Assignment 4: The Sexual Response Cycle According to Masters and Johnson

Differentiate the sexual response cycles of males and females. What are the differences between males and females, and what do they share in common? 

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Assignment 3: The Convergence of Healthcare Financing and Economic Trends and Forces

Prepare  a fifteen to twenty (15 to 20) slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®  presentation with detailed scholarly speaker notes in which you: 

1. Compare  the three (3) current health care financing and funding models (i.e.,  employee based, government based, and individual based) used with the  healthcare delivery system of the United States.
2. Compare and  contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance  plans.  Evaluate the success potential of key economic goals in terms of  populations covered, services included, financing arrangements,  reimbursement strategies, and economic competition policies.
3. Analyze  the key effects of labor market, insurance market, and competitive  market factors on health care delivery requirements at your current or  previous organization of employment.
4. Determine what changes are  occurring in the economy or concerning labor and regulatory factors  that must be considered in the future.
5. Suggest the key national trends that you believe currently affect competition and pricing initiatives. Justify your response.
6. Suggest the main quality indicators that typically affect health insurance pricing at the local level. Justify your response.
7. Use a minimum of six (6) reputable references sources including three (3) sources from peer reviewed journals.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the  assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,  and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in  the required assignment page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care.
• Analyze  the impact of managed care on cost, quality, and access within managed  care organizations and the health insurance market.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics.
• Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics.

Evidence Based Practice

Competent social workers have many types of skills to complement a wide variety of theoretical knowledge. This skill set and knowledge base is often informed by research. Whether research is quantitative, qualitative, or a mixture of both, the information that well-formed studies yield contribute to the knowledge base of the social work profession as a whole.

For this Discussion, consider how evidence-based research informs social work practice. Think about how research findings translate into social work actions.

Case Study: Healthcare Data Standardization

Read the following case study:

A small community hospital in the Midwest has used a homegrown information system for years. The system began in the early 1970s with a financial module. Over time, additional modules were added. A limited number of departments selected a commercial system and interfaces were used to integrate these into the overall functionality of the hospital information system. Except for physicians, most in-house clinical or care-related documentation is online. However, about 15% to 20% of this documentation is done by free text and is not effectively searchable. In addition, the screens, including the drop-down and default values, were built using terms selected by the in-house development team in consultation with clinical staff; thus there is no data dictionary or specific standard language. In the last few years, the hospital has purchased two outpatient clinics (obstetrics and mental health) and a number of local doctor practices. The clinics and doctors’ offices are now being converted to the hospital administrative systems. A few of the clinical applications that are tied directly to the administrative systems such as order entry and results reporting are also being installed. 

A major change is being planned. A new chief information officer (CIO) was hired last year and she has appointed a chief medical information officer (CMIO) and a chief nursing information officer (CNIO). No other significant staff changes were made. With her team in place, one of the CIO’s first activities was to complete an inventory of all applications. Rather than continue to build, a decision was made to switch to a commercial vendor and the hospital selected a commercial system. 

As a member of the clinical staff with informatics education, the CIO has requested that you develop a training and information presentation for the clinical staff that will:

· Identify two or more issues with the existing system

· Provide staff with appropriate “work-around” for using the existing system

· Provide an overview of two of the standard languages used within the new system including discipline or specialty, updating frequency, and available cross-maps

o One standard language should pertain only to nursing 

o One standard language should be multidisciplinary.

· Obtain clinical staff input, using a five-question survey, of specific methods to support transition to the new system; questions should be open-ended.

PowerPoint Presentation

Directions:

1. Review the case study.

2. Download the provided PowerPoint template to create a presentation that includes:

· Your name on the title slide of the presentation

· Identification of two or more issues with existing system

· Identification of “work-a-round” solutions when using existing system

· Overview of standard language used only in nursing

· Overview of multidisciplinary standard language

· Set of five (5) open-ended survey questions for staff input on transitioning to the new system

· Presentation is free of spelling and grammar errors.

2. Submit the Week 10 Assignment via Blackboard by clicking on the “Week 10 Assignment” link. Include the proper file naming convention: 

· CMP105_wk10_assn_jsmith_mmddyyyy.

Me-Too Drugs VS Brand Drugs

CT 4 Strategic Healthcare

You should continue working on your Capstone Project this week by completing a SWOT analysis using the case study information provided in the Capstone Project description. You will be using this SWOT analysis in the Assessment section of your PowerPoint presentation to the BOD and including the analysis itself in the appendix to the report. Use graphics and diagrams to enhance and present your SWOT in your slides.

Your well-written SWOT analysis should meet the following requirements:

• Be 2-3 slides in length, not including the cover, abstract (optional), or reference pages.
• Utilize headings to organize the content.
• Include a minimum of three references with associated in-text citations.
• Be formatted according to APA writing requirements and format.

Congruence

Describe the congruence of your organization’s mission and vision to its practice. (This means – How is the organization’s mission and vision seen or carried out in its day to day operations and activities?) 

Network Organizations

Topic: Network Organizations 

Requirements:

1.The research paper must be at least 2,500 words.

2.A minimum of 6 peer-reviewed journal citations are required.

3. APA Format

The following outline (unrelated to the subject matter of the research report) may help in your understanding of the research report via analysis & synthesis.

1)    Introduction:

a)    Introduce the 2 DB implementations plans. Add history and relative significance of each consumer and DB products.

b)    One implementation should be a database that was essentially successful.

c)    The second implementation should be a database that had significant “challenges”.

d)    What type of research papers was used (case study, empirical, etc.)?

2)    Describe, compare/contrast, and evaluate two (2) database – ANALYSIS

a)    What is the problem driving the implementation? What is ‘going wrong’ or what ‘problem’ was expected to be addressed?

b)    What were the implementation  requirements

i)      Expectations

ii)    Project requirements

iii)  DB requirements

iv)  Planed resources & time expectations

c)    What were the risks and impact if the implementation failed?

3)    Provide a SYNTHESIS of the 2-implementation plans. 

a)    What specific issues addressed by article X were also addressed in article Y, and how do they compare?

b)    What issues addressed by article X (or Y) may have been addressed by an alternate solution?

4)    Findings

a)    What does your evidence show?

5)    Conclusions

a)    What make one DB implementation a success and the other have significant challenges?

b)    What mitigating factors were, or should have been, considered?

6)    Recommendations

a)    Future investigation

7)    Reference List  

Summary Paper – A Camera in the Classroom