State one practical use of variation related to health statistics.

Question 1- 200-word Answer
Citing one specific credible source
State one practical use of variation related to health statistics.
Briefly discuss its implications.

Question 2- 200-word Answer
Citing one specific credible source
Find an article that mentions a new drug that promises an improved survival rate.
Identify whether this rate represents the mean or the median of the data set.
Assess whether that is ideally what you’d want to know for this data.
Provide a specific reason for your answer.

Explore your response to being given a terminal diagnosis. What coping mechanisms work for you? With which awareness approach would you be comfortable?

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  1. Explore your response to being given a terminal diagnosis. What coping mechanisms work for you? With which awareness approach would you be comfortable?
  2. Describe the priority nursing actions related to a dying person and their family when they are especially protective of one another.
  3. Describe and strategize how you would bring up the topic of advance directives.
  4. What advance directive related to end of life is legally recognized in your state?
  5. Describe how you would introduce the topic of dying with a patient who is critically ill and not expected to live.
    AT CLINICAL: Ask a nurse about the policy surrounding a death at the clinical facility.
    What is the process after the body dies?
    What events occur prior to the death?
    What does the facility do to facilitate a good death?
    Does the facility have a contract with Hospice services? What does that entail?
    POST CLINICAL:
    What is an ethical dilemma?
    Describe or provide details of either a real or fictitious ethical dilemma you have experienced or could experience.
    What were the choices or responses that caused it to be an ethical dilemma?
    What was the end result?
What do you think your role will be when your parent or parents need help?

Case Study:
Ms. Booth, 68 years old, comes to the senior health clinic to establish care and is accompanied by Ms. Singh, her partner of 20 years. Ms. Booth has a history of osteoarthritis in her hips and knees, coronary artery disease, a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a 53-pack/year history of smoking, and Type 2 diabetes with mild peripheral neuropathy. Her medications include meloxicam 15 mg daily, aspirin 81 mg daily, valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide 160 mg/25 mg daily, nitroglycerin SL 0.5 mg every 5 minutes × 3 as needed for chest pain, fluticasone/salmeterol 250 µg/50 µg inhaled twice a day, glipizide/metformin 5 mg/500 mg twice a day, and pregabalin 50 mg three times per day. Vital signs include a blood pressure of 145/88 mmHg, a pulse of 92 beats per minute, a respiration rate of 18 breaths per minute, a temperature of 97.9°F, and oxygen saturation on room air of 96%.
The nurse asks Ms. Singh to leave the room during Ms. Booth’s physical examination; however, Ms. Booth asks for her partner to stay, saying they have some sensitive questions to ask and want to ask them together. Both women appear uncomfortable. The nurse sits down, leans forward, smiles, and asks how they can help. Ms. Singh looks at Ms. Booth, then says they are afraid to have intercourse since Ms. Booth’s chest pain began 6 months ago. The nurse nods then discuss with them ways to adapt to Ms. Booth’s chronic illnesses.
Which strategies should the nurse recommend to improve the client’s sexual health?

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  1. What do you think your role will be when your parent or parents need help?
  2. What would you find most difficult in regard to assisting your older parent/grandparent?
  3. You are preparing an 81-year-old woman for discharge following a stroke. Her husband will be the caregiver. What teaching might you provide to prepare him for the caregiving role?
Discuss whether you found the process of creating a strategy map helpful. Why or why not?

PART A

In the discussion, respond to the following. Be sure to respond to all parts of the questions in order to earn full credit.

  • Lehmann & Winer’s Levels of Competition Model is a helpful tool to assist you in identifying and understanding the competition. Identify one health care product or service offering available within an 80-mile radius of where you live. Do some research to learn more about the specifics of the product or service, then construct a Levels of Competition Model for the product or service. 
  • In the discussion, share a description of the Levels of Competition Model you created (or an image) and provide an explanation of what you learned from creating the model. Then provide an analysis of whether this is a practical tool providing rationale to support your response. In your analysis, consider whether there are limitations to the tool.  

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

PART B

 Review the assignment for next week, Proposing Market Entry Strategies. Pay particular to attention to the health care organization described in the assignment. You will use this information to create a strategy map for the organization.  You can also see additional examples using the links below:

The strategy map you create will help prepare you for the assignment next week and will be the focus of what you will share in the discussion for this week.

In the discussion, respond to the following. Be sure to respond to all parts of the questions in order to earn full credit.

  • Create a strategy map for the Ajo Medical Center as described in the discussion preparation this week.  
  • For the discussion, share an image of your strategy map or a description of what you created and provide rationale for why you arranged the strategy map as you did. Discuss whether you found the process of creating a strategy map helpful. Why or why not? Is this something you will use in your role in health care? Explain why you will or will not use this process. 
What were some of the concerns that led to the banning of DDT in the United States and other developed countries?


Silent Spring, the classic work by Rachel Carson, is credited with sensitizing the public to the potential hazards of chemicals that were being disseminated into the environment. One of these chemicals was dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT. What were some of the concerns that led to the banning of DDT in the United States and other developed countries? Do you believe that the hazards associated with DDT outweigh the pesticide’s benefits? Here is one way to crowd-source an effort to find out:

  • In your initial posting, make two columns using the discussion editor’s insert table button, or just create two numbered sections in your post.
    • In the Pro column or section, provide a single complete sentence argument for banning DDT.
    • In the Con column or section, provide a single complete sentence argument against banning DDT.
    • Each argument sentence must be accompanied by a citation along with a reference back to your source or sources.
How can you improve the implementation of strategy in an organization?


1) Video 1: Think Strategically, Act Tactically

2) Video 2: How to Improve Strategic Thinking with Simon Sinek

Please answer the below two questions after watching the above two youtube videos with references(All on 1 page).

Question 1:

How does strategy and tactical action relate to each other in an organization?

Question 2:

How can you improve the implementation of strategy in an organization?

discuss the nursing management of patients (adults including the elderly) with respiratory disorders.

For this assignment, you are asked to discuss the nursing management of patients (adults including the elderly) with respiratory disorders. Please list Special therapies, alternative therapies, Nursing interventions, and Drugs used to treat the following pediatric conditions.

 -Sickle cell disease

-Aplastic anemia

-Iron-deficiency anemia

-Hemolytic anemia

-Fanconi anemia

Beta thalassemia

-Diamond-Blackfan anemia

-Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome

Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia

(1 sentence each topic) 

Identify 15 factors about the organization that could provide information about the organization, and how you would research these.

Instructions: Identify an organization that you will investigate over the course labs. However, do not choose a government organization, individual, or entity that may be considered a violation of privacy.

Task: Identify 15 factors about the organization that could provide information about the organization, and how you would research these.

Submittal: Submit using the Grid Association Matrix.

Using the organization identified from Lab 1, identify what items would you would want to include in your chosen organization’s collection plan. Additionally, you will want to identify what you expect to gain/monitor with the collection plan.

Task: Start to develop a 1300 word document data collection plan. Include any information/content you needed to be included in your collection plan, why you selected this information, and more importantly what you expect to be able to present to leadership through the collection plan.

Discuss your position in the family and how that has affected your relationship with siblings and parents.
  1. Discuss your position in the family and how that has affected your relationship with siblings and parents.
  2. How have your grandparents affected your life?
  3. How you would conduct a review of systems in sexual health with an older adult?
  4. What would be the most important factors to consider when providing education about sexuality and sexual health to older adults?
  5. What resources are available for older adults who identify as LGBT in your community?
    AT CLINICAL: Interview a resident who is willing.
    What is your role in your family? The elder, of nine kids they listen to him, because he’s the senior.

Do you have children? Are they married? Yes, a boy and girl the boy is married with four children and the girl is not marry.
Do you feel you come from a small or large family? Why? Large the was nine of them, mom and dad making it eleven.
Are you a grandparent? How does it feel to be a grandparent? Yes, it feels fantastic!
At what age did you stop being sexually active? What impact did that have on your life? Seven years ago, after my wife died. He misses his wife dearly, and he used to make sure to buy her flowers every week.

Which of the two goals is currently the primary focus of American criminal justice and why?

 The Crime Control versus Due Process Models of Criminal Justice:

Chapter 1 discusses two primary goals of American criminal justice: 

  1. The need to enforce the law and maintain order.
  2. The need to protect people from injustice. 

Post to an online discussion forum regarding these two goals. 

 Key issues for your posting should include:

  • Which of the two goals is currently the primary focus of American criminal justice and why?
  • Do you think the current situation is appropriate?  Consider debating the relative importance of the two goals.
  • Could the two goals be met simultaneously?
  • Is Frank Schmalleger’s concept of crime control through due process realistic and possible?
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