U.S Healthcare from then to now

Early roots of the current hospital system can be traced back to the 1800s with the development of almshouses, which were developed to serve primarily the poor population. Since then, major milestones and accomplishments have been instrumental in forming today’s system. These major milestones are divided into four sectors and, according to Niles, the milestones for each provide an introduction as to how each sector has evolved to form part of the U.S. healthcare system.

Your required readings categorize the milestones in the healthcare system into these four sectors:

The history of practicing medicine and the development of medical education

The development of the hospital system

The history of public health

The history of health insurance

For your assignment

Part A

Select one of the four milestone sectors. From that sector, select one major milestone. For example, from the Medicine and Education milestone, you might select the year 1904, when the AMA created the Council on Medical Education to establish standards for medical education. Or, from the Public Health milestone, you might select the year 1923, when the vaccine for diphtheria and whooping cough was developed.

Once your milestone has been selected:

Describe the milestone in detail.

Cite circumstances/issues that lead to its creation. Cite resources to describe the milestone.

Describe the resulting impact of the healthcare issue it was developed to address.

Part B

Then, select a milestone from two other sectors that occurred around the same point in time. For instance, the Medicine and Education milestone example occurred in 1904. So, you would select a milestone from two different sectors that occurred around the same time in history; in this case, 1904.

Part C

Describe how the three (3) milestones intersect, enhance, or supplement each other.

Reference either material in the book or an external source to support your point. Do not forget to cite your sources.

Please ensure that each paragraph includes proper capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.

Academic article critique

Write an Academic Article Critique of the attached article below, “Who Wears the Pants”…Your critique should be no more than three pages.

First explain the article’s thesis as clearly and concisely as possible and explain what kind of evidence would be necessary to prove that thesis; then examine what kind of evidence the article in fact provides and evaluate whether the thesis has been sufficiently proven.

 

Mental Illness and madness

In your required readings and video clip, Mental Illness and Madness, you learned about the history of the perceptions of mental illness. For years, individuals have attempted to explain and control mental illness based on the popular models or traditions of that particular time. One such belief is that outside agents such as demons, spirits or other phenomena influence and control our behavior, thinking, and emotions.

In your initial post:

Examine the historical conceptions of mental illness (supernatural, biological, and psychological). Select one model or tradition that you think is still present today. Provide examples from today’s society.

Develop your own definition of mental illness.

E-Marketing Plan

E-Marketing Plan

Your job is to create something new on the Internet (e.g., a new online business, a new website, or a new product or service on the Internet) and develop a marketing plan for it. You can come up with a completely new idea or modify an existing online business. Your goal is to show investors that your online business has potential and convince them to invest in it. I strongly encourage you to contact me if you have any questions. The guidelines for this E-Marketing plan are as follows:

  • Format: double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on all sides of the paper, using 12 point Times New Roman font.
  • Length: the number of pages below is the minimum requirement. You can go over those limits.
  • A title page: the title, your name, date, and course
  • Table of contents

The following topics should be included in your marketing plan

  1. A description of your new online business, including why (i.e., rationales for your new online business), what (i.e., a description of your new business), and how (i.e., steps for realizing your business idea) (2 pages).
  2. Situation Analysis (2 pages)
    • External environmental factors – analyze economic, legal, technological and competitive factors and argue whether they are opportunities or threats to your new business.
    • Internal environmental factors – identify the strengths and weaknesses of your business.
    • A summary SWOT table
  3. Customer analysis – describe your customers and argue why you think your new online business is attractive to them (1 page)
  4. Segmentation, targeting, and differentiation strategy (1 page)
  5. Objectives (1 page)
  6. E-marketing Strategy – product, price, promotion, distribution, and customer relationship management (3 pages)
  7. Implementation Plan (1 page)
  8. Budget – estimate the costs and forecast the revenues (1 page)
  9. Evaluation Plan – identify appropriate performance metrics (1 page)
  10. References – number your references at the end and put those numbers in your report.

 

Literacy or Personal Narrative

Consider the following question: In your education journey throughout your life, what is 1 key moment that stands out, and how did it affect you?

In your narrative, apply what you know from your readings about narrative writing and:

Provide descriptive details.

Engage the audience.

Convey the importance of the event or circumstances.

 

Foundational Concepts of Advanced Pharmacology Assignment Topic: Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs

What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis? How much of the drug should the patient receive? How often should the drug be administered? When should the drug not be prescribed? Are there individual patient factors that could create complications when taking the drug? Should you be prescribing drugs to this patient? How might different state regulations affect the prescribing of this drug to this patient?

These are some of the questions you might consider when selecting a treatment plan for a patient.  

 

As an advanced practice nurse prescribing drugs, you are held accountable for people’s lives every day. Patients and their families will often place trust in you because of your position. With this trust comes power and responsibility, as well as an ethical and legal obligation to “do no harm.” It is important that you are aware of current professional, legal, and ethical standards for advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority. Additionally, it is important to ensure that the treatment plans and administration/prescribing of drugs is in accordance with the regulations of the state in which you practice. Understanding how these regulations may affect the prescribing of certain drugs in different states may have a significant impact on your patient’s treatment plan. In this Assignment, you explore ethical and legal implications of scenarios and consider how to appropriately respond.

Scenario 1:
As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult.

Scenario 2:
A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you don’t have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway.

Scenario 3:
You see another nurse practitioner writing a prescription for her husband who is not a patient of the nurse practitioner. The prescription is for a narcotic. You can’t decide whether or not to report the incident.

Scenario 4:
During your lunch break at the hospital, you read a journal article on pharmacoeconomics. You think of a couple of patients who have recently mentioned their financial difficulties. You wonder if some of the expensive drugs you have prescribed are sufficiently managing the patients’ health conditions and improving their quality of life.

  • Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and patient’s family.
  • Describe strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure as identified in the scenario you selected. Be sure to reference laws specific to your state.
  • Explain two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your decision making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose your error. Be sure to justify your explanation.
  • Explain the process of writing prescriptions, including strategies to minimize medication errors.
Surge pricing

Does ‘surge pricing’ successfully balance the demand and supply condition for Uber? Is Surge Pricing fair to consumers? Can surge pricing be applied to other businesses or industries? Apply your demand and supply knowledge and provide a sufficient analysis on the issue.

Genetics – The museum is scheduling a speech at the grand opening for a group of high school students in attendance and wants you to write it.

The museum is scheduling a speech at the grand opening for a group of high school students in attendance and wants you to write it.

-Discuss factors that lead to genetic variations in a population by using the Hardy-Weinberg Law that describes allele frequencies in a population.

-Explain how animal behaviors, including human behaviors, are governed by genetic inheritance.

-Explain how the laboratory mouse has become a valuable model organism for the study of development and genetics.

-What other animal models are used?

-What contribution(s) has research using Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster made in the study of animal behavior and population genetics?

-Elaborate on the future of human disease diagnosis using the data from the Human Genome Project.

-Provide sufficient examples to make the speech relevant to high school students.