PUBH610: Public Health- History & Principle of Health Science- Nursing Assignment Help

Task:

Priority setting exercise  (NB the reading and submission dropbox for AT2 are under Assessment 3 below)

Read the three papers on priority setting in different health care settings below:

Paper 1)     Viergever et al. A checklist for health research priority setting: nine common themes of good practice Health Research Policy and Systems 2010, 8:36 http://www.health- policy-systems.com/content/8/ 1/36

Paper 2)     Persad et al. Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions Lancet 2009; 373: 423–31

http://www.thelancet.com/journ als/lancet/article/PIIS0140- 6736(09)60137-9/fulltext

Paper 3)     MacDonald and Ollerenshaw Priority setting in primary health care: a framework for local catchments. Rural and Remote Health 2011 11: 1714. https://www.rrh.org.au/j ournal/article/1714

In assessment 1 for PUBH 610, you conducted a health inequality audit for an area of your choosing from the Social Health Atlas. In your audit you uncovered inequalities in several health indicators.

For assessment 2, refer to the three papers above to write a report on the factors that may influence priority setting for these health indicators in your area.  In your report address key features of priority setting including:

1)     Data comparison

2)     Addressing pre-existing / background / non-modifiable risk factors (such as social determinants of health)

3)     Identifying the scale of the problem

4)     Aligning the priority with governments’ priorities and targets

5)     Assessing the financial cost

6)     Potential to produce improvement

7)     Strength of evidence base

You may consider other features of priority setting as well.

Studying a Professional Organization

Tasks

Identify a professional organization and then complete the following tasks:

• Analyze and discuss the selected organization’s aim and activities.
• Explain how the organization meets, supports, or advocates the EBP standards and concepts of professional nursing.

In addition, explain the concepts of professional nursing—caring, communication, critical thinking, professionalism, and holism.

Use APA 6th Edition when formatting your assignment.

research the holistic model within the nursing profession.

Based on your research, complete the following tasks:

• Describe an experience in your clinical practice in which you used nursing clinical judgment based on the holistic model. How did you use the nursing process in that example?

Question 2

choose two cultures other than your own. Research how illness is viewed in those cultures. Based on your research, respond to the following:

• How would you go about providing care to patients of these cultures? Make a checklist of points to be kept in mind when caring for patients from these cultures.

Hospital CEO

For this activity, you must do independent research to determine three (3) key issues that will affect hospitals in your state’s next legislative session. Your state hospital association should have written materials concerning this matter. Also, your local papers, especially those in your state capital, have undoubtedly covered this subject thoroughly. If you are already familiar with a local hospital administrator (CEO, COO, CFO, DON, or similar party) who is active in the State Hospital Association, you may also wish to contact him/her.

Describe the three (3) issues and then for each of the issues, discuss the following.

1. What position does the Association take on each statewide issue?
2. What strategies does the Association have to achieve its objectives?
3. What coalitions will be formed?

Examples of issues might include funding for indigent care, Medicaid reimbursement, rural health, mental health coverage, and nursing and tech training and shortages. Your Activity responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct and formatted in the same fashion as the Activity itself. If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc.

Q2

Overview
The purpose of this homework is to introduce you to APA style, as you will be required to use this format for all of your papers in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Please be sure to complete all of the steps as outlined below in order to receive full credit.

Rubric
Make sure to use the assignment rubric to guide your work.

Instructions
1. Locate the name of a recent (
2. Find one scholarly article related to your topic and read it.
3. Type a one page (double spaced) summary of the article you read. In your summary, make sure and use in-text citations, including page numbers if you use a direct quote. Remember, even information that is summarized must be cited to avoid plagiarism.
4. At the end of the summary, type the reference to your article in correct APA style.
5. Please include a copy of your article with your assignment submission; this can be a .pdf file. Simply attach both this template (in Word format) and the article to Blackboard when you submit.

NRSG370: Nursing Problem Or Issue That Relates To The Specialty Area Of Practice – Nursing Assignment

You will be required to identify a nursing problem or issue that relates to the specialty area of practice in which you are completing your clinical placement for this unit. Once you have identified a nursing problem/issue you will need to develop this into a question for exploration which is subject to approval by your LIC/Tutor. This question needs to be realistic in the context of your speciality clinical placement in relation to nursing practice. This question will lead you to contemporary literature. From your reading of this literature, you will discover what is known or not known about your question. The information that you have gained from your reading and your observation of practice should then enable you to draw conclusions concerning your nursing question. You will then write a report summarising your finding.

Question:

• Describe why this problem/issue is of interest to you and how it came to your attention (this information will be included in your project report);

• You will then need to formulate at least one question from the problem/issue that you would like to explore in more detail;

• Your question should clearly articulate your specialty area, the problem you wish to investigate and compare an observed practice/problem with evidence that underpins best practice;

Choose two long-term care facilities—one from nursing facilities, assisted living, or subacute care and another from adult day care, home health care, or hospice care, prepare a 8 page report in a Microsoft Word document including the following:

• Describe the roles and responsibilities of the administration in each department of your chosen facilities.
• Identify and list the sources of financing available to consumers for the various programs provided by your chosen facilities. Identify the key public and private sources of reimbursement available. Also discuss the role played by managed care and its impact on long-term care reimbursement.
• Describe the various government and private resources available that assist in developing and maintaining quality improvement programs in your chosen facilities. Describe the ways in which quality and cost are controlled in your chosen facilities. Also discuss the ethical aspect of access to care in the facilities, including rationing.

Based on your observations and learning from the two facilities, discuss the changes brought in the long-term care system to make it reach full status as a competition-driven system. You may include the following points in your discussion:

• Discuss the changes made in the control mechanisms (external and internal) in order to control the management, financing, and quality in the long-term care systems.
• Discuss the changes taking place in long-term care reimbursement system in order to provide better reimbursement options both to consumers and providers.
• Discuss the changes made in the efforts of providers to accommodate changing magnitude of the day-to-day needs of long-term care consumers.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.