Health Care Preformance Improvement

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Health care in the United States is arguably very complex and bears little resemblance to a “true system”. How can the United States improve on the five dimensions of performance (quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives)?

PLEASE USE APA 7 EDITION,

AT LEAST 3 REFERENCES WITH A MAXIMUM OF 5 YEARS

500 WORDS

 

What strategies can staff nurses use to share evidence that could impact health policy decisions?

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What strategies can staff nurses use to share evidence that could impact health policy decisions?

Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

The Role Of The DNP As A Practice Scholar.

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Everyone must complete the Part I and Part II discussion questions each week.

Part I:

Part I discussion this week focused on the DNP practice scholar.  The practice scholar is immersed in lifelong learning and knowledge sharing.  Please answer the following questions:

1.      How have you demonstrated your role as a clinical scholar in your current position?

2.      How do you anticipate integrating this role into your current or future career?

Part II: For Case Study Students

·       Please start stating your practice question in PICOT format.

PICOT question:

In overweight adult patients in a primary care clinic, what is the impact of implementing the American Heart Association Diet and Lifestyle recommendations, compared to standard care, on body weight in 8-10 weeks?

Please use the bullet points below as headings.

·       How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting organizational operations and how did COVID-19 affect the development of your project? *** with covid, people are more sedentary, eating more…

·       In anticipating barriers and challenges, consider how you will overcome these challenges as related to your project question in the simulated case scenario. Please include citations and matching references to support your discussion. How will you address issues that could have potentially occurred, such as:

o   Not all participants (staff and/or patients) attended as planned and some staff were out sick.  How will you follow up with them? (EMAIL, CALL, or whatever you find pertinent)

o   There are float nurses and traveler nurses on the unit. How will this impact your project plan? If this does not apply to your project please discuss another impact that has affected your implementation plan? ** it doesn’t apply to my project so you can use: Potential barriers include participants forgetting to input their data to the tracking app and lack of reliable mobile access. These can be mitigated with training and support and weekly reminders to participants. access to healthy food or any other barrier that a patient will have to lose weight)

o   Internet speed, access to the Fitbit app, and bandwidth are causing problems with virtual meetings you have set up. What is your backup plan? **the clinic will provide a smartphone for a patient who don’t have it to use during the project duration. The fitbit app is free to download. Also I will educatient patients in the project on the use of it).

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Class, each week, when you share your implementation progress, successes, challenges, and barriers, your classmates may be feeling the same way, or have experienced a similar situation and can share their experiences as well.

Your post will be checked in Turnitin for plagiarism. Responses should be a minimum of 250 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced.  A minimum of 3 references are required (other than your textbook).

Communication In Health Care Setting

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Communication In Nursing

Frank Matthew, a 75-year-old retired banker, is your client on the medical–surgical unit where you practice nursing. Mr. Matthew is being admitted with a distended abdomen and absent bowel sounds, stating, “I haven’t taken a crap in a week!” He reports living alone, having no children, and looking forward to “having people to talk to while I’m here” (Learning Objectives: 4, 7, and 9).

  1. Define therapeutic communication within the nurse-patient relationship and outline at least 4 goals of therapeutic communication within the nurse-patient relationship.
  2. Define social and therapeutic relationships then compare and contrast social and therapeutic relationships (must have at least 3 things listed for each compare and contrast)

 

Week 9 Assignment – Develop and Recommend a Retirement Plan

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Week 9 Assignment – Develop and Recommend a Retirement Plan

Overview

In this assignment, you will recommend a personal retirement plan for a client that you identify. Support your recommendation to the client by explaining how the plan meets the client’s needs and mitigates risk. In addition to the required page total, include the required appendices. Required appendices may be tables, pie charts, and/or other appropriate figures.

Scenario

This week, you continue in the role of retirement planner you took on for the Week 7 assignment. You will identify a client, create a retirement plan that meets that client’s needs, and recommend the plan to the client.

Instructions

In a 5–6 page paper, complete the following:

  1. Identify a person, couple, or family for whom you are creating the plan. Describe the person, couple, or family (no name is required, but it can be you, someone else, or someone you imagine). Each of the following items is important because your recommendations must align to them:
    1. Include the factors that are important to know when developing a retirement plan (age, marital status, number of dependents, health, life expectancy, and other sources of income such as social security and pensions).
    2. Identify a desired age of retirement and retirement income (assume these were provided by the client).
    3. Describe the client’s personal risk tolerance (assume this information was provided by the client).
  2. Develop a personal retirement plan that identifies required savings before retirement and planned savings and withdrawals before and after retirement. Support your explanation of this plan with the following appendices:
    1. Annual and monthly savings before retirement (in addition to the required page total).
    2. Annual and monthly withdrawals after retirement (in addition to the required page total).
  3. Recommend asset allocations that mitigate risk based on client’s profile, such as age, marital status, and personal risk tolerance, and based on the riskiness of the assets. Provide the following appendix to support the original and changing allocation of asset classes:
    1. Asset allocation over the life of the plan (in addition to the required page total).
  4. Use 5–6 sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

 

What is and should be the relationship between an organization’s mission and its strategy?

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1500 word MINIMUM 4 Scholarly source due 9/2

This week, we learned about organizational structure, and trends in organizations dealing with corporate ethics and corporate social responsibly.  After reading Chapter 5 work on your Unit 3 Complete assignment, by writing a narrative essay (minimum 1500 words) in which you address and discuss the questions and statements listed below. Use at least four scholarly sources and remember to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the READ and ATTEND sections in your essay. Cite your sources in APA format. You may use your current or former employer in relating to this assignment.

  • What is and should be the relationship between an organization’s mission and its strategy?
  • What are the key advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing and offshoring, and should these practices be regulated?  Explain why or why not!
  • Why do stakeholders in the same organization often have different goals?  Would it not be best if they shared the same goals?  Explain your findings!
  • Research a recent example of a company’s ethical violation in the news and briefly describe what you believe went wrong by covering the who, what when and were of the incident.

 

Why would management adopt a stability strategy?

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300 word minimal

Three scholarly sources

Paper#1

Why would management adopt a stability strategy? Can stability strategies be viable over a lengthy period of time? Why or why not

 

Determine the key reasons why a multinational corporation might decide to borrow in a country such as Brazil, where interest rates are high, rather than in a country like Switzerland, where interest rates are low

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Discussion 9 (please separate from the below discussion) 1-2 paragraphs including references

Determine the key reasons why a multinational corporation might decide to borrow in a country such as Brazil, where interest rates are high, rather than in a country like Switzerland, where interest rates are low. Provide support for your rationale.

Discussion 10 (please separate from the above discussion) 1-2 paragraphs including references

Examine the key reasons why a business may not want to hold too much or too little working capital. Provide examples that illustrate the consequences of either situation.

 

Discussion 2- Strategy Applied In Project Management

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Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

  1. The culture of the organization can impact the effectiveness of different project management structures. Organizational cultures that do not encourage teamwork, collaboration, and cross-functional integration need a stronger project management structure (i.e., project team, project matrix) to be successful. Conversely, a functional matrix can be effective in an organization in which the culture of the organization is conducive to project management.
  2. You work for LL Company, which manufactures high-end optical scopes for hunting rifles. LL Company has been the market leader for the past 20 years and has decided to diversify by applying its technology to develop a top-quality binocular. What kind of project management structure would you recommend they use for this project? What information would you like to have to make this recommendation, and why?

Chapters-

Chapter. 3 Organization: Structure and Culture

Chapter. 4 Defining the Project

Text

Title: Project Management: The Managerial Process

ISBN: 9781260238860

Authors: Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Publication Date: 2020-01-09

PSY-380 Introduction to Probability and Statistics

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PSY-380 Introduction to Probability and Statistics

Project 3 – SPSS Analyses

Before beginning this assignment, be sure to watch the MindTap SPSS Demonstration Library videos corresponding to each question in order to successfully complete the assignment. The videos and links are listed in the LMS assignment description and below each question.

In SPSS run the correct statistical test for each study.

  1. A researcher is interested to learn if there is a linear relationship between the hours in a week spent exercising and a person’s life satisfaction. The researchers collected the following data from a random sample, which included the number of hours spent exercising in a week and a ranking of life satisfaction from 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest and 10 the highest).

MindTap Question 1 Practice Resources: Course Support > SPSS Demonstration Library > Descriptive Statistics and Frequencies; Course Support > SPSS Demonstration Library > Correlation; Chapter 14 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Correlation and Linear Regression: Using SPSS > 1. Obtaining correlation coefficients (Pearson); SPSS Problem Set: Correlation and Linear Regression: Interpreting SPSS > 1. Interpreting statistical software output in correlation.

Participant Hours of Exercise Life Satisfaction
1 3 1
2 14 2
3 14 4
4 14 4
5 3 10
6 5 5
7 10 3
8 11 4
9 8 8
10 7 4
11 6 9
12 11 5
13 6 4
14 11 10
15 8 4
16 15 7
17 8 4
18 8 5
19 10 4
20 5 4
  1. Run descriptive statistics on the data. Report the mean, variance and standard deviation for the data of hours of exercise per week by the participants. Copy and paste the SPSS output.
  2. Run a bivariate correlation to determine if there is a linear relationship between the hours of exercise per week and the life satisfaction. In 1-2 sentences interpret the results in words then write the statistical results in APA style. Report the Pearson’s Correlation and probability statistic.
  3. Insomnia has become an epidemic in the United States. Much research has been done in the development of new pharmaceuticals to aide those who suffer from insomnia. Alternatives to the pharmaceuticals are being sought by sufferers. A new relaxation technique has been tested to see if it is effective in treating the disorder. Sixty insomnia sufferers between the ages of 18 to 40 with no underlying health conditions volunteered to participate in a clinical trial. They were randomly assigned to either receive the relaxation treatment or a proven pharmaceutical treatment. Thirty were assigned to each group. The amount of time it took each of them to fall asleep was measured and recorded. The data is shown below. Run a two-independent samples t-test to determine if the relaxation treatment is more effective than the pharmaceutical treatment at a level of significance of 0.05. In 1-2 sentences interpret the results in words then write the statistical results in APA style. Report the t statistic and probability statistic. MindTap Question 2 Practice Resources: Course Support > SPSS Demonstration Library > Independent Samples t-Test; Chapter 15 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Parametric Hypothesis Testing Comparing Two or More Means: Using SPSS > 2. Conducting an independent samples t test; Chapter 15 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Parametric Hypothesis Testing Comparing Two or More Means: Interpreting SPSS > 2. Interpreting statistical software output for an independent-measures t test.
Relaxation Pharmaceutical
98 20
117 35
51 130
28 83
65 157
107 138
88 49
90 142
105 157
73 39
44 46
53 194
20 94
50 95
92 161
112 154
71 75
96 57
86 34
92 118
75 41
41 145
102 148
24 117
96 177
108 119
102 186
35 22
46 61
74 75
  1. A researcher is interested to learn if the level of interaction a woman in her 20s has with her mother influences her life satisfaction ratings. Below is a list of women who fit into each of four levels of interaction. Conduct a One-way Between Subjects ANOVA on the data to determine if there are differences between groups; does the level of interaction influence women’s ratings of life satisfaction? Report the results of the One-way Between Subjects ANOVA. If significance is found, run the appropriate post-hoc test and report between what levels the significant differences were found. In 1-2 sentences interpret the results in words then write the statistical results in APA style. Report the F statistic and probability statistic.

MindTap Question 3 Practice Resources: Course Support > SPSS Demonstration Library > One-Way Between-Subject ANOVA; Chapter 15 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Parametric Hypothesis Testing Comparing Two or More Means: Using SPSS > 4. Conducting a single-factor, independent-measures ANOVA; Chapter 15 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Parametric Hypothesis Testing Comparing Two or More Means: Interpreting SPSS > 4. Interpreting statistical software output for a single-factor, independent-measures ANOVA

No Interaction Low Interaction Moderate Interaction High Interaction
2 3 3 9
4 3 10 10
4 5 2 8
4 1 1 5
7 2 2 8
8 2 3 4
1 7 10 9
1 8 8 4
8 6 4 1
4 5 3 8
  1. A researcher is interested in studying the effect that the amount of fat in the diet and amount of exercise has on the mental acuity of middle-aged women. The researcher used three different treatment levels for the diet and two levels for the exercise. The results of the acuity test for the subjects in the different treatment levels are shown below.

MindTap Question 4 Practice Resources: Course Support > SPSS Demonstration Library > Between-Subjects Factorial ANOVA; Chapter 15 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Parametric Hypothesis Testing Comparing Two or More Means: Using SPSS > 5. Conducting a two-factor ANOVA; Chapter 15 > Learn It > SPSS Problem Set: Parametric Hypothesis Testing Comparing Two or More Means: Interpreting SPSS > 5. Interpreting statistical software output for a two-factor ANOVA.

Diet
Exercise <30% fat 30% – 60% fat >60% fat
<60 minutes 4 3 2
4 1 2
2 2 2
4 2 2
3 3 1
60 minutes 6 8 5
or more 5 8 7
4 7 5
4 8 5
5 6 6
  1. Perform a Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Report whether significance was found for Factor A, Factor B, and/or a significant interaction between Factors A and B. In 1-2 sentences interpret the results in words then write the statistical results in APA style. Report the F statistic and probability statistic for all three tests (i.e., Factor A, Factor B, Factor AxB).
  2. If the test statistic is significant, run a post hoc test to determine between what groups significance was found. In 1-2 sentences interpret the results in words then write the statistical results in APA style.
  3. Report an effect size for all significant results. In 1-2 sentences identify the results in words then write the statistical results in APA style. Report Eta squared or Omega squared.