Paraphrase the definitions of patriarchy, feminism, and intersectionality.
Watch the video at the attached link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37swnRU2fs. Paraphrase the definitions of patriarchy, feminism, and intersectionality. Discuss an example from the video where each concept is understood or applied accurately and an example where each is understood or applied inaccurately. Given the points made in the discussion, do you feel that someone who rejects the label of feminist can be an effective ally in achieving gender justice? Explain why or why not. may use additional academic research, government and professional data sources (UCR, NCVS, BJS), and news accounts from reputable and well-known news outlets (e.g., ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Buffalo News, AP, Huff Post, etc.) to support their arguments. The essays must follow a recognized manual of style for writing, formatting, and referencing sources. Assignments should be approximately 600 words in length
Describe two (2) ethical principles in conflict for the RN in the scenario.
Scenario: A 70 year-old patient has experienced a devastating stroke and is comatose in the intensive care unit on a ventilator. A family meeting was held. The hospital physician explained the irreversible damage to the brain, and discussed end of life care and withdrawal of life support. Family members acknowledge understanding and return to the patient’s room. As the RN was preparing to enter the room a family member is overheard to say, “Mom always said she didn’t want to be attached to a bunch of machines.” Another family member replies, “Don’t tell anyone she signed forms on the last admission, I don’t think we should take her off life support.” Initial Discussion Post: Address the following: Describe two (2) ethical principles in conflict for the RN in the scenario. What should the RN do in this scenario? Refer to the 2015 American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics to resolve this dilemma. Provide a rationale that goes beyond your personal opinion. Base your initial post on your readings and research of this topic. Your initial post must contain a minimum of 250 words. References, citations, and repeating the question do not count towards the 250 word minimum
Describe and evaluate the market forces, current trends, and changes in drug benefit programs over the last fifteen years.
Current Trends and Issues in Managed Care Using the South University Online library or the Internet, research on a series of topics that will help you understand the current issues regarding managed care. You can use keywords, such as (but not limited to) managed care, current trends and issues in managed care, pharmacy benefit management, or utilization management. Like many other aspects of health care, managed care is continually changing and evolving to meet current consumer and market demands. This week, you are required to write an essay on the following topics: Pharmacy benefit management Utilization management Use the following guidelines for developing your essay: Select at least two articles for each topic from the SUO library, and write a review for each source of information. Present a summary for each topic tying together the information learned about that topic. Describe and evaluate the market forces, current trends, and changes in drug benefit programs over the last fifteen years. Discuss basic approaches and techniques used in utilization management. Analyze the future of utilization management approaches. How might they change and why? Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from reputable and scholarly texts, websites, and other references. Based on your research, summarize your findings on the selected topics and compile your observations in a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word document. Support your responses with examples. Cite any sources in APA format.
Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management.
Asthma is a respiratory disorder that affects children and adults. Advanced practice nurses often provide treatment to patients with these disorders. Sometimes patients require immediate treatment making it essential that you recognize and distinguish minor asthma symptoms from serious, life-threatening symptoms. Since symptoms and attacks are often induced by a trigger, advanced practice nurses must also help patients identify their triggers and recommend appropriate management options. Like many other disorders, there are various approaches to treating and managing care for asthmatic patients depending on individual patient factors. One method that supports the clinical decision-making of drug therapy plans for asthmatic patients is the stepwise approach, which you explore in this Assignment. To prepare: • Consider drugs used to treat asthmatic patients including long-term control and quick relief treatment options for patients. Think about the impact these drugs might have on patients including adults and children. • Review Chapter 25 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text. Reflect on using the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management. • Consider how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. To complete: Write a 2- to 3- page paper that addresses the following: • Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for asthma patients, as well as the impact these drugs might have on patients. • Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management. • Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease.
Analyze the key agencies and organizations that regulate the administration of safe health care and the roles each play in the risk management oversight process.
For this assignment, you will research risk management programs for health care facilities or organizations. Review the criteria below in order to select an exemplar that applies to your current or anticipated professional arena. (Note: Select an example plan with sufficient data to be able to complete the assignment successfully.) In a 1,000-1,250 word paper, provide an analysis that includes the following: Brief summary description of the type of risk management plan you selected (new employee, specific audience, community-focused, etc.) and your rationale for selecting that example. Description of the recommended administrative steps and processes in a typical health care organization risk management program contrasted with the administrative steps and processes you can identify in your selected example plan. (Note: Select an example plan with sufficient data to be able to complete the assignment successfully.) Analyze the key agencies and organizations that regulate the administration of safe health care and the roles each play in the risk management oversight process. Evaluation of the selected exemplar risk management plan regarding compliance with the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) standards relevant to privacy, health care worker safety, and patient safety. Proposed recommendations or changes you would make to your selected risk management program example to enhance, improve, or to secure compliance standards. In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of three peer-reviewed references. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Analyze the role of the nurse in preventing illnesses due to environmental issues
Public Health Threats, Emergencies, and Disasters
Public health threats, emergencies, and disasters are as diverse as they are devastating to a population. Infections such as pandemic influenza outbreaks cause severe illness and often death in susceptible populations like the very young or old. Disasters such as these require rapid response to vaccinate susceptible populations and educate the public on how to protect themselves from contracting the disease. Natural disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, sudden heavy snowstorms or blizzards, and flooding also jeopardize health. These types of disasters create environmental health concerns through the spread of toxic waste, increased water-borne infections and insect-borne disease, as well as loss of power or the inability to navigate roadways during floods or blizzards. In addition, natural disasters create environmental concerns such as low food supply, destruction of crops and livestock, and lack of clean water. Natural catastrophes like these are predicted to increase in frequency and severity as long as climate change with increasing global temperatures continues unchecked through slow reaction or frank inaction by governments. Organizations across the globe are developing strategies for decreasing their carbon footprint in order to reduce pollution that contributes to climate change. Because no one is immune from this hazard, nurses must have a grasp of the growing concern for the impact of climate change and its associated implications for public health worldwide. It is important for nurses to learn how to increase their leadership capabilities to affect local, state, and national outcomes. This week, you will consider the role of the nurse in preventing illnesses due to environmental issues. Additionally, you will discuss the role of nurses in developing health promotion and health protection strategies to address global climate change health concerns.
Learning Objectives Students will:
Analyze the role of the nurse in preventing illnesses due to environmental issues
Analyze the implications of global climate change on health
How do value-based care quality metrics impact healthcare stakeholders such as insurance providers, hospitals, and patients?
Value-based care is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid on the basis of patient health outcomes. Value-based care includes three key goals: improved population health, increased patient satisfaction, and reduced cost. Each of these goals affects the stakeholders differently. For example, value-based care aims to lower costs across the board, which would result in the insurance companies having to pay lower reimbursements. If insurance companies incur lower costs, they are less likely to raise premiums and deductibles. In this assignment, you will choose two acute care hospitals in your state. Do not select critical access hospitals for comparative analysis. Because critical access hospitals are exempted from sharing information with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), you may not get enough information about these hospitals for comparison. You will compare the selected hospitals on the basis of various quality metrics defined by the CMS. Then, you will conduct a comparative analysis of both the hospitals using specific quality metrics: patient survey ratings, complications, and death rates and unplanned hospital visits. This analysis will help you understand how value-based care and quality metrics in healthcare impact stakeholders. Also, this assignment will help you understand how stakeholders influence the decision-making process in healthcare. Prompt To complete this assignment, you will submit an analysis report that includes the comparative analysis of two chosen hospitals. In this assignment, you will choose two acute care hospitals from your state and conduct a comparative analysis. You will use quality metrics and national benchmarks defined by the CMS. You will then create an analysis report that includes the comparative table and a summary of your analysis to demonstrate your findings. You must cite at least three sources to support your claims Use this hospital comparison table template to help you complete this assignment: Module Three Activity Hospital Comparison Table Template Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Selection of Hospitals: Justify your selection of two acute care hospitals for comparative analysis. Analysis of Patient Survey Ratings: Analyze the comparative performance of selected hospitals pertaining to patient survey ratings quality metrics. Consider the following questions in your response: How does the patient survey quality metric impact the government and private insurance reimbursement? Why is the patient survey one of the essential quality metrics for value-based care? Did underserved/vulnerable populations participate in the patient survey? Why is their inclusion essential? Analysis of Complication and Death Rates: Analyze the comparative performance of selected hospitals pertaining to complication and death rate quality metrics. Consider the following questions in your response: How do complication and death rate quality metrics impact the government and private insurance reimbursement? How do the complication and death rates impact value-based care? Analysis of Unplanned Hospital Visit Ratings: Analyze the comparative performance of selected hospitals pertaining to the unplanned hospital visits quality metric. Consider the following questions in your response: How does the unplanned hospital visits quality metric impact the government and private insurance reimbursement? What does the unplanned hospital visits quality metric indicate about value-based care? Summary of Analysis: Summarize your findings from your comparative analysis of the two hospitals. Include the national benchmarks for the quality metrics you have used for your analyses. Consider the following questions in your response: How do value-based care quality metrics impact healthcare stakeholders such as insurance providers, hospitals, and patients? Do the mentioned three quality metrics or any other quality metrics defined by the CMS include underserved/vulnerable populations’ challenges related to value-based care? Guidelines for Submission Your submission should be a 2- to 3-page Word document, including your completed hospital comparison table from the provided template. You must also include an APA-style title page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and 1-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
What is the total cost reduction target for the next three years?
Sophia Enterprises manufactures two products, Maroon and Gold, for which the following information is available. The company uses a traditional costing system, with total estimated manufacturing overhead of $800,000 applied to the two products on the basis of direct labor hours. Calculate the gross margin per unit of the Maroon product under the current cost system (2 points). For this question only assume that actual manufacturing overhead costs were $880,000 and actual direct labor hours were 52,200. How much is over/underapplied overhead? (3 points) For the next 3 questions, assume that Sophia uses an ABC system and has collected the following incomplete information about four activity cost pools, selected cost drivers, activity rates, and activity proportions for each product line: Compute the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to the two products for each of the four activities and in total. The materials handling cost assigned to the Maroon product is shown as an example (6 points). Explain whether the Gold product was over or under-costed in the traditional cost system compared to ABC and why. (3 points) For this question only, assume that Sophia is considering introducing an enhanced version of the Maroon product that is expected to cost $180 per unit to produce. Sophia uses target costing to set its cost reduction goals. A recent market study revealed that 300,000 customers would be willing to pay $220 for the Maroon product over the product’s 3-year life cycle. Sophia’s stockholders require a 25% return on sales. What is the target cost per unit? (2 points)What is the total cost reduction target for the next three years? (2 points) Provide two specific suggestions for how Sophia can use ABM to meet the cost reduction target calculated above
investigate the state’s policies on access to contraception and abortion for women with insurance and those without.
Select the state where you plan to practice as a nurse practitioner and/or nurse leader and investigate the state’s policies on access to contraception and abortion for women with insurance and those without. What are the state’s infant and maternal mortality rates? Discuss the possible relationship between these factors. Please be sure to adhere to the following: discussion posts must be word document, minimum 250 words, 1 page, references must be cited in APA format (6th), and must include minimum of 2 scholarly resources published within the past 5-7 years. PLAGIARISM FREE.
What legal issues do you believe are raised by the dealings of the parties in this case?
On February 25, 1982, Acme Construction Co. contracted with the United States Navy to remodel the engine maintenance shop at Mir Mar Marine Corps Air Station. The contract price was $750,500. The work included installation of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems (HVAC). A chilled water system was part of the HVAC. In preparing his bid for the work, Acme solicited “budgetary bids” from subcontractors. These bids are used as the basis for estimating the component parts of the work and as back-up protection if other bids are not received. Coyote Sheet Metal (Coyote), had submitted a $94,000 bid to Acme for the HVAC exclusive of the chilling water system which would cost an additional $16,000 to the proposed bid. Acme contacted Roy Runner and told Runner that another subcontractor (E. Fudd) had put in a $86,500 bid to do the HVAC work and that this bid had a 20% profit margin, but for personal family reasons he could not sign a contract and go forward with the project. Runner met with the president of Acme (Roger Rabbit) who related Fudd’s assurance to him “there was a profit in it” and Runner signed that same day a contract identical to that turned down by Fudd. Fudd later told Runner at the time he had not done “much examination” of the plans or specifications. He was asked for his opinion of the newly signed deal and after checking the job site and the plans more closely, Fudd told Runner the cost of the job “far exceeded” the contract price. The plans included the chilled water system in the HVAC which cost an additional $16,000 not contemplated by the contract. Runner promptly told Acme the $86,500 price would not cover the HVAC with the chilled water system and unless the parties modified the amount, he could not do the work. Acme’s Rabbit responded with the comment he would get another contractor and “sue [Runner] for the difference.” Acme then turned back to Coyote Sheet Metal, awarding two subcontracts to Coyote; one for $94,000 and one for $16,000 for the HVAC with the chilled water system and sued Runner for the difference between his bid ($86,500) and the combined Coyote bids ($110,000). What legal issues do you believe are raised by the dealings of the parties in this case? Identify the issues and discuss what you believe will be the outcome of the case.
