First review the following general policy of OSHA and then, demonstrate your understanding by creating a poster that reminds employees about any safe practice pertaining to a medical practice (e.g. handwashing, handling lab specimens, keeping work areas clear of obstruction such as open file cabinet drawers, handling sharps etc.)
Attach the poster as a Word document or PDF and submit through this drop box.
(Note the link in this module to the OSHA website to research ideas for your poster – you are encouraged to also search for additional resources). NOTE: A good poster attracts the attention of busy employees and is engaging but quick to read. It can be a reminder or a full procedure.
“Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace. OSHA’s mission is to assure safe and healthful workplaces by setting and enforcing standards, and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. Employers must comply with all applicable OSHA standards. Employers must also comply with the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act, which requires employers to keep their workplace free of serious recognized hazards.”
00adminadmin2021-01-30 18:20:032021-01-30 18:20:03Policy Evaluation and Poster OSHA General Policy and Purpose
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Overview
Write a 3–4-page analysis on the impact of a selected toxin on human health.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Analyze the impact of contaminants in the environment to human health.
Analyze the impact of a toxic substance on human health.
Analyze possible sources of exposure to a toxic substance.
Analyze what happens when a toxin enters the environment.
Analyze the persistency of a specific toxic substance.
Analyze government recommendations for a specific toxic substance.
Context
Toxins are substances that can harm a living organism. When air, water, or soil is contaminated by toxins, it can lead to serious health problems. The Assessment 2 Context document provides a brief overview of topics related to toxicity. You may wish to review this document for key concepts and ideas related to this assessment
Questions to Consider
To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.
What is the role of an environmental health professional?
How do professionals define risks associated with environmental toxins?
What is an example of one technique people use to detoxify the body? Have you, or would you, use such a technique?
How has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
What is the role of the Consumer Product Safety Commission regarding product safety?
What is the role of OSHA regarding workplace safety?
Is your own workplace proactive when it comes to hazards?
In what ways are you, or could you, become proactive in reducing your own occupational hazards?
What are some ways occupational physical, biological, or chemical hazards could be decreased?
What are the perceived risks of nanotechnology?
How do the views of upstream scientists differ from downstream scientists, with respect to new technology like nanotechnology?
What are the differences in scientific approaches to risk assessment?
Resources
Suggested Resources
The following optional resources are provided to support you in completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom.
Internet Resources
Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.
The purpose of this assessment is for you to learn how to summarize and critically evaluate a scientific paper on environmental toxins.To begin, choose a toxin to research. Note: The CDC Web site and other materials listed in the Resources should provide you with a starting point in selecting a toxin.Then, select at least two peer-reviewed articles about your chosen toxin to read carefully. Craft a 3–4-page analysis of the toxin’s impact on human health based on what you have learned. Address the following in your analysis:
Highlight the main points presented in the articles you read. What message are the authors trying to convey about that toxin?
Describe the possible sources of human exposure to this toxin, and analyze their risk.
Analyze what happens when this toxin enters the environment.
Analyze the persistency of this toxin.
Analyze the federal government’s recommendations for protecting human health from this toxin.
Describe what other sources of information say about these toxins.
Identify any discrepancies you found in your research.
If the authors have different perspectives, how might these differing views affect environmental health?
Your analysis should follow a logical structure and be evidence based. Use the MEAL Plan to help guide the organization of your analysis:
Main Idea: Present the main point or idea that you are making about the environmental toxin you studied.
Evidence: What does the research say? Support your statements with evidence from your research and personal experience.
Analysis: Summarize main ideas from articles related to the points outlined for this assessment. Compare and contrast the ideas of the authors of the two articles. Identify those ideas and facts that relate directly or indirectly to your main point. Make explicit links between source articles, your personal experience, and your current analysis.
Link: Integrate and combine information from the source articles and your personal experience to your main point or idea.
Additional Requirements
Use the APA Paper Template (linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading) to format your analysis.
Written Communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Length: This analysis should be 3–4 pages in content length. Include a separate title page and a separate references page.
Font and Font Size: Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced. Use Microsoft Word.
APA Formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
Number of Resources: You are required to cite a minimum of 2 scholarly resources. You may conduct independent research for resources and references to support your analysis. Provide a reference list and in-text citations for all of your resources, using APA format. You may cite texts and authors from the Resources.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
ASSESSMENT 2 CONTEXT
Determining ToxicityToxicity is determined by the following:
Observing people during normal use or accidental exposure.
Experimental studies using animals.
Cellular studies.
Toxins can be divided into categories based on their potential harm to humans.
Carcinogens are substances known to cause cancer.
Endocrine disruptors are agents that bind with hormones, blocking their normal function.
Teratogens are agents that cause malformation of a fetus through the mother.
Toxicologists are scientists that study toxins. They determine whether the toxins have any harmful effects on the environment or the human body. Toxicologists often describe toxins as either hazardous or poisonous. Hazardous substances are substances having the capacity to do harm. Poisonous substances are able to kill, injure, or impair living things with a small dose.
Assessing Risk
After determining that a substance is toxic, toxicologists and other scientists create risk assessment models. Risk assessment involves considering four steps:
Identification of the hazard and its potential health effects.
Dose-response (amount of pollutant to which a person is exposed).
Mode of exposure (inhalation, ingestion, absorption, and injection).
Determination of overall risk based on dose response and exposure.
Cost-benefit analysis can be used to determine if a risk should be taken, and what strategies can be used to regulate and control the risk. In some cases, after a risk assessment, a risk will be determined unavoidable.The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is a government agency created in 1972 to address some products that have presented an unreasonable risk of injury. The CPSC requires safety labels, recalls hazardous products, and enforces bans upon them.
Accidents
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, more than 400 Americans die each day due to injuries caused by accidents (2014). In fact, most people experience a significant injury at least once in their lifetime (Hilgenkamp, 2006). Although not all accidents can be avoided, understanding where the risks are, and taking steps to avoid them, is important to protecting our health.Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death in individuals between 1 and 44 years of age (CDC, 2006). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is charged with increasing safety on the roads by writing and enforcing safety laws. Seat belts, safety seats for children, air bags, and anti-lock brakes are just some of the devices that can make traveling in a motor vehicle safer. We can reduce our risk of a motor vehicle accident by following traffic laws, and always considering what is prudent based on the driving conditions.Accidents can also occur when we are in our homes. Common occurrences involve falls, poisonings, accidental shootings, fires, and power equipment. Young children are particularly at risk, which is why child-proofing a home is so important. Cabinets with toxic materials, medicines, and guns should be locked. Matches and lighters should be kept in a safe place.
OSHA
Concerns of hazards in the workplace led to the development of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA’s mission is to prevent injuries and protect the health of United States workers by ensuring safe and healthful places to work (United States Department of Labor, n.d.). The major areas of concern in the workplace are air contaminants (dust, fibers, gases, and vapors), and physical (temperature, noise, and radiation), biological (pathogens), and chemical (inhaled, absorbed, ingested, or injected) issues.
References
CDC. (2006, June 28). Deaths: Preliminary data for 2004. National Vital Statistics Reports, 54(19). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_19…Hilgenkamp, K. (2006). Environmental health: Ecological perspectives. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2014). Healthy people.gov. Retrieved from http://healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx
Nurse administrators should use an evidence-based approach to address the concerns of health care quality. Imagine that you are a newly appointed nurse leader of a health care organization and that your first order of business is to educate and energize your team about the need for a robust quality management policy.
Research three peer-reviewed articles within the last 4 years or scholarly sources to gather the evidence of quality management in health care organizations that can answer the following questions:
What is the purpose of having a quality management policy in a health care organization? Why is it necessary?
Who are the various health care stakeholders and why do they define the quality of care differently?
What similarities does health care quality share with manufacturing or service quality?
What areas of health care must nurse administrators routinely monitor for quality?
What are the accrediting and regulatory organizations involved in quality improvement? What are their roles?
Create a 8- to 10 slide presentation to make your case a slide presentation, with detailed speaker notes,
Submit CWE (plagiarism) Report of Speaker Notes
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The Medicare program is currently facing significant challenges due to the rising costs of healthcare and the retirement of 77 million “baby boomers”. To address such crisis, there are several proposed strategies for Medicare reform.
Create a presentation outlining your proposal for Medicare reform focusing on either Part A, B, C or D. (Please be creative and think outside the box.)
A minimum of ten slides should be created and should be your own thoughts.
No plagiarism and minimum of 3 source
00adminadmin2021-01-30 18:08:592021-01-30 18:08:59Create a proposal for Medicare reform
Select one health behavior that is consistent with an assignment topic and two health communication initiatives directed at that behavior. You will then compare and contrast these two initiatives.
Using the readings for this module, the online library resources, and the Internet, complete the following:
Identify two existing health communication initiatives that focus on the same health behavior.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each health initiative identified.
Next, do the following:
Select one or more of these health communication initiatives to include in your health campaign.
Describe modifications that can be made to fit your health campaign.
Support your statements with examples and scholarly references.
Your final product will be a 3–5-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
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Opioid epidemic has been notice as a growing problem in many communities. It is not only the drug of low income or low education people but many professionals has been affected by this horrible disease. I think addicts are victim of the disease just like any other disease people know. For example, people who are obese are also choosing to overeat and not take care of their health yet we view obesity as of major problem and we try to help people get better. I think as as community we have obligation to help people that unfortunately have been involved in opioid crisis, just like we have resources for people who make very poor decision regarding their lifestyle and food choices. Many people involved in “pain meds” has been prescribed medication by the physician. Usually after accident or other injuries doctors gives RX for strong pain medication and some people would never even think to use drugs until they received RX for it. It think community has obligation to address the issue and design proper recurses to help people in needs. One of my post teacher in dental hygiene school was actually involved in organization that help medical professionals retain license once they have been reported for drug use. He told us that there are range of degrees and career, from doctors, nursed, pharmacists to dentists, no matter what you do you can be affected by this horrible situation. I wish as a community of health professionals we were more educated about consequences of prolong opioid use maybe people would choose to be in pain for short period of time rather than ruin life or career.
Is Gun Violence Becoming a Routine in our Communities?
Gun violence has become a very hot topic among the communities as of lately. The amount of gun violence has increased significantly according to the National Institute of Justice. The FBI provides data that shows almost 470,000 people were victims of crime committed with a firearm in 2011 alone. This is an older statistic but it is still relevant as to how many people are involved in gun violence. My personal community is fighting this in several different ways. The public schools are performing many different safety drills that include locking down the campuses and sending alerts to phones and emails that are registered in the systems. There is also another step being taken that the schools have hired police officers that are armed o be present on school campuses before, during and after school. There are many different shooting ranges and sheriff shooting classes being advertised on the radio, newspaper and on billboards encouraging gun safety courses to the public. This is a controversial topic because most cases people fall into one of two categories, pro gun or anti gun. Some believe the idea of the “good guys” having guns to protect us from the bad guys is acceptable, as some believe no guns should be held by persons not of police detail. I feel like my community is safe and the police have done an excellent job in keeping us posted on ways to prevent crimes individually and as a community.
These laws are necessary in cases where the client is unable to make decisions about their well-being on their own. If a person is suffering a mental health breakdown, they don’t know what they may need or be able to make the decision to voluntarily get help. Often with mental health medication may need to be adjusted and in these situations the client can reach certain states the don’t allow them to think like they normally do. Another reason why these laws are important are to protect other from people that may be in a mental health state that makes them a harm to others. Often, this law may even keep the client safe from harming their self or committing suicide. Sometime people don’t know that they have an illness until situations like this occur. This law also assures immediate help there won’t be any waiting list, appointment, phone calls being waited on to receive help. The previous law had more red tape which took longer, more signatures, and you even needed to go in front of a judge. It’s good that we have these laws in order that can help when necessary.
The baker act is also known as The Florida Mental Health Act Chapter 394, F.S. was named after Maxine Baker a former State Rep from Miami. This law provides the patients with mental illness and other medical or substance abuse issues the right to seek help from harm of self or other in the lack of not being able to pay for mental/medical or substance abuse illnesses. This will prompt a physical examination, treatment planning based on the clients needs. As soon as the client is coherent enough to do so it is strongly encouraged that the client voluntarily signs for mental health services without coercion. But initial backer act can be ad mistered by family to keep the client from harming one’s self. The Marchman act was named after Hal Marchman, a businessman from Volusia County this act was merely intended for substance abusers under chapter 397, F.S. and is more used by law and court enforcement for substance abuse impairment. It is not used for provisions of psychiatric or medical treatment. Even though both these laws may have the same main goal intended they are merely the same in ways of helping clients seek help and to live another day without harm and both are truly helpful and necessary.
Consider humanity as the ultimate predator. Many if not most of us, particularly in the United States, are quite comfortable with the harvesting of organisms like tuna, deer, ducks, or rabbits. Other countries and cultures, however, value species that rarely, if ever, find their way to the North American dinner plate. What are your thoughts on the harvesting of organisms such as whales, dolphins, seals, etc.? Is hunting the only major issue that might threaten the existence of these organisms? Should we limit ourselves to eating only certain organisms? Why, or why not? In what ways are you selective about the foods you eat?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.
UNIT 3 QUIZ
Question 1
With __________, one species may negatively affect another, but will not be affected positively or negatively.
amensalism
commensalism
mutualism
parasitism
Question 2
Acorn barnacles attach to marine turtle shells where they live as adults, filter feeding plankton from the water as their host animal swims. There is no adverse effect on the turtle and the turtle gains no benefit from the barnacle. This is an example of:
commensalism.
parasitism.
amensalism.
mutualism.
Question 3
Vultures feed largely on carrion (dead animals). Their role in the ecosystem is largely as that of a ___________.
predator
true predator
scavenger
parasite
Question 4
Penicillium (the source of the antibiotic penicillin) is a mold that secretes a toxin that kills bacteria and other organisms. Penicillium, however, is not harmed by this toxin. This is an example of:
predator-prey.
commensalism.
mutualism.
amensalism
Question 5
Atlantic cod populations began their steep decline in the:
1950s.
1960s.
1970s.
1980s.
Question 6
Match the organisms to the relationship.
orchid / tree
coyote / rabbit
yucca moth / soapweed yucca
cowbird / warbler
tapeworm / human
A.
brood parasitism
B.
amensalism
C.
parasite
D.
mutualism
E.
commensalism
F.
predator-prey
Question 7
Pick the phrase that best matches each term
Heterotrophic
Autotrophic
Producers
Primary consumers
Secondary consumers
A.
organisms that feed on other organisms
B.
organisms that eat plants (herbivores)
C.
organisms at the base of the food web, autotrophs
D.
two species that feed on the same prey organism
E.
organisms that feed on herbivores (carnivores)
F.
self-feeding organisms, photosynthetic
UNIT 3 HOMEWORK
Introduction
In the Unit III Lesson, you learned about the overfishing and decline of the Atlantic Cod off the coast of Nova Scotia. Other populations of fish around the world have been affected in much the same way. This activity will help you explore which species are imperiled by current fishing practices and which are, for now, a relatively sustainable choice for the table.
Materials
For this assignment, you will need a computer with Internet access.
Watch the videos and/or read the captions to learn about the different ways in which seafood is harvested. For some methods, there will be a video; for others, there will just be an image and a caption.
Answer the questions in Blackboard using your own words and in complete sentences.
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