Category: Healthcare

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/october/transit-workers-covid-pilot-study.html
https://thechiefleader.com/stories/mta-failed-to-report-all-assaults-against-workers-state-finds,44739
https://www.masstransitmag.com/safety-security/article/53071698/uw-study-finds-traces-of-drugs-on-transit-buses-at-levels-unlikely-to-cause-risks-to-worker-health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155846/
basically trying to answer most of the questions in the template and explain how public transportation is toxic work enviroment and how the employer could help make it safer for employess

9th grade healthcare class, 3-5 page research paper. 
Need at least 4 references cited within the paper.
Must been in 12 Times New Roman
Attached is what the research paper needs to include
Must include work cited page 

For this assessment, select a community organization or group that you feel would be interested
in learning about ethical and policy issues that affect the coordination of care. Then, develop
and record a 10–12-slide, 20-minute presentation, with audio, intended for that audience.
Create a detailed narrative script or speakers notes for your presentation, 4–5 pages in length.
Before you complete the instructions detailed in the courseroom, first select one of the following
community organizations or groups:
• American Heart Association: This organization focuses on cardiovascular health and
provides education, support, and advocacy for individuals with heart disease and stroke.
• American Red Cross: The American Red Cross provides disaster relief, blood donation
services, and health and safety training

Free Local health-related community organizations Final PowerPoint
Students are required to complete a PowerPoint for the final project. Most information should be
listed in bullet form, a few sentences in your own words are allowed, NO long paragraphs, and each slide should have a title. Will not be accepted if this layout is not followed. 
The final PowerPoint  should contain the following:
1. Slide #1 Title slide include your name course number and section 
2. Slide #2 Clearly identify 5 LOCAL and free health-related organizations within New
York State. (Located in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, Bronx, Westchester or Staten Island).
3. Slide #3 & #4 State the purpose of each organization in your own words 
4. Slide #5 Describe how you or your acquaintances can use each organization for a
healthier lifestyle.
5. Slide #7 & #8 Summarize how each organization’s main purpose can make changes for
your community.
6. Slide #9 & #10 Identify the significance that each organization has on your own health
behaviors. 
7. Slide #11 Describe each targeted population for each organization (be specific, gender?
age? economic status? 
8. Slide #12 and #13 Include all contact information for each organization, this means the
address location, phone number, email and website. 
9. Use images and be creative with your PowerPoint.
10. This should be no less than 15 slides and no more than 25 slides and font size should
be at least Times New Roman size 22. Remember, like a presentation, you are
explaining the agency to me as if I have never heard of it. (2.5 points)
11. Double-check and check that we can view it, PLWASE NEED TO BE DONE on Microsoft PowerPoint. NO GOOGLE DOCS NO PDF.
Examples of Local NY HEALTH RELATED ORGANIZATIONS: Planned Parenthood, Pride for Youth, Live On NY, Maurer Foundation for Breast Health Education, EPIC Long Island, City Meals on Wheels, A Free Bird, GreenThumb, Harlem United, Long Island Crisis Center, GMHC.org, GlamourGals Foundation Inc., etc. (you can use these if you’d like, or find your own)

Please see the attached instructions. The bottom of the page shows what would make a good presentation

Your CEO wants to review the benchmarking data used to compare Choice Hospital with other hospitals in the same geographic region. The Board of Directors is looking at expanding the Emergency Department or adding more in-patient beds. The CEO needs to know how Choice Hospital compares with other hospitals in the region to be part of the discussion and inform decisions on expansion in these areas.
As you assume the role the HCA at Choice Hospital, provide the data and analysis requested by your CEO as described below. In this exercise, assume that Choice Hospital is located in Colorado, and use these data provided by the Colorado Hospital Association for Colorado hospitals. If you wish to find data for your own state of residence, you may do that and start your search at your state’s Department of Health Web site.
For comparison of Choice Hospital to others in the state of Colorado of comparable size, you will use the specific data points requested, perform the calculations, and prepare the presentation of the data as follows:
You will first review the data available and summarize the data points as specified for this presentation by placing them in an Excel spreadsheet.
Calculate descriptive statistics for the data, as specified below.
Prepare an Excel spreadsheet of the data.
Review the data in the spreadsheet, and prepare a discussion of the data for Colorado hospitals compared to the data for Choice Hospital.
The table below includes the data for Choice Hospital:
Hospital Licensed Beds Total Discharges Total Patient Days Inpatient Surgeries Births Inpatient Admissions for Emergency Departments Emergency Department Visits Total Outpatient Visits
Choice Hospital
300
15,279
70,283
4,012
256
4,781
13,342
98,993
From these data, calculate the average length of stay (ALOS) for Choice Hospital.
Now look at the data for Colorado Hospitals at the link provided. Because Choice Hospital is a 300-bed facility, identify the hospitals that have between 200 and 400 licensed beds. Those are the hospitals that you will use for your comparison to Choice Hospital. In your Excel spreadsheet, do the following:
List the hospitals that have 200–400 licensed beds in the first column, with 1 hospital listed per row.
Next, for each of those hospitals, enter the data in separate columns for Total Patient Days and Total Discharges.
In the next column, enter your calculation for ALOS using the data for Total Patient Days and Total Discharges.
At the bottom of the column for ALOS, calculate the mean and standard deviation for the average length of stay for all of the hospitals.
Enter the mean and standard deviation in the cells below in that column, and be sure to identify which value is the mean and which is the standard deviation.
You will submit your Excel spreadsheet along with your 600-800 word summary.
Now that you have the data on ALOS for your comparison hospitals, write 600-800 word summary, not including the title page or reference page, and discuss the following:
Consider the average length of stay for Choice Hospital that you calculated using the data for Choice Hospital. How does that compare to the ALOS on average for the hospitals in Colorado with similar numbers of licensed beds from your calculation?
Identify the range of ALOS for the hospitals, and consider the standard deviation value.
Did you calculate the standard deviation of a sample or of the entire population?
What is the difference?
Explain why you chose the one that you did.
Research the ALOS for the United States, and find a statistic that is within the last 5 years. The ALOS may be an overall average or based on the number of beds.
State the ALOS for the United States that you found in your research, and be sure to cite the reference source.
How does the ALOS for Choice Hospital compare to the national average?
Individual Project Example Excel Document
Individual Project Example Word Summary

Assessment Description
This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment. 
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct an internal audit of organizational strengths and weaknesses, and an external analysis of opportunities and threats as part of the strategic planning process. 
Review the “Learning Exercise,” located at the end of Chapter 2 in the textbook. Using a health care organization that no one in the group is researching as the focus for the assignment, you will collaborate to complete a multi-part analysis of the organization’s strategic assets. The findings will be presented in a PowerPoint presentation (20-25 slides). Keep the size of graphic files condensed and minimize special effects to ensure the file size does not exceed the 10 MB maximum for file submission to the digital classroom. Speaker notes should be included for each slide to provide talking points and relevant supporting details for the presentation of slide content. 
Part 1: Internal Audit of a Health Care Organization
Research the organization and prepare a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following elements:
Organization Description: Identify the mission, vision, location, size, scope of services, etc.
Financial Performance and Condition: Describe historical financial performance and current financial condition. Include specific data that illustrates profits and losses, etc.
Major Resources and Competencies: Identify tangible and intangible assets that are unique to the organization or give it competitive advantage and explain how each can be a strength or weakness for the organization.
Internal Value Chain: Create a diagram similar to the examples provided in the textbook. Explain how each identified activity adds value to the customer and the organization.
Part 2: External Analysis of a Health Care Organization
Conduct an external environmental analysis using general, publicly available resources. When researching, identify 2-3 specific examples for each category. Add to the PowerPoint presentation by addressing the following elements:
Political/Government: Explain election results and current political mood along with the effects of government spending, policies on health care research, government regulation and enforcement of health care industry laws, and the government’s role in addressing critical societal challenges and how this affects the organization.
Legal: Discuss systems (laws or statutes, regulations, administrative rulings, and court decisions) and explain how events and decisions in these areas can affect regulation, risk, reimbursement, new projects, taxes, and competitive advantage for the organization.
Professional/Industry: Describe the effect of positions and initiatives of professional and industry trade associations on the organization.
Economic: Identify the current economic status at the regional, national, and global level and describe the effect on the organization.
Demographics: Includes gender, age, income levels, ethnicity, race, education, family size and composition, geographic place of residence, employment status, birth rates, and life expectancies.
Sociocultural: Describe characteristics of important people in an organization’s external environment (i.e., traditions, lifestyles, values, attitudes, beliefs, opinions, tastes, political views, and behavioral patterns, etc.). Consider people such as immediate and prospective customers, customer influencers, end users, suppliers, shareholders, government regulators, medical, general public, and other stakeholders. Include discussion about how external sociocultural factors affect services provided by the organization.
Technology: Explain how the organization is using new technology.
Part 3: Market Segments
Compile a list of segments that could be defined within the organization’s overall market.
Determine the most likely basis for differentiated product or service offerings.
Part 4: Five-Force Analysis
Conduct a five-force analysis of the organization.
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. 
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.
Rubric Criteria
Internal Audit 
15 points
External Analysis
15 points
Market Segments
15 points
Five Force Analysis 
15 points
Layout
5 points
Visual Appeal
5 points
Language Use and Audience Awareness 
5 points
Speaker Notes
15 points
Mechanics of Writing 
5 points
Format/Documentation
5 points
Total100 points

For this assignment, you will conduct research and write a paper about one prevalent safety issue in hospitals. Examples include but are not limited to falls, medication errors, hospital-acquired infections, wrong-site surgery, pressure injuries, and missed/delayed diagnosis.
At a minimum, your research and writing must cover the following:
definition of the problem
scope of the problem
current statistics regarding the problem
effects on patients
mitigation strategies
the role of quality management, process improvement, patient saffty, and risk management in managing the safety issue you selected
what process improvement process might be the most useful in improvement efforts for the safety concern you selected
any relevant laws or regulations that govern the safety concern you selected
how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) relates to the safety concern you selected or any applicable privacy concerns
a comparison to a historic trend in health care
Which health care setting does the issue exist in?
Include which health care team members would be involved
What is leadership’s role?
Your research paper should be at least five pages. Use at least four outside sources to support your research. Adhere to APA Style when writing the paper, creating citations and citing references for this assignment.

This paper consists of researching and completing a term paper dealing with an issue in cultural diversity and healthcare. The issue discussed is the discrepancy in healthcare for minority women during pregnancy. The4 title and reference page should not be included in the page count. The main topics I would like covered are :
1. The General Research Topic: Examining variations in the treatments, experiences, and
outcomes of minority women during pregnancy in the healthcare system.
2. The draft research questions:
– How is access for prenatal care and information to minorities different to white
counterparts?
– Is there a disproportion in miscarriage for minority women?
– What barriers do minority women face when accessing healthcare?
also please feel free to expaqnd on anything using the these keywords:
1. Miscarriage
2. Minority women
3. Disparities
4. Culture differences
5. Pregnancy for minorities
6. Miscarriages in minorities
7. Pregnancy in healthcare
8. Postpartum
9. Mental health
10. Barriers in Healthcare
I have included an annotated bibliography with the five sources you should use to complete this assignment please use APA formatting. Thank you.
The detection/use of any AI including chat GPT will be an automatic zero and fail this course so please do not use any AI in this paper.

Create a 2-4 page resource that will describe databases that are relevant to EBP around one of the diagnoses found in the provided PDF supplement and could be used to help a new hire nurse better engage in EBP.
Introduction
Evidence-based practice (EBP) integrates the best evidence available to guide optimal nursing care, with a goal to enhance safety and quality. EBP is crucial to nursing practice because it incorporates the best evidence from current literature, along with the expertise of the practicing nurse. The concern for quality care that flows from EBP generates a desired outcome. Without these factors, a nurse cannot be an effective leader. It is important to lead not only from this position but from knowledge and expertise. To gain the knowledge, you require a good understanding of how to search for scholarly resources, as well as identify which databases and websites are credible for the purposes of implementing evidence-based changes in practice.
Your Online e-Portfolio
Creating an ePortfolio is not required in the BSN program, but you may find it helpful to create one to attach to your professional resume while job hunting. Online ePortfolios serve two key purposes: 1) to support learning and reflection, and 2) to be used as a showcase tool. Your learning journey can be documented, and ePortfolios contribute to lifelong learning and growth through reflection and sharing. Online ePortfolios can also be shared with employers and peers to present artifacts that demonstrate your accomplishments at Capella.
Professional Context
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will be responsible for providing patient-centered, competent care based on current evidence-based best practices. You will be required to do research, analysis, and dissemination of best evidence to stay abreast of these best practices. Understanding where to go to find credible sources and locate evidence, as well as which search terms to use, is the foundation of incorporation of best practices.
Scenario
You are supervising three nurses working on the medical-surgical floor of a local teaching hospital. This hospital is nationally recognized as a leader in education and has a computer lab with an online library where staff has access to medical research databases (that is, CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane library) and online sources of all hospital policies, procedures, and guidelines, and computers at nurse workstations that also have access to these resources. (For this scenario, use the Capella University Library to simulate the hospital’s online library.) You have given the nurses their patient assignments and you have all participated in shift report. A new nurse who just completed orientation and training a week ago approaches you and tells you that one of the assigned patients has a diagnosis he or she is very unfamiliar with. Knowing that patient-centered care based on best practices is imperative to positive patient outcomes, you want to assist this nurse to find research that can be utilized to provide the best care for this patient. Describe how you would communicate with this nurse to encourage him or her to research the diagnosis. Assume you will assist in the quest to locate evidence, then describe where you would go within the facility and what resources you would look for. These resources may include websites, journals, facility policies or guidelines, or any other sources of online information.
To select the diagnosis for the patient in this scenario, review the three diagnoses presented in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Locating Credible Databases and Research [PDF] (SEE ATTACHMENT) resource and select one. You will use this same diagnosis to complete the next two assessments.
Create a list of at least five sources that could be used to find evidence, with the best source listed first, and explain why the sources you chose are best to find evidence for the diagnosis you chose and the clinical scenario. You are only evaluating the sources of evidence (database, website, policy database or website, journal article, et cetera). You are not actually completing a search and selecting evidence. Consider the following examples: a nursing journal in CINAHL may not be the best source of evidence for information on how to administer medications through a central-venous catheter, whereas a hospital policy database found on a website may not be the best source of information on caring for a patient with a rare chromosomal abnormality.
Instructions
The purpose of this assessment is to understand where to find evidence that can be applied to clinical scenarios and to learn effective communication and collaboration with clinical staff during the process of evidence location. As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will not only use research for self-improvement in your clinical role, but you will also serve as a mentor to supervised nursing staff. Therefore, you will need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively to guide them toward resources to find research, as well as support them through the initial evidence location process. In doing so, nurses can gain access to evidence that can be analyzed and utilized to stay current on best practices. This allows them to provide safe, patient-centered care and improve patient outcomes.
For this assessment:
Describe your role as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse supervising clinical staff nurses with regard to communication and collaboration in locating evidence for application to a nursing practice scenario.
Compile a list of five online databases or other online sources (that is, websites, journals, facility policies or guidelines, et cetera) that can be used to research evidence to apply to the diagnosis in this scenario and describe to which of these you would direct a nurse colleague to search for evidence.
Describe where you might go in the work place to complete this research and how you would access the desired, relevant research within research databases or other online sources.
Be sure to address the following in this assessment, which correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that you will know what is needed for a distinguished score.
Describe communication strategies to encourage nurses to research the diagnosis/practice issue, as well as strategies to collaborate with the nurses to access resources.
Describe the best places to complete research and what types of resources you would want to access to find pertinent information for the diagnosis/health care issue within the context of a specific health care setting.
Identify five sources of online information (medical journal databases, websites, hospital policy databases, et cetera) that could be used to locate evidence for a clinical diagnosis/practice issue.
Explain why the sources of online information selected should provide the best evidence for the chosen diagnosis/health care issue.
Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.
Note: While you are not selecting and evaluating specific evidence to help with the clinical diagnosis/practice issue, you should still be citing the literature and best practices to support your description of your communication and collaboration approach. Additionally, it is appropriate to cite best practices related to EBP and evaluating databases to support your explanation as to why you selected the five sources of online information that you did.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Assessment 1 Example [PDF] (SEE ATTACHMENT)
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:
Length of submission: 2-4 pages (not including the title page or the reference page) description of communication, collaboration, and evidence location process, including a list of databases or other sources with description of why they are appropriate for clinical scenario diagnosis/health care issue (that is, something that would be useable in professional practice for other nurses). Be sure to include an APA-formatted reference page at the end of your submission.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of three sources of scholarly or professional evidence that supports your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than five years old.
APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Interpret findings from scholarly quantitative, qualitative, and outcomes research articles and studies.
Explain why the sources selected should provide the best evidence for the chosen diagnosis/health care issue.
Competency 2: Analyze the relevance and potential effectiveness of evidence when making a decision within the context of a specific health care setting.
Describe the best places to complete research within the workplace environment and what types of resources one would want to access to find pertinent information for the diagnosis/health care issue.
Competency 4: Plan care based on the best available evidence.
Identify five sources of online information (medical journal databases, websites, hospital policy databases, et cetera) that could be used to locate evidence for a diagnosis/health care issue and three out of five should be specific to the diagnosis/health care issue.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead practice changes based on evidence.
Describe communication strategies to encourage nurses to research a diagnosis/health care issue, as well as strategies to collaborate with the nurses to access resources.
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.