Participate in the selected issue by sending a letter. Enter your letter in the format provided in the ADA website. When you personalize your response, use the knowledge that you have acquired in this course to frame it as a health disparity issue using the concepts you have learned in the readings.
It is good idea if you identify yourself as a pharmacist in training and provide your clinical knowledge. You can state your institutional affiliation (NSU) or your affiliation with any other group that seems related to your argument. If applicable, share any personal experience with diabetes. Try to be passionate, assertive and professional in your arguments.
You will receive confirmation from the ADA and/or from your elected officials.
Upload an integrated PDF or Word document with the confirmation of your submission, a copy of your letter, a brief reflection of what you thought of this assignment (Required).
As you can see on the document, it has several parts.
Part 1 is a discussion about reading .
Part 2, when you access the website and select the federal issue, you’re going to see that the letter is pre-built there, you just have to work on the PERSONALIZE YOUR MESSAGE section of the letter.
Also, this part requires a brief reflection on the thoughts on this assignment.
In summary, there’s 3 things to work on:
The discussion
The letter
The brief reflection
when you click on the link I provided you, it takes you to the American diabetes association website, then you click on the ACT NOW bottom and the letter should be there on the right side. Part of the letter is done (pre-built), you just have to work on the PERSONALIZE YOUR MESSAGE section of the letter. Once everything is done I will personally submit it.
Instructions: Please answer using your own words in a minimum of 350 and maximum of 500 words (2-3 paragraphs). PER 5 QUESTIONSSINGLE spaced. Referenced with three (3) peer-reviewed journal articles or qualified text publish within the past five years and follow APA Manual 7th editions scholarly writing guidelines. APA in-text Citation formatting is required. When writing replies, please provide your experiences, new ideas, add probing questions to engage readers and new literature on the topic to enhance the learning
HCAD 635 Discussion 8 Questions –
Instructions: Please answer using your own words in a minimum of 350 and maximum of 500 words (2-3 paragraphs). PER 5 QUESTIONSSINGLE spaced. Referenced with three (3) peer-reviewed journal articles or qualified text publish within the past five years and follow APA Manual 7th editions scholarly writing guidelines. APA in-text Citation formatting is required. When writing replies, please provide your experiences, new ideas, add probing questions to engage readers and new literature on the topic to enhance the learning opportunity.
Questions:
8.1 Regulatory Framework
Legal Issues and Ethics
Laws regulating skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities vary by state. However, most states’ regulations address emergency and disaster preparedness, fire safety, staff training, medication management, resident privacy, and background checks. Choose two states and research their statutes and regulations regarding LTC facilities. What do the regulations in these states say about one of these issues? Where do you see the greatest differences in regulations? To what do you attribute this?
States of Choice: California and Maryland
8.2 The Social, Political, and Safety Environments
In recent years, we have witnessed unprecedented shifts in societal values, some of which can offer challenges to organizational operations. Watch Gray Gays: Aging as an LGBT adult (5:56). What are two unique challenges facing the elderly GLBT population? How can the typical nursing home or assisted living facility address the unique needs of this population?
8.3 The Social, Political, and Safety Environments
Select three of the following ethical and legal issues in long term care and comment on the challenges inherent for long term care administrators in effectively responding to them. Select one topic for a residential setting (i.e., assisted living or nursing home) and select a different topic for home and community based care. How can an ethics committee can help a Long-Term Care (LTC) administrator effectively deal with these issues?
Discrimination
Abuse
Privacy
Malpractice
Wrongful Termination
Patient Rights
Informed consent
Advanced Directives
8.4 Survey Says… LTC Practice, Qualifications and Oversight
After reviewing Chapter 7 – Survey and Enforcement Process for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities, in the State Operations Manual, summarize the primary purpose and focus of the survey mechanism. How does this differ from other sectors of healthcare (or does it)? Is the survey process a valuable exercise or unnecessary over-regulation? Why?
8.5 The Hospice Model
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary team management of patient care as practiced in hospice and palliative care? Are there potential lessons learned for improving the quality of traditional medical care? What specific tools, skills, and qualifications interdisciplinary team members need to master to offer an effective and efficient customer-centered experience? What would you personally do to develop these skills?
Health Information Technology and Patient-Centered Care
Review the contents from Module 5-8. Submit a final paper to analyze how health information systems can improve patient-centered care. Relate the topics to your own experiences. Use at least 3 additional academic references. Your paper should be at least 1000 words, using APA style formatting. Include the following topics in your paper.
How can the health information technologies (e.g., CPOE, telehealth, and telemedicine) be used for improving patient participation and promoting patient empowerment?
How can these technologies be applied for reducing medical errors and adverse events.
Read Chapters 5, 6 & 17 in Understanding Abnormal Behavior Read DSM-5 Cultural Formulation, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders & Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Assignment 3
This assignment focuses on vignette analysis and direct application of course concepts to the persons and situations presented in the vignette for each question. All discussions must take into account the legal and ethical considerations, as well as issues of culture and human diversity that may pertain to the situation presented below. Legal, ethical and cultural information are the course text. Cultural information is also in the DSM 5. You may use alternative resources for culture, law and ethics to enhance your work. You are required to use current, evidence based research taken from professional journals, to support the text material
PRIMARY RESOURCES:
These resources are required to complete the course.
American Psychological Association (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (7th ed.).
Use the reading assignments from the course textbook thoroughly in an integrative discussion, citing in APA format. In addition to the course textbook and DSM-5, you are also required to use evidence-based research to support and enhance the text information. A minimum of three (3) current research articles must be included. Remember to cite and reference all work according to APA guidelines.
Please keep your responses focused on what is presented in the vignette. Do not add information but use your creativity to support what you see in the vignette as written. Avoid elaborations and assumptions. This assignment MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, 7th edition, and must be written at graduate-level English.
To complete the Vignette Analysis, please use the DSM 5 criteria
Assignment should be 5 pages total plus a title and reference page
Do not include the vignette in your response
Please review the Sample Vignette located under Resources
Vignette One
Steven is a 28-year old Mexican American man. Steven grew up in East Los Angeles where violent gang activity was prominent. The oldest of 3 boys, Steven spent most of his childhood looking out for his 2 younger brothers. Both parents were abusive alcoholics and were “heavy-handed with us kids”. At age 19, Steven moved by himself to a major East Coast city where he attended college and is doing well as an architect. He is currently married to a woman he met in college. The couple is expecting their first child.
Steven comes to therapy upon the suggestion of his primary care physician due to chronic worry, anticipation of failure and fear that he will not be able to financially care for his wife and new baby, in spite of his lucrative and successful career. He also has ruminative thoughts, that that he is a facade and that, “people will find out who I really am.”
Steven tells you that lately he has gotten dizzy when driving on the highway and recently experienced the inability to breathe when at the mall with his wife. He also tells you that sometimes when he closes his eyes, he sees his parents “beating each other up and can hear them screaming.” He also discloses that sometimes he wakes up at night with clenched fists and feels like that scared little boy all over again. Lately he has been unable to leave the house without making sure the door is locked several times and avoids odd numbered streets on the way to work.
Given what you see in the vignette, with consideration of a differential diagnosis formulation, what comorbid disorders may exist? What additional information would you need to confirm your diagnostic impressions? Choose one provisional diagnosis for Steven. Support your provisional diagnosis by comparing the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria to vignette content. (See Sample Vignette Analysis located under Resources for guidance)
Choose 1 theoretical model to explain how you conceptualize Steven’s clinical presentation. From the perspective of this theoretical model, discuss how you would provide clinical treatment for Steven. Integrate vignette content thoroughly in your treatment plan.
(Remember to consider culture, law and ethics when diagnosing and treating)
Assignment Outcomes / Discuss evidence-based research in diagnosis and treatment.
What risk factors should be explored for Maria’s family for cardiovascular disease? Mention social determinants of health in this case. Incorporate the concepts of health promotion and risk reduction.
Would you apply any of the behavioral change models to address health promotion and risk reduction in this case (theoretical frameworks of behavioral change / models discussed on Chapter 5 of textbook). Describe your selection.
Public health nurses use statistics to demonstrate the need for obesity program development and community interventions. According to the most recent CDC data: What data were identified about obesity in children and adults?
Is there a necessity of planning a community nursing intervention? How will you do that? Will you work alone or in collaboration / teamwork? Will you look for funding? How?
If you decide to do a community intervention. How would you evaluate the community-level intervention(s)?
Will you use social marketing to change health behaviors or beliefs, social or cultural norms, or community standards to improve health or benefit society. Which resources will you use?
10.Mention research studies that support any of the above (1 through 9) (mention at least 3 research studies in the paper).
Requirements: minimum of 3 pages – maximum of 6 pages
