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The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was implemented to allow patients to state “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNS), or to assign a surrogate decision maker in the event that the individual is unable to make the decision. What relationship does an ethics committee have in enforcing the advance directives of the patients in their care? Support your analysis minimum of one peer-reviewed article.
Search the latest issues of a policy studies journal in the discipline (e.g. Policy Studies Journal, Poverty and Public Policy, Critical Policy Studies, Policy Studies) and find an article on the topic of education policy. ÿCritically analyze the article by (a) identifying the public problem the article attempts to address, (b) summarizing the article?s main policy proposal(s) as solutions to that problem, and (c) evaluating how a Christian could prudentially contribute to the debate in the article from a biblical worldview.
Remember to support your answers t least 2 referencesÿ
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Similarities and Differences in Architecture
Use the template provided to prepare aÿreport that details similarities and differences between religious buildings: A Greek temple, a Roman temple, an Early Christian church, and a Byzantine church. Follow these instructions to complete the assignment:
Download the Word document worksheet for completing this assignment here.
Complete Part 1, Comparison Chart:
From the list of examples provided in the worksheet, choose one example from each: A Greek temple, a Roman temple, an Early Christian church, and a Byzantine church.
Carefully examine each building and read about it in your textbook, course lectures, and through reliable internet resources.
Then, note in the chart the visual characteristics for each type of religious building that are similar and different.
Complete Part 2, Historical and Social Context: In a paragraph of at least 8-10 sentences, highlight key similarities and differences between the four structures, and any social, historical, religious, and/or political factors that may have contributed to these similarities and differences. Explain the use and function of each structure, and provide any additional details that help us understand its full meaning.
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Case Analysis: Case Studies: Lehman Brothers, British Petroleum, Monsanto, Merck, Goodyear, Perdue Farms
In the Week Three Discussion, you selected a current business problem from the following case categories:
ú Banking
ú Fuel and the Environment
ú GMOs
ú Factory Farming
ú Pharmaceuticals
ú Gender Discrimination
In this written assignment, you will present your work on the case analysis using selected components of an argumentative essay as described in Sections 9.1 and 9.2 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Hardy, Foster, & Z£¤iga y Postigo, 2015). This written assignment will include a revised and polished version of your discussion work, the presentation and support of two premises, and an analysis of how your chosen ethical theory offers the best moral solution to the business problem in your case analysis.
Using the components of the argumentative essay located in Sections 9.1 and 9.2 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Hardy, Foster, & Z£¤iga y Postigo (2015), your assignment should include the following:
An introduction. This is the ?Problem? portion of the essay that is covered in Section 9.1: The Argumentative Essay (Hardy, Foster, & Z£¤iga y Postigo, 2015). This should be an improved version of the introduction in your initial post, revised on the basis of your professor?s feedback and additional research. In this introduction you will need to (a) identify the specific issue or problem that you want to address and give an impartial presentation of the controversy, (b) articulate briefly the characteristics of the economic system that serves as the setting for the business, and (c) examine the laws that affect the operations of the business. The introduction should be one paragraph of around 200 words in length.
A thesis. Start a new paragraph precise and clear sentence in which you state your moral position with regard to the case that you presented in your first paragraph. This is known as stating your thesis. (See the ?Thesis? passage in ?The Argumentative Essay? in Hardy, Foster, & Z£¤iga y Postigo, 2015). The thesis you state here should be an improved version of the thesis in your initial post in the discussion, revised on the basis of your professor?s feedback and your reading of ?The Argumentative Essay? indicated above.
A thesis is only one sentence, so do not write a series of sentences, or a complex sentence with explanatory clauses (e.g., ?because?? or ?since?? or ?according to Dr. Mary Expert, an economist with the Bureau of Labor statistics??, or ?a law that was ratified with 80% votes in favor??). An example of a precise and clear thesis is this: ?Factory farms are not morally justifiable? or, of course, the opposite point of view: ?Factory farms are morally justifiable.? Keep in mind that your thesis in this assignment will be the basis for the argumentative essay of the Week Five written assignment, so take your time when formulating this thesis.
Ethical theory. In the same second paragraph as the thesis statement, identify the ethical theory that supports your moral position. You may choose from utilitarianism, duty ethics, or virtue ethics. Present the characteristics of the ethical theory in a broad sketch, and include citations and references in APA form. Then, apply your chosen ethical theory by explaining how it lends itself to the moral position that you are defending.
Two premises. Present at least two reasons in support of your thesis and these should be presented in the form of a claim. These are called premises. Articulate each premise in one clear and grammatically correct sentence. Review Section 9.1 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Foster, Hardy, and Z£¤iga y Postigo, 2015). Start a new paragraph for each.
In the rest of the paragraph, support your premise by presenting an analysis of how the ethical theory lends itself to the best solution. This analysis includes articulating the characteristics(s) of the economic system at work that support the claims in your premises. It also includes examining the effects of the law(s) at work that also support the claims in your premises.
Comparative analysis. In the final paragraph, analyze how this application lends itself to a solution that is superior to that offered by one of the ethical theories that you did not select. To do this, provide a clear statement describing the moral solution offered by this other theory. For example, if you chose utilitarianism to apply to your case, then you can choose from either virtue ethics or deontology for your comparative analysis. Explain in no more than three sentences what moral solution would result from the application of this other ethical theory. See the ?Sample Case Analysis? for an illustration of how this would look like. Finally, analyze the strengths of the moral solution presented by your chosen ethical theory in ways that demonstrate how it is superior to the moral solution offered by the other ethical theory.
Once you receive your assignment back from your professor, start working on revisions based on your professor?s feedback. This is the first step in preparing your Final Project and the details are presented on the Final Project?s prompt. You will benefit from starting your Final Project as soon as you receive your assignment back from your professor.
Requirements for Your Assignment:
ú Your assignment should be 1000 words in length, excluding the title page and reference page(s).
ú Your examination should be both thorough and succinct. This is a combination that demands time and thought, so give yourself sufficient time to draft and revise.
ú Your assignment should include citations, as well as a list of references. Both must be in APA form.
ú You should draw from the sources provided in your chosen case category in the discussion this week.
ú Also refer to Section 9.1: The Argumentative Essay and the introduction to Section 9.2: Strengthening the Argumentative Essay (intro only for the latter) from Hardy, J., Foster, C., & Z£¤iga y Postigo, G. (2015).
ú Your references should include at least two scholarly sources from your own research in the Ashford University Library, Google Scholar (this is not the same as Google), or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. No Wikipedia articles and the like should be included in the references, nor employed to inform your paper. Also keep in mind that dictionary definitions are not references in the academic sense.Your assignment should be submitted no later than the end of Monday (11:59 pm, U.S. Mountain time).
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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NPSP shows the spectrum of normalcy for the 14 personality traits identified within that book. The traits: Leisurely, Self Sacrificing, Aggressive, Serious correspond with which PDs (on that page)?ÿ
These PDs are no longer recognized by the DSM. Do some digging. See if you can find any information on them on the internet (cite your source), the older version of the DSMs had a few of these listed in the index so maybe try there. When you find that information use it the same way you did in the previous discussions to compare the personality traits to the actual disorders. Discuss where normalcy stops and pathologies begin. Do any of these PDs sound similar to the ones we are studying? Also do you think these PDs should be resurrected, why or why not?
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Develop a 9- to 10-slide PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the following:
Describe the differences between a board of nursing and a professional nurse association.
Describe the geographic distribution, academic credentials, practice positions, and licensure status of members of the board for your specific region/area.
Who is on the board?
How does one become a member of the board?
Describe at least one federal regulation for healthcare.
How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare (e.g., CMS, OSHA, and EPA)?
Has there been any change to the regulation within the past 5 years? Explain.
Describe at least one state regulation related to general nurse scope of practice.
How does this regulation influence the nurse?s role?
How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?
Describe at least one state regulation related to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs).
How does this regulation influence the nurse?s role?
How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?
Week 1 Project
Over the next four weeks, you will review and analyze a pre-intervention elementary school asthma database from a community that has four elementary schools. Each week, you will write a short paper describing the role of an informatician in regard to data capture and use within the Public Health Information Management Systems (PHIS) and Public Health Information Network (PHIN). You will explore the data elements, database technologies, analytics, and processes used by an informatician including data capture, scrubbing, coding, warehousing, managing, and reporting of public health information.
In Week 5, you will complete a comprehensive term paper and PowerPoint presentation that demonstrates a public health needs assessment using your primary asthma source data. Your paper and presentation should show why an asthma prevention intervention program is needed in the selected community and summarize how you came to your conclusions. The objective of this five-week project is for you to demonstrate the processes used in public health informatics through its application.
You will begin your course project by explaining how data is collected, scrubbed, coded, and stored within the PHIS. You will then explain how data is organized in databases, using the asthma data provided below. You will describe the data elements in the spreadsheet and the processes of an informatician by answering the questions below.
Click here to download the asthma data for 2013.
Note: Use this Excel spreadsheet throughout the course to complete your weekly data analyses and prepare your written assignments as they relate to public health informatics. Your weekly assignments will provide data to support your final term paper to be submitted in Week 5.
Based on the data in the spreadsheet, prepare a 3?4-page paper addressing the following questions:
Introduction: How is information collected, organized, scrubbed, coded, and entered into the PHIS?
Asthma Database Analyses:
Describe the structural organization of your database.
What is the survey population description?
Define pre-intervention
Define a database record. How many records are in your database?
Define a database field. How many fields are in your database?
Define a database field data definition (DD). What is an example in this database of a DD?
Based on the data collected, what is the purpose and potential use of this asthma survey data?
Summary: From the perspective of an informatician, discuss the asthma database?s key structural components, its organization, and potential uses.
Submission Details:
Give reasons and examples in support of your responses. Cite all sources using APA format
Submit a 3?4-page paper in a Microsoft Word document to theÿSubmissions Areaÿbyÿthe due date assigned.
Name your document SU_PHE6203_W1_A3_LastName_FirstInitial.doc
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This discussion topic is regarding acid-base homeostasis and has two parts.ÿ
Part 1: The link below is for Oregon State University’s open source textbook for their Anatomy & Physiology course. Please read this section (26.4: Acid-Base Balance). This is a supplement to the discussions in Chapters 13 & 14.ÿ
The key here is that you have two systems now working together to address situations where acid/base homeostasis is disturbed.ÿÿ
https://open.oregonstate.education/aandp/chapter/26-4-acid-base-balance/#:~:text=Buffer%20Systems%20in%20the%20Body&text=The%20respiratory%20tract%20can%20adjust,days%20to%20have%20an%20effect.ÿ(Links to an external site.)
Part 2: Clinical Case Study – Diabetic ketoacidosisÿ
Read the case summary below and then answer the questions that follow.
Case: During your shift in the ER, a 21-year old noncompliant male history of type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus was found in a coma.
Labs revealed the following: his blood glucose was high, as well as his urine glucose, urine ketones, and serum ketones. His serum bicarbonate was <12 mEq/L. His respiration was exaggerated and his breath had an acetone odor. His blood pressure was 90/60 and his pulse weak and rapid (120).
Based on your understanding of both the respiratory and renal regulation of blood pH, answer the following:
1. Is this patient experiencing respiratory or metabolic acidosis? Why?
2. How does the following formula represent the respiratory & renal systems’ regulation of acid-base balance:
CO2ÿ+ H2O ↔ H2CO3ÿ↔ H+ÿ+ HCO3?
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Pesticide and Antibiotic Resistance
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Post by Day 4ÿa proposal (at least two paragraphs long) for a strategy to address the antibiotic or pesticide resistance you selected. Your proposal should include the following:
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A brief description of the resistance
A brief explanation of when and how the resistance occurred
A description of the impact of the resistance on human health
A strategy to address the impact of the resistance, including reasons why this strategy would be useful
References to at least two sources outside the Required Resources
All references cited in APA format
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MINI CASE: SCANDI HOME FURNISHINGS, INC.
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Kaj Rasmussen founded Scandi Home Furnishings as a corporation during mid-2002.ÿ Sales during the first full year (2003) of operation reached $1.3 million.ÿ Sales increased by 15 percent in 2004 and another 20 percent in 2005.ÿ However, profits after increasing in 2004 over 2003 fell sharply in 2005 causing Kaj to wonder what was happening to his ?pride and joy? business venture.ÿ After all, Kaj has continued to work as close as possible to a 24/7 pace beginning with the startup of Scandi and through the first three full years of operation.
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Scandi Home Furnishings, located in eastern North Carolina, designs, manufactures, and sells to home furnishings retailers Scandinavian-designed furniture and accessories.ÿ The modern Scandinavian design has a streamlined and uncluttered look.ÿ While this furniture style is primarily associated with Denmark, both Norway and Sweden designers have contributed to the allure of Scandinavian home furnishings.ÿ Some say that the inspiration for the Scandinavian design can be traced to the ?elegant curves? of art nouveau from which designers were able to produce aesthetically pleasing, structurally strong modern furniture.ÿ Danish, and the home furnishings produced by the other Scandinavian countries?Sweden, Norway, and Finland, are made using wood (primarily oak, maple, and ash), aluminum, steel, and high-grade plastics.
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Kaj grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark and received a college degree from a technical university in Sweden.ÿ As is typically in Europe, Kaj began his business career as an apprentice at a major home furnishings manufacturer in Copenhagen.ÿ After ?learning the trade,? he quickly moved into a management position in the firm.ÿÿ However, after a few years, Kaj realized that what he really wanted to do was to start and operate his own Scandinavian home furnishings business.ÿ At the same time, after traveling throughout the world including the U.S., he was sure that he wanted to be an entrepreneur in the United States.ÿ Thus, while it was hard to give up the Tivoli Gardens with its many entertainment and dining activities, as well as the other attractions in Copenhagen, Kaj moved to the U.S. in early 2002.ÿ With $140,000 of his personal assets, and $210,000 from venture investors, he began operations in mid-2002.ÿ Kaj, 40 percent ownership interest and industry-related management expertise, was allowed to operate the venture in a way that he thought was best for Scandi.ÿ Four years later, Kaj is sure he did the right thing.
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ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Following are the three years of income statements and balance sheets for the Scandi Home Furnishings Corporation.ÿ Kaj has felt that in order to maintain a competitive advantage that he would need to continue to expand sales.ÿ After first concentrating on selling Scandinavian home furnishings in the northeast in 2003 and 2004, he decided to enter the west coast market.ÿ An increase in expenses associated with identifying, contacting, and selling to home furnishings retailers in California, Oregon, and Washington.ÿ Kaj Rasmussen was hoping that you could help him better understand what has been happening to Scandi Home Furnishings both from operating and financial standpoints.