What were some of the highlights in this chapter and learning opportunities?

Chapter Readings Reflections Journal

As you develop and move through this course it is important that you are able to reflect on, report and assess your learning throughout your educational journey, using weekly reflection papers. Your reflection journal is due at the end of weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 during this course. All weekly reflection papers should be a minimum of two full pages of prose (for each chapter), double-spaced, in proper APA formatting using citations when appropriate. Please use Microsoft Word for all writing assignments.

Each Chapter Reading Reflection should address the following prompts:

Summarize the content of the chapter addressed.
What were some of the highlights in this chapter and learning opportunities?
Share some new ideas and/or thoughts that you developed from the reading of the chapter.
How do you think you can apply this chapter’s concepts into your home, school, personal-life or work environment?

Clearly identify and accurately describe in detail the professional organization related to the specialization you have chosen to focus on for this assignment and explain how you can become an active member of this organization.

Complete the following items and incorporate them into the final version of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan.

· Write a paragraph that provides a detailed comparison at least two nursing specialties, including your selected specialization(Psychiatric mental health Nurse practitioner) and second-preferred specialization.(Family Nurse practitioner)

· Write a clear and accurate 2- to 3-paragraph justification statement identifying your reasons for choosing your MSN specialization. Provide sufficient evidence of incorporating feedback you received from colleagues in this week’s Discussion Forum.

· Clearly identify and accurately describe in detail the professional organization related to the specialization you have chosen to focus on for this assignment and explain how you can become an active member of this organization.

Remember to include an introduction paragraph which contains a clear and comprehensive purpose statement which delineates all required criteria, and end the assignment Part with a conclusion paragraph

Discuss how the skills of writing, researching, presenting, working in teams, and using technological tools help you in your current role in the workplace.

Discuss how the skills of writing, researching, presenting, working in teams, and using technological tools help you in your current role in the workplace. Which of these skills do you find most important right now? Which skills do you think will help you achieve future goals?

Assignment Requirements

The length should be approximately 500 words.
There is no need for a title page or references, but give credit for any information derived from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
The assignment should be typed and submitted as a Microsoft Word document with 12-point font and double-spacing.
The grading rubric for this assignment is below.

Criteria:

Introduction

Introduction provides an overview of what was learned from the course and how it applies to the student’s career goals.

Importance of Writing

Clear and concise discussion of the importance of writing to the student’s career goals, with at least one good example provided.

Importance of Research

Clear and concise discussion of the importance of research to the student’s career goals, with at least one good example provided.

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeImportance of TeamsClear and concise discussion of the importance of working in teams to the student’s career goals, with at least one good example provided.

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeImportance of Technological ToolsClear and concise discussion of the importance of using technological tools to the student’s career goals, with at least one good example provided.

identify some strategies you might use to address both transference and countertransference in your work with children.

Specific skills and knowledge are essential for a social worker working with children. Understanding transference and countertransference is crucial to a healthy therapeutic relationship. Both transference and countertransference can be evident in any client–therapist relationship, but are especially important in working with children because of a common instinct among adults to protect and nurture the young. The projection or relocation of one’s feelings about one person onto another, otherwise known as transference, is a common response by children (Gil, 1991). Countertransference, a practitioner’s own emotional response to a child, is also common.

For this Discussion, review the Malawista (2004) article.

Provide a Discussion Post containing the following content, topics, and headings:

– Your explanation why transference and countertransference are so common when working with children.

– Then, identify some strategies you might use to address both transference and countertransference in your work with children.

Support your posts with specific references to the Learning Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

At least 3 references and citations

Post a response to Jansson’s assertion that evaluating specific policies is strongly influenced by values with respect to the case of the evaluation of special services.

Policies and the Influence of Values

Ideology, politics, and the influence of values often override evidence-based policy. When there is evaluation conflict, a policy advocate must be prepared to defend his/her reasons for wanting to implement a policy. Because almost all proposed policies are circumscribed by politics (for reasons brought up by Jansson throughout the course when discussing the subtleties of policy implementation), you should be prepared for some conflict, ranging from having your research ignored, to having the accuracy of your data questioned, to having your personal values brought into question.

In this Discussion, you consider the assertion that the evaluation of specific policies is often strongly influenced by values. You also examine and evaluate ways to mitigate evaluation conflict to defend the feasibility of your policy.

Questions in bold then answers

Post a response to Jansson’s assertion that evaluating specific policies is strongly influenced by values with respect to the case of the evaluation of special services.

How do the values of evaluation conflict adhere to social work values?

What practices would you use to defend the feasibility of and effectiveness of your evidence-based policy?

APA intext citations and full references

Resources

Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series.

Chapter 14, “Assessing Policy: Toward Evidence-Based Policy During Task 8” (pp. 488-503)

How would you engage with key stakeholders to determine which reform efforts (in the areas of payment reform, medical malpractice, and patient access to preventive services) should be prioritized in your state?

Healthcare reform can take place at multiple levels of government and in the context of professional regulation. Pretend that you are a policy aide to a governor. How would you engage with key stakeholders to determine which reform efforts (in the areas of payment reform, medical malpractice, and patient access to preventive services) should be prioritized in your state? Clearly identify the potential key stakeholders and propose a plan for engagement.

Healthcare reform can take place at multiple levels of government and in the context of professional regulation. Pretend that you are a policy aide to a governor. How would you engage with key stakeholders to determine which reform efforts (in the areas of payment reform, medical malpractice, and patient access to preventive services) should be prioritized in your state? Clearly identify the potential key stakeholders and propose a plan for engagement.

Be sure to address each question in the given prompt and include the following elements:

1. Your analysis of the issue or situation

2. Your assessment of the impact on key stakeholders

3. Your clear recommendations on a course of action or policy

Develop a proposed evidence-based change-project plan specific to the environment you are using to implement your change project.

Develop a proposed evidence-based change-project plan specific to the environment you are using to implement your change project. Your environmental assessment will include a work breakdown structure, a budget plan, and a measurement tool.

This week, you will design a plan that is at least four pages in length and includes all the information listed in the instructions below to discuss the elements of your proposed plan.

Develop an environmental assessment of your change project area and its readiness for the specific change project you are going to implement.
Include a work breakdown structure. For example, you could create a (timeline/task list/Gantt chart)—a hierarchical definition of the planned tasks and activities of a project that normally begins with the highest-level activities and works downward into the individual tasks.
Include a proposed project budget (table or spreadsheet) for the project that addresses the needed personnel, equipment, and supplies that may have associated costs. Click this link for a sample budget template Click for more options .
Include your measurable evaluation methods (indicators/metrics). Include the actual measurement tool you will use and describe any of the following that are applicable to your project: cost savings, improved efficiencies, access to care (visits/procedures/admissions), patient/family satisfaction, associate satisfaction, associate engagement, retention, clinical outcomes, injury prevention, and risk reduction.

Discuss the health care support systems available in your community for someone of this culture.

You are admitting a 19-year old female college student to the hospital for fevers.
Using the patient information provided, choose a culture unfamiliar to you and describe what would be important to remember while you interview this patient.
Discuss the health care support systems available in your community for someone of this culture. If no support systems are available in your community, identify a national resource.

compose a two-page essay discussing the impact of the new world of digital communication on community-building in America.

Robert Putnam, in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, uses the example of the decline of bowling leagues across the country to suggest the passing of community and associations in the United States. Traditionally these associations provided the “social capital”* upon which society was built.

Has social media exacerbated this loss of community and neighborhood associations or has it enhanced community building? Many argue that electronic communication lacks the tactile and personal nature of face to face contact necessary for true communities. Others respond that online communication permits a much broader understanding of community, with connection across a heretofore impossible expanse of culture and geography.

Using real-world examples, please compose a two-page essay discussing the impact of the new world of digital communication on community-building in America.

Your essay should use MLA formatting and demonstrate college-level grammar, spelling and vocabulary.

*Social capital: A network of personal relationships that provide social glue

Suggest three improvements, based on total quality management, that Ted Short can use to make the current process more efficient

Activity: Pareto Analysis and Business Process Flow Charting Practice
This activity consists of two problems.

Problem One
Gary Seitz is director of procurement for the Forest Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. His medical center recently purchased more than 300 new side tables for the patient rooms from Quick-and-Cheap Furniture. His team, however, is not happy with the paint quality of these tables. They feel the firm providing the tables was rushed to get the order out and did not do a great job.They have examined each of the 312 tables that they have received so far and found the following defects, listed in alphabetical order: Table DefectsProblemNumber of OccurrencesDirt in paint65Off-color17Orange peel12Other1Sad looking43Scratch11Sealer under8Thin paint31

Instructions
Use Excel to:

Create a Pareto Chart for this situation.
Create and complete a table for this situation using the following headers:
Problem.
Frequency.
Cumulate Frequency.
Percentage.
Cumulate Percentage.
List the most frequently occurring problem first in the table, then the next more frequently occurring problem second in the table, and so forth.
In a Word document:

Draw two conclusions about the quality of the patient tables that Quick Furniture has shipped to the Forest Medical Center.
Submit both your Word and Excel files.

Problem Two
Ted Short, manager of procurement at the Lake Luna Medical Center (LLMC), is starting a process to examine at the general process that is followed at his center for procurement of medical supplies at his facility. His first step is to develop a flowchart for the current process that employees at his center follow. He has asked you to draw that flowchart for him and make any obvious changes to shorten the process.Here are the key steps that are followed:

The LLMC employee fills out a paper requisition and sends that to his department head for approval.
The department secretary first examines the requisition to see if all needed information is present. If it is, then she sends to the department head for approval. If not, she returns to the employee for any needed corrections. The employee then returns the requisition to the department secretary for review again.
Requisitions with the correct information are sent to the department head.
The department head reviews the item to determine if the material requested seems appropriate. He may contact his employee to discuss any questions he might have.
If he feels it is inappropriate, then he rejects the request and sends it back to the employee.
If he feels it is appropriate, then he checks the budget to see if there are sufficient monies in the budget to pay for this. If there are not, then he rejects the request and sends it back to the employee. If there are sufficient funds, then he approves them.
If the requisition is approved, then the department secretary sends the requisition to a member of the LLMC Procurement Team.
The LLMC procurement specialist checks to see if the suggested vendor on the requisition is on the approved vendor list (AVL).
If not, he sends the request back to the department secretary and the process starts all over if the LLMC employee wants to continue to pursue it. If the employee does not, then the requisition is terminated.
If the vendor is on the AVL, the LLMC procurement specialist checks to see if a quote is required, either based on the type of equipment and material required or on the amount of the purchase.
If no quote is required, the procurement specialist transmits the PO to the vendor for execution.
If a quote is required, then the specialist contacts the vendor and asks for a quote. If the quote is satisfactory based on past purchases of such items, the specialist approves the quote and places the order.
If the quote is too high, the specialist contacts the LLMC employee and asks for another vendor to check. The procurement specialist then checks the second vendor. Usually, a procurement specialist will have to check only two vendors at most.
If the specialist cannot find a vendor with it suitable price after two tries, then the PO is cancelled.
When the specialist finds a vendor who submits a suitable quote, the transmits the PO to the vendor for execution by US postal service or by telephone.
The procurement specialist then logs the transaction into the financial system.
The procurement specialist then forwards the request to the Accounts Payable Department for payment when the receipt of the materials and equipment ordered, if acknowledged.
Instructions
Use Microsoft Word to complete the following:

Develop a flowchart for this process.
Suggest three improvements, based on total quality management, that Ted Short can use to make the current process more efficient.
Submit your Word document(s)