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Why are natural killer cells considered to be part of the innate immune response? What types of cells do natural killer cells act against? Describe the process whereby natural killer cells kill other cells and the role of macrophages in the process.

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Natural killer cells

Shanice was a vibrant 16-year-old who was enjoying her high school years. As a good student, she loved attending school and woke every morning eager to start the day. A popular girl, she was surrounded by many friends who all enjoyed each other’s company.

From an early age, Shanice had been susceptible to recurrent viral and bacterial infections. No matter what she tried, she tended to have numerous infections every year which put a damper on some of her social activities.

Recently, she had been experiencing recurrent lung infections, spending a week in the hospital with pneumonia and recurrent herpes viral infections. Concerned over these recurrent infections, Shanice was sent to an immunologist for further consultation.

Tests were performed to evaluate the number and activities of her B-cells, T-cells, and natural killer cells. Results showed that Shanice had low numbers and decreased activity of her natural killer cells.

Keep in mind that natural killer cells are part of the innate immune response.

Deliverables

Answer the following questions and save your responses in a Microsoft Word document. Provide a scholarly resource to support your answers.

Why are natural killer cells considered to be part of the innate immune response?
What types of cells do natural killer cells act against?
Describe the process whereby natural killer cells kill other cells and the role of macrophages in the process.
The Immunologist cautioned Shanice that she may be more susceptible to virally induced cancers. Why did the Immunologist state this?
What treatments or other options does Shanice have to counteract the natural killer cell deficiency?

Based on the National Association of State Directors of Education and Certification (NASDTEC) Model Code of Ethics for Educators, describe the advantages of making a good first impression with your cooperating teacher/mentor, students, and school campus important? How do the “Professional Dispositions” help you to make a positive first impression?

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Topic 3 DQ1 Student Response SPD-590

RESPONSE TO STUDENTS POST FROM TOPIC 3 DQ1 WITH 150 WORDS  AND 1 SCHOLAR REFERENCE. RESPONSE TO STUDENT BY USING STUDENT NAME.  PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE SEPARATE ASSIGNMENT AND SHOULD HAVE THERE REFERENCE PAGE.  INCULDED TOPIC IN THE TITLE.

 

Based on the National Association of State Directors of Education and Certification (NASDTEC) Model Code of Ethics for Educators, describe the advantages of making a good first impression with your cooperating teacher/mentor, students, and school campus important? How do the “Professional Dispositions” help you to make a positive first impression?

Ambition can have a destructive quality that serves to destroy an individual’s life, or it can have an affirmative quality that serves to save that individual’s life. To what extent is this statement true?

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Destructive quality and Affirmative quality

Ambition can have a destructive quality that serves to destroy an individual’s life, or it can have an affirmative quality that serves to save that individual’s life. To what extent is this statement true?

Answer this question using the specified protagonists from each of the following texts: Macbeth from Macbeth, Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, and Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman.

Identify the model or tool for analysis of the selected problem, and provide rationale. Analyze and compare data relative to internal and external benchmarks. 3. Construct evidence-based recommendations that include ethical, legal, regulatory and organizational standards.

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Data Collection and Analysis

The paper is about healthcare worker shortages the details are below

Application of a tool for problem analysis that is accompanied by a minimum of two visual data displays, a short summary of observations, and evidence-based recommendations. This will vary significantly depending on your project; however, a few examples include:

Cost Benefit Analysis: Excel spreadsheet, converted into 2–3 graphs.

Compliance Assessment: 3 major Criteria converted into 3 separate pie charts

Lean Analysis: The percent of variance by major factor converted into 2–3 trend lines.

In addition to the above:

1. Identify the model or tool for analysis of the selected problem, and provide rationale.

2. Analyze and compare data relative to internal and external benchmarks.

3. Construct evidence-based recommendations that include ethical, legal, regulatory and organizational standards.

4. Include the raw data in a readable format in a Word document or spreadsheet with appropriate categories, titles, and labels.

Watch the two videos below and write three to four paragraphs summarizing the contents of the video. Discuss major concepts covered in Chapter 8.

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Chapter 8 – Master Budgeting

Watch the two videos below and write three to four paragraphs summarizing the contents of the video. don’t forget to discuss major concepts (including each of the budgets) covered in Chapter 8.

 

Analyze the role of public policy with regard to your project. What policies and processes should be in place to create an effective program? How will you measure the effectiveness of your program and your provision of health care services?

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Feasibility study

Building on the work you completed in Weeks Two and Four, you will complete a feasibility study based on a pre-approved health care project of your choice. Using the feasibility study outlined in the Daniels and Dickson (1990) article as a model, and including a minimum of six other scholarly sources, create a 12- to 15-page feasibility study that includes the following headings and supporting information:

Evaluating Feasibility
The concept of a feasibility study is central to viability, the “worth to the effort” ratio, and return on investment (ROI). What needs to be taken into consideration to create a feasibility study (e.g., human resources, community needs, and technological advances, federal and state regulatory issues)? Within this section, you will research and design an economical health care service that is responsive to a given market. This research stems from understanding your target population and present need in health services. Furthermore, as you have seen from the Daniels and Dickson (1990) article, you must appraise your human resources, capital investment, and how your effort will yield a return on investment from a facilities perspective as well as the tangible greater good of providing healthcare to a community.

Strategic Effect
Analyze the role of public policy with regard to your project. What policies and processes should be in place to create an effective program? How will you measure the effectiveness of your program and your provision of health care services? Develop a microeconomic model that is responsive to the specific health care service demands of your target population. For example, the current trend of the medical home model, which allows for the coordination of care, allows for better communication among service providers as well as convenience for patients. Is the population a market priority? How does your program serve a need for your target population?

Market Analysis
Within this section you will identify the population demographics, who your competitors are, and whether or not a real need for the services you are proposing exists in the community. As you examine the demographic and population needs using Census data and other reliable sources, you must also consider what competitors, if any, exist in the present climate. This requires an evaluation of the present socioeconomic and cultural trends influencing how people make decisions in health care. In addition, in this analysis you will need to compare and contrast economic challenges and incentives among health care’s organization models. This comparison requires an understanding of past challenges and incentives that other organizations have implemented.

Financial Analysis
This section includes the revenue, expenses, and net income. Compare and contrast economic challenges and incentives by finding and describing multiple sources of public and private funding (e.g., grants, donations, awards, special projects) for this project. Include a reference list for your funding sources that is formatted in APA as outlined in the Writing Center. Next, identify the funding constraints for each source. Include limitations of monies awarded, timing issues, fitting the needs of the funding sources, difficulties of connecting with private funders, etc. Finally, specify the internal ramifications of moving forward using SWOT analysis. What are the fixed and variable costs associated with your project? What are the annual maintenance and operation costs? Elaborate on how you arrived at your sensitivity analysis conclusions.

Operations Performance
This section examines the incremental effect of how your proposed service will impact all aspects of health services. This portion of the study explores how the statistical data you have researched affects the proposed service in terms of efficiency and value. This can be difficult to measure initially. However, through incremental and ongoing evaluation of operations, you can begin to see what constitutes the best performance in this instance and how it serves the target population. In this section, you will further illustrate the incentives and challenges faced by a health organization and communicate the relevance of economics within the U.S. health care system as it pertains to your proposed services.

Inpatient
If your proposed study has an inpatient component, this section will analyze on volume of patients, types of payers, and how utilization rates impact your proposed study. In addition, you will further explain how your new inpatient service will add value for patients and improve the financial viability of the institution. This section will require you to use both qualitative and quantitative data to justify the plan. Hospitals operate in terms of how many beds are occupied relative to how many are empty. Most CEOs want to see that a unit is running at near full capacity and that volume is increasing year to year. Analyze how your proposal will meet these demands by explaining the data you have collected and predicting potential financial outcomes. Finally, evaluate and explain how value-based care will impact your ability to maintain margins within this newly proposed service.

Outpatient
If your proposed study has an outpatient component, examine how admissions, revenue, and workflow of staff will improve the efficiency of your proposed service. Analyze how your outpatient service will add value for patients and improve the financial viability of the institution. Justify your plan with appropriate data. As stated in the inpatient section, the content here applies much the same way. However, the caveat for outpatient services lies in the ambulatory setting. This aspect should be most interesting under conditions created by the Affordable Care Act. The new paradigm shift will be toward more preventative, primary, and outpatient care settings to reduce the numbers of patients being admitted to hospitals. Please explain how your proposal takes these conditions into consideration. In this section, you will further compare and contrast economic challenges and incentives among health care’s organization models in an outpatient setting. You will also further augment your design in an economic framework that is responsive to your market.

Outlook
This section examines future implications of your proposed services and how they will impact the future health outcomes of the community and financial health of the services being provided. Analyze economic theories that are germane to the provision of your proposed health services. What adjustments might you need to make in terms of what the “unintended consequences” may be? For example, Baylor Hospital in Houston proposed and spent 250 million to create a brand new hospital that currently stands empty because it was built during the U.S. economic downturn, the loan was no longer able to finance the construction, and the initial examination of its necessity did not play out as expected. Provide conclusions and implications of how your feasibility study fits within the larger context of the system of services currently being provided. How do they work with one another within the larger health care system?

Finally, evaluate how your study will respond to market and design models that impact the community based on current regulatory and market needs

Describe what happened and how it relates to what you have learned about the dangers of fire in the OR. Could this incident have been prevented, or does this type of thing “just happen” sometimes, and it is a risk one takes when having surgery?

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Dangers of Fire

Conduct research on the internet or the library to locate a real-life case of an OR fire that has occurred. Share that article/video (links must be working) in your initial post, so your classmates can watch or read the details and then comment.

Describe what happened and how it relates to what you have learned about the dangers of fire in the OR.
Could this incident have been prevented, or does this type of thing “just happen” sometimes, and it is a risk one takes when having surgery?

What specifically could have been done to prevent this event?
If you feel nothing could have been done, then do you think the patient should have been denied the procedure due to the risk?

NOTE: Check your peers’ posts to make sure you are not repeating the same case. It may take a little research in the library or online to find cases.

Explain why you feel jails do not receive the same emphasis as prisons. Outline the recommendations you would give to improve jails and how they are used in the Criminal Justice system.

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Criminal Justice system

Jails represent a very important part of the criminal justice system that often times is overlooked. Briefly explain the history of jails in the United States, how they have evolved and the role they play in the Criminal Justice system. Explain why you feel jails do not receive the same emphasis as prisons. Lastly, outline the recommendations you would give to improve jails and how they are used in the Criminal Justice system

Write an analysis in which you describe Russo’s case study and context, outline the problem, identify alternatives, and then select and justify one alternative.

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Russo’s case study

Write an analysis in which you describe Russo’s case study and context, outline the problem, identify alternatives, and then select and justify one alternative.

Include minimum of two quotes.

Review the Resources and reflect on the various strategies presented throughout the course that may be helpful in disseminating effective and widely cited EBP.

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Discussion: Developing a Culture of Evidence-Based Practice

As your EBP skills grow, you may be called upon to share your expertise with others. While EBP practice is often conducted with unique outcomes in mind, EBP practitioners who share their results can both add to the general body of knowledge and serve as an advocate for the application of EBP.
In this Discussion, you will explore strategies for disseminating EBP within your organization, community, or industry.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on the various strategies presented throughout the course that may be helpful in disseminating effective and widely cited EBP.

o This may include: unit-level or organizational-level presentations, poster presentations, and podium presentations at organizational, local, regional, state, and national levels, as well as publication in peer-reviewed journals.

• Reflect on which type of dissemination strategy you might use to communicate EBP.

By Day 3 of Week 9
Post at least two dissemination strategies you would be most inclined to use and explain why. Explain which dissemination strategies you would be least inclined to use and explain why. Identify at least two barriers you might encounter when using the dissemination strategies you are most inclined to use. Be specific and provide examples. Explain how you might overcome the barriers you identified.

By Day 6 of Week 9
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by offering additional ideas to overcome the barriers to strategies suggested by your colleagues and/or by offering additional ideas to facilitate dissemination.