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economic concerns.

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Previously, you employed academic writing to describe business decisions made related to a segment of a multi-year integrated case study, and you suggested research needs that result from your interaction with the case. In this assignment, you will use concise business writing to create a presentation of your decisions and rationale for delivery to a C-suite executive in a corporation.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

  • Refer to “DBA-815 Integrated Case Study” located in the Course Add-Ons for this course.
  • Refer to the paper you wrote in the Topic 5 assignment as well as related instructed feedback.
  • This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
  • APA style is not required for this assignment, but correct and appropriate business writing is expected.

Directions:

Using the case study paper your wrote in Topic 5, create an executive summary presentation of the paper (5-7 slides, exclusive of the title and reference slides) with appropriate speaker notes that could be delivered to a C-suite executive in a corporation in less than 4 minutes. Consider the feedback from your instructor on the case study paper you completed in Topic 5. Include the following in your presentation:

  1. A summary of the business issue emphasizing the economic concerns.
  2. An overview of at least two viable potential resolutions and the supporting research and theory. (Reinforces C.2.3: Recommend the application of newly developed or revised theories to specific business opportunities and challenges.)
  3. An overview of the ethical implications of each option and the extent to which these ethical implications are influenced by the mission, vision, and core values of Purple Cloud. (Reinforces C.2.2: Recognize that values and ethics are fundamental to business success and sustainability.)
  4. Your recommended solution, rationale, and influence on the long-term organizational health of Purple Cloud. (Reinforces C.2.3: Recommend the application of newly developed or revised theories to specific business opportunities and challenges and C. 2.5: Validate and advance business practice through the appropriate application of business theory.)

Develop a health promotion pla

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Develop a health promotion plan, 2-3 pages in length, addressing a specific health concern within your community. Then, enlist the participation of a selected individual or group in an educational session about that health concern and associated health improvement strategies.

For this assessment, you will plan for and enlist the participation of an individual or group in a clinical learning activity based on a health promotion plan addressing a particular health concern affecting members of your community.

Professional Context

The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a clinical learning experience focused on health promotion associated with a specific community health concern. Such a plan defines the critical elements of who, what, when, where, and why that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation.

Demonstration of Proficiency

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

  • Competency 1: Analyze health risks and health care needs among distinct populations.
    • Analyze a community health concern that is the focus of a health promotion plan.
  • Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
    • Explain why a health concern is important for health promotion within a specific population.
    • Establish agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with participants.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
    • Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Note: Assessment 1 must be completed first before you are able to submit Assessment 4.

Preparation

The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a clinical learning experience focused on health promotion associated with a specific community health concern. Such a plan defines the critical elements of who, what, when, where, and why that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation. This assessment MUST be satisfactorily completed to complete Assessment 4 (live face-to-face presentation of the plan). These assessments (Assessment 1 and 4) meet the three-hour clinical learning experience required in this course.

To prepare for the assessment, consider various health concerns that you would like to be the focus of your plan, the populations potentially affected by that concern, and individuals or groups in your community who may be willing to take part in a presentation about that concern and suggested strategies for health improvement.

As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Vila Health: Effective Interpersonal Communications activity. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment. Completing activities is also a way to demonstrate engagement.

Consider inviting a community member or group to participate. Possible health concerns include, but are not limited to:

  • Bullying.
  • Medication reconciliation to prevent readmission.
  • Individual or family disaster preparedness.
  • Medication safety.
  • Home safety.
  • Depression management.
  • Fall prevention.
  • Pain management.
  • Immunizations.
  • Heart disease prevention (high blood pressure, stroke, heart failure).
  • Tobacco use (vaping, e-cigarettes, hookah, chewing tobacco, or smoking) cessation.

In addition, you are encouraged to:

  • Complete the Vila Health: Effective Interpersonal Communications simulation.
  • Review the health promotion plan assessment and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you will be asked to complete.
  • Review the MacLeod article, “Making SMART Goals Smarter.”

Instructions

Complete this assessment in two parts.

Part 1: Health Promotion Plan
  • Choose a specific health concern as the focus of your health promotion plan. Then, investigate your chosen concern and best practices for health improvement, based on supporting evidence.
  • Identify populations potentially affected by this health concern. Determine what their related concerns may be and explain why addressing this health concern is important for health promotion.
Part 2: Individual or Group Activity Participant Recruitment
  • Identify an individual or group among the affected population who may be willing to participate in an educational session about your chosen health concern and associated health improvement strategies. Then, research and document their potential learning needs and health promotion goals. Participants may include individuals, groups, or other community members.
  • Contact the selected individual or group and secure their agreement to participate in the educational session.
    • Meet with the individual or group to describe the session and collaborate in setting expectations for session outcomes, establishing agreed-upon goals, and suggesting possible revisions to the plan.
    • Confirm, with the individual or group, a date and time for the educational session and document the name and contact information (e-mail or phone) of the individual or group representative.
Document Format and Length

Your health promotion plan should be 2–3 pages in length. In a separate section of the plan, identify any participants and be sure to include their contact information.

Supporting Evidence

Support your health promotion plan with peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2020 resources. Cite at least three credible sources.

Graded Requirements

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the 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.

  • Analyze the health concern that is the focus of your health promotion plan.
    • Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.
  • Explain why a health concern is important for health promotion within a specific population.
    • Examine current population health data.
    • Consider the factors that contribute to health, health disparities, and access to services.
  • Establish agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with participants.
  • Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
    • Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
    • Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.

Before submitting your assessment for grading, proofread it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it difficult for them to focus on the substance of your plan.

types of media

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Instructions: Use the Venn Diagrams below to identify and compare/contrast the different types of media that could be used to create art. Each circle represents one specific media type. List qualities that are unique to that media type in these circles. Common elements of the media types are represented by the areas where the circles overlap in the middle. Media types to choose from include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and printmaking. Using the information you have listed within the Diagrams, write a 2-3 paragraph summary for each comparison set (Venn Diagram) which further explains and analyzes the similarities and differences between each media type analyzed.

supplemental growth hormone

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  1. Post on three separate days to the discussion board. Make an initial post that answers both questions, and then make two more posts on separate days to two different classmates. It is important to review the Discussion Board rubric to understand the expectations and grading criteria. Include at least one reference and citation using APA 6th edition format.
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  3. To begin discussing in this forum, click the forum title. Then, click Create Thread on the Action Bar to post your initial reply. To reply to a fellow participant, click the title of the initial post, then click Reply.
  4. If a child is born with an insufficient amount of growth hormone, he or she will develop dwarfism. Do you think that such a child should be given supplemental growth hormone? What are the physical and ethical issues involved?

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Yasamin Sedaghat

Week 4 Discussion
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I do believe that if any child is born with an insufficient amount of growth hormones, the growth supplement should be given to them before the child being fully developed out of the womb of the mother. Just as they measure and take different tests of the baby to make sure he or she is healthy when they are out of the womb, surely they can also predict the growth hormones and how healthy the child is, for further development to take action. In one article it tells how doctors can do diagnostic tests for the child’s condition making sure their growth is not delayed or having any problems. (N.D., 2017) Physically their bodies can be disproportioned such as using their motor skills on walking and sitting up, arthritis, sleep apnea, numbness in the legs and much more problems depending on their situation. Yes, ethically people in our society do look at them differently because of their looks in their height and they would also need some special custom needs in their car to be able to drive such as fixing the gas pedal and raising the seat of in the car. But morally in all honesty, at the end of the day they are absolutely capable to do almost anything any normal human being are able to do. They are able to get the same education we are getting and go about in life with playing sports, games, doing different activities, and much more. In another article I found online, I read about how dwarfism can grow about through their genes of the family members and now doctors can perform several tests regarding of where it came from and help by giving them hormone injections. (L.N.D, 2017)

 

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APA Citations:

L. (n.d.). Dwarfism. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://www.humanillnesses.com/original/Conj-Dys/Dwarfism.html

 

(n.d.). Pituitary dwarfism. Retrieved February 27, 2017, from http://www.healthofchildren.com/P/Pituitary-Dwarfism.html

 

Sharmilla Bhagwandeen

clinical issue

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Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
  • Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest for the Assignment.
  • Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question.
  • Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 3: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

  • Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.
  • Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
  • Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
  • Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.
  • Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.

pharmacotherapeutic to treat the psychological disorder

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For this Discussion, you will select an interactive media piece to practice decision making when treating patients with psychological disorders. You will recommend the most effective pharmacotherapeutic to treat the psychological disorder presented and examine potential impacts of pharmacotherapeutics on a patient’s pathophysiology.

To Prepare
Review this week’s interactive media pieces and select one to focus on for this Discussion.
Reflect on the decision steps in the interactive media pieces, and consider the potential impacts from the administration of the associated pharmacotherapeutics on the patient’s pathophysiology.
By Day 3 of Week 8
Post a brief explanation of the psychological disorder presented and the decision steps you applied in completing the interactive media piece for the psychological disorder you selected. Then, explain how the administration of the associated pharmacotherapeutics you recommended may impact the patient’s pathophysiology. How might these potential impacts inform how you would suggest treatment plans for this patient? Be specific and provide examples.

http://cdnfiles.laureate.net/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6521/05/mm/decision_trees/week_09/index.html

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Creative Thinking

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PLEASE NOTE:   The URLs are not active links.  To access the sources, you will need to cut-and-paste the URL into your browser.  This will take you to the selected reading.

Creative Problem Solving:  6 Obstacles to Creative Thinking and How to Overcome Them:  Develop Problem Solving Skills for Business Success. Brian Tracy International Business Blog.  Accessed on July 31, 2015 at https://tinyurl.com/kuhocpv

Hereford, Z.  How to Think Critically and Problem Solve.  Essential Life Skills.  Accessed on July 31, 2015 at http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/thinkcritically.html

In this Module 4 Case Assignment you will build upon the Problem Scoping analysis you prepared in your Module 3 SLP assignment by:

1. Developing three alternative solutions that address the problem definition and criteria that you identified.

2. Comparing the pros and cons of those three alternatives.

3. Selecting the best alternative.

4. Developing a logical argument to support your choice.

You will apply these same analytic skills throughout your health sciences program, and they will serve you very well in your professional life.

Case Assignment

Use the Evaluate Alternative Solutions Template to complete your Case Assignment.

Note: Developing alternative solutions is essentially a brainstorming process. What can you do to solve the problem? That is an alternative. Proposed alternatives should be consistent with the problem(s) that you identified in your Module 3 SLP assignment.

Developing a list of good alternatives involves creativity and avoiding preconceived attitudes (knee-jerk solutions) and assumptions. Guidelines for alternative development include:

1. DON’T SETTLE FOR YOUR FIRST IDEA!

2. Good designers try to generate as many possible solutions as they can before choosing one that they feel is the best. This creative process of developing ideas is called ideation.

3. Methods of ideation include:

a. Examine existing solutions

b. Conduct brainstorming sessions. Remember the first rule of brainstorming – every idea is a viable one.

c. Develop as many alternatives as possible. When you are done, try to categorize your alternatives. Then develop three alternatives.

d. Sketching and doodling to create pictures of possible solutions.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

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The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

Note: This is an individual assignment. In 1,500-2,000 words, describe the teaching experience and discuss your observations. The written portion of this assignment should include:

  1. Summary of teaching plan (The topic is heart disease prevention, being taught in a community health center to young adults)
  2. Epidemiological rationale for topic
  3. Evaluation of teaching experience
  4. Community response to teaching
  5. Areas of strengths and areas of improvement

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. Please refer to the rubric attached.

pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes

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Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by suggesting additional patient factors that might have interfered with the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes of the patients they described.

In addition, suggest how the personalized plan of care might change if the age of the patient were different and/or if the patient had a comorbid condition, such as renal failure, heart failure, or liver failure.

 

Main Post

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics

A solid understanding of how drugs impact the body is essential. Pharmacokinetics explains how the body metabolizes drugs, and pharmacodynamics describes the effect of the drug on the body. This post will explore a patient case, including factors that might have altered the patient response to medication therapy and a discussion of a personalized plan of care for the above patient.The case is about an adverse drug reaction (ADR).

According to Rosenthal and Burchum (2018), there has been a dramatic increase in ADRs despite efforts to reduce them. Although many of these events are preventable with careful prescribing, some are not. About two years ago, I went to work and received morning report for my patients. One particular patient stood out. He was an otherwise healthy 19-year-old with no known medication allergies, no active home medications, or medical conditions. The prior evening, he had become agitated because he wanted to leave the hospital and received Haldol 5 mg, Ativan 2 mg, and Benadryl 50 mg. I went to assess him and saw him unresponsive to his environment, standing at the wall, facing it, and mumbling. He was not alert to person, place, time, nor situation. I immediately suspected rhabdomyolysis and alerted the provider. The provider looked at him and stated: “he is just crazy.” I explained the patient history and demanded an order to send the patient to the emergency department (ED), which occurred. Later on, I called the ED, and the diagnosis was indeed rhabdomyolysis. It would be too easy to state that the scenario above was merely an unfortunate adverse event. Dr. Buttaro had it correct when she mentioned in the video that prescribing is about ensuring the right drug, right patient, right time, and the right dose (Laureate Education, 2019). I believe that a different medication choice in the scenario would have prevented rhabdomyolysis or lower doses.

The most likely etiology of the rhabdomyolysis was the administration of these medications. I do not think genetics, sex, age, ethnicity, or existing disease impacted this scenario. All three drugs increase the risk of developing rhabdomyolysis, especially for someone who had never taken antipsychotics or benzodiazepines (Stanley & Adigun, 2018). My plan of care for the patient would include verbal de-escalation as the first line of treatment and a low dose of hydroxyzine for agitation if needed. This medication choice would most likely be sufficient for someone who does not take medications at all. A safe rule for a prescriber is to go low and slow when prescribing drugs and monitor responses to therapy accordingly.

References

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2019). Introduction to Advanced Pharmacology. Baltimore, MD: Author.Rosenthal, L. D., & Burchum, J. R. (2018). Lehne’s pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice providers. St. Louis, MO:        Elsevier.Stanley, M., & Adigun, R. (2018). Rhabdomyolysis. In StatPearls. Retrieved from        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448168/

Preparing the paper

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Requirements:

  1. This paper will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.
  2. Create this assignment using Microsoft (MS) Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx.”
  3. Submit to the appropriate assignment area by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of the week due. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Discussion topic.
  4. The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, excluding title page and reference page
  5. APA format (6th edition) is required in this assignment, including a title page and reference page. Use APA level 1 headings for the organizational structure of this assignment. Remember that the introduction does not carry a heading that labels it as a level heading in APA format. The first part of your paper is assumed to be the introduction. See APA manual for details. See resource under the course Library Guide, “Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers.” Use the suggested format and headings to organize your assignment.
    1. Include introduction (do not label as a heading in APA format)
    2. Key Concepts of Strategic Plan
    3. Priorities
    4. Supporting Evidence
    5. Conclusion

Preparing the paper

You are the nurse executive of a healthcare organization. To ensure the organization’s success, you must develop a strategic plan scenario to address the nursing shortage in an area of your choice. Please ensure no identifying names are used in your scenario.

  1. Clear introduction of your strategic plan in the introduction paragraph; including a sentence that states the purpose of your paper.
  2. Clearly articulate key concepts of your strategic plan, which include:
  3. stating whom will be involved in the strategic-planning process, their position or role within the organization, and your rationale(s) for including each member of the team.

Interview one person who is currently in the role of one of the persons you would include in your strategic plan process. Ask that person how they view their role in transforming healthcare and making a difference in the lives of patients and families. Include a copy of their curriculum vitae (CV) and a transcript of your interview (not included in the 3 page limit for the assignment); include email communications from you to the person, in the event you do not receive a response. Include all information from the interview as an addendum to your assignment; and

  1. using a SWOT analysis approach, discuss strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats you must consider internal and external to the organization. A table is acceptable if you prefer to use this format for your SWOT analysis information.
  2. State your top two priorities, based on your SWOT analysis, to address the nursing shortage for your organization from your strategic plan and discuss how these priorities relate to leadership and the Person-Centred Framework by McCormack and McCance (2017).
  3. Include of a minimum of three sources of scholarly, empirical evidence that support your strategic plan.
  4. Provide concluding statements for your overall assignment content.
  5. The paper will be three pages maximum, excluding title and reference page(s).
  6. Title and reference page(s) must be in APA format (6th edition).
  7. Use 12 Times New Roman font and one-inch margins on all sides of the paper.