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Cost and quality are two important drivers with healthcare. Unfortunately everything has an associated cost factor.
The question becomes how do you balance expense to ensure good quality?

Order Description
Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-506 Health Care Policy
Drivers of High Performance Healthcare Systems (graded)
Select two drivers (for example quality cost and access) of high performance healthcare systems and apply it to your current work situation. The application could demonstrate the presence of the driver in a positive manner or it could acknowledge the presence of a concern.
Cost and quality are two important drivers with healthcare. Unfortunately everything has an associated cost factor.
The question becomes how do you balance expense to ensure good quality?
Give work related examples
Reference
Mason D. J. Gardner D. B. Outlaw F. H. & OGrady E. T. (2016). Policy & politics in nursing and healthcare (7th ed.). Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com
? Chapter 16:The Changing United States Health Care System
? Chapter 17: A Primer on Health Economics of Nursing and Health Policy
? Chapter 18: Financing Health Care in the United States
? Chapter 34: Filling the Gaps: Retail Health care Clinics and Nurse-Managed Health Centers
? Chapter 41: How Government Works: What You Need to Know to Influence the Process
Teitelbaum J. & Wilensky S. (2017 ). Essentials of health policy and law (3rd ed.). Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com
? Chapter 4: Overview of the United States Healthcare System
? Chapter 5: Public Health Institutions and Systems
Blumenthal D. Abrams M. Nuzum R. (2015). The Affordable Care Act at 5 Years. The New England Journal of Medicine 372 2451-2458. doi: 10.1056/NEJMhpr1503614 link to article
Buerhaus P. I. (2010). Healthcare payment reform: Implications for nurses. Nursing Economics 28(1) 49-54. link to article
Gardenier D. (2012). Can clinical nurse practitioners be involved in policy making? The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 8(3) 198-199. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2012.01.008 link to article
Hughes A. (n.d). The challenge of contributing to policy making in primary care: the gendered experiences and strategies of nurses. Sociology Of Health & Illness 32(7) 977-992. link to article
Strech S. & Wyatt D. (2013). Partnering to lead change: Nurses role in the redesign of healthcareAORN 98(3) 260-266. link to article
Page or paragraph numbers must be included with quotes per APA. See APA re how to format references and in-text citations i.e. capitalization issues and use of the ampersand versus the word (and).
Including at least one in-text citation and matching reference.
Check for grammar and spellings

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For this Discussion, you will identify a change needed in your community (state of Mississippi) and what your nursing legacy for positive social change will be.

During NP clinical practicum experiences, we identify, as nurses, many health care issues that need to be addressed at the local, state, or national level. Addressing the need for change in health care policy is now an intricate part of your role as a social change agent.

For this Discussion, you will identify a change needed in your community (state of Mississippi) and what your nursing legacy for positive social change will be.

To prepare:

Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice.
Identify a change needed in your community (state of Mississippi) in health care policy and discuss how you could impart change during your career as an NP.
Consider your future as a NP and what your nursing legacy will be. How will you impart Social Change?

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Explain how your organization is currently involved.How is the leadership within your organization promoting the use of this database?How do you see its use impacting patient safety?

LEADERSHIP FOR QUALITY AND SAFETY WEB QUEST

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National Patient Safety Goals;

Questions Responses
1. From the 9 identified areas of practices, choose one area that most closely relates to your area of practice, clinical experience, or interest.
2. Pick and list one for the patient safety goals from the identified area.
3. How does this goal currently impact you in your area of practice, clinical experience, or area of interest?
4. Do you think these programs and goals are important? Why or why not?
5. From your perspective, how have these programs and goals impacted patient quality and safety
Stop #1 – The Joint Commission

Speak-Up Initiative
Questions Responses
1. What do you think about the Speak Up program?
2. Which brochure did you choose from the list provided?
3. Do you think this brochure would be helpful to a patient? Why or why not?
4. Do you think that educated patients have better outcomes? Why?

Center for Transforming Healthcare
Questions Responses
1. Are you surprised that hand hygiene is still a quality focus after all these years? Why or why not?
2. So, why doesn’t everyone wash? How as a leader in your organization do you ensure compliance?
3. Have you seen some for of “ Safe Hand-off” occurring in your area of practice or clinical experience? Do you think this is an important initiative?

Stop #2 – National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)
NDNQI
1. Did you know that there are Nursing Quality Indicators? If so, how did you know?
2. Is your place of employment currently participating with NDNQI? If yes, go to number 3. If no, skip number 3 and go to number 4.
3. Explain how your organization is currently involved.How is the leadership within your organization promoting the use of this database?How do you see its use impacting patient safety?
4. Explain how you as a leader could convince your organization to participate with the NDNQI? Discuss why you think your organization would benefit from this database. How could it be used to enhance patient safety.

Stop #3 – The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
This is probably the most important item within the WebQuest. This link is about the changes that nursing is currently undergoing and the information in these links affects how nurses practice.
IOM and RWJF
Questions Responses
1. One of the recommendations is to increase the proportion of nurses with baccalaureate degrees by 2020. Were you aware of this recommendation? If so, did it influence your decision to pursue your baccalaureate degree?
2. If it did not directly influence your decision, can you think of any ways that it may have indirectly impacted your pursuit of a baccalaureate degree?
3. What are the reasons you are currently pursuing your baccalaureate degree?
4. As a leader, would you encourage your employees to pursue a baccalaureate degree or higher? If so, what are some strategies you would use to promote the advancement of education

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Write a 1000-word essay on the use/abuse of religion in politics and how Islam became a symbol of evil at the hands of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram.

Write a 1000-word essay on the use/abuse of religion in politics and how Islam became a symbol of evil at the hands of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram. How this relates to the 14th century Spain and the Christian Inquisition era in Europe?

The articles

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/we_created_islamic_extremism_those_blaming_islam_for_isis_would_have_supported_osama_bin_laden_in_the_80s/

TUESDAY, NOV 17, 2015 03:48 PM EST

We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s

Jingoists conveniently forget the West’s Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida

History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolute lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today was borne out of the Western foreign policy of yesteryear.

Gore Vidal famously referred to the USA as the United States of Amnesia. The late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai put it a little more delicately, quipping, “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.”

In order to understand the rise of militant Salafi groups like ISIS and al-Qaida; in order to wrap our minds around their heinous, abominable attacks on civilians in the U.S., France, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, Turkey, Yemen, Afghanistan and many, many more countries, we must rekindle this historical memory.

Where did violent Islamic extremism come from? In the wake of the horrific Paris attacks on Friday, November the 13, this is the question no one is asking — yet it is the most important one of all. If one doesn’t know why a problem emerged, if one cannot find its root, one will never be able to solve and uproot it.

Where did militant Salafi groups like ISIS and al-Qaida come from? The answer is not as complicated as many make it out to be — but, to understand, we must delve into the history of the Cold War, the historical period lied about in the West perhaps more than any other.

How the West cultivated Osama bin Laden

We needn’t reach back far into history, just a few decades.

A much-circulated photo of an article published in British newspaper the Independent in 1993 exemplifies the West’s twisted hypocrisy. Titled “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace,” it features a large photo of Osama bin Laden, who, at the time, was a Western ally.

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Darwin originally believed that natural selection could not be seen in action. Today we know this is not the case. Explain one specific example of natural selection in action.
Essay Questions

Both of the following questions will appear on your exam. You can best prepare for the essay question by writing out your answer to each one and practicing it as you study. An added benefit of doing this is that you will also be reviewing key concepts that will be useful for the rest of the exam.

Darwin originally believed that natural selection could not be seen in action. Today we know this is not the case. Explain one specific example of natural selection in action discussed in course materials. In order to completely address this question, you must include a clear description of how natural selection works and how the example illustrates natural selection. Be sure to choose an example with enough information to completely address the question. 2-3 substantial paragraphs.

Evolutionary theory predicts that deleterious conditions will be selected out of populations and, therefore, occur at a very low rate. However, certain genetic diseases are more common in some populations than others and natural selection can explain this variation. Using Tay-Sachs or sickle-cell anemia as your example, explain why these diseases are more common in some populations than others. Be specific. 2-3 substantial paragraphs.

RESOURCES TO USE (You don’t have to use all, but choose a few that are relevant) :

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/moral-dilemma-we-face-age-of-humans-180952909/?no-ist
2.https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/busting-myths-about-human-nature/201403/why-normal-is-myth

3.http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/origin-species-beak-finch

4.https://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jscnhm/v2n2/EvolutionAction.html

5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWqgZUnJdAY&feature=youtu.be

6.http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/142195/beyond-dna-epigenetics

7.https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/busting-myths-about-human-nature/201401/genes-are-not-fortune-tellers

8.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9a-ru2ES6Y&feature=youtu.be

9.https://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/origin#footnote9_ygu9xti

10.http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/medicine_01

11.http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/aids-evolution-epidemic

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