Psychosis and schizophrenia greatly impact the brain’s normal processes, which interfere with the ability to think clearly. When symptoms of these disorders are uncontrolled, patients may struggle to function in daily life. However, patients often thrive when properly diagnosed and treated under the close supervision of a psychiatric mental health practitioner. 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 psychosis and schizophrenia.

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 with schizophrenia-related psychoses.

The Assignment: 5 pages

Examine Case Study: Pakistani Woman With Delusional Thought Processes. 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.

For your Final Paper, you will analyze the role of managerial accounting in two parts.  Part I will provide a general overview of managerial accounting and managerial accounting techniques used in decision-making.  Part II will provide examples of how managerial accounting is applied in the business world.  You may use your professional experiences for examples.

Part I (Three to five double-spaced pages)

• Present the following:
• Definition of managerial accounting
• Role of managerial accounting and the management accountant in a business or organization
• Ethical issues/concerns for the management accountant
• General description of at least three managerial accounting techniques available and their application within a business or organization

Part II (Five to seven double-spaced pages)

• Select at least three of the five topics identified below:
• Cost Management Techniques
• Costing Methods
• Capital Investment Decision Techniques
• Budgeting
• Quality Control

For each topic selected present real world examples of the application of managerial accounting techniques within a business or organization.  Examples may be gathered from your own professional experiences or from case studies obtained from credible sources (please do not use textbook examples).  Discussion of each example should include how the managerial accounting technique was applied in a decision-making capacity.  Be sure to support your example with calculations when applicable.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

• Must be eight to twelve double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA.
• Must use at least five scholarly sources.
• Must document all sources in APA style
• Must include a separate title and reference page

No plagiarism 

Previous

Your paper should be a substantive 4-6 page response to one of the following topics. For either topic, you will assess two distinct arguments and then draw your own conclusions based on the position that you hold. what will count in the grade for your final paper will be the clarity and organization of your writing, the clarity of the arguments that you are comparing and your providing of support for the arguments that you are exploring.

Topic : automation

Q. is automation a good thing? or a bad thing? Inevitable? or preventable?

Discuss and assess these arguments

suggested readings: 

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism, Author: Peter Frase, Publisher: Verso, Edition: 1, Year Published: 2016, Price: 12.00 USD  ISBN: 978-1781688137

David Freddoso  “Automation Liberates Both Business Owners and Workers”

Eli Lehrer “Automation Will Increase Productivity, Not Unemployment”

Adam Simpson “The Threat of Automation Will Not Be Fixed with Job Training”

Donald A. Vincent “Expanding Automation Benefits the Economy”

Dan Jacoby “Automation and Advancing Technologies Threaten Labor”

Jim Pinto “Automation Contributes to Problems of Abundance and Scarcity”

Avi Hoffer “Health-Care Management Can Benefit from Automation”

Barry Chaiken “Health-Care Management May Not Benefit from Automation”

Arnold Brown “The Impact of Robots on Employment”

Refer to table 9.9: Germicidal Categories According to Chemical Group in your textbook, page 266.

Using the information on the table and what you have learned about Microbes answer the following questions:

• If you could only choose one chemical agent to use in your home, which would you choose and why? 
• Why would you not choose some of the other choices? 

Discussion Expectations:  

The minimum requirements for class discussions are to respond directly to the discussion prompt and to respond to at least two other posts, by other students or the instructor, by the end of the week. The discussion will close on the due date and will NOT be reopened for a late submission. 

Submit one main post responding directly to each part of the discussion prompt(s) by Wednesday at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time

This should be a substantive response (between 75 -150 words minimum) to the topic(s) in your own words, referencing (using APA format) what you have discovered in your required reading and other learning activities.

You may use resources in addition to your textbook that supports your post(s); however, you must mention the source(s) that you used in your post(s) using APA format in-text citations and reference lists. You can review APA formatting here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html (Links to an external site.)

Reply to at least two posts (at least 50 words in length each) by Friday at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard time. Responses can be made to students or to your instructor.

Responses to other individuals’ posts should:

• Expand on their ideas.
• Discuss the differences between your thoughts and theirs.
• Explain why you agree or disagree.
• Always remain respectful.

Students will be required to complete a concise, well-articulated essay that incorporates a speech found within the Golway text (or an approved speech) that covers one or multiple concepts covered in the course. You will discuss different elements of the speech and describe how they relate to American government as recommended by a grading rubric provided by the instructor.

The Golway text has famous speeches by U.S. presidents and other leaders from George Washington all the way to George W. Bush and Barak Obama (and many in between). Consider reviewing a speech from a person you don’t know know much about (just a thought). Tell me about their speech, what did the say, what do you think they really meant, and what does it mean to you. There’s no “right” approach…again, Tell me about their speech, what did the say, what do you think they really meant, and what does it mean to you. Make sense??

This essay should be at least 1,000 words in length, not including references, tables, graphs, etc. This essay should be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman or Cambria font with standard one-inch margins. All references should be cited according to the American Psychology Association (APA) (6th ed.) style in author-date format with a separate reference section located at the end of the essay. It is highly recommended that you consult the citation guides provided online (e.g., https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl).

**10. Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” Speech**

(This is the speech I want the essay on)

2008 SPEECH

What Obama Said: “Contrary to the claim of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naïve to think as to believe we can get beyond our racial divisions on a single election cycle or with a single candidate, particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own. But I have asserted a firm conviction, a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people, that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice. We have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union…What we know, what we have seen, is that America can change. That is the true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope, the audacity to hope, for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”

Why It Was Important: Conventional wisdom wouldn’t recommend a speech on race. But Obama ran to the challenge, not away from it. Uniquely positioned to do so, he welcomed listeners to places many have never experienced—a predominantly black church, a cringeworthy conversation with a beloved relative of a different race, the kitchen tables of white Americans who feel resentful and left behind—and he recounted Americans often divergent perspectives. He asked us to be honest about our past while connecting it to the structural barriers faced by African Americans and other people of color today…Direct, honest, but nuanced, Obama believed that most Americans were ready to hear the truth and make a choice, to move beyond racial stalemate, face our challenges, and act accordingly.