What steps would you take before releasing prisoners who suffer from mental health problems back into society?  

According to the text, Mental health treatment programs are essential in prisons as many prisoners suffer from mental health problems.  In many states, there are mixed responsibilities between correctional and mental health agencies. Review the categories of mental health treatment discussed in the course material. Should we provide inmates with free mental health treatment while in prison? If so, what are the benefits of providing prisoners with mental health treatment? What steps would you take before releasing prisoners who suffer from mental health problems back into society?

What are some examples of ways that employers have violated FMLA laws? If you were their human resources (HR) professional, how would you have prevented the violation?

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides a guaranteed unpaid and job-protected leave of absence for employees to provide care for family and medical reasons. It allows them to continue to have company-provided group health insurance coverage. They are eligible for 12 weeks of leave in a 12-month period to care for family members or 26 weeks of leave to care for a member of the military. When they return, they are eligible for their previous job or one with similar duties and responsibilities. With your classmates, please discuss the following:

  • What are some examples of ways that employers have violated FMLA laws? If you were their human resources (HR) professional, how would you have prevented the violation?
  • How would you change the FMLA to help companies and employees better manage work and family responsibilities?
Explain why each problem is a potential focus for an EBP QI project. Be specific and provide examples.

 Key Project Elements

  • Describe the three healthcare settings that you explored as proposed sites for an EBP QI project.      For each health care setting, identify the following defining features: patient population, mission, public or private entity, single institution or member of a corporation, and others you identify as significant.
  • Compare the settings for strengths and weaknesses as sites for an EBP QI project. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Explain the practice problems that you explored based on your interests and identified needs of the health care settings you investigated.
  • Explain why each problem is a potential focus for an EBP QI project. Be specific and provide examples.
  • For each health care setting, describe the stakeholders whose approval would be required to initiate an EBP QI project and implement the results.
  • Compare similarities and differences in stakeholder requirements across the settings.
  • Identify the one proposed health care setting/practice site and one proposed practice problem you have selected as the focus of a hypothetical presentation to stakeholders,      and explain your choices.

Part 2: Implementation Science Presentation

Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 3–5 slides, plus cover and reference slides, to inform a set of potential stakeholders at the practice site you have identified for a proposed EBP QI project. Although you will not make your presentation, it should be authentic to the purpose and include the following:

  • Introduce the framework or model you have selected for the EBP QI project and your reasoning. (1–2 slides)
  • Present a draft of the proposed practice problem. Include notes for each slide describing points you would make to the assembled stakeholders to obtain their approval or buy-in for the EBP QI project. (2–3 slides).
Describe some recent examples of OSHA violations. What should have the company been doing to prevent them?

Deliverable Length:  4–6 pages (not including cover page and resource page)

Assignment Details

Safety issues have been one of the leading concerns among human resources (HR) professionals. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the government organization that enforces laws and standards to ensure that companies are in compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and its updates. OSHA can conduct inspections of companies and even halt their operations due to safety and health violations. In your assignment, please answer the following questions:

  • As an employee, what is your role in improving the safety and health conditions in a company?
  • Describe some recent examples of OSHA violations. What should have the company been doing to prevent them?
  • As an HR professional, what would you do to help a company prepare for an OSHA inspection?
  • Thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic, what could OSHA do to help keep employees safe and healthy?
Discuss the financial impact of emotional reactions to change so your audience “buys in” to any proposed investments of time or money.

Deliverable Length:  5-7 PowerPoint slides with notes

Library Research Assignment

You anticipate a great deal of resistance to change from the employees of Pegasus, especially if there are layoffs involved. You and the HRD group must first identify the emotional factors of change and then present a plan to address these issues to the company in a meeting. You must consider the overall culture of the organization as well as all the subcultures.

Research how people and organizations react to change, both positive and negative. If possible, interview coworkers, family, and friends who have experienced substantial change in their lives. Review articles and books on how organizations have successfully moved through changes, and study those that have failed to make changes to succeed. Develop a set of recommendations that will minimize the negative reactions from individuals and the organization to the change being planned for Pegasus. Be sure to cite your sources using APA guidelines.

Prepare a presentation for Pegasus’ senior management team, focusing on anticipated employee reactions to organizational change (including the possibility of layoffs), and complete the following:

  1. Present your findings from your research and surveys on how people react to change.
  2. Propose an action plan to address these reactions.
  3. Discuss the financial impact of emotional reactions to change so your audience “buys in” to any proposed investments of time or money.
In step 2, why are the public keys periodically updated? What security properties are provided by updating the public key?

Apple Find My Protocol

 

 

Objective: Understanding the cryptography features of Apple’s ‘Find My’ protocol.

Submission: Answer the following questions within the word doc or create a separate document.

 

In June 2019, at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced a new iOS and OSX feature called ‘Find My.’ Combining the features of Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single application. The summarized steps below are a description of how the protocol functions.

 

1. With at least two Apple devices, the user’s Apple devices create a shared private key communicated among them via end-to-end encryption.

 

2. Each pair of devices periodically creates a new secret key and public key pair using a deterministic algorithm applied to the previous secret key. This is also referred to as rotation of keys.

 

3. If Find My is enabled on a device, it emits its current public key via Bluetooth and other Apple devices nearby can pick up on the broadcast.

 

4. A device that has picked up a public key will then check its own location, encrypt the location using the public key, and upload this to Apple’s servers along with a hash of the public key.

 

5. With a different Apple device, a user can then query Apple’s servers with hashes of the public keys it has used to get the encrypted location associated with the hashed public key.

 

6. Using the original secret key, the user can decrypt and get the location of their lost device.

Read the description of the Find My protocol in the 2021 Apple’s Platform Security Manual (p. 139 – 142) https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf

Read the article explaining further detail of the protocol by The Wired

( https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/)

The questions below, consider potential attackers to include someone who has stolen the user’s device, other users who have Apple devices, and Apple employees with Find My database access.

Answer the following questions:

1.) In step 2, why are the public keys periodically updated? What security properties are provided by updating the public key?

2.) For the encryption in step 4, what security properties must the encryption algorithm have for this to be secure?

3.) Can you come up with ways to attack the Find My protocol even assuming that the cryptographic primitives used in the protocol are secure? Some ideas worth considering are who are the trusted parties/ devices in the protocol, and who generates what data in this protocol.

what sampling method will best help you to assess the working conditions of surgeons in your facility?

Scenario 2: As a healthcare administrator, you recently received a complaint from one of your operational managers that suggests there may be a wide range of dissatisfaction among surgeons working in your facility about the work conditions. As a result of this complaint, you decided you wanted to learn more about the challenges surgeons (21 in number) may be facing so you can do the right thing to improve their condition of service.

Based on this information, what sampling method will best help you to assess the working conditions of surgeons in your facility? Please give a clear rationale for the sampling methods chosen for this effort.

For both scenarios, consider addressing the following Points:

· Population

· Population unit

· Sampling methodology

· Sampling size

· Types of interviews (if any?)

· Strengths and weaknesses of sampling methodology?

Length: 1-3 pages, not including title and reference pages

Resources:  Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.

what type of sampling methods will you use to assess patient satisfaction from the more than two million patients that visit your facility on a yearly basis

Quantitative Analysis for Healthcare Managers

The purpose of this week’s assignment is to assess your understanding of the concept of sampling and how the knowledge of this concept can be applied in a healthcare services setting.

For this assignment, you will review two scenarios in a fictitious healthcare setting, and then provide your best response to each scenario.

Scenario 1: As a healthcare administrator of a popular healthcare facility in your community, you have been receiving news of unsubstantiated claims of poor customer service in your facility. To make matters worse, a news agency recently carried a news report that highlighted patient dissatisfaction with the quality of service they receive in your facility. As a result of this news, the board of directors and other key stakeholders in your organization met to discuss the matter. Based on the discussion, it was recommended that your healthcare facility conduct a survey of patients in your facility to learn more about the alleged claims of dissatisfaction. The board of directors is also interested in investing millions of dollars to improve any gaps by the proposed survey.

As the administrator of this healthcare facility, what type of sampling methods will you use to assess patient satisfaction from the more than two million patients that visit your facility on a yearly basis? Please give a clear rationale for the sampling methods chosen for this effort.