“What future insights may urine be able to offer us in health and wellness?”

Urinalysis is a common non-invasive component of primary care screening, pathology screening, and drug metabolite testing. Urine is often viewed as a waste product, but newer research suggests that urine can offer more insight into health.

Initial Post

Read Urinology Think Tank Writing Group.

Focus on the general concepts, as opposed to understanding every word. After completing the reading, answer the following question for your initial post: “What future insights may urine be able to offer us in health and wellness?”

Use the assigned article, with appropriate APA citations, to support your position with at least 5-6 sentences to support your case.

 Identify and explain the three types of classifications for investments in debt securities. 

1)  Identify and explain the three types of classifications for investments in debt securities.

2)  Summarize how unrealized holding gains and losses should be reported for debt investments classified as trading, available-for-sale, and held-to-maturity.

Describe the history of independent living, self-determination, and participant direction.

Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
1. Describe the history of independent living, self-determination, and participant direction.
2. Compare and evaluate the effectiveness of participant direction as a service model.
3. Discuss the evaluation research on participant direction as a service model relevant to the
population served and/or practice context.

Explain how diverse characteristics may influence an individual’s familial relationships, social organizations, and help-seeking behavior

Engage diversity and difference in practice.
1. Understand the diverse characteristics among participants, families, and professionals (e.g., age,
class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration
status, political ideology, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation, etc.).
2. Describe how diverse characteristics are sources of strengths for and/or may create barriers to
accessing services and supports.
3. Explain how diverse characteristics may influence an individual’s familial relationships, social
organizations, and help-seeking behavior

Describe how privilege, oppression, and discrimination may impact access to services and supports

Advance human rights and social and economic justice.
1. Understand the forms and mechanisms of privilege, oppression, and discrimination and their
impact on participants and their families.
2. Describe how privilege, oppression, and discrimination may impact access to services and supports

Identify effective techniques to advocate for strengthening existing or developing new longterm services and supports

Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver
effective social work services.
1. Understand the policy history and potential future trajectory of major public programs for longterm services and supports.
2. Identify effective techniques to advocate for strengthening existing or developing new longterm services and supports

Discuss how family, paid caregivers, and community provide informal and formal supports.

Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
1. Apply a strength-based approach and build on individuals’ strengths, values, preferences, and
goals.
2. Discuss how family, paid caregivers, and community provide informal and formal supports.
3. Demonstrate ability to work with participants to develop support plans and individual budgets.
4. Establish capacity to provide support to the participant with employer related tasks, as needed
(e.g., worker recruitment, training, discharging, etc.)

Describe the philosophy of person-centeredness in relation to social work values and theories.

Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
1. Describe the philosophy of person-centeredness in relation to social work values and theories.
2. Identify the roles and responsibilities of the social worker, participant, support broker, and
financial management services agency in a participant-directed service model

How should the organization’s work be departmentalized?

1. How should the organization’s work be departmentalized?
2. How should work be divided among departments and individuals?
3. How would you make sure that the work of various individuals and groups was effectively coordinated?
4. Draw an organizational chart that you could use to describe the agency’s design.

500 words

Discuss formats for data display that you believe could be effective to show a school board, colleagues, or parents continued areas of student need. 

Discuss formats for data display that you believe could be effective to show a school board, colleagues, or parents continued areas of student need.