The vast majority of the population associates Blockchain with cryptocurrency Bitcoin; however, there are many other uses of blockchain; such as Litecoin, Ether, and other currencies. Describe at least two cryptocurrencies with applicable examples. Discuss some similarities and differences.

 The vast majority of the population associates Blockchain with cryptocurrency Bitcoin; however, there are many other uses of blockchain; such as Litecoin, Ether, and other currencies. Describe at least two cryptocurrencies with applicable examples. Discuss some similarities and differences. Lastly, discuss if you have any experience using any cryptocurrencies. 

 In 1798, President John Adams signed the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, imposing a twenty cent per month tax on sailors to be used to pay for care at various American ports. Why would the federal government single out sailors for a mandatory health insurance fee?

 In 1798, President John Adams signed the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, imposing a twenty cent per month tax on sailors to be used to pay for care at various American ports. This act led to the eventual development of the U.S. Public Health Service.
In your post, respond to the following questions and, if it’s relevant, include your own personal experience:

Why would the federal government single out sailors for a mandatory health insurance fee?
Why would state governments think this was a good idea? What would be the advantages of this approach for state governments?
Be sure to include the historical role of the federal and state governments in health care delivery in your discussion.

Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.

Assignment 3: Diverse Workforce
Imagine that you work for a company with an age diverse workforce. You have baby boomers working with millenials. Their backgrounds are different, and how they view work is different. This is causing some friction within the workforce. Before the tension escalates, you need to have a meeting to discuss the issue. Prepare a five to seven (5-7) slide PowerPoint presentation for your staff meeting that addresses this issue and proposes a solution.
Create a five to seven (5-7) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Thoroughly propose a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and at least one (1) relevant graphic (photograph, graph, clip art, etc.). Ensure that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from up to 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.

Assessment 4 Instructions: Stakeholder Presentation
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
· For this assessment you will create an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation for one or more stakeholder or leadership groups to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal you developed for the third assessment.
As a current or future nurse leader, you may be called upon to present to stakeholders and leadership about projects that you have been involved in or wish to implement. The ability to communicate a plan—and potential implications of not pursuing such a plan—to stakeholders effectively can be critically important in creating awareness and buy-in, as well as building your personal and professional brand in your organization. It is equally important that you know how to create compelling presentations for others’ delivery and ensure that they convey the same content you would deliver if you were the presenter.
You are encouraged to complete the Evidence-Based Practice: Basics and Guidelines activity before you develop the presentation. This activity consists of six questions that will create the opportunity to check your understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based practice as well as ways to identify EBP in practice. The information gained from completing this formative will help promote success in the Stakeholder Presentation and demonstrate courseroom engagement—it requires just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.
Demonstration of Proficiency
· Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health. 
1. Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
<li”>Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes. 
1. Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
· Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team. 
2. Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
2. Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes. 
3. Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed speaker notes are provided.
3. Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years) with an APA formatted reference list with few errors.
Professional Context
This assessment will provide you with an opportunity to sharpen your ability to create a professional presentation to stakeholders. In this presentation, you will explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and how it can be used to introduce the plan (P), implement the plan (D), study the effectiveness of the plan (S), and act on what is learned (A) to drive continuous improvement. By using this cycle, the stakeholders will have a tool and a proposal to expand on these ideas to drive workplace change and create improved processes to solve an interprofessional collaboration problem.
Scenario
In addition to summarizing the key points of Assessments 2 and 3, you will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluated—you will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study. However, by carefully examining the ways in which your plan 
could be carried out and evaluated, you will get some of the experience of the thinking required for PDSA. 

When creating your PowerPoint for this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee’s organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.
Instructions
Please follow the Capella 

Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX]
. If you need technical information on using PowerPoint, refer to 

Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations
.

Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
· Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
· Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
· Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
· Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
· Communicate the PowerPoint presentation of the interdisciplinary improvement plan to stakeholders in a professional manner, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and respectful with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.
There are various ways to structure your presentation; following is one example:
· Part 1: Organizational or Patient Issue.
9. What is the issue that you are trying to solve or improve?
9. Why should the audience care about solving it?
· Part 2: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Team Approach.
10. Why is using an interdisciplinary team relevant, or the best approach, to addressing the issue?
10. How will it help to achieve improved outcomes or reach a goal?
· Part 3: Interdisciplinary Plan Summary.
11. What is the objective?
11. How likely is it to work?
11. What will the interdisciplinary team do?
· Part 4: Implementation and Resource Management.
12. How could the plan be implemented to ensure effective use of resources?
12. How could the plan be managed to ensure that resources were not wasted?
12. How does the plan justify the resource expenditure?
· Part 5: Evaluation.
13. What would a successful outcome of the project look like?
13. What are the criteria that could be used to measure that success? 
2. How could this be used to show the degree of success?
Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee’s organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly. Remember, also, that another person will ultimately be giving the presentation. Include thorough speaker’s notes that flesh out the bullet points on each slide.
Additional Requirements
· Number of slides: Plan on using one or two slides for each part of your presentation as needed, so the content of your presentation will be 8–12 slides in length. Remember that slides should contain concise talking points, and you will use presenter’s notes to go into detail. Be sure to include a reference slide as the last slide of your presentation.
· Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. 
· APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations on your slides and in your notes pages and reference slide reflect current APA Style and Format.
Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.
· SCORING GUIDE
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

VIEW SCORING GUIDE

CRITERIA 

NON-PERFORMANCE 

BASIC 

PROFICIENT 

DISTINGUISHED 

Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.

Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
Propose evidence-based criteria to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.

Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed speaker notes are provided.

Organize content with clear purpose /goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years) with an APA formatted reference list with few errors.

Develop a project to accomplish a meaningful, worthwhile change. The project should be designed to create a significant change in a process, system, or structure within the community, a business or nonprofit organization, government institution, or some other organization.

You must develop a project to accomplish a meaningful, worthwhile change. The project should be designed to create a significant change in a process, system, or structure within the community, a business or nonprofit organization, government institution, or some other organization.
Project Criteria
1. Must show promise of being a worthwhile learning experience, and
2. Must have some societal value.
Projects will
not be approved if they will be only disruptive or if they are trivial.

You are encouraged to select a project that you personally value and a goal for which you have a genuine concern that goes beyond a simple need to fulfill a course requirement. Don’t waste your time on something you don’t care about! You are encouraged to talk to the instructor about your project ideas as early as possible if you are not sure about your project’s suitability.
The Proposal

No later than the end of Lesson 2

, you must submit a one-page proposal which shares:

1. A concise statement of what the change project is and why it is important.
2. A brief plan of what you think has to be done to achieve the change.
3. A statement of how you will measure whether the change has been accomplished.
Projects or an agreed-upon segment of the project (should your project be extensive) should be completed by the end of the course. Key criteria used to evaluate the project will be its prospects for success and the learning exhibited as a result of the project. This learning includes an integrated, comprehensive understanding of the course materials.
Interim Reports of the Project
There are OPTIONAL interim change project reports for this assignment. All will be included in your final report but are optional for submission as we go along if you’d like feedback in advance:
1. Choice of change model report
(Lesson 3)

2. Need for change and vision statement
(Lesson 5)

3. Stakeholder, force field and power analysis
(Lesson 7)

4. A description of your proposed action plan
(Lesson 9)

I recommend that you complete these as we cover the topics in class, and I strongly recommend you undertake them sequentially. I also understand time is tight for some folks, so you might need to work on an alternate timeline and not submit these drafts. If you do, I will provide you with feedback
provided they are submitted by their due dates on the schedule. You can then incorporate this feedback into your final report.

The Final Report
Your final report should be a narrative of what you have learned by analyzing certain aspects of the issue and considering certain components of change. While the information within the Interim Reports will make up a lot of the information for the Final Report, you will also include the following within for the Final Report.
5. Using your chosen change model and your Interim Reports,
discuss how your change project might alter things over time as well as how you’d
evaluate your successes and assess your challenges
. Incorporate relevant learnings/insights from the course materials in this discussion. Demonstrate your understanding of the course material (cite it!) with this description.

6.
Reflect on what you,
personally, have learned from undertaking the project
. Specify what lessons you have learned to apply to future change activities and what this project has taught you about yourself as a change agent. Relate your learnings/insights to both the change model and the course readings. This section is critical to your grade.

Note: Most of the emphasis in the report should be on demonstrating your knowledge of change management and discussing the learning from the project.

Basic Outline for the Final Report
Your text (and other relevant sources) should be cited in support of ideas in every section of this paper, with all cited sources appearing on a References page at the end of the paper. I encourage you to use
APA Style Headings (found online at https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/headings) to help structure and format your report.

The outline below shows what sections should be present, what to include in each section, and how much each section is worth.
A.

OVERVIEW (10%)

1. Introduce the organization and the change you will be preparing for and/or implementing.
2. Discuss the key aspects of the change that you propose to undertake.
B.

CHOICE OF CHANGE MODEL (15%)

1. Describe the model or models you feel would be most appropriate for this change. This model may be one of those offered in the course readings, or one discussed or developed in class. Alternatively, you may combine a number of models into one that is uniquely your own.
2. You must give a rationale for your preference of the model and exhibit an understanding of it. (You are
not expected to discuss the model in deep detail
.)

C.

NEED FOR CHANGE AND VISION STATEMENT (10%)

Need for change

1. Discuss the sources of need for change
Environmental? Personal?
2. Discuss the consequences of change
Concrete & tangible
Values-based & intangible
3. Discuss the degree to which the belief of the need for change is accepted. How widespread is the understanding of the need for change?

Share your Vision Statement for this change. (Not the organizational one!)

Is it:
1. Clear?
2. Concise?
3. Memorable?
4. Inspiring?
5. Challenging?
6. Related to project?
D.

STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS, POWER ANALYSIS, FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS (20%)

Include a narrative of each of three types of analysis. The bullets below should guide this discussion.

Stakeholder analysis

1. Identify and describe all the stakeholders
2. Analyze stakeholder needs
3. Analyze stakeholder support of change project
4. Identify and describe those who influence the stakeholders?
5. Analyze influence

Power analysis

1. What types of power are to be considered?
2. Consider and discuss the possibility of coalitions

Force field analysis

1. Identify and describe forces for and against change
2. Discuss how these forces could be increased or decreased?
3. Discuss what new forces could be created?
4. Brainstorm and discuss “dumb moves” which could cause resistance?
E.

ACTION PLANNING (20%)

Discuss which tools for action planning were useful? Why or why not?

1. Goal setting: end goal; next goal.
2. Critical path considered.
3. Contingency planning done.
4. Decision tree analysis done.
5. Responsibility charting (who does what, when, where, how).
6. Others you considered and used.

How do you propose to assess/evaluate the validity of your action plan and its prospects for success?

1. Does the timed sequenced of activities flow in logical order?
2. Were metrics of success and success probabilities considered?
3. Is the plan realistic?
4. Do you have the personal competence to implement and if not, how will you develop needed competencies or make up for shortcomings in some other way?
F.

LESSONS LEARNED (15%)

1. Discuss what you have learned—either from success or from missteps or failure—about change through the lens of this project.
2. How will you apply what you’ve learned in this course and through this project to future changes?

You will also be graded on the report’s OVERALL IMPRESSION (10%)

What tools are used in management analytics? Give one example of a real-world example.

Discussion 1 – Business Intelligence
Discussion 1 (Chapter 10): Management Analytics helps develop a thorough understanding of the factors influencing managerial decisions. What tools are used in management analytics? Give one example of a real-world example.
Note: 

TEXTBOOK:
Title: Business Intelligence and Analytics
ISBN: 9780135192016
Authors: Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen, Efraim Turban
Publisher: Pearson
Publication Date: 2019-01-04
Edition: 11th ED.

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Portfolio – Business Intelligence
This week, you need to discuss a current business process in a  
specific industry. Note the following:

-The 
current business process itself. (Do  
NOT explain what a business process means in general!)

-The industry where the business process is utilized in.
After explaining the current situation, take the current learning from the course and:
· Explain a new technology that the business should deploy. Be specific, don’t only note the type of technology but the particular instance of technology. (For example, a type of technology is smart automation; a specific type of automation is automated light-dimming technology).
· Note the pros and cons of the technology selected.
· Note various factors the business should consider before deploying the new technology.
The above submission should be 
three pages long, excluding the title and reference pages. Remember, the total length does not include the APA-approved cover page or the references. There should be at least three APA-approved references to support your work.

TEXTBOOK:
Title: Business Intelligence and Analytics
ISBN: 9780135192016
Authors: Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen, Efraim Turban
Publisher: Pearson
Publication Date: 2019-01-04
Edition: 11th ED.

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There are many roles a professional nurse may assume. Select three professional roles that are available to nurses and discuss how each role may impact funding, management, and delivery processes. 

Advance Nursing Practice and Nursing OrganizationsInstructions
There are many roles a professional nurse may assume  There are various advance practice nursing roles. These roles can impact funding, management, and delivery processes. Different roles may be clinical, such as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and nurse anesthetists or may be in a specialty role such as nursing education, informatics, or case management. As a member of the profession, the nurse may choose to become active in one or more professional organizations.  
Select three professional roles that are available to nurses and discuss how each role may impact funding, management, and delivery processes.  Review the resources available and identify two professional organizations and discuss how belonging would benefit the profession and you as a professional. 
Readings & Resources

Chapter 1 – Nursing in Today’s Evolving Health Care Environment and Chapter 14 – Health Care in the United States in Black, B. P. (2019). Professional nursing: Concepts & challenges. 
Nurse.org has a list of professional Nursing organizations  
Review the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 Report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Pay special attention to the report brief and report recommendations which are two separate pdf documents.

Additional Instructions:

All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Competency guidelines.

Submission Options
Choose One:
Instructions:
Paper

2 to 3-page paper. Include title and reference pages. 
Note: Title and reference pages/slides do not count towards the count requirements.

You are a medical professor in charge of creating college assignments and answers for medical college students. You design and conduct lectures, evaluate student performance and provide feedback through examinations and assignments. Answer each question separately. Include and Introduction. Provide an answer to this content

Advance Nursing Practice and Nursing OrganizationsInstructions
There are many roles a professional nurse may assume.  There are various advance practice nursing roles. These roles can impact funding, management, and delivery processes. Different roles may be clinical, such as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and nurse anesthetists or may be in a specialty role such as nursing education, informatics, or case management. As a member of the profession, the nurse may choose to become active in one or more professional organizations.  
Select three professional roles that are available to nurses and discuss how each role may impact funding, management, and delivery processes.  Review the resources available and identify two professional organizations and discuss how belonging would benefit the profession and you as a professional. 
Readings & Resources

Chapter 1 – Nursing in Today’s Evolving Health Care Environment and Chapter 14 – Health Care in the United States in Black, B. P. (2019). Professional nursing: Concepts & challenges. 
Nurse.org has a list of professional Nursing organizations  
Review the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 Report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Pay special attention to the report brief and report recommendations which are two separate pdf documents.

Additional Instructions:

All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.

Case Study: A 74-year-old African American woman, Ms. Richardson, was brought to the hospital emergency room by the police. She is unkempt, dirty, and foul-smelling. She does not look at the interviewer and is apparently confused and unresponsive to most of his questions.Summarize the clinical case including the significant subjective and objective data.Generate a primary and two differential diagnoses.

After studying Module 6: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following:Case Study: A 74-year-old African American woman, Ms. Richardson, was brought to the hospital emergency room by the police.  She is unkempt, dirty, and foul-smelling.  She does not look at the interviewer and is apparently confused and unresponsive to most of his questions.  Use the DSM5 to support the assessment.  Include the DSM5 and ICD 10 codes She knows her name and address, but not the day of the month. She is unable to describe the events that led to her admission.  The police reported that they were called by neighbors because Ms. Richardson had been wandering around the neighborhood and not taking care of herself.  The medical center mobile crisis unit went to her house twice but could not get in and presumed she was not home. Finally, the police came and broke into the apartment, where they were met by a snarling German shepherd.  They shot the dog with a tranquilizing gun and then found Ms. Richardson hiding in the corner, wearing nothing but a bra. The apartment was filthy, the floor littered with dog feces.  The police found a gun, which they took into custody. The following day, while Ms. Richardson was awaiting transfer to a medical unit for treatment of her out-of-control diabetes, the psychiatric provider attempted to interview her.  Her facial expression was still mostly unresponsive, and she still didn’t know the month and couldn’t say what hospital she was in.  She reported that the neighbors had called the police because she was “sick,” and indeed she had felt sick and weak, with pains in her shoulder; in addition, she had not eaten for 3 days.  She remembered that the police had shot her dog with a tranquilizer and said the dog was now in “the shop” and would be returned to her when she got home.  She refused to give the name of a neighbor who was a friend, saying, “he’s got enough troubles of his own.” She denied ever being in a psychiatric hospital or hearing voices but acknowledged that she had at one point seen a psychiatrist “near downtown” because she couldn’t sleep.  He had prescribed medication that was too strong, so she didn’t take it.  She didn’t remember the name, so the interviewer asked if it was Thorazine.  She said no, it was “allal.”  ‘Haldol?”, ask the interviewer. She nodded.   The interviewer was convinced that was the drug, but other observers thought she might have said yes to anything that sounded remotely like it, such as “Elavil.” When asked about the gun, she denied, with some annoyance, that it was real and said it was a toy gun that had been brought to the house by her brother, who had died 8 years ago.  She was still feeling weak and sick, complained of pain in her shoulder, and apparently had trouble swallowing.  She did manage to smile as the team left her bedside.Questions:Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and clinical guidelines to create your evidence-based treatment plan. At all times, explain your answers. Summarize the clinical case including the significant subjective and objective data.Generate a primary and two differential diagnoses.  Use the DSM5 to support the assessment.  Include the DSM5 and ICD 10 codes.Discuss a pharmacological treatment would you prescribe? Use the clinical guidelines to support the rationale for this treatment.Discuss non-pharmacological treatment would you prescribe?  Use the clinical guidelines to support the rationale for this treatment.Describe a health promotion intervention that would be appropriate for this patient.

Explain the legal requirements governing employee retention policies, citing applicable local, state, and federal law.

Recruitment and Retention Management Brief

Overview

Recruitment and retention laws can vary between levels of government. For example, some localities require higher minimum wages than the federal standard because of local livable wage ordinances (local laws). In this assignment, you’ll identify, research, and discuss general federal and local laws affecting recruitment and retention.

Imagine yourself as the human resources manager for a local and well-established construction company. Management executives have asked you to redesign the company’s recruiting and retention practices. Your focus will be on updating or creating new policies compliant with local, state, and federal laws governing recruiting and retention.

Your first task is to write a brief for management that describes the scope of existing local, state, and federal laws the company must comply with, including any legal requirements specific to the construction field.

Write a 5-6 page management brief using the 

Management Brief Template

(see below) in which you:

· Analyze local, state, and federal recruiting and retention laws and practices the company must comply with.
· Include at least two researched examples of local laws in your area that may impose additional legal requirements on recruitment and retention. These laws are in addition to state and federal legislation.
· Explain what compensation, benefits, and incentives the company may offer candidates, citing applicable local, state, and federal law.
· Explain what information the company may and may not solicit from candidates during the recruitment process, citing applicable local, state, and federal law.
· Explain the legal requirements governing employee retention policies, citing applicable local, state, and federal law.
· For example, equity in determining promotions and salary.
· Use at least 5 sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Number and cite each source listed on your source page.
You’re encouraged to refer to the following resources as you prepare your management brief:
· U.S. Department of Labor websites:
·

State Labor LawsLinks to an external site.
.

·

Summary of the Major Laws of the Department of LaborLinks to an external site.

Management Brief Template – Recruitment and Retention

Federal and Local Laws

Note: Complete each section to develop the brief following the week 3 assignment instructions.

Purpose:
Laws and Practices Identified:
· Local:
· State:
· Federal:
Compensation, Benefits, and Incentives:
Candidate Information (permissible):
Retention legal requirements:

Define and describe explicit and implicit memory

 
Musculoskeletal Function:G.J. is a 71-year-old overweight woman who presents to the Family Practice Clinic for the first time complaining of a long history of bilateral knee discomfort that becomes worse when it rains and usually feels better when the weather is warm and dry. “My arthritis hasn’t improved a bit this summer though,” she states. Discomfort in the left knee is greater than in the right knee. She has also suffered from low back pain for many years, but recently it has become worse. She is having difficulty using the stairs in her home. The patient had recently visited a rheumatologist who tried a variety of NSAIDs to help her with pain control. The medications gave her mild relief but also caused significant and intolerable stomach discomfort. Her pain was alleviated with oxycodone. However, when she showed increasing tolerance and began insisting on higher doses of the medication, the physician told her that she may need surgery and that he could not prescribe more oxycodone for her. She is now seeking medical care at the Family Practice Clinic. Her knees started to get significantly more painful after she gained 20 pounds during the past nine months. Her joints are most stiff when she has been sitting or lying for some time and they tend to “loosen up” with activity. The patient has always been worried about osteoporosis because several family members have been diagnosed with the disease. However, nonclinical manifestations of osteoporosis have developed.
Case Study Questions

Define osteoarthritis and explain the differences with osteoarthrosis. List and analyze the risk factors that are presented on the case that contribute to the diagnosis of osteoarthritis.
Specify the main differences between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, make sure to include clinical manifestations, major characteristics, joints usually affected and diagnostic methods.
Describe the different treatment alternatives available, including non-pharmacological and pharmacological that you consider are appropriate for this patient and why.
How would you handle the patient concern about osteoporosis? Describe your interventions and education you would provide to her regarding osteoporosis.

Neurological Function:H.M is a 67-year-old female, who recently retired from being a school teacher for the last 40 years. Her husband died 2 years ago due to complications of a CVA. Past medical history: hypertension controlled with Olmesartan 20 mg by mouth once a day. Family history no contributory. Last annual visits with PCP with normal results. She lives by herself but her children live close to her and usually visit her two or three times a week.Her daughter start noticing that her mother is having problems focusing when talking to her, she is not keeping things at home as she used to, often is repeating and asking the same question several times and yesterday she has issues remembering her way back home from the grocery store.
Case Study Questions

Name the most common risks factors for Alzheimer’s disease
Name and describe the similarities and the differences between Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Frontotemporal dementia.
Define and describe explicit and implicit memory Describe the diagnosis criteria developed for the Alzheimer’s disease by the National Institute of Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association
What would be the best therapeutic approach on C.J.

Submission Instructions:

Include both case studies in your post.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words per case study, a total of 500 words for both, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources per case study. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
You should respond to at least two of your peers, by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.) 
All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
Please post your initial response before 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates before 11:59 PM ET Sunday.  NB: Responses to peers can be done on the same day, but not on the day the initial post is made.
You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.