Identify the important elements of sales taxation in your state (Arkansas).

Identify the important elements of sales taxation in your state (Arkansas). What governments levy general and selective sales taxes? Identify the following for the RST: What commodity sales are exempt? Are services taxed? What is the nominal rate? What are the brackets? Does your state (Arkansas) provide sales tax credits? In regard to selective excises: What selective excises are used? How are their bases defined? What rates apply?

(Please provide online references)

Determine three (3) major employment laws which a practice manager in health care could unintentionally violate.

Determine three (3) major employment laws which a practice manager in health care could unintentionally violate.

Determine three (3) major employment laws which a practice manager in health care could unintentionally violate.
Recommend the main steps that the manager should take to avoid the risk of breaking those laws.

Compare and contrast the three (3) Individualistic, Team-Oriented and Middle ground physician compensation modelsand suggest which model you think would be most effective in creating a pay structure that would attract and retain physicians who would make the practice successful. Justify your recommendation.

Which of the following is not a class of essential nutrient?

Which of the following is not a class of essential nutrient?
a. Dietary supplements
b. Carbohydrates
c. Lipids
d. Minerals

2. Which of the following statements about the nutrient composition of the American diet is true?
a. It contains too little protein
b. It contains too little carbohydrate
c. It contains too little fat
d. It contains too many calories

3. A kcalorie is a measure of
a. Heat energy
b. Fat in food
c. Nutrients in food
d. Sugar and fat in food

4. Which of the following nutrients can directly supply energy for human use?
a. Lipids and oils
b. Fiber
c. Vitamins
d. Minerals

5. Gram for gram, which provides the most energy?
a. Carbohydrates
b. Proteins
c. Alcohol
d. Fats

6. Which of the following yield greater than 4 kcalories per gram?
a. Plant fats
b. Plant carbohydrates
c. Plant proteins
d. Animal proteins

7. Which of the following contain no calories?
a. Alcohol
b. Proteins
c. Carbohydrates
d. Vitamins

8. Which one of the following is a carbohydrate?
a. apples
b. chicken
c. potatoes
d. both a and c

9. Which of the following is a protein?
a. apples
b. chicken
c. potatoes
d. both a and c

10. Which of the following is a lipid?
a. oils
b. fat
c. cholesterol
d. all the above

11. Fats:
a. Regulate body temperature b. protect organs
c. produce energy d. All of the Above

12. Water is _____ of a person’s total body weight.
a. 40% b. 65%-75%
c. 10% – 20% d. None of the above

13. When looking at the ingredient label of a bottled spaghetti sauce, you see that olive oil is the second ingredient. This means that
a. Olive oil is the second ingredient by alphabetical listing
b. Olive oil is just one of the ingredients present in the sauce
c. Olive oil is the second ingredient by weight
d. Olive oil is the second ingredient by amount present in the sauce

14. How many kcalories are provided by a 2-oz brownie with icing? Its nutrient composition is 1g of protein, 5g of fat, and 15g of carbohydrates
a. 89
b. 109
c. 84
d. 159

15. Which of the following provides the most kcalories?
a. 5g carbohydrate
b. 3g fat
c. 4g protein
d. 2g alcohol

16. One-half of a mashed potato with milk contains 2g of protein, 1g of fat, and 14g of carbohydrate. What percentage of the total kcalorie content is provided by carbohydrates
a. 19%
b. 72%
c. 82%
d. 77%

17. True or False: A nutrition facts label can list 0 grams of fat even if the food does in fact contain some fat.
a. true
b. false

18. True or False: Food labels are more important for some people than others, and in some cases, they may be the difference between life and death!
a. true
b. false

19. When reading a food label, what information do most nutrition professionals recommend you look at FIRST?
a. Fat content
b. Serving size
c. Vitamin content
d. Calories

20. True or False: Food labels list ingredients in the order of most to least healthful.
a. true
b. false

21. True or False: One function of protein is to carry oxygen.
a. true
b. false

22. A concentric action occurs when:
a. Sufficient tension is developed in a muscle to cause shortening
b. Tension is developed in a muscle but outside forces cause it to lengthen
c. Calcium is pumped into the sarcoplasmic reticulum
d. No movement occurs in the muscles

23. An eccentric action occurs when:
a. Sufficient tension is developed in a muscle to cause shortening
b. Tension is developed in a muscle but outside forces cause it to lengthen
c. Calcium is pumped into the sarcoplasmic reticulum
d. No movement occurs in the muscles

24. The hormone responsible for stimulating muscle synthesis and recovery during sleep is:
a. Melatonin
b. Estrogen
c. HGH
d. Testosterone

25. The hormone responsible for stimulating muscle metabolism and increasing the force of contraction during a sudden crisis is:
a. epinephrine
b. thyroid hormone
c. growth hormone
d. testosterone

26. The type of skeletal muscle fibers that have low fatigue resistance are:
a. Fast fibers
b. Slow fibers
c. Intermediate fibers
d. Type 1 fibers

27. An example of an activity that requires anaerobic endurance is:
a. A 50 yard dash
b. A 3 mile run
c. A 10 mile bicycle ride
d. Running a marathon

28. Athletes training to develop anaerobic endurance perform:
a. Few, long, relaxing workouts
b. A combination of weight training and marathon running
c. Frequent, brief, intensive workouts
d. Stretching, flexibility, and relaxation exercises

29. Which of the following are specific joint movements?
a. flexion b. Adduction
c. hyperextension d. All of the above

30. Skeletal muscle:
a. is a voluntary muscle b. consist of muscle fibers
c. contains connective tissue d. all of the above

TRUE-FALSE:

31. Muscle length changes during isometric movements.

32. Concentric movement shortens the muscle.

33. Most adults need eight hours of sleep each night.

34. Restoration and growth take place during the deepest sleep stages.

35. If an individual is awakened during stage one of NREM, he or she will often deny that he or she was sleeping.

36. Although dreams may occur in all stages of sleep, they generally happen in stages three and four of NREM sleep.

37. When dreaming, an individual has periods of no muscle tone or movement, except for eyes, diaphragm, nasal membranes, and erectile tissue.

38. Memory can be impaired from missing the long REM sleep periods that come later in the sleep cycle.

39. Sleepwalking occurs during non-REM sleep.

40. Typically, an individual experiences one sleep cycle each night.

41. Sleeping one hour less than your body needs each night over a week’s time is equivalent to staying up all night.

42. Attempting to cancel sleep debt on the weekends is a viable solution to decreasing weekday sleep deprivation.

43. Chronic insomnia is usually rather simple to treat.

44. Nicotine from tobacco is a stimulant that can enhance sleep.

45. It takes five or six hours for an individual’s core body temperature to drop after vigorous exercise and induce drowsiness and deeper sleep.

46. One should avoid eating within two hours of bedtime, particularly meals with high fat content.

47. An individual napping more than 45 minutes will be less groggy than an individual napping 15-20 minutes.

48. Melatonin is naturally secreted by the pineal gland in response to darkness; it lowers body temperature and causes drowsiness.

49. With advancing age, people experience reduction in total REM sleep.

50. More than a million patients are injured as a result of medical errors each year; many of these injuries are associated with chronic sleep deprivation.

Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans.

Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans.
Note: Use the textbook, course readings, online library, and other reputable online sources to complete this assignment.

Prepare a fifteen to twenty (15 to 20) slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed scholarly speaker notes in which you:

Compare the three (3) current health care financing and funding models (i.e., employee based, government based, and individual based) used with the healthcare delivery system of the United States.
Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans. Evaluate the success potential of key economic goals in terms of populations covered, services included, financing arrangements, reimbursement strategies, and economic competition policies.
Analyze the key effects of labor market, insurance market, and competitive market factors on health care delivery requirements at your current or previous organization of employment.
Determine what changes are occurring in the economy or concerning labor and regulatory factors that must be considered in the future.
Suggest the key national trends that you believe currently affect competition and pricing initiatives. Justify your response.
Suggest the main quality indicators that typically affect health insurance pricing at the local level. Justify your response.
Use a minimum of six (6) reputable references sources including three (3) sources from peer reviewed journals.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

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

Determine three (3) major employment laws which a practice manager in health care could unintentionally violate.

Determine three (3) major employment laws which a practice manager in health care could unintentionally violate.

Determine three (3) major employment laws which a practice manager in health care could unintentionally violate.
Recommend the main steps that the manager should take to avoid the risk of breaking those laws.

Compare and contrast the three (3) Individualistic, Team-Oriented and Middle ground physician compensation modelsand suggest which model you think would be most effective in creating a pay structure that would attract and retain physicians who would make the practice successful. Justify your recommendation.

Examine the impact of motivation on quality, safety, and legal risks associated with health care organizations.

Examine the impact of motivation on quality, safety, and legal risks associated with health care organizations.
Imagine that you have been appointed the Director of Health at the Kaluyu Memorial Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya – a for-profit hospital. The facility is also a referral hospital and receives severe cases of accidents, chronicle / communicable diseases and houses an HIV / AIDS ward. As you settle into your position, you realize that the employees always act scared as they approach their superiors. Some of the employees even deliver files and leave your office in a hurry.
As you make your routine departmental visits, you realize that there are tensions between nurses and doctors, and there is a sentiment that the nurses tend to do the majority of the work within patient care but the doctors get all the credit. You realize that the employees are always looking forward to the end of their shifts to go home. Some employees even come back to work wearing the same unwashed clothes as the previous day. Too many employees are calling in sick, and many of them give weak reasons for their tardiness.
There is also a sense that employees and nurses dominate other employees in similar positions. In meetings and conference calls some employees are always quiet and never participate. You notice that people with families tend to gather and talk quietly on breaks. The new mothers working for the hospital have to use bathrooms to pump breast milk for their infants and the refrigerators do not work well. Looking at the financial statements of the hospital, you realize that the hospital expenses are higher than the industry standard, and it makes losses year after year.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
Investigate the major demotivational factors at Kaluyu Memorial Hospital. Assess the level of impact that the identified factors could have on specific areas of service and business if the administration does not address the situation. Support your response with at least two (2) examples of the potential negative impact of the identified demotivational factors on the hospital.Choose Maslow’s, Herzberg’s, or McClelland’s model of motivation, and argue the primary reasons why it is applicable to the Kaluyu Memorial Hospital scenario.Formulate a communication system that will have the greatest impact on improving the situation, and specify the major reasons why your system will influence the employee behaviors for the better. Justify your response.Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Propose methodologies that have been proven to increase value in health care delivery systems.Examine the impact of motivation on quality, safety, and legal risks associated with health care organizations.Assess how politics in a health care organization motivates and demotivates employees and recommend strategies to mitigate the challenges presented with each aspect.Create a communication strategy to address an ethical dilemma within a health care organization regarding the quality of service and cost.Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care management.Write clearly and concisely about health care management using proper writing mechanic

Analyze some of the key social, political, and economic factors that have led to the proliferation of urgent care facilities and primary care practices over the last 20-30 years.

Analyze some of the key social, political, and economic factors that have led to the proliferation of urgent care facilities and primary care practices over the last 20-30 years.

You are the manager of a new primary care clinic located about twenty five (25) miles outside of a small city (population of 50,000). With five (5) family physicians, two (2) nurse practitioners, two (2) physicians’ assistants (PAs), and twenty (20) clinical support staff consisting of RNs, LPNs, and CMAs, the clinic provides primary care services to a diverse community of people living and working outside the city limits. Originally a rural area, the community has been growing and now includes promising opportunities in employment, education, and comfortable living spaces for young families. However, there are still many residents who struggle to make ends meet with older farms that have belonged to families for generations.

The central city includes two (2) large acute care facilities, and one (1) tertiary care facility that is known for its excellent pulmonary care. Both acute care hospitals provide the usual services such as labor and delivery, outpatient surgery, chronic diseases care, etc. and have fully equipped ancillary departments, such as lab and radiology. Up until this point, the residents have used the facilities’ emergency departments for routine illnesses and conditions when their private physicians were not readily available.

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

Analyze some of the key social, political, and economic factors that have led to the proliferation of urgent care facilities and primary care practices over the last 20-30 years.
Create a comprehensive mission statement for the clinic, and discuss how it will facilitate the provision of quality services.
Analyze and discuss one (1) or more directions the clinic might take to grow its business. Determine what factors you would consider when deciding what services to provide in-house and which ones to affiliate with other institutions.
Decide how you will determine if the clinic is meeting its goals. Identify three (3) performance measurements you could use to evaluate the success of the clinic’s services. Begin by naming a goal, and then identify a quantifiable measurement you could use for each to determine if you are coming close or falling short of the goal.
Determine how you would then address whatever opportunities for improvement seem to exist and what processes you would put in place.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.
Examine the political, economic, and social forces that have influenced the organizational foundations of the United States healthcare system.
Explain how public policy has shaped the development of the U.S. healthcare system.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization management.
Write clearly and concisely about health services organization management using proper writing mechanics.

Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans.

Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans.
Note: Use the textbook, course readings, online library, and other reputable online sources to complete this assignment.

Prepare a fifteen to twenty (15 to 20) slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed scholarly speaker notes in which you:

Compare the three (3) current health care financing and funding models (i.e., employee based, government based, and individual based) used with the healthcare delivery system of the United States.
Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans. Evaluate the success potential of key economic goals in terms of populations covered, services included, financing arrangements, reimbursement strategies, and economic competition policies.
Analyze the key effects of labor market, insurance market, and competitive market factors on health care delivery requirements at your current or previous organization of employment.
Determine what changes are occurring in the economy or concerning labor and regulatory factors that must be considered in the future.
Suggest the key national trends that you believe currently affect competition and pricing initiatives. Justify your response.
Suggest the main quality indicators that typically affect health insurance pricing at the local level. Justify your response.
Use a minimum of six (6) reputable references sources including three (3) sources from peer reviewed journals.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

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

Discuss at least 3 different networking technologies (e.g. internet, telephone service, GPS, etc.) and their potential use in the medical field.

Discuss at least 3 different networking technologies (e.g. internet, telephone service, GPS, etc.) and their potential use in the medical field.
Week 3 Assignment

Software: System and Application

Directions – Complete parts A, B, and C on one document and submit as an attachment to your instructor for grading.

Part A Matching: Complete the Key Term Matching exercises in Chapter 5, page 208 and Chapter 6, page 248.

Part B Short Answer: Describe two types of utility programs (2-3 sentences each).

Part C Essay: Research two separate types of healthcare application software that perform the same job. (Hint: search “health care software solutions”) Assume you are the healthcare manager for the organization. What are the main features you would want to compare in the applications before making a purchasing decision (minimum 250 words).

Week 4 Assignment

Computer Networks

Directions – Complete parts A, B, and C on one document and submit as an attachment to your instructor for grading.

Part A Matching: Complete the Key Term Matching exercise in Chapter 7, page 294 and Self Quiz, page 294.

Part B Short Answer: Describe the three main wired networking media (2-3 sentences each).

Part C Essay: Discuss at least 3 different networking technologies (e.g. internet, telephone service, GPS, etc.) and their potential use in the medical field (minimum 250 words).

Describe how lactic acidosis and ketoacidosis affect blood pH levels and oxygen transport in the blood.

Describe how lactic acidosis and ketoacidosis affect blood pH levels and oxygen transport in the blood.

Competency 208.5.3: Myoglobin and Hemoglobin – The graduate constructs models of various states of hemoglobin, demonstrates how changes in the usual configuration of hemoglobin can lead to molecular disease, and distinguishes between the chemical structure and function of hemoglobin and myoglobin.

Competency 208.5.5: Carbohydrate Metabolism, Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) – The graduate constructs models of carbohydrates and demonstrates metabolism of carbohydrates; and demonstrates how adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is essential to energy transfer in the cell and how irregularities in ATP synthesis in the cell can cause cytopathologies.

Competency 208.5.6: Lipids – The graduate constructs models of fatty acids and demonstrates why lipids are essential to the functioning of cells.

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Introduction:

You are the lead nurse on a medical team caring for a patient who has been recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. One of the new nurses on the team is curious about the early prescription for metformin given by the attending physician and has asked for clarification to better understand the benefits and risks of this medication. Because you have a working knowledge of biochemical concepts as well as a good relationship with the new nurse, the physician has asked you to help the nurse understand the effects of metformin and why it is used as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.

Requirements:

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.