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Media Split On Kaci Hickox’s Quarantine

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Question 1 :Media Split On Kaci Hickox’s Quarantine . Newsy. Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc2Eb9ksrFk on September 14, 2016.The Ebola outbreak in Western Africa has already claimed tho

Question 1 :

Media Split On Kaci Hickox’s Quarantine . Newsy. Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc2Eb9ksrFk on September 14, 2016.

The Ebola outbreak in Western Africa has already claimed thousands of lives and health organizations around the world fear that the number will only continue to rise. Kaci Hickox, a U.S. nurse who worked for Doctors Without Borders treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone for several days in 2014. When she returned to the US, she was detained and quarantined, despite showing no symptoms of Ebola.

Research the effects and symptoms of Ebola, then address the following questions in your initial post:

  1. Do you think the restrictive measures imposed on Ms. Hickox were justified?
  2. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of imposing these measures to guard against spreading potentially contagious diseases?

What ethical considerations should be taken into account in making decisions about when to impose these kinds of restrictive measures?

Question 2 :

  • Which topics and concepts in this course have been most interesting to you?
  • Which class activities or assignments helped you learn the most?
  • Which activities did you find the most challenging?
  • Describe how you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself through this course.
  • Evaluate the work you did during the session for the class and explain ways you could have performed better.
  • Identify topics you did not understand or successfully implemented and suggest how to improve the course material on those topics.
  • Do you feel you achieved the course outcomes? Why or why not?

Analyze the intersection of social, political, and economic factors affecting vulnerability

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The first of your two written assignments for the course will provide a beginning framework that you will utilize in the development of your Final Project: a proposal for a community-based program in

The first of your two written assignments for the course will provide a beginning framework that you will utilize in the development of your Final Project: a proposal for a community-based program in your area. For this first written assignment, you will select one of the vulnerable groups identified in the text that will serve as your target population of interest throughout the duration of your next written assignment and Final Project.

Select one among the following groups from Chapter 1:

  • Vulnerable mothers and children
  • Abused individuals
  • Chronically ill and disabled people
  • People diagnosed with HIV/AIDS
  • People diagnosed with mental conditions
  • Suicide- and homicide-liable people
  • People affected by alcohol and substance abuse
  • Indigent and homeless people
  • Immigrants and refugees
  • Groups for special consideration (you may propose a different vulnerable population at the consent of the instructor)

Once you have selected a group of interest, write a three page paper that covers the following:

  • Discuss the impact that at least two of the factors below have on the vulnerability of your chosen group:
    • Age
    • Gender
    • Culture/Ethnicity
    • Income
  • Analyze the intersection of social, political, and economic factors affecting vulnerability (must address all three factors).
  • Draft the design of a new model program, not currently existent within your community. Provide a two- to- three paragraph statement that introduces your proposed community program. This section is tentative and might change as you conduct more research. At a minimum, however, items to address should include:
  • An explanation of the issues and risk factors experienced by the selected population.
  • An evaluation of the health needs of the group and a proposed continuum of care level (preventive, treatment, or long-term care) based on the group’s issues, risk factors, and needs.  Justify the proposed level with supportive research/evidence.
  • A description of one to two proposed services your program will include.

Explain how might effective delegation to other team members contribute to care of the clients on the unit?

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Case StudyYou are working the night shift on a medical unit and have been assigned charge nurse responsibilities. You are working with four RNs, one LPN, and two UAPs. A client becomes pulseless and i

Case Study

You are working the night shift on a medical unit and have been assigned charge nurse responsibilities. You are working with four RNs, one LPN, and two UAPs. A client becomes pulseless and is not breathing, and the nurse assigned to the client’s care calls a code. The nurse is occupied at this client’s bedside for 1.5 hours until the resuscitation effort is completed, and the client is transferred to the intensive care unit. This nurse also has four other assigned clients. In addition to the nurse assigned to care for the client requiring resuscitation, two of the other nurses working on your unit are assisting in the code.

Review the case study and write an essay (suggested length of 2–3 pages) in which you do the following:

  1. Discuss what tasks could you delegate to the UAPs?
  1. The LPN working on the unit is a new graduate and has been employed for only 4 weeks. How would you collaborate with this nurse when delegating tasks for completion?
  2. Discuss how you will maintain the safety of the other clients on your unit while three nurses are occupied with the client requiring resuscitation?

Explain how might effective delegation to other team members contribute to care of the clients on the unit?

evaluating dimensions of quality in healthcare and how various industries can apply these concepts to improve operations

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Instructions:In this Assignment, you will be evaluating dimensions of quality in healthcare and how various industries can apply these concepts to improve operations. Using the resources available to

Instructions:

In this Assignment, you will be evaluating dimensions of quality in healthcare and how various industries can apply these concepts to improve operations. Using the resources available to you, research the priorities in the current publication of the National Quality Strategy.

Requirements

  • Select and discuss one (1) priority that is the most important to healthcare today.
  • Discuss how an industry, other than healthcare, can use your aforementioned strategy to improve operations.
  • Report your findings by using one (1) of the methods below:
    • 3-4 page fact sheet for the general community.
    • Internal organizational memorandum.
    • Infographic
    • PowerPoint presentation for a Board of Directors (10-12 slides; speaker notes as needed to support assertions).
  • The use of first person is permitted for this Assignment. APA formatting (e.g., title page, conclusion, font size, etc.) should not be used if you choose to complete the memorandum, infographic, PSA, or newscast.
  • Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this Assignment, proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and an APA formatted reference list of sources are expected.

    Reference: http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/

Provide 2 to 3 examples of what medical professionals can do to prevent unethical practices.

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During Skloot and Deborah’s meeting with Christoph Lengauer, he emphasizes the importance of Henrietta Lacks’s contribution to science and how she is remembered in the medical community. He states, “W

During Skloot and Deborah’s meeting with Christoph Lengauer, he emphasizes the importance of Henrietta Lacks’s contribution to science and how she is remembered in the medical community. He states, “Whenever we read books about science, it’s always HeLa this and HeLa that. Some people know those are the initials of a person, but they don’t know who that person is. That’s important history.”

Write a 525- to 700-word article that addresses the following:

  • Evaluate whether the book effectively illustrates the significance of Henrietta Lacks’s life, her contributions to science, and their impact on her family. Answer the following questions in your evaluation:
    • Are there problematic elements as to how Skloot portrays Lacks and her family?
    • Do you agree with Lengauer’s quote that it is important to know about Henrietta Lacks? Why or why not?
    • Explain how learning about Henrietta Lacks’s story helped you become a more ethical leader.
    • Provide 2 to 3 examples of what medical professionals can do to prevent unethical practices.

Use 3 examples from the book to support your response and cite the novel.

Publish the article on your own social media account (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.), or post it on a health care message board of your choice.

Include a citation of your article in your assignment.

Have the authors done a good job addressing the really key issues and concerns?

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Answer all of the following questions using headers to separate topics.Attack or defend the following statement and then explain what you would do, in concrete terms, to improve things in your involve

Answer all of the following questions using headers to separate topics.

  1. Attack or defend the following statement and then explain what you would do, in concrete terms, to improve things in your involvement or what you have observed. “It seems that the people behind the new computerized systems perceive that the people who work here and the roles they play are to make the computer’s job easier as opposed to the systems being here to help transform average healthcare workers into super workers.”
  1. It has been argued that getting nursing involved in the implementation of all of the computer systems in healthcare is a good thing, but doing that is in conflict with current patient care and the reality that many nurses are uncomfortable with some of the changes they see and would rather not be involved. To what extend does this resonate with your personal experience? What do you believe are the key prerequisites that must be addressed before enough of the right nurses and other key role players in the healthcare process and what concrete steps would you recommend to address these and why?
  1. Chapter 5 in the text provides a perspective for implementing Clinical Information Systems. From your experience, what are the more critical issues or concerns you have with the material presented in this chapter and what would you advocate should be done to improve the likelihood that such projects would be successful. (You can address technical issues, skill issues, change and fear issues, as well as business and/or leadership issues.)
  1. Chapter 6 focuses on the Electronic Medical Records and physician adoption and utilization. Reflect on your experiences with physicians and other key, scarce, and therefore costly healthcare professionals. How well do you believe these professionals would react to the kinds of changes and approaches covered in the chapter. Have the authors done a good job addressing the really key issues and concerns? If not what did they miss? To what extend do you believe what is advocated would work in your environment or healthcare facilities with which you are familiar? Sketch what you might propose be done differently, if anything.

Summarize the effect of health literacy on the healthcare system

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Unit 1 Assessment Critical Issues due 7-9-18PLease cite all work in essay areaQuestion 1 1. Normative ethics is the study of __________.healthcare ethicscultural competencyhealth policyright and

Unit 1 Assessment Critical Issues due 7-9-18

PLease cite all work in essay area

Question 1

1.

Normative ethics is the study of __________.

healthcare ethics

cultural competency

health policy

right and wrong

Question 2

1.

Which theories maximize the interest of one’s self over that of the patient?

Self-interest theories

Egoistic theories

Patient-centered theories

Virtue theories

Question 3

1.

Which ethical theories are known as consequentialism?

Teleological theories

Virtue theories

Natural law theories

Rational theories

Question 4

1.

A foundation in ethics assists healthcare professionals with __________.

providing services

understanding the healthcare process

making decisions

writing healthcare contracts

Question 5

1.

Principles of biomedical ethics include all of the following EXCEPT:

justice.

benefactor.

autonomy.

nonmaleficence.

Question 6

1.     Provide an example of a bioethical issue, and explain what ethical principle or principles are most appropriate for resolving the issue.Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Question 7

1.      Summarize the effect of health literacy on the healthcare system.Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Question 8

1.      In your own words, provide a brief summary explaining the ethical factors that have been beneficial to creating our healthcare delivery system.Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

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

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Nursing homework help
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.

Individualized Fitness Plan

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Nursing homework help
Individualized Fitness Plan

Using your fitness assessment analysis, develop a fitness plan with short term goals for this term as well as long range, lifetime fitness goals, using the FITT principle, and with an activity plan for the entire week. Your fitness plan should include activities and exercises you like to do! Your weekly fitness plan should include exercises/activities you plan on engaging in during activity classes you may have, during athletic team workouts if applicable to you, and any other activity you engage in throughout the week.

For Important Health Benefits

Adults need at least:

walking

2 hours and 30 minutes (150 minutes) of moderate-intensity aerobic activity (i.e., brisk walking) every week and

weight training

muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week that work all major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms).

OR

jogging

1 hour and 15 minutes (75 minutes) of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity (i.e., jogging or running) every week and

weight training

muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week that work all major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms).

OR

walking jogging

An equivalent mix of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity and

weight training

muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week that work all major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms).

10 minutes at a time is fine

We know 150 minutes each week sounds like a lot of time, but you don’t have to do it all at once. Not only is it best to spread your activity out during the week, but you can break it up into smaller chunks of time during the day. As long as you’re doing your activity at a moderate or vigorous effort for at least 10 minutes at a time.

How do you know if you’re doing light, moderate, or vigorous intensity aerobic activities? For most people, light daily activities such as shopping, cooking, or doing the laundry, don’t count toward the guidelines. Why? Your body isn’t working hard enough to get your heart rate up.

Moderate-intensity aerobic activity means you’re working hard enough to raise your heart rate and break a sweat. One way to tell is that you’ll be able to talk, but not sing the words to your favorite song. Here are some examples of activities that require moderate effort:

· Walking fast, doing water aerobics, riding a bike on level ground or with few hills, playing doubles tennis, pushing a lawn mover

Vigorous-intensity aerobic activity means you’re breathing hard and fast, and your heart rate has gone up quite a bit. If you’re working at this level, you won’t be able to say more than a few words without pausing for a breath. Here are some examples of activities that require vigorous effort:

· Jogging or running, swimming laps, riding a bike fast or on hills, playing singles tennis, playing basketball

Your plan should include:

1. Your name

2. Short term goal (goal for this term) (worth 2.5 points)

3. Long term goals (goals for a lifetime) (worth 2.5 points)

4. Using the F.I.T.T. principle map out your fitness plan using a table – don’t forget to include flexibility exercises (see example below). Your FITT plan should align with the minimum standards set by the CDC (see above).(worth 10 points)

Frequency

(How often?)

Intensity level

(Heart rate?)

Type

(Activity?)

Time

(How long?)

5 days/week

vigorous

Running

30 minutes

2 days/week

3 sets of 12 – see muscle/muscle groups

Weights – free & machine

45 minutes

3 days/week

500 yards/15 minutes

swimming

15 minutes

2 days/week

50% of max

volleyball

90 minutes

Everyday

4 MPH

dog walking

30 – 60 minutes

Daily

15 – 20 seconds

Yoga

20 minutes

4 days/week

to muscle failure

abdominal crunches

15 minutes

1 day/week

moderate

Hiking

120 minutes

5. List specific muscle/muscle groups target areas for resistance training, for example: arms – biceps and triceps, chest, back, shoulders, abdominals, legs – (quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves). Make sure you include the number of sets and reps.

6. Now make a spreadsheet for the week and plug into each day when you are going to engage in each activity. (worth 5 points)

7. And remember, ask yourself, is my plan realistic? Sustainable?

You will be graded on the thoroughness of your plan. Spelling and grammar will be considered in the grading process. This assignment is worth 20 points

Impact of biological and neurological mechanisms on mental health

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 Psychology homework help

Details:

 

Paper   should be 1,500-2,000-words and reflect critical thinking and   analysis. Refer to the Academic Writing Guidelines Resource   located in the Course Materials section for assistance with this.

You must have a minimum of six references to support your research.   The references should be taken from the annotated bibliography   completed earlier in the course.

Your research paper should include information about the following:

  1. Brief history of the drug
  2. Psychopharmacology of the   drug
  3. Current trends or issues
  4. Societal concerns or     issues related to the drug
  5. Significance or relevance of     topic to the counseling profession
  6. Any future   implications

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA   Style Guide.  Must Pass Turnitin with less than 5%

This assignment meets the following CACREP Standards:

5.C.2.e. Potential for substance use disorders to mimic and/or co-occur with a variety of neurological, medical, and  psychological disorders.

5.C.2.g. Impact of biological and neurological mechanisms on mental health.

5.C.2.h. Classifications, indications, and contraindications of commonly prescribed psychopharmacological  medications for appropriate medical referral and consultation.

This assignment meets the following NASAC Standards:

3) Describe the behavioral, psychological, physical health, and social effects of psychoactive drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, on the consumer and significant others.

9) Understand the established diagnostic criteria for substance dependence and abuse, and describe treatment modalities and placement criteria within the continuum of care.

14) Be familiar with medical and pharmaceutical resources in the treatment of addictive disease and other substance-related disorders.

20) Understand the addiction professional’s obligation to adhere to generally accepted ethical and behavioral standards of conduct in the helping relationship.

103) Describe warning signs, symptoms, and the course of addictions.

107) Understand the health and behavioral problems related to the treatment of addiction, including transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, TB, STDs, and other communicable diseases.

117) Interpret and apply information from current counseling and addictions research literature in order to improve client care and     enhance professional growth.