Category: Healthcare

PRELICENSURE NURSING APPLICATION ESSAY
The purpose of the application essay is to demonstrate to the Prelicensure Admissions Committee your understanding of the Registered Nurse role, and how the WGU B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program might prepare you to meet the healthcare needs of your local community or population of interest. This is an opportunity for you to communicate directly with the admissions committee, highlighting how your life, professional experiences, along with your attributes have prepared you for the transition in your current role to that of a Registered Nurse. 
Instructions
Use the information from your own personal and professional preparation to answer the following questions in your application essay for the B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program:   
How have your life and professional experiences prepared you for the WGU B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program? 
Previous experience 
Educational background 
Community involvement 
How can the WGU nursing program prepare you to deliver and/or support healthcare to the community in which you live? 
Tell us about the characteristics, abilities, and skills you would bring to the nursing profession. 
Reflect on your decision to become a nurse and tell us about any concerns that surfaced and how you overcame those concerns.     
The B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program is writing intensive, and this essay will give you the opportunity to represent your writing skills to the Nursing Admissions Committee.  As you answer the questions above, we will examine your application essay to ensure your writing meets the following criteria: 
The Essay you submit should be 2-3 pages in length
Plagiarism will result in an automatic decline during the competitive selection process.  
Originality and uniqueness are expected. Writing is self-reflective, creative, innovative, and diverse. 
Writing directly addresses all four application essay questions. 
Writing is clear and appropriate for the purpose of the assignment.  
All evidence and examples are used effectively and are specific and relevant.  
Ideas are coherently and logically organized with well‐developed paragraphs and effective transitions.  
All sentences are well written with varied sentence structure and are free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.  
Maintains appropriate tone, diction, and vocabulary for various modes of writing.  
Work demonstrates clear understanding of the target audience.   
PLEASE NOTE: 
Please compose your essay in a document, such as Microsoft Word and save your progress.  Once completed, we recommend saving the document to a PDF format if possible. After proofreading your essay, please upload it below. 

Case Study Paper Assignment: For this assignment, you will compose a short case-study analysis of the presented case. This case looks at dynamics of managing different individuals and programs in an organization.
CASE DESCRIPTION: “When Lunch is More Than a Meal” (see reference note at the end of the description.)
You are the new Practice Manager of a busy internal medicine practice. There are five physicians in this practice. They see patients four days a week using a myriad of exam rooms, plus each physician has his/her own consultation room. On most days, three of the physicians are seeing patients in the office while the other two are doing hospital work and minor procedures. You have noticed that every Tuesday and Thursday various pharmaceutical representative provide lunch for free to the office. The lunches are sometimes quite elaborate, with filet mignon and crab cakes, and at other times more mundane, with cold cuts or pizza. These lunches are quite regular, and there is always enough food to feed not only physicians, but also the entire staff. Recently two of the representatives have come to you complaining that even though they provide a substantial lunch a couple times a month, the use of their products has decreased by the doctors in the practice. The representatives inform you if this continues, they may not be able to continue the practice of providing lunch. When your support staff members hear of this, they become somewhat concerned because they enjoy the fact that they are getting a free lunch several times a week. On the other hand, the physicians rarely participate in lunch, do not know when and who is providing the lunch, and often they are too busy to participate in lunch.
You set up a meeting with the physicians to discuss the problem. In the meeting you tell the physicians that the staff looks forward to the free lunches. They feel it is a benefit with the job and would like the lunches to continue. Three of the physicians are unsympathetic to this problem and state that they believe the lunches are probably a conflict of interest. These physicians point out the lunches are not tied to any educational endeavor and recommend stopping the lunches, effective immediately. The other two physicians are not as adamant but state these lunches are not important to them. Bottom line, you are given a clear message by the physicians that this practice is to stop.
You know the pharmaceutical representatives usually contact the staff members, not you, to set up these lunches. Right after the meeting with the physicians, you inform everyone on your staff verbally and in writing that these luncheons are not to be scheduled in the office anymore. You take great care to explain this practice in inherently a conflict of interest, charged with legal and ethical issues that could jeopardize the integrity of the practice. Thus, there can be no more free lunches. The entire staff is in an uproar, disgruntled and unhappy about this decision. Case Study Reference: Buchbinder, S.B., Shanks, N.H., & Buchbinder, D. (2014). Cases in health care management. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Instructions:
Using the supplemental readings, outside sources and/or the text, address the following questions in your paper: What are the facts of this case?
What are at least three factors contributing to this dilemma?
What should the practice do, if anything, to appease the staff members, but also address any concerns raised in this situation?
NOTE: Stepping into a manager role in health care requires making decisions less on personal emotion and more focus on what will strengthen your team to provide quality patient care. Your discussion of Question #3 needs to include reasons for the decision being presented. Remember, case studies reflect real, complex situations that are not easily answered. Your answers should reflect a reasoned, rational approach to the problem that explains how the solutions were developed.
Your paper should be composed following these criteria:
You need to use information from the text and/or information from the supplemental readings in your analysis of the case. Your paper should be 2-4 pages in length.
Your paper should be presented with all APA formatting components and requirements. Please see APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition)for APA paper formatting guidelines.
And, your paper should also be a formal paper, and should not be presented in first-person language. While you are considering the case from a Practice Manager’s position, your paper should present your reflection in a formal academic paper (i.e. you should avoid using first-person terms like “I” or “My” in your paper).
Originality Review: It is expected that all work submitted for this course is original to the student author, and has not be submitted previously to another course, or to another section of this course. Each student submission will be submitted to the MSU Originality Checker “Unicheck” and a report will be provided to the student and instructor based on the originality of the work being presented. Submissions that receive a high non-originality percentage (i.e. material that is indicated as not original to the paper) will be reviewed by the instructor and discussed with the student. Situations of suspected plagiarism may be reported to the MSU Academic Misconduct committee, as described in course expectations and institutional policies (please refer to the Course Information Module for more description.)

It requires you interviewing at least 5 participants (on the assessment tool referred to as a “patient”).  You can interview your family or friends.
First, because this assignment requires knowledge of certain vocabulary, we encourage you to use the following link to practice and familiarize yourself with the words in this assessment (you can learn definitions/associations and pronunciation here) :  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dictionary 
Additionally, you do not need to complete question #12 and #13, although if that information is available to you, even if by mere observation, it might enhance content of your discussion board posts.
write a report on the results of your assessment and your overall experience, challenges, and observations.500 words

The Human Capital Appraisal Approach
Focus your discussion on the following:
Compose a brief overview of human system dynamics, commonly known as human capital appraisal.
Propose a logical method for appraising human capital through the lens of organizational development for a high return on investment (ROI).
How might human resources work within the organizational system to create intentional change?
Include a minimum of 3 citations from the readings or CTU Library; citations may be from same source. Use APA formatting.
Responses to Other Students:

For
this assessment:
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Create a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes in response to       the content defined in the scenario.
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Create an audio
recording (5–7 minutes) of the PowerPoint presentation.                                  Please see all attached. 

a. Draw an AOA network diagram representing the project. Put the node numbers in circles and draw arrows from node to node, labeling each arrow with the activity letter and estimated time.
b. Identify all of the paths on the network diagram and note how long they are, using Figure 6-8 as a guide for how to represent each path.
c. What is the critical path for this project and how long is it?
d. What is the shortest possible time needed to complete this project?

Please find attached files of instructions about areas that need additional details and the copy of assignment 

Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course:
Explain the importance of public health programs and apply evidence-based evaluation frameworks.
Task:
Students are required to identify a public health center program and or healthcare facility program where health promotion activities are occurring in the state of New Jersey. Using a framework to evaluate the facility, students are to share their observations and findings of the facility. Submit  a 4-page paper (not counting cover page and reference pages), double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and 12-point standard academic font that answers/includes the following:
Examples of health-promoting programs:
NC Asbestos and Lead-Based Paint Reimbursement Program (ARPA)
YMCA- Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program
Virtual Health Program by the Cleveland Clinic
Mayo Clinic Science-based Weight Loss Program
What is the goal of the health promotion field of study?
Identify a public health center program and or healthcare facility program where health promotion activities are occurring in your state and share the name and their mission.
Name one evaluation framework and describe the core components of the framework.
Examples are:
CDC Program Evaluation Framework
Rural Health Information Hub
Use the framework to evaluate the public health center program and or healthcare facility program where health promotion activities are occurring in the state. Be sure to evaluate health promotion interventions.
Share your evaluation/findings using the framework.
Must include at least two citations using APA format (no more than one from required textbook)
Reference page listing all citations using APA format.
*A SPECIAL NOTE: YOU MAY NEED TO “GET CREATIVE” TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE EVALUATION AREAS. FOR EXAMPLE: IF THE EVALUATION FRAMEWORK WANTS YOU TO IDENTIFY STAKEHOLDERS, YOU MAY NOT FIND THAT ON THE WEBSITE. WRITE AN EDUCATED GUESS AS TO WHO YOU THINK THE STAKEHOLDERS MIGHT BE.

You must choose one disease from the list, your slides must include everything in thr instructions, minimum 7 slides  pluse bibliography, and cite every images and info.!!
add the speech draft to the speaker section of each slide.

Hispanic: Health Challenges in Cultural Communities
Description and analysis of a health issues or healthcare challenges that significantly affects a cultural group or community in the US, focusing on identifying a health disparit. Remember that this submission marks the first step of three toward your final paper, and each subsequent submission will build upon this foundation. Maintaining consistency and connection between your submissions is crucial to thoroughly develop a comprehension final paper addressing the chosen health issue.
When describing the problem, ensure to:
Provide a detailed overview of the health issue and its consequences, emphasizing its importance within the affected community.
Incorporate data that illustrates the impact of the problem, including incidence and prevalence statistics specific to the cultural group. Compare this data with a reference group less affected by the issue, demonstrating your ability to apply statistical information to bolster your analysis.
Examine various factors contributing to the problem, such as behavioral, genetic, and environmental influences. Analyze how these factors interact and worsen the health issue within cultural group, showcasing critical thinking skills in evaluating the complex nature of the problem.
Hispanic: Cultural Influences
Delve into the influence of cultural elements such as social structures, norms, and healthcare biases on the issue outlined in the initial section of your paper. Assess how these factors, including family values, religious beliefs, and gender roles, act as strengths or barriers in addressing healthacre challenges. 
When addressing strengths and barriers: Hispanic Culture, Customs, and Beliefs 
Explore cultural aspects such as systems, prevailing norms, and healthcare biases that impact the discussed health issue 
Consider factors like family and societal values, religious beliefs, and gender roles in your analysis
Evaluate how the cultural norms and beliefs of the selected group can be leveraged to address and improve the identified health issues or care problem
Hispanic: Culturally Sensitive to Overcome the Health or Health Care Problem
Identify and illustrate how researchers, healthcare practitioners, or public health experts can devise culturally sensitive programs or interventions to address the health or healthcare problem elucidated in the intial section of your paper. Conduct a through analysis of how the cultural attributes of the group, explored in the second section, should inform the development of these solutions to bridge the gap in health disparities. When relevant, incorporate discussions of past initiatives tailored to this group’s unique cultural characteristics. 
Outlining strategies to tackle the health issue:
Ensure that your proposed solution logically connects to the insights gleaned first two sections of your paper. Envision it as a narrowing progression, originated from the identified problem within the cultural group and culminating in the formulation of a solution. This process should consider the strengths and barriers highlighted in the second session.
Consider the effectiveness of previous strategies implemented. Assess successful and unsuccessful methods, and deliberate on how unsuccessful approaches can be improved in your new strategy.