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How can emotional intelligence help you overcome life challenges and achieve your goals?

We all encounter challenges. Some challenges presented to us are simple to handle, while others can push us far beyond the safety of our comfort zone. Yet for many of us, overcoming challenges can ultimately make us stronger, more resilient, and better capable of managing change, no matter how stressful such changes might be. In dealing with challenges, we are able to develop our personal coping skills and level of grit. Such skills are essential to not just survive, but thrive in the face of adversity.
For this discussion, begin by reviewing the Psychology Discussion Rubric, as it is designed for this program. Later in this module, you will use this rubric to complete a self-assessment of how you think you performed on your first discussion. Review this now to maximize your success.
For your initial post, complete the emotional intelligence test in your webtext. This short survey covers various aspects of your emotional life and takes about 3 to 5 minutes to complete. It is important to be honest while also having fun with this activity. Use your results to answer the following questions:

Based on the emotional intelligence test, in what EI domain is your highest score?
Do the results reflect your current opinion of yourself, or did the results surprise you?
How can emotional intelligence help you overcome life challenges and achieve your goals?
How does awareness of your EI score relate to any of the following programmatic themes:

Self-care
Social justice
Emotional intelligence
Career connections
Ethics

Remember to respond to two peers while being respectful of and sensitive to their viewpoints. Consider advancing the discussion in the following ways:

Post an article, video, or visual to reinforce a peer’s idea or challenge them to see their point from a different perspective.
Engage in conversation with your peers around EI. Consider asking a question or sharing your personal experience. Also consider asking advice from a peer who has a strength in a domain in which you have opportunity to develop.

To complete this assignment, review the Psychology Discussion Rubric.
You will also need:

Describe the techniques and procedures used to process the crime scene, including a list of the evidence collected. Explain the reasons for the procedures.

When you arrive at the scene of a crime, you must follow certain procedures to ensure the admissibility of evidence. For this assignment, you will use a case file of a real crime scene and assume the role of the crime scene investigator. You will create a presentation in which you document your process, present your findings, and provide an evaluation of the scene in a narrated PowerPoint or presentation tool of your choice.
To help you prepare, use the Mock Crime SceneLinks to an external site. (https://www.mesaazpolice.gov/about-mesa-pd/forensic-services/mock-crime-scene) to review the steps of evaluating a crime scene.
Instructions
Choose one of the following cases:

“He Hit Her Until She Fell… and That Was Just the Beginning,” Brandl
“A Mutilation Murder,” Brandl

Identify the tools you used to evaluate the crime scene. Provide a rationale for your choices.
Outline the steps you took to secure the crime scene.
Describe the techniques and procedures you used to process the crime scene, including a list of the evidence collected. Explain the reasons for your procedures.
Describe the steps you took to preserve the evidence and provide an explanation for your process.
Provide photos of the crime scene.
Create a crime scene map that illustrates the crime scene upon arrival.
Narrate your presentation to walk the audience through the crime scene.
Use at least two quality sources and cite them on a references slide.

Describe the pharmacological actions of non-z sleep medications?

1. What screening tools can be used to affirm your initial diagnosis that a patient may meet the diagnostic criteria for a sleep disorder?
2. Describe the pharmacological actions of non-z sleep medications?
3. What problems can occur when benzodiazepines are used to help with sleep?
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the students position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format.
Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/07/ce-sleep-disorders
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Diagnosing and treating sleep disorders
Psychologists have a leading role to play in treating insomnia and other common sleep disturbances
By

Kirsten Weir
Date created: July 1, 202214 min read

Vol. 53 No. 5
Print version: page 40

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Sleep

CE credits: 1

Learning objectives: After reading this article, CE candidates will be able to:

1. Describe symptoms of common sleep disorders.
2. Understand and access tools available for screening clients for sleep disorders.
3. Describe evidence-based behavioral treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders.
4. Know when to refer clients to sleep specialists.
For more information on earning CE credit for this article, go to

CE Corner
.

Psychologists have a leading role to play in treating insomnia and other common sleep disturbances.
Sleep is a biological necessity. But for all its importance, it can be surprisingly hard to get enough. As many as 50 to 70 million U.S. adults have a sleep disorder, according to the American Sleep Association. Those disorders frequently go hand in hand with problems such as depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sleep disorders are very common and are often comorbid with mental health conditions. But psychologists get very little training in sleep, said Jennifer Mundt, PhD, director of the Northwestern University Behavioral Sleep Medicine Training Program, who presented the continuing-education session Sleep and Its Disorders: A Primer for Mental Health Professionals for APA in 2021.
In a recent survey of clinical psychologists in the United States and Canada, practitioners reported a median of just 10 hours of sleep training across their education and career, and 95% reported no clinical sleep training during graduate school, internship, or fellowship (Zhou, E. S., et al.,

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2021
). In medicine, psychology, and society as a whole, weve paid so little attention to sleep for so long, Mundt said.

It is time to start paying attention, Mundt and other sleep experts say. Sleep is critical to physical and emotional health, and when its disrupted, it cuts across both, said Susan Rubman, PhD, a behavioral sleep medicine specialist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. As a basic part of psychological assessment, its important to know what normal sleep is and what disordered sleep is so you can treat all aspects of an individuals concerns appropriately.
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Sleep facts and fictions
Sleep disorders come in all shapes and sizes. The most common is insomnia, which is characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep. About 30% of adults in the United States have symptoms of insomnia, and about 10% have insomnia that is severe enough to cause daytime consequences, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). And insomnia comes with a host of complications, including increased risk of accidents, poor performance at work or school, and elevated risk of conditions including high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and substance use disorders. It is also associated with an increased risk of suicide as well as death from other causes.
Insomnia and other sleep disorders often coexist with other psychological complaints. Up to 90% of people with depression have sleep complaints, and two thirds of people undergoing a major depressive episode experience insomnia, according to a review by University of Pittsburgh researchers Peter Franzen, PhD, and Daniel Buysse, MD. Sleep disturbances often precede depressive symptoms, they found, and are associated with worse clinical and treatment outcomes among people with depression (

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2008
).

All that is to say that clinical psychologists are certain to treat patients who have trouble sleeping whether they know it or not. And there are three good reasons to address sleep in practice, said Michael Grandner, PhD, MTR, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona. First, we know that sleep affects health and functioning. Second, sleep is often a way into mental health issues. Asking how someone is sleeping is a great way to start talking about mental health, he said. And the third reason is that sleep problems are highly fixable, without medications. And psychologists are in a prime position to fix them.
Yet there are some common misconceptions about sleepamong the public as well as health care professionalsthat prevent people from getting the treatment they need for insomnia and other sleep disorders. One is the belief that good sleep hygiene can cure disordered sleep, Grandner said. Sleep hygiene includes practices like going to bed and waking up at a consistent time, removing electronic devices from the bedroom, and avoiding caffeine, alcohol, and heavy meals near bedtime. While these efforts can improve sleep, they are not a treatment for disordered sleep. A lot of people confuse sleep hygiene with behavioral sleep therapies. This is a huge misconception, Grandner said. Hygiene, by nature, is preventive. Washing your hands can prevent you from getting sick, but it wont cure an infection. And sleep hygiene can remove some barriers to good sleep, but its mostly useless for fixing insomnia, he added.
Another fallacy is that insomnia is a symptom of mental health disorders. While the two often coexist, they are best thought of as comorbid conditions, said Michael Perlis, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. When sleep disorders are viewed as a symptom of an illness, people believe theres no need for targeted action. They believe that by treating the PTSD, anxiety, or depression, insomnia will abate. The past 10 years of research shows us that doesnt happen, he said.
While treating mental health conditions does not guarantee improvement of comorbid insomnia, the reverse is more likely: Treating insomnia can make mental health disorders more manageable. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials showed that poor sleep is causally related to mental health difficulties and that greater improvements in sleep quality lead to greater improvements in mental health (Scott, A. J., et al.,

Sleep Medicine Reviews

, Vol. 60, 2021
). For that reason, some sleep experts argue that insomnia should be treated even before other mental health problems, if the patient is not in crisis. When insomnia is left alive, it complicates the treatment of everything else, said Donn Posner, PhD, adjunct clinical associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and founder of Sleepwell Consultants, which offers sleep interventions for patients and workshops for providers. Every time you see chronic insomnia, you need to treat it.

CBT-I: Front-line insomnia treatment
Almost anything can trigger a night of tossing and turning, from stress to pain to stormy weather. There are a million causes of short-term insomnia. But there is one main culprit behind chronic insomniaconditioned arousal, said Grandner. When sleep becomes problematic, the bed becomes the war zone. And then the expectation that sleep will be stressful creates the very activation that makes sleep difficult.
The best treatment to address that conditioned arousal is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), a targeted intervention that typically lasts four to eight sessions. In fact, CBT-I is one of psychologys best success stories. The treatment is so effective that it is recommended as a front-line treatment for insomnia by a variety of professional groups, including the Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Health Affairs, the American College of Physicians, and the AASM.
Even in cases of short-term insomnia, CBT-I is about as effective as sleeping pills. In a meta-analysis that included 21 studies, researchers concluded that behavioral therapy produces similar outcomes as pharmacotherapy for the acute treatment of primary insomnia (Smith, M. T., et al.,

The American Journal of Psychiatry

, Vol. 159, No. 1, 2002
). But for chronic insomnia, CBT-I is at a distinct advantage. A meta-analysis concluded that the intervention is an effective treatment for adults with chronic insomnia, with clinically meaningful effect sizes (Trauer, J. M., et al.,

Annals of Internal Medicine

, Vol. 163, No. 3, 2015
). In the long term, theres an advantage for CBT-I because it actually addresses the underlying behavioral and thought patterns that perpetuate the insomnia, Mundt said. And it has a high rate of success.

CBT-I is also a successful option for patients with insomnia and depression. In a study of internet-delivered CBT-I, Kerstin Blom, PhD, at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and colleagues found that in patients with both diagnoses, CBT-I was more effective than CBT for depression when treating insomnia. More surprising, the two were equally effective for reducing depression severity. At a 3-year follow-up, both the CBT-I and CBT for depression groups continued to experience similar reductions in depression severity, but the insomnia treatment continued to have superior effects on sleep (

Sleep

, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2015
;

Sleep

, Vol. 40, No. 8, 2017
).

Other research also supports the idea that CBT-I can improve depression. A systematic review of 18 studies concluded that CBT-I is a promising treatment for depression in people who also have insomnia and produces effects of roughly the same magnitude as antidepressant medications. In-person therapy had the most evidence supporting its efficacy, while evidence for telehealth CBT-I was mixed. However, the authors concluded there is promise for a stepped-care approach in which telehealth progresses to in-person therapy for patients as needed (Cunningham, J. E. A., & Shapiro, C. M.,

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

, Vol. 106, 2018
).

Theres further evidence that treating insomnia might even prevent depression from developing in the first place. In a study by researchers at Henry Ford Health and the University of Oxford, participants with insomnia were randomized to receive either digital CBT-I or sleep education. In those with minimal to no depression at baseline, the incidence of moderate-to-severe depression one year later was reduced by half in the CBT-I group compared with the sleep education control condition (Cheng, P., et al.,

Sleep

, Vol. 42, No. 10, 2019
).

Research also supports the use of CBT-I in patients with insomnia and other mental health conditions. One randomized trial by Lisa Talbot, PhD, at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and colleagues found that an eight-session CBT-I intervention improved sleep and overall psychosocial functioning in people with PTSD compared with participants in a waiting list control group. There was also some evidence that CBT-I may reduce the frequency of nightmares in people with PTSD (

Sleep

, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2014
).

Meanwhile, Grandner and colleagues explored the connection between COVID-19 pandemic-related stress and anxiety, suicidal ideation, and sleep. They found that COVID anxiety was correlated with suicidal ideationbut that association was fully accounted for by insomnia severity. Treating the insomnia, in other words, may help to reduce suicide risk in people with high stress or anxiety (

Psychiatry Research

, Vol. 290, No. 113124, 2020
).

Recognizing other sleep disorders
Insomnia, while common, is hardly the only sleep disorder that psychologists are likely to encounter in their practice. About 25 million adults in the United Statesmore than a quarter of adults ages 30 to 70have obstructive sleep apnea, according to the AASM. This disorder occurs when muscles in the throat relax, blocking the airway. People with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing for short periods during sleep, disrupting sleep continuity and causing daytime fatigue. Untreated, sleep apnea can increase the risk of serious conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, and mood and psychiatric disorders.
The front-line treatment for obstructive sleep apnea is positive airway pressure (PAP), a face mask device that pushes air into the airway to keep it open during sleep. While PAP treatment is effective, adherence can be an issue. Psychologists can help patients learn to tolerate the device. People who specialize in behavioral sleep medicine can help with adherence and anxiety for PAP. When patients are struggling to wear the mask or have anxiety or claustrophobia, we can use exposure treatments to help them get comfortable using the device, Mundt said.
Nightmares are another common complaint, especially in people who have been exposed to trauma. Counter to popular belief, nightmares are treatable. Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) is one of the most used and well-supported interventions for nightmares in people with PTSD, and several protocols are available. A meta-analysis of these cognitive behavioral interventions found IRT had large effects on the frequency of nightmares, sleep quality, and PTSD symptoms. Further, the combination of IRT and CBT-I resulted in even greater improvements in sleep quality (Casement, M. D., & Swanson, L. M.,

Clinical Psychology Review

, Vol. 32, No. 6, 2012
). Its helpful to ask patients about nightmares because they are so common, especially with trauma, Mundt said. And patients arent necessarily going to bring them up, because they dont even know that treatments are out there.

Another challenging condition is hypersomnia, which causes excessive sleepiness even after a full nights sleep. Examples of central disorders with hypersomnolence include conditions such as narcolepsy and Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare disorder that causes excessive sleep, hunger, and behavioral changes. Hypersomnia can also be idiopathic, meaning it has no known cause. Secondary hypersomnia can be associated with certain medical disorders (such as epilepsy, hypothyroidism, or nervous system disorders), mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, or other causes, such as side effects from medications. These disorders are less common, but they frequently go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years, Mundt said.
She and her colleagues are developing a cognitive behavioral therapy for hypersomnia (CBT-H). An initial pilot study suggested the treatment may reduce depressive symptoms and improve self-efficacy in people with hypersomnia and coexisting depression (Ong, J. C., et al.,

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 12, 2020

). The main treatment for hypersomnia is medication to help with alertness. This is an adjunctive treatment to address the psychosocial impacts of hypersomnia, Mundt said.

Theres often comorbid depression and anxiety and issues with stigma and navigating work and relationships. CBT-H is designed to help people deal with those challenges.
Sleep training for psychologists
Given the frequency of sleep disruption in the general populationand among people with mental health disorders in particularit is important for clinicians to recognize the signs. Clinical psychologists should make a point to inquire about their patients sleep habits, Grandner said. Sleep problems are part of practically every diagnosis in the DSM, he said.
Yet it is also important to recognize that treating insomnia and other sleep disorders requires specialized training. For psychologists who are trained in CBT, learning CBT-I is not especially difficult, Grandner said. The treatment is highly manualized, and you dont need to be board certified in behavioral sleep medicine to become competent in CBT-I. However, being competent in CBT-I does require training in principles of sleep medicine that go beyond the traditional behavioral and cognitive tools, and various training options are available online and in person at institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, University of Arizona, and others. (See

Screening tools and other resources
.)

Perlis and Posner, who lead training courses in CBT-I and are coauthors of a treatment manual on the intervention, argue that many more psychologists would benefit from these trainingsand so would their patients. Currently, most of the participants in Perliss training courses come from allied fields such as social work and occupational therapy, he said. We clinical psychologists designed CBT-I. We produced the evidence base. Why are we not the ones delivering it? he asked. We need more people in clinical psychology to come aboard and start seeking training.
Addressing sleep hygiene is something all clinicians can do with their patients. But sleep hygiene alone is not sufficient for treating clinically significant insomnia, Rubman said. If sleep problems persist for more than a few weeks, it is important to refer patients to a physician or psychologist who is certified in behavioral sleep medicine or has training in CBT-I. Too often, patients receive sleep education but do not improve, and then they mistakenly conclude that behavioral interventions didnt work for them and may turn to sleeping pills instead. That is a missed opportunity, since their insomnia is likely to improve or resolve if they are treated with CBT-I. Clinicians need a good understanding of variations in normal sleep and the limits of sleep hygiene, and they need to recognize when to refer someone to a specialist, she said. The goal is to intervene to prevent an acute problem from becoming a chronic problem.
Screening tools and other resources

Epworth sleepiness scale

(Johns, M. W.,
Sleep, Vol. 14, No. 6, 1991)

Insomnia Severity Index

(Morin, C. M., et al.,
Sleep, Vol. 34, No. 5, 2011)

Sleep Disorders Symptom Checklist-25

(Klingman, K. J., et al.,
Sleep Medicine Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2017)

STOP-Bang questionnaire for sleep apnea

(Tan, A., et al.,
Sleep Medicine, Vol. 2728, 2016)

Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine
(resources, education, and provider directory)

International Directory of CBT-I Providers

Web-based course in CBT-I

What is a supply chain? What is the purpose of supply chain management system?

Instructions

Assignment 1

Choose three distinct but related business functions (e.g., inventory control, purchasing, payroll, accounting, etc.).
Write a 2-page paper describing how interfacing the information systems of these three functions can improve an organizations performance. Include the title and reference page (note part of the three-page requirement).
Assignment 2
Type the questions, then the answer. Make sure your answers are in complete thought and is substantive.
1. What is a supply chain? What is the purpose of supply chain management systems?
2. What is the purpose of cost accounting ISs?
3. What is the relationship between CAD and CAM systems?
4. What are the concerns in cash management, and how do cash management ISs help financial managers?
5. What is time to market? How have ISs affected time to market?
6. In brief, what is the purpose of customer relationship management systems?
7. What are the typical components of ERP systems?
8. Although technologically the full linking of the SCM systems of suppliers and buyers is feasible, many buyers are reluctant to do so. Why?
9. Why do the ERP installation and testing of systems require that experts be involved? Why does the implementation of so many ERP systems face severe challenges or totally fail?
10. What is EOQ? Which two problems do ISs that calculate EOQ help minimize?
11. What is JIT? How do MRP and MRP II systems help achieve JIT?
12. For the human resource managers of some organizations the entire web is a database of job candidates. How so?
13. What information technologies play a crucial role in marketing?
14. Many sales reps have no offices, yet they have access to huge resources, and their productivity is great. Explain how that is possible.
15. What is RFID, and what role does it play in SCM?
Assignment 3
Responses to Case Studies: Self-Theories
· Unit 5: Motivation
· Module 16: Self Theories
Early Childhood: The Worksheets
Elizabeth Garvey, a second-year teacher at Fitzgerald Elementary School, enjoys teaching kindergarten because the children are eager to learn new things and approach each new experience with excitement. As with any kindergarten class, it is typical for some students to have trouble adjusting to the structured, academic environment of elementary school. Mrs. Garvey tries to balance formal instruction with opportunities for social interaction and play. This year seems especially challenging, as she has a large class of 21 students with diverse backgrounds. Three students are English language learners, many students have had no preschool experience, and there are large disparities in readiness skills among the children.
After the morning meetingduring which Mrs. Garvey and the children go over the date, the days weather, the lunch count, and any special news or eventsshe begins a lesson on math concepts that includes a game of Numbers I Spy. After the group lesson, the children return to their seats to complete some worksheets. Mrs. Garvey gives them instructions to match digits on the left side of the page to sets of objects on the right side of the page. She shows them how to complete the first one, drawing a line from the number 5 to the five hats. When youre finished, use the color key at the bottom of the page to color the sets of objects, Mrs. Garvey says, pointing to the bottom of the page.
As the children begin working, Mrs. Garvey walks around the room to check on their progress. She notices Melissa coloring instead of doing the worksheet. Melissa, why havent you started your math sheet? whispers Mrs. Garvey.
I cant do it, replies Melissa, slouching in her chair.
I know you can do it if you just try, says Mrs. Garvey with a reassuring smile. Melissa tends to need a little extra coaxing and then ends up doing fine work. Ill come back and check on you.
Melissa has been raised by her grandmother since she was a year old. From the age of 3, she has attended Head Start, a preschool program for economically disadvantaged children. Her academic skills are steadily improving, but she still lacks confidence in her abilities.
As Mrs. Garvey continues moving around the room, she notices Emanuel, Kristina, and Martin at the building center, playing with Legos. She approaches the children and says, Now is not the time for building.
But were already done with our math sheets! exclaims Martin. I already know numbers and adding, so I dont need to do baby worksheets. My mom says Im smart at math.
Yes, I know you three are good at doing math, Mrs. Garvey says. Show me your worksheets so I can check to see if they are correct and neatly colored, and then you can play with the blocks while the others finish.
Because Mrs. Garvey needs to follow the districts curriculum, she often lets advanced students play while others finish their work. Shes not sure whether their playing affects other students motivation, though. She always has a few students who want to rush through their work so they can play as well.
Mrs. Garvey walks past the next table and says, Nice work, Alannah and Mahiro! She then stops at Kayvon and leans over his shoulder, saying, The seven fish dont go with that number, Kayvon. Its this one. Count them with me.
Tugging at her shirt is Claire. Claire is anxiously waiting for Mrs. Garvey to check her answers, as she does with all her work, even art projects. Claire never wants to get anything wrong.
Mrs. Garvey, Im done with the numbers. Are they all right? I want to color the pictures now, says Claire. Mrs. Garvey glances at the sheet and gives her a nod. Everyone looks like theyre doing fine, she thinks as she goes back to check on Melissa and Kayvon.

What may be the positive impact of critically analyzing wellness? Conversely, what are the more difficult aspects of addressing wellness?

Overview
For this activity, you will begin the critical analysis section of your project. This section will include assessing benefits, challenges, opportunities for change, and social practices. Completing this activity will result in a draft of the critical analysis section of your project. It also provides an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your project submission.
Directions
In this activity, you will analyze your topic using the general education lens you chose in the previous module in order to determine how the topic has affected institutions. During your analysis, you will also describe an element related to your topic that could benefit from change and assess the benefits and challenges associated with addressing wellness. Finally, you will analyze how modern social practices have been impacted by wellness.
Include diverse perspectives from varied sources to support your points. You should continue to gather the sources you will integrate into your project. These sources will include two resources from the module resource sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. It may be beneficial to identify more than the number of sources required for the project so that you can eventually choose the most useful and credible ones. Look to the SNHU Shapiro Library for assistance in finding evidence and resources from outside the course.
You are not required to address each item below the rubric criteria, but you may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking and writing.
Specifically, you must address the following:

Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.

It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
You will be evaluated on both criteria.

Analyze your chosen issue or event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine its impact on various institutions.

Apply the perspective of the general education lens you chose in the previous module to your topic. Then determine how the topic might affect institutions such as politics, community, family, economy, education, or market-driven organizations.

Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.

Consider how your topic has been discussed and represented. What approaches could be more constructive? What could be done differently to encourage, promote, or transform your topic? This response is not simply your opinion but should be supported by reliable evidence.

Assess the benefit and challenges of addressing issues in wellness.

What may be the positive impact of critically analyzing wellness? Conversely, what are the more difficult aspects of addressing wellness? This part refers to wellness overall and is not specifically about your project topic.

Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture.

How have contemporary social practices been influenced by wellness? For example, consider practices such as communication, cultural expression, governance, or caregiving.

You are a medical professor in charge of creating college assignments and answers for medical college students. You design and conduct lectures, evaluate student performance and provide feedback through examinations and assignments. Answer each question separately. Include and Introduction. Provide an answer to this content

Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.

Analyze your chosen issue or event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine its impact on various institutions.

Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.

Assess the benefit and challenges of addressing issues in wellness.

Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture.

How have contemporary social practices been influenced by wellness? For example, consider practices such as communication, cultural expression, governance, or caregiving.

Do you believe that a program of HR metrics and workforce analytics might be useful in Regional Hospital?

HR Metrics and Workforce Analytics
Please watch this video The Power of HR Metrics: Growth, Performance, Sustainment (3 min 35 s) on the importance of metrics.

Review the Case Study: Regional Hospital on page 420 of the textbook.
Based on the video, your readings this week, and the case study, please respond to the following questions:
Do you believe that a program of HR metrics and workforce analytics might be useful in Regional Hospital?
What opportunities do you see regarding where and how metrics and analytics might be applied in this organization?
Identify three analyses and associated metrics you think might be useful for Regional Hospital to consider.

Kavanagh, M. J., Thite, M., & Johnson, R. D. (2018). Human resource information systems: Basics, applications, and future directions (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc

What are the key principles that a registered nurse should consider when delegating tasks to other healthcare personnel? What are three tasks that a registered nurse may assign to a licensed practical nurse and three tasks that a registered nurse may assign other assistive personnel?

r healthcare personnel? What are three tasks that a registered nurse may assign to a licensed practical nurse and three tasks that a registered nurse may assign other assistive personnel? What are the hazards of a nurse not using delegation? What happens when a nurse over-delegates?

How is public administration different from private management? What are the implications of these differences for the public administrator in the areas of: a. Decision Making.

Final Essay question: How is public administration different from private management? What are the implications of these differences for the public administrator in the areas of: a. Decision Making, b. Human resource management,c. Accountability? The paper should be a minimum of 2-3 pages in length, excluding tables, title page, and reference page. A minimum of 2 tables should be included as well as a minimum of 5 sources to support your work.

This case study illustrates a number of CQI principles described in lessons from the course thus far. What factors would you consider to ensure that the CQI team includes the right people to reach project aims?

Leading Continuous Quality Improvement in Public Health
Your responses should be organized into separate sections for each question, in the same order as asked herein. Please copy and/or rephrase the question in your answers. The paper should be submitted in Word format, any professional font, size 12. The exam should be no more than 8 pages (double-spaced) and responses should reflect a scholarly understanding of the question. Please reference relevant course readings or content from the asynchronous lectures. At the end of your work, please include your reference list (APA or Vancouver Style) on a separate page.
Read and reflect on the following case: Higginbotham K, Davis Crutcher T, Karp SM. Screening for Social Determinants of Health at Well-Child Appointments:
This case study illustrates a number of CQI principles described in lessons from the course thus far. Please answer the questions below about the case using content from the lectures and assigned readings, as appropriate. Support your points with a variety of references from the class materials and articles.
1.     Identify at least three Public Health System Quality Aims (as articulated by Honore and colleagues) addressed by this CQI project. Describe how this project addresses each one. (3 Points)
2.     Please write an aim statement for this CQI project. Refer to Module Four (Setting Improvement Goals in Complex Systems) for a list of the elements of a proper aim statement. (3 Points)
3.     Stakeholders engagement is core to Continuous Quality Improvement. (3 Points)
A.   Identify the internal and external stakeholders identified in the article.
B.    If you were on the CQI team, what internal and external stakeholders would you include?
C.    What actions would you take to engage stakeholders to ensure equity and inclusion?
4.   The article provides some basic details about team composition. (4 Points)
A.   What factors would you consider to ensure that the CQI team includes the right people to reach project aims?
B.    Describe the actions you would take to establish a solid team foundation designed to start strong and navigate dysfunction effectively?
5.     Using the Donabedian Model, describe the structural elements, processes and outcomes that would be involved in this case. (3 Points)
6.     Mental models can play a critical role in all CQI, but perhaps especially in work that aims to disrupt inequity. (4 Points)
A.   Describe your approach to identifying mental models among the people involved in testing the SDOH screening tool.
B.    What problematic mental models might you expect to see? How could you address them?
C.    Describe how leadership could help create a culture of excellence in the described Case. Consider Demings 14 points for quality management in your answer.

Leading Continuous Quality Improvement in Public Health
Your responses should be organized into separate sections for each question, in the same order as asked herein. Please copy and/or rephrase the question in your answers. The paper should be submitted in Word format, any professional font, size 12. The exam should be no more than 8 pages (double-spaced) and responses should reflect a scholarly understanding of the question. Please reference relevant course readings or content from the asynchronous lectures. At the end of your work, please include your reference list (APA or Vancouver Style) on a separate page.
Read and reflect on the following case: Higginbotham K, Davis Crutcher T, Karp SM. Screening for Social Determinants of Health at Well-Child Appointments: A Quality Improvement Project. Nurs Clin North Am. 2019 Mar;54(1):1418.
This case study illustrates a number of CQI principles described in lessons from the course thus far. Please answer the questions below about the case using content from the lectures and assigned readings, as appropriate. Support your points with a variety of references from the class materials and articles.
1.     Identify at least three Public Health System Quality Aims (as articulated by Honore and colleagues) addressed by this CQI project. Describe how this project addresses each one. (3 Points)
2.     Please write an aim statement for this CQI project. Refer to Module Four (Setting Improvement Goals in Complex Systems) for a list of the elements of a proper aim statement. (3 Points)
3.     Stakeholders engagement is core to Continuous Quality Improvement. (3 Points)
A.   Identify the internal and external stakeholders identified in the article.
B.    If you were on the CQI team, what internal and external stakeholders would you include?
C.    What actions would you take to engage stakeholders to ensure equity and inclusion?
4.   The article provides some basic details about team composition. (4 Points)
A.   What factors would you consider to ensure that the CQI team includes the right people to reach project aims?
B.    Describe the actions you would take to establish a solid team foundation designed to start strong and navigate dysfunction effectively?
5.     Using the Donabedian Model, describe the structural elements, processes and outcomes that would be involved in this case. (3 Points)
6.     Mental models can play a critical role in all CQI, but perhaps especially in work that aims to disrupt inequity. (4 Points)
A.   Describe your approach to identifying mental models among the people involved in testing the SDOH screening tool.
B.    What problematic mental models might you expect to see? How could you address them?
C.    Describe how leadership could help create a culture of excellence in the described Case. Consider Demings 14 points for quality management in your answer.

. Do not write who you are in the answer.

What do you see as the potential challenges to developing a team.

The development of a project team requires planning and consideration. In the forum for this week please discuss your plan for developing a project team in conjunction with the progressive case study assignment.

What will the organizational chart look like?
What are the guidelines and parameters for selection and developing the team?
What do you see as the potential challenges to developing your team.