Based on your research, evaluate the test or the tool’s validity and reliability, and explain any issues with sensitivity, reliability, and predictive values.
  • Mammogram
  • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test
  • Body-mass index (BMI) using waist circumference for children
  • A description of how the assessment tool or diagnostic test you were assigned is used in healthcare.
    • What is its purpose?
    • How is it conducted?
    • What information does it gather?
  • Based on your research, evaluate the test or the tool’s validity and reliability, and explain any issues with sensitivity, reliability, and predictive values. Include references in appropriate APA formatting.
  • 3-4 references
  • 4 pages, not including title and reference pages)
Describe long-term control and quick-relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice, as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.

Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the “Stepwise Approach” for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following:

  • Describe long-term control and quick-relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice, as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.
  • Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
  • Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.

3-4 references.

How do you think the staff should proceed?

A patient arrives in the ER with a “thumper” piston-driven device providing CPR to an 82 yo client who was found unresponsive on the floor at home-possibly from a sudden  ventricular Cardiac event. The ER just received a DNR from a prior hospitalization for a UTI. The family is insisting the patient wants everything done. How do you think the staff should proceed?

How might your approach differ depending on the type of media?

Identify a situation in which the media may pose a challenge to disaster response. What steps do you, as the emergency manager, take to ensure a successful public information campaign and overcome these challenges? Consider the following questions as you respond:

1. Why do you feel your selected approach is the best option?

2. How might your approach differ depending on the type of media?

 

350-450 words excluding references, APA format and a minimum of 3 references

Write a paper that describes the various types of volunteers who appear to donate their time and service.

Managing Volunteers

You are the director of the Red Cross. A bomb has just been detonated at a movie theater in St. Louis. It has killed at least 250 people and injured many others. Volunteers are starting to show up to offer help.

Write a paper that describes the various types of volunteers who appear to donate their time and service. Develop a plan that identifies strategies to integrate these volunteers into disaster response operations successfully.

Your well-written paper should be 3-4 pages in length and formatted

Using basic legal terminology where appropriate, evaluate the impact of ethical and moral principles on clinical-decision making, including bioethics and medical decisions as appropriate, in this case study.

Part 1

Integrity – Case Study Analysis

Total Paper – 4-5 pages

Support your paper with a minimum of 3 references, beyond the textbooks, which may also be used as references.

For this project, you may choose either Case Study 13 ‘ Bad Image Radiology Department ‘or Case Study 11  ‘Western Healthcare Systems: A Healthcare Delivery Continuum’, in the Cases In Health Services Management 6th ed. text as your focus for this assignment.

In a 4-5-page paper, complete the following based on your case study.  Be creative, as you may not have all the facts needed in your case study to provide complete, quality responses.  Your responses should reflect critical thinking, sound ethical judgment, and be realistic.

· Using basic legal terminology where appropriate, evaluate the impact of ethical and moral principles on clinical-decision making, including bioethics and medical decisions as appropriate, in this case study.

· Compare and contrast professional codes of ethics and their relationship to the personal integrity of those involved in the case study.

· Examine the corporate ethics as related to governance, distribution of power, medical staff and physician relations and the structural design of the case study healthcare organizations.

As related to the case study, evaluate current responsibilities regarding legal status of corporate structure, governance as applied to for-profit and non-profit status, and the responsibilities regarding board and committee recruitment, selection, and the ethics of paid and unpaid board membership.

Part 2

Cloud Reading Discussion

Discussion Board Questions

Select 1 of the following:

· Discuss Cloud’s Character Dimension of Getting Results AND Embracing the Negative. Explain how this applies to you as a leader.

· Discuss Cloud’s Necessary Ingredients to create character growth. Describe a leader you know, or know of, who has some or all these ingredients. How effective is their leadership?

· What does Cloud mean by ‘being able to bow’ to things that are bigger?

Required

· Summarize Part 8 of Cloud’s book. How will you use this information as a future leader?

Select a current events healthcare article that relates to this week’s readings.  Provide a brief overview of the article to the class, discussing how you believe it relates.