As you craft your initial post, you will be using information from your texts, along with conducting independent research with sources outside of the required texts. Start your discussion with the following questions: What are your thoughts on cloud computing and virtualization? Use your independent research to forecast and substantiate the future landscape. Is it a prudent business decision for companies? What are the benefits? What are the risks?
As you craft your initial post, you will be using information from your texts, along with conducting independent research with sources outside of the required texts. Start your discussion with the following questions:
What are your thoughts on cloud computing and virtualization? Use your independent research to forecast and substantiate the future landscape.
Is it a prudent business decision for companies?
What are the benefits? What are the risks?
What are some possible/potential areas of exposure?
Considering the items you listed above, what are the benefits and challenges?
If you were the decision-maker, what would be your direction?
Keep in Mind: You will need to perform independent research beyond the course text materials in order to discuss and explain the elements of a comprehensive and well-thought-out position. Consider all facets that are necessary to be proactive and successful in evaluating not only what is happening now, but also the potential future landscape.
Submission Requirements and Resources
In order to facilitate group discussion and take into account the varying student schedules, please post original responses by Day 3 of the Week at 11:59 pm CST. Discussion boards will close Day 7 of the week at 11:59 pm CST each week.
Head over to the resources page, Discussion Criteria: Submissions and Engagement. to view specific discussion requirements, examples, and the discussion rubric.
A HINT about Conference Discussion at the Masters Level: Try to get your initial post in early in the conference week and dialogue with your classmates through the conference week. Think of our online as discussion in a traditional classroom.
Posting your initial post and your responses at the last moments of the discussion week would be similar to entering a traditional classroom and discussion with 10 minutes left in the class – missing the discussion and dialogue raised by your classmates. Remember, the intent of our conference discussion is to drive the discussion to the next level… the Masters Level of scholarly discussion.
Also… posting early has its benefit, as you do not want to say the same thing that a classmate states. Finally – please use academic citations to fortify your position
The Medical Staff Coordinator has again called upon your expertise in the area of healthcare law. You have been asked to provide a written discussion on professional liability and medical malpractice. You are asked to provide the information outlined below and use research (at least two sources) to substantiate your discussion. Define liability and malpractice. Summarize the three areas of general liability for which a physician/employer is responsible. Discuss the role and purpose of risk management.
The Medical Staff Coordinator has again called upon your expertise in the area of healthcare law. You have been asked to provide a written discussion on professional liability and medical malpractice. You are asked to provide the information outlined below and use research (at least two sources) to substantiate your discussion.
Define liability and malpractice.
Summarize the three areas of general liability for which a physician/employer is responsible.
Discuss the role and purpose of risk management.
Use APA formatting and citation standards. Use at least two (2) scholarly references published within the last 5 years to substantiate your work.
Experiments are studies involving intervention by the researcher beyond that required for measurement. The usual intervention is to manipulate some variable in a setting and observe how it affects the subjects being studied (e.g., people or physical entities). The researcher manipulates the independent or explanatory variable and then observes whether the hypothesized dependent variable is affected by the intervention. Discuss what essential characteristics distinguish a true experiment from other research designs.
Experiments are studies involving intervention by the researcher beyond that required for measurement. The usual intervention is to manipulate some variable in a setting and observe how it affects the subjects being studied (e.g., people or physical entities). The researcher manipulates the independent or explanatory variable and then observes whether the hypothesized dependent variable is affected by the intervention.
Discuss what essential characteristics distinguish a true experiment from other research designs.
Evaluate what ethical problems you see in conducting experiments with humans. Experiments are studies involving intervention by the researcher beyond that required for measurement. The usual intervention is to manipulate some variable in a setting and observe how it affects the subjects being studied (e.g., people or physical entities). The researcher manipulates the independent or explanatory variable and then observes whether the hypothesized dependent variable is affected by the intervention. What essential characteristics distinguish a true experiment from other research designs? What ethical problems do you see in conducting experiments with humans?
In relation to this weeks course material, how do you think the disproportionate burden of other health issues (e.g., diabetes, asthma, and disability) will impact your contemporary public health issue by gender, race/ethnicity, and class?
Worksheet 5: Gathering Input and Support, Policy Idea
How would you engage your agency (employees, and other stakeholders) in developing ideas for a new policy to eliminate the disparities in the contemporary public health issue and among which communities? This part is important because it will provide the foundation to justify what and how you will do what you propose. Identify a new policy to improve the contemporary public health issue (e.g., eliminate COVID-19 incidence, prevalence, or mortality). Use resources currently available at the agency, interviews with stakeholders, a review of literature, and additional resources from reputable organizations.
What is the name of the policy or activity you are going to implement?
Who have or will you talk to about this policy/activity? How will you obtain their input?
Who is going to be impacted by this policy? (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity, social class, community)
What is the estimate for how much your policy implementation will cost? Provide and justify a budget for the planning and/or implementation.
In relation to this weeks course material, how do you think the disproportionate burden of other health issues (e.g., diabetes, asthma, and disability) will impact your contemporary public health issue by gender, race/ethnicity, and class?
Explain how health care policies affect patient-centered care. Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.
Introduction
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to educate your peers on the care coordination process. The assessment also requires you to address change management issues.
Preparation
You are encouraged to complete the Managing Change activity. Completing course activities before submitting your first attempt has been shown to make the difference between basic and proficient assessment.
Scenario
Your nurse manager has been observing your effectiveness as a care coordinator and recognizes the importance of educating other staff nurses in care coordination. Consequently, she has asked you to develop a presentation for your colleagues on care coordination basics. By providing them with basic information about the care coordination process, you will assist them in taking on an expanded role in helping to manage the care coordination process and improve patient outcomes in your community care center.
To prepare for this assessment, identify key factors nurses must consider to effectively participate in the care coordination process.
You may also wish to:
Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete.
Allow plenty of time to rehearse your presentation.
Recording Equipment Setup and Testing
Check that your recording equipment and software are working properly and that you know how to record and upload your presentation. You may use Kaltura (recommended) or similar software for your audio recording. A reference page is required. However, no PowerPoint presentation is required for this assessment.
If using Kaltura, refer to the Using Kaltura tutorial for directions on recording and uploading your video in the courseroom.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@capella.edu to request accommodations.
Instructions
Complete the following:
Develop a video presentation for nursing colleagues highlighting the fundamental principles of care coordination. Include community resources, ethical issues, and policy issues that affect the coordination of care. To prepare, develop a detailed narrative script. The script will be submitted along with the video.
Note: You are not required to deliver your presentation.
Presentation Format and Length
Create a detailed narrative script for your video presentation, approximately 45 pages in length. Include a reference list at the end of the script.
Supporting Evidence
Cite 35 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your video. Include your source citations on a references page appended to your narrative script. Explore the resources about effective presentations as you prepare your assessment.
Grading Requirements
The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes.
Provide, for example, drug-specific educational interventions, cultural competence strategies.
Include evidence that you have to support your selected strategies.
Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.
Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making.
Consider the reasonable implications and consequences of an ethical approach to care and any underlying assumptions that may influence decision making.
Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.
What are the logical implications and consequences of relevant policy provisions?
What evidence do you have to support your conclusions?
Raise awareness of the nurse’s vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation.
Fine tune the presentation to your audience.
Stay focused on key issues of import with respect to the effects of resources, ethics, and policy on the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.
Adhere to presentation best practices.
Additional Requirements
Submit both your presentation video and script. The script should include a reference page. See Using Kaltura for more information about uploading multimedia files. You may submit the assessment only once, so be sure that both assessment deliverables are included.
Portfolio Prompt: Save your presentation to your ePortfolio. Submissions to the ePortfolio will be part of your final Capstone course.
Context
Nurses have a powerful role in the coordination and continuum of care. All nurses must be cognizant of the care coordination process and how safety, ethics, policy, physiological, and cultural needs affect care and patient outcomes. As a nurse, care coordination is something that should always be considered. Nurses must be aware of factors that impact care coordination and of a continuum of care that utilizes community resources effectively and is part of an ethical framework that represents the professionalism of nurses. Understanding policy elements helps nurses coordinate care effectively.
Course Competencies
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Collaborate with patients and family to achieve desired outcomes.
Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes.
Competency 3: Create a satisfying patient experience.
Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.
Competency 4: Defend decisions based on the code of ethics for nursing.
Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making.
Competency 5: Explain how health care policies affect patient-centered care.
Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.
Competency 6: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead patient-centered care.
Raise awareness of the nurse’s vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation.
How did the organizational communication style of your organization impact your leaders ability to be an effective leader? How do organizational culture and communication styles affect leaders in organizations?
Shadowing Reflection
Instructions
Your paper is to be an analysis of your job shadowing experience in the context of overall nursing leadership, organizational theory, organizational communication, conflict management, and technology.
Describe your job shadowing experience. Whom did you select and why? What were your personal goals for this experience?
Consider these questions as you discuss your experience. Conduct and use research to guide you in answering the italicized questions.
How did the organizational communication style of your organization impact your leaders ability to be an effective leader? How do organizational culture and communication styles affect leaders in organizations?
Did your leader display vision in his or her work? Did this vision guide her? What role does vision play in effective leadership?
Do you feel that the leader whom you shadowed was guided by your organizations mission, vision, and goals?
Did your leader display effective negotiation skills during the course of your shadowing experience? How do negotiation skills play a role in being an effective manager of change?
What was your leaders style of leadership? Was he or she able to use it effectively with others who did not have the same style? How can leadership styles affect the ability of a person to be an effective leader?
How did your leader leverage technology to help him/her succeed in their role? Consider the use of data to make informed decisions regarding change initiatives, to meet benchmarks, and provide patient care.
Re-read the course objectives for the job shadowing experience, as well as your own personal objectives. Do you think that these objectives were achieved?
How can you apply what you learned from this experience in your role as a baccalaureate-prepared registered nurse?
Your paper should be between 6-8 pages in length, excluding title and reference pages, written and referenced in APA format.
Describe a pediatric patient and/or their family members that you have cared for who is deemed by healthcare professionals to be ?difficult?.
This discussion will explore two components of appropriate health care for pediatric patients: health policy and cultural competence.
To create your initial post to this discussion forum, complete the following steps.
Step 1: Choose ONE of the following prompts to discuss:
Imagine that you are a nurse lobbyist at the legislature in your state, with a specific focus on child and teen health. The children in this state encompass a broad range of social determinants of health. You are asked to recommend state-wide health policies to improve the health of this population, along with corresponding engagement strategies to reach nurses in the state.
What would be the first pediatric policy that you would recommend? Please provide a rationale for your selection
How can you effectively reach nurses to encourage their action to promote the policy?
What are one or more reasons why many nurses do not engage in lobbying efforts?
Describe a pediatric patient and/or their family members that you have cared for who is deemed by healthcare professionals to be ?difficult?.
To what extent do you think that cultural factors, e.g. beliefs, values and customs common to a group, might have been implicated in this situation?
What are one or more barriers to culturally competent care that are specific to the nurse relationship with pediatric patients?
List at least one strategy that a nurse can employ to overcome barrier(s) to cultural competence with pediatric patients.
Step 2: Post your answer to your chosen prompt to the discussion forum.
In addition to your original post, be sure to provide a meaningful response to at least two of your peers? posts by Friday night at 11:59pm Mountain Time. Read other students’ initial postings and respond to at least two other students. Expand on their comments to progress the discussion.
Your initial post should be 2-3 paragraphs long and follow the requirements outlined in the discussion rubric. Please add to the discussion in your peer responses with informative responses, instead of posts similar to ?great idea! I really agree with you.? The initial post and the peer responses have different deadlines. Make sure that your discussion adheres to these deadlines.
APA guidelines and plagiarism prevention matter in discussion posts just like with other scholarly assignments. Cite all references appropriately using APA format.
Select an industry that interests you. Using the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) analysis as covered in the text, analyze the factors that may impact the industry that you have selected and the successful marketing of a companys product. Evaluate the factors you perceive to be the biggest strengths and weaknesses. Describe some opportunities for growth that could be capitalized over the next five years.
Industry Forecasting
Select an industry that interests you. Using the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) analysis as covered in the text, analyze the factors that may impact the industry that you have selected and the successful marketing of a companys product. Evaluate the factors you perceive to be the biggest strengths and weaknesses. Describe some opportunities for growth that could be capitalized over the next five years.
Your paper must be a minimum of three to four pages (not including the title and reference pages) and be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. You must use at least three scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library, one of which must be peer reviewed, in addition to the textbook.
The paper
Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Students name
Course name and number
Instructors name
Date submitted
Must use at least three scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library, one of which must be peer reviewed, in addition to the textbook.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center
Describe the ethical issue involved and discuss the history of this issue, including any pertinent policies or precedents. Discuss the major stakeholders involved in the issue and their respective roles.
Using the South University Online Library, write a 5- to 7-page research paper in a Microsoft Word document on a topic of your choice. It should relate to an ethical issue facing healthcare professionals today on either a management or a clinical level or both. Your paper should include the answers to the following questions:
Describe the ethical issue involved and discuss the history of this issue, including any pertinent policies or precedents.
Discuss the major stakeholders involved in the issue and their respective roles.
Discuss and apply at least one of the major ethical theories and the ethical decision-making process to the issue.
Define the factors involved that can influence the issue or final decision.
Discuss the impact of a diverse population on the ethical issue.
Discuss the impact of a diverse staff on the issue.
Your final paper should adhere to the following guidelines:
The paper should be 5 to 7 pages.
The paper must have a title or cover page.
The title or cover page must be followed by an abstract of 100200 words.
The paper must use proper APA style for citing sources and references.
The paper must have a minimum of five current references. Note that primary peer-reviewed references are preferred.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
The paper must come from the South University library.
A madman who has threatened to explode several bombs in crowded areas has been apprehended. Unfortunately, he has already planted the bombs and they are scheduled to go off in a short time. It is possible that hundreds of people may die. The authorities cannot make him divulge the location of the bombs by conventional methods. He refuses to say anything and requests a lawyer to protect his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. In exasperation, some high level official suggests torture. This would be illegal, but the official is sure that it will make him tell the truth in time for you to find and defuse the bombs. What should you do? What if you know that the bomber can withstand torture himself, but would talk if you were to torture his innocent wife instead?
Week 1: The Mad Bomber
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A madman who has threatened to explode several bombs in crowded areas has been apprehended. Unfortunately, he has already planted the bombs and they are scheduled to go off in a short time. It is possible that hundreds of people may die. The authorities cannot make him divulge the location of the bombs by conventional methods. He refuses to say anything and requests a lawyer to protect his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. In exasperation, some high level official suggests torture. This would be illegal, but the official is sure that it will make him tell the truth in time for you to find and defuse the bombs. What should you do? What if you know that the bomber can withstand torture himself, but would talk if you were to torture his innocent wife instead?
Discuss this case, using a different ethical system than you used in a previous discussion question.
Identify the facts, including all parties involved. Indicate the rights and responsibilities of each party.
Identify relevant values, concepts, social constraints, and any additional information necessary for an accurate understanding of the case.
Identify all possible ethical dilemmas for each party involved.
Decide what is the most immediate ethical issue facing the decision-making individual.
Describe one ethical system.
Apply that ethical system to this case. Do not use your default ethical system. Think about the ethical system you selected. How would that ethical system decide what is right and wrong in this case?
Describe one concept of justice.
Apply that concept of justice to this case. That is, do not default to what you think should be done to correct this situation. What would the concept of justice you selected say about how to achieve justice in this situation?
Sum it up – Resolve the ethical or moral dilemma by using the ethical system and concept of justice you described. Since you’ve describe an ethical system defining right and wrong and a concept of justice defining how to remediate this situation, what should you do?
Use evidence from the text, lecture, or outside sources to support your claims.
The steps above will give you practice in selecting and applying an ethical system and a concept of justice. Starting next week, your case study responses will become much more robust. Look at the upcoming assignments to make sure you are prepared.
