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Calculate the expected cost at each chance node in the decision tree. 3. Calculate the ICER. 4. Given a willingness-to-pay of $1000 per extra success, which antibiotic would you recommend to your patients? Justify your answer.

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Decision Tree

You have two options (antibiotic A and antibiotic B) for the treatment of infection. Each antibiotic has two possible outcomes (clinical success of treatment and failure of treatment). Some of patients who receive antibiotics may experience adverse events regardless of the outcomes. Those who experience adverse events will be treated for those events.

Now, you’ll decide which antibiotic you’ll recommend for your patients. All the information you need to
make this decision is shown below:

 

1. Assign the relevant cost at each terminal node in the decision tree.
2. Calculate the expected cost at each chance node in the decision tree.
3. Calculate the ICER.
4. Given a willingness–to–pay of $1000 per extra success, which antibiotic would you recommend to your patients? Justify your answer.

Present the advantages and limitations of Rational Emotive Therapy; in which situations do you feel it would be useful? Provide a few examples and some of the techniques you might utilize to reach your treatment goals?

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Discussion post

Present the advantages and limitations of Rational Emotive Therapy; in which situations do you feel it would be useful? Provide a few examples and some of the techniques you might utilize to reach your treatment goals?

What are your thoughts about this issue in our field? Would you agree or disagree with Wynn’s research analysis? As you think about your future career in Technology, how would you address these issues?

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Journal Entry

Part 1 discussion optional GT

(1) What are your thoughts about this issue in our field? Would you agree or disagree with Wynn’s research analysis?

(2) As you think about your future career in Technology, how would you address these issues?

 

 

What information would be most critical for you to collect in the first visit? What is the primary goal for the treatment of this patient? Identify potential obstacles for change. Which educational approach would the PMHNP provide to overcome these obstacles?

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Discussion 7-Hip fracture

The patient is a 71-year-old widowed man who is seen regularly in the clinic for health maintenance and follow-up of his chronic insomnia and anxiety. He has regular prescriptions for triazolam (Halcion) and clonazepam (Klonopin) for these problems. Recently he has been reporting frequent episodes of losing his balance and falling, and eight weeks ago was hospitalized for a hip fracture sustained during one of these falls resulting in hip surgery. On this visit, he also complains of becoming increasingly confused.

  • What information would be most critical for you to collect in the first visit?
  • What is the primary goal for the treatment of this patient?
  • Identify potential obstacles for change. Which educational approach would the PMHNP provide to overcome these obstacles?
  • How would you teach the patient about the Beers list and Halcion?
  • Discuss a medication in detail that could be safely substituted to treat insomnia in geriatric patients.

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style.
  • Provide support for your work from at least 2 academic sources less than 5 years old.

Identify a high-quality article on the topic of quality assurance in IT. This may be a scholarly article, journal or trade magazine article, or other online article.

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Discussion Question

Assignment Instructions

Identify a high-quality article on the topic of quality assurance in IT. This may be a scholarly article, journal or trade magazine article, or other online article. (To judge whether an article is high-quality, ask yourself if you would cite the article as an authoritative source to the CEO of your company.) In a post of about 400 words, provide an overview of the article for your classmates. Provide a link to the article and summarize the key concepts it discusses.

What is one strength of the dataset you selected? What is one weakness of the dataset your selected? How does your dataset compare to one of the other datasets?

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Polimetrics 

About

Datasets are spreadsheets that contain rows and columns. The intersection of rows and columns creates cells. Numeric, alpha, and alphanumeric data can reside in these cells.

The image below is a screenshot of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, a very common software. There are four rows marked: 1, 2, 3, and 4; and there are four columns marked: A, B, C, and D. These 4 rows and 4 columns create 16 cells. Cells A1, B1, and C1 are populated with the following data: “123” (numeric), “abc” (alpha), and “123abc” (alphanumeric), respectively. Note that the remaining 13 cells are empty.

Screenshot of Excel spreadsheet with 4 rows and 4 columns

Figure 3‑1: Screenshot of Excel spreadsheet with 4 rows and 4 columns

Datasets are essential for data analysis since datasets contain the observations and variables that you are interested in analyzing.

Estimated Time

An estimated 90-120 minutes is needed to complete this activity.

Cross-Section dataset

Cross-section, or cross-sectional, datasets refers to a dataset that look at many objects in a single time period.

Observations can be persons, cities, states, countries, legislation, committees, schools, and so on. Variables are concepts that have at least two values. For example, the variable age can have values from 0 to 100+. Or the variable race can have the values African American, White, Hispanic, Asian American, and so on.

To illustrate a cross-section dataset, I decided to first update the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. In cells A1 through E1 included the variable name. It is common to use the 1st row of cells to state the variable name of each column. In rows 2 through 5, I have four notable people listed: Cardi B, Joe Biden, Dolores Huerta, and Andrew Yang. For each person, I have information about their gender, age, race, and year the data was collected.

The data is cross-sectional because we are looking at many objects (notable persons) in a single time period (year 2020).

Example of a cross-sectional dataset Figure 3‑2: Example of a cross-sectional dataset

Time Series dataset

Time series datasets refer to a dataset that looks at a single object over multiple time periods.

To illustrate a time series dataset, I decided to focus on Cardi B, one of my notable persons from the cross-section datasets. In cells A1 through F1, we see six variables: name, gender, age, race, year, and singlerecords. The variable singlerecords refers to the number of single songs with Cardi B as lead artist (Cardi B discography – Wikipedia

Links to an external site.).

The data is time series because we are looking at one object (Cardi B) over multiple time periods (years 2017 to 2020). And in this case, our variables age, year, and singlerecords change for each row of data.

Example of a time series dataset

Figure 3‑3: Example of a time series dataset

Panel dataset

Panel datasets refer to a dataset that looks at multiple objects over multiple time periods.

To demonstrate a panel dataset, I updated the time series dataset to include a second musical artist: Harry Styles. Again, in cells A1 through F1, we see six variables: name, gender, age, race, year, and singlerecords.

The data is panel because we are looking at multiple objects (Cardi B and Harry Styles) over multiple time periods (years 2017 to 2020). And again, our variables age, year, and singlerecords change for each row of data for each artist. For example, for year 2017, both Cardi B and Harry Styles (Harry Styles discography – Wikipedia

Links to an external site.) had 3 single records. But in year 2019, Cardi B had 3 compared to Harry’s 2 singles.

Example of a panel dataset Figure 3‑4: Example of a panel dataset

Mini-Assignment #1: Instructions

Step 1: Select 1 dataset type that interests you.

Your dataset choices are:

  • Cross-section
  • Time series
  • Panel

Step 2: In 4 or more sentences, explain why you selected this dataset type.

  • To help write your explanation, consider the following questions:
    • What is one strength of the dataset you selected?
    • What is one weakness of the dataset your selected?
    • How does your dataset compare to one of the other datasets?

What is their name and their current position in healthcare? What type of technology do they use to do their job? What is their history with technology? Do they have required education/training related to technology they use during their shift? If so, explain what technology and what type of training or education.

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Project 2 parts

1. Choose one of the following topics listed below to discuss in your project paper. Please use 2-3 Scholarly articles (Within last 10 years) to complete your research on selected topic.

  • Types of technology within healthcare, benefits/downfalls to each type, What are some improvements that need to be made to the current technology we are using in healthcare?
  • What is telemedicine? Benefits/downfalls to using telemedicine?
  • Electronic Health Records, benefits/downfalls, legal/ethical issues related to EHR’s
  • Ethical/Legal issues related to nursing informatics, What can we do to improve these issues?

2. Interview a healthcare worker (can be anyone within the healthcare field)

  • What is their name and their current position in healthcare?
  • What type of technology do they use to do their job? What is their history with technology?
  • Do they have required education/training related to technology they use during their shift? If so, explain what technology and what type of training or education.
  • How often do they have to complete education/training to stay up to date on all technology used to do their job?

Find the average cost function. What is the efficient scale of production? Illustrate it on your graph for the previous part by drawing an appropriate secant line. What is the average cost at this scale?

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Microeconomics analysis

1 Convex-concave costs

Consider the 1-input, 1-output technology defined by the cost function
f (z) = {(z+1)2— 1, z<1
8-V.Z — 5, z> 1

1.  Fix the price of the input good at w = 1. 1. Find the total cost function. Plot it for quantities up to 10.

2. Find the average cost function. What is the efficient scale of production? Illustrate it on your graph for the previous part by drawing an appropriate secant line. What is the average cost at this scale?

3. Find the marginal cost function. On a new graph, plot it and the average cost function for quantities up to 10, and mark the efficient scale and corresponding average cost.

4. Derive the firm’s supply correspondence for the output good as a function of the output price p. Illustrate it on the same graph you used for the previous part.

Identify the prescription drug monitoring program in your state (Florida), addressing how this might advocate for the NP and patients in advance of prescribing.

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Preparing for Practice as a Nurse Practitioner in Florida

Address the specific steps you will do to sit for the national certification exam (with AANP), including any forms or documents you will need to obtain. What are the fees of the certifying body?

Then comment on the national provider identifier (NPI) and the DEA number. Include why you need them, the fees, and when you should obtain them.

Identify the prescription drug monitoring program in your state (Florida), addressing how this might advocate for the NP and patients in advance of prescribing.

Moving forward, after becoming certified, what do you need to do to recertify and how often?

Find out the ticker under which your company’s stock trades. Find the NAICS code for your primary industry. Is the CEO also the Chairman of the Board?

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A project on a Grant-seeking and proposal writing

  1. Find out the ticker under which your company’s stock trades.
  2. Find the NAICS code for your primary industry.
  3. Is the CEO also the Chairman of the Board? (Yes/No answer)
  4. The % of insiders that are on the Board of Directors of the firm.