Identify three components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that went into effect in 2014 and discuss their impact or potential impact on the practice of nursing and medicine.

Identify three components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that went into effect in 2014 and discuss their impact or potential impact on the practice of nursing and medicine.

Identify three components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that went into effect in 2014 and discuss their impact or potential impact on the practice of nursing and medicine. Be
specific as to what the provision states, who it affects, and the impact that it may have.
Discussion Prompt 2 Describe a type of health care spending that you consider wasteful or services that you consider have little or no benefit. Explain why you find the spending wasteful, and if
eliminated, what impact it may have on the American public.

Discuss how you used the information from the articles for your Health Promotion Project. Provide specific examples.

Discuss how you used the information from the articles for your Health Promotion Project. Provide specific examples.

1.Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span (choose one of the focus areas from Healthy People 2020). The topic I chose is Nutrition and weight status
2.Writing the Paper: You will individually research the topic and apply the information in writing a 2-3 page APA format paper.

a.Select a minimum of three (3) scholarly nursing or research article (published within the last 5 years) related to your topic, which includes health promotion and wellness content. You may need to evaluate several articles before you find ones that are appropriate. For more information on how to choose a scholarly article, see Library Resources and What Is a Scholarly Article in doc sharing of the e-College shell.
b.Write a 2-3 page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) using the following guidelines:
Write brief introduction of the topic and why it is important to health promotion.
Include a description of the topic and the targeted population (include statistics).
Explain how the project relates to the Healthy People 2020 topic area you have chosen.
Summarize the articles; include key points or findings from the articles.
Discuss how you used the information from the articles for your Health Promotion Project. Provide specific examples.
Describe the approach (es) you developed to educate the target population about the topic. Include specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the specified population. The approach should be appropriate for target population.
Write your conclusion and summary.

c.Your paper must follow APA format: include a title page and a reference page; use 12-point Times Roman font and include in-text citations (use citations whenever paraphrasing, using statistics, or quoting from the article). Please refer to your APA manual as a guide for in-text citations and sample reference pages.

DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES THAT CLIENTS MAY ENCOUNTER IN TRANSITION FROM THE INPATIENT SETTING TO COMMUNITY SETTING.

DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES THAT CLIENTS MAY ENCOUNTER IN TRANSITION FROM THE INPATIENT SETTING TO COMMUNITY SETTING.

Describe the challenges that clients may encounter in transition from the inpatient setting to community setting.
Identify the nursing interventions including client teaching you would use to prepare a client for transition into a community treatment setting
Compare Assisted Outpatient Treatment to Assertive Community Treatment programs.
Identify the role NAMI(National Alliance of the Mentally 111)plays in community mental health.
Used internet resources.
Text book-Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. 5th edition. Chapter 4.
Double spaced APA guidelines.

Prepare a report on a critical health issue in a community or state describing the factors that contribute to the health issue and interventions that have been implemented.

Prepare a report on a critical health issue in a community or state describing the factors that contribute to the health issue and interventions that have been implemented.
Overview

Prepare a 3–4 page report on a critical health issue in a community or state. Describe the factors that contribute to the health issue and interventions that have been implemented. Explain the scope and role of nursing in the interventions, and recommend ways the scope of the interventions might be expanded.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Explain the factors that affect the health of communities.

Explain the factors that contribute to a critical health care issue within a specific community.

Competency 2: Apply evidence-based interventions to promote health and disease prevention and respond to community health issues.

Describe current interventions to target a critical health care issue within a specific community.

Describe the scope and role of nursing in current interventions that target a critical health care issue.

Recommend evidence-based ways to expand the scope of interventions to target a critical health care issue.

Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of a nursing professional.

Describe a critical health care issue within a specific community.

Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Correctly format citations and references, using current APA style.

Context

Community/public health nursing is nursing care that is population-focused and occurs in non-hospital settings. Numerous nursing theories can provide the structure for community/public health nursing; however, nursing theories that incorporate components of the general systems theory frequently provide the framework for the practice of community/public health nursing.

Historically, nurses have made significant contributions to the field of public health. From providing maternal-child care to poor women in the late 1800s, to promoting hygiene among school aged children in the early 1900s, to providing environmental and safety care to industrial workers during World War I, nurses have been instrumental in shaping health policies (Maurer & Smith, 2013). Today, community/public health nurses have a key role in identifying and developing plans of care to address local, national, and international health issues.

Many factors influence the health of communities and populations, including national policies that focus on health promotion. Healthy People, a major national health promotion program issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, identifies major health problems of the nation and sets national goals and objectives targeting health promotion (Maurer & Smith, 2013). If adopted, activities that target health promotion can result in disease prevention.

Reference

Maurer, F. A., & Smith, C. M. (2013). Community/public health nursing practice: Health for families and populations (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: W. B. Saunders.

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Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

What kinds of public health care services are available in your community? Do you think these services adequately meet the needs of the community?

How would you improve the scope of the services?

Suggested Resources

Library Resources
The following e-books or articles from the Capella University Library are linked directly in this course:

Severance, J. H., & Zinnah, S. L. (2009). Community-based perceptions of neighborhood health in urban neighborhoods. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 26(1), 14–23.

Schofield, R., Ganann, R., Brooks, S., McGugan, J., Bona, K. D., Betker, C., Dilworth, K., … Watson, C. (2011). Community health nursing vision for 2020: Shaping the future. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 33(8),1047–1068.

Mendez-Luck, C. A., Bethel, J. W., Goins, R. T., Schure, M. B., & McDermott, E. (2015). Community as a source of health in three racial/ethnic communities in Oregon: A qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1–10.

Galloway-Gilliam, L. (2013). Racial and ethnic approaches to community health. National Civic Review, 102(4), 46–48.

Post a brief description of two ethical challenges related to record keeping and/or reporting when the legal system is involved.

Post a brief description of two ethical challenges related to record keeping and/or reporting when the legal system is involved.

Ethical Challenges to Record Keeping and Mandated Reporting
Counselors have numerous professional, ethical, and legal obligations related to court-ordered requests for client records and/or other information. At times, the demands of the legal system may conflict with a counselor’s ethical obligation to maintain confidentiality of records. In particular, two federal statutes, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) have influenced the maintenance and release of counseling records. It is important for counselors to have a working knowledge of how to respond to court orders, the release of client records, or compelled testimony.

Additionally, counselors should operate under the assumption that at some point, a variety of interested parties, including colleagues, third-party payers, attorneys, courts, employers, schools, and the client, may obtain access to these records. Clinical case notes, administrative and bill records, appointment books, intake notes, digital notes, and memos reflect the various types of possible counseling records of interest to the parties mentioned above.

Discussion B: For this Discussion, review the ethical challenges related to court-ordered reporting of counseling records. Then, consider how to address each of these challenges.

Post by Day 3 a brief description of two ethical challenges related to record keeping and/or reporting when the legal system is involved. Specifically, one of these challenges must relate to adherence to court-ordered reporting of counseling records. Note which challenge and provide details. Then, explain how you would address each of these challenges. Be specific and reference the relevant ethical codes.

Be sure to use the Learning Resources and the current literature to support your response.

Respond by Day 5 to the opposite Discussion question.

Explain why not prosecuting the cases is the wrong public and social policy.

Explain why not prosecuting the cases is the wrong public and social policy.Since your graduation from AIU, you have been working as the victims’ assistant advocate for the office of the local county prosecutor. You have a great working relationship with the prosecutor, Mary, and the remainder of the office.

Normally, when you speak, the staff and prosecutor know you are speaking from a knowledge base that you have gained from personal experience, research, and reading, so they know that your comments are facts. You like to use APA format to cite your sources, but this bulleted paper does not need to be in APA format.

You have decided to speak with the prosecutor, Mary, on behalf of Maureen, the college student who was a victim of date rape. You want to convince Mary to support a change in the prosecutor’s policy of not prosecuting date rape cases when drugs or alcohol are involved. Maureen has a strict policy: when someone wants to speak with her about changing an established policy, she wants the person to submit a paper of 3–5 pages containing topic bullets outlining his or her argument for the policy change prior to meeting her. She feels this way, she is not blind-sided, and she has an opportunity to research the topic prior to the meeting.

You follow her policy and write a paper using bullets only, hoping that you can persuade Mary and the chief prosecutor to change their policy or, at a minimum, meet with you for a discussion about changing the policy. Maureen knows other young women are being attacked and that very often, date rape drugs are being used.

Mary has agreed to review your policy change letter if you write it. You write the policy change paper in which where you have the following two goals:

Educate Mary about date rape using statistics and information about date rape and date rape drugs to show her that Maureen is one of the types of victims who perpetrators take advantage of in these situations.
Explain why not prosecuting the cases is the wrong public and social policy. Of course, you are also hopeful that the victim, Maureen, also receives help in her case.
To organize your efforts before your meeting, create a detailed outline in bullet form that contains information for the following 5 topics:

List Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reported crime statistics relating to rape and the strengths and weaknesses of each type of reporting.
Define the term date rape (or acquaintance rape—the terms are interchangeable) and how date rape (acquaintance rape) is distinguished from stranger rape, statutory rape, and spousal rape.
List the types and uses of date rape drugs.

Choose a global environmental health issue or concern and thoroughly review the hazard, the effect on people.

Choose a global environmental health issue or concern and thoroughly review the hazard, the effect on people.
Paper , Order, or Assignment Requirements

Choose a global environmental health issue or concern and thoroughly review the hazard, the effect on people, the interventions that could or should take place, and the role that nurses should play in reducing or eliminating this hazard. How does this environmental issue impact the healthcare system?

Paper , Order, or Assignment Requirements

Choose a global environmental health issue or concern and thoroughly review the hazard, the effect on people, the interventions that could or should take place, and the role that nurses should play in reducing or eliminating this hazard. How does this environmental issue impact the healthcare system?

Why have economic analyses of clinical and administrative innovations become more important?.

Why have economic analyses of clinical and administrative innovations become more
important?. What does it mean to have market power? Are firms with market power extremely profitable?

HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS

Paper instructions:

Answer the following questions:

1. Why have economic analyses of clinical and administrative innovations become more
important?

2. A clinic finds that by eliminating appointments it can reduce costs. The clinic is able to eliminate some telephone staff, and physicians become more

productive. Patients wait until the physician is available, so there is virtually no down time. Does this analysis adopt a societal view of costs? Why might this

analysis result in a bad managerial decision?

3. Treating a patient with congestive heart failure with tPlex rather than Isother increases average life expectancy to 12.3 years from 11.5 years. The added cost

of therapy is $14,000. What is the cost per life year?

4. What does it mean to have market power? Are firms with market power extremely profitable?

5. Why might banning advertising drive up prices?

Describe three forms of advocacy discussed on the websites including their importance to the care and support of seniors.

Describe three forms of advocacy discussed on the websites including their importance to the care and support of seniors.
Senior Advocacy

Prior to completing this discussion, be sure to read chapter 15 in your text, read the required “Health reform, politics, and conflict: Is this any way to serve America’s elders” (2011), “The economic meltdown and old age politics: opportunity: reframe the politics of aging” (2009) articles, and review the IlluminAge, CARIE, and AARP websites and any relevant Instructor Guidance.

Evaluate the types of advocacy programs dedicated to seniors described within the resource materials. Describe three forms of advocacy discussed on the websites including their importance to the care and support of seniors. Analyze and comment upon social policy issues that impact these advocacy programs. What is the role of the each of the three advocacy programs, mentioned on the websites, in ensuring the needs and rights of seniors are met? Explain the role that politics and activism have in influencing the decision making of politicians and governments agencies regarding the needs of senior populations. Discuss other forms of advocacy (beyond those suggested on the websites) that promote Medicare support, access to health care, and improving nutrition for seniors.

What is the significance of using the aggregated data from the three major organizations

What is the significance of using the aggregated data from the three major organizations

(i.e., American Heart Association, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and American Heart Association Annual Survey)?
Read the following article:

Ginn, G. O., Shen, J. J., & Moseley, C. B. (2011). Hospital financial position and
the adoption of electronic health records. Journal of Health Care
Management, 56(5), 337–350.

In the United States, adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) is one of the most prolific discussions at the healthcare level. Hospitals and organizations that seek to financially invest in and adopt EHRs can lower medical cost, reduce medical errors, and increase efficiency of healthcare services rendered by healthcare practitioners. In this study, the authors examine the role of the financial position of hospitals in the adoption of EHRs in order to obtain further information regarding barriers to adoption. Review the questions to ask when critiquing a research study. Answer the following questions: