Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the required chapters from the text and review the required articles for this week.

Taking on the role of the expert in the treatment of schizophrenia or depression, you will prepare a presentation for a group of physicians who are seeking your opinion on the treatment of patients with these disorders. For this interactive assignment you will create and upload a 5- to10-slide PowerPoint presentation as well as a five-minute screencast of the presentation to share with your peers.

For this presentation, select either schizophrenia or depression as the basis for your presentation. Begin by creating your PowerPoint presentation. In the presentation, include information which explains the neurotransmitter theory behind the disorder and how the drugs used to treat the disorder affect those neurotransmitter systems.  Evaluate the risk and benefits of treating a patient with the most common type of medication and of not using drugs to treat the patient. In your evaluation, examine issues such as the rate of success with the most common drugs used as well as the incidence of side effects with these same drugs, including mortality associated with drug use. Then consider not using medications to treat the disorder. Take into account the natural course of the illness, the rate of spontaneous recovery, and the rate of mortality when untreated. You may also incorporate the use of other modes of treatment into your evaluation.

Your PowerPoint must include your presenter notes in the notes field to indicate what you intend to say during the screencast and well-chosen images to enhance the understanding of your audience. Remember that your screencast will be a maximum of five-minutes, and use your speaker notes to ensure that you will be able to present your materials within this time limit. (You may access Garr Reynolds’s Top Ten Slide Tips (Links to an external site.) for additional assistance in creating an effective visual presentation.) Once you have created your PowerPoint you will create a screencast presentation of up to 5 minutes in length using any screencasting software you choose. (Quick-Start Guides are available for Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.) for your convenience.) Attach your PowerPoint file to your intial post and include the URL for your screencast in the body of the post before submitting it.

Note to Students: This assignment requires that you produce a visual presentation, supply a spoken audio narrative, and to listen the audio narrative of others.  Note you are also asked to provide a transcript of your presentation.  If you have a documented disability accommodation that might interfere with your ability to complete this assignment you may contact your instructor to develop a comparable alternative assignment.  If you have other issues that you feel may be a barrier to your ability to complete this course or this assignment please contact the Office of Access and Wellness at: [email protected].

During remodeling and renovation of two patient care areas at a hospital, a new nurse call system was installed. A Code Blue alarm specific to each room was a component of the new nurse call system. The other patient care areas in the hospital were to receive the new nurse call system later in the year. Following installation of the new system, the nurses were instructed to begin using the Code Blue button in patient rooms, and they were assured that the alarm and room number would automatically appear on the hospital operator’s console. The new system made it unnecessary to call the operator to request a “Code Blue” and for the operator to announce the room number because it was done automatically. Unfortunately, this was a case in which patient safety was overlooked in the excitement of receiving new technology. It was soon discovered that the room number that appeared on the console did not correspond to the room number in which the button was being pushed. The discrepancy was noted with the first Code Blue in one of the renovated areas when the room number that appeared on the console was not a recognized room number in the hospital. Use of the Code Blue button was suspended immediately.

• Discuss your thoughts on how the hospital could have avoided this patient safety mishap.
• What steps should the hospital now take to fully implement the new system in a safe manner (think staff education, safety guidelines and regulations)?

1.  Assignment Expectations:

a.  Chose (2) readings and address (2) concepts (A and B) in about 150 words each.

b.  You will be graded on how well you demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concept, and critical thinking pertaining to the applicability of the concept to your professional practice. Points awarded will follow breakdown below.

2.  The Assignment: Given the readings below identify and discuss two concepts or lessons learned that you believe will be most applicable to your professional discipline.

3.  Concept A (points 10/20):

1.  Identify /define (points 4/20): ……

2.  Your professional discipline: ……..

3.  How applicable (points 6/20): ……

4.  Concept B (points 10/20):

0.  Identify /define (points 4/20): ……

1.  Your professional discipline: ……..

2.  How applicable (points 6/20): ……

Readings:

Morais, R. M. d., Somera, S. C., Goes, W. M., & Costa, A. L. (2016). Applicability of an assessment model for healthcare information systems in a public hospital. Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management, 13(3), 459.

Slabodkin, G. (2017). Joint Commission eases ORYX requirements for acute care hospitals. Health Data Management (Online).

Naessens, J. M., Van Such, M. B., Nesse, R. E., Dilling, J. A., Swensen, S. J., Thompson, K. M., … & Santrach, P. J. (2017). Looking under the streetlight? A framework for differentiating performance measures by level of care in a value-based payment environment. Academic Medicine, 92(7), 943.

De Oliveira, J. L. C., Gabriel, C. S., Fertonani, H. P., & Matsuda, L. M. (2017). Management changes resulting from hospital accreditation. Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 25, e2851.

Flanagan, P. (2017). Aiming for quality and accreditation in the hospital blood bank. ISBT Science Series, 12(1), 46-50.

Ehlers, L.H., Simonsen, K.B., Jensen, M.B., Rasmussen, G.S., Olesen, A.V. (2017). Unannounced versus announced hospital surveys: a nationwide cluster-randomized controlled trial. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 29(3), 406–411.

Research from Columbia Business School reveals how to shorten emergency room wait time. (2016, Aug 29). PR Newswire.

Robinson, M. (2017, Aug 08). How hospital overcrowding affects paramedics. The Times – Transcript.

Rojas, E., Sepúlveda, M., Munoz-Gama, J., Capurro, D., Traver, V., & Fernandez-Llatas, C. (2017). Question-driven methodology for analyzing emergency room processes using process mining. Applied Sciences, 7(3), 302.

Smith, B., Bouchoucha, S., & Watt, E. (2016). ‘Care in a chair’ – the impact of an overcrowded emergency department on the time to treatment and length of stay of self-presenting patients with abdominal pain. International Emergency Nursing, 29, 9-14.

Knopf, A. (2016). Examine the trends in accreditation. Behavioral Healthcare, 36(4), 22-25.

Ornstein, C. (2017). Secret data on hospital inspections may soon become public. Washington: NPR.

Science; Study results from university hospital update understanding of quality control science (ISO 15189-accredited laboratories fulfill the JCI hospital accreditation standard requirements for the use of referral laboratories: Report of a consensus …). (2016). Science Letter, 1413.

The importance of avoiding denial of accreditation. (2016). Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, 27(9), 1-4.

There are many additional algorithms available for searching and sorting data structures. The searching and sorting algorithms that are typically used work best for particular data structures. For this assignment, you will examine 2 searching algorithms and 2 sorting algorithms and the associated data structures.

Choose 2 sorting algorithms and 2 searching algorithms, and describe them in detail, including the type of data structures they work well with. Complete the following:

• For 1 of the selected search algorithms, write pseudocode, and create a flowchart to show how the algorithm could be implemented to search data in the data structure.  
• For 1 of the selected sort algorithms, write pseudocode, and create a flowchart to show how the algorithm could be implemented to sort data in the data structure.  
• Give the pseudocode and flowchart that would show how one of the additional data structures could be implemented to search data.  
• In addition, create a flowchart to show how to sort using one of the additional algorithms.  
  • Give the pseudocode for the flowchart as well. 

Please submit the following for your assignment in a single MS Word document: 

• 2 flowcharts (1 for a searching algorithm and 1 for a sorting algorithm)  
• 2 pseudocode examples (1 for a searching algorithm and 1 for a sorting algorithm) 

Note: Diagrams created in separate programs should be copied and pasted into your document for submission. 

 

Objective:
To create a job description for the position of director for a child care and education center and to evaluate your job description. 

Scenario:
You are the director working for a company that has multiple child care and education centers. The director at another center has recently left her position. During her exit interview, she said that she did not realize how much was going to be asked of her as a director, and she wished she had known what she was getting into before taking the job. The board of directors has asked you to help write a job description for her position, focusing on two of the most important director responsibilities, program maintenance and financial management as well as the joys of being a director. As a director well versed in this particular responsibility, you are asked to tackle this part of the posting.

Format:

• Use a title page or header that includes your name, date, course and assignment title. 
• When completing the weekly scenario, you must be sure to include both a focus assignment and a self-reflection. These must be clearly labeled using headings. Without the proper labels, I must assume that this step was not completed, and partial credit will be lost. 
• Headings:
  • Focus Assignment
  • Self Reflection
• A self-reflection is a thorough explanation of your focus assignment. The self-reflection must be written in paragraph format with a minimum of 10 sentences.
• One aspect of the self-reflection is to learn the skill of using evidence based practices in your work as an early childhood educator. For the purpose of the research assignment, you will do this by using research to justify your explanation of the focus assignment in the self-reflection.  
• You must include a minimum of 2 in-text citations in your self-reflection. At least one of those must come from the assigned chapter. This to ensure that you are making connections with the chapter being read, which is the theory, and the practical application, which is the focus assignment. You must be specific with your citations. Include a reference to the page or section of the chapter you are using to support your justification. 
• You must also include the full reference at the bottom of the assignment or on a sperate work cited page. 

 Write a three sentence paragraph summarizing the program maintenance-related duties of a director and a three sentence paragraph summarizing finance system-related duties. In a final three sentence paragraph, help the prospective applicant understand some of the potential joys of being a director. 

Self-Reflection: worth 50 points

1.  For each part of your job description, explain how this job description addresses the issues in the scenario (40 points).
2. A minimum of two In-text citations to justify your explanation. (10 points).