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Define the terms “benchmark & dashboard” as they relate to their use in healthcare . Provide one example of a benchmark. Describe the purpose of using benchmarks & dashboard in healthcare . Provide one example of a dashboard used in healthcare.

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A. Which hospital needs the most improvement in RN staffing? Hospital A
B. Which hospital needs the most improvement with the 3 nosocomial infections? Hospital A

2. For Table 3:
A. Which hospital’s data showed the greatest improvement in its indicators overall from 2017 to 2018 survey? Hospital C

B. Describe the trend in data for Hospital A indicators from 2017 to 2018. Be specific…do not state “some indicators improved while others did not”.

Catheter associated UTI- Decline
Central Line associated blood stream infection- Decline

Ventilator associated pneumonia-Decline
RN staffing-Decline
Injuries from falls –Stayed the Same
Hospital acquired pressure ulcers-Stayed the Same

C. Describe the trend that is shown in the data for Hospital C from 2017 to 2018. What one indicator’s data might have had an impact on this trend?

D. Questions related to Terms:
1. Define the terms “benchmark & dashboard” as they relate to their use in healthcare (minimum 2 paragraphs). Provide one example of a benchmark.

2. Describe the purpose of using benchmarks & dashboard in healthcare (minimum 2 paragraphs). Provide one example of a dashboard used in healthcare. NOTE: Provide minimum of two (2) scholarly sources to support your answers to Questions 1 and 2 under “Terms”

Conduct scientific literature research and write a 2-3 page paper on DNA technology or a Human disease or disorder. 

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Conduct scientific literature research and write a 2-3 page paper on DNA technology or a Human disease or disorder.  The disorder must be pertained to a system being studied in the Course (choose from cells/tissues, integumentary system, skeletal system, joints, muscular system, nervous systems or other body systems covered during the course).

Briefly introduce your topic and explain WHY the topic is important or interesting to you?  Why should it be of interest or importance to the reader?

 The body of your paper should include discussion of the following:

  1. Background information
  2. Detailed information about topic
  3. Presented in a logical manner with correct use of scientific terms.
  4. Correct in text citations.

The body of the paper should reflect a clear understanding of these subjects written in your own words.

Explain your reaction to the information you learned from your research.  Do NOT just restate your discussion or facts from the paper.  You conclusion should be personal, based on what your learned while researching this paper.

After touring Sentinel City, select a specific vulnerable or minority population group and identify one of the most common diseases, chronic condition, injury, or health concern that impacts your population group.

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Explore how determinants of health such as poverty, behavior, education, and income are related. One common element underlies poor health: poverty. Money is required to purchase the essentials of health such as food, clothing, shelter, clean water, education, and access to preventative health services. Each day in nursing, you are faced with persons from varying economic, social, and cultural backgrounds. In addition to varying backgrounds, you will also experience differing patient values and preferences related to their individual health and behavior. Caring for the vulnerable, at-risk, and aging populations is an essential competency for nursing. Therefore, we need to explore the interrelationships of socio-cultural influences, behavioral influences, as well as economic and non-economic barriers to healthcare to improve our knowledge. In doing so, we will be able to plan specific interventions designed to help achieve healthier outcomes. You will have the opportunity to examine poverty, behavior, and other determinants of health in Sentinel City®. As providers of care, BSN nurses need to understand how these are related and impact the health of our patients.

Activity Instructions:

Review course textbook and other resources.
Review World Health Organization (2017). The determinants of health, Health Determinants.
Review Sentinel City® demographics and neighborhood demographics. Meet with Mayor Hill who can provide some information about Sentinel City® economics. Enter Sentinel City® and begin the bus tour. After touring Sentinel City, select a specific vulnerable or minority population group and identify one of the most common diseases, chronic condition, injury, or health concern that impacts your population group. Then list a total of 3 determinants of health from the Healthy People website. During your tour of the city, describe 1 observation related to the 3 selected determinants of health. (a total of 3 observations must be described). Note indicators of high or low employment. Consider education levels, number of female head of households, and median household incomes for example. Finally, describe a total of 3 strategies or evidence-based recommendations to help reduce or eliminate the selected observations noted during your Sentinel City® tour

Describe the safety design review process. Explain the role and importance of safety in a safety management system. Discuss how these concepts inter-relate with the safety management systems approach.

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In this unit, you have learned about reducing risks through safety design. For this assignment, you will further explore that topic. Compose an essay in which you summarize the fundamentals of the safety design review process, systems safety, and prevention by design. In your essay, you should address the following issues:

Describe the safety design review process.
Explain the role and importance of safety in a safety management system.
Discuss how these concepts inter-relate with the safety management systems approach.

Select and apply appropriate accounting techniques to critically analyse financial data in a variety of business decision making scenarios.Critically appraise the techniques used and the information to which they have been applied.

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Assessment Learning Outcomes:
1. Select and apply appropriate accounting techniques to critically analyse financial data in a variety of business decision making scenarios.

2. Make informed financial judgements based on the outcome of such accounting analyses.

3. Critically appraise the techniques used and the information to which they have been applied.
4. Demonstrate a critical understanding to the internal, external and legal environments in which the judgements are being made.

5. Understand the objectives of preparing management information and the need to adapt techniques in a changing commercial environment that can help in decision making in relation to costing, pricing, product range and marketing strategy.

6. Evaluate the strategic performance of a business, understand the significance of the relationship between financial and non-financial indicators of business performance and recommend appropriate performance measures.

Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts of biology and chemistry as they relate to microbiology. Identify characteristics and types of common microorganisms. Examine modes of transmission and methods for preventing the spread of microorganisms.

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This project is intended to help you to utilize and refine your information literacy skills to seek out information about a specific public health issue relating to microbiology, and to develop your thinking abilities by completing a self-evaluation of your project and preparation process. You will also be performing data analysis on statistics reported by the CDC. The workplace capability of technological skills will be developed through the use of computer software to develop your public health brochure in the appropriate format and will also help you develop time management and productivity skills as well.

By completing this project, you will fulfill course outcomes #1-7 (see below for details). Because this is a public health project, you will base your article selection on tying it to the healthcare field. Through project completion, you will develop the following institutional outcomes: information literacy and communication, thinking abilities, and community and career. You may submit your project under any of these in your e-portfolio.

Course Outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts of biology and chemistry as they relate to microbiology.

How: By developing a brochure that outlines a relevant public health topic in microbiology and presenting it to your peers.

  1. Identify characteristics and types of common microorganisms.

How: by discussion of causal organism(s) and its (their) characteristics.

  1. Examine modes of transmission and methods for preventing the spread of microorganisms.

How: by identifying how the microorganism is spread and how to prevent the spread (public health focus).

  1. Articulate host inflammatory and immune processes.

      How: by explaining how the human body responds to the pathogen(s).

  1. Explain treatment of infectious diseases: antimicrobial medications and bacterial resistance.

How: by explaining how the pathogenic disease(s) discussed in brochure are treated in clinical practice and issues with treatment.

  1. Categorize infectious diseases of body systems of current epidemiological concern.

How: by presenting/ developing a brochure on a topic that is of current epidemiological relevance either locally, nationally, or worldwide.

  1. Outline basic procedures in clinical microbiology lab practice and evaluate effective learning strategies.

How: by outlining diagnostic procedures in the brochure and completing a self-reflection of the project.

Choose one film (Gaslight (1944) or The Others (2001) and one text that we have studied on this course (Dracula or The Yellow Wallpaper), and use them to explain how the “psychological experience of being full of fear and dread and thus of recognising human limits” is in fact an uplifting experience, one in which we acquire knowledge that frees us

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Read carefully the assignment on the Module Six Extended Response Paper 3 file that I have attached and complete the assignment.

The writer has to choose one film (Gaslight (1944) or The Others (2001) and one text that we have studied on this course (Dracula or The Yellow Wallpaper), and use them to explain how the “psychological experience of being full of fear and dread and thus of recognising human limits” is in fact an uplifting experience, one in which we acquire knowledge that frees us, helps us heal or resolve past trauma, or allows us to explore possibilities that are normally denied expression by the cultural conditions in which we live.

Moreover, you will need to rent the films Gaslight (1944) and The Others (2001) in Amazon for example in order to complete this assignment.

Your paper should have a thesis statement that proposes an argument in response to the points above, and should use evidence from the text and film to illustrate and support your ideas. If you quote specific lines of dialogue from the film, the in-text citation should contain the director’s last name and the specific hour, minute, seconds that you reference: (Cukor 00:23:11-00:23:57)

Prepare an office memorandum that addresses; whether authorizing the BORS to regulate all interstate commerce violates Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.

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Facts: Congress is considering an amendment to the Human Cloning Act that would allow the BORS to:
Regulate all interstate commerce, and Hear all cases appealed from the Federal district courts that involve issues related to cloning.
Senator Caster questions whether this amendment to the HCA is constitutional, and she has sought an opinion from the BORS.
Instructions:

Prepare an office memorandum that addresses the following:

(1) Whether authorizing the BORS to regulate all interstate commerce violates Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution; and

(2) Whether authorizing the BORS to hear all cases appealed from the Federal district courts that involve issues related to cloning violates Article III of the United States Constitution.

The partial pressure at 25 °C of the water vapour above a water-ethanol solution for which x(H2O) = 0.5 is 3.7 kPa. The total vapour pressure is 8.7 kPa. For pure water at 25°C, p*(H2O) = 3.4 kPa; for pure ethanol p*(ethanol) = 4.3 kPa. Calculate the activity and activity coefficient of the water.

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The pore size of membranes can be measured by using the decrease in vapour pressure of liquid nitrogen condensed in the pores (i.e. cavities) at low temperatures.

Calculate the diameter of the pores in a membrane if at 80.0 K the pressure of N2 gas above the membrane is measured to be 1.310 bar.

At 80.0 K liquid nitrogen has the following properties:
= 8.27 mN m-1
Vm = 3.528 x10-5 m3 mol-1
p*vap = 1.369 bar

(ii) Water droplets adhere weakly to lotus leaves and but strongly to rose petals, but in both cases the contact angle is ~150o. Explain, with the aid of diagrams

Bi) The partial pressure at 25 °C of the water vapour above a water-ethanol solution for which x(H2O) = 0.5 is 3.7 kPa. The total vapour pressure is 8.7 kPa. For pure water at 25°C, p*(H2O) = 3.4 kPa; for pure ethanol p*(ethanol) = 4.3 kPa.

(i) Calculate the activity and activity coefficient of the water.

(ii) Calculate the activity and activity coefficient of the ethanol.

(iii) Calculate the molar excess Gibbs free energy when this water-ethanol mixture is made.

(d) With the aid perhaps of a diagram, briefly describe osmosis and osmotic pressure. Briefly describe the role of osmosis in preservation of foods such as jams or salted meats.

Describe the structure, specificity, reaction mechanism and regulation of one (1) only of the following:

(i) A gastric enzyme that works well at pH 2-3.

(ii) A gastric enzyme that works well at pH 7.6-8.

(iii) A series of enzymes that result in blood clottin

You are adding the non-ionic surfactant Triton X-100 (CMC = 0.25 mM) to an air-water interface and monitoring the surface tension as a function of surfactant concentration. Sketch a graph of surface tension vs surfactant concentration as Triton X-100 is added from 0 mM to 0.5 mM.

(v) Your colleague is using a different Triton X surfactant to do the same experiment. Their surfactant has a longer aliphatic chain. Explain how you think this will affect micelle formation.

Imagine you are investigating the effect of salt on the interparticle forces in an emulsion. The emulsion is made of drops of sunflower oil in water and stabilised by sodium dodecyl sulfate. You observe that adding salt to the emulsion causes the average size of the drops to increase. Adding more salt causes the oil to form a separate layer above the water. Sketch graphs of the potential energy between pairs of oil drops in the emulsions under the conditions of:
(i) no salt
(ii) a low salt concentration and
(iii) a high salt concentration

A patient is stressed about an upcoming surgery and asks you to pray with her.Would you feel comfortable doing this based on your own spiritual/religious preferences? Is this the role of the RN? How could you facilitate prayer with the patient?

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Is there any element of your spirituality that might prevent you from caring for a patient? Could you provide nursing care for a patient who is a known sex offender and jailed for murder of a child? How would you handle this situation?

A patient is stressed about an upcoming surgery and asks you to pray with her. Would you feel comfortable doing this based on your own spiritual/religious preferences? Is this the role of the RN? How could you facilitate prayer with the patient?