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Describe how the educational level achieved by a nurse or the entry point into professional nursing practice affects the quality and competence of a nurse’s participation in policy-making. Why it is important for registered nurses to influence the regulatory process? Does the nurse’s education have an influence on their ability to make an impact?

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Policy Discussion Post

1-2 paragraphs for each part. Include references

PART1– Describe how the educational level achieved by a nurse or the entry point into professional nursing practice affects the quality and competence of a nurse’s participation in policy-making. Why it is important for registered nurses to influence the regulatory process? Does the nurse’s education have an influence on their ability to make an impact?

Resources Part 1-

PART2- Reflect on what you have learned in this course. What were your major takeaways? Surprises? How will you apply what you have learned to your career?

Resource to answer part 2 – Below (Description of the material spoken in class)

Week Topic Objectives Activities & Assignments
1 An introduction to health care in America. Understanding the business side of Health Care. Action, Policy and Politics Describe the size and scope of the health care industry in the United States

Summarize the major components of the health care industry and the role that government plays in this industry

Describe health care policy, and the policy process

Review the history of policy, politics, and nursing

 Reading:

  • Chapter 1 (Austin)
  • Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • Public Policy Meeting Topic Approval- Post in the Discussion Board
  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
2 The payment process: who is covered, interacting with third-party party payers. Understand basic insurance terms. Policy, Politics and Advocacy in Health Care The role of nurses, demographics, career ladder, certification vs. license, and the job outlook. Describe the role and characteristics of the different types of health care providers.

Compare and contrast the major issues facing the different types of health care providers.

Discuss the roles and functions of hospital administrators and the laws affecting hospital administration.

Describe legal issues facing primary care providers.

Review political analysis and strategies nurses can use to influence health policy issues.

Examine the United States health care system from a variety of aspects.

Review several ethical approaches for resolving health care issues.

 Reading:

  • Chapters 5, 6 (Austin)
  • Chapters 9, 14, 15 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • View/Attend Public Policy Meeting
  • Position Paper
  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
3 The U.S. Health Care System, financing health care and a national health system Describe how health care services are paid for in the United States.

Identify legal forms of business ownership and key business functions.

Identify who is and who is not insured and how much is spent for coverage.

Review financing of health care in the United States and investigate if a national health system could work in the United States.

Discuss the problem of the uninsured and underinsured in the United States and approaches to address health disparities.

Compare and contrast the other federal health insurance programs, such as SCHIP and those for government and military personnel.

 Reading:

  • Chapter 2 (Austin)
  • Chapters 16, 18, 19, 20, 23 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • Public Policy Meeting Summary Paper
  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
  • This week, your instructor will assign your Ethical Issue Debate topic and viewpoint stance.
4 The Government’s role in health care. The uninsured and underinsured in the U.S. Describe the interaction between the patient, the third-party payer, the employer, and the health care provider, and how third-party payers are regulated.

Identify the major components and reimbursement processes of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Explore the rural health care environment.

Explain the various ways LTC is provided and financed.

Review some of the ethical and political issues in LTC.

Explain Social Security policy formulation and Social Security policy enactment.

 Reading:

  • Chapters 3, 4 (Austin)
  • Chapters 18, 25, 38, 61 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
5 The Government’s role in health care. Health care research and technology. Health care research and prevention. Identify the major goals of health care research.

Explain the issues involved in the use of technology to enhance the quality of health care.

Examine the policy issues of quality and safety in health care.

 Reading:

  • Chapters 11, 12 (Austin)
  • Chapters 26, 58, 71 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • Ethical Issues Debate -Post your video in the discussion board.
  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
6 Nurse managed health centers. Community health centers. Social Security in the United States. Quality and safety in health care. The nursing workforce. Nursing Education Policy. Advanced practice nurses. Summarize the different forms for the delivery of primary care.

Discuss secondary care and compare the different types of hospitals.

Review community health centers, what services they provide, their history, and their future.

Discuss nurse-managed health centers and the National Nursing centers Consortium.

 Reading:

  • Chapters 7, 8, 9 (Austin)
  • Chapters 33, 34 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • Ethical Issues Debate Rebuttals
  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
7 Nurse managed health centers. Community health centers. Social Security in the United States. Quality and safety in health care. The nursing workforce. Define the concept of public health.

Explain the role of government in public health and key public health functions.

Explain the role of the government in disease prevention.

Review the goals of Healthy People 2020.

Discuss the supply of nurses in the United States, the different categories of nurses, and the forecasted demand for nurses in the future.

Explain the issues of educational entry level into nursing practice. Review the issues and debates surrounding advanced practice nurses.

 Reading:

  • Chapters 10 (Austin)
  • Chapters 60, 66, 70 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)

Assignments:

  • Ethical Issues Debate with peer response rebuttals
  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.
  • Review of a Bill Paper
8 Nursing and government. Discuss how nurses can support improvements in policies affecting health.

Analyze the nurse’s role in influencing health care policy issues.

 Reading:

  • Chapters 40, 41, 42, 43, 48 (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady)
  • Supplemental readings

Assignments:

  • Respond and participate in the weekly discussion boards.

What is sample mean value of heavy users? What is the p-value for testing the null hypothesis (mean comparison of ‘deathpen’ between heavy users and light users)? What is mean difference between heavy and light?

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Analysis Assignment #3

• Use EXCEL for this Assignment.
• Two people for Assignment 3.
• Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date.
• Credit for late assignments will be reduced by 20% for each day that they are late.
• A hard copy of each assignment is requested, unbound, corner–stapled.

Name 1:________________
Name 2:________________

Use LifeStyle.sav data (under “Assignment 3” folder in the Canvas) for this assignment.
The sample data (named by “LifeStyle” in the BlackBoard) you will use is survey data from a questionnaire collected in 1998 by Prof. Putnam at Harvard. It contains information on internet usage, political sensitive topics, and demographics.
Suppose you are the marketing manager of your favorite political party and management asks you to investigate whether the party should redirect their PR and discussion of sensitive topics to the internet.

(Total 7 points + Bonus 1 point).
0.5+1.2+1.5+1.2+1.8+0.6+1.2=8

1. Build the frequency table with variable ‘gender‘ and ’emplmerg’ and find answers for the following questions (total 0.5 points).
(a) How many respondents make annual income between $70,000 – $89,999? (0.2 point)
(b) What percentage of the sample makes annual income less than $20,000? (0.3 point)?

2. Confidence Interval. (total 1.2 points)
(a) What is the mean age? Is it a population mean or sample mean? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the 95% confidence interval for the sample mean for Age? (0.3 point)

(c)What is your interpretation? (0.3 point)
(d) What is the 99% confidence interval for the sample mean for Age? (0.3 point)

3. Mean Comparison: Suppose null hypothesis that heavy and light internet users (let “heavy users”: 12 or more times a year vs. “light users” = less than 12 time a year in this problem) have the same opinion regarding the favor of death penalty? Note, please assume unequal variance between two samples (total 1.5 points)
(a) What is sample mean value of heavy users? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the p–value for testing the null hypothesis (mean comparison of ‘deathpen’ between heavy users and light users)? (0.3 point).
(c) Reject the Null hypothesis or not? Note, use 5% as critical value for your hypothesis testing. (0.3 point)
(d) What is your interpretation based on the test result of (c)? (0.3 point)
(e) What is mean difference between heavy and light? (0.3 point)

4. ANOVA: Suppose null hypothesis that there are the same opinions regarding the favor of death penalty regardless of employment status (Total: 1.2 Points).
(a) What are the sample mean of ‘retired’ group? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the p–value for ANOVA testing? (0.3 point)
(c) What is your statistical decision (e.g., Reject or Fail to reject)? For your hypothesis testing, use 5% as critical value. (0.3 point)

(d) What is your interpretation based on the test result of (c)? (0.3 point)

5. CrossTab [Run Crosstabs in Excel]: Please use CrossTab Analysis. Let’s examine whether Liberal (“Generally speaking, would you consider yourself to be…”) is independent of Employment Status of Respondent. (total 1.8 points)
a) (0.3 point) What is the observed count number for the cell of “Generally agree yourself to be liberal” and “Retired” in the Cross tab table [Do NOT report two frequency numbers separately]?
b) Do the hypothesis testing by checking Chi–square statistics. What is the null hypothesis? (0.3 point)
c) What is the expected value for the cell of “Generally agree yourself to be liberal” and “Retired” in the CrossTab table? (0.3 point)
d) What is χ2 test statistics value? (0.3 point)
e) What is your statistical decision (e.g., Reject or Fail to reject)? For your hypothesis testing, use 5% as critical value. (0.3 point)
f) What is your interpretation of your statistical decision? (0.3 point)

6. Correlation (Use Bivariate correlation): (total 0.6 point)
a) What is correlation between the question “I am in favor of the death penalty” and “respondent’s age”? (0.3 point)
b) Let’s examine the hypothesis testing for the correlation. What is your null hypothesis? (0.3 point)

7. Regression: Construct and analyze a simple regression model with a dependent variable of “I don’t have a clue what the internet is and what it can do for me” and independent variable of “Respondents Age”. (1.2 point)
a) What is R–square value? What is your interpretation of the R–square (one sentence)? (0.3 point)
b) What is the estimated coefficient of independent variable of “Respondents Age“? Is it significant by using α = 0.05? (0.3 point)
c) Based on Coefficients table, please build the estimated simple regression line equation (0.3 point)
d) Predict the scale value of “I don’t have a clue what the internet is and what it can do for me” with the age of “70“ based on your estimated regression model (0.3 point).

Although Buddhism is able to change, adapt, and be adopted by other cultures and lifestyles, with all these changes, do you think that the original meaning of Buddhism taught by the Buddha himself can be lost or even die? Does the original meaning even matter if it loses its relevancy?

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BUDDHISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Discuss the following prompt:

Although Buddhism is able to change, adapt, and be adopted by other cultures and lifestyles, with all these changes, do you think that the original meaning of Buddhism taught by the Buddha himself can be lost or even die? Does the original meaning even matter if it loses its relevancy?

The following are some suggested term projects that you may select. You may select another if you choose. Prepare the report as you would for a professional project.

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Final report

Directions
The following are some suggested term projects that you may select. You may select another if you choose. Please avoid the Lincoln and the Holland Tunnels. Select a topic that interests you. The term paper should be 10 pages which include the write-up, drawings, photos and references. Prepare the report as you would for a professional project. Neat, correct spelling and grammar are required.

The following are some suggested topics:
1. A specific tunnel project mixed face using shields, tunnel boring machine such as the Sekain Tunnel, the BART Tunnels or the Cumberland Gap Tunnel.
2. A historic tunnel such as those by the Romans, the St. Clair Tunnel, or the Hoosac Tunnel.
3. Methods of excavation for soft ground tunneling, hard rock.
4. Mixed face using shields, tunnel boring machine, drill and blast, roadheader, earth pressure balanced, slurry shield.
5. Tunnel problems such as fire, flooding or cave-ins.
6. Subways as in Paris, NYC, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Taiwan.
7. Water tunnels, railroad tunnels, immersed tube tunnels.
8. People important to tunneling or tunnel disasters.
9. Channel Tunnel, Fort McHenry Tunnel, or soft ground tunnels.
10. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Penn Station Tunnels, Detroit Windsor Tunnel.
11. Tunnel types such as immersed tube, microtunneling, rock tunnels.

Expectations
This term project should include a bit of history concerning your selected topic. It should describe the current status and what is proposed for the future. For people, address their background and how they came to develop their contribution to the industry.
Any source material should be documented. The 10 page report should be neat and professional looking. Photos and drawings and charts should be neat and readable. A total score of 100 points may be given, and this represents 20% of your final grade.

Draw these two reactants and then show a full arrow-pushing mechanism providing the flow of electrons, showing how the two react with one another and the resulting product.

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Chemical reaction in solution

Part I: Mechanisms (20 points). Reaction A: consider a solution of acetophenone (AKA methyl phenyl ketone) and sodium trifluoroperacetate (deprotonated trifluoroperacetic acid). Draw these two reactants and then show a full arrow-pushing mechanism providing the flow of electrons, showing how the two react with one another and the resulting product.

Discuss: “The equilibrium output is an efficient allocation of resources. Hence laissez-faire is the best policy”.

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Econ discussion

Question:
Discuss: “The equilibrium output is an efficient allocation of resources. Hence laissez-faire is the best policy”.

 

Provide a research paper over a Person/Company/Genre/Style from the dance world that YOU find interesting and want to know more about, 3-5 pages.

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Writing Question

Provide a research paper over a Person/Company/Genre/Style from the dance world that YOU find interesting and want to know more about, 3-5 pages (no set style for paper, include sources either within paper or as a added Page).

Discuss your experiences of the course, your beginnings, and where you are now. Consider your interaction in discussions. Should health care workers be required to take a course in Ethics? Why or why not?

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CASE STUDY

Introduction

In this session, you have been considering moral-ethical dilemmas you yourself faced or that you know of that you either resolved or failed to resolve, but hopefully learned from. You may never have given much thought to ethical theory nor what ethical premises/paradigms you have unconsciously held.

You will be focusing on this case for this assignment:

Jane Doe is a nursing student at University X. Jane is in week eight of a course entitled: “Introduction to Ethics”.

For the week one discussion, Jane copied work done by her friend John Doe in the same class two months ago (with a different professor). John told Jane it was okay to use his work as John’s professor never checked any work in the class using Turnitin.com. John claimed to have earned an A on the work also.

In week two, Jane went to StudentPapering.com and paid ten dollars for a week two essay done by a student (not John Doe) who took the same course four months ago. StudentPapering promises that all its archived work is of excellent quality and cannot be detected as copied. Jane then uploaded an exact copy of the work for the week two assignment.

In week three, Jane paid a worker at PaperingStudent.com ten dollars to write for Jane a brand new essay after Jane shared with the worker the essay assignment instructions.

In week four, Jane relied on her knowledge of Esperanto. She felt pressed for time and found an article by a professor from Esperanto on the week four topic. She translated Esperanto into English using Moogle Translate, and the translated text served as her week four paper.

In week five, Jane was running late again. Jane purposely uploaded a blank paper hoping that she would later claim it was an innocent mistake and not be assessed a late penalty. In a previous course on History, she had done the same (with an earlier paper from the History class rather than simply a blank) and had not seen any late penalty assessed.

In week six, Jane took work she did in a nursing course from a year ago and submitted that for her discussion posting in her current class. She simply copied and pasted the work she had labored intensively on a year ago (even though University X forbids this practice as ‘self-plagiarism’). Jane was confident her Nursing instructor never checked that work using Turnitin.com or another method.

In week seven, Jane copied and pasted work found on website.com for the paper. Jane did not use any quotation marks or other documentation to show the text was not by Jane.

Since Jane’s Ethics professor did not check papers and posting for any issues by using Turnitin.com or another method, the professor graded all of Jane’s work unaware of Jane’s actions throughout the weeks of the class. Jane feels her actions are morally justified both because her economic situation requires her to work too much to devote time to school (although other students are well-off enough to have such time) and her religion forbids cheating, but Jane ignores her religion’s teachings.

Instructions

Now that you have had an opportunity to explore ethics formally, create a reflective assessment of your learning experience and the collaborations you engaged in throughout this session. You will submit both of the following:

  • A written reflection
  • An oral presentation using a PowerPoint narrated slide show.

For the written reflection, address Jane Doe’s and respond to the following:

  • Articulate again your moral theory from week eight discussion (You can revise it if you wish). What two ethical theories best apply to it? Why those two?
  • Apply to Jane Doe’s case your personal moral philosophy as developed in week eight discussion and now. Use it to determine if what Jane Doe did was ethical or unethical per your own moral philosophy.
  • Consider if some of these examples are more grave instances of ethical transgressions than others. Explain.
  • Propose a course of social action and a solution by using the ethics of egoism, utilitarianism, the “veil of ignorance” method, deontological principles, and/or a theory of justice to deal with students like Jane. Consider social values such as those concerning ways of life while appraising the interests of diverse populations (for instance, those of differing religions and economic status).

For the oral presentation, briefly summarize your feelings about taking a course in Ethics and explore your process of transformation in this course.

  • Discuss your experiences of the course, your beginnings, and where you are now. Consider your interaction in discussions.
  • Should health care workers be required to take a course in Ethics? Why or why not?

Identify the problem in the joint venture that triggered the conflict between the two companies and discuss the differences of each company’s understanding of their own respective roles and responsibilities in this venture.

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Danone’s Wrangle with Wahaha

For this week’s discussion read the case study about Danone in China introduced in the last module (p. 255 in the textbook).

After reading the case, discuss the following:

  1. Identify the problem in the joint venture that triggered the conflict between the two companies and discuss the differences of each company’s understanding of their own respective roles and responsibilities in this venture.
  2. As a leader, discuss ways you would handle conflict when it arises from organizational culture or national culture?

A case study is a puzzle to be solved and here is a strategy for formulating your initial post:

  1. Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are the principles and concepts of the course module, which apply to the situation described in the case study.
  2. Study the facts and focus on relevant information; the case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current module.
  3. Describe actions that would address or correct the situation and who should act upon what.
  4. Draw from experience, course readings or real-life experience.

Discuss the concepts, principles, and theories from your textbook. Cite your textbooks and cite any other sources if appropriate.

  • Your initial post should address all components of the question with a 500 word limit.

Identify and analyze the formal element(s) in the shot(s) that are prioritized by the approach you select.

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Psycho 1960 Version: Shot analysis in relation to one critical or theoretical approach

Shot analysis in relation to one critical or theoretical approach. Select one shot (drawing or film still) or two consecutive shots and analyze it/them in relation to a key aspect of one of the following approaches studied: formalism/neoformalism, dialectical montage, Kino–truth (Kino–eye), cinematic realism, feminist psychoanalysis, genre theory, and auteur theory. Identify and analyze the formal element(s) in the shot(s) that are prioritized by the approach you select.

That is, what is the meaning and significance of the shot(s) selected in relation to the conceptual agenda or critical concerns for film analysis associated with your selected approach? (about half page of text about 160 Words Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages).