Capstone Project Topic Selection and Approval

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Class, One of the assignments for this week is the Capstone Project Topic Selection and Approval.A requirement of APA is the use of level headings.The use of level headings will help organize your paper.Please be sure to include level headings in this and all papers.I included information about level headings in the announcement page.Use the topic requirements (see 1-6 below) to set up the level headings.

  1. The problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need that will be the focus of the project
  2. The setting or context in which the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need can be observed.
  3. A description providing a high level of detail regarding the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need.
  4. Impact of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need on the work environment, the quality of care provided by staff, and patient outcomes.
  5. Significance of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and its implications to nursing.
  6. A proposed solution to the identified project topic

White Collar Crime Health Care Fraud Discussion

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Health care fraud is a form of white collar crime. It involves filing illegitimate health care claims to turn an illicit profit. The 3 major laws that protect against healthcare fraud are the Anti-kickback statute, Stark, and the False Claims Act. From the readings and independent research, find one (1) specific real life legal case example of how kickback arrangements would violate the Stark Law. In addition, discuss with your colleagues how the kickback arrangements could violate trust between provider organizations and patients. From the readings and independent research, find one (1) specific real life legal case example of a breach of the False Claims Act by a health-related organization. In addition, discuss whether health care organizations are properly equipped to ensure compliance and minimize exposure risks. If not why not?

Read the background articles. This discussion requires research beyond the articles. See Discussion Expectations and Grading for rules on discussions.

why racial and ethnic “minority” groups have little or no opportunity to have access to hospice care?, health and medicine homework help

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In this Assignment, you will submit a short Journal entry in APA format that addresses the following:

What factors do you believe have had the most influence with regard to why racial and ethnic “minority” groups have little or no opportunity to have access to hospice care? For example, to what extent might cultural beliefs and practices play a role? If so, in what ways? To what extent might bias or systemic discrimination play a role? From what vantage points?

Your Journal entry should be no more than 200 words in length and must be in correct APA format.

dental deserts

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all the instruction the links and please follow them.

https://net3.umkc.edu/intapps/RooWriter/docs/RooWr…

critique discussion below

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Dana,

Hello class,

Please see below for my excellent, 100%-earning contribution to this week’s discussion.

-Dana

Red Clay Renovations’ is an internationally recognized organization that focuses on residential renovation and rehabilitation. As such, it is important for Red Clay Renovations to present a united front through a new social media policy to field offices, managers, and their employees.

Some may argue that this new social media policy will restrict the freedoms of field officers to run their own region-specific campaigns with offices in Baltimore, Delaware, Philadelphia, and Maryland (King, 2018). However, in spite of these arguments, there is a greater benefit for centralized social media conducted by the company as a whole, as opposed to various campaigns, some of which are quite ad-hoc, conducted by independent field officers. The most freedoms are simply not always the most appropriate (Meister, 2003), and there must be some form of information technology governance provided by Red Clay Renovations company leadership in order to ensure proper social media distribution.

Centralized social media by Red Clay Renovations will allow for a variety of specific factors to ensure the streamlining of all social media emerging from Red Clay Renovations. This includes topics such as standardization, compliance, and accountability (Church, 2017). This will allow for more powerful messaging services to our clients, consumers, and the public-at-large (Briggs, 2016). Additionally, a centralized social media policy will allow Red Clay Renovations to practice information technology governance, ensuring that there is a focus on IT for all organizations, as well as growing awareness of IT principles for managers. (National Computing Centre, 2005). This will allow for greater brand messaging that is united across all social media fronts across different offices.

Additionally, Red Clay Renovations has also acquired Reality Media Services (King, 2018). This production firm helps create specific videos and other types of social media in order to help Red Clay Renovations promote our specific home improvement services. With our management seeking to bring more integration between Red Clay Renovations and Reality Media Services, a centralized social media policy will allow for more integration for Reality Media Services to maintain control and push out strong, branded content for Red Clay Renovations.

Distribution of this policy can most effectively be accomplished through a multi-step process. The first process would involve the distribution of this policy through print and email format to all employees, to ensure all-hands awareness of this new policy. Additionally, this knowledge can be reinforced through a specific training session held for managers and field office staff, where employees can interact with the Chief Information Security Officer and other individuals in order to address any potential concerns. This is a great forum to also have a Question and Answer session. A final way to ensure that the knowledge of this policy is properly distributed is by having this policy readily available on the internal Red Clay Renovations website. Through these steps, Red Clay Renovations can effectively ensure that all employees understand and are familiar with this specific new policy.

All in all, it is important for the Red Clay Renovations’ Chief Information Security Officer to implement a centralized social media policy in order to practice proper information technology governance.

References

Briggs, A. (2016). Benefits of a Social Media Strategy Centralized in Communications. Retrieved from https://blog.sdl.com/social-media-centered-in-comm…

Church, J. (2017). Why Centralized Social Media Governance Works Best. Retrieved from https://www.business2community.com/social-media/ce…

Meister, J. (2013). The Future of Work: Why Updating Your Company’s Social Media Policy is Required. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2013/02…

National Computing Centre. (2005). Developing a successful governance strategy: A best practice guide for decision makers in IT. Retrieved from https://www.isaca.org/Certification/CGEIT-Certifie…

MN506_U10_D1_Global Nursing Shortage

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Please review the Discussion Board Participation grading rubric under Course Resources in the Grading Rubrics section.

This is important information that will ensure that you earn maximum points. Your postings should be qualitative and provide substantive depth that advances the discussion.

Please see the Writing Center located in the student portal for assistance with writing, APA, and online communication.

Topic 1: Global Nursing Shortage

Evaluate the effects of the global nursing shortage on health policy. How has the shortage affected the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals? Analyze how nursing ideas, values, and beliefs impact policy agenda. Identify when policy can dictate treatment options.

MyDietAnalysis (MDA) Part 4

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Instructions:

Answer the following questions using your MDA Food Records and Reports. This will be submitted as an assignment (see Tips for Success below)

Assessing Your Carbohydrate Intake: Use the MDA “Calorie and Fat Sources” reports from each day and the three day average to complete the table below.

% CARBOHYDRATES (Recommended 45 – 65% of total calories)

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

Three Day Average:

FIBER grams (Recommended 25-35 grams/day)

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

Three Day Average:
  • Compare your daily intake of carbohydrates to the recommended values. Is it less than, more than or equal to the recommended value?
  • Looking at your food record, what food contained the highest amount of added sugar?
  • Compare your daily intake of fiber to the recommended value. Is it lower, equal to, or higher than the recommended value of 25-30 grams/day.
  • Looking at your food record, what food could you substitute or add to increase your fiber intake?
  • Which of the following statements apply to your carbohydrate intake:
    • My diet is high in refined grains
    • My diet is high in added sugar
    • My diet provides a good source of whole grains
    • My diet provides a good source of fiber
    • My carbohydrate choices are healthy
    • I could make better choices with my carbohydrate intake

Assessing Your Protein Intake : Use the MDA “Calorie and Fat Sources” reports from each day and the three day average to complete the table below.

% PROTEIN (Recommended 10 -35% of total calories)

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

Three Day Average:
  • Compare your daily intake of protein to the recommended values. Is it less than, more than or equal to the recommended values?
  • Which of the following statements apply to your protein intake:
    • My diet contains a lot of high fat protein sources
    • My diet contains a lot of red meat
    • My diet contains a lot of processed meat
    • My diet contains a good source lean proteins
    • My protein choices are healthy
    • I could make better choices with my protein intake

Assessing Your Fat Intake: Use the MDA “Calorie and Fat Sources” reports from each day and the three day average to complete the table below.

% FAT (Recommended 25-35% of total calories)

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

Three Day Average:

Omega-3 Fats (recommended 1.1g/day for Females and 1.6 g/day for Males)

Three Day Average:

% Saturated fat (Recommended < 10% of total calories)*

Three Day Average:
  • Compare your daily intake of protein to the recommended values. Is it less than, more than or equal to the recommended value?
  • Compare your daily intake of omega-3 to the recommended values. Is it less than, more than or equal to the recommended value?
  • Compare your daily intake of saturated fat to the recommended values. Is it less than, more than or equal to the recommended value?
  • Which of the following statements apply to your fat intake:
    • My diet contains a lot of saturated fat
    • My diet contains a lot of trans-fatty acids
    • My diet contains a lot of unhealthy fats
    • My fat choices are healthy
    • I could make better choices with my fat intake

Assessing Your Alcohol Intake: Use the MDA “Calorie and Fat Sources” reports from each day and the three day average to complete the table below

% ALCOHOL (Recommended < 15% of total calories)

Three Day Average:
  • Which of the following statements apply to your fat intake:
    • I do not/did not consume alcohol
    • My alcohol consumption was in moderation
    • My alcohol consumption was more than moderation

Assessing Your Diet

  • Explain how your future risk of health may be affected with your current consumption of fat, protein, carbohydrates, alcohol and cholesterol.
  • Is there anything you change to improve your diet? If not, what is it about your current diet that you feel that you should maintain for the future?

Tips For Success

  • I recommend composing your content offline in a text editor and then copy and paste the text into your reply post. If something happens you will have an offline copy of all of your hard work!
  • Please note, if you are using Microsoft Word to compose offline, you may need to do some editing to the format when you paste it into the reply.
  • Please DO NOT upload an attachment, except a pdf
  • I will not accept assignments that are emailed.

Health Policy Analysis Project – Policy Options and Recommendations

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In this assignment you will identify policy options, the intended outcome of the options, the criteria by which options are evaluated, and make your final recommendation.

To develop the policy options portion of the analysis, you will provide at least 3 alternatives for consideration. This section is not just a recitation of various choices; it provides an analysis of each option by stating the positives and negative aspects of pursuing each path. Your text provides some major actions policymakers use to deal with policy issues. Use these to prompt your thoughts. Make sure to keep the outcome of the proposed alternative in mind as you conduct the analysis.

In this section, you will also layout the decision or evaluation criteria you will use in making your recommendation. The text provides sample criteria for consideration in Box 14-2 on page 286.

Alternatively, Collins (2005) presents five criteria from the work of Rodriguez-Garcia (2000). These are:

Relevance: Does the intervention contribute to the health needs of the target population? Is it consistent with policies and priorities?

Progress: How do actual results compare with projected or scheduled results?

Efficiency: What are the results in relation to resource expenditure of the intervention?

Effectiveness: To what degree does this particular intervention attain its objectives?

Impact: What is the effect of the activity on the overall health and related socio-economic development?

Finally, you should choose one of your options as your recommendation. The recommendation section should begin by clearly identifying which option is favored and why the option is the preferred alternative. This section is not intended to repeat the information in the analysis, rather it explains why, despite any drawbacks, this is the best action going forward. Therefore, the section also identifies what, if any, actions can be taken to mitigate or overcome any negative aspects of the recommendation (Tietelbaum & Wilensky, 2015).

  1. Review Chapter 14 of Essentials of Health Policy and Law.
  2. Review information gathered for the Annotated Bibliography assignment in Workshop Two.
  3. Prepare a 4-6 page paper addressing the Policy Options, Intended Outcomes, Decision Criteria, and Recommendations for the policy under consideration.
  4. In the paper address the following:
    1. A minimum of 3 policy options designed to address the problem statement.
    2. Provides an analysis of each option by stating the positives and negative aspects of each.
    3. Address the potential outcome(s) associated with each intervention.
    4. Identify the decision criteria which you will use to evaluate each of the policy options.
    5. The policy recommendation, including why the policy option was chosen, and ways, if any, to mitigate negative aspects of the option
  5. Be sure to consider the audience in the formulation of this Policy Options, Intended Outcome, Decision Criteria, and Recommendations section.
  6. Use proper spelling, grammar, and APA formatting.

United States University Assisted Living Facilities Intervention Programs Paper

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Overview

An increasing number of geriatric patients live in assisted living facilities. Please read this article from The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/emanuel-sex-and-the-single-senior.html?_r=0 and then consider interventions or educational programs that you might suggest for residents of an assisted living facility. Discuss your thoughts with your fellow students.

Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.

Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.”

References:

  • Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.
  • Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Words Limits

  • Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)
  • Response posts: Minimum 100 words excluding references.