U3LC: Cross Cultural Relations

Course: Cross Cultural Relations

Unit:  Social Inequalities

Deliverable Length: 3-4 pargraphs response per questions! 

Question 1: Why do individuals with the fewest social ties [fewest social connection] suffers the highest mortality rate [the rate in which a person dies, die before your life expectancy. ]

Question 2: Discuss the "link" between type A personality patterns and cardiovascular disease. [There is a link that has been established, between people who have have a more type A personality are to develop cardiovascular disease. Talk about the connection and why there is a link, between these two things and what could be done to eliminate that risk.]

Animal Behavior

1)) Mrs. Jones has a ten o'clock appointment for her new puppy to get a distemper booster, and has arrived on time by taxi. The receptionist has checked her in and she and the puppy are waiting in exam room one. You have taken the temp, pulse, and respiration and have weighed the puppy. You go to the refrigerator to get the distemper vaccine and realize that the last vaccine expired yesterday, the last day of the month. What should be done? (a) Vaccine should be used since it is only one day past its expiration date, (b) Vaccine should be used at twice its recommended dose for added efficacy. (c) If a feline distemper vaccine is available, it should be used instead. (d) Mrs. Jones should be given a new appointment on the date after the next shipment of vaccines comes in. 

Health Care Workforce

You have decided you would like to work in a foreign country as a health care financial professional. Choose the country and the type of position within health care finance or health care management. You would like to know how medical education, job duties, and pay in the country of your choice compares to the training and experience received in the United States.

Using the CTU Library and other resources, address the following:

• Provide the education requirements, job functions, and salary for your chosen medical profession in the chosen country.  
• Describe how these differ from the education requirements, job functions, and salary in the United States. 

Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format.

Good Science

You will need to develop your definition of what constitutes good science and support it with three sources from the scientific literature using APA formatting. It should be approximately 250 words excluding citations. Do not plagiarize. Your work will be checked for this.

• 1. Find and analyze examples or definitions of what constitutes "good science" that is documented in scientific literature. Find at least 3 reputable sources.
• 2. Thinking about the research in step 1, develop your definition of what constitutes good science, supported by your research sources.
• 3. Go to the Doing Good Science discussion topic, and create a new thread of at least 250 words (excluding citations) containing the following information, using APA for citations and support:
  • Define and describe your definition of good science, supported with your research sources.

 Doing Good Science discussion topic

Return to the discussion topic and reply to one of your classmates' posts who has not had a reply.

• The reply should be evident you read the post and have a thoughtful response.
• The reply should be at least five sentences total. Replies should not say "cool post", "good idea", etc., but answer the post based on the following criteria.
  1. Is the post detailed enough to describe the discussion topic?
  2. Does the post grab your interest? Why/not?
  3. If applicable, is the post supported with proper scientific sources and citations?
• Comments will be taken into consideration for grading purposes.

Bioethics Essay

basically just write about your stance on the use of cloning in that situation. You need to read the story and support your choice of side with the facts from the websites (these are on the link). 

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s110/sh/22f85adc-e487-43b6-9596-8218e7c4b7f3/39e442f38738e928

Cross-Cultural Caring And Aging

Read chapter 2 in the textbook. Discuss your personal beliefs regarding health and illness and explain how they fit into the three major classifications of health belief models. Propose 4 strategies that would be helpful in planning care for elders from different ethnic backgrounds.  

This is the book that should be referenced. 

1. Touhy, T. A., & Jett, K. F. (2018). Ebersole and Hess’ gerontological nursing & healthy aging (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. 

ISBN – 978-0-323-40167-8

The post should be in APA format and be at least 350 words.

Nursing/ Information Managment And Technology

Implementing Change

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates' initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite sources in your responses to other classmates. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.

Tasks

Post a response to one of the two discussion topics below, using information from the lectures, reading assignments, library resources, and Internet resources. All responses should be posted to the Discussion Area.

Topic 1:

Change in our work and personal lives is often a stress inducing event. The goal of the change agent should be to mitigate stress as much as possible. Share your experience with change, good or bad, and if it was “good” experience, what made it good? And if “bad” what made it bad? How to these experiences align with best practices in implementing change?

Essay About Personal Philosophy Of Nursing

Essay " Personal Philosophy of Nursing " 

7 –  8 pages

 Define, describe and explain your personal thoughts and beliefs about the concepts of the 4 nursing metaparadigms:

 a. Person/client b. Environment c. Health d. Nursing 

 Identification and brief description of the nursing theory(ies) more compatible with the student's personal philosophy of nursing.

  Provided in-depth explanation with specific documentation, that demonstrates compatibility of personal philosophy with the nursing theory(ies) 

 Summary and conclusion 

References

Document must be APA Format

The Process Of Benchmarking Essay

In order to be competitive in health care markets, organizations must ensure that the services they provide are consistent in pricing and quality with other comparable organizations. In this Discussion, you will examine how the process of benchmarking, or comparing organizations, is important in financial decision making.
To prepare:

• Review the information on benchmarking found in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Search the Walden Library or other reliable resources on the Internet and locate a journal article discussing how a health care organization has used the principle of benchmarking.
• How could the concept of benchmarking be used in your own organization (or one with which you are familiar), regardless of size?
• Consider how benchmarking could be useful to you in decision making.
• Analyze the potential risks of making a faulty comparison.

 Post a summary of the article you found (including the APA reference) and explain how it informed your understanding of benchmarking. Discuss how benchmarking could be used for financial decision making in your own organization (or one with which you are familiar). Also analyze the potential risks of making comparisons with an organization that is not a credible match with your own.

Hormone Replacement Therapy Post-Menopause

Topic:  Hormone replacement therapy post-menopause 

Questions to answer:

1. Define the scope ethical issue.

2.Examine the scope of the issue as it relates to nursing and principles identified in codes of ethics.

3.Identify at least two positions taken on this issue by scholarly experts in the ethics discipline.

4.Explore the future for the issue as it relates to nursing practice.