locate an article that reports on the quality of healthcare services. The article must be sourced from the mass media and not from an academic or healthcare journal. The purpose of this assignment is to review information reported to the general public in a news source that does not exclusively cover healthcare issues. Weekly magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Forbes, Money, and Consumer Reports, and newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would be appropriate choices. The article may give various examples of good or bad quality instead of covering just one episode of care. Your selected article must be a comprehensive review or assessment of some aspect of healthcare services. Summarize the article. Be certain to indicate the basis for the report, that is, whether it is the result of academic research, an independent investigation, or something else.
Answer the following questions.

• Summarize what conditions, processes, or events are noted as good quality or poor quality healthcare in the article. What is your own assessment of these conditions, processes, or events? Explain.
• Does the article assign responsibility to persons or processes for the problems or achievements it reports? Does it provide sufficient evidence for assigning responsibility? Explain your answers.
• Assess the suggestions for healthcare quality improvement in the article.
  Explain your reaction to this article as a consumer of healthcare services. In answering this question, note how the article uses language and any persuasive techniques.
• Explain your reaction to this article as a provider of healthcare services. Why is this reaction the same as or different from your reaction as a consumer?
• Is the article fair in its reporting and assessing healthcare quality? Why or why not?
• Submission Details:
• To support your work, use your course and textbook 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.
• Your initial posting should be addressed at 300-500 words. 

1. Download the required NR305 Week 2 Personal Lifestyle Form March19 (Links to an external site.). You will document your responses to the profile using this MS Word document.
2. Complete the Life and Health Practices Profile, using yourself as the client. Please document your responses professionally, as you would in a client’s actual health record. Provide enough information to have answered the questions completely. For clarity, write full sentences in your documentation. To receive full credit, all questions must be addressed, except for those indicated as optional. If a question does not apply to you, please indicate this in the findings as “N/A”.
3. Once you have completed the profile, type your answers to the three questions listed under the form. APA format is not a requirement, however, please write in paragraph form when appropriate. Sentence structure, spelling, and grammar are important.

Instructions

Based on what you have learned so far, you now have another opportunity to help parents. Select a grade level, kindergarten through 12th grade, as the focus of this assignment. Assume some of your students’ parents are concerned about motivating their children to successfully learn. Compose an email to these concerned parents in which you address the following:

• Explain the effects motivation has on learning and behavior. Provide examples specific to your targeted age group.
• Determine how you can maximize productive feelings and minimize counterproductive feelings related to school and academic success.
• Select strategies you intend to use to address students’ basic needs in the classroom. 

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included. 

Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages

Format: Appropriate subject line, Signature line, and greeting to parent(s) by name

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

• Medicare and Medicaid

Introduction:

Medicare and Medicaid are federal programs that cover a large proportion of the US population with healthcare. The two have similar objectives in the area of providing care, but there are significant differences in them that concern reimbursement.

Tasks:

• Describe each program, Medicare and Medicaid.
• Provide the major features of each program.
• Discuss how these programs differ from each other.
• Briefly describe the process of how to bill for each program.

Submission Details:

• Submit this topic as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document. Use APA standards for citations and references.
• Cite a minimum of three outside peer-reviewed sources to support your assertions and save it as SU_HCM1201_W4_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. Submit the report to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
• Cite any sources using correct APA format on a separate page.

Assignment

There have been more than a few newsworthy failures to succeed relating to the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) that resulted in lawsuits between companies and contracted solution providers. Large-scale roll-outs of ERP systems are notoriously difficult to pull off seamlessly and are fraught with cost overruns. Inadequate training, employee groups’ buy-in or failure to embrace change to a utilization of the new technology, poorly designed or incompatible software with legacy systems, and other factors are often stated to be the source of the difficult transitions when implementing ERP systems.

Discuss

For this assignment, conduct research on the topic of ERP systems.

If you were the CIO of a large enterprise and the implementation of an ERP system was going badly, where would you begin to try to determine what was causing the difficulties that are being encountered in the project? For example, would you bring in an outside consultant or rely on in-house talent to track down the causes that resulted in the less-than-optimal outcomes? Why would you choose one resource over the other?

Group Project Presentation on Nursing Theorist

Theorist: Patricia Benner: from Novice to Expert, Skill acquisition Model. 

Your group presentation on the selected nursing theorist is due this week and has two parts. By the due date assigned, collaborate with your group members and collate the project-related work that you have done from Weeks 1–4, and submit your group project in the prescribed format as noted below.

Your Project Deliverables include the following:

1. Packet of MaterialsA packet of materials should be posted to the Discussion Area for peer critique and submitted to the Submissions Area. The packet should include a detailed outline of the PowerPoint presentation and a one-page summary of each of five relevant articles on or about the theory and at the top of the page should have the complete reference in APA format. It should also include any handouts, such as charts, diagrams, or definitions, which will facilitate understanding of the PowerPoint presentation and the theory itself.
2. PowerPoint PresentationYour PowerPoint presentation should be uploaded to the appropriate Discussion Area section of for this week. Your presentation should have:
   • A brief overview of the theorist’s background.
   • Discussion of the theorist’s view of the four basic concepts of the nursing metaparadigm and two other concepts unique to the theory
   • The basic theoretical assertions or propositions.
   • An analysis and a critique of the model with a focus on elaboration of the theory’s implications for nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing research.

By the end of the week, evaluate at least two peer group presentations making use of the criteria provided in the Peer Presentation Review Checklist Template

Based on the required topic study materials, write a reflection about worldview and respond to following:

1. In 250-300      words, explain the Christian perspective of the nature of spirituality and      ethics in contrast to the perspective of postmodern relativism within      health care.
2. In 250-300      words, explain what scientism is and describe two of the main arguments      against it.
3. In 750-1,000      words, answer each of the worldview questions according to your own      personal perspective and worldview: (a) What is ultimate reality? (b) What      is the nature of the universe? (c) What is a human being? (d) What is      knowledge? (e) What is your basis of ethics? (f) What is the purpose of      your existence?

Remember to support your reflection with the topic study materials. 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.

Rubric 

· Explanation of the Christian perspective of the nature of spirituality and ethics in contrast to the perspective of postmodern relativism is clear, detailed, and demonstrates a deep understanding of the subject. Explanation is supported by topic study materials.

· Explanation of scientism is clear and accurate. Explanations of two main arguments against scientism are clear and insightful. Details are clearly supported by topic study materials.

· Each of the worldview questions is answered clearly and with deep personal insight.

· Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.

· Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.

· Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.

· All format elements are correct.

· Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.