Which mood stabilizers are preferred for use in the geriatric population?

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Which mood stabilizers are preferred for use in the geriatric population?

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Unit 3 Discussion [Due Wednesday]

Mood Stabilizers

Instructions

It is anticipated that the initial discussion post should be in the range of 250-300 words. Response posts to peers have no minimum word requirement but must demonstrate topic knowledge and scholarly engagement with peers. Substantive content is imperative for all posts. All discussion prompt elements for the topic must be addressed. Please proofread your response carefully for grammar and spelling. Do not upload any attachments unless specified in the instructions. All posts should be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource, ideally within the last 5 years. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citations and references must adhere to APA format.

Classroom Participation

Students are expected to address the initial discussion question by Wednesday of each week. Participation in the discussion forum requires a minimum of three (3) substantive postings (this includes your initial post and posting to two peers) on three (3) different days. Substantive means that you add something new to the discussion supported with citation(s) and reference(s), you are not just agreeing. This is also a time to ask questions or offer information surrounding the topic addressed by your peers. Personal experience is appropriate for a substantive discussion, however, should be correlated to the literature. https://intellectualessay.com/2021/05/03/discussion-questionyou-have-a-patient-who-only-has-medicare-part-a-and-b-she/

All discussion boards will be evaluated utilizing rubric criteria inclusive of content, analysis, collaboration, writing, and APA. If you fail to post an initial discussion or initial discussion is late, you will not receive points for content and analysis, you may however post to your peers for partial credit following the guidelines above.

Discussion Prompt [Due Wednesday]

1. Discuss the use of conventional mood stabilizers in the treatment of bipolar depression. For this discussion, list at least two medications that have an FDA approval for bipolar depression. What are the risks/benefits of using these medications to treat bipolar depression? 

2. Which mood stabilizers are preferred for use in the geriatric population? 

3. Discuss topiramate. What is it used for (in psychiatry)? For this discussion include any associated monitoring, testing, or major side effects. 

4. Which mood stabilizers are FDA approved in children and adolescents for psychiatric disorders? 

5. Discuss gabapentin. What is it used for (in psychiatry)? For this discussion include any associated monitoring, testing, or major side effects. 

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format. https://educatoressay.com/2021/05/08/the-organizational-policy-is-defined-in-porche-2019-as-a-a-statement-that-is-a-guiding-principle-to-establish-direction-for-an-issue-or-statement-that-establishes-the-purpose-or-intent-of-s/

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 3 hours

Discussion Peer/Participation Prompt [Due Sunday]

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts with substantive comments using the following steps:

o Group 1 – Respond to group 2 members 

o Group 2 – Respond to group 1 members

 

o Substantive comments add to the discussion and provide your fellow students with information that will enhance the learning environment.

o References and citations should conform to APA standards.

o Remember: Please respect the opinions of others, even if their views differ. In other words, disagree professionally and respectfully.

o Plagiarism is never acceptable – give credit when credit is due – cite your sources.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format.

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criterion. Collaboration points will be forfeited if you fail to meet the response post guidelines.

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour

Best COVID Gear For Coronavirus

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What is the best mask or covid gear that can protect you from getting infected from corona virus? Read to find out.

Any mask and COVID gear that prevents airborne fluids from reaching your nose and face would work. The easiest way to test any barrier is to spray a mist of water at the mask. If you feel the mist on the other side, even without touching the barrier itself, then you can be infected.

Healthcare experts claim that wearing a mask doesn’t protect average people. Indeed, just a little thinking would show that it’s a myth: If masks don’t protect the wearer, why are healthcare workers so desperate to wear them? The fact is, multiple studies have shown that wearing a mask does protect the wearer from airborne illnesses.

A lot of people, especially mask manufacturers, also mislead people into thinking that you need a medical-grade or industrial mask with pores smaller than the virus. That would be true if individual viruses were floating in the air like pollen or dust, which can happen in a lab. But that’s not the case in normal settings.

They are carried by body fluids, mostly saliva and mucus secretions. If an infected individual cough and you breathe in the fluid particulates, you can be infected. It can also be spread if you touch an infected body part, e.g. shaking hands that have infectious fluids, then touching your nose or mouth. Now it’s very convenient to buy construction material such as concrete trowels or any other materials online

Business Finance

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Analyze the evolution of social media standards and practices and how it relates to the potential need for regulation of social media, along with ethical concerns.

Instructions

Many people get all or most of their news from social media. For this project, we are going to be analyzing the content of several social media sites from major news sources, paying particular attention to social media standards, practices, and regulation.

Where do you get your news? Start by going to one major news site’s FACEBOOK page (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc.) Try another different news site’s TWITTER feed, and third choose another social media site such as Reddit, Pinterest, or another (preferably one you use, if there is one).

Analyze the sites in a 3-5 page total paper. In your analysis, be sure to include the following:

  • General introduction to your thoughts on the social media you studied
  • Several social media practices you observed (e.g., what gets the most interaction?)
  • Examples of regulation of social media and discussion of such regulation (Is it good, bad, or indifferent? How could circumstances change the situation?)
  • Analysis of ethical concerns (e.g., can you see examples of bias?)
  • What is the culture of each site – how do users seem to respond to questionable items? (Is racism or open mocking ignored or pursued?)
  • Conclusion of your findings

Marketing Discussion 1

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Discussion 1 – Group 3

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Discussion Topics

Peter Drucker’s insights on marketing discussion:

(1) Even though much of Drucker’s writing was done decades ago, do you think his viewpoints are still relevant today? Why or why not? Explain.

(2) If you are a marketing manager practicing the marketing concept (i.e., a market orientation), how will Drucker’s insights help you to achieve the goal of a market orientation? Explain and give examples.

Marketing simulation discussion:

(3) What were your overall strategies in round 1? How did you spend the $5000? Was it effective? Why or why not?

Instructions
  • The initial post should be at least 200 words in length (or longer if necessary) to elaborate your viewpoints in detail.
  • The two follow-up posts should:
    • critique and/or elaborate upon two distinct points made by your fellow classmates.
    • include direct responses to two different viewpoints made by the same or other classmates.
    • have at least one reply post be 100-200 words (or longer if necessary) relates to what your classmates’ thoughts on the topic and also adds your own comments/ suggestions/examples on his/her viewpoints. The second post can be shorter (at least 50 words).

A comprehensive and detailed post is considered high quality post since it thoroughly answers and elaborates on the discussion questions. Make your discussion valuable. The higher the quality of your comments and postings, the higher the quality of the exchange will be. Be sure the content is productive and helpful, and represents mutual respect. Relate your answers to marketing principles and/or textbook chapters/marketing articles you read. Use terms that are familiar to most everyone in the field and spell out abbreviations and acronyms.

The Accounting Cycle and Journal Entries DP

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You will answer questions about the accounting cycle and prepare general journal entries.

Introduction

Have you looked at the balance sheet or income statement of companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or Facebook? What is their cash situation? How much profit are they making? What is their stock price? Investors and market participants examine such information on regular basis through a company’s financial statements.

When an organization reports its financial results to the world, the external users look to see if the organization made any money during its most recent year. Will the assets the organization owns, minus the debts it owes, result in any leftovers that can be put back into the organization to make more money, or reward the shareholders for their investment in the organization?

You have studied the business language of accounting and financial statements, and now you will explore the accounting cycle and its first few steps, including:

  • Recording of business transactions.
  • Using general journal entries.
  • Learning how a trial balance is used to prove the work completed in the first few steps in the accounting cycle.

Overview

In this assessment, you are required to answer questions about the accounting cycle and prepare general journal entries.

Preparation

Note: Accuracy in accounting is paramount. Take your time and double-check your work for errors or omissions.

Instructions

Step 1: Describe the accounting cycle with specified details.

Step 2: Create required journal entries.

Complete both parts using the Assessment 2 Template.

Part 1: Accounting Cycle

Respond to the short-answer questions found in the template on the Accounting Cycle tab using proper grammar and language.

Part 2: Journal Entries

Prepare specified journal entries.

4 page paper

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Organizations and IT Professionals must adhere to compliance and governance regulations. Three regulations of note are HIPAA, PCI, and SOX compliance. HIPAA is used in Healthcare.  PCI is used in credit card transactions. SOX is used in public organizations for data integrity.  Auditing is part of adherence to these regulations.    For this assignment, you will choose one organization that you are familiar with.  Then, you will choose the regulation associated with that business.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

  1. Briefly describe the organization that you chose. Identify which regulation you would associate with that organization.  Explain the purpose of the regulation for that business. 
  2. Identify the requirements for the organization in order to be compliant.  Outline the penalty for non-compliance.
  3. Explain how the regulation affects the work of the IT professional in that business.Assess the role of auditing in IT in order to be compliant. 
  4. Use at least four (4) quality references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality references.
  5. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: 
    1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
    3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze common Website attacks, weaknesses, and security best practices.Compare and contrast Web-based risks.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in securing Web-based applications.
  • Write clearly and concisely about Web application security topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Respond to Peer Post 3

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In your second response, critique a student’s Part 2 reply to the scenario that has not been critiqued by others, for each of the following:

  • Missing or out of place sequences of actions. Justify your assessment.
  • Determination of essential decisions and uncertainties. Justify your reasons.
  • Determination of risk profile for each choice. Explain your assessment.

POST TO RESPOND TO IN LISTED BELOW, YOU WILL USE THIS POST TO RESPOND USING THE BULLET POINTS ABOVE.

Toy 1 – Additional data needed:

  • How much would it cost to advertise?
  • What is everyone buying leading up to the holiday?
  • How much the toy cost to make?

Having a new toy on the market with no competitors is like driving into a parking garage that is empty. You are free to move around however you like. And because the competitors of ChoiceToys is missing out on this coming season, there may not be another competitor for a while. This allows ChoiceToys to make mistakes and correct those mistakes along the way. Since there is a 50/50 chance of it being successful, using advertisements can try to guide the success rate more towards the winning end. With a new toy on the market and no one knows how customers will react to it, it would be safe to say the profits maybe a little low. One way to have an idea of how customers will react is by using social media to see the people reactions.

Toy 2 – Additional data Needed:

  • How much more money can we spend on advertising this year?
  • Are there any markets that have not be approached?
  • How much the toy cost to make?
  • Can we expand our online presence?

Essentially, I would also try to figure out if there is anything else that could be added to the toy to maybe enhance it. Even if its just painting the toy with a more richer color than it normally is. I would also try to see if we can change the location of where the toy sits in the store. Maybe it could be closer to the front of the aisle and maybe make sure it sits low enough to be within kids eye view.

The toy industry is a billion-dollar industry. There is enough money to go around even with competition. But the best way to stay competitive without raising the price of the toy is by negotiating the price of the toy with the manufacture. Maybe we can lower the cost of how much the toys can be made. This way, even if we do not sell more then the other toys, we will still profit.

Causes and Consequences of Events in Healthcare

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Scenario

You are the Director of Education in your healthcare organization. Your organization is a teaching hospital, and you are responsible for presenting information to new employees and volunteers during their orientation, many of whom are recent graduates of healthcare programs. This presentation is used to give them a better understanding of why the healthcare system is the way it is today, including a summary of historical events that have shaped the U.S. healthcare system, so that they understand the causes and consequences of these events.

Instructions

Create a timeline for the historical events that have shaped the U.S. healthcare system in the past century. Once the timeline has been developed, create a PowerPoint presentation using the record audio feature to add Voiceover narration.

The timeline information should include:

  • A minimum of 20 events with a minimum of a three sentence description for each event.
  • Descriptions should list at least one cause as to why the event took place and at least one consequence it had on the U.S. healthcare delivery system.

The voiceover PowerPoint presentation should:

  • Include the timeline information for the historical events that have shaped the U.S. healthcare system in the past century.
  • Describe the events in detail included in the timeline to your audience of new employees and volunteers who are graduates of healthcare programs (e.g., nurses, medical assisting, health information management, medical school residency, etc.).
  • Explain the cause(s) and consequences of each of the events outlined in your timeline.
  • Have a minimum of 20 slides (not including title and APA reference slides).
  • Be at least 10 minutes long.
  • Be visually appealing and engaging to the suggested audience.

Mini Portfolio Presentation

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Mini Portfolio Presentation

This  focuses on Presentations and revision. You will create a presentation that combines your Proposal Assignment (Week 3) and the Feasibility Recommendations Report Assignment (week 5).  One of those assignments will be revised. There are two parts to this assignment.

Part I.  Revision: 

1.  Review the feedback to learner comments for the week 3 proposal and the week 5 feasibility recommendation report.

2.  Revise one of the assignments (your choice of week 3 or week 5) based on feedback from the instructor and peer reviews.

3.  In one-two paragraphs, explain what revisions were made to the chosen document.

4.  Upload the revised document (not the original) and the revision comments into the presentation (Part II)

Part II: Create a brief presentation

1.  Presentation format is your choice (PowerPoint, Word, or PDF)

a.  Expected length is 6-10 pages or slides

b.  One document

2.  Content:

a.  Presentation cover that has visual appeal and a title that is relevant to the proposal and feasibility or recommendation report topic/problem

b.  Documents should be in the following order:

 i.  Proposal Introduction

 ii.  Proposal Outline

 iii.  Feasibility or Recommendation Report Introduction

 iv.  Feasibility or Recommendation Report Outline

 v.  Revision comments (part 1)

3.  Add a minimum of 2 visual elements to the presentation that enhance the text

Format Requirements: Submit one document

·  Cover page introduces the presentation

·  Documents presented in the required order

·  Revision comments are the last slide

·  Visuals follow guidelines for effective use

Assignment checklist:

·  Check to see that all the documents are included and assembled in the required order

·  Check that the revision comments are included as the section of the presentation

·  Format (font and spacing) follows guidelines for presentations

·  Visual elements follow guidelines for effective use

·  Proofread and spell check your work

Week 9 Assignment – Problem-Solving Essay: Part 2

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  1. Week 9 Assignment – Problem-Solving Essay: Part 2
    Overview
    The 18th-century French writer known as Voltaire has been quoted as having said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
    When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it?
    This assignment asks you to apply a six-step problem-solving process to a specific problem scenario.
    Instructions
    You will write a paper that presents a synthesis of your ideas about solving the problem using this systematic approach.

    • Review the six-step problem-solving process outlined in the webtext.
    • Read the article, The Problem-Solving Process.
    • Write a 4–5 page paper in which you:
      • Define the problem in the scenario that you chose in the Week 7 assignment, Problem-Solving: Part 1.

     

Scenario 3:

You have two jobs: one during the week from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and the other on Saturday from 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. You are taking a class that meets from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. and a second class online. You have two kids: one who plays soccer and one who is in band. You have two elderly parents who no longer drive. You have a sibling living nearby, and your other sibling lives in another state. You have two papers due in your classes the same week that one of your children has a soccer tournament and the other has a band concert. You are coaching the soccer team and are in charge of fundraising for the band. You have a goal to complete your degree in two years. Your doctor tells you that your blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight are too high and recommends several medications that cost you nearly $200 per month after your insurance co-pay.

  • Analyze the problem in the scenario.
  • Generate options for solving the problem in the scenario.
  • Evaluate the options for solving the problem.
  • Decide on the best option for solving the problem.
  • Explain how you will implement the chosen solution and reflect on whether this option was the most effective.
  • The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:
  • Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
  • Address the main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
  • Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.
  • Use the Strayer Library to find at least five academic resources.
  • Use four sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
  • 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:
  • Analyze potential solutions to a problem in a given scenario.