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Was there any other evidence in the case that concerns you as an Investigator, why or why not? What is the first officer’s responsibility at a crime scene and what was done or not done in the Ramsey case?

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Assignment 2: Ramsey Case Scenario

It is important to understand evidence and its importance to the investigative process.

In a minimum of 2 pages, write a paper that starts by identifying at least four different types of evidence that is found in the Ramsey case and then focuses specifically on the glass evidence in the Ramsey case.

After reviewing Ramsey case, you learned that the broken window in the basement in the middle of December was a key piece of evidence in the case.

  1. What is the first officer’s responsibility at a crime scene and what was done or not done in the Ramsey case?
  2. Describe how to collect and preserve glass evidence.
  3. Would the way the glass evidence at the crime scene was documented, collected, and preserved have any impact on the examination results at the lab? Support your conclusions.
  4. Was there any other evidence in the case that concerns you as an Investigator, why or why not?

Discuss opportunities for continuing education and professional development. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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Examine the importance of professional associations in nursing. Choose a professional nursing organization that relates to your specialty area, or a specialty area in which you are interested.

In a 750-1,000 word paper, provide a detailed overview the organization and its advantages for members. Include the following:
Describe the organization and its significance to nurses in the specialty area. Include its purpose, mission, and vision. Describe the overall benefits, or “perks,” of being a member.
Explain why it is important for a nurse in this specialty field to network. Discuss how this organization creates networking opportunities for nurses.
Discuss how the organization keeps its members informed of health care changes and changes to practice that affect the specialty area.
Discuss opportunities for continuing education and professional development.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Describe your search results in terms of the number of articles returned on original research and how this changed as you added search terms using your Boolean operators.

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Discussion: Searching Databases.

When you decide to purchase a new car, you first decide what is important to you. If mileage and dependability are the important factors, you will search for data focused more on these factors and less on color options and sound systems.

The same holds true when searching for research evidence to guide your clinical inquiry and professional decisions. Developing a formula for an answerable, researchable question that addresses your need will make the search process much more effective. One such formula is the PICO(T) format.

In this Discussion,transform a clinical inquiry into a searchable question in PICO(T) format, so you can search the electronic databases more effectively and efficiently. Share this PICO(T) question and examine strategies you might use to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search on your PICO(T) question.

To Prepare:

  • Review the materials offering guidance on using databases, performing keyword searches, and developing PICO(T) questions provided in the Resources.
  • Review the Resources for guidance and develop a PICO(T) question of interest to you for further study.

Post your PICO(T) question, the search terms used, and the names of at least two databases used for your PICO(T) question. Then, describe your search results in terms of the number of articles returned on original research and how this changed as you added search terms using your Boolean operators. Finally, explain strategies you might make to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search on your PICO(T) question. Be specific and provide examples.

 

Provide suggestions for addressing the health issue caused by the current policy. Describe what steps are required to initiate policy change. Include necessary stakeholders (government officials, administrator) and budget or funding considerations, if applicable.

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Benchmark – Policy Brief.The benchmark assesses the following competencies:

1.4 Participate in health care policy development to influence nursing practice and health care.

Research public health issues on the “Climate Change” or “Topics and Issues” pages of the American Public Health Association (APHA) website.

Investigate a public health issue related to an environmental issue within the U.S. health care delivery system and examine its effect on a specific population.

Write a 750-1,000-word policy brief that summarizes the issue, explains the effect on the population, and proposes a solution to the issue.

Follow this outline when writing the policy brief:

1). Describe the policy health issue. Include the following information:
(a) what population is affected,
(b) at what level does it occur (local, state, or national), and
(c) evidence about the issues supported by resources.
2). Create a problem statement.
3). Provide suggestions for addressing the health issue caused by the current policy. Describe what steps are required to initiate policy change. Include necessary stakeholders (government officials, administrator) and budget or funding considerations, if applicable.
4). Discuss the impact on the health care delivery system.

Include three peer-reviewed sources and two other sources to support the policy brief.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

How might the specific coding conventions of the healthcare nomenclature vary, and how might this impact the accuracy of medical coding? Are there levels of subjectivity in the coding process?

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You are the health information manager at Lower Mountain Hospital. An auditor recently visited the hospital and found multiple errors in your ICD-10 and CPT coding. Below are some examples of the errors the auditors identified:

  • In many instances, the “code first,” “use additional code,” and “code also” conventions for ICD-10 were not applied.
  • The level of detail in ICD-10 coding was not sufficient.
  • The CPT modifiers were used inappropriately, and procedures were unbundled unnecessarily.
  • The codes for the principal diagnoses (ICD-10) must directly relate to the treatment procedures (CPT) performed, and mistakes in alignment between the two were found.

As a result of the auditor’s findings, the board has asked that you evaluate Lower Mountain Hospital’s current coding processes and recommend approaches to improve coding accuracy. You will present your evaluation and plan to the board.

Directions.

As the health information manager at Lower Mountain Hospital, you will create a coding process improvement report to present to the board, in which you evaluate current processes.

  • Current Processes: Review medical coding practices to determine some common coding errors that may have contributed to the inaccuracies at Lower Mountain Hospital, provide reasons why these errors occur, and identify key regulations and coding conventions that must be followed to ensure accurate medical coding in healthcare organizations.
    • Describe some common coding errors that may have contributed to the inaccuracies at Lower Mountain Hospital, as well as the reasons for these inaccuracies. Consider the following:
      • How might the specific coding conventions of the healthcare nomenclature vary, and how might this impact the accuracy of medical coding?
      • Are there levels of subjectivity in the coding process?
      • How might organizational policies and resources, or the lack thereof, impact the coding process?
      • How might human error impact the accuracy of medical coding?
    • Describe key regulations that healthcare organizations must adhere to in order to ensure accurate medical coding, and describe the impact of these regulations on the coding process.
  • Recommendations: Now that you have determined some common coding errors that may be impacting the coding at Lower Mountain Hospital, as well as regulations that the organization must adhere to, you will now provide the board with some process improvement recommendations.
    • Recommend processes and practices Lower Mountain Hospital should follow to ensure accurate medical coding. Consider the following:
      • How might the organization use technology to enhance the accuracy of its coding?
      • How might the organization ensure that its coding team is using the most current coding conventions and all share the same understanding?
      • What organizational policies might you recommend to ensure accurate coding and support continuity of care, as well as adhere to relevant guidelines and regulations?
      • How can the organization ensure that it is prepared to address current and future trends related to reimbursement practices, quality-of-care initiatives, and data governance?
    • Explain the importance of improving processes and ensuring accurate medical coding, as well as the repercussions of coding inaccuracies.

What to Submit

Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:

Coding Process Improvement Report
Evaluate Lower Mountain Hospital’s coding processes, and recommend approaches for improving coding accuracy. Your report must be 500 to 1,000 words in length and cite any references.

 

Identify three crime prevention programs currently being utilized in communities and found in the K–12 school system, either national, state or local programs.

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Assume the role of a social science researcher in charge of developing a new crime prevention program targeted toward juveniles in the K–12 school system. Review current crime prevention programs that target juveniles and adults. There are several crime prevention programs that are designed for adults and which are also in K–12 schools nationwide with a standardized curriculum (i.e., Neighborhood Watch, D.A.R.E. and G.R.E.A.T.) with many more programs created at the local level (i.e., Citizens Academy, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and YMCA after school programs are unique to the community).
Identify three programs currently being utilized in communities and in the K–12 school system, national, state, or local programs. Compare and contrast the programs in terms of goals and objectives, target population (e.g., who is receiving and participating in the program), and how and by whom the programs are delivered (i.e., taught by law enforcement officers, school counselors, individuals outside of the school system, etc.). Based on these comparisons, explain which elements you would place in your program and how your program will be delivered to the students.
Create a proposal for a new crime prevention program that targets juveniles and determine how you will evaluate its effectiveness. Use elements of the three crime prevention programs you researched or come up with completely different components.
In the analysis of how your program will deter juvenile delinquency, you will want to use data from your three comparison programs to support your new program. For example, how many juveniles are enrolled in the program? In order to deliver the best programming possible for juveniles in the K–12 school system, calculate the optimal ratio of staff to the target population, based on the average ratio of the comparison programs.
Your analysis should specifically identify the data source and include a summary of the data.
Specifically address how the data was used to inform your thinking on the development of your new program (i.e., how you used the data to solve a real-world problem).

Create an 8 page word document to include the following:

• Identify three crime prevention programs currently being utilized in communities and found in the K–12 school system, either national, state or local programs.
• Tell about each program, explaining its goals, target population (i.e., adults, elementary school kids, 5th graders only, kids in each grade level, etc.), and how/where it is delivered.
• List and explain the pros and cons of each program.
• Compare each program to the others.
• Discuss the differences in methods used in the programs between youth and adults.
• Tell how successful you believe each program has been and justify your opinions.
• Explain which elements of each program you would include in your program and why you feel they are important.

• Who is your target population, what are your goals, and how will your program be implemented?
• Explain your program, detailing the elements of it and why it will be effective.
• Describe how the program’s effectiveness will be analyzed and how the objectives will be evaluated.
• Specify how deterrence will be measured and what will be considered effective deterrence.

Explain the diagnostic criteria for your assigned substance-related and addictive disorder. Explain the evidence-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned substance-related and addictive disorder.

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Post: Sedative.

1- Explain the diagnostic criteria for your assigned substance-related and addictive disorder.
2- Explain the evidence-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned substance-related and addictive disorder.
4- Describe clinical features that you would expect to observe in a client that may have the substance-related and addictive disorder you were assigned. Align the clinical features with the DSM-5 criteria.
5- Support your rationale with references to the Learning Resources or other academic resources.

Synthesis what was learned and how it may affect professional 
practice (i.e. managing personal biases and values) State what was gained from the assignment and how it be 
useful to one’s process of truly becoming a culturally competent.

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Cultural Competence Practice Paper -The Cultural Competence Practice Paper is a compilation of course content covered and is the department’s Standardized Assignment for Cultural Diversity. In addition to a numeric grade, the assignment will be used to calculate scores for achievement of specific competencies. The instructor will provide students with a competency report before the end of the semester (see attached). 
The purpose of this is assignment is for students to (1) examine the dynamics of oppression and discrimination, especially for populations at risk, (2) apply knowledge of cultural diversity to individual development and behavior, (3) appropriately intervene in an advocacy role geared toward social change, and (4) develop the ability to demonstrate an understanding of values of diversity, human rights, and social and economic justice, and (5) understand from the various system levels (micro, mezzo, macro). Students will complete this assignment using their selected cultural group from the Diller (2019) textbook (Figure 1) and topic selections (Figure 2). The assignment expands the student’s awareness of both the cognitive knowledge and skill necessary to effectively interact with and serve culturally diverse populations utilizing the social work cultural competence framework (refer to Lum, 2011, chapters 4-7). The cultural competence framework has three functions: awareness, knowledge, and skill.

Figure 1.

Cultural Group Selection (Diller, 2019)

  1.  African Americans
Arab and Muslim Americans Asian Americans
Bicultural Americans Diverse Parents and Families Individuals with Disabilities Latinos/as Americans
LGBT Americans Men
Native Americans White Americans Women.

Student will complete this assignment in an APA format 6-7-page paper (excluding title and reference pages). The paper will include a minimum of five (5) professional references, and a minimum of eight (8) in-text citations. References should be from scholarly publications and peer reviewed. Articles and/or books must be published in the past ten (10) years (2010 forward).

Included in the assignment should be the most salient themes and issues reflective of the cultural group that have been researched. Student will discuss the learning from both Diller (2019) and Lum (2011) that will be useful to their professional practice endeavors, but especially with the members of the group researched. Students are encouraged to incorporate resources and course assignments.

Utilize the items in bold as headings:
Introduction (identify the population data as related to age, gender, etc. (i.e. LGBT, African Americans, etc.)

  1. Discuss major economic and health issues.

Historical Perspective.

  1. Provide a brief historical timeline of the major social experiences of the group (i.e. oppression, alienation, discrimination, etc.)
  2. Provide major historical milestones and/or social movements (i.e., Suffrage, Stone Wall, Civil Rights, etc.)

Dimensions of Health Factors.

  1. Discuss the major cause of morbidity and mortality.
  2. Discuss major health barriers.

Dimensions of Economic Factors.

  1. Discuss poverty, employment, and wealth gaps.
  2. Discuss major economic barriers.

Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality.

  1. Discuss major religion practiced by the group.
  2. Discuss similarities and differences with the dominant religion.

Traditions of the Culture
a. Discuss the lifespan characteristics of the group (i.e., marriage, childrearing, etc.)

  1. Discuss of ideology on death and dying, help seeking behaviors rearing, etc.)
  2. Cultural Competency Practice.
  3. Cultural competency practices to effectively serve the group such as counseling practices, individual and family approaches, perception of time, space, gender role, etc.
  4. Discussion of the limitations of the social work cultural competence framework
  5. Self-Awareness.
  6. Discussion of how you identify yourself racially/ethnically/culturally.
  7. Discussion of how your sense of race/ethnicity or culture has changed 
over time.
  8. Discussion of your reactions, feelings, thoughts, or concerns come to 
mind when you think about working professionally with members of 
this group.
  9. Discussion of what kinds of answers, information, learning 
experiences, contact, and so forth do you need to become more 
comfortable with members of this group.
  10. Conclusion –Students are required to include a conclusion paragraph that

Addresses the entire body of the essay.

  1. Discuss one strategy that social workers or human service 
professionals can use to promote social and economic justice rights.
  2. Synthesis what was learned and how it may affect professional 
practice (i.e. managing personal biases and values)
  3. State what was gained from the assignment and how it be 
useful to one’s process of truly becoming a culturally competent.

 

Develop interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community.

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Community Assessment and Analysis Presentation.

The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

Assessment/Interview.

Select a community of interest in your region. Perform a physical assessment of the community.

1). Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”
2). Interview a community health and public health provider regarding that person’s role and experiences within the community.

Interview Guidelines.

a). Interviews can take place in-person, by phone, or by Skype.
b). Develop interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community.
c). Complete the “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form” prior to conducting the interview. Submit this document separately in its respective drop box.
d). Compile key findings from the interview, including the interview questions used, and submit these with the presentation.

Is there a profile for a manager who may struggle with the evaluation process? What are the key elements of a successful employee evaluation process? How should a manager prepare for the event?

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Why Do Some Managers Hate the Performance Evaluation? Some managers would rather get a root canal than go through the performance evaluation process with their direct reports. Why? What does research tell you? As you respond to the two questions listed above, address the following:
• What traits does an effective manager display in the workplace?
• Is there a profile for a manager who may struggle with the evaluation process?
• What are the key elements of a successful employee evaluation process? How should a manager prepare for the event?
• Develop an evaluation form for your direct reports and show how the evaluation criterion correlates to the organization’s objectives.