What is the purpose of state laws that require certain types of employers, especially healthcare employers, to conduct criminal checks on workers? What is your state’s requirements? Should St. Mary’s terminate the employment of the nursing aide if the individual is convicted of domestic abuse regardless of their work record?

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Human resource

St. Mary’s Nursing Care is a home healthcare agency providing in-home care to elderly and special-needs patients. Many of St. Mary’s clients would be considered vulnerable adults due to their diagnoses. St. Mary’s, consistent with state law, routinely conducts criminal background studies on applicants who had received a conditional offer of employment. If the applicant had a disqualifying record, the offer for employment is withdrawn.

Recently, the HR director had been informed that one of St. Mary’s long-term nursing aides with an exemplary record of performance and attendance had been arrested and charged with domestic abuse. If the nursing aide is ultimately convicted on the charge, St. Mary’s will be required to terminate that person based on state law.

Questions

What is the purpose of state laws that require certain types of employers, especially healthcare employers, to conduct criminal checks on workers? What is your state’s requirements?
Should St. Mary’s terminate the employment of the nursing aide if the individual is convicted of domestic abuse regardless of their work record?

Create a detailed outline for your finance and reimbursement presentation. Include and discuss 3-5 major bullet points along with several supporting points and discussion for each requirement.

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Medicaid Expansion

Create a detailed outline for your finance and reimbursement presentation.  Include and discuss 3-5 major bullet points along with several supporting points and discussion for each requirement.  Your supportive discussions must also integrate and cite some of your research/references.  I have included a skeleton outline below that you can use to fill in with details from your specific topic and research.  Also, feel free to use an outline of your own making/choosing.

Introduction

  1. Thesis statement: (actually write it out)
  2. Main issues: (list them)

Brief History of Medical Insurance in the U.S.

Chosen System of Care and Rationale

  1. Major System Components,
  2. Main System Responsibilities
  3. System Structure
  4. System’s Effects on Healthcare Delivery

Main Issue 1

Main Issue 2

Important Changes and/or Challenges/Conflicts

  1. Related Finance and Reimbursement Functions and Challenges
  2. Factors Influencing Reimbursement Functionality and Efficiency
  3. Potential Solutions to Identified Challenges/Conflicts

Applications/Relationships to Healthcare Administration and Management

  1. System Strengths and Challenges
  2. Specific Finance and Reimbursement Strategies and Relevant Resources Currently Utilized
  3. Potential Alternatives to Consider
  4. Potential Significance to Healthcare Finance and Reimbursement

Conclusion

  1. Recommendations
  2. Things to think about

References

 

As leaders in public health agency, how would you partner/collaborate with members of your chosen population ,community or current issue/ matter to reduce health disparities and inequities being faced within this group?

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Discussion board

– After reading the assigned article, you have to answer the questions but here are the questions:
1_ what is the role of our own beliefs and values in addressing systemic injustice and inequity?
2_As a leader in public health, what steps should we take to change cultural beliefs and values in an effort to reduce or eliminate system injustice and inequity?
3_ As leaders in public health agency, how would you partner/collaborate with members of your chosen population ,community or current issue/ matter to reduce health disparities and inequities being faced within this group?

What is the role of the nurse during a traffic accident, and what are the necessary first aid measures for the patient?

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Global Health

What is the role of the nurse during a traffic accident, and what are the necessary first aid measures for the patient?

 

Summarize your assigned federal law governing managed care and insurance market. Describe its impacts on individuals, employers, and payers. Identify two state laws regulating MCOs and health insurers.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

Kongstvedt, P. R. (2020). Health insurance and managed care: What they are and how they work (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

-Summarize your assigned federal law governing managed care and insurance market.
-Describe its impacts on individuals, employers, and payers.
-Identify two state laws regulating MCOs and health insurers.

Note: Reference the section of State Oversight and Regulation in Chapter 8 of your textbook.

Discuss how nurses use genogram and eco-map tools. Identify the significant findings you identified for your family. Discuss how and why a nurse would incorporate a genogram and ecomap into the care of your family.

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Family Health Portrait

Assessment of family health risks requires many approaches. This assignment will focus on two tools, the genogram and ecomap, to help identify factors that contribute to a family’s health and the achievement of healthy outcomes. There are five elements to this project.

Element 1: Develop your family genogram.

Go to the CDC’s My Family Health Portrait to develop your genogram.
Follow instructions on the website.
Print your final genogram and table as a PDF or to a Word doc.

Element 2: Develop your family ecomap using any of these three methods.

Download a free ecomap template from the internet.
Create an ecomap using computer software.
Draw an ecomap on paper and scan it to a PDF.

Elements 3-5: Analyze your findings in a formal APA paper using the following headings

Genogram and Ecomap Use In Nursing
Discuss how nurses use genogram and eco-map tools.
Significant Findings
Identify the significant findings you identified for your family.
How to Incorporate These Tools in Nursing Practice
Discuss how and why a nurse would incorporate a genogram and ecomap into the care of your family.

Write a 2-3 page paper outlining any potential root causes of the problems and action steps (including prioritizing them with importance – which would you tackle first, second, etc.) to address the root cause. Include a timeline of when steps would be completed.

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Discussion Essay

INSTRUCTIONS

Golden Acres is a 72-unit assisted living community located in a remote suburb. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the organization is concerned about the drastic amount of overtime that was used in the previous quarter. As the Director you are aware of the five part-time caregiver positions that are open. The full-time Registered Nurse also gave his notice to work for a competitor for more pay.

Write a 2-3 page paper outlining any potential root causes of the problems (overtime pay, staff turnover, etc.) and action steps (including prioritizing them with importance – which would you tackle first, second, etc.) to address the root cause. Include a timeline of when steps would be completed.

Craft a quantitative research question based on the HAC you selected for the Research Problem and Purpose Statements assignment, as well as examine quantitative methodologies and data collection strategies that would enable you to answer your research question.

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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND METHODS

Introduction
The quantitative method is the original scientific method. Quantitative research methods can be subdivided by various designs that researchers use to answer their research questions. In fact, the wording of the research question must match the methodology and may contain words that indicate the design. Quantitative research identifies what happened, but not why it happened. It identifies causation or relationships.

The relationships in a quantitative research study are similar to those used for a qualitative design. There is still a relationship between the theory, problem, purpose, and the research questions, hypotheses, and design. This week you will continue to expand your understanding of this framework by analyzing and evaluating research questions and hypotheses in quantitative studies. You will also learn about various quantitative research designs that researchers use to answer their research questions.

In addition, you will continue to analyze the interrelated elements of a research study, making the connection among theory, problem, and purpose, and research questions, hypotheses, and design.

Summary
For this assignment, you will craft a quantitative research question based on the HAC you selected for the Research Problem and Purpose Statements assignment, as well as examine quantitative methodologies and data collection strategies that would enable you to answer your research question.

There is no length requirement for this assignment. Most submissions that fully address all scoring guide criteria will be 2–5 pages long.

Instructions
For this assignment build on the work that you did in the Research Problem and Purpose Statements assignment.

The assignment has two distinct parts.

Part 1: Quantitative Research Question
For this first part of the assignment, you will formulate a research question that is appropriate for a research project that will use quantitative methodologies. Remember the HAC that you used in your Research Problem and Purpose Statements assignment. Additionally, your research question should align with the problem and purpose statements that you developed at that time.

Keep in mind that a well-written research question should be a single statement.

When examining or creating qualitative research questions, the following checklist may be useful.

Quantitative Research Question Checklist
Does the purpose statement fit logically with the problem statement? Does the purpose statement use similar words to the problem statement, or does it seem to address a different topic?
Based on the problem statement, do the research questions align with the method and design of the study? For instance, are words like perception used that would automatically reject a quantitative study? Reference the research methodology publication to ensure alignment.
Do questions seek to describe responses to the variables described in the study?
Do the questions include words like compare or correlate that indicate a quantitative study?
Do the questions include identification of the independent and dependent variables?
Does the hypothesis fit with the research questions?
Do the questions and hypothesis identify the participants for the research study?
Do the questions and hypothesis specify the participants and the research site?

Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria

Formulate a quantitative research question and associated hypothesis.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with expectations for health care professionals.

Part 2: Quantitative Methods and Data Collection

For this second part of the assignment, you will draw on your readings about qualitative methods and data collection to first identify specific quantitative methodologies that will enable you to answer your research questions. Second, you will discuss specific qualitative data collection tools or strategies that are appropriate for this purpose. Questions to consider when looking for strategies and tools include the following:

What is your research question specifically trying to answer?
How does the specific HAC affect the types of tools and strategies that would work best?
How does the healthcare setting where the research project will occur affect the types of tools and strategies that would work best?
This part should also include a review of why it is important to a potential research plan as a whole to ensure that your data collection plan is relevant to your chosen methodology.

This section should be 2–5 pages long, depending on the level of detail required to fully present your methodologies and data collection tools and strategies.

Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria

Identify relevant quantitative methodologies that will support answering a research question.
Describe quantitative data collection tools or strategies that are appropriate for answering a research question.
Explain the importance of methodologically relevant data collection to a research plan as a whole.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with expectations for healthcare professionals.

Based on the case study Download case study used in Assessment 2, you are asked to produce an Implementation Action Plan that describes the approach you will take to implement and evaluate the proposed change.

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Implementation Action Plan

Intent:
This assessment focusses on exposing students to the complexities of implementing change in a health setting from delivery through to the evaluation phase. Students are asked to develop a Change Initiative implementation action plan drawing upon one or more models or theoretical frameworks and leadership approaches, providing a rationale for their use.

Referencing:
In-text citations are required, and a reference list should be submitted at the end of the document with APA 7th formatting applied. A minimum of five (5) quality references should be included.

Assessment task
Based on the case study Download case study used in Assessment 2, you are asked to produce an Implementation Action Plan that describes the approach you will take to implement and evaluate the proposed change (what, how and why). Apply theories of change to develop your Implementation Action Plan. Critically appraise the approach to working with stakeholders, conducting the change, and initiating, sustaining and measuring benefit. Your Implementation Action Plan will include the methodology that you will use to evaluate whether the Change Initiative activities have been implemented as intended and how the evaluation findings will be used.

Describe the role that community capacity has in environmental health advocacy and community restructuring. What is one environmental health priority that you think the city of San Diego and/or the state of California should focus on? Why?

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Community Capacity and Environmental Health

Your Tasks

TASK 1- VIDEO

Watch the following video, which describes “sacrifice zones” and the importance of community involvement in environmental advocacy efforts.

TASK 2- ORIGINAL POST

Answer the following questions:

Describe the role that community capacity has in environmental health advocacy and community restructuring.

What is one environmental health priority that you think the city of San Diego and/or the state of California should focus on? Why? Several examples of environmental efforts are cited within the video.

What are ideas or recommendations that you have to raise awareness and mobilize target communities toward environmental health change? Tie this in with the issue that you cited in question 2.

The post must be at least 250 words.

Include at least 1 outside reference, cited in APA format. This reference needs to be cited both in-text and at the end of the post in a reference list.