Develop your own scenario of a potential boundary crossing in any setting in which psychologists practice.

Warm-Up Activity 5.1: Review APA Code of Ethics

This week, review Standard 3: Human Relations of the APA Code of Ethics. This resource is located under your weekly resources.

Warm-Up Activity 5.2: Review an article

Review Behnke (2008), located under your weekly resources. In this vignette from the APA Monitor on Psychology, the author uses a unique way of plotting the dual relationship between a student intern at a counseling center and the increasingly transparent nature of a relationship her client is having with one of her friends. Carefully note how the author has suggested that this relationship be represented on a graph.

Assignment

Boundary crossings are major issues in many settings in which psychologists practice. Your text provides a number
of examples. For this task, you will need to develop your own scenario of a potential boundary crossing in any setting in which psychologists practice.
Provide a brief overview and explanation of why you think a professional boundary has been crossed and how the crossing could have been avoided. Be sure you provide sufficient background information so that the potential boundary crossing is clear.

Identify important nutrition-related health problems facing people who live in the United States.

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Identify important nutrition-related health problems facing people who live in the United States.

Determine and discuss any possible ways to alleviate the hunger and obesity problems in these countries
Include what kinds of barriers interfere with the implementation of these solutions

Discussion Expectations:  
The minimum requirements for class discussions are to respond directly to the discussion prompt and to respond to at least two other posts, by other students or the instructor, by the end of the week. The discussion will close on the due date and will NOT be reopened for a late submission. 
Submit one main post responding directly to each part of the discussion prompt  This should be a substantive response (to the topic(s) in your own words, referencing (using APA format) what you have discovered in your required reading and other learning activities.  You may use resources in addition to your textbook that supports your post(s); however, you must mention the source(s) that you used in your post(s) using APA format in-text citations and reference lists. You can review APA formatting here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.htmlLinks to an external site.

Expand on their ideas. 
Discuss the differences between your thoughts and theirs. 
Explain why you agree or disagree. 
Always remain respectful.

Describe the results of implementing the literacy intervention and remediation activities with the students.

 Assessment TraitsRequires LopeswriteAssessment Description
When teaching ELA, teachers must be mindful of the varying literacy skills and abilities each student possesses and create instruction and learning opportunities that can help students practice their skills, particularly when they are struggling with reading and writing. The ability to structure activities that allow students repeated practice in deficit literacy skill areas can lead to improvements and allow students to become proficient in reading and writing.
Part 1: Applying Intervention and Remediation Strategies
With the students you identified previously, implement the literacy intervention and remediation activities you designed in “Clinical Field Experience C: Research-Based Intervention and Remediation Strategies.” You should meet with the students at least twice, once to conduct the intervention activity and again to conduct the remediation activity with them so they can improve in the skills deficit areas.
Part 2: Mentor Debriefing
After each of the two sessions in which you implement the intervention and remediation activities, meet with your mentor to discuss and take notes about the following. You will submit a copy of your feedback notes.

Obtain feedback on the effectiveness of your implementation of the literacy intervention and remediation activities.
Discuss the students’ responses to the activities and what was effective in helping students practice their literacy skills.
Identify potential areas for change or improvement in the literacy intervention and remediation activities based on the student response and outcomes.

Use any remaining field experience hours to provide support or assistance to the class as directed by your mentor.
In a 250-500 word reflection, addressing the following:

Describe the results of implementing the literacy intervention and remediation activities with the students.
Reflect on your execution of the literacy intervention and remediation activities and their effectiveness. Include a discussion of both successes and challenges as well as changes you would make if implementing the activities again.

Submit the mentor debriefing notes and the reflection in a single document.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.  
Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

Identify potential challenges related to the OB/GYN unit’s performance.

Competency
Apply critical problem solving skills through evidence-based and informed practices in organizational outcomes.
Student Success Criteria
View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.
Scenario
You are the CFO of a rural hospital. During a recent review of the organization’s financial status, the hospital was deemed “at risk” for closure. Several factors contribute to the at-risk designation, including the state’s decision to opt-out of the Medicaid expansion program, the aging population which requires more expensive care, and the changes in reimbursement from Medicare. These challenges have resulted in rural facility closures across the country. As part of the strategic management team, you are charged with reviewing various facility units and making recommendations that may avoid closure. You determine that based on the profitability reports, the OB/GYN unit of the facility is underperforming in several key financial areas.
Instructions
In a written proposal to the hospital CEO, Administrator, and CMO, discuss the following:

Identify potential challenges related to the OB/GYN unit’s performance.
Explain potential trends in the community impacting health consumer utilization patterns.
Explain the potential benefits of reorganization within the unit and how reorganization could improve its financial status.
Recommend a course of action and the implications that those actions will have for patients, providers, and investors (i.e., how might closure affect the community or how might new service offerings, such as midwife services, improve profitability).

Describe how you will ensure that the key stakeholders represent a culturally diverse mix of individuals.

CompetencyAssess key stakeholders’ roles, impact, and influence on strategic planning.
Student Success CriteriaView the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.
ScenarioAfter reviewing the new proposed vision from Healthy Dynamics that includes updated mission, focus area, and objectives, the CEO has decided to contract a project manager. The project manager understands the importance of identifying stakeholders early in the strategic planning process. The project manager will be responsible for the successful start of the planning strategy, implementation, review, control, and evaluation of the strategic plan. Other tasks include: gathering feedback from stakeholders, identifying areas of improvement, and making recommendations.
The project manager has asked you to provide a strategy map, identifying key stakeholders involved in achieving the objectives of the defined focus area. Some of the major stakeholders in the healthcare industry are physicians, employers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, government agencies, and consumers (e.g., patients and employees). You will also need to make a list of relevant questions to solicit feedback from the stakeholders that will allow you to see where stakeholders stand when evaluated by the same key measures (survey questions).
InstructionsDesign a Strategy Map (data table) using Microsoft Word that includes:

Identifying the key stakeholders.
Describe how you will ensure that the key stakeholders represent a culturally diverse mix of individuals.
Explain how you will ensure that you use a fair, respectful, and equitable selection process for identifying stakeholders.
What business or health industry does the stakeholder represent (e.g., wellness, pharmacy, health plans, non-profit, academia, etc.)?
What are the stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities as it relates to the strategic plan?
Indicate how often you will meet with the stakeholders.
What type of power (e.g., financial, providers, users, influencers) will the stakeholder have in the success of the strategic plan?
Include a timeline to show when you will engage each stakeholder.
Create a Stakeholder Survey that includes:
Key questions to solicit feedback from stakeholders after your first meeting (both quantitative and qualitative) to identify potential solutions to anticipated issues that may be raised by the stakeholders?
Questions should be aimed at how to improve the effectiveness of the stakeholder meetings and the satisfaction of the stakeholders during the planning process?
Your assignment should include a title page, a reference page, and a minimum of three scholarly sources, two of which must be retrieved from the Rasmussen Library.
Resources
For information about creating a Data Table, please visit this Rasmussen College Answers page.
For information about putting a data table into a paper in APA Style, please visit this Rasmussen College Answers page.

Briefly describe the culture in which Equiano lived before his capture; then  summarize his capture and separation from his sister.

  
Olaudah Equiano…
After you have written your answers, please delete the questions. Leaving the questions in the document will affect your Turnitin plagiarism score.
1. Briefly describe the culture in which Equiano lived before his capture; then 
summarize his capture and separation from his sister.
2. Describe Equiano’s reactions as he first encounters the slave ship and the white men
who are enslaving them (p. 379). What are the emotions that he feels? What fears 
does he have? How does he describe the countenances of those who were enslaved 
as he was? 
3. These few pages are, in some textbooks, subtitled “The Horrors of the Slave Ship.” 
List five “horrors” from pp. 380-382 that strike you as particularly dreadful.
4. Describe the procedure for selling the slaves describe on p. 383. (Do not forget this 
part of the question.) According to Equiano, what is the greatest horror of the selling 
of slaves? At the end of the chapter, he writes, “Surely, this is a new refinement in  
cruelty.” To what is he referring?
5. Describe Equiano’s friendship with Richard Baker, found at the end of chapter III on 
p. 385. Comment on at least one other thing that stands out to you from chapter III. 
6. The excerpt from chapter VII describes how Equiano gained his freedom. How did 
this come about? Who helped him? Respond to Equiano’s expression of the joy he 
felt at being free. Which images best express his feeling to you? Were you moved by 
this passage?
7. Explain one of the allusions from this passage – either his reference to Peter in prison 
or the reference to Elijah.

Demonstrate the ability to identify and understand the basic ethical and philosophical tenets of criminal justice. 

Demonstrate the ability to identify and understand the basic ethical and philosophical tenets of criminal justice. 

Instructions for this Assignment
Purpose: 
The purpose of this assignment is to apply concepts learned in Rushworth Kidder’s reading on right vs. right dilemmas to your own personal ethical dilemma.
Materials: All Module 1 Materials
Tasks:
Part 1:
Rushworth Kidder talks about genuine ethical dilemmas as tough choices in which individuals face right vs. right situations (as opposed to right vs. wrong situations). He goes on to argue that most ethical dilemmas fit one of four possible patterns identified in Ch. 1 by Rushworth Kidder. Describe a personal example of a ‘right vs. right’ ethical dilemma you have faced in the past. Answer the questions in the following order. All answers must be in complete sentences.

Describe the right vs. right ethical dilemma you faced. 
Which type of right vs. right dilemma is this based on Kidder’s reading?  Explain why. (Truth vs. Loyalty, Individual vs. Community, Short term vs. Long term, or Justice vs. Mercy [another way to describe mercy is compassion])
What were the moral considerations behind the choices you were faced with? (This includes reviewing all of the facts and identifying all moral dilemmas for all parties involved).
What was the outcome of your ethical dilemma? In other words, what did you do?
What was the reasoning behind your choice? 

Part 2:
Consider the following dilemma: You are a police officer patrolling late at night and see a car weaving back and forth across lanes of traffic. You easily suspect either DUI or some form of distracted driving so you turn on your siren and lights and the car pulls over. Before you approach the car, the driver stumbles out of the car, obviously intoxicated. There is no question that the driver meets the legal definition of intoxication. The driver also happens to be your favorite person (e.g. mother, father, sibling, cousin, best friend, grandma, grandpa, coach, teacher, etc.). 
Imagine the same scenario and the person is a complete stranger. What would you do and why?
(We will revisit this same scenario in Module 2 once we have covered ethical systems). 
Assignment Formatting Instructions

Double-spaced
12pt. Times New Roman font only
1″ margins on all sides
Name, date, course in the top right corner
A centered title
All answers must be in complete sentences and shall be between 500-750 words. 
Proofread your work as spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization count.
Any sources used should be properly cited in APA format.

Submission Format
Use the following format when naming your file: your First Initial and Last Name with the Assignment Name.
Example:  JDoeModule1HomeworkAssignment.docx
File Submission:  Please submit your files as a DOCX or PDF file.

Drawing on The Commonwealth Fund’s Country Profiles and the Kurani & Wagner analysis for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Summarize the healthcare system in each country as well as some health measure statistics/outcomes you found most compelling in them.

 Your initial post should be at least 250 words and must substantively integrate the assigned readings  
Be sure to use and cite as much supporting detail as necessary from the required learning materials in answering the following inter-related questions.

Briefly, which two countries’ healthcare systems did you choose to investigate and why?
Drawing on The Commonwealth Fund’s Country Profiles and the Kurani & Wagner analysis for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Summarize the healthcare system in each country as well as some health measure statistics/outcomes you found most compelling in them.
What might account for any differences you found in your selected countries (and implicitly back to the US as well)? 
Finally, how has your review of these other countries affected your own views of the US healthcare system?  For example, is there any structure, practice or outcome that the US would benefit from adopting?

Conerly, T.R., Holmes, K., & Tamang, A.L. (2021). Chapter 19: Health and MedicineLinks to an external site.. In, Introduction to sociology 3e (pp. 559-577). OpenStax.
Kurani, N., & Wagner, E. (2021, September 30). How does the quality of the US health system compare to other countries?Links to an external site.  Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Commonwealth Fund. (nd).  Country Profiles International Health Care System ProfilesLinks to an external site.. Washington, DC: The Commonwealth Fund.
PBS. (2008, April). Sick Around the World: 5 Capitalist Democracies and How They Do It.Links to an external site. PBS.
PBS NewsHour (2021, April 1) Critical Care: America vs. The World – A PBS NEWSHOUR SpecialLinks to an external site.. PBS. (56 mins; first 30:31 mins required, rest optional).

Explain the process of evidence-based analysis. Highlight the major players and their roles in EBM policy

  
 
Evidence-based medicine (EBM), previously translational medicine, can be defined as improving care based on empirical research and/or hands-on practice. The EBM’s approach is based on either direct patient care (bottom-up) or an experiment translated into guidelines (top-down). EBM is used in either in conjunction or as quality assessment tool(s) for continuous quality improvement (CQI). The healthcare leader must utilize the evidence to promote healthcare quality.

Explain the process of evidence-based analysis.
Highlight the major players and their roles in EBM policy (i.e., government, providers, patients, etc.).
Explain the EBM “Levels of Evidence” as defined in your course text.
Review the case “Constraints of the ACA on Evidence-Based Medicine.”
Provide a written analysis of the case “Constraints of the ACA on Evidence-Based Medicine” in Chapter 9 of your textbook. (Utilize the “Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations” as defined by the University of Minnesota) Clearinghouse.
Summarize the policy of EBM in your conclusion.

Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act.

 
Review the scenario and complete the activity below. 
In an interview published by The New York Times in February 1976, former Lockheed President A. Carl Kotchian defended the payment of bribes by the company as follows:
“Some call it gratuities. Some call them questionable payments. Some call it extortion. Some call it grease. Some call it bribery. I look at these payments as necessary to sell a product. I never felt I was doing anything wrong.”
More than 30 years later, Reinhard Siekaczek, an accountant employed by Siemens who oversaw an annual budget for questionable payments in excess of $50 million, stated:
“I never thought I would go to jail for my company. …We thought we had to do it. Otherwise, we would ruin the company. …People will only say about Siemens that they were unlucky and that they broke the Eleventh Commandment. The Eleventh Commandment is, ‘Don’t get caught.’”
You have been hired to assist ABC Multinational Company to help educate employees on ethical practices and corporate culture. More specifically, related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, your role is to prevent situations described in the above scenario.
Create either a handout, job-aid, poster, or flier to educate employees on the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. Complete the following for your educational tool:

Explain what the employees should know regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Provide examples of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act.
List any consequences of the violations.
Recommend actions to report possible violations.
Describe protections for whistleblowers. Why are they important? How do the protections impact the Act?