Define and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care.

Prepare a 2-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
Introduction
As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) activity. The activity will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.
Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities. Examples include:
Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).
Provision of EHR incentive programs through Medicare and Medicaid.
Enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
Release of educational resources and tools to help providers and hospitals address privacy, security, and confidentiality risks in their practices.
Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care providers and patients.
At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy, security, and confidentiality best practices such as:
Keeping passwords secure.
Logging out of public computers.
Sharing patient information only with those directly providing care or who have been granted permission to receive this information.
Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.
Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care.
This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for the interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.
Preparation
To successfully prepare to complete this assessment, complete the following:
Review the infographics on protecting PHI provided in the resources for this assessment, or find other infographics to review. These infographics serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize evidence-based information.
Analyze these infographics and distill them into five or six principles of what makes them effective. As you design your interprofessional staff update, apply these principles. Note: In a staff update, you will not have all the images and graphics that an infographic might contain. Instead, focus your analysis on what makes the messaging effective.
Select from any of the following options, or a combination of options, the focus of your interprofessional staff update:
Social media best practices.
What not to do: social media.
Social media risks to patient information.
Steps to take if a breach occurs.
Conduct independent research on the topic you have selected in addition to reviewing the suggested resources for this assessment. This information will serve as the source(s) of the information contained in your interprofessional staff update. Consult the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help in identifying scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
Instructions
In this assessment, assume you are a nurse in an acute care, community, school, nursing home, or other health care setting. Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook. The post states, “I am so happy Jane is feeling better. She is just the best patient I’ve ever had, and I am excited that she is on the road to recovery.”
You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of your organization’s social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriate corrective action.
You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takes swift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.
Based on this incident’s severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:
Educate staff on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
Prevent confidentiality, security, and privacy breaches.
The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:
Social media best practices.
What not to do: Social media.
Social media risks to patient information.
Steps to take if a breach occurs.
You are asked to select one or more of the topics and create the content for a staff update containing a maximum of two content pages. This assessment is not a traditional essay. It is a staff educational update about PHI. Consider creating a flyer, pamphlet, or one PowerPoint slide (not an entire presentation). Remember it should not be more than two pages (excluding a title and a reference page).
The task force has asked team members assigned to the topics to include the following content in their updates in addition to content on their selected topics:
What is protected health information (PHI)?
Be sure to include essential HIPAA information.
What are privacy, security, and confidentiality?
Define and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care.
Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
What evidence relating to social media usage and PHI do interprofessional team members need to be aware of? For example:
How many nurses have been terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States?
What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team members who have violated social media policies?
What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriate social media use?
What evidence-based strategies have health care organizations employed to prevent or reduce confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches, particularly related to social media usage?
Notes
Your staff update is limited to two double-spaced content pages. Be selective about the content you choose to include in your update so you can meet the page length requirement. Include need-to-know information. Omit nice-to-know information.
Many times people do not read staff updates, do not read them carefully, or do not read them to the end. Ensure your staff update piques staff members’ interest, highlights key points, and is easy to read. Avoid overcrowding the update with too much content.
Also, supply a separate reference page that includes two or three peer-reviewed and one or two non-peer-reviewed resources (for a total of 3–5 resources) to support the staff update content.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Ensure the staff update is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
Submission length: Maximum of two double-spaced content pages.
Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point.
Citations and references: Provide a separate reference page that includes 2–3 current, peer-reviewed and 1–2 current, non-peer-reviewed in-text citations and references (total of 3–5 resources) that support the staff update’s content. Current means no older than 5 years.
APA format: Be sure your citations and references adhere to APA format. Consult the Evidence and APA page for an APA refresher.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
Describe the security, privacy, and confidentially laws related to protecting sensitive electronic health information that govern the interdisciplinary team.
Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.
Identify evidence-based approaches to mitigate risks to patients and health care staff related to sensitive electronic health information.
Develop a professional, effective staff update that educates interprofessional team members about protecting the security, privacy, and confidentiality of patient data, particularly as it pertains to social media usage.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Create a clear, concise, well-organized, and professional staff update that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?

Prepare an 8-10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.
Introduction
As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to complete the Conabedian Quality Assessment Framework activity. Quality health care delivery requires systematic action. Completion of this will help you succeed with the assessment as you consider how the triad of structure (such as the hospital, clinic, provider qualifications/organizational characteristics) and process (such as the delivery/coordination/education/protocols/practice style or standard of care) may be modified to achieve quality outcomes.
The American Nursing Association (ANA) established the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) in 1998 to track and report on quality indicators heavily influenced by nursing action.
NDNQI® was established as a standardized approach to evaluating nursing performance in relation to patient outcomes. It provides a database and quality measurement program to track clinical performance and to compare nursing quality measures against other hospital data at the national, regional, and state levels. Nursing-sensitive quality indicators help establish evidence-based practice guidelines in the inpatient and outpatient settings to enhance quality care outcomes and initiate quality improvement educational programs, outreach, and protocol development.
The quality indicators the NDNQI® monitors are organized into three categories: structure, process, and outcome. Theorist Avedis Donabedian first identified these categories. Donabedian’s theory of quality health care focused on the links between quality outcomes and the structures and processes of care (Grove et al., 2018).
Nurses must be knowledgeable about the indicators their workplaces monitor. Some nurses deliver direct patient care that leads to a monitored outcome. Other nurses may be involved in data collection and analysis. In addition, monitoring organizations, including managed care entities, exist to gather data from individual organizations to analyze overall industry quality. All of these roles are important to advance quality and safety outcomes.
The focus of Assessment 4 is on how informatics support monitoring of nursing-sensitive quality indicator data. You will develop an 8–10 minute audio (or video) training module to orient new nurses in a workplace to a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator critical to the organization. Your recording will address how data are collected and disseminated across the organization along with the nurses’ role in supporting accurate reporting and high quality results.
Reference
Grove, S. K., Gray, J. R., Jay, G. W., Jay, H. M., & Burns, N. (2018). Understanding nursing research: Building an evidence-based practice (7th ed.). Elsevier.
Preparation
This assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. To successfully prepare for your assessment, you will need to complete the following preparatory activities:
Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose from the following list:
Staffing measures.
Nursing hours per patient day.
RN education/certification.
Skill mix.
Nurse turnover.
Nursing care hours in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
Skill mix in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
Quality measures.
Patient falls.
Patient falls with injury.
Pressure ulcer prevalence.
Health care-associated infections.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
Central line catheter associated blood stream infection.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Ventilator- associated events.
Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.
Restraint prevalence.
Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.
Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment (air) cycle.
Falls in ambulatory settings.
Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health records.
Hospital readmission rates.
RN satisfaction survey options.
Job satisfaction scales.
Job satisfaction scales – short form.
Practice environment scale.
Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.
Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:
What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?
What challenges have you experienced?
How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?
What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How effective is this process?
Recording Your Presentation
To prepare to record the audio for your presentation, complete the following:
Set up and test your microphone or headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear and high quality when captured by the microphone.
Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.
Review the for Kaltura to record your presentation.
View Creating a Presentation: A Guide to Writing and Speaking. This video addresses the primary areas involved in creating effective audiovisual presentations. You can return to this resource throughout the process of creating your presentation to view the tutorial appropriate for you at each stage.
Instructions
For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.
The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.
As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality indicator data.
You determine that you will cover the following topics in your audio tutorial script:
Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator
What is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators?
What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?
Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?
Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of care and patient safety.
Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care?
Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data
According to your interview and other resources, how does your organization collect data on this quality indicator?
How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?
What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and high-quality results?
As an example, consider the importance of accurately entering data regarding nursing interventions.
After completing your script, practice delivering your tutorial several times before recording it.
Additional Requirements
Audio communication: Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.
Length: 8–10 minute audio recording. Use Kaltura to upload your recording to the courseroom, or provide a working link your instructor can access.
Script: A separate document with the script or speaker’s notes is required. Important: Submissions that do not include the script or speaker’s notes will be returned as a non-performance.
References: Cite a minimum of three scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
APA: Submit, along with the recording, a separate reference page that follows APA style and formatting guidelines.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
Describe the interdisciplinary team’s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.
Competency 3: Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
Explain how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.
Competency 4: Recommend the use of a technology to enhance quality and safety standards for patients.
Justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.

Summarize the trade-off between the risks and possible returns of going forward with this capital investment project.

Wk8
In the Week 6 Discussion, you focused on an organization with which you are familiar and identified some of the organization’s short-term financing needs. In the Week 7 Discussion, you turned your focus to long-term financing needs for the organization. This week, you will continue to focus on the long-term financing needs and will summarize the organization’s risk profile considering the capital investment project you identified for the organization in Week 7.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Refer to the organization from your Weeks 6 and 7 Discussions. Specifically, refer to the capital investment you identified in Week 7 and keep in mind the questions you identified and your proposal of whether the investment was valuable.
Based on those questions and your previous analysis of the investment’s value, consider now the risks associated with investing in the project compared to the potential returns. Refer to Panel b of Figure 8.1 on page 276 of the Brigham and Houston text (2022) as you formulate your post.
By Day 3
Post a synthesis of the risk profile of your selected organization considering the projected returns related to the identified capital investment project. In your synthesis, include the following: (300 words)
Identify three to five risks of engaging in the capital investment project for your selected organization in the Week 7 Discussion. Based on what you identified, propose this project’s level of risk.
Based on your understanding of the organization, explain how willing or capable you believe the organization is to take on and manage these risks. (Note: You are free to utilize your creativity to provide details that may be unavailable to you. The point of this exercise is to think through the risks and benefits of potential financial decisions.)
Summarize the trade-off between the risks and possible returns of going forward with this capital investment project. Based on your summary, would you recommend that the organization move forward with this project?

Why does this problem exist? (Identify the root causes.)

Assignment Instructions
This analysis project requires you to tackle a problem within your field of study by first exploring it, its causes, and its impacts.  Then, if you want, you can recommend one or more practical solutions to solve the problem.

After deciding on the problem you wish to tackle, begin building questions about it. Your goal for the analysis is to answer the questions through your sources. Finding multiple angles and perspectives is ideal so that you explore those possibilities in the final paper before settling on your recommendation.  Be sure to identify what is at stake.

Here are questions to help guide your analysis:
What is the problem being addressed (explain, describe, and “prove” that it exists)?
Who is affected by this problem?
Why does this problem exist? (Identify the root causes.)
Why does the problem persist? (Identify the major factors that contribute to the problem’s ongoing presence.)
What is at stake if the problem is not solved?
If you decide to include a solution, use these questions to guide you:
Who can take action?
What should they do, exactly?
Why would this help?
What are the positive and negative aspects of your solution(s)?

PURPOSE:   To analyze a problem and possibly provide a solution
AUDIENCE:   Classmates, others interested in the field
LENGTH:   900 – 1,000 words (Times New Roman font). Please do not go significantly (~10%) under or above the word count requirement. This word count includes only the paragraphs in your final essay (not the Works Cited/References page or previously submitted sections).
SOURCES:   5 (five) sources from the APUS Library (These may include sources you used in previous assignments. Going under this number will cost points in grading.)
FORMAT:   The citation style that is appropriate for your discipline

Submit your assignment as a Word document attached to the assignment link so it can be automatically processed through Turnitin. Use either the MLA or APA template provided. You can save the template with a title like this: Your Name Portfolio Final Paper.

what could be an overlap between the ethical consideration and a possible legal issue?

Overview
You explored the significance of ethical considerations and their implications for business decisions. Today’s organizations are no longer in the situation of being able to disregard or become oblivious to the prevalence of unethical behaviors and misdemeanors.
It’s now time to unpack the ethical considerations that organizations must not overlook in business operations.
As a consultant, you will often come across situations that require you to identify and address ethical and legal considerations. You might even come across situations wherein you will find an overlap between ethical considerations and legal issues in a business situation.
The legal team at the health and beauty company you work for is currently reviewing all the documents you have looked at so far. Their objective is to highlight potential ethical and legal issues that the company may be opening itself up to.
Prompt
To complete this assignment:
⦁ Review the RealRecruit case study provided in the textbook.
Critical Thinking Case: Real Recruit
⦁ Write a consulting report to share your observations and recommendations based on the RealRecruit case, and address the following criteria:
a. Identify one ethical consideration adopted by RealRecruit that your organization can also adopt as a best practice. Explain the reason.
b. In adopting your identified best practice above, what could be an overlap between the ethical consideration and a possible legal issue?
Guidelines for Submission
In a Word document, use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. This consulting report should be 2 pages in length and include references cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated? 

ANALYZING GROUP TECHNIQUES

Group therapy can alleviate feelings of isolation and foster a supportive and collaborative environment for sharing difficult feelings in order to facilitate healing. For many people, being part of a group that has a shared understanding of a struggle provides a unique opportunity to gain understanding of their own experiences.
As you examine one of the group therapy demonstrations from this week’s Learning Resources, consider the role and efficacy of the leader and the reasons that specific therapeutic techniques were selected.
To prepare:
⦁ Select one of the group therapy video demonstrations from this week’s required media Learning Resources.
THIS THE VIDEO YOU WILL USE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT

THE ASSIGNMENT
In a 3- to 4-page paper, identify the video you selected and address the following:
⦁ What group therapy techniques were demonstrated? How well do you believe these techniques were demonstrated?
⦁ What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated?
⦁ What did you notice that the therapist did well?
⦁ Explain something that you would have handled differently.
⦁ What is an insight that you gained from watching the therapist handle the group therapy?
⦁ Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member? How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?
⦁ Support your reasoning with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources, and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.
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Identify 3-4 key principles that govern human and animal behavior.

Assessments Content

To demonstrate your mastery of this competency, you should
Identify 3-4 key principles that govern human and animal behavior.
Apply these principles to your own life. (e.g. How can you see them in daily life?)
How do they enhance interactions between individuals and among societal groups?
This paper should be 2-3 pages in length and use APA formatting (cover page, paper body formatting, citations, and references: see Rasmussen’s APA guide in the Resources tab, or by clicking here. Prior to submitting your paper, be sure you proofread your work to check your spelling and grammar. If you use any outside sources, please site those sources in APA citation format.

How might these differences produce contrasting political perspectives on issues?

GOVT 2306 – Dr. Crissien
Critical Thinking Assignment: Analyzing Your State Senate District

OBJECTIVE: This assignment has two key purposes: 1) for the student to identify and analyze their state senate district; 2) for the student to think critically about their state senator (culturally and ideologically). Translation: you are demonstrating your capacity to understand your community (senate district) and assess the quality of representation.

BACKGROUND: One of the most important facets of a representative democracy is—unsurprisingly—REPRESENTATION. This assignment builds on a few key concepts related to the idea of representation—who represents us and how are we represented. In particular, we are building on the ideas of descriptive representation and substantive representation. Here’s what these mean:

Descriptive representation is the extent to which a representative resembles constituents. In other words, the focus here is on shared identity traits. A Hispanic person being represented by a Hispanic representative is one example. The key idea is that common identities are an important part of representation (occupation, gender, race, age, educational attainment, etc.)

Substantive representation is the actual activity of a representative. This means their view/values and how they actually behave in office (how they vote on legislation, what kind of legislation they author/support, etc.). From the substantive side, it is less important who they are. What matters is what they do.

PROCEDURES: You are about to link these concepts with your state senate district and state senator (i.e. analyzing the demographics of your district and the identity of your representative). You will conduct this analysis by doing the following:

Websites/Navigation:
Find your state senator by entering your address into this web page (https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home). Pay close attention that you are looking up your STATE SENATOR not your U.S. senator. It will say “Texas State Senate District ##” under their name. Click on their name to go to their page.
In new windows/tabs, open the links at the bottom of the page titled “District Profile”, “Population Analysis”, and “Election Analysis.” Keep these pages handy, you will need the demographic and electoral information.
Next, navigate to https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/16/texas-senate-left-right/. Keep this page handy also.
Now that you have the required sites up, you can start on the writing portion. IMPORTANT NOTE: You are largely being graded for how thorough your answers are for each part. This means that each part should be answered in AT LEAST 150 words (complete sentences and IN YOUR OWN WORDS). If you avoid being lazy you should do well.

Writing Section #1 (20 Points):
Your first set of questions asks you to compare/contrast your background with that of your congressional district (your community). [SR1]
Describe your personal/cultural background (5 pts). Be sure to note any aspects of your identity that are important to political values (race/ethnicity, parents occupation, parents education, household income, gender). Has this produced conservative, liberal, or moderate values? Do you identify more with Democrats or Republicans? (Note: If this feels too personal/intrusive, feel free to make up an imaginary person.)
Using the info from the “District Profile”, “Population Analysis”, and “Election Analysis” pages, describe the demographics and party tendencies of your district (5 pts). Be sure to discuss race/ethnicity, per capita income, and education. Also, discuss the party leanings of your district with your party leanings (yours is what you described in Q1). Note: For party tendencies you will use the results of the 2020 U.S presidential election (Biden vs. Trump). This will be the first election listed on the election analysis page. The greater the support for one candidate or other, the more “partisan” your district.
Compare and contrast yourself with your district (5 pts). Where do you see the greatest differences between you and your district? How might these differences produce contrasting political perspectives on issues? (If it’s helpful, feel free to use example issues like taxation, immigration, abortion, voter ID laws, etc.)?

Your next task is to compare/contrast your background/values with your state senator’s. [SR1]
Compare and contrast your background with that of your state senator (5 pts). You can learn about their background both from looking at them and also reading about them on their website. Where is your common ground? Where are you different? Would you say that this is a strong descriptive representative for you?
Writing Section #2 (20 points):
Next, explore your state senator’s substantive representation (i.e. their values and positions on issues) [PR1 and PR2]:
Using the ideology information from the TribTalk page, compare your personal ideology to your state senator’s (5 pts). According to the ideology score chart, how conservative/liberal is your representative? (You can measure this by how far right or left they are from center and by comparing them to other state senators.) How does this compare/contrast with your ideology? Are you more liberal/conservative? Do you lean toward their party?
Using either your state senator’s bio page, personal website, or campaign website, identify your state senator’s position on a key issue (5 pts). What type of issue is it (social or fiscal) and does your senator take a liberal or conservative position (be sure to explain why)? What is your position? In your opinion, what should be done about this issue? Do you agree or disagree with your senator (and why)?

Now that you have an issue position, you should think about how to put it into action. [SR2]
Who in the government OR community should be involved? What specific actions can you (and others) take? Why is it important to get people involved in this cause and what will be the benefits of this action? (5 pts.)

Let’s assume that you are successful in your efforts, and you achieve your policy goal. Now it is time to assess the impact of this potential change. [PR3]
What do you believe will be the consequences of putting this policy into practice? (5 pts.) How would this improve your community, state, and country? What do you think will be the short-term effects (within the next year or two)? How about the long-term impacts (beyond 2 years)? Finally, what are some negative unintended consequences that might result from this course of action?

What are the possible problems we may face with psychology in the future?

Psychology is a contemporary science. Listed below are several recent papers. For the first part of this assignment, choose two papers to briefly summarize in a paragraph each, focusing on the contribution each makes to psychological knowledge in general.
The second part of the paper should be a discussion of the contributions and limitations of the field of psychology in our general knowledge. In addition, please discuss the follow;
What can we expect to learn in the future?
What are the possible problems we may face with psychology in the future?
This paper should be 2-3 pages in length and use APA formatting (cover page, paper body formatting, citations, and references: see Rasmussen’s APA guide in the Resources tab, or by clicking here. Prior to submitting your paper, be sure you proofread your work to check your spelling and grammar. If you use any outside sources, please site those sources in APA citation format.
Ponder, J. D., & Haridakis, P. (2015). Selectively social politics: The differing roles of media use on political discussion. Mass Communication & Society, 18(3), 281-302. doi:10.1080/15205436.2014.940977
Edlund, J. E. (2016). Invited editorial: Let’s do it again: A call for replications in Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. Psi Chi Journal Of Psychological Research, 21(1), 59-61.
Wolters, C. A., & Hussain, M. (2015). Investigating grit and its relations with college students’ self-regulated learning and academic achievement. Metacognition And Learning, 10(3), 293-311. doi:10.1007/s11409-014-9128-9.
Paper discusses psychological issues from both papers intelligently and methodically

Can you think of any reasons why price discrimination could be viewed as a socially “good” thing?

Assignment Description: Must Use (5) Credible references and Cite all work in (APA) format. Must be answered in detail.
⦁ Price discriminate sounds like a socially “bad” thing. Can you think of any reasons why price discrimination could be viewed as a socially “good” thing?
⦁ As markets for some products and services experience greater global competition, what is the likely consequence for the incidence of price discrimination? Do you think global competition fosters or impedes price discrimination? Can you give any examples from your own work experience?
⦁ Although there is relatively little difference in the cost of producing hardcover and paperback books, these books sell for very different prices. Explain this pricing behavior.
⦁ A bar offers female patrons a lower price for a drink than male patrons. The bar will maximize profits by selling a total of 200 drinks (a night). At the current prices, male customers buy 150 drinks, while female customers buy 50 drinks. At this allocation between markets, the marginal revenue from the last drink sold to a female customer is $0.50.
⦁ What should the bar do about its pricing?
⦁ If the bar sells 151 drinks to males and 49 to females, what will be the increase (decrease) in total revenue?
⦁ EZ Sharp Industries, Inc., manufactures the Kleen Edge(TM) line of diamond-abrasive cutlery sharpeners for home use. EZ Sharp holds a patent on its unique design and can earn substantial economic profit if it prices its Kleen Edge(TM) products wisely. EZ Sharp sells two models of its Kleen Edge(TM) sharpeners: the Classic, which is the entry-level model, and the Professional, which has a sonic sensor that controls the speed of the sharpening wheels.
Short run production of sharpeners is subject to constant costs: AVC = SMC for both models. The constant costs of production at EZ Sharp Industries are estimated to be:

Total fixed costs each month are $10,000. The sole owner of EZ Sharp also manages the firm and makes all pricing decisions. The owner-manager believes in assuring himself a 200% profit margin by using the cost-plus pricing methodology to set prices for his two product lines. At these prices, EZ Sharp is selling 3,750 units of Classic model per month and 2,000 units of the Professional model per month.
⦁ Using the cost-plus technique, compute the prices the owner-manager charges for the Classic and the Professional models, based on his required 200% profit margin.
⦁ How much profit is EZ Sharp earning each month using the cost-plus prices in part 1?

The owner-manager is ready to sell the firm, but he knows the value of the firm will increase if he can increase the monthly profit somehow. He decides to hire Andrews Consulting to recommend ways for EZ Sharp to increase its profits. Andrew reports that production is efficient, but pricing can be improved. Andrews argues a new pricing plan based on optimal pricing techniques (i.e., the MR = MC rule).
To implement the MR = MC methodology, Andrews undertakes a statistical study to estimate the demands for two Kleen Edge (TM) products. The estimated demands are:
Qc = 6,000 – 75 Pc + 25 Pp
Qp = 5,000 – 50 Pp + 25 Pc

Where QC and QP are the monthly quantities demanded of Classic and Professional models, respectively, and PC and PP are prices of Classic and Professional models, respectively. Andrews Consulting solved the demand equations simultaneously to get the following inverse demand functions, which is why Anderson gets paid the “big bucks”:

Qc = 6,000 – 75 Pc + 25 Pp
Qp = 5,000 – 50 Pp + 25 Pc
⦁ Find the two marginal revenue functions for the Classic and Professional model sharpeners.
⦁ Set each marginal revenue function in part 3 equal to the appropriate cost and solve for the profit-maximizing quantities.
⦁ Using the results from part d, what prices will Andrews Consulting recommend for each model?
⦁ When the owner-manager sees the prices recommended by Andrews Consulting, he brags about how close his simple cost-plus pricing method had come to their suggested prices. Compute the profit EZ Sharp can earn using the consultants’ prices in part 4. Is there any reason for the owner-manager to brag about his cost-plus pricing skills?