Total of 5 pages and 5 powerpoint slides…read below

In today’s world of healthcare, capital expenses are a common element to the financial management process. In fact, all healthcare organizations, at some point, must convert to an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to be compatible with the rest of the world. However, this is a major capital expense that will cost many healthcare organizations millions of dollars. Purchasing an EHR system will undoubtedly require the acquisition and use of long-term assets under a capital budget.

The final assignment of your project will require you to make a recommendation to finance an EHR system, based on information from previous assignments. You will compile all the information in a proposal format, which will be addressed to the organization’s executive managers. You will create a separate presentation as an overview of your proposal.

Your organization is considering financing a 1.5 million dollar EHR system (if an EHR system not a good fit for your case, you can choose any major health information system/technology but the 1.5 million dollar reference should remain the same). Based on the financial outlook of your case/organization, make a recommendation to purchase or not purchase the system. You will need to draw on the material you have learned in throughout the class and assignments; as well as background information from your case description. Collectively, that information will serve as the foundation to support your recommendation.

Your final Financial Analysis report should be a minimum of eight (5) pages in length, excluding title and reference pages.

• Introduction of case and financial challenges and issues; perspective of financial challenge (Introduction)
• Report on assets and liabilities, cash flows and financial position, etc (Financial Statements).
• Examination of financial analysis methods (Financial Analysis Methods).
• Interpretation of financial management and capital management; influences for capital investments and decision-making (Capital Management).
• Assessment of EHR implementation (or relevant information system) and recommendation; using supportive information from financial management assignments (Proposal)
  • Summarizes and presents a collection of financial management concepts, strategies and methods; applicable to case financial position, needs and challenges.
• Make sure to use block letter formatting and proposal formatting guidelines. You will need to include a title page. Remember, your audience is the organization’s executive managers. Make sure to use proper audience tone.
• Include an APA formatted reference page to include at least five (5) academic sources, such as a book or an academic scholarly journal, to support your topic. You should reference your academic sources by including at least five (5) in-text citations. 

Your Presentation should be created in MS PowerPoint to include a minimum of seven (5) slides.  Be sure to discuss your project components in a concise, yet effective manner. You should highlight key points of each component of the Financial Analysis Report, leading up to your EHR recommendation outcome. Include graphical displays (such as graphs or other pictorials) to add visual interest and support of your information. Use a professional tone and keep in mind that you are presenting to the executive management team; consider their interests as stakeholders.

Presentation Outline

• Introduction
• Summary of financial statements
• Summary of financial analysis methods
• Findings of capital management influences
• EHR recommendation outcome
• Summary/Conclusion
• APA formatted reference slide

 

Week 2 Re: Topic 2 DQ 2

I hold human lives at a high value. I feel that no matter the race, background, economic status, every life is invaluable and should be cherished. Bogue stated that “God caused humans to exist and desires to be involved in every aspect of their life.” (Bogues 2020) I believe this to be true, along with humans being made in His image. Because we are all made in His image, I feel that all human lives are invaluable. Although I feel that every life is invaluable, when it comes to abortions, I am on the fence. Yes, it sounds contradictory, but if an abortion happens before 8 weeks, I feel it is less of a loss than if the abortion was at 12 or 18 weeks. Due to many women having miscarriages before 12 weeks, this statistic makes my stance on the topic ”less harsh.” Tommys.org states that “an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies will end in miscarriages. (2020). With statistics like this, how would you know if the fetus would have reached viability? As a mother, abortion is such a hard topic to come to terms with, but I know there are many reasons why women choose abortions, and I truly feel it is her body and her right to make the decision.

Designer babies are described as “either created from an embryo selected by preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) or genetically modified in order to influence the traits of the resulting children. The primary aim of creating designer babies is to avoid their having heritable diseases coded by mutations in DNA.” (Pang 2016) I understand the reasoning for wanting to avoid having a child who inherits a disease like cystic fibrosis and β-thalassemia, but how do we know that eliminating certain genes will not cause other problems down the line? I feel the DNA and genetic makeup we are born with, is what God chose to give us, and sadly others have a harder life than some due to their genetic makeup. I am not for designer babies and do not feel the benefits will outweigh the possible negative outcomes in the future.

Stem cell research is another form of research and science that I do not agree with. Who really knows how the stem cells are retrieved, and it is know that many, if not all are taken from human embryos. Due to humans going to drastic measures to prove various things in science and life, I do not feel scientist are taking the ethical route 100% of the time when it comes to stem cell research, so I cannot condone it. The thought of testing on a unborn baby who does not have the consent to be used in research is not ok. This topic reminds me of African Americans being used as test subjects against their will for many years, all for research.

Reference:

Bogue, D. W. (2020). Foundational Issues in Christian Spirituality and Ethics. In 1359722830 994999576 M. Hogan (Ed.), Practicing Dignity: An Introduction to Christian Values and Decision Making in Health Care. Phoenix, AZ: Grand Canyon Univeristy. Retrieved May 5, 2021, from https://lc.gcumedia.com/phi413v/practicing-dignity-an-introduction-to-christian-values-and-decision-making-in-health-care/v1.1/#/chapter/1

Ronald T.K. Pang, P.C. Ho, Designer babies, Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Reproductive Medicine,Volume 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 59-60, ISSN 1751-7214,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ogrm.2015.11.011.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751721415300063) 

 

Please add a line or 2 from the assigned material below, maybe 1 other source. Thank you.

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Watch video:  https://youtu.be/Rz8ge4aw8Ws

This video conjures many emotions, both as a nurse and a moral human being. Most of us entered/will enter the profession of nursing in response to a calling to care for our fellow human beings. For many of us, we believe with an urgent commitment that nursing is who we are, not simply what we do. We are guided by a moral compass that sets our life course based on knowing right from wrong, good from evil. 

While it is impossible for us to understand how the nurses in the concentration camps could be complicit in their role as ‘doers’ of euthanasia, it is curious how many of them came to believe that killing was a legitimate part of their caring role. These thoughts beg many questions, the answers for which will be reflective of your own beliefs and values system. Answer the following in your Forum post:

Do you think these nurses were complicit from the beginning, or did they slowly become involved over time until it became easier to cross the line? Once they did cross the line, how might a sense of power have overtaken their moral judgment? Perhaps they were indoctrinated to believe that the health of the public at large was more important than the health of the individual; yet how could they justify their actions to exploit the few for the benefit of the many? Were they simply following orders? Were they motivated by the thought of losing their job, or maybe even their life, if they refused? Could they have truly believed that they were simply relieving these children of their suffering and in so doing were being merciful in their actions?

In the context of your own nursing practice, why is this reflection activity important? Think about your own vulnerability to outside pressures and influences—would you speak up today if your moral position was threatened? Why or why not? Consider this from a position of power that you may or may not have. In today’s challenging healthcare environment, why is it important that we not only understand our moral position but that we also monitor our own response and the response of others? 

By definition, a monologue is a composition that gives the discourse of one speaker.  It represents what someone might speak aloud in a situation in which there are listeners although the listeners do not speak.

Choose one of these stories to write a monologue, including background of the author.

Research the author’s background and relate in two or three paragraphs how his or her writings were meant to affect society. This should go at the top of the page, then the monologue.

Be sure to include a Works Cited at the bottom of the monologue; you will not need an outline.

Compose a one-page monologue. It should illustrate personality traits and guiding values of a character in the story in a creative fashion.   

 By definition, a monologue is a composition that gives the discourse of one speaker.  It represents what someone might speak aloud in a situation in which there are listeners although the listeners do not speak.

Choose one of these stories to write a monologue.

Research the author’s background and relate in two or three paragraphs how his or her writings were meant to affect society. This should go at the top of the page, then the monologue.

Be sure to include a Works Cited at the bottom of each monologue; you will not need an outline.

Compose a one-page monologue. It should illustrate personality traits and guiding values of a character in the story in a creative fashion.  

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed.” He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.

There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.

When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow- creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention make the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

“Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. “Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven’s sake open the door.”

“Go away. I am not making myself ill.” No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.

Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister’s importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister’s waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.

Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

But Richards was too late.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills.

*****

Kate Chopin wrote “The Story of an Hour” on April 19, 1894. It was first published in Vogue (the same magazine that is sold today) on December 6, 1894, under the title “The Dream of an Hour.” It was reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895.

     

KINE 3810 Final Project

For this project, students will research a popular fad diet and apply what they have learned in class to determine whether or not they would recommend that diet to another person.

Project requirements:

• ●  Select a fad diet to research (please note that just because one of these diets makes
  claims to be “not a diet” they all still very much are):
  • ○  Keto
  • ○  Paleo
  • ○  Whole30
  • ○  Atkins
  • ○  South Beach
  • ○  Weight Watchers
  • ○  Noom
  • ○  Any other that comes to mind
• ●  Do your research on this diet and answer these questions (use this template):
  • ○  Name of chosen diet
  • ○  Outline the diet
    • What does it entail, what are the requirements and expectations
      • ●  What foods are on/off limits
      • ●  How much food/how many calories are prescribed
    • Who is it targeted for (age, gender, etc.)
    • What is the purpose of this diet?

● What claims do they make to help people? ■ How much does it cost?

○ Does this diet have coaches who help others? ■ What are their qualifications?

○ Provide some history on the diet ■ How and why was it started

● Based
○ Does this diet align with recommendations for healthy living?

■ What are the prudent recommendations that we’ve covered in class, and how do they compare to your chosen fad diet?

• ○  What are the pros and cons to your chosen diet? (Must explain at least 2 of each)
• ○  Who would you recommend to go on this diet?

■ And who would you recommend NOT go on this diet?

○ Is this specific diet necessary for health/weight loss/weight maintenance, or can that be done without a specific diet or label?

■ Make your case!

● Formatting
○ Follow the exact formatting template listed above (10 points)

on what you’ve learned in class:

○ You must provide a references page to demonstrate where you researched your fad diet (10 points)

■ No specific format necessary; include links to websites ○ All papers must be submitted in PDF format (-10 points if not)

● Point

• ○  Content (100 points)
• ○  Formatting (20 points)
• ○  Total of 120 points possible