Describe the procedures for preparing and conducting observations. In case studies observations is a form of data collection. How might an observational protocol help with the observation process?

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Quantitative and Qualitative research

Question 1: Consider the differences in quantitative and qualitative research when it comes to sample size and confidentiality. For example what is the difference between sampling plans.

Write a 250- to 300-word response to the following:

  • How might a qualitative researcher determine an appropriate sample size, and how does this impact transferability which is an element of trustworthiness.
  • How might a researcher address issues of confidentiality in qualitative research?

Question 2: Qualitative research often involves various forms of data collection. In your assignment this week, you will explore interviews as a type of data collection. Another common form of data collection is observation.

Write a 250- to 300-word response to the following:

  • Describe the procedures for preparing and conducting observations. In case studies observations is a form of data collection. How might an observational protocol help with the observation process?

 

Is the Cardiac Chain of Survival the same or different for Adult as it is for a Child/Infant? What are there similarities and differences if any?

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Cardiac Chain of Survival

Click REPLY below and type a brief summary of the content of the video.

  • A. Is the Cardiac Chain of Survival the same or different for Adult  as it is for a Child/Infant? 
  • B. What are there similarities and differences if any? 

Be sure your summary is at least 5 sentences long. After you make your post, read the posts of other students and reply to at least  2 other posting with any additional remarks you’d like to make.

 

vide three real-world examples in a health care organization of competing values that can adversely affect quality and cost. What are the implications for effectiveness, efficiency, cost and patient-centered for each of these examples?

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Health care organization

Answer questions 1 and 2.  Make reference to concepts, theory, information material reviewed in the chapters or researched on your own.  Examples must be clearly identified and related to the questions. 

#1- Provide three real-world examples in a health care organization of competing values that can adversely affect quality and cost.  What are the implications for effectiveness, efficiency, cost and patient-centered for each of these examples? 1 page single spaced or 400 words.

#2- Describe, with examples, why health care leaders have a higher need for ETHICAL behavior than might be expected in other settings.  Why are constant vigilance, management and improvement required? 1 page single spaced or 400 words.

 

Discuss the technical aspects of your topic in general terms. Discuss the public policy debates relevant to the topic you choose. Express your personal opinion regarding the topic’s importance and the validity of the pro and con arguments.

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Abortion

This week you will submit the final draft of your term paper on Abortion. Your term paper should:

  • Discuss the technical aspects of your topic in general terms.
  • Discuss the public policy debates relevant to the topic you choose. This section should cover arguments that favor and oppose the use of the techniques or products.
  • Express your personal opinion regarding the topic’s importance and the validity of the pro and con arguments.

 

When you approach an emergency situation, what is the importance of the three C’s.-? What areas are important within these 3 C’s?

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 Check-Call- Care

Now that we have finished looking at the presentation, let’s take this opportunity to learn a bit about how  “Check, call and Care – Responsive Person” .  Click on the video below to watch it.  Then, follow the instructions below the video.

Check Call Care Adult and Pediatric (Videos)Links to an external site.

Click REPLY below and type a summary of the content of the video.

  1. A. When you approach an emergency situation, what is the importance of the three C’s.-Check-Call- Care? 
  2. B. What areas are important within these 3 C’s? 
  3. C. What is the importance of using SAM when interviewing an ill or injured person ?

Be sure your summary is at least 10 sentences long. After you make your post, read the posts of other students and reply to at least  2 other posting with any additional remarks you’d like to make.

 

 

Provide a statement of corporate/ institutional goals and objectives. Provide a statement of HIT goals and objectives. Discuss priorities for the applications portfolio.

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HIT Strategic Plan

Read Chapters 1 – 5 in your textbook.

Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper:

Develop a HIT Strategic Plan for your own company. Address the following components:

  • Provide a statement of corporate/ institutional goals and objectives;
  • Provide a statement of HIT goals and objectives;
  • Discuss priorities for the applications portfolio;
  • Include the specifications of overall HIT architecture and infrastructure;
  • Include a software development plan;
  • Include a HIT management and staffing plan; and
  • Include a statement of resource requirements.

 

What professional nursing organizations are you interested in or currently participate in? What nursing certifications or continuing education (graduate degree) might fit into your future plans?

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Transformational leaders

Transformational leaders influence those around them and therefore have the potential to alter the culture of a unit or organization. Effective nurse leaders consider continuing education and development an essential part of professional nursing. Address the following topics:

  • What professional nursing organizations are you interested in or currently participate in?
  • What nursing certifications or continuing education (graduate degree) might fit into your future plans?
  • Regarding your own transformational leadership skills, what aspect of the TEACH values discussed in the lesson do you think would most benefit your work environment if adopted? As a transformational leader, what action could you take to incorporate this chosen TEACH value into the work environment?

 

Find new creative store/business name. Give a brief description about your company and the industry? Create proper social media accounts. Provide screenshots of the accounts that you’ll use across all social platforms. Explain the competitive advantage to show how the company can realize significant gains by using SMM and what do you want to achieve with social media?

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New Product and Mobile App campaigns

In this project, you will work as a group to provide social media consulting. You own a Social Media consulting company, and your company has been selected to work with a new Saudi B2C organization (business or non-profit) of your choice (select a business of any industry).

The selected business has decided to launch a New Product and Mobile App campaigns on social media. And they are planning to market and present their products or services on social media such as Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Foursquare, Facebook, YouTube and Blog…. etc.

For this part of the assignment, you need to write a report that describe the following aspects of the business.

  1. Brief overview [Brand Summary & Social Media Accounts] [1.5 marks]
  • Find new creative store/business name [Doesn’t exist].
  • Give a brief description about your company and the industry?
  • Create proper social media accounts [such as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat]. And provide screenshots of the accounts that you’ll use across all social platforms.
  • Explain the competitive advantage to show how the company can realize significant gains by using SMM and what do you want to achieve with social media?
  1. Audit your social media platforms performance [2 marks]
  • After creating your social media accounts, share links with your colleagues on discussion board.
  • All students are required to participate/engage [likes, comments, tags or share] and provide screenshots.
  • Social media marketing statistics will give you the vision you need to improve your plan, check your account’s statistics [ex: Twitter analytics, Instagram Insights] and attach a screenshot to your report.
  • After that, you must analyze the company’s use of the social media by examining their presence on the following social media platforms:

 

Metric Sentiment Reach Company Posts Feedback Average response time to feedback
Platform 1          
Platform 2          
Platform 3          

 

Note: you can use any free online Sentiment Analysis tools to evaluate your social media presence.

 

  1. Social media benchmarking [3.5 marks]
  • Review the social media accounts of five local competitors and pay attention to their tone and personality and analyze your competition’s social media platforms. Base your analysis on what you’ve observed on your competitor’s social media accounts across all platforms.

For each competitor answer the following questions:

  • How your competitors use each platform?
  • What type of content are they posting? And social media platforms used?
  • What content is getting the highest engagement [e.g. retweet, likes, comments]?
  • How many followers do they have?
  • How often do they post [daily, weekly, or monthly]?
  • Do they respond to comments? And how?
  • Are your competitors successful on these platforms?

Note: You can use any free online third-party platform for further analysis.

  • After completing the benchmarking, think about the results and act accordingly, how can a benchmarking analysis help your business?
  • Look at the data you’ve collected and identify the areas that need improvement (Explain).

4 Define your social media marketing goals (based on launching a new Product and Mobile App campaigns) [1.5 marks]

  • Based on the finding from your social media audit, write the goals and strategies section of your SMMP.
  • How are you going to get people to engage with your business on social media?

 

  1. Research your target audience [1.5 mark]
  • Research to determine the target audience of your business.
  • Create three marketing personas that represent the organization’s target audience.
  • Which platforms might best help you achieve your goals? [Select at least 4 platforms].

 

  1. Develop your social media brand/business standards [3.5 marks]
  • Establish your business voice and tone and figure out how to speak with your target audience.
  • What’s your business’s personality? Try to pick out 2 or 3 traits that define your style, and list 2 or 3 that your style is not.
  • Write a clear and detailed description of your brand/ business posting guidelines.
  • What logos, positioning, and sizing will you use?
  • What fonts and colors will you use?
  • What is your company’s communication strategy when responding to your targeted audience and competitors? (How will your brand/ business respond to public complaints, competitors, and questions from followers?)

 

  1. Implementation [Content Ideas: for each campaign] [7 marks]

 

Actionable social media tactics

In detail, develop actionable social media tactics to implement each of the company’s social media presence.

For each social media platform [based on the previous selection (point #6)]:

  • Determine the purpose/goal
  • Ideal time for Posting
  • What types of content will you create and share on each channel? And what types of content will help you driving people to your website and local store?
  • What percentage of your posts will be promotional, if any?
  • How many hashtags will you use in your Twitter and Instagram posts (List 3 or 4)?

 

Influencer marketing strategy:

  • Select 3 influencers and evaluate the following:
  • Who are the influencers you will employ and why you selected them?
  • What Social media platforms are they using?
  • What is the nature of their followers?
  • What messages will you ask your influencers to promote?

 

Content calendar plan:

  • Create a social media content calendar plan for your business and attach a screenshot to your report.

 

Paid advertising:

  • How to integrate paid advertising in your content marketing strategy?

Note: Provide screenshots of your work.

 

  1. Evaluation and Measuring [2.5 marks]
  • Choose four metrics to measure the success of your social media campaign? [Explain].
  • How do you know if your social media activities are effective?

 

  1. Budget [1 mark]
  • How much your business should spend on its social media marketing budget? you should include the following: Content creation, Tools, Paid advertising, Paid partnerships (Influencer campaigns), Employees and training, Management and any important resources.

 

What improvement tool would you use to identify all possible reasons for the increase in complaints about the HIM department? What improvement tool would you use to gather data to confirm the reasons for the complaints about the HIM department?

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Module II Instructions:

Part 1 (15 pts): 

For any healthcare activity, four performance factors can be measured: structure, process, outcome, and patient experience. Identify one measure from each of these categories that could be used to evaluate the following ambulatory surgery center admission process:

Upon arrival, the patient reports to the center’s registration or admitting area. The patient completes paperwork, provides an identification card, and supplies insurance information, if insured. Money for the patient’s insurance co-pay or self-pay deposit is collected at this time. Often, patients register on the surgery center’s website before the date of admission to facilitate the registration process. An identification bracelet, including the patient’s name and doctor’s name, is placed around the patient’s wrist. Before any procedure is performed the patient is asked to sign a consent form. If the patient is not feeling well, a family member or caregiver can help the patient complete the admission process.

 

Measure Examples
Structure  
Process  
Outcome  
Patient Experience  

 

Part 2 (15 pts):  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare website (Find Healthcare Providers: Compare Care Near You | Medicare) allows you to compare performance at nursing homes throughout the United States. Go to this site and search for nursing homes within 50 miles of your location.

Which facilities rate highest in each of the following measurement categories?

  • Health inspections
  • Staffing
  • Quality measures

Which performance measures in these categories are the most important to consumers of nursing home services? Which performance measures are least important to consumers of nursing home services? What other factors might influence consumer choice?

 

Module III Instructions:

  1. Part 1 (20 pts):  Select the improvement model that would work best for the following performance problems. Explain your choices.
    • More than 25 percent of the insurance claims submitted by a clinic are rejected because of mistakes made by the clinic’s billing clerks.
    • Patients experience long wait times and delays for outpatient diagnostic services.
    • A large number of hospitalized patients develop a wound infection following surgery.
    • Labor costs are too high in the radiology department.
    • Patients’ overall satisfaction with the emotional support provided by nurses is lower than the satisfaction levels reported for other hospitals.
    • In a pediatric clinic, many Spanish-speaking patients are unable to communicate by phone with the receptionists and caregivers because of language barriers.

 

Part 2 (20 pts):

Imagine you are the supervisor of the health information management (HIM) department in a large outpatient clinic. This department manages patient records. Complaints about your department are becoming more frequent and intense than in the past. Some clinic employees have complained that the HIM department takes too long to retrieve patient records. Others have expressed dismay over the rudeness of HIM staff. You decide to talk about these problems with employees throughout the clinic.

The clinic’s receptionists respond to you defensively. They tell you that the HIM staff won’t answer the phone and that they want some backup when they are busy with patients. You talk to the HIM staff and find their stories are just as negative. They say they are being charged with more responsibilities but have no additional help. They also complain that the receptionists transfer calls that they should be handling. The clinic’s nurses are also upset with the HIM staff; they claim the department does not help them locate patient charts, causing long wait times for patients. The clinic’s physicians say they cannot assume additional tasks to alleviate the situation because their days are already chaotic.

  • What improvement tool would you use to identify all possible reasons for the increase in complaints about the HIM department?
  • What improvement tool would you use to gather data to confirm the reasons for the complaints about the HIM department?

You hypothesize that complaints spike on certain days of the week. What improvement tool would you use to analyze this theory?

The HIM staff tallies information about the causes of complaints. What improvement tool would you use to prioritize the problems?

What quality improvement tool would you use to define the current process for retrieving patient records?

You believe that cooperation between the clinic receptionists and HIM staff would improve if phone responsibilities were more clearly defined. To whom would you assign the task of defining roles and responsibilities?

After redesigning the record retrieval process, you want to monitor the effectiveness of your actions. What quality improvement tool would you use to determine whether the number of complaints has decreased?

 

 

Lists possible complications or worsening of disease process. Lists potential life interferences or accommodations. Describes patient information necessary to individually manage the disease process and live successfully with the disease.

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Disease Journal for Renal Disease

1.Identifies the disease process under discussion.

2.Lists possible complications or worsening of disease process.

3.Lists potential life interferences or accommodations.

4.Describes patient information necessary to individually manage the disease process and live successfully with the disease.

5.Lists potential medication(s) and medication needs for the disease process.

Neurological disease

At the age of 10 when I was in my lower primary, I experienced my first seizure. It did not last for long and took 10 years to resurface again. So many tests were run on me and I was diagnosed with a disorder in which the doctors explained that it was epileptic. This type of seizure is one that lasts for not more than five minutes, it’s a chronic disorder that is brought by seizures that reoccur. The doctors handling my case stated that it was a seizure that its cause is not known (National Advisory Neurological Diseases and Stroke Council & National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Seizures. Epilepsy is one of the most dangerous diseases because of its worrying complications to the human body. Epilepsy causes complications such as hypertension in the body and cardiac arrest. Signs and symptoms of these include sweating in the entire body, hypersecretion, and vomiting. Epilepsy if not well-taken care can always cause one to die because when the situation is not well handled the patient while experiencing the seizure might die in the process.

Having being diagnosed with epilepsy has positively impacted my life both as a student and my general life. It has taught me to live a well and healthy life that does not include reckless living. Having being diagnosed with the disease at a young age, I have gotten the opportuning of conducting different awareness campaigns on persons living with the disease and sharing out my experiences and ways of coping up with the disorder. However, the disorder has also disorganized my life because I always live, I fear getting a seizure more so while in a public gathering thus I happen to minimize my day-to-day activities.

A significant number of people suffer from or get diagnosed with neurological diseases all over the world. Most deaths occurring from these diseases occur in low- and middle-income countries that do not have the resources and facilities to treat these diseases. One common neurological disease is epilepsy. Epilepsy is a medical condition that features the occurrence of unpredictable seizures. This condition affects at least 2% of the world’s population. The reason for the seizures is nerve cell activity that usually takes place in the brain experiences some disturbances that result in seizures.

I do not remember all the events of my first seizure. At an early age when I got my first seizure, and I remember that we had just come home from a doctor’s appointment for a regular checkup. I had some complications in my earlier years, and my parents believed that prevention is better than cure. I remember seeing my parents sitting by my side while a paramedic was taking my vitals. They informed me that I had just had a seizure, but it had passed. Two years later, I had another seizure and they started becoming more frequent after that. I remember that my whole life changed after receiving the diagnosis that I had epileptic seizures. I was immediately put on medication to help manage and prevent the seizing. The condition may occur due to an acquired brain injury, or a genetic disorder. During an attack, the individual may lose consciousness, experience abnormal behaviors, sensations, and symptoms.

There are various complications that can arise from the disorder. Epilepsy can result in permanent brain damage. Whenever seizures last for more than five minutes, it causes a condition called status epilepticus to occur. It can also occur when an individual has consecutive seizures at a time without gaining consciousness between the seizures. This condition puts people with epilepsy at an increased risk of suffering brain damage. The disorder also affects the cardiac system and can cause high blood pressure, cardiac arrest, arrhythmias, and tachycardia.

A neurological condition such as epilepsy can have various impacts on the life of the individual and the family. One of the impacts that it has had is on my education. I have had to work harder than everyone else in my academics, as the disease already has me at a disadvantage. I do not have a healthy social life as I live in constant fear of experiencing an episode when I am out in public. I also feel helpless as I cannot do anything to help myself when the seizures come.

Epilepsy can be managed. However, there are certain things that people have to be aware of so that they can effectively manage the condition. For instance, one has to be aware of the condition so that they can make the best decisions. Taking the prescribed medication can greatly assist in reducing the number of seizures. It is important to track the seizures and keep a record of the possible triggers so as to learn how to avoid them. Keeping in touch with friends and family can help manage the stresses associated with the condition.

Lastly, managing the disorder can time be difficult because a lot is always involved and too much attention be given to the disorder. For instance, I have to always walk around with my medications and ensure that I regularly swallow them without any failure I have to always check on my diet because of my health status failure to which I would be at risk of getting an attack. Antiepileptic or anticonvulsant medication can help to significantly reduce the number of seizures that a person could experience in the future. The medications are oral, and the prescribed drugs depend on the type of seizures that individual experiences. Anticonvulsants serve to reduce the excessive rapid-firing f neurons that take place during a seizure. Examples of these medications include Gabapentin, Clonazepam, carbamazepine, an