Category: Healthcare

1.1.2 The name and the bill number (e.g., CS/ SB number if the legislation is pending in the U.S. federal or state level) or other identifying designation, which clearly identifies the legislation as currently pending at a legislative body and that it is not an adopted/passed or existing law. The bill can be pending in one state where it has been adopted in others. This is still pending and your group can use the experiences of other jurisdictions to support your position; and
1.1.3 An indication of whether will support or oppose the “bill”
1.1.4 The “bill” may be pending anywhere globally. As well as, in the United States at the national level, individual States, County or City/Town. U.S. Senate, House of Representatives as well as Florida House and Senate Each of these legislative bodies maintain websites where bill information for the current legislative session can be found. Local government bills may be obtained by requesting copies of upcoming agendas from the respective legislative bodies. County and city laws are called “proposed” ordinances (do not use resolutions since they are legally deemed only temporary measures subject to change).
1.1.5 A good place to start to gather ideas of current bills is by watching the news. Remember: health related is a very broad term (e.g., seat belts, obesity, gun laws etc.,).
SAMPLE SUBMISSION OF TOP 3 LIST FOR ASSIGNMENT
1. List the 1st Choice of a pending proposed law identified by name and House or Senate Bill Number if the law is proposed in the United States.  And, a brief paragraph of whether the group is in favor or opposed to the proposed law. Florida pending bills in the Senate: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bills/2024Links to an external site. Florid pending bills in the House: https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/bills.aspxLinks to an external site. Federal pending bills: https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%7DLinks to an external site. 
2. List 2nd Choice of a pending proposed law identified by name and House or Senate Bill Number if the law is proposed in the United States.  And, a brief paragraph of whether the group is in favor or opposed to the proposed law.
3. List 3rd Choice of a pending proposed law identified by name and House or Senate Bill Number if the law is proposed in the United States.  And, a brief paragraph of whether the group is in favor or opposed to the proposed law.
At least three (3) “External Authoritative Sources” for each proposed bill.  “External Authoritative Sources” for purposes of this course shall mean: articles from published books, peer reviewed journal articles, education and government sites as well as non-partisan national or international organizations (such as WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS etc) provided, however the article selected must have:
3.1 Authors; and
3.2 In text citations and references to support statements made therein.
3.3 Under no circumstances are newspapers (e.g., the Wall Street Journal), blogs (regardless of source), editorials, panel discussions, definition of terms, the assigned case study, “dot com” sites, and text books from the course or other courses to be used. The foregoing are not considered authoritative for this course.
How assignment should be layed out:
1st Proposed bill name:
Narrative
3 cited sources
2nd Proposed bill name:
Narrative
3 cited sources
3rd proposed bill name:
Narrative
3 cited sources

Develop a 2-4 page preliminary care coordination plan for a selected health care problem. Include physical, psychosocial, and cultural considerations for this health care problem. Identify and list available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
Introduction
The first step in any effective project is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate the coordination of care for a particular health care problem. Include physical, psychosocial, and cultural considerations for this health care problem. Identify and list available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
NOTE: You are required to complete this assessment before Assessment 4.
Preparation
As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Care Coordination Planning activity. Completion of this will provide useful practice, particularly for those of you who do not have care coordination experience in community settings. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment. Completing formatives is also a way to demonstrate engagement.
Scenario
Imagine that you are a staff nurse in a community care center. Your facility has always had a dedicated case management staff that coordinated the patient plan of care, but recently, there were budget cuts and the case management staff has been relocated to the inpatient setting. Care coordination is essential to the success of effectively managing patients in the community setting, so you have been asked by your nurse manager to take on the role of care coordination. You are a bit unsure of the process, but you know you will do a good job because, as a nurse, you are familiar with difficult tasks. As you take on this expanded role, you will need to plan effectively in addressing the specific health concerns of community residents.
To prepare for this assessment, you may wish to:
Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you will be asked to complete.
Allow plenty of time to plan your chosen health care concern.
Instructions
Note: You are required to complete this assessment before Assessment 4.
Develop the Preliminary Care Coordination Plan
Complete the following:
Select one of the health concerns in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Preliminary Care Coordination Plan [PDF] resource as the focus of your care coordination plan. In your plan, please include physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs.
Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
Document Format and Length
Your preliminary plan should be an APA scholarly paper, 2–4 pages in length.
Remember to use active voice, this means being direct and writing concisely; as opposed to passive voice, which means writing with a tendency to wordiness.
In your paper include possible community resources that can be used.
Be sure to review the scoring guide to make sure all criteria are addressed in your paper.
Study the subtle differences between basic, proficient, and distinguished.
Supporting Evidence
Cite at least two credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications that support your preliminary plan.
Grading Requirements
The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Preliminary Care Coordination Plan Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Analyze your selected health concern and the associated best practices for health improvement.
Cite supporting evidence for best practices.
Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.
Describe specific goals that should be established to address the health care problem.
Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
Write with a specific purpose with your patient in mind.
Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and current APA formatting requirements.
Additional Requirements
Before submitting your assessment, proofread your preliminary care coordination plan and community resources list to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your plan. Be sure to submit both documents.
Portfolio Prompt: Save your presentation to your ePortfolio.
Course Competencies
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Adapt care based on patient-centered and person-focused factors.
Analyze a health concern and the associated best practices for health improvement.
Competency 2: Collaborate with patients and family to achieve desired outcomes.
Describe specific goals that should be established to address a selected health care problem.
Competency 3: Create a satisfying patient experience.
Identify available community resources for a safe and effective continuum of care.
Competency 6: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead patient-centered care.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

An essential skill for health and human services professionals is understanding how each of the entities within health and human services, and individuals within the entities, work together in order to support positive patient outcomes. These professionals need to understand the roles and responsibilities of those individuals and entities in order to guide a patient to receive the most appropriate care.
This task challenges you to choose either a role or entity within health and human services. You will apply the responsibilities of that role or entity to a patient needing care. Then you will go a step further and connect the concepts of cultural competence in the scenario to the roles and responsibilities of the selected role or entity.
Note: All references used should be current, within the last five years.
Ms. Roberts is a homeless 33-year-old African American mother of three children between the ages of 6 and 10. She was diagnosed with HIV three months ago. Her previous HIV test was eight years ago, and she did not return for the results. Ms. Roberts has a 10-year history of intravenous drug abuse. She stated that her last use of drugs was 18 hours ago. Ms. Roberts dropped out of high school during the 11th grade, and she has a history of mental illness. Ms. Roberts has had several friends and family members die of AIDS. She receives care at an urban community clinic where all her healthcare providers are of a different ethnic and cultural background. She is very cautious about starting any drug therapy for HIV due to stories of other African Americans being used in an experimental way without their consent. She has not expressed these concerns to her provider.
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
Note: All references used should be current, within the last five years.  
Health and Human Services Overview
A.  Based on the given scenario, identify two entities or organizations within health and human services that would assist Ms. Roberts.
1.  Describe in detail how each entity or organization that you identified would assist Ms. Roberts. Be sure to explain how each entity or organization would support Ms. Roberts’s present and future health needs.
B.  Based on the given scenario, identify one role within health and human services that would be able to assist Ms. Roberts with one of her potential needs. The selected role may be found within one of the entities or organizations selected from part A.
1.  Describe in detail three specific activities or actions that your identified role should perform in order to assist Ms. Roberts.
2.  Explain how each activity would support Ms. Roberts’s present and future health needs.
C.  Based on the given scenario, explain how the role, entity, or organization that was identified in part A or part B would be able to improve cultural competence when working with patients similar to Ms. Roberts by doing the following:
1.  Identify two examples from the scenario in which a lack of cultural competence may hinder Ms. Roberts’s treatment.
2.  Describe a potential plan of action for each example.
3.  Explain how each plan of action would address any lack of cultural competence.
D.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Paper needs to be APA format!! Links are in screenshots; screenshots say what i need in the essay 🙂

Conflict Management Essay: 
Synthesize the content of these five
articles into a two-page (minimum) report to the president of a national
healthcare organization of which you are employed. Citations and references are required. Citations must be correctly formatted for
APA style. There is a post at the top section of this
Moodle page showing you the three forms of parenthetical citations and a
citation format to use for direct quotes.  
Try to convince the president of a
healthcare organization of which you are employed that there are strong
rationale and numerous best practices to draw upon in structuring a new
company-wide initiative to effectively manage conflict and dispute resolution. 
Your essay should answer questions such as: 1.      
Why do we need to do this? 2.     
How will it benefit us to create this understanding? 3.     
What are the advantages of creating a policy and implementation
plan?

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the use of risk assessments and their influence within your current or previous organization.
Write a 750-1,000-word paper that includes the following criteria:
Describe the top three internal and top three external risks currently threating PHI data within your selected organization.
Explain how risk assessments are conducted within the organization.
Discuss who conducts these assessments and with what frequency.
Evaluate the importance of professionalism, including ethical principles and lifelong learning in successful risk mitigation.
How do these assessments mitigate the risks you have identified?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. 
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite Technical Support Articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
CAHIIM
This assignment aligns to the following AMIA 2017 Core Competencies for Health Informatics Curricula at the master’s degree level:
F2: Information Science and Technology: Knows How
F8: Professionalism: Shows How
SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT

As a mental health and wellness professional, you are tasked with presenting wellness strategies, holistic coping, and treatment options for a target population you want to work with.
Create a digital presentation (of 8-10 slides, not including the title and reference slides) that addresses the following:
Describe your key audience/target population, keeping in mind their families, age groups, or cultural backgrounds.
Describe a mental health crisis this audience/population might struggle with.
Explain assessment practices (intake interview, DSM manual, etc.) and treatment modalities (evidence-based practices) you could use to assist them.
Identify three to five wellness strategies you could recommend to someone struggling with this issue and explain why these are effective strategies.
Identify different providers or professionals that may be part of a care team for treating this issue within an integrated health model.
Describe your rationale for why using best practices for an integrated health model is useful in mental health and wellness practice.
Cite three to five scholarly resources to support your claims.
Each presentation slide should include speaker notes of 100-150 words to further expand on the content presented in the slide. Speaker notes should be for each of the 8-10 presentation slides. In addition, support your presentation content with a minimum of three to five scholarly sources.
If using PowerPoint, refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
MS Mental Health and Wellness
4.1: Determine coping approaches for various mental health crisis situations.
4.2: Describe best assessment practices and treatment modalities for mental health disorders.
5.1: Determine best practices in using the integrated health model.

A personal reflection on one’s own cultural identity and experience will help an individual (mental health professional) better understand themselves and work with multicultural individuals.
Review the article by Chang & Kleiner (2003) located in your topic resources. Write a 1,000-1,250-word essay in which you complete the following:
Describe your cultural identity as well as biases or discrimination you have encountered.
Explain how your cultural identity may be a source of personal strength and influence as you work in the behavioral health field.
Identify which demographic groups (age, race, sexual orientation, etc.) you have had little contact with and how that may impact your role as a behavioral health paraprofessional.
Use at least three scholarly reference to define cultural identity and biases. After defining the terms, write a personal narrative. This assignment can be written in first person.

Nursing Leadership Action and Continuous Improvement Plan
Address the following:
Provide a current assessment of your leadership strengths and areas for improvement.
Reflecting back on your professional growth and using the literature, develop two SMART goals that you could implement to enhance your leadership behaviors and skills.
Explain how your SMART goals align with your identified leadership behaviors targeted for improvement.
Explain how effective implementation of your SMART goals could increase your sphere of influence within your organization.
Describe potential barriers and challenges you might face in implementing the goals.
Suggest possible organizational resources and empowerment opportunities you could leverage to achieve your goals.

Discuss appropriate terminology when referring to vulnerable populations. 
Use the article (below) to guide your discussion. 
Carroll, S. M. (2019). Respecting and empowering vulnerable populations: Contemporary terminology. Journal for Nurse  
Practitioners, 15(3), 228-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2018.12.031
Posts are a minimum of 250 words, scholarly written, APA formatted (with some exceptions due to limitations in the D2L editor), and a minimum of 2 references (which may include the course textbook)