Structural Versus Strategic Family Therapies

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Structural Versus Strategic Family Therapies

Although structural therapy and strategic therapy are both used in family therapy, these therapeutic approaches have many differences in theory and application. As you assess families and develop treatment plans, you must consider these differences and their potential impact on clients. For this Assignment, as you compare structural and strategic family therapy, consider which therapeutic approach you might use with your own client families. Structural Versus Strategic Family Therapies

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Learning Objectives

Students will:
  • Compare structural family therapy to strategic family therapy
  • Create structural family maps
  • Justify recommendations for family therapy
To prepare:
  • Review this week’s Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide on structural and strategic family therapies.
  • Refer to TherapistAid (2020) in this week’s Learning Resources for guidance on creating a structural family map.

The Assignment

In a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:

  • Summarize the key points of both structural family therapy and strategic family therapy.
  • Compare structural family therapy to strategic family therapy, noting the strengths and weaknesses of each.
  • Provide an example of a family in your practicum using a structural family map. Note: Be sure to maintain HIPAA regulations.
  • Recommend a specific therapy for the family and justify your choice using the learning resources.

Structural Versus Strategic Family Therapies

Cystic Fibrosis

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Cystic Fibrosis

A mother brings her 6-month-old daughter to the HCP for an evaluation of possible colic. The mother says the baby has had many episodes of crying after eating and, despite having a good appetite, is not gaining weight. The mother says the baby’s belly “gets all swollen sometimes.” The mother says the baby tastes “salty” when she kisses it. Further work reveals a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. The mother relates that her 23-month-old son has had multiple episodes of “chest congestion” and was hospitalized once for pneumonia. The mother wants to know what cystic fibrosis is, and she also wants to know if she should have any more children. Cystic Fibrosis

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For this discussion, you examine a case study and explain the disease that is suggested. You examine the symptoms reported and explain the cells that are involved and the potential alterations and impacts.

Post an explanation of the disease highlighted in the scenario you were provided. Include the following in your explanation:

  • The role genetics plays in the disease.
  • Why the patient is presenting with the specific symptoms described.
  • The physiologic response to the stimulus presented in the scenario and why you think this response occurred.
  • The cells that are involved in this process.
  • How would another characteristic (e.g., gender, genetics) change your response?

Cystic Fibrosis

Introduction To Theory In Healthcare Informatics

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Introduction To Theory In Healthcare Informatics

Write an essay addressing each of the following points/ questions:. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each number item. There should be three sections, one for each item number below, as well as the introduction (the heading is the title of the essay) and conclusion paragraphs. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations using APA citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment. Introduction To Theory In Healthcare Informatics

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Write an essay addressing the following prompts:

  1. Electronic health records (EHRs) are easier to read than the paper charts of the past, but many complain that healthcare providers are focusing too much on the computer screen instead of the patient.
  • Is this due to a lack of skill or training, poor computer system design, or just the nature of computer charting?
  • Is patient care suffering from the implementation of EHRs?
  • Charting in an EHR consists of clicking boxes; do you feel this provides enough detail about the patient, condition, and events if there was a lawsuit?
  1. Hebda, Hunter, and Czar (2019) identify three types of data that are currently being tracked by organizations (p. 46).
  • Identify and explain another type of data, specific to your practice, that is being tracked by an organization.
  • Why do you feel this data is important to track?
  • Identify and discuss the organization that is tracking the data.
  • Are there any ethical concerns with an outside organization tracking this data? Explain and give examples.
  1. In this week’s discussion post, you identified and explained the topic selected for the project.
  • Provide a description of your selected topic based on input from the discussion forum. What is your project, why is it relevant to this class, and why is it important to you?
  • Identify an informatics/healthcare theory from pages 29–30 of the textbook that aligns with the project and explain why.

Assignment Expectations-

Length: 1500 words total for this assignment

Structure: Include a title page and a reference page in APA style. These do not count towards the minimum word amount for this assignment. All APA papers should include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use the appropriate APA-style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your claims.

Introduction To Theory In Healthcare Informatics

Module 09 Discussion – Pediatric Safety

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Module 09 Discussion: Pediatric Safety

Purpose of Assignment

This assignment will address the current issues in pediatric healthcare related to safety. Growth and development are important factor that should be considered along with safety in many areas of pediatric health alterations. Many times, the health alterations experienced by children can be prevented if safety education is provided.

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Competency

Prioritize nursing interventions when caring for pediatric clients with health disorders.

Instructions

This discussion will focus on the importance of teaching a chosen safety concern in the pediatric population. You will present your response in the discussion, addressing the following questions: (The discussion should be 300 words.).

Initial Post:

  1. Determine the age and developmental stage and how that impacts the child in relation to the safety concern.
  2. Describe why you believe the safety education you chose will benefit the pediatric population. Who do you believe is the target age range for this specific educational teaching?
  3. Describe at least three nursing diagnoses related to the incident you are teaching to prevent. Support your choices with rationales, citing 1-2 scholarly sources.

Module 09 Discussion: Pediatric Safety

Policy & Advocacy For Population Health

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Policy & Advocacy For Population Health

Program and policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs and policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve. Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives. Policy & Advocacy For Population Health

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Nurses can play a very important role in assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
  • Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation, or choose one of interest to you, and get approval to use it from your instructor.
  • Review the healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described. Policy & Advocacy For Population Health

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)

Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
  • How was the success of the program or policy measured?
  • How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
  • How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
  • At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
  • What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
  • What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
  • What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific and provide examples.
  • Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
  • Would you recommend implementing this program or policy at your place of work? Why or why not?
  • Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.

Policy & Advocacy For Population Health

Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

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Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

Competing needs arise within any organization as employees seek to meet their targets and leaders seek to meet company goals. As a leader, successful management of these goals requires establishing priorities and allocating resources accordingly.

Within a healthcare setting, the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients are often in conflict. Mandatory overtime, implementation of staffing ratios, use of unlicensed assisting personnel, and employer reductions of education benefits are examples of practices that might lead to conflicting needs in practice. Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

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Leaders can contribute to both the problem and the solution through policies, action, and inaction. In this assignment, you will further develop the white paper you began working on in Module 1 by addressing competing needs within your organization.

To Prepare:

  • Review the national healthcare issue/stressor you examined in your assignment for Module 1, and review the analysis of the healthcare issue/stressor you selected.
  • Identify and review two evidence-based scholarly resources that focus on proposed policies and practices to apply to your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your discussion post regarding competing needs.

The Assignment (4-5 pages):

Developing Organizational Policies and Practices

Add a section to the paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following:

  • Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Critique the policy for ethical considerations and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.
  • Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.

Developing Organizational Policies And Practices

Health Economics Assignment

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Health Economics Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to distinguish health economics from other forms of economic study.

Write a 500-750 word essay addressing the following criteria:

  1. Analyze the differences and similarities between health economics and other forms of economic study.

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  2. Choose a health care organization or entity (e.g., hospital, nonprofit medical clinic, physician office, pediatric specialty clinic, optometry office).
  3. Describe the following economic terms in the context of the selected organization or entity: scarcity, opportunity costs, marginal analysis, supply and demand, competition, efficiency, and market failure.

Use two or three peer-reviewed scholarly resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Health Economics Assignment

 

Lack Of Access To Healthcare

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Lack Of Access To Healthcare

Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations. Lack Of Access To Healthcare

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For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?

In this discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of policies to address that issue.

To Prepare:

  • Review the resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected for study in Module 1.
  • Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.

Post an explanation of how competing needs, such as the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients, may impact the development of policy. Then, describe any specific competing needs that may impact the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples.

Lack Of Access To Healthcare

Family Health Assessment

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Family Health Assessment

Understanding family structure and style is essential to patient and family care. Conducting a family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths as well as potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies for support and guidance.

This family health assessment is a two-part assignment. The information you gather in this initial assignment will be utilized for the second assignment in Topic 3. Family Health Assessment

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Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional health patterns for each of the following:

  1. Values/Health Perception
  2. Nutrition
  3. Sleep/Rest
  4. Elimination
  5. Activity/Exercise
  6. Cognitive
  7. Sensory-Perception
  8. Self-Perception
  9. Role Relationship
  10. Sexuality
  11. Coping

Select a family other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an interview. Utilize the interview questions complied with in your interview questionnaire to conduct a family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.

Upon completion of the interview, write a 750–1,000-word paper. Analyze your assessment findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix to your assignment.

Include the following in your paper:

  1. Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, such as race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
  2. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.
  3. Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health were identified.
  4. Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Family Health Assessment

 

Application Of Statistics In Health Care

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Application Of Statistics In Health Care

Statistical application and the interpretation of data are important in health care. Review the statistical concepts covered in this topic. In a 750-word paper, discuss the significance of statistical application in health care. Include the following:

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  1. Describe the application of statistics in health care. Specifically discuss its significance to quality, safety, health promotion, and leadership.
  2. Consider your organization or specialty area and how you utilize statistical knowledge. Discuss how you obtain statistical data, how statistical knowledge is used in day-to-day operations, and how you apply or use it in decision-making.

Three peer-reviewed, scholarly, or professional references are required.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Application Of Statistics In Health Care