself as a recent graduate if needed.

Instructions

Using the Internet, find a specific job opening posted online within the last nine months that requires the same degree level you are completing: for example, associate’s or bachelor’s degree. You may use one of these sites or other similar job search sites to complete your search:

Write a cover letter as though you are applying for the position. Highlight and emphasize why you are the most suitable candidate for the position. Remember to tailor the letter to the specific job description for the job.

Follow the general writing guidelines on pages 252–258 in the text for structural and content guidance for a business letter.

  • Note: An example can be found on page 253, Figure 13E.

Requirements

  • Content: 
    • Highlight relevant background and job history information specific to the opening.
    • Describe 3–5 significant qualifications, including skills and education, with an explanation of why you would be an asset for the role.
  • Format 
    • Your cover letter should follow the example found on page 253 of your textbook.
  • Style 
    • Follow proper block business letter formatting techniques per business letter format.
    • Use appropriate professional language, greeting, and closing.
    • Develop main paragraphs with six or seven sentences.
    • The cover letter should be on page 1 of the submission. Include a working hyperlink to the job posting on page 2.

Psychology Reaction Paper 1

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REACTION PAPER #1 consists of 3 numbered pages sent as an upload.

Page 1 is the title page of the reaction paper. Always place only the following five items on page 1 of each Reaction Paper (points are deducted for omitting any of the five items):

1. The Reaction Paper #1 which is the title of the paper.

2. Reaction Paper due date.

3.  Course Name and section number, e.g., General Psy-101-000WB, Abnormal Psy-102-111LS, Developmental Psy-106-222WB

4. Your Name

5. Your email address

Pages 2 and 3 are for the text of the reaction paper.

1. Relate as many course concepts and theories to the topic as you can. Use these concepts to support or challenge the Reaction Paper topic. That is, use course material to analyze the topic, and/or illustrate material that you have learned in the course by using examples pertaining to the topic. Make sure that you define the chosen concepts in the body of your paper, and

2. Use one of the psychological schools of thought that were developed in your text (behavioral or social learning psychology, biological psychology, psychodynamic psychology, humanistic psychology, etc.,) to analyze your paper. Make sure that you explain the theory briefly in a few sentences and that you mention it at salient points in the paper.

Your grade will be based mainly on your Turnitin score and in part upon your ability to use the theories and concepts discussed in the course material. You should use (define and illustrate) relevant terms and concepts in your answers and make sure that you have carefully defined each of them. These short papers will ask you to utilize course information in the analysis of specific issues in the course. Your Reaction Paper must have one and one half to two pages of text — double-spaced — and it should reflect knowledge that you have gained from reading your assigned readings. That is, you will be graded upon your use and definition of relevant concepts, theories, and names that have been presented in the course materials. You may choose to also add a few sentences of your own personal views on the issues as well (a point is deducted for not double spacing or not following directions).

 

Reaction Paper -You may choose any one of these topics for the Reaction paper. 

1. What did you find interesting in the article on the Introduction/home page about – 

The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces?

Children Whose Penises Don’t Appear Until Puberty

Here is the link –

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/guevedoces-boys-dont-grow-a-penis-until-age-12-interview-dr-michael-mosley-876

2. What did you find interesting in the video on the Introduction/home page by Dr. Robert Sapolsky?

A video about the Uniqueness of Humans by Dr. Robert Sapolsky  

Here is the link –

3. What did you find interesting in the video Commencement Speech by Dr. Rick Rigsby on the Introduction/home page?

Here is the link –

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Commencement+Speech+by++Dr.+Rick+Rigsby&docid=608052156346794350&mid=FEBB58173C9CDDE0

4. What did you find interesting in the article on the Introduction/home page about – ON WHY HUMANS, LIKE ANTS, NEED A TRIBE.

BIOLOGIST E.O. WILSON ON WHY HUMANS, LIKE ANTS, NEED A TRIBE

Here is the link – 

http://www.newsweek.com/biologist-eo-wilson-why-humans-ants-need-tribe-64005

“Captain of the Ship” Project – Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

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 PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

4 REFERENCES

ZERO PLAGIARISM

In earlier weeks, you were introduced to the concept of the “captain of the ship.” In this Assignment, you become the “captain of the ship” once again as you provide treatment recommendations and identify medical management, community support resources, and follow-up plans for a client with a schizophrenia spectrum/other psychotic disorder.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • Recommend psychopharmacologic treatments based on therapeutic endpoints for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Recommend psychotherapy based on therapeutic endpoints for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Identify medical management needs for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Identify community support resources for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Recommend follow-up plans for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders

To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Select an adult or older adult client with a schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder you have seen in your practicum.

In 3–4 pages, write a treatment plan for your client in which you do the following:

  • Describe the HPI and clinical impression for the client.
  • Recommend psychopharmacologic treatments and describe specific and therapeutic endpoints for your psychopharmacologic agent. (This should relate to HPI and clinical impression.)
  • Recommend psychotherapy choices (individual, family, and group) and specific therapeutic endpoints for your choices.
  • Identify medical management needs, including primary care needs, specific to this client.
  • Identify community support resources (housing, socioeconomic needs, etc.) and community agencies that are available to assist the client.
  • Recommend a plan for follow-up intensity and frequency and collaboration with other providers.

Black studies thirdworld cinema

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Prompt 

I would like to focus my term paper on the topic of exploration of the social construction of the “third world realities” from the perspective in the Nepali film “white sun” (2016) 

Because Nepal’s over a hundred years of class rule and ten years of civil war have made war, gender, and old and new values ​​antagonistic. These themes often found in third-world films are naturally visible in this film.

Therefore, the director uses the father’s body to represent the old regime before the war, and death symbolizes the death of the regime. His two sons, although they belong to different political positions, had to join hands in order to carry the corpse, expressing some possibility of reconciliation 

It is the perfect example for an insight toward a particular third-world reality from a native point of view.

!!!!!important !!!!! Please note that third world cinema is different from third cinema 

(professors note about the chosen prompt :Greetings, Cynthia . . .  Your term-paper proposal is apt, accepted and with good prospects. In developing it, as the term-paper will demonstrate your ability to formulate original, scholarly, inquiries as well as hone research and analytical skills, put premiums on the structure (introductory paragraph, robust middle, concluding paragraph), depth, logical flow, fines-pun understandings of the issues, integrating other creditable, scholarly, sources in your references and bibliography. So, keep away from haphazard organization, sweeping generalizations, bad grammar, typographical and spelling errors. Go for gold, and, all the best!)

Please refer to these readings and other sources if you find appropriate ones

Ciecko, Anne Tereska. Contemporary Asian Cinema (Oxford & New York: Berg, 2006).

Armes, Roy. Third World Film Making and the West (Berkeley: U. Of Calif. Press, 1987)

Downing, John D. H. Film and Politics in the Third World (New York: Autonomedia, 1986).

Pines, Jim & Paul Willemen, Questions of Third Cinema (London: BFI Publishing, 1989).

Teo, Stephen. Asian Cinema Experience (New York and London: Routledge, 2014).

Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies

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Overview

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for the assignments, Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness and External and Internal Environments.

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filing & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Use the Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 6–8 page paper in which you do the following:

  • Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
  • Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
  • Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
  • Determine whether your choice from Question 3 in the Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies Template [DOCX] would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
  • Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

  • Determine business-level and corporate-level strategies for a corporation’s long-term success comparable to the competitive environment.

Deliverable 4 – Code of Ethics Intake Packet Deliverable 4 – Code of Ethics Intake Packet

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  1. Competency
    Assess current legal and ethical principles and the application of such principles in healthcare practice.

    Student Success Criteria
    View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

    Instructions
    You have recently been promoted to Health Services Manager at Three Mountains Regional Hospital, a small hospital located in a mid-size city in the Midwest. Three Mountains is a general medical and surgical facility with 400 beds. Last year there were approximately 62,000 emergency visits and 15,000 admissions. More than 6,000 outpatient and 10,000 inpatient surgeries were performed.

    Three Mountains was recently in the news after employee emails were published in which patients were discussed in very negative terms, although patient names were not used. The employees that sent these emails were fired. The CEO and the Board of Directors has tasked you with developing an intake packet for new patients that will reestablish patient trust in the facility, employees, and staff. The patient packet will address new patient concerns by including information about HIPAA, informed consent, a confidential health history report, and a living will. The new packet will also include the values of the organization and a code of ethics.

    Your intake packet will start with the Hospital’s Code of Ethics that includes at least 10 ethical points. The code of ethics should include (at a minimum):

    • Patient relations
    • Physician activities
    • Billing for services
    • Political activities
    • Conflict of interest
    • Communication, including social media
    • Privacy
    • The Code of Ethics should be submitted in bullet format in a Word document with an introduction. APA formatting for the ethical points and proper grammar is required.

      Upon completion of your code of ethics, please prepare a PowerPoint presentation (or other shareable Webware/software you prefer) with narration in which you explain each ethical point and its relevance in the healthcare industry with examples to the CEO, so that she can answer questions from the Board.

    1. The PowerPoint should have a minimum of 5 slides and a maximum of 12.
    2. Describe each ethical point in the Code of Ethics.
    3. Use the notes area on each slide as needed to expand on the key points.
    4. You may use a free screen capture site such as Screencast-O-Matic to record a video of your presentation. Screencast-O-Matic is a site and program that can perform screen desk and audio capture up to 15 minutes for free, and can be utilized on a Windows or Mac computer. (Note: You can use another, similar program if you prefer. Screencast-O-Matic is only a suggestion). Make sure that both your voice and the PowerPoint slides are captured on the video.
    5. Your audio presentation should include an introduction, a concise discussion of each slide, and a conclusion. The presentation should demonstrate your overall knowledge of the content, pronunciation of words, organization, proper recording, professionalism, and clarity.