ANALYZE THE IMPACT OF CONTAMINANTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT TO HUMAN HEALTH.

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Write a 3–4-page report in which you examine ways to reduce your environmental impact.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

For this assessment, examine in a 3–4-page report the impact of your choices on the environment and consider positive changes you could implement.

Begin your report by explaining areas of your life in which your choices impact the environment. This list could be endless; choose to focus on 10 areas of impact. Then, choose five changes related to the areas you listed that you could implement in your life.

Include at least one change relevant to each of the three main natural resources—air, water, and land (soil). For each of your five changes you have chosen to examine, address the following: What is the financial cost/benefit of the change? What health benefits are associated with the change? What are the environmental benefits of this change? How does this change promote conservation of air, water, or land? What is the impact on your lifestyle if you make the change? Finally, address the following in regard to your chosen changes overall:

What message are you trying to convey? Highlight the main points you want to present. How do your personal choices affect environmental health? Include a reference to the information from at least two reputable sources that support your choices. What do other sources of information say about these concepts? Finally, explain how you could convince your friends and family that these changes are important. Additional Requirements Use the APA Paper Template (linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading) to format your report.

Written Communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message. Length: This report should be 3–4 pages in content length. Include a separate title page and a separate references page.

Analyze the impact of contaminants in the environment to human health. Examine the impacts of personal choice on environmental health. Apply personal and professional decisions based upon an understanding of environmental risks. Illustrate ways to reduce personal impact on the environment. Demonstrate how to encourage others to make a change in the ways they impact the environment. Communicate effectively in a variety of formats. Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.

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 do you see as the biggest pros and cons of the new plastic (PLA) technology? What alternatives do you see for reducing plastic consumption? Do you think bisphenol A (BPA) should be banned in baby bottles, formula cans, and infant and toddler toys? How do you feel about the issue of BPA being used in the production of certain plastics? What should individuals do to reduce air pollution? What is the responsibility of industry and government, with respect to air pollution? What is the quality of air in your area? What are the automobile emissions laws in your state? What are the causes and effects of asthma? Define what is meant by greenhouse gases and describe how they contribute to the greenhouse effect and climate change. What specific examples illustrate the global nature of water pollution? Which areas of the world have adequate supplies, and which are facing a chronic shortage? How is the majority of water used in the average U.S. household? What are some ways in which households might conserve water and prevent waste of water?

ANALYZE THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS.

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Imagine that you have applied for the position of Manager of Human Resources at an acute care hospital in your community. The hospital is planning to expand its services to meet the needs of a growing community. As part of the application screening process, you have been asked to write a document that outlines the steps you would take, as the manager of HR, to improve the effectiveness of HRM in this organization.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1.Analyze two (2) current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact your hiring decision as HR manager. Provide support for your analysis. 2.Suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization. Justify your response. 3.Recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question. Provide support for your recommendation. 4.Recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal. 5.Determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community. Provide support for your rationale. 6.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. •Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

•Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources (HR) in health care organizations. •Evaluate the effects of major employment laws on HR functions in health care organizations. •Evaluate the competencies necessary for effective health care human resources management. •Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management. •Write clearly and concisely

EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL ETHICS ON DECISION MAKING WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY.

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Complete the Ethical Self-Assessment located at http://www.ache.org/newclub/career/ethself.cfm.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the influence of individual ethics on decision making within the health care industry.

Include the following in your paper:

Identify the four major ethical principles.Discuss what you learned about your own ethical decision- making process from the self-assessments.Examine the effect of professional ACHE standards on your ethical decision- making process.Explain how your individual ethics influence your decision- making process.Examine the influence of individual ethics on professional decisions.Analyze the relationship of these principles to current health care issues.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Q2

After a disaster event, the local public health community is impacted with an increased burden of diseases. Develop a public health preparedness response to address the scarcity of resources available during an emergency disaster.

THE ROLE OF THE INTAKE COUNSELOR AT A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY.

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Cohen, et al. (2013) and Wu, et al. (2007) articles and review the Evaluating Mental Health Patients and HumanMetrics Jung Typology Test websites.

For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the intake counselor at a mental health facility. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a client based on clinical personality assessments, mental status exam, and observations of the client to make recommendations to the treatment team consisting of the clinical psychologist, counselors, and case manager for the client. Carefully review Week Two Counseling-Based Personality Assessment Scenario .

In your initial post, examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Ashford University Library on this personality assessment. Using the required articles and websites as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment. Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario. Analyze and describe some of the potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario. Provide information from your research regarding the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the client in the scenario.

EVALUATE THE CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF ADDRESSING AND TREATING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN STANDARDIZED SCHOOL SETTINGS.

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the webpage for the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB), the Harvey, Luiselli, & Wong, (2009) article, and review the APA’s Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct required for this week.

In your initial post:

Applied behavior analysis is a rapidly growing area of learning psychology. Based on the information in the required web page and article, describe what you think it would be like to be an applied behavior analyst is a school setting. Analyze and describe how the APA’s Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct might affect the implementation of behavior modification principles. Examine the behavioral analysis approach to personality psychology and discuss whether personality shapes behavior or behavior shapes personality. Use evidence from the resources to support your statements. Evaluate the cultural implications of addressing and treating mental health issues in standardized school settings. Describe the benefits this type of approach might have for students.

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Resources: Assignment Form, Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers (3rd ed.)

Complete the table by defining the five methods of computing book depreciation.

Write an explanation for why it is important for a health care facility or physician practice to pay attention to depreciation more than a computer software business.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

DESCRIBE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS BEING USED AT THE POINT OF CARE.

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Point of Care Documentation

After reading the required chapter on Electronic Health Records – An Overview, complete and submit the following in an APA formatted scholarly essay:

  • Begin your essay with an introduction explaining the purpose of the essay.
  • In no more than three paragraphs, describe three electronic health record devices used to document point of care.
  • Describe the advantages and disadvantages of electronic health records being used at the point of care.
  • In no more than two paragraphs provide a summary of a recent doctor’s visit where an electronic health record device was used at point of care for you or a family member.
  • Important reminder, do not forget to include a reference page, including all sources cited in your essay. The essay requires a minimum 500 word Response.

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s required reading and any additional resources.Format your Research Paper using APA style. Use your own words, and include citations and references as needed to avoid plagiarism. Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below

Reading : Chapter 2

Reference: Gartee, R. (2011). Electronic health records: Understanding and using computerized medical records (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Managed healthcare and multi cultural diversity

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ASSIGNMENT: “Managed healthcare and multi cultural diversity“

  1. Provide definitions for our team’s contemporary issues (Managed healthcare and multi-cultural diversity).
  • You are responsible for providing a minimum of  2 slides.
    • Each slide must include information, graphics, and slide notes which align with APA standards.
    • You are responsible for submitting your formatted references.
    • You must utilize at least one peer-reviewed publication.
  1. Provide information as to ONE potential challenge in treatment options, as they relate to Managed healthcare.
  • You are responsible for providing a minimum of 1 slide.
    • Each slide must include information, graphics, and slide notes which align with APA standards.
    • You are responsible for submitting your formatted references.

Attachments:

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e-Health” •Compare the key similarities and differences between the concepts of telemedicine, tele-care, and tele-health. Provide an example of how each method is affecting the quality of today’s health care services on a global scale. •Create an argument that e-Health has significant economic benefits to its users. Provide support for your argument.

“e-Health Trends and Challanges” •Suggest the stakeholder group that will benefit the most from e-Health. Provide support for your rationale. •From the e-Activity, determine a significant barrier to the advancement of e-Health models in the delivery of patient care. Suggest how this barrier can be minimized. Provide a rationale for your determination.

USING THE INTERNET OR STRAYER UNIVERSITY DATABASES, RESEARCH HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS / PROVIDERS THAT HAVE RECENTLY HAD A SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FAILURE AND DETERMINE THE KEY FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE FAILURE

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Information Governance

Using the Internet or Strayer University databases, research health care organizations / providers that have recently had a significant information technology failure, and complete this assignment.

Write a seven to eight (7-8) page paper in which you: 1.Determine the key factors contributing to the failure in question. Next, analyze how the failure impacted both the organization’s operations and patient information protection and privacy. 2.Analyze the leadership team’s reaction to the failure, and indicate whether the leadership took sufficient measures to deal with various stakeholder groups impacted by the failure. Provide support for the rationale. 3.Take a position on whether the health care provider that you identified should either develop a custom application or select a proprietary system. Provide support for the rationale. 4.Recommend at least three (3) best practices that any organization could adopt in order to avoid such a failure in the future. Provide support for the recommendation. 5.Suggest how health care leaders can use project metrics and portfolio management to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness. Provide specific examples to support the response. 6.Analyze a government intervention into health care businesses, meant to ensure that health care and patient information is secure and thus to minimize information breaches and technology failures. Argue for or against such intervention. Support the position. 7.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery.

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Discussion 1- Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery. Recommend a strategy improving the effectiveness of each method for delivering patient care. Determine a significant aspect of a complex health care system that represents barriers to a more rapid diffusion of HIT. Next, suggest how these barriers can be removed or minimized. Support your rationale.

Discussion 2- Determine a key process in the delivery of health care services that would be more efficient and effective through the application of a specific model of HIT. Support your response. Analyze the barriers to the implementation of HIMS in a complex adaptive system (CAS). Propose a strategy to help reduce the level of resistance from the clinical staff during a transition from CAS to HIMS innovations. Provide a rationale to support your response.

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Globalization and Its Effects on Health

From the case study answer the following questions:

  • Describe the positive and negative impacts of globalization in the health problem of your selected article or case study.
  • How was the problem addressed?
  • What are the successes and challenges related to the problem?
  • How could lessons learned from the problem be used to address the same health issue—or a similar health issue—in another location?

Select a health care organization (local or national, large or small, public or private) and perform a needs assessment/gap analysis. You may utilize your own organization if you are employed in a health care related company.

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Research Project

Select a health care organization (local or national, large or small, public or private) and perform a needs assessment/gap analysis. You may utilize your own organization if you are employed in a health care related company. You may approach the Research Project from a (1) Human Resources, (2) Operations, or (3) Facilities perspective. You may select an organization in your own community. 1.Human Resources: staffing, training, recruitment, retention, job function redesign, etc. 2.Operations: delivery of service/care, access, wait times, equipment usage, process improvements, resource optimization, regulatory compliance, etc. 3.Facilities: space planning, construction, redesign, relocation.

The components for the Research Project include the following: I.Title Page

II.Executive Summary (Needs Content Criteria)

III.Description of the organization (history, length in service/operation, how many beds? clients served? location; rural vs. urban, satellite locations, total number of staff, client usage information/demographics, etc.)

IV.Needs Assessment/Gap Analysis: What is not currently being offered? Room for improvements? Service delivery deficits? Personnel issues/shortages? Justify with supporting data and statistics.

V.Propose an intervention (service or facility) based on the needs/gap analysis.

VI.Justify your proposed intervention by providing an analysis from: A.Cultural B.Social C.Legal D.Economics E.Regulatory F.Reimbursement G.Managed care H.Health legislation I.Contracts perspectives

VII.Pick a minimum of three of the elements listed above depending on the organization selected and which apply to the specific organization/situation selected.

VIII.Create a plan to implement your intervention. Identify the stakeholders involved, and their role (s) in implementing the intervention. Include finance and staffing elements required to implement the intervention.

IX.Develop a marketing communication plan on how the stakeholders will be informed, kept up-to-date, etc. prior to the intervention, during the intervention, and post intervention.

X.Develop a plan for measurement effectiveness of the intervention. What indicators will determine if the intervention is successful?

XI.Reference page. Writing the Research Project

The Research Project: 1.Must be 10 to 12 double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 2.Must include a title page with the following: a.Title of paper b.Student’s name c.Course name and number d.Instructor’s name e.Date submitted

3.Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement. 4.Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. 5.Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis. 6.Must use at least ten scholarly and /or peer-reviewed sources, published within the last 5 years. 7.Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 8.Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.