Identify and discuss appropriate screening instruments for a patient who has suicidal ideation.

 Purpose:Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.

Scenario:

Kel is a 42-year-old certified public accountant (CPA) who dreams each year that she will board a cruise ship the day after Tax Day and go somewhere, anywhere, except Portsmouth, Virginia. Each year the dream, like the ocean, ebbs and flows, but this year she is not even going to think about such a “ridiculous idea.” In fact, she does not even have the energy to dream; getting out of bed and preparing to go to work is simply too labor intensive. 

Each evening Kel retires to bed with a lack of energy to complete her normal tasks such as readying her clothes for work and making a lunch. She lacks the energy to shop in the evening; consequently, she eats mostly crackers and canned soup. She is not hungry, and her scale reflects this. She has lost 15 pounds over the last 2 months. She does not attend to her makeup or clothes; she finds both too taxing. The clothes she selects are drab and not ironed. At work she makes no effort to talk with her co-workers and does not initiate new contacts with clients. The normal work of filing taxes and writing reports, which she used to enjoy, are overwhelming, and she feels too disorganized to complete them. Telephone calls and e-mail messages from friends are ignored. Attendance at work is spotty.

Sue, her sister, becomes alarmed with Kel’s unanswered telephone calls and e-mails. Worried, she decides to visit her sister at home. She finds the apartment unclean and in disarray. Kel is unkempt, disheveled, and looks sad. Her voice is monotone and flat. Kel tells Sue that she feels “sad and hopeless. Nothing is ever going to change. I am a bad person and I can’t even do my work right. Although I sleep for many hours, I am still tired all the time.” Sue is alarmed at the changes in her sister and arranges for Kel to visit a health care worker at the medical clinic.

Questions:

Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers. 

1. Describe the presenting problems.
2. Generate a primary and differential diagnosis using the DSM5 and ICD 10 codes.
3. Formulate and prioritize a treatment plan. 
4. Identify and discuss appropriate screening instruments for a patient who has suicidal ideation.

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic sources.

Explain why you believe this legislative change was necessary.

Follow the instructions below to participate in the discussion. This reading comes from Mather, J., Lager, P.B., and Harris, N.J. (2007). Child Welfare: Policies and Best Practices (2nd. Ed.). Belmont, CA: Cole/Brooks. Response must be 250-300 words.

1. Choose one legislative change reviewed in the reading, “Major Legislative Changes”.
2. Explain why you believe this legislative change was necessary.

What examples of advocacy do you see in your own nursing practice? List and discuss 2 examples.

What examples of advocacy do you see in your own nursing practice? List and discuss 2 examples.

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic

Describe the agency, level of regulatory authority (local, state, federal), scope of regulatory authority, and role within the US healthcare system.

Identify regulatory agencies that regulate health and the health care system within the US, create a table listing your 5 regulatory agencies and address the following:

1. Describe the agency, level of regulatory authority (local, state, federal), scope of regulatory authority, and role within the US healthcare system.
2. Address relevance of the organization or the organization’s authority to the APRN/DNP graduate.
3. Describe relevance to specialty area, area of practice, or setting of practice. For an example, mental health. 

Submission Requirements:

• In the table, write the 3 criteria above and respond to them.
• The table is to be clear and concise 

What components of the ACA do you think will have a positive effect on improving health care outcomes and decreasing costs? 

What components of the ACA do you think will have a positive effect on improving health care outcomes and decreasing costs? 

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic sources

What are specific actions that health professionals can take regardless of their practice area and site to promote population and community health?

What are specific actions that health professionals can take regardless of their practice area and site to promote population and community health?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic sources. 

Discuss two metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness and expenses related to the organization’s hiring practices.

You are an HR professional working in the HR department at Global Protech and you have been charged with looking at the effectiveness and related expenses for the organizations current hiring practices. You will look at several metrics and then make a presentation to the HR department with any recommended changes based on the data you found. Discuss how you would address the questions below in your presentation to the HR department.

Day 3

Post by Day 3 a cohesive and scholarly response, based on and supported by your required readings, media, and research this week, that addresses the following:

• Discuss two metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness and expenses related to the organization’s hiring practices.

• Explain how these metrics would be used.

• Evaluate possible data sources for these metrics.

• Evaluate one strategy you would recommend to your  department to help communicate a change in the organization’s hiring practices  

Reference 

Pease, G., Byerly, B. & Fitz-enz, J. (2012). Human capital analytics: How to handle the potential of your organization’s greatest asset. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Describe the company and its marketing initiative that promoted diversity and/or inclusion.

Successful marketing campaign can yield positive financial outcomes for a company, but marketing can be about more than just capturing competitive advantage and increasing profits. Have you ever encountered a marketing campaign that inspired you to action or changed your feelings or opinions about a particular topic or issue? Sometimes organizations utilize marketing to pursue goals that go beyond making money and instead leverage the popularity of brands and reputations of organizations to promote particular causes or contribute to the betterment of society. In this Discussion, you will consider a marketing initiative from a company that created a positive social change impact.

To prepare for this Discussion:

· Consider a social-change-focused marketing initiative from a company that promoted diversity and/or inclusion.

Post a summary of the benefits of a social-change-focused marketing campaign that promoted diversity and/or inclusion, to include the following: (250 words or more)

· Describe the company and its marketing initiative that promoted diversity and/or inclusion.

· Summarize the impact of that marketing effort. Be sure to include what the effort would, could, or did accomplish for the company.

· Summarize the positive social change impact a company can have by promoting these ideas through its marketing efforts. Be sure to include at least one example. 

References

https://blog.hubspot.com/agency/5-tips-to-boost-your-next-cause-marketing-campaigns-reach

What skills (assessment techniques) were utilized during the assessment?

Conduct an assessment on the following body systems:

• Heart      & the lungs assessment

You may conduct the assessment on a fellow student, friend, or family member. Remember to secure their permission.

Collect both subjective and objective data using the process described in the textbook.

Write a summary of the assessment (subjective & objective data in narrative note) and the skills utilized. 

Answer the following 3 questions in the summary. Do not disclose any patient identifiers.

1. What skills (assessment techniques) were utilized during the assessment?
2. What subjective data did you collect? (list your findings)
3. What objective data did you collect? (list your findings)

Summary on a WORD document. APA format isn’t required. 

What are some of your primary functions?

Interview somebody that has or had a career in the retail field. You can meet them in person or if time does not permit email them. Ask at least four of the questions below:

• What is an average day like in your position?
• What are some of your primary functions?
• What are the benefits and drawbacks to working in retail?
• What is your role in the supply chain?
• How long have you been working in retail? Have you experienced/witnessed any major changes in retail during your career?
• What career opportunities in retail do you you see for someone with a business degree or a retail management certificate like WAFC?
• What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a manager?

Your task is to write a three-paragraph discussion post describing the answers from your interview. In addition to the interview, you are encouraged to do follow up research on any of the topics your interviewee brought up using reliable and properly cited Internet resources.