Consider the need for a group facilitator. Who would that person be, and why?

You have been invited to assemble a task force to design a medication assistance program. You need to submit a proposal, regarding who you would invite, to the CEO. Consider the perspectives of prescribers, discharge planners, financial navigators, patients, suppliers, book keepers and subsidizers. If you were to seek the input of 5-7 stakeholders, who would you invite to the planning table, and why? Consider the need for a group facilitator. Who would that person be, and why?

2-3 page APA style response to this query. Open with a paragraph of purpose, dedicate a paragraph to each stakeholder that you would invite, and close with a summary of what you hope to accomplish with the group, within a designated time frame.

How has your plan for implementation changed, if at all? Why were these changes necessary?

The DNP Project: Implementation

The discussion for this week is focused on project implementation. Review the steps in your change process and your schedule for implementation, identify milestones, and discuss how you are going to ensure achievement of these milestones. How has your plan for implementation changed, if at all? Why were these changes necessary? Have you started implementation? (The project will be a case study, no implementation, unfortunately)

Please provide your instructor and student colleagues with an update on the implementation phase of your DNP Project. Share any successes, challenges, or barriers you experienced this week.

When posting, please first share your PICOT question in question format and then respond to the weekly question. This will help us all to be able to provide quality feedback in these weekly discussions.

Your post will be checked in Turnitin for plagiarism. Responses should be a minimum of 350 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced.  A minimum of 3 references are required (other than your textbook). 

Why implementation plans and effective project management strategies are an important part of your DNP project preparation and implementation?

Why implementation plans and effective project management strategies are an important part of your DNP project preparation and implementation?

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).

How does Grover see OSHA fitting into his ‘structural’ or political economy approach to the presidency?

To develop your analysis, I would like you to use your own words and paraphrase the ideas of the authors we have been reading. The use of some direct quotes to develop your analysis is also welcome. Please cite specific pages from the readings to support your work, and you should do this even when you are not directly quoting. 

Part A.  Identify and discuss the significance (2 paragraphs for each answer) of two of the following terms (35 points each, 70 points total). Your answers should draw on the readings and focus on how these terms relate to our understanding of the presidency (including reference to the particular presidents we have focused on in the last modules). Note here that you should also reference the frameworks we have explored rather than just describing the policy. For instance, is it helpful to think about Neustadt’s ideas when discussing Lyndon Johnson and how how he helped pass the Civil Rights Act? Does Skowronek’s theory help us understand Reagan’s policies? How does Grover see OSHA fitting into his ‘structural’ or political economy approach to the presidency?

Pick Two:

1. OSHA
2. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Reagan)
3. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Johnson)
4. Disjunctive (regime decline) presidents (this could potentially include Carter and Trump)
5. Carter’s energy bill of 1977

Part B. Among the presidents we focused on in the second half of class, which one is most interesting to you and why? Write a short (at least 1 full paragraph) discussion of this question that references at least one example from the readings of a particular policy, political issue, or skill associated with that president. (10 points – there is no wrong answer here, so don’t worry too much about points.)

Write work exploring this argument, assessing the value of applying the different frameworks we have studied to understanding presidential behavior and results. 

 Answer 1 question (170 points). Please write a 3-4 page (suggested length) work You should write this as clearly as possible and use page citations to support your analysis, but the writing style can be a little more informal than the paper assignments. I might suggest typing it out as if you were in class taking the work, and then going back and adding extra details and page citations (and possibly direct quotes) to strengthen your work:

1. “Political and economic context creates more opportunity for some presidents than for others. But skill determines how well or poorly presidents respond to those opportunities.” 

Write work that explores the two sides of this argument while discussing the domestic policy efforts of at least two of the presidents focused on in recent class readings (Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Trump). In other words, please explore how context shapes the possibilities for different presidents, and also consider how their political skills then influence what they accomplish. Make sure you use class frameworks (theories) in your argument. Your work should also provide specific policy examples in relation to each president you are discussing (these can be “successes” and/or “failures” in terms of a given president’s ability to achieve their own policy agenda and related goals).

2. “No one model fully explains the presidency. Instead, we need to combine and contrast insights from multiple models to understand the actions and results of any particular president.”

Is this statement convincing? Write work exploring this argument, assessing the value of applying the different frameworks we have studied to understanding presidential behavior and results.  You should focus on the domestic policy of modern presidents, giving concrete examples that support your argument and drawing on a range of perspectives (bargaining /persuasion, going public, political time, structuralism, administrative strategies, etc.).  You should discuss in detail at least two modern presidents from among those covered in the last two modules (Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Trump — and also feel free to reference any other examples you find helpful, such as those relating to FDR).

write an 8-10 page literature review analyzing various qualitative studies on this topic.

Assignment 1

Subject: Evidence-based Policing

Instructions

This paper requires the student to conduct a scholarly literature review on the subject of evidence-based policing. Students will write an 8-10 page literature review analyzing various qualitative studies on this topic. Students will keep the context within the framework of evidence-based policing, and how it can be beneficial to the criminal justice field.

Explore how Descartes develops his ideas on the nature of the mind in the 2nd Meditation, OF THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN MIND

Option 2: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy  
Explore how Descartes develops his ideas on the nature of the mind in the 2nd Meditation, OF THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN MIND; AND THAT IT IS MORE EASILY KNOWN THAN THE BODY, sections 1-16 
A reading guide on this text can be found here: 
Franks, Richard, Descartes’ ‘Meditations’: A Reader’s Guide. Continuum (2008) 
The text of Descartes 2nd meditation to read can be found here:
Descartes, 2nd Meditation, parts 1-16.
Answer the following questions on a separate document (Microsoft Word .docx), exploring how Descartes develops his ideas on the nature of the mind in the 2nd Meditation. 
 According to Descartes, what is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me? 
What, according to Descartes, am I? What is the nature of the mind? 
Exactly what does the argument concluding at the end of the third paragraph of Meditation II prove? Does it prove that Descartes exists? Does it prove that I (the reader) exist? Does it prove to me that I exist? (Are these last two questions different?) 
How does Descartes go about imagining himself without a body? Can you really imagine yourself without a body? Can you conceive of having sensations — sights, sounds, smells, etc. — without a body? Could you be without being somewhere and some when? 
What does Descartes say is the nature of material bodies? (Is he right?) 
In the example of the wax, if the wax really changes all of its sensory qualities (i.e., the qualities that the senses can perceive), then what makes me think there is any one thing here at all? Does any collection of sensory qualities make up the sensations of an object? 
What important conclusion about the nature or character of the mind does Descartes draw from the example of the piece of wax? 
When a physicist investigates the nature of some element, does he or she concentrate on sensory qualities, or on the underlying atomic structures? Would Descartes call our knowledge of that underlying atomic structure sensory knowledge or rational knowledge? 
If Descartes is correct that the essence of the mind is thinking, then how can I ever know whether there are other minds besides my own? 

Why does Aristotle say that  phantasia is distinct from perception?

Option 1: Aristotle’s De Anima (“On the Soul”) 
Explore how Aristotle develops an understanding of phantasia (“imagination”) in De Anima, Book III, Part 3: 427b28 – 429a9 and noein (“thinking”) in De Anima, Book III, Part 4: 429a10 – 430a9. 
A reading guide on this text can be found here: 
Polansky, Ronald, M. Aristotle’s De Anima: A Critical Commentary. Cambridge University Press (2007). 
The text of Aristotle’s De Anima to read can be found here:
Aristotle, De Anima, Book III, Part 3 – 4
Answer the following questions on a separate document (Microsoft Word .docx),  exploring how Aristotle develops an understanding of phantasia (“imagination”) in part 3 and noein (“thinking”) in part 4 of De Anima.  

1. Why does Aristotle say that  phantasia is distinct from perception? (428a6ff.)  
2. Aristotle claims that “sensations are always true, imaginations are for the most part false” (a11-12) What does he mean and why is it important to state? 
3. How does Aristotle argue that imagination is distinct from belief? (428a19-b5). Can you identify the premises and conclusion? 
4. What positive relation does imagination have to perception? How is imagination related to motion? (428b10-17)  
   5. How is “thinking” (noein) like perceiving? (429a13-17)  
5. In what sense is intellect purely potential? (a20)  
6. How does intellect differ from perception in its being unaffected? (429a30-b5)  
7. Why does Aristotle say intellect is separable? (b5)  
8. What kind of knowledge is Aristotle talking about at 429b6-9?  
   10. How does the analogy of the writing tablet help explain the nature of intellect and its relation to its objects?

What challenges and biases may impact the study results? 

Discuss the need for quantitative research in the healthcare service field. Provide an example of a researchable question that will be investigated with quantitative research. Explain which research methods and designs can be applied to the chosen question research. What challenges and biases may impact the study results? 

READING
Data Collection and Management (embedded below)
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Sampling Technique PPTs. (embedded below)
Sampling Techniques

Data Preparation
Data Preparation and Data Mining (Exploratory)
Data Preparation, Validation and Reporting
Using Research to Inform Healthcare Managers and Policy Maker’s Questions
Core Competencies for Healthcare Managers
Health Care Databases and Health Care Organizations   
Read book chapter from: 
Sengstack, Patricia, et al. Mastering Informatics: A Healthcare Handbook for Success. Sigma Theta Tau International, 2015.

Explain the differences between Research Methods and Research Design.

Explain the differences between Research Methods and Research Design. Provide a description of two method examples and two examples of design types. When each is used? What is the process of choosing a correct research method and a correct research design? 
READINGS
Descriptive Statisticsssentials of Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Services, Chapter 1: The Role and Function of Quantitative Methods in Health Services Management 
Doing Quantitative Research in Education, Chapter 1(consider how the methods are applicable to healthcare service research): Introduction to Quantitative Research
Why we need observational studies to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare 
“Utilization of maternal health-care services by tribal women in Kerala” (in eReserves)
Descriptive Statistics