HS450 Strategic Planning and Organizational Development for Health Care

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 HS450-1: Assess the impact of leadership, mission, vision, ethics and culture on the foundation for strategic planning Unit Outcomes  Define the relationship between visionary leadership, emotional intelligence, and employee motivation.  Examine the concepts of ethics and cultural diversity for effective leadership in strategic management. PC-4.3: Apply concepts of multiculturalism and diversity to become a change agent. Instructions Assessing and improving employee motivation are essential for effective strategic management. These skills can promote improved job satisfaction and overall productivity for successful outcomes in strategic planning for healthcare organizations. In order to properly assess motivation and satisfaction, a leader must be able to understand the needs and interpret the emotions of employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. This is referred to as emotional intelligence, which involves a sensitivity to and understanding of human expressions. (Human expressions can include facial expressions, body language, verbal communication, etc.) Conduct searches in the Library for journal articles that address the topics of emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership. Then, go to the internet and conduct a search for “free emotional intelligence test.” After completing your EI test, answer the following questions: 1. How does EI differ from traditional conceptions of intelligence? 2. After completing the emotional intelligence test, do you think that emotional intelligence can be “learned?” Do you see value in focusing on working to increase your emotional intelligence? Why or why not? (To answer this question, apply the findings from your EI self-evaluation.) 3. Is there a relationship between EI and leadership, between EI and motivation? How would you define those relationships? 4. Have you worked for a manager that you think exhibited a high degree of EI? Conversely, have you worked for a manager that exhibited a low level of EI? What was the impact of this manager(s) on your own motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction? Do you think the manager’s EI was beneficial when interacting with employees from culturally diverse backgrounds? Provide specific examples to explain the effects on cultural diversity in the workplace. ● Please complete Assignment in a Microsoft Word® document. ● The body of your document should be at least 1000 words in length. ● Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper. Paraphrasing is necessary. ● Students must cite and reference at least four credible sources. ● APA format is required. ● Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success  

Design Processes and Delivery Strategies

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Overview

In the Project Analysis and Instructional Objectives assignment, you developed the instructional objectives for your project. Building on this, you will create strategies that support the identified objectives and content. For this week’s assignment, you will develop instructional strategies, delivery strategies, and the learner-related sequence. Use the Internet to locate resources that focus on different types of delivery strategies.

Instructions

Write a 6 page paper in which you:

  • Outline the learner-related sequencing related to your design strategy, including the sequence, description, and related objective.
  • Determine three instructional learning strategies that clearly correlate with the learning objectives and instructional content created in the Project Analysis and Instructional Objectives assignment.
  • Determine three examples of instructional strategies that are appropriate based on the learner analysis.
  • Create an instructional message for the content. Specify the function, content structure, learner, and task attributes as they relate to your project.
  • Select two appropriate delivery strategies based on the instructional objectives. Provide a rationale for your selection.
  • Select two appropriate delivery strategies based on the instructional context. Provide a rationale for your selection.
  • Select two appropriate delivery strategies based on the instructional strategies. Provide a rationale for your selection.
  • Use your textbook, Internet to locate at least three reputable references (no more than ten years old). Note: Appropriate academic resources include reputable websites, scholarly texts, and peer-reviewed articles. Wikipedia and other wikis do not qualify as academic resources.

Assignment 06: Appealing Decisions

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HA4070D – Regulatory Environment in Health Care

Assignment 06: Appealing Decisions

 

Directions

Complete the questions below based on the problem identified. Your written response should be no less than two to three pages in length.

Problem: Mr. H. was a diabetic and had severe ulcers on his feet. He was a member of an HMO, and his primary care physician had prescribed a treatment regimen that was proving ineffective. In response, the primary care physician offered Mr. H. an amputation below the knee that was his only option. Mr. H. went out of plan to a local wound care center that specialized in diabetic wound treatment where he was advised that vein by-pass surgery would likely take care of his problem. The HMO denied such surgery because Mr. H. referred himself to the specialist without permission. The HMO advised Mr. H.’s family that its utilization review department was reviewing the case, but that it would take at least a month to review. Subsequently, the HMO agreed to approve such surgery, but only if done by Mr. H.’s current medical group, which did not have any physician who had ever performed vein by-pass surgery. Mr. H.’s family asked for him to be transferred to a primary care physician at the medical group that staffs the wound care center. The HMO responded that although they sometimes approve such requests, they would not do so in Mr. H.’s case and that they had already granted enough of his requests. They gave as their reason a provision in the plan documents that prevent referrals outside the plan’s network when the network’s physicians have the capability to perform the required procedure.

This problem is adapted from a real case history developed by the Center for Health Care Rights in California.

• What procedural remedies does the patient likely have under private insurance and under Medicare or Medicaid?

• Are they adequate?

Be sure to include the following based on the criteria below:

Student examines legal issues related to healthcare rationing and medical necessity.

Student identifies remedies the patient would have under private insurance and if they are adequate.

Student identifies remedies the patient would have under Medicare and if they are adequate.

Student identifies remedies the patient would have under Medicaid and if they are adequate.

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SOCW 6520 Assignment 2: process recording

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SOCW 6520 Assignment 2: process recording

A process recording is a written tool used by field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.

For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.

Note: You are submitting a written transcript, not an audio or video recording.

The Assignment (2–4 pages):

  • Provide      a transcript of what happened during your field education experience,      including a dialogue of interaction with a client.
  • Explain      your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social      work practice theories, and explain how it might relate to diversity or      cultural competence covered this week.
  • Describe      your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client      during your field education experience.
  • Explain      how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities      during your process recording.

Human development

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Assignment:

Essay: Write a 1000-1800 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each questions. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which question you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

1. What strengths and limitations do the clinical (or case study) method and ethnography have in common?

2. Distinguish among age-graded, history-graded, and non-normative influences on lifespan development. Cite an example of each in Sofie’s story at the beginning of this chapter.

3. What is epigenesis, and how does it differ from range of reaction and genetic–environmental correlation? Provide an example of epigenesis.

4. Links between family and community foster development throughout the lifespan. Cite several examples from our discussion that support this idea.

5. Why is genetic counseling called a communication process? Who should seek it?

6. Using your knowledge of X-linked inheritance, explain why males are more vulnerable than females to miscarriage, infant death, genetic disorders, and other problems.

7. Why is the period of the embryo regarded as the most dramatic prenatal period? Why is the fetal period called the “growth and finishing” phase?

8. What functions does REM sleep serve in young infants? Can sleep tell us anything about the health of the newborn’s central nervous system? Explain.

Discussion Board 3: Designer Babies

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The topic of your lesson this week is Biotechnology and Genomics. A designer baby is a human embryo which has been genetically modified, usually following guidelines set by the parent or scientist, to produce desirable traits. This is done using various methods, such as germline engineering or pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This technology is the subject of ethical debate, bringing up the concept of genetically modified “superhumans” to interbreed with and eventually replace modern humans.

Creating genetically modified children is no longer a science fiction fantasy, it’s likely a future scenario. Biologist Paul Knoepfler estimates that within fifteen years, scientists could use the gene editing technology CRISPR to make certain ‘upgrades’ to human embryos-from altering appearances to eliminating the risk of auto-immune diseases.

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis has the ability to select an embryo based on gender preferences. Since changing a gender is not needed, but desired this could cause much controversy. Additionally, the procedure is able to create a donor offspring or a “savior sibling”, which can assist a pre-existing offspring for medical purposes. PGD can help select for desirable traits by avoiding implanting embryos with genes that have serious diseases or disabilities.

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing is used to match patients and donors for bone marrow or cord blood transplants. HLA are proteins, or markers, found on most cells of your body. Your immune system uses these markers to recognize which cells belong in your body and which do not. It’s a donor whose HLA are very closely matched to the recipients. The best donors for HLA are siblings. Siblings are more closely matched than non siblings.

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is an assisted reproductive technology (ART) commonly referred to as IVF. IVF is the process of fertilization by extracting eggs, retrieving a sperm sample, and then manually combining an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish. The embryo(s) is then transferred to the uterus.

The first designer baby in the United States was Adam Nash was from Colorado in 1990. In 1989 Adam Nash was conceived to save his 6 year old sister Molly, who was dying from an extremely rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia. This rare bone marrow failure disease is passed down through families as an autosomal recessive disease. It results in decreased production of all types of red blood cells. Molly was unable to find a bone marrow match for a transplant. Through IVF, HLA Typing, and PGD, the Nash family had Adam. He had the stem cells in his umbilical cord that would save her life. Molly is now 23 years old. The Nash family went on to have a third, healthy child through IVF, again selecting an embryo without the Fanconi gene. The book My Sister’s Keeper (2009) was written by Jodi Picoult and loosely based on the Nash family. It is now a movie starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin.

Britain’s first designer baby was Jodie, born in 2005. Her older brother Joshua had a rare, incurable bone marrow disease called Diamond Blackfin Anemia.

Take it one step further…In 2018 in China, genetics researcher He Jiankui at the Southern University of Science and Technology used a DNA editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9 on human embryos to create twin girls with a modification to reduce the rick of HIV infection. His team performed “gene surgery” on embryos created from their parents’ sperm and eggs to protect the children from the human immunodeficiency virus which causes AIDS. The father is HIV positive.

For this discussion board:

From the information given in the videos and the reading, answer each question below in numbered paragraphs 

1. In the TEDTalk, Paul Knoepfler talked about two hypothetical kids, Jenna and Maryann. Describe what he said were the differences between a “natural’ kid and a “GM’ kid.
2. Describe what kind of risks/issues, good and bad, can be seen with these “GM” kids?
3. Explain how CRISPR-Cas9 is used to create GM kids.
4. Is it wrong to produce designer babies, tested to ensure the absence of harmful genes, to be tissue donors for sick siblings? Share your thoughts.
5. Read your classmate’s posts and respond to one student whose thoughts about designer babies used to treat sick siblings was different from yours.

It will be necessary for you to find sources to get information on your stories. Remember to always give credit or cite your source information. This should be written in your own words. You show understanding of the topic when you can summarize it without using the same phrases or word choice as the original sites or videos. Changing a few words in a sentence is still plagiarism. The link below is a good tutorial about avoiding plagiarism in your writing.

https://library.tccd.edu/resources/tutorials/plagiarism/index.php

Cite your sources using APA style. The website below has information to help you cite your source(s) correctly.

https://library.purdueglobal.edu/writingcenter/citationguides

Hover over “Citation Guides” to choose the correct type of source.

Below is another resource regarding APA style from the TCC Library.

https://library.tccd.edu/academic_support/citations

Choose reliable sources like those found using the article database from the TCC library (Today’s Science and Science in Context by Gale are great), information from universities, and governmental websites (https://www.choosemyplate.gov

https://www.usda.gov/topics/food-and-nutrition) Wikipedia and personal websites/blogs are not good sources.

Grading criteria (Please see Grading Rubric for more detailed criteria):

10 points – grammar and source information, numbered paragraphs

8 points – described the differences between a ‘natural’ kid and a “GM’ kid.

8 points – described risks/issues for “GM” kids

8 points – explained how CRISPR-Cas9 is used to make “GM” kids

8 points – gave thoughts on designer babies being used to treat sick siblings

8 points – read your classmate’s posts and responded to thoughts different from yours about designer babies used to treat sick siblings

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drug treatment for a psychiatric disorder depression

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The final assignment for this class will be a 7-8-page critical review of the drug treatment for a psychiatric disorder (broadly defined to include psychological and neurological disorders as well). The review will use peer-reviewed sources to evaluate the current drug treatment modalities for the selected disorder and determine the adequacy of those treatments. The paper will be evaluated on the inclusion of the following information:

Introduction 
Evaluate the disorder in terms of symptomatic and behavioral presentation. Include the time, course, and progression of the disorder. Evaluate and explain special features of the disease epidemiology.

Theory
Evaluate the predominant theory or theories regarding the biological basis of the disorder. Explain the disorder in terms of pertinent neurotransmitter and receptor theories and describe the pertinent evidence of their involvement.  Analyze the neurotransmitter systems in terms of the involved receptors and the use receptor agonists and antagonists in the treatment of the disorder receptor. Include information on the anatomic changes to the central nervous system as appropriate to the topic.

Treatment 
Evaluate drug therapies for treating the disorder based on the current understanding of the biological basis of the disorder and the corresponding behavioral effects of the disorder. Explain pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in relation to the disorder and corresponding drug treatment. Describe any side effects and adverse effects of the drug treatment and their biological basis, including issues related to contraindications, interactions, drug metabolism, and elimination. In addition, explain risks, benefits, and ethical implications for high-risk and exceptional treatment conditions.

Conclusion 
Summarize theories of psychiatric disease as they relate to principles of drug action within the chosen topic. Evaluate advantages and disadvantages of the current theory of the disorder and its treatment and evaluate any controversies regarding ethical and/or risk-benefits perspectives associated with the current treatment. Describe possible areas for future research.

550-750 words no plagiarism!

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Read the case study Apple and Its Suppliers: Corporate Social Responsibility, taking careful note of examples and explanations of Apple’s views on corporate social responsibility, countries involved in the supply chain, and whom the public held responsible for the ethical violations.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

  • Key Points: Briefly summarize key points that the case raises, such as who was involved; key problems and concerns identified; and questions about corporate social responsibility, public opinion, and/or international business.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility: Explain how corporate social responsibility, specifically related to employee treatment, is important to a business.
  • Public Opinion: Explain how the media and public opinion influenced the situation and what lessons a business practitioner can learn from Apple’s experience with how the media and the public can impact business.
  • International Business: The case states that although the concerns regarding poor employee treatment were related to events at manufacturing facilities such as Foxconn and Pegatron, the concerns regarding corporate social responsibility fell to Apple. Explain what this can teach business professionals about international business and supply chain management.
  • Labor Practices: Compare the advantages and disadvantages of commonly used labor practices in international business.
  • The Road Ahead: The end of the case raises a few questions regarding how Apple should proceed. On the basis of what you have learned in this module and throughout the course, explain how you think Apple should have proceeded following the incident outlined in the case and why. Make sure to use evidence from course and/or external resources to support your response.

Linear Programming Project

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Overview

For this assignment, your instructor will assign a linear programming project based on the following specifications:

  • It will be a problem with at least three constraints and at least two decision variables.
  • The problem will be bounded and feasible. It will also have a single optimum solution (in other words, it won’t have alternate optimal solutions).
  • The problem will also include a component that involves sensitivity analysis and the use of the shadow price.

Instructions

You will be turning in two deliverables, a short writeup of the project, and the spreadsheet showing your work.

Writeup

Your writeup should introduce your solution to the project by describing the problem.

  • Correctly identify what type of problem this is. For example, you should note if the problem is a maximization or minimization problem, as well as identify the resources that constrain the solution.
  • Identify each variable and explain the criteria involved in setting up the model.       This should be encapsulated in one or two succinct paragraphs.
  • After the introductory paragraph, write out the LP model for the problem.       Include the objective function and all constraints, including any non-negativity constraints. Then, you should present the optimal solution, based on your work in Excel. Explain what the results mean.
  • Finally,       write a paragraph addressing the part of the problem pertaining to sensitivity analysis and shadow price.

Spreadsheet

Please set up your problem in QM for Windows or Excel and find the solution using Solver.

  • Clearly label the cells in your spreadsheet.
  • You will turn in the entire spreadsheet, showing the setup of the model, and the results.

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 is:

  • Determine an approach to a problem that uses a linear programming model.

Research Paper-need to write in a professional Way

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Project Prompt: 

The portfolio project is a three- part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare your paper as one research paper. Be sure to include at least one UC library source per prompt, in addition to your textbook (which means you’ll have at least 4 sources cited). 

Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.

Prompt 1 “Data Warehouse Architecture” (2-3 pages): Explain the major components of a data warehouse architecture, including the various forms of data transformations needed to prepare data for a data warehouse. Also, describe in your own words current key trends in data warehousing. 

Prompt 2 “Big Data” (1-2 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how you’ve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology? 

Prompt 3 “Green Computing” (1-2 pages):  One of our topics in Chapter 13 surrounds IT Green Computing. The need for green computing is becoming more obvious considering the amount of power needed to drive our computers, servers, routers, switches, and data centers. Discuss ways in which organizations can make their data centers “green”. In your discussion, find an example of an organization that has already implemented IT green computing strategies successfully. Discuss that organization and share your link. You can find examples in the UC Library.

Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section. 

The paper needs to be approximately 5-8 pages long, including both a title page and a references page (for a total of 7-10 pages). Be sure to use proper APA formatting a