Discuss the etiology, course, and the structural/functional abnormalities of schizophrenia.

Purpose:Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.Scenario:

C.Z. is a 20-year-old Caucasian male who is in his second year of college. He is seeking treatment due to persistent fears that campus security and the local police are tracking and surveilling him. He cites occasional lags in his internet speed as evidence that surveillance devices are interfering with his electronics. His intense anxiety about this has begun getting in the way of his ability to complete schoolwork, and his friends are concerned – he says they have told him, “you’re not making sense.”

C.Z. occasionally laughs abruptly and inappropriately and sometimes stops speaking mid-sentence, looking off in the distance as though he sees or hears something. He expresses concern about electronics in the room (phone, computer) potentially being monitored and asks repeatedly about patient confidentiality, stating that he wants to be sure the police won’t be informed about his treatment. His beliefs are fixed, and if they are challenged, his tone becomes hostile.

Questions:

Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.

1. Discuss the etiology, course, and the structural/functional abnormalities of schizophrenia.
2. Discuss the evidence-based pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment for this patient using the US Clinical Guidelines.

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic sources.

If you were hiring a new employee in your work unit, how would you rank the importance of the following qualities?

1)  Imagine that you are a first-line manager of a department in a relatively small hospital located in a semi-rural area. For many months there had been rumors of a possible merger with another semi-rural hospital half again the size of yours located about 12 miles away. Both administration and the board of directors had been declining to comment on the rumors although it was apparent that some kind of negotiations were underway. In about mid-November all managers were officially notified that the merger would take place effective the first of January. The two hospitals were to become a single corporate entity with two locations, and functions and services would be consolidated wherever practical. Describe in detail the possible effects of the merger and all that it entails on you and your position.

2) It is stated in the chapter that the three ways of getting employees to implement change are: Tell them what to do; Sell them on what must be done; and Involve them in determining the substance and direction of the change. For each of the three means, describe an instance in which it is a preferred or even essential approach and an instance in which it is an inappropriate or perhaps even harmful approach.

3) If you were hiring a new employee in your work unit, how would you rank the importance of the following qualities?  That is, how much weight would you assign to each in making your decision? Explain.

• Personal values (ex. work ethic and integrity)

• Individual intelligence

• Conscientiousness in performing the job

  • Some employers use integrity tests as part of the screening process.  Are there problems with integrity tests? Can you test for integrity?
  • If you were a work unit supervisor, which of the following do you think is more important to improving organizational performance?  Explain.
• Encouraging employees to participate in work and organizational decisions
• Setting clear, challenging work goals
  • As a manager you realize the supervisors who report to you make errors when they rate their employees (e.g., too lenient, rate everyone the same, etc.).  You notice a consultant is offering a training session on how to avoid appraisal rating errors.  How successful do you think such a course would be in eliminating these errors?
  • As a supervisor, if you asked or surveyed your employees about the importance of pay as a factor in making job decisions, do you think employees would over-state or understate its value to them?

Create a case study of a patient with borderline personality disorder 

• Create a case study of a patient with borderline personality disorder
• The presentation must provide information:
  • Introduce a fictitious patient with a disease or disorder based on your assigned group topic.  Must specifically address the disease as it relates to one of the following populations:  infants, toddlers, school-aged children, adolescents, adults, or the elderly.
  • Definition of the disease or disorder
  • Epidemiology of the disease or disorder
    • Incidence
    • Prevalence
  • Pathogenesis
    • Pathophysiology of the disease/disorder to the cellular level.
    • Including genetics/genomics, neurotransmitters, and neurobiology of this specific disorder.

• Followed 7th Edition APA formatting including citation of references.
• Powerpoint presentations with 8 slides excluding intoduction, and reference page were clear and easy to read with no less than 16-point font. Speaker notes expanded upon and clarified content on the slides.
• Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).

What did you find challenging/provocative/relevant about the group’s reading presentation? why?

1. What did you find challenging/provocative/relevant about the group’s reading presentation? why? (Provide specific citations from the readings).
2. How does the article/group’s presentation relate to developing a global perspective? (Provide specific citations from the readings)
3. How do the readings illustrate Hanvey’s 5 dimensions of global perspective? Provide specific citations from the readings)
4. As you consider other students’ posting, what might be some connections you can make to others’ responses?

Examine the effect of legal, ethical, and regulatory processes on nursing practices (and/or change to providers), healthcare delivery, and outcomes while maintaining balance with administrative and fiscal responsibilities.

Examine Financing Charity Care. Power point presentation. 9-17-22

This assessment addresses the following course objective(s):

Examine the effect of legal, ethical, and regulatory processes on nursing practices (and/or change to providers), healthcare delivery, and outcomes while maintaining balance with administrative and fiscal responsibilities.

Instructions

Length & Format: 10-12 slide PowerPoint presentation with voice over.

Role: Director of Community Care and Outreach

Audience: Internal, hospital leadership team(s)

Topic: Financing Charity Care

Scenario: You have worked for ABC Hospital for several years. Recently, you were promoted to be the Director of Community Care and Outreach. In this role, you are responsible for increasing the hospital’s presence in the community, reaching new patients, and ensuring patients receive effective and coordinated care. You are aware of ABC Hospital’s current issue with charity care: there is no defined policy for who can write off an account, and no defined standards for what qualifies a patient to receive charity care. The billing department has reported multiple complaints due to the lack of a policy, and frustrations from both providers and patients. Your presentation will address how to appropriately utilize the charity care resource of financing.

1. Review the resource within Topic 3: Principles and Practices Board Sample 501c(3) Hospital Charity Care and Financial Assistance Policy and Procedures see attached pdf. (HFMA, n.d.)

2. Prepare an 8-10 slide PowerPoint presentation, with voiceover. Assume fictional information to develop your content. Address the following points in your presentation:

3. Why ABC Hospital needs and uses charity care

4. Patient demographics and percent of hospital patient population receiving charity care in the last fiscal year (fictional data).

5. Define the issues that have contributed to poor management of the charity care provision.

6. Propose a new way to move forward, providing effective care to patients, utilizing charity care properly. What is different about this approach, then what was happening previously?

7. Using bullet points, clearly define a minimum of three benefits of your plan for moving forward. These benefits should be focused on the financial health of ABC hospital, while balancing the needs of your patient population. These points will be the cornerstone for future development of a policy on charity care.

APA style should be followed throughout. A title and reference slide are required. Please include a minimum of three scholarly sources.

Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.

Purpose:Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.Scenario:

Jax is a 66-year-old Caucasian female whose wife has encouraged her to seek treatment. She has never been in therapy before, and has no history of depression or anxiety. However, her alcohol use has recently been getting in the way of her marriage, and interfering with her newly-retired life. She describes drinking increasing amounts over the last year, currently consuming approximately a six-pack of beer per day. She notes that this amount “doesn’t give me the same buzz as it used to.” She denies ever experiencing “the shakes” or any other withdrawal symptoms if she skips a day of drinking.

Jax comments that her wife is her biggest motivation to decrease her alcohol use. She tells Jax that she gets argumentative and irritable when she drinks, though she does not always remember these incidents. She has also fallen while intoxicated twice, causing bruises both times and hitting her head on one of the occasions.

Questions:

Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.

1. Describe the presenting problems/issues. Is there any information that was not provided that you would need to formulate a diagnosis?
2. Generate a primary and differential diagnosis using the DSM5 and ICD 10 codes.
3. What physiological and psychological processes lead to substance dependence?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic sources.

What’s the importance of medical terminology to accurate patient charting?

What’s the importance of medical terminology to accurate patient charting?

Discuss an event (something that happened to you) that had an effect on the person you are today.

Discuss an event (something that happened to you) that had an effect on the person you are today.  What was the event, why did it happen and how did it impact/change you?  What did you learn from this experience?  Please be detailed in your discussion and try to reach the 500-word requirement.  You may go over 500 words.  Remember that in writing a narrative the more you personalize it the more powerful it reads so use the pronoun I.

Composition Exercise Directions
I’ll score your composition exercise on a 4-point scale with a point for format, a point for content, a point for focus and a point for clarity.

For your two composition exercises please write:

1. (format) a 500-word composition.  Use Courier New, 12-point font and double space and MLA style.

2. (content) Your composition needs a main idea and specific details that support your response to the topic.  Support comes from examples from your life, stories or what you’ve read and researched.

3. (focus) Stay focused on the topic.  Everything you write should have a connection to the topic and your ideas.

4. (clarity) When you proofread check for common errors like fragments, run-on’s, commonly confused words, tense shift, subject-verb disagreement, spelling, etc.  Try to adhere to the KISS Principle.  This means keep your sentences short and simple and divide your composition into short, easy to read paragraphs.  For a 500-word composition you should have between six and eight paragraphs.

What advocacy actions might you take to improve health care through legislation at the state or federal level?

What advocacy actions might you take to improve health care through legislation at the state or federal level?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 3 academic sources.

Who needs to be involved in the change process?

consider how you would implement the project and how you would measure the results. discuss the following:

1. Implementation
   1. Who needs to be involved in the change process?
   2. Who has to approve the change?
   3. How does the plan get communicated to those affected by the change?
   4. Step-by-step process to implement the change from beginning to end (more detail than perhaps what was provided in the change theory discussion).
2. Measuring results
   1. How will results be measured or data collected (survey, observation)?
   2. Validity/reliability of the pre- and post-assessment tool used for measuring intervention.
   3. What will you do with the results?