Compare at least two evidence-based treatment plans for adults diagnosed with schizophrenia with evidence-based treatment plans for children and adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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Children and adolescents with schizophrenia have more difficulty functioning in academic or work settings, and significant impairment usually persists into adulthood. They may have speech or language disorders and in some cases borderline intellectual functioning. These individuals are more likely to complete suicide attempts or die from other accidental causes. Schizophrenia is characterized by positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, and behavior disturbance. Negative symptoms include blunted affect and attention, apathy, and lack of motivation and social interest.

In this Assignment, you compare treatment plans for adults diagnosed with schizophrenia with treatment plans for children and adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia. You also consider the legal and ethical issues involved in medicating children diagnosed with schizophrenia.

To Prepare for this Assignment:

· Review the Learning Resources concerning early-onset schizophrenia.

The Assignment (2 pages):

· Compare at least two evidence-based treatment plans for adults diagnosed with schizophrenia with evidence-based treatment plans for children and adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia.

· Explain the legal and ethical issues involved with forcing children diagnosed with schizophrenia to take medication for the disorder and how a PMHNP may address those issues.

Note: (1)To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

(2) DO NOT FORGET TO INCLUDE INTRODUCTION,CONCLUSION AND

REFERENCES

Required Readings

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1268–1283)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

“Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders”

McClellan, J., & Stock, S. (2013). Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(9), 976–990. Retrieved from http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(13)00112-3/pdf

Giles, L. L., & Martini, D. R. (2016). Challenges and promises of pediatric psychopharmacology. Academic Pediatrics, 16(6), 508–518. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2016.03.011

Hargrave, T. M., & Arthur, M. E. (2015). Teaching child psychiatric assessment skills: Using pediatric mental health screening tools. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 50(1), 60–72. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/docview/1702699596?accountid=14872

Describe and evaluate the market forces, current trends, and changes in drug benefit programs over the last fifteen years.

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Using the Internet, research on a series of topics that will help you understand the current issues regarding managed care. You can use keywords, such as (but not limited to) managed care, current trends and issues in managed care, pharmacy benefit management, or utilization management. Like many other aspects of health care, managed care is continually changing and evolving to meet current consumer and market demands. The following topics:

Pharmacy benefit management

Utilization management

Use the following guidelines for developing your essay:

Select at least two articles for each topic, and write a review for each source of information.

Present a summary for each topic tying together the information learned about that topic.

Describe and evaluate the market forces, current trends, and changes in drug benefit programs over the last fifteen years.

Discuss basic approaches and techniques used in utilization management.

Analyze the future of utilization management approaches. How might they change and why?

Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from reputable and scholarly texts, websites, and other references.

Based on your research, summarize your findings on the selected topics and compile your observations in a 5 page Microsoft Word document.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format

psychosocial and Behavioral Aspects of Chronic Disease

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psychosocial and Behavioral Aspects of Chronic Disease

Disease prevention is a key concern for public health professionals. Preventing chronic disease is often difficult due to factors that are beyond the control of health professionals. For instance, research has indicated that certain types of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, and other chronic diseases are influenced by genetic factors in addition to—and perhaps as much as—environmental and lifestyle factors. Thus, as a public health professional, it is important to consider the difficulties in preventing and treating chronic diseases.

In this Discussion, you explore psychosocial and behavioral factors faced by patients with chronic diseases. You consider several scenarios related to various aspects of chronic disease and provide recommendations for how to address those aspects. Also, you identify challenges that might arise with your recommendations and how those challenges could be managed.

post which scenario you selected and provide a brief summary of the psychosocial factors that influence the health behavior and the disease. Then explain how public health strategies or interventions could be used to address the psychosocial factors you identified. Include in your explanation the challenges associated with these strategies or inventions, and how the challenges can be addressed. Finally, explain why it is important for health professionals and public health practitioners to understand how psychosocial factors impact disease.

Resources:

www.cdc.gov/pcd/about_the_journal/index.htm

www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/index.htm

http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd_report2010/en/

http://www.who.int/topics/noncommunicable_diseases/en/

Assessing Critical Business Indicators

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Discussion: Assessing Critical Business Indicators

In order to be a sound financial manager, you need to know the fiscal intricacies of your organization or department. Decisions about future expenditures should be based on careful calculations of organizational or departmental needs. By using critical business indicators, you can more effectively balance the fiscal realities of your budget with the functional demands of your department.

In this Discussion, you examine the use of critical business indicators to assist in financial decision making for a health care department or organization.

By Day 1 of this week, your Instructor should assign you a problem from the Zelman, McCue, and Glick online text. If you did not receive an assignment, contact your Instructor.

To prepare:

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on how critical business indicators can be used in financial decision making.
  • For the problem you were assigned, complete the calculations and then answer the questions included.
  • Select a different business indicator than you used in your problem. Reflect on how this critical indicator could assist a nurse manager to more effectively balance the demands placed on a department while still meeting budgetary constraints. Find an example.
  • Assess the ramifications of making a decision without having the types of information these business indicators provide.
  • If it was imperative for you to make a certain purchase or launch a new initiative, but your break-even point was calculated as higher than the expected revenues, what are your options?
By Day 3

Post your response to the question you were assigned and explain your reasoning.

Suggest how nurse managers could use the critical business indicator you selected to both meet the needs of a department or organization and remain within budget. Provide a specific example. Describe potential ramifications of making a financial decision without using business indicators. Specify strategies for addressing a situation where a break-even point is higher than expected revenues.

Identify strategies for developing any areas of opportunity or areas for enhancing your emotional intelligence

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Assignment: Emotional Intelligence

Empathy, motivation, self– and social awareness—what thoughts or images arise as you read these words? These terms relate to skills for understanding, expressing, and managing emotions in self and others, which are attributes of emotional intelligence.

Research frequently demonstrates the importance of emotional intelligence for leaders and managers. In health care, nursing leaders who demonstrate emotional intelligence can positively influence organizational outcomes by contributing to improved nurse retention, increased job satisfaction, and better health outcomes for patients (Codier, Muneno, Franey, & Matsuura, 2010).

To further your self–knowledge, you examine your own emotional intelligence and consider strategies for developing this important leadership characteristic.

To Prepare

Review the leaning resources for Week 10. There are 2 tests that are available to you to assess your personal Emotional Intelligence. Take both the tests and consider your personal attributes of emotional intelligence..

Identify strategies for developing any areas of opportunity or areas for enhancing your emotional intelligence. What do you need to do to achieve or sustain a high level of performance in this area?

Also consider how to work with leaders who do not demonstrate strong emotional intelligence (EI) or whose EI strengths differ from yours. Include these strategies as well.

To Complete

Write a 2– to 3–page paper that describes the results of your emotional intelligence assessment and include your strategies for developing your EI. Be sure to refer to your week 10 resources to develop these strategies and of course cite any references that you use. Also consider how to work with leaders who do not demonstrate strong emotional intelligence (EI) or whose EI strengths differ from yours. Include these strategies as well. Refer to your assignment rubic for grading criteria.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this weeks’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Review the information found at Mind Tools: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_59.htm

Trivella, P., Gerogiannis, V., & Svarna, S. (2013). Exploring Workplace Implications of Emotional Intelligence (WLEIS) in Hospitals: Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions. Procedia–Social and Behavioral Sciences 73(27). 701–709.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Van der Linden, D., Tsaousis, I., & Petrides, K. V. (2012). Overlap between General Factors of Personality in the Big Five, Giant Three, and trait emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 53(3), 175–179.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Greater Good. (2012). Body language quiz: Test your emotional intelligence. Retrieved from http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ei_quiz/

Take this free online assessment, and note your results for this week’s Discussion.

Institute for Health and Human Potential. (2015). Emotional Intelligence Quiz. Retrieved from http://www.ihhp.com/free–eq–quiz/

Required Media

Morrison, J. (2015). Emotional intelligence and the nursing leader. [Video]. Retrieved from http://laureate.adobeconnect.com/p739tu8t9zm/

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 16 minutes.

Optional Resources

Chang, B. P., Vacanti, J. C., Michaud, Y., Flanagan, H., & Urman, R. D. (2013). Emotional intelligence in the operating room: Analysis from the Boston Marathon bombing. American journal of disaster medicine, 9(2), 77–85.

How Hospitals Can Improve Crisis Management When Tragedy Strikes

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Healthcare Management or HR “How Hospitals Can Improve Crisis Management When Tragedy Strikes”

Research Paper (35%)The purposes of this assignment are to help you a) more effectively use research resources through library data bases and search engines to complete course requirements, b) improve your critical thinking skills, and c) develop your effectiveness in writing about topics relevant to course objectives and health care administration.Scenario: You have been hired as the vice president for operations for Intravalley Health. One of your first tasks is to educate the board of directors concerning the evolving nature of healthcare and how it impacts the health system.Identify a professional or scholarly journal article that addresses a topic within one of these broad areas:Change management, conflict resolution, strategic communication, preparedness, or crisis management in healthcare.Human resources specific to healthcare: physician relations, staff recruitment and retention, in-service training, policy making and enforcement, counseling and professional development, credentialing, or management.The patient experience and satisfaction surveys.Medical tourism.Students will access, review, and integrate the findings of professional journal articles in a paper equivalent to 10-12 printed, double spaced pages of text (not including title page and references). The articles are to be from professional and scholarly journals. As a general guideline, if you can find the resource at a magazine stand, it probably is not a professional journal. The articles you choose should be recent (last 5 years) and should be primary rather than secondary. As you know from your Library Skills course, sources such as Time, Forbes, the Washington Post and other newspapers, while often useful information resources, would not be appropriate for this paper. The board of director consists of preeminent social scientists, therefore your report should be delivered in APA format, including a title page, abstract and reference list. The page count pertains to the body of the paper only. (Professional journals required as references.)

The chosen topic is How hospitals can improve Crisis management when Tragedy strikes

Explain why information and technology skills are essential for safe patient care

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Information and technology skills are essential for safe patient care

Incorporate your essay to the answers to this questions. Thanks! 1. Explain why information and technology skills are essential for safe patient care. 2. Identify the baccalaureate nurses′ role in championing the use of information and technology to improve safety and patient outcomes. 3. Provide examples of how nurses use technology to make health care-related decisions. 4. Analyze relationship between the quality and integrity of data entered into a database and the resulting effect on the quality of patient care. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources, and develop an APA- formatted reference page.

What demographic variables were measured at the nominal level of measurement in the Oh et al. (2014) study?

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1. What demographic variables were measured at the nominal level of measurement in the Oh et al. (2014) study? Provide a rationale for your answer.

2. What statistics were calculated to describe body mass index (BMI) in this study? Were these appropriate? Provide a rationale for your answer.

3. Were the distributions of scores for BMI similar for the intervention and control groups? Provide a rationale for your answer.

4. Was there a significant difference in BMI between the intervention and control groups? Provide a rationale for your answer.

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5. Based on the sample size of N = 41, what frequency and percentage of the sample smoked? What frequency and percentage of the sample were non-drinkers (alcohol)? Show your calculations and round to the nearest whole percent.

6. What measurement method was used to measure the bone mineral density (BMD) for the study participants? Discuss the quality of this measurement method and document your response.

7. What statistic was calculated to determine differences between the intervention and control groups for the lumbar and femur neck BMDs? Were the groups significantly different for BMDs?

8. The researchers stated that there were no significant differences in the baseline characteristics of the intervention and control groups (see Table 2). Are these groups heterogeneous or homogeneous at the beginning of the study? Why is this important in testing the effectiveness of the therapeutic lifestyle modification (TLM) program?

9. Oh et al. (2014, p. 296) stated that “the adherence rate to the TLM program was 99.6%.” Discuss the importance of intervention adherence, and document your response.

10. Was the sample for this study adequately described? Provide a rationale for your answer.

Choose a contemporary moral issue in our society and apply the ethical principle of Utilitarianism to approve and be in favor of this moral issue.

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This is a TURNITIN assignment!

Choose a contemporary moral issue in our society and apply the ethical principle of Utilitarianism to approve and be in favor of this moral issue. You must pick a moral issue that you strongly agree with and apply the utilitarian claims to back up your arguments. In addition, you must apply Bentham’s Felicific Calculus.

“Not applying Utilitarianism or the Felicific Calculus results in an automatic F !!!

Utilitarianism is the ethical theory that the moral worth of an action is only determined by its contribution to overall utility . It is thus a form of consequentialism , meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome-the ends justifies the means.

– MLA format

– A minimum of 500 words!

– A minimum of 3 reference sources!

The Public Health Service originated in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service. Identify two (2) motivating factors that prompted that development.

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Discussion Board #9 Options Menu: Forum

Due at 4PM CST, Monday, October 30, 2017

HCA 340 500

Discussion Board Assignment #9

Chapter11–Public Health and the Role of Government in Health Care

Due at 8PM CST, Monday, October 30, 2017

Answer the following questions on Public Health Services:

The Public Health Service originated in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service. Identify two (2) motivating factors that prompted that development.

Why, in the 1960s, were the health-related programs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Neighborhood Health Centers assigned to non-health federal agencies instead of the Public Health Service? Please provide two (2) examples.

Public health efforts and those of private medicine complement each other and together serve the spectrum of health service needs of American society. Why, then, has their relationship been sometimes contentious and have they not consistently worked together proactively to improve the health status of Americans? Please provide two (2) examples.

Contrast the population-based orientation of public health with the individual-centered focus of private health practitioners. Provide two (2) examples.

Deaths in the United States that result from preventable causes total approximately 40% of all deaths each year. Deaths result from tobacco use, poor dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles. What additional two (2) actions should/could the U.S. health care system use to combat the factors that contribute to preventable deaths or incentivize more healthy living lifestyles among the most at-risk populations?