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Identify a CMS designated accountable care organization and summarize the organizational structure.

The purpose of assignment is to analyze the quality of care and financial impact of the government’s initiative of accountable care organizations. This assignment is intended to show evidence of achievement of: the ability to find organizational information relative to mission, vision, organizational structure and impact on health care.

An accountable care organization is a network of providers that share responsibility for providing care to patients. In this assignment, the focus is on an a specific accountable care organization that has been in existence for a minimum of three years in the state of Texas.

Identify a CMS designated accountable care organization and summarize the organizational structure.
For the selected accountable care organization:
- Identify the organization’s vision and core principles.
- Evaluate the organization’s approach to practice transformation and consumer engagement.
- Describe the interoperability of information among the providers and consumer stakeholders
- Summarize how the accountable care organization impacts the quality of healthcare for the designated population. What metrics are used and how does the ACO compare to other ACOs?
- Evaluate the specific accountable Care Organization’s financial savings
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Who do you think is more in the “moral right” here and why?

Read and respond to the case study based on Philosopher Ohiyesa view. You may choose to apply one of the 9 ethical frameworks. Be sure to cite your readings/viewings to address this case study. (Aim for 500 words)

Here are some questions to help get you started:

Who do you think is more in the “moral right” here and why?

Did both Christina and Jonathon express their values? Which was more effective and how so?

What is the right thing to do based on your philosophical outlook?

What would you advise others to do in this situation and why?

Case Study

Freedom of Speech on Campus

In the fall of 2015, student groups on the campuses of the University of Missouri and Yale University led protests in the wake of a series of racially-motivated offenses that many students saw as part of a history of unsafe or hostile campus climates for students of color, particularly black students. Offenses included verbal, emotional, and physical abuse.

At Yale University, administrators sent an email to students that offered advice on racially-insensitive costumes to avoid for Halloween, including costumes featuring blackface or mock Native American headdresses. Controversy emerged after Erika Christakis, a white lecturer of early childhood education and associate master at one of the university’s residential colleges, sent an email to the students she resided over in which she objected to the call for sensitivity. Christakis debated what she described as an “institutional… exercise of implied control over college students,” asking, “Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” In response, many students signed an open letter to Christakis. In this letter they stated, “We are not asking to be coddled… [We] simply ask that our existences not be invalidated on campus. This is us asking for basic respect of our cultures and our livelihoods.” During a protest, a student confronted Christakis’s husband, Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Yale and master of one of the residential colleges. In disagreement, the students told him to step down, saying that being a master was “not about creating an intellectual space… [but] creating a home here.”

At Missouri, university administrators were criticized for their slow and ineffective responses to address ongoing racial tensions on the campus. After Payton Head, a black student and president of the Missouri Student Association, was taunted with racial slurs, it took university chancellor R. Bowen Loftin nearly a week to respond. Following this and other incidences, students organized rallies and demonstrations. Tensions were made worse after someone used feces to smear a swastika on a communal bathroom in a residence hall. This act of vandalism, and the university’s response, became the final straw for graduate student Jonathan Butler. Butler had led or been involved in many demonstrations up to this point. He decided to go on indefinite hunger strike until university system president, Tim Wolfe, was removed from office. In support of Butler, the football team later announced they would neither practice nor play until Wolfe resigned. Many students joined in support of the protests. Butler ended his weeklong hunger strike after Wolfe resigned.

In the midst of the student protests at Missouri, further controversy emerged when protesters tried to keep news media out of the campus public grounds where protesters had been camping out for days. Student photographer Tim Tai, on assignment for ESPN, was surrounded and confronted by protesters, including university staff members, who did not want any media to enter what they said was a “safe space.” Tai was attempting to document the protests in public spaces, stating, “This is the First Amendment that protects your right to stand here and mine. …The law protects both of us.” A video capturing the confrontation went viral and sparked wider debate over the issue of freedom of speech in the protests at Missouri, Yale, and other college campuses. Journalists, commentators, and academics raised discussion over the roles of free speech, deliberation, and tolerance in the dialogue between student activists and university administrators.

Freelance journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr, in defense of the protesters, wrote: “This wasn’t a problem with Tai’s character or his journalistic integrity; he was doing his job… but reporters should also feel a responsibility to try to understand and respect [the protesters’] pain…” Starr continued: “In many communities that historically have been marginalized and unfairly portrayed by the media, there’s good reason people do not trust journalists: They often criminalize black people’s pain and resistance to racial oppression.” Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN American Center, defended free speech as a crucial driver of social justice reform: “[Without] free speech, the “safe spaces” students crave will soon suffocate them. Social movements must evolve or they die. Ideological and even tactical evolution demands willingness to hear out heterodoxy. Likewise, free speech defenders will not win by dismissing students as insolent whiners. …The Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests are efforts to jump-start a drive for racial equality that has stalled in key areas. Free speech is essential to that quest.”

Writing about the Yale incident, journalist Conor Friedersdorf suggested that the student activists’ intolerance of other views could lead to censorship. He wrote, “[Students] were perfectly free to talk about their pain. Some felt entitled to something more, and that is what prolonged the debate.” Op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof addressed the broader role of freedom of speech on college campuses: “The protesters at Mizzou and Yale and elsewhere make a legitimate point: Universities should work harder to make all students feel they are safe and belong. Members of minorities—whether black or transgender or (on many campuses) evangelical conservatives—should be able to feel a part of campus, not feel mocked in their own community.” Political theorist Danielle Allen, on the other hand, described the debate over freedom of speech as a distraction from the key issues of the protests. Allen wrote, “The issues of free speech matter, too, but they are leading people in the wrong direction, away from the deepest issue. …The real issue is how to think about social equality.”

Describe the controversial topic and cultural identifier. Explain the connection between the controversial topic, the cultural identifier, and the role of social justice.

When controversies arise in schools, educators often research and access resources to support analysis, reflection, and problem-solving of these issues that affect the field of education, their students, and various other stakeholders involved.

Using your assignment from Topic 2, sources found in the GCU Library, and the EDU-330 Guide, transform your ideas into a complete 1,000-1,250-word rough draft. Your assignment should focus on a controversial topic involving a cultural identifier and the implications for K-12 public education. The final version will be submitted in Topic 7.

Address the following in your assignment draft:

Describe the controversial topic and cultural identifier. Explain the connection between the controversial topic, the cultural identifier, and the role of social justice.
Summarize the key historical events that have significantly affected your specific controversial topic.
Summarize the topic in the context of K-12 education, including the related cultural identifier and any associated controversies.
Identify current scholarly statements for the controversial topic, including at least one supporting and one opposing.
Describe how this controversial issue could affect future teaching practices and how it could affect future students.
Summarize related policies or methods that have been implemented at the local level including both districts and schools as a solution to the controversial issue.

Once you have compiled your Social Injustice and Cultural Identifiers assignment draft, submit it to this assignment dropbox for your instructor to review, and complete the following:

Post the rough draft to the Social Injustice and Cultural Identifiers assignment Draft Peer Review Forum on Day 1 of Topic 5.
Follow the instructions in the Peer Review Forum in order to complete a peer review.

You will be responsible for addressing the feedback in the final version of your Social Injustice and Cultural Identifiers assignment.

Support your assignment with at least 3-5 scholarly resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

How do you think the nursing profession should respond to the media and to the situation?

Please consider the below topic in relation to the professional image of nursing. Reflect upon how our historic nursing leaders or nurse theorists have been influenced by social activism, the misconstrued perspective or lack of knowledge of nursing from society, and the impact that professional nursing advocacy and theory has on healthcare delivery, policy, and reform. How do you think the nursing profession should respond to the media and to the situation?

The recent media coverage of the defunding of Planned Parenthood and the accusations of historic nurse figure, Margaret Sanger.

or Any recent coverage of nursing in the national news.

APA format with at least two citations

Explain the “Interpersonal Conflict Management Strategies” as stated in the textbook.

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Explain the “Interpersonal Conflict Management Strategies” as stated in the textbook.

Instructions:

You must provide the textbook
chapter with your answer. You will be deducted .50 points if not provided.

Your initial post must be at
least 200 words. You will be deducted .50 point if not
provided.

If you were a business owner today, which form of business would you prefer to own and why?

Discussion: Business Organizations

The English Common Law allows for three primary forms of business entities. The sole proprietorship, the general partnership, and the corporation are the three basic types of business entities (although there are many variations of each type). Each type of business has a very distinct set of advantages and disadvantages.

Respond to the Question Below: 200-300 Words. Using APA style and reference

1) If you were a business owner today, which form of business would you prefer to own and why?

2) As an employee, which type of business would you prefer to work for and why? Please explain in detail with your specific reasons.

analyze and critically think through which approach aligns most closely with your own personal/professional style of counseling.

Theories Chart Assignment Instructions

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to aid you in understanding the theoretical approaches you have learned from this course and provide you with an easy-access guide as you move forward in the program. This assignment gives you an opportunity to show your ability to analyze and critically think through which approach aligns most closely with your own personal/professional style of counseling. Additionally, it is designed to aid you in developing your own evolving personal counseling style and theoretical orientation and consider how to implement it in a counseling setting.

Instructions

For this assignment, you must complete the chart below. It would be of benefit to you to use this chart to take notes while reading the corresponding chapters and Read items. You may use bullet points to complete each section, as multiple sections must include 2 examples.

You must include references/in-text citations to support the information/facts provided in the chart. However, you should NOT use direct quotes in your chart. Information should be put into your own words. A reference page is required with your assignment submission. Under the “research” section, you must find at least 1 peer-reviewed journal article (cited in current APA style) that supports the effectiveness of the theory.

Diagram the conflict triangle for this conflict.

Instructions:

After reading the chapter(s), analyze The Wedding Fight Case Study ( 080921).docx

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dialogue. In your analysis, you must incorporate ideas, concepts, and theory from the chapter(s) to support your thoughts, answers, and/or rationales. This way, you can demonstrate your understanding of the readings and key concepts.

1. Diagram the conflict triangle for this conflict.

· Be sure to use the appropriate symbols to represent conflict dyads, high/low power, ally, and/or isolate, etc.

· Below the diagram, write a brief justification, explanation or rationale for your diagram(s)/symbols.

2. Diagram the coalitions for this case. Read Interaction Rules (chapter 7p.246) and identify the “rules” in this conversation/relationship. According to Shimanoff’s (chapter 7 p.246) format, write at least five rules you think Kyle and Kelly should formulate for future conflicts.

· Below the diagram, write a brief justification, explanation, or rationale for your diagram(s).

What is the overall idea of the resource and how does it relate to what we are studying?

Overview: Throughout this course, we will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate singly and combined to preschool curriculum planning. We will explore readings, resources, articles, websites, videos, planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual course units. These resources replace a textbook and are current materials written by professionals in the field. They present life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

In each of the three units where there is this reflection assignment, you will select one resource in the unit and write an essay response to the four questions provided. Before you make your resource selection, read all the resources and visit all the links provided in the unit. Some readings will reflect knowledge you already have which will be further solidified. Some material will stretch your thinking and give you a new perspective on a strategy. This coursework is intended to inform, extend your thinking, invite you to query, and reflect on and refine your practices. You will create new knowledge and define your teaching practices with each reflection assignment.

Instructions: Follow these instructions for each of the STEM Resource & Teaching Reflection essays.

1. Resource Selection: Unit Readings and Resources Section

o Read all the unit resources and visit all the assigned website links

before you make your selection.

o Select one (1) resource to explore and write your reflective essay. You

may choose from the required or supplemental resources in the unit. Your

selection must be from the unit that the Reflection essay is assigned. You

may not use resources outside of the unit materials.

2. Essay

Complete the following four bullets in your essay:

CHS250 – STEM in the Early Childhood Education Classroom

STEM Resources & Teaching Reflection Assignment

o Which resource from the Unit are you writing about? Provide the citation

for the resource in APA 7 format.

o What is the overall idea of the resource and how does it relate to what we

are studying? Summarize in your own words the overall idea and/or main

point of the resource. Discuss how the resource idea and/or main point

relate to the STEM topic(s) we are currently studying. Example: How does

it relate to the unit of science, technology, engineering, or math depending

on which week you are responding to?

o What clicked for you from this resource and how does what you learned

connect to other resources? Describe one important idea, strategy or

technique that you may use in the classroom or the future. In what way will

this idea, strategy, or technique help you connect the STEM domain to a

world view of daily life issues for your students? Make a connection to

another resource that you read from this unit or a previous unit. Make sure

to properly cite this other resource.

o How has this resource changed your thinking? Be specific about your

thoughts prior to this reading and what caused that “aha!” moment of

change?

Requirements:

• Each essay should include the four bullets and your answers underneath each.

• Submit each essay as a Word document in APA 7 format with Title Page and

Reference Page.

• Each essay should be a minimum of two (2) pages, excluding the Title and Reference pages.

Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you write and again after you write.