health promotion plan presentation

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Build a slide presentation (PowerPoint preferred) of the hypothetical health promotion plan you developed in the first assessment. Then, implement your health promotion plan by conducting a hypothetical face-to-face educational session addressing the health concern and health goals of your selected group. How would you set goals for the session, evaluate session outcomes, and suggest possible revisions to improve future sessions?

As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Vila Health: Conducting an Effective Educational Session activity. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment as you consider key issues in conducting an effective educational session for a selected audience. Completing activities is also a way to demonstrate engagement.

Professional Context

Health education is any combination of learning experiences designed to help community individuals, families, and aggregates improve their health by increasing knowledge or influencing attitudes (WHO, n.d.). Education is key to health promotion, disease prevention, and disaster preparedness. The health indicator framework identified in Healthy People 2020 prompts action in health services accessibility, clinical preventive services, environmental quality, injury or violence prevention, maternal, infant, and child health, mental health, nutrition, substance abuse prevention, and tobacco use cessation or prevention.

Nurses provide accurate evidence-based information and education in formal and informal settings. They draw upon evidence-based practice to provide health promotion and disease prevention activities to create social and physical environments conducive to improving and maintaining community health. When provided with the tools to be successful, people demonstrate lifestyle changes (self-care) that promote health and help reduce readmissions. They are better able to tolerate stressors, including environmental changes, and enjoy a better quality of life. In times of crisis, a resilient community is a safer community (Healthy People 2020, n.d.; Flanders, 2018).

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to apply teaching and learning concepts to the presentation of a health promotion plan.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 3: Evaluate health policies, based on their ability to achieve desired outcomes.
    • Evaluate educational session outcomes in terms of progress made toward Healthy People 2020 goals and leading health indicators.
  • Competency 4: Integrate principles of social justice in community health interventions.
    • Evaluate educational session outcomes and the attainment of agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with participants.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
    • Present a health promotion plan to an individual or group within a community.
    • Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).
    • Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed audio and speaker notes are provided. Audio is clear, organized, and professionally presented.
References

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). (n.d.). Healthy People 2020. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/

Flanders, S. A. (2018). Effective patient education: Evidence and common sense. Medsurg Nursing, 27(1), 55–58.

Note: This is the second part of a two-part assessment. You must complete Assessment 1 before completing this assessment.

Preparation

For this assessment, you will conclude the clinical learning activity you began in Assessment 1.

You will resume the role of a community nurse tasked with addressing the specific health concern in your community. This time, you will present, via educational outreach, the hypothetical health promotion plan you developed in Assessment 1 to your fictitious audience. In this hypothetical scenario, you will simulate the presentation as though it would be live and face-to-face. You must determine an effective teaching strategy, communicate the plan with professionalism and cultural sensitivity, evaluate the objectives of the plan, revise the plan as applicable, and propose improvement for future educational sessions. To engage your audience, you decide to develop a PowerPoint presentation with voice-over and speaker notes to communicate your plan.

Remember that your first assessment (Assessment 1) MUST be satisfactorily completed to initiate this assessment (Assessment 4).

Please review the assessment scoring guide for more information.

To prepare for the assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Vila Health: Conducting an Effective Educational Session simulation. You may also wish to review the health promotion plan presentation assessment and scoring guide to ensure that you understand all requirements.

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft plan to Smarthinking Tutoring for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.

Instructions

Complete the following:

  • Prepare a 10–12 slide PowerPoint presentation with a voice-over and detailed speaker notes that reflects your hypothetical presentation. This presentation is the implementation of the plan you created in Assessment 1. The speaker notes should be a transcript of the voice-over (please refer to the PowerPoint tutorial).
  • Simulate the hypothetical face-to-face educational session addressing the health concern and health goals of your selected community individual or group.
  • Imagine collaborating with the hypothetical participant(s) in setting goals for the session, evaluating session outcomes, and suggesting possible revisions to improve future sessions.

As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Vila Health: Conducting an Effective Educational Session activity. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment as you consider key issues in conducting an effective educational session for a selected audience. Completing activities is also a way to demonstrate engagement.

PRESENTATION FORMAT AND LENGTH

You may use Microsoft PowerPoint (preferred) or other suitable presentation software to create your presentation. If you elect to use an application other than PowerPoint, check with your faculty to avoid potential file compatibility issues.

The number of content slides in your presentation is dictated by nature and scope of your health promotion plan. Be sure to include title and references slides per the following:

  • Title slide:
    • Health promotion plan title.
    • Your name.
    • Date.
    • Course number and title.
  • References (at the end of your presentation).
    • Be sure to apply correct APA formatting to your references.

The following resources will help you create and deliver an effective presentation:

SUPPORTING EVIDENCE

Support your plan with at least three professional or scholarly references, published within the last 5 years, which may include peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2020 resources.

GRADED REQUIREMENTS

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the assessment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

  • Present your health promotion plan to your hypothetical audience.
    • Tailor the presentation to the needs of your hypothetical audience.
    • Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.
  • Evaluate educational session outcomes and the attainment of agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with participants.
    • Which aspects of the session would you change?
    • How might those changes improve future outcomes?
  • Evaluate educational session outcomes in terms of progress made toward Healthy People 2020 goals and leading health indicators.
    • What changes would you recommend to better align the session with Healthy People 2020 goals and leading health indicators?
  • Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).
  • Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed audio and speaker notes are provided. Audio is clear, organized, and professionally presented.

Additional Requirements

Before submitting your assessment, proofread your presentation slides and speaker’s notes to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it difficult for them to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Study of self-injurious behaviors and the intervention with Functional Communication Training

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** Applied Behavior Analysis Research Paper ** 

  

Paper Sections: 

– Study of self-injurious behaviors and the intervention with Functional Communication Training

– Title Abstract.

– Introduction      (1–2 pages).

  • The intent of this research is to investigate the use of Functional Communication Training to Reduce Self-Injurious Behaviors.

– Literature Review (6–8 pages).

  • Conduct a review of the theoretical and research literature that supports your research question

– Methodology      (3-4 pages).

  • Include descriptions of the sample, target population, inclusion or exclusion criteria, recruitment strategy, ethical considerations, procedure, instruments, materials, and analysis.
  • Participants (be sure to include pseudonym for each participant).
  • Procedures and Intervention Plan.
  • Data collection.
  • Experimental Design.
  • Review the Methods and Implementation Plan Draft aspect of the scoring guide for specifics before completing and submitting this assignment.

– Expected Results (1-2 pages).

  • Use the literature reviewed to anticipate findings that are likely to result from the collection and interpretation of data.

– Conclusion  (1–2 pages).

  • Identify the implications of expected results and address the implications for potential stakeholders.
  • Explain the significance of the study to the scientific community.
  • Discuss ethical considerations of the intervention and results.
  • Discuss limitations of the study and offer suggestions for future research.

–  References and Appendices.

Requirements: 

– APA 7 Times New Roman, 12-point font.

– 12–15 pages in length (excluding title page, abstract, table of contents, and reference list).

– Reference at least 10 scholar sources

Use SIB Paper references attached 

Sample Paper for direction attached

Write A Policy To Secure The Web Server And The Web Browser

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Write two policies to ensure Web browsers and Web servers are secure. All procedures and guidelines will be designed to fulfill the policies you create.

Answer the following questions for Web browser and Web server software:

1. What functions should this software application provide?

2. What functions should this software application prohibit?

3. What controls are necessary to ensure this applications software operates as intended?

4. What steps are necessary to validate that the software operates as intended?

Once you have answered the questions above, fill in the following details to develop your policies to secure application software. Remember, you are writing policies, not procedures. Focus on the high-level tasks, not the individual steps.

Ø Type of application software

Ø Description of functions this software should allow

Ø Description of functions this software should prohibit 

Ø Known vulnerabilities associated with software

Ø Controls necessary to ensure compliance with desired functionality 

Ø Method to assess security control effectiveness

You will write two policies—one for Web server software and one for Web browser software.

Case Scenario for Rationale

Ken 7 Windows Limited is a manufacturer of Windows for residential and commercial builders. Ken 7 Windows Limited carries a variety of Windows and related products. It supplies builders with all of the tools and supplies to install finished Windows in any type of building.

Ken 7 Windows Limited has just purchased a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package to help control costs and increase both quality and customer responsiveness. The ERP software collects and stores information including:

• Raw material costs

• Labor costs

• Materials and labor requirements for products 

• Purchasing requirements

Ken 7 Windows Limited has identified six basic roles for users in the new ERP software: 

• Administrators—maintain ERP data and system operation.

• Planners—run planning software and generate requirements reports.

• Shop Floor users —enter operational data (receiving, shipping, and product progress during manufacturing).

• Managers—manage department personnel.

• Purchasing users—generate purchasing documents based on planning requirements. 

• Accounting users—maintain cost and accounting data.

Access controls limit what users or roles can do with different types of data. For example, consider the following types of data:

• Cost information—raw materials and labor costs, including the cost of finished goods.

• Manufacturing details—cost, amount of labor, and time required to produce finished goods.

• Purchasing requirements—rules for determining when raw materials, components, or supplies should be purchased.

Through access control:

• Cost information can be viewed only by Accounting users.

• Manufacturing details can be viewed only by Shop Floor users.

• Purchasing requirement can be viewed only by Purchasing users.

During the analysis phase of the ERP implementation, Ken 7 Windows Limited raised concerns about users being able to access restricted data.

• Accounting users are able to login to shop floor computers.

• Purchasing users are able to access human resource (HR) applications and data.

The ERP implementation team suggested the following access control measures to protect restricted data.

• Create an organizational unit (OU) in Active Directory for shop floor computers.

• Deploy Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to restrict shop floor users to the shop floor OU.

• Define data access controls in the ERP software to deny access for all non-HR users to restricted data.

Implementation of several access control measures helped Ken 7 Windows Limited to restrict the data access. Hence access control and authentication is important, as it helped Ken 7 Windows Limited in reducing costs and increasing profits.

Structure a COMPREHENSIVE goal-setting program to help an athlete overcome either disorder.

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 Anorexia nervosa is a psychological disease characterized by an intense fear of becoming obese, a disturbed and distorted body image, significant weight loss unrelated to other illness, refusal to maintain normal body weight, and amenorrhea. Bulimia is an episodic pattern of uncontrollable food bingeing followed by purging. It is characterized by awareness that the pattern is abnormal, fear of being unable to stop eating voluntarily, depressed mood, and self-deprecation. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are the two most common eating disorders. It is difficult to get an accurate assessment of eating disorders due to under-reporting. Athletes, in particular, are very secretive because they run the risk of being dropped from the team if the problem is discovered. They will only share the problem when the problem is almost catastrophic and professional help is needed. As a coach, I have known that at least six of my athletes suffered from this self-destructive behavior.

Research demonstrates that goals are a powerful means for effecting behavior changes. Goals that directly influence behavior focus a performer’s attention on important elements, increase motivation and persistence, and facilitate the development of new learning strategies. Goals that indirectly influence behavior can alter important psychological factors, such as self-confidence, anxiety, and satisfaction.

Structure a COMPREHENSIVE goal-setting program to help an athlete overcome either disorder.
 

Text Group #10

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Step #1: Do an Overview for Text Group #10 and Make an Informed Decision 

Do a quick summary (only) of each text.

(Much like you have done for the Prepare for the Pod Worksheet)

Label: Overview of Text Group #10 

This is a surface level investigation to determine which texts you will work with.

Include this when you turn in Text Group #10

Step #2: Choose Texts and Do a Presentation

Choose (3) three of the authors/texts.

Do the Independent Study Worksheet for each (Three Worksheets)

Briefly explain why you chose the text.

Do a deep investigation into the author and the time/place the text was written in.

Dig deep and respond to the material personally. Show me what you learn.

Make direct connections to the texts we have studied up to this point in theme, story, observations on human nature? I would like you to go back over the Text Groups and see if you can relate the text to several texts we have covered from TG #1-#9. How is the text an evolution of the earlier texts? How might it be a ‘repeat’ of themes/patterns? How does it relate to other texts you have liked?

Consider: How is this literature similar/different to the previous works overall? Do you think the specific text in TG #10 ‘says’ something in response to the early periods? Do you think the text  indicates a major change/shift in society? How? Why/Why not? How might it suggest that we repeat patterns throughout time and space? 

Work to find current cultural references, influences, adaptations. These works have had great influence on all aspects of our society and other cultures.

I would like to see you find ways that this literature (themes, issues, ideas, characters…) persists in our culture today in politics, social organizations, philosophy, etc. 

 

Rabelais/Gargantua and Pantagruel

Machiavelli/The Prince, The Art of War

Ariosto/Orlando Furioso

More/Utopia, other

De Cervantes/Don Quixote

Popul Vuh (our first encounter with the “Americas”)

Shakespeare/Any sonnets (Choose several) and/or plays (Choose one)

Milton/Paradise Lost

Case: Corneas in the Congo

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Case: Corneas in the Congo

Sometimes leaders find themselves in a position of choosing between one’s personal morality and one’s ethical duty to an organization. Is what seems to be the obvious right choice always what is actually best for an organization? How can helping people actually be the wrong thing to do? For example: Is the greatest good to provide eyesight to those who have lost it and in the process wind up losing a truck and medical supplies, or is the greatest good to protect an organization from possible scandal if the word gets out that corneas were taken from Chinese prisoners? You will consider questions like these and more in this discussion.First, review the case, Corneas in the Congo, in the following excerpt from, The Ethics of Leadership (Ciulla, 2003, p. 14):You are the head of a small aid agency in the Congo. The mission of your agency is to provide health services for refugees who have fled the various civil wars in the region. In recent years you have worked with a number of nongovernmental organization agencies, such as C.A.R.E., Doctors Without Borders, and the Christian Children’s Fund. Your agency focuses on giving intensive help to small communities. You are now working in a camp of fifty people. Because of a peculiar parasite in the water that destroys the cornea of the eye, ten people in the camp have gone blind; half of them are children. Except for their inability to see, their health is reasonably good, given the conditions of the camp.You contact Doctors Without Borders and they tell you that they will have two ophthalmologists in the area next week, but that the only thing they can do for the people who have gone blind is to give them cornea transplants. They could do the operations, but they said it was impossible to get corneas for transplant in Africa.A few days later, the area director of Doctors Without Borders calls and tells you that a Chinese aid agency has twenty corneas and would be willing to exchange them for a truck and ten cases of medical supplies. This strikes you as odd so you ask, “Where did they get the corneas?” She then tells you that the corneas were donated to the Chinese aid agency by a wealthy Hong Kong businessman. He bought them from a middle man who buys body parts for transplant from prisons. The prisons carefully execute criminals and then take out livers and corneas for resale. Evidently, corrupt prison wardens make huge profits from this practice. This makes them very liberal with executions, especially of political prisoners. You tell the director that the origin of these Chinese corneas makes you uncomfortable. The director says, “We have no problem with using them. If you don’t want them, I’ll give them to someone else. There are too many people in need here.” She says, “You have one day to decide. Tomorrow I have to radio the plane in Kinshasa and tell it where to go next.”Ciulla, J. B. (2003). The ethics of leadership. South Melbourne, Australia; Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN: 9780155063174.

For your initial post in the discussion board, address the following:

  1. Is it wrong to take corneas from Chinese prisoners? Why or why not? Describe what principles are important to you in making this decision.
  2. As the case suggests, imagine you are a leader in this situation, what are your duties and who are the stakeholders in the case?
  3. What are the long-term ramifications of your decision?
  4. Does your “gut feeling” about this case differ from what you think is right? If so, which would be your guide?

To successfully complete this assignment, view the Discussion Rubric document.  
 

To Dr. Clover (Last Response Needed For Unit 3 Week 2)

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Class and professor,

  Below you will find my draft outline for Unit 5 project for the Coca Cola company.  Through these next couple of weeks will be looking at all my papers and figuring out how I want them to line up. See what areas are more important for the company and work back to the ones that are least impact on the company. My outline below might change in the order

Title page – Coca cola Company
Table of contents
Executive summary
1 .   Current Human Resources Environment
     1. Employee Engagement Strategies
     2. Global Talent Management
     3. Corporate Social Responsibility
     4. Human Resource Technology
     5. Employment Law and Human Rights Issues
     6. Emerging Trends in Human Resource Management
     7. Human Capital Challenges in the 21st Century
     8. Best Practices in Human Resources Management

2. Company’s Human Resources Posture
 

    1. Benefits and Compensation
     2. Business Leadership and Strategy
     3. Diversity
     4. Employee Relations
     5. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
     6. Organizational and Employee Development 

7. Talent Management
     8. Technology
3. Comparator Group Human Resources Posture
     1. Benefits and Compensation
   2. Business Leadership and Strategy
     3. Diversity
     4. Employee Relations
     5. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
     6. Organizational and Employee Development
     7. Talent Management
     8. Technology
4. Human Resources Competitive Position
     1. Industry Competitive Position
     2. Comparator Group Competitive Position
     3. Human Resources Risk
     4. Human Resources Opportunities
     5. Overall Assessment of Human Resources Competitive Position
5.  Recommendation and Expected Impact
     1. Benefits and Compensation
     2. Diversity
     3. Employee Relations 

4. Talent Management
     5. Technology
References

SAMHSA program and how the DNP can become involved?

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  SAMHSA’s programs and campaigns offer information, training, and technical assistance to improve the quality and delivery of behavioral health services across the nation.  

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a national organization that seeks to improve the behavioral health of the American community. Families and addicted citizens connect with the organization to learn more about the effects of substance abuse to avoid it. Addicted citizens also learn about treatment options through this organization (Welty et al., 2019). The organization invests in research that enhances information access to empower the community.

My professional experience with substance abuse is fulfilling and challenging in equal measure. As part of my work, I received special training on managing patients with mental and substance abuse problems, and these pieces of exercise made me a better-advanced practice nurse. I was able to identify this kind of disorder in patients of my community and some of my colleagues. However, the gaps in managed care and health infrastructure make the journey challenging. Therefore, there is a need for more efforts at local and national levels to address the problem.

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Can you elaborate more on the SAMHSA program and how the DNP can become involved? 

  

Instructions:

Use an APA 7 style and a minimum of 200 words. Provide support from a minimum of at least three (3) scholarly sources. The scholarly source needs to be: 1) evidence-based, 2) scholarly in nature, 3) Sources should be no more than five years old (published within the last 5 years), and 4) an in-text citation. citations and references are included when information is summarized/synthesized and/or direct quotes are used, in which APA style standards apply. 

• Textbooks are not considered scholarly sources. 

• Wikipedia, Wikis, .com website or blogs should not be used.

2020 F Law

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 Herb and Alice are married and file a joint return. Herb is 74 years old. Alice turned 70 on February 3, 2020. Neither are blind.

  • Herb is a retired school teacher, but continues to work part-time as a substitute teacher. Alice is retired. 
  • Herb earned $15,000 in wages. They also receive pension and Social Security income and sold some stock. Their combined AGI is $45,000. 
  • Both Herb and Alice are U.S. citizens and have valid Social Security numbers.

1. Herb and Alice cannot make contributions to their traditional IRAs because they are both over 70 1/2

  • Herb and Alice are married and file a joint return. Herb is 74 years old. Alice turned 70 on February 3, 2020. Neither are blind.
  • Herb is a retired school teacher, but continues to work part-time as a substitute teacher. Alice is retired. 
  • Herb earned $15,000 in wages. They also receive pension and Social Security income and sold some stock. Their combined AGI is $45,000. 
  • Both Herb and Alice are U.S. citizens and have valid Social Security numbers.

2. Alice must take her first required minimum distribution (RMD) by April 1, and her second RMD by December 31, of what year________?

  • Herb and Alice are married and file a joint return. Herb is 74 years old. Alice turned 70 on February 3, 2020. Neither are blind.
  • Herb is a retired school teacher, but continues to work part-time as a substitute teacher. Alice is retired. 
  • Herb earned $15,000 in wages. They also receive pension and Social Security income and sold some stock. Their combined AGI is $45,000. 
  • Both Herb and Alice are U.S. citizens and have valid Social Security numbers.

3. Herb and Alice’s standard deduction is:

A. $24,800

B. $26,100

C. $27,400

D. $28,100

  • Luther and Lexi are married and file a joint return. 
  • Luther was enrolled in employer-sponsored family coverage through a high deductible health plan (HDHP) for all of 2020. His monthly premiums are $300. 
  • In 2020, Luther contributed $1,700 to his Health Savings Account (HSA). Of that amount, $1,200 was made pretax through his employer’s cafeteria plan and he made the remaining $500 contribution by electronic deposit into the HSA from his checking account. His employer sent Form W-2 reporting $1,200 in Box 12a, with code W. 
  • Luther received a Form 1099-SA showing a distribution from his HSA of $230. Luther did not have any medical expenses for the year. Lexi paid $80 to the dentist for a filling, and $150 for lab work ordered during her physical. 
  • Luther and Lexi felt fortunate to have good jobs when so many people in their community were out of work, so they donated $250 by check to their local food bank. The food bank is a qualified organization and provided Luther and Lexi with a written acknowledgment of their donation. They contributed $20 in cash to a fundraiser for a local child’s cancer treatments. They also donated clothing in good condition with fair market value of $100 to Goodwill. They have a receipt for the donation. 
  • Luther and Lexi are U.S. citizens with valid Social Security numbers. They do not have enough expenses to itemize their deductions.

6. What amount can Luther take as an HSA deduction? $________.  

  • Luther and Lexi are married and file a joint return. 
  • In 2020, Luther contributed $1,700 to his Health Savings Account (HSA). Of that amount, $1,200 was made pretax through his employer’s cafeteria plan and he made the remaining $500 contribution by electronic deposit into the HSA from his checking account. His employer sent Form W-2 reporting $1,200 in Box 12a, with code W. 
  • Luther was enrolled in employer-sponsored family coverage through a high deductible health plan (HDHP) for all of 2020. His monthly premiums are $300. 
  • Luther received a Form 1099-SA showing a distribution from his HSA of $230. Luther did not have any medical expenses for the year. Lexi paid $80 to the dentist for a filling, and $150 for lab work ordered during her physical. 
  • Luther and Lexi felt fortunate to have good jobs when so many people in their community were out of work, so they donated $250 by check to their local food bank. The food bank is a qualified organization and provided Luther and Lexi with a written acknowledgment of their donation. They contributed $20 in cash to a fundraiser for a local child’s cancer treatments. They also donated clothing in good condition with fair market value of $100 to Goodwill. They have a receipt for the donation. 
  • Luther and Lexi are U.S. citizens with valid Social Security numbers. They do not have enough expenses to itemize their deductions.

  7. None of the HSA distribution is taxable because the entire amount was used to pay qualified medical expenses. 

a.  True

B  False

  • Luther and Lexi are married and file a joint return. 
  • Luther was enrolled in employer-sponsored family coverage through a high deductible health plan (HDHP) for all of 2020. His monthly premiums are $300. 
  • In 2020, Luther contributed $1,700 to his Health Savings Account (HSA). Of that amount, $1,200 was made pretax through his employer’s cafeteria plan and he made the remaining $500 contribution by electronic deposit into the HSA from his checking account. His employer sent Form W-2 reporting $1,200 in Box 12a, with code W. 
  • Luther received a Form 1099-SA showing a distribution from his HSA of $230. Luther did not have any medical expenses for the year. Lexi paid $80 to the dentist for a filling, and $150 for lab work ordered during her physical. 
  • Luther and Lexi felt fortunate to have good jobs when so many people in their community were out of work, so they donated $250 by check to their local food bank. The food bank is a qualified organization and provided Luther and Lexi with a written acknowledgment of their donation. They contributed $20 in cash to a fundraiser for a local child’s cancer treatments. They also donated clothing in good condition with fair market value of $100 to Goodwill. They have a receipt for the donation. 
  • Luther and Lexi are U.S. citizens with valid Social Security numbers. They do not have enough expenses to itemize their deductions.

8. How much of Luther and Lexi’s charitable donations are deductible on their federal return? $________. 

  • Kendall is single and has no dependents. He is a self-employed rideshare driver for Widget Ride Share. 
  • Kendall provided a statement from the ride share company that indicated the amount of mileage driven and fees paid for the year. These fees are considered ordinary and necessary for the ride share business:
    • 42,157 miles driven while transporting customers
    • Ride share fee: $2,000
    • Airport fee: $365
    • GPS device fee: $120
  • His recordkeeping application shows he also drove 4,873 miles between rides and 2,134 miles driven between his home and his first and last customer of the day. Kendall started using his car for business on September 1, 2019. He kept receipts showing he spent $150 on tolls and $2,761 on gasoline.
  • Kendall also provided the Form 1099-NEC and Form 1099-K that he received from Widget. See Form 1099-NEC and Form 1099-K included with this scenario.
  • Kendall tested positive for COVID-19 and was required to self-quarantine from April 6 through April 24. As a result, he could not work during that time.

9. What is Kendall’s total self-employment expense? $________.