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Week 6 Chronic Health Paper
Choose one of the following topics:
1. · Alzheimer’s dementia
2. · Depression
3. · Parkinson’s disease
This paper should clearly and comprehensively discuss a chronic health disease. Select a topic from the list provided by your course faculty.
The paper should be organized into the following sections:
Introduction (Identification of the problem) with a clear presentation of the problem as well as the significance and a scholarly overview of the paper’s content. No heading is used for the Introduction per APA current edition.
Background and Significance of the disease, to include: Definition, descriiption, signs and symptoms. Incidence and prevalence of statistics by state with a comparison to national statistics pertaining to the disease. If after a search of the library and scholarly data bases, you are unable to find statistics for your home state, or other states, consider this a gap in the data and state as much in the body of the paper. For instance, you may state something like, “After an exhausting search of the scholarly data bases, this writer is unable to locate incidence and/or prevalence data for the state of…” This indicates a gap in surveillance that will be included in the “Plan” section of this paper.
Surveillance and Reporting: Current surveillance methods and mandated reporting processes as related to the chronic health condition chosen should be specific.
Epidemiological Analysis: Conduct a descriiptive epidemiology analysis of the health condition. Be sure to include all of the 5 W’s: What, Who, Where, When, Why. Use details associated with all of the W’s, such as the “Who” which should include an analysis of the determinants of health. Include costs (both financial and social) associated with the disease or problem.
Screening and Guidelines: Review how the disease is diagnosed and current national standards (guidelines). Pick one screening test (review Week 2 Discussion Board) and review its sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and cost.
Plan: Integrating evidence, provide a plan of how a nurse practitioner will address this chronic health condition after graduation. Provide three specific interventions that are based on the evidence and include how you will measure outcomes (how will you know that the interventions have utility, are useful?) Note:  Consider primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions as well as the integration of health policy advocacy efforts. All interventions should be based on evidence connected to a resource such as a scholarly piece of research.
Summary/Conclusion: Conclude in a clear manner with a brief overview of the keys points from each section of the paper utilizing integration of resources.
The paper should be formatted and organized into the following sections which focus on the chosen chronic health condition.
Adhere to all paper preparation guidelines (see below).
Preparing the Paper
Page length: 7-10 pages, excluding title page and references.
APA format current edition
Include scholarly in-text references throughout and a reference list.
Include at least one table that the student creates to present information. Please refer to the “Requirements” or rubric for further details. APA formatting required.
Length: Papers not adhering to the page length may be subject to either (but not both) of the following at the discretion of the course faculty: 1.  Your paper may be returned to you for editing to meet the length guidelines, or, 2. Your faculty may deduct up to five (5) points from the final grade.
Adhere to the Chamberlain College of Nursing academic policy on integrity as it pertains to the submission of original work for assignments.

.Training and development prompts change within an organization. The goal of training is to identify areas for improvement and to develop growth opportunities that support the employees in their professional career.
For this assignment, you are required to develop a small training exercise in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. Review previous needs assessments and training observations conducted at your workplace to help identify one area for improvement that would benefit your organization. This training exercise does not need to be implemented but should include at least one deliverable that you could use during the training exercise. As you are reviewing your organization, consider employee engagement, systems and procedures, communication, resources, succession planning, and the culture within the organization. These are only suggestions for possible areas that could benefit from a training exercise.
Create an 10 slide PowerPoint presentation of your training exercise, with speaker notes, and include the following:
1. What are the overall goals for the training or the benefit to the selected organization? 
Criteria Description
Training presentation includes goals for the organization and provides research conducted during observations.
2. What are two specific objectives for the training exercise?
Objectives for the Training
7.5 points
Criteria Description
Training presentation includes two objectives that are aligned and connect to the goals of the training.
3. What processes or procedures will change after the training has been completed?
Processes and Procedures Implemented After Training
15 points
Criteria Description
4. Training presentation includes processes and procedures to be implemented after the training with an explanation about the changes that will occur
Presentation of Content
Target
45 points
The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea.
5.  Describe the strategies or actions involved in the training exercise to meet the established goals and objectives. 
Strategies in the Training to Meet Goals and Drive Successful Business Results (B)
15 points
Criteria Description
Training presentation includes strategies to meet organizational goals and drive successful business results, including strategies to improve employee performance. (C5.2
6. What is the expected employee performance or application after the training? How will the strategies drive successful business results and improve employee performance?
7. How will the organization provide support to the current employees receiving this training? To new employees? How will the effectiveness of the training exercise be measured to confirm the anticipated improvement of employee performance?
Support and Training Effectiveness
15 points
Criteria Description
Training presentation includes an explanation of how the organization will support current and new employees as well as how the effectiveness of the training exercise will be measured.
8. Presentation of Content
Target
45 points
The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea.
9. Layout:
Layout
Target
15 points
The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.
10. Language Use and Audience Awareness
15 points
Criteria Description
Includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.
5. Target
15 points
The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope
Cite and reference a minimum of three scholarly sources with one being the textbook.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using documentation 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 turn it in. A link to the  technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance. 
Benchmark Information:
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competency:
MBA Strategic HR Management
5.2 Recommend strategies for utilizing the workforce to enhance an organization’s human capital talent in order to drive successful business results.