Imagine that you are an expert in the principles of business leadership. You have been invited to present at a conference held for some of the top executives at Fortune 500 companies.

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Imagine that you are an expert in the principles of business leadership. You have been invited to present at a conference held for some of the top executives at Fortune 500 companies.

Imagine that you are an expert in the principles of business leadership. You have been invited to present at a conference held for some of the top executives at Fortune 500 companies. Your assigned topic is leveraging leadership to maximize business success.

Create a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you address the following:

Introduction to leadership

o Explain the differences between management and leadership and how cultivating leadership skills in managers can benefit the organization.

o Explain how managers can set effective expectations for their employees to increase organizational performance.

Organizational culture

o Describe how managers, when applying leadership principles, can contribute to a healthy organizational culture.

Managerial control

o Identify some key control mechanisms and describe how management can apply them to aid in achieving organizational goals.

Leveraging diversity

o Summarize some best practices for leading a diverse workforce, and the benefits that can come to the organization through leveraging diversity.

Support your presentation with the concepts discussed in class and from the text, and your personal experiences.

Include the speaker notes to explain the key points in your presentation.

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Describe the method you would use to evaluate whether your intervention was effective. (There is a helpful tool found in Course Resources to assist you with understanding qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation).

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SCENARIO
You are a community public health nurse (C/PHN) working with the vulnerable population you identified in Milestone 2. You will choose a specific community health role that would serve this population. You have analyzed the data collected from your windshield survey and vulnerable population assignments (the first two milestones) and identified one community health problem that a nurse can impact. Now, review the scholarly literature or scholarly websites listed below and identify one specific evidence-based nursing intervention that has the potential to improve the health of this group. Then develop a proposal to implement this intervention and a plan to evaluate the outcomes of this intervention. Create a PowerPoint that you could use to present to an organization in your community to request approval for funding and support for this intervention. (You are not required to implement the intervention or present your PowerPoint, though you may want to consider implementing your project in the future).
DIRECTIONS
Watch the Milestone 3 tutorial by clicking this url: https://www.brainshark.com/devry/Milestone3_2016. This tutorial is also available on Course Project page under Course Home.
A. Introduction: (average of 2-3 slides)
• Describe the identified problem
o Include at least two important findings that demonstrate that this is a problem in your community.
• Describe your specific community health role: Some examples of roles are school nurse, parish nurse, home health nurse, occupational nurse, health department nurse etc.
• Identify the purpose of the presentation which is related to proposing a community health intervention and evaluation plan.
B. Identify an evidence based intervention: (average of 2–3 slides).
• Find an evidence-based nursing intervention from a peer-reviewed journal article OR one of the following databases. These databases evaluate research evidence about community health interventions. Be sure that your intervention is one that is recommended. Cite your source on the slide with the author or organization and year.
o Use at least one of the following to identify an evidence based intervention:
? A peer reviewed journal article demonstrating that your intervention has been successful
? The Community Guide (https://www.thecommunityguide.org/) Choose one of the topics in the topic tab to find interventions.
? The CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator Database of Interventions (https://wwwn.cdc.gov/chidatabase)
? Healthy People 2020 evidence-based interventions. Find a relevant topic area at (https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives), click on that topic area, and then click on the “Interventions and Resources” tab to see the evidence-based interventions list for that topic area
• Provide a brief overview of your intervention.
• Discuss why this intervention is a good fit for your community (why you expect it to be effective in your community).
C. Intervention Implementation: (average of 3–4 slides).
Describe how you would implement your community health nursing intervention in your community
• Discuss the actions will you take as the community health nurse to accomplish this intervention.
o Relate your actions to the Public Health Intervention Wheel (Nies & McEwen, 2015, p. 14, Figure 1-3)
• Identify your target population.
• Describe how you will reach out to your target population.
o Include strategies to engage your target population.
• Describe where the intervention will take place.
• Identify when your intervention will take place
o Will it take place once or multiple times?
• Identify those in the community that you will collaborate with (e.g., physician’s office, church, local resources, etc.).
• Explain what level(s) of prevention is your intervention addressing (primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention)?
D. Proposed Evaluation Methods: (average of 2–3 slides)
Your presentation must include at least one proposed quantitative or qualitative evaluation method that you would use to determine whether your intervention is effective. Outcome measurement is a crucial piece when implementing interventions.
• Describe the method you would use to evaluate whether your intervention was effective. (There is a helpful tool found in Course Resources to assist you with understanding qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation).
• Identify the outcomes you would track to show whether your intervention works (eg. BMI would be one outcome you could track for a weight loss intervention).
• When would you measure these outcomes?
• Describe the short-term and long-term impact on your community if the intervention is successful.

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Rule that granted full practice authority to three of the four advanced practice registered nursing specialties.

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Rule that granted full practice authority to three of the four advanced practice registered nursing specialties.

Respond to peers. 200 words 1 reference (within 5 years-peer reviewed)In December the Department of Veterans Affairs published its final rule that granted full practice authority to three of the four advanced practice registered nursing specialties. This ruling excluded Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). The VA acknowledges that CRNAs are qualified to practice independently and there are many studies supporting this but still chose to exclude them.I do not agree with the negative articles that were written on this topic. One article stated The Veterans Affairs Department is taking heat over a proposal to allow highly trained nurses to act as doctors and even administer anesthesia without a doctors supervision (McKelway 2016). This article does not describe what a highly trained nurse is or what kind of education is mandated for these advanced practice nurses to practice at their level. Later in the article they actually call CRNAs by their proper name instead of highly trained nurses. The VA has described two reasons against allowing independent practice for CRNAs. The first reason they gave was that by allowing CRNAs independent practice the VA would be eliminating the team-based concept of care in anesthesia. The second reason is the VA claims that there is not an access to anesthesia problem. This claim is not supported because there is a significant delay in care for veterans. It can take months for them to be able to see a doctor and/or have surgery. Cheryl Nimmo who wrote an article for Forbes magazine stated By granting full practice authority to CRNAs the VA would make full use of more than 900 CRNAs already practicing in VHA facilities ensuring our nations veterans have access to essential surgical emergency obstetric and pain management healthcare services without needless delays or having to travel long distances for care.I personally do not understand how the VA can only eliminate CRNAs from practicing independently. The reasons they give for excluding CRNAs are not valid. Hopefully with the strong voices that CRNAs have they will change their ruling.

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The Technical Infrastructure of Healthcare DiscussionI would like to begin this week’s discussion based on a recent scenario that I experienced.

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The Technical Infrastructure of Healthcare DiscussionI would like to begin this week’s discussion based on a recent scenario that I experienced.

I called and made an appointment with my physician, whom I’ve used for many years. I was told to arrive about 30 minutes early for my appointment because they had a new system and I would have some paperwork to complete. This physician’s office is not a part of any other healthcare system and he had been using another EHR system for quite some time, maybe 10 years. Upon arrival for the appointment, I was given all the paperwork to complete as if I were a new patient, including all of my past medical history. I could remember most of it but I know I missed some things. It did take quite a bit of time to complete but I was finally able to be seen.The medical assistant took all of my vital signs and told me that I was the second patient of the day and this was the first day of using their new system. She thought I was a new patient since I had all new paperwork and I told her I had actually been a patient there for a number of years. After clicking around in the system for several minutes, she said she just didn’t know where to input my vital signs and she left the room. I could hear the conversation outside of the room I was in and there was someone from the software company there to reassure her and help her, so my vital signs were added. So, as we are talking about the technical aspects of systems this week, I would like to ask you for your thoughts on how interoperability might play into this scenario. Do you see any evidence of interoperability? If not, how might it be incorporated and what might the outcomes of that be? How might this impact patient care?

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In light of what the Code and HIPAA say, how might Mary and Maureen best resolve the problem? HIPAA and Codes of Ethics

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In light of what the Code and HIPAA say, how might Mary and Maureen best resolve the problem?
HIPAA and Codes of Ethics

The situation. Healthcare providers need access to patient personal health information wherever patients are present for care. Systems that standardize electronic medical records provide such access, but the risk to privacy that accompanies that access is real, and breaches often make the news. At the Federal level, the HIPAA Privacy Rule protects personal health information gathered by healthcare providers, but most agree that information needs more protection than HIPAA currently affords. Some believe added protection may be found in the forming and keeping of codes of ethics.

A scenario. Mary works in a hospital health information management department, and Maureen, her friend, comes one day to pick up the medical records of a patient who is a client of the lawyer Maureen works for. Maureen, however, has forgotten to bring the client’s signed authorization form, though she assures Mary the form, which she saw the patient sign, is at her office. Since Maureen’s need for the form is urgent and there isn’t enough time to return with the form today, Maureen hopes to take the records and return with the form another day.

Read the iHealthCoalition’s eHealth Code of Ethics, the Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and with the above scenario in mind, consider the following questions:

In light of what the Code and HIPAA say, how might Mary and Maureen best resolve the problem?
How might a code of ethics provide personal medical information more protection than HIPAA?
In the above code, only one of the eleven sections is explicitly labeled privacy. Do matters covered in other sections play roles in protecting personal medical information? Explain.
In what ways, if any, does HIPAA protect personal medical information where codes of ethics do not?
Support your answers with examples, clear reasoning, and by citing the Code of Ethics and HIPAA regulation directly.

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How does the legislative process affect health policy in the United States? What opportunities do health care administrators have to enact change?

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How does the legislative process affect health policy in the United States? What opportunities do health care administrators have to enact change?

LEGISLATIVE PROCESS

How does the legislative process affect health policy in the United States? What opportunities do health care administrators have to enact change?

Select a specific type of health care setting described in Week 4. Below are examples of settings:

Hospital
Assisted living
Nursing home
Palliative care/hospice
Rehabilitaton center
Other setting
With this setting in mind, review the Learning Resources for this week and consider the following questions:

What are the key features of the legislative process?

What are the limitations of the U.S. political system?

What opportunities and responsibilities for enacting reform do health care administrators in this specific setting have?
With this in mind, write a 3-page paper in which you:

Describe the key features of the legislative process and how they affect health policy reform efforts

Identify one or more limitations of the U.S. political system

Describe at least one opportunity or responsibility for enacting reform that a health care administrator may have related to the specific setting you have chosen
Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

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I provide care to her in multiple ways, but one specific way is ulcer prevention. When I first started treating her, she had a stage 1 ulcer. Treatment included wound care with antiseptics.

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I provide care to her in multiple ways, but one specific way is ulcer prevention. When I first started treating her, she had a stage 1 ulcer. Treatment included wound care with antiseptics.

When I treated her, I was given a prescription and I investigated what the benefits of this ointment was on ulcers. I always like to inform myself and make sure the doctor has prescribed what is best and most effective for my patients. An example of implementing EBD and its effects on ulcers, would be the article by Christie, Dumville, Goto, Tanner, Moore, and Norman. When applying EBP practice, I can consider whether to use antiseptics and/or antimicrobial treatment. In doing so, I research the effects and outcome on both types of treatments.
I am currently treating a child that is immobile. I provide care to her in multiple ways, but one specific way is ulcer prevention. When I first started treating her, she had a stage 1 ulcer. Treatment included wound care with antiseptics. When I treated her, I was given a prescription and I investigated what the benefits of this ointment was on ulcers. I always like to inform myself and make sure the doctor has prescribed what is best and most effective for my patients. An example of implementing EBD and its effects on ulcers, would be the article by Christie, Dumville, Goto, Tanner, Moore, and Norman. When applying EBP practice, I can consider whether to use antiseptics and/or antimicrobial treatment. In doing so, I research the effects and outcome on both types of treatments. Per Christie, Dumville, Goto, Tanner, Moore, and Norman (2016) when comparing both of ointments on ulcers, “There was no consistent evidence of a benefit to using any particular antimicrobial treatment for pressure ulcers. However, there was some limited evidence that more ulcers healed when treated with some types of alternative dressings without antimicrobial properties than when treated with povidone iodine”. This research can be used by myself and nurses to treat ulcers, avoid unnecessary procedures, be a voice to our patients and physicians, and explore other possibilities of treatments of ulcers. According to Youngblut and Brooten (2001) “Evidence-based practice (EBD) provides opportunities for nursing care to be more individualized, more effective, streamlined, and dynamic, and to maximize effects of clinical judgment.” Evidence based practices are the latest advances and knowledge developments, not supporting existing practices. In addition, it includes nurses being active and taking part in the clinical data and application of evidence. In my opinion, applying EBD in practice will increase the value and reputation of nurses. One way nurses can promote evidence based research is to be an “opinion leader” (Flodgren , Parmelli , Doumit , Gattellari , O’Brien , Grimshaw , Eccles 2011).Flodgren, G., Parmelli, E., Doumit, G., Gattellari, M., O’Brien, M., Grimshaw, J., & Eccles, M. (2011). Effectiveness of the use of local opinion leaders to promote evidence-based practice and improving patient outcomes. . Retrieved from Norman, G., Dumville, J. C., Moore, Z. E., Tanner, J., & Christie, J. (2015). Antibiotics and antiseptics for pressure ulcers. , (4), 468-76. doi:10.1002/14651858.cd011586

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Clinical trials are generally considered to be biomedical or health-related research studies in human beings that follow a pre-defined protocol.

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Clinical trials are generally considered to be biomedical or health-related research studies in human beings that follow a pre-defined protocol.

A clinical trial is a methodology used to test new procedures and or medications. Research the meaning and use of clinical trials. Share two areas of interest you have regarding clinical trials
Clinical trials are generally considered to be biomedical or health-related research studies in human beings that follow a pre-defined protocol. A clinical trial is a methodology used to test new procedures and or medications. Research the meaning and use of clinical trials. Share two areas of interest you have regarding clinical trials.Due dates for your initial and response posts can be found by checking the and .

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Research and analyze a significant problem or issue · Explore the problem and narrate your thinking process in an exploratory essay · Examine the problem dialectically, find relevant sources, and build an effective research Exploratory Essay Purpose

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Research and analyze a significant problem or issue · Explore the problem and narrate your thinking process in an exploratory essay · Examine the problem dialectically, find relevant sources, and build an effective research
Exploratory Essay
Purpose
· Research and analyze a significant problem or issue

· Explore the problem and narrate your thinking process in an exploratory essay

· Examine the problem dialectically, find relevant sources, and build an effective research

Assignment
Compose an exploratory essay (at least three full pages in length) where you examine a local, state or national problem or issue of current public controversy from a variety of perspectives, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of different positions and points of view.

At the beginning of your essay, explain:

· Why you are interested in this problem,

· Why you think it is significant (tells the audience why you care and why they should care), and

· Why you have been unable to reach a satisfactory answer.

Then, write a chronologically organized (the order in which you started and completed the research steps) narrative account of your thinking process as you investigate the selected problem or issue.

Point of View in Exploratory Writing:

· Use the first person (I, me, and mine) point of view when discussing your actions.

· Then, use the third-person point of view when you introduce and discuss information collected from various research articles.

Research:

Use a combination of

· personal experience (limit to 1-2 examples in the essay),

· field research (interviews with family, friends, coworkers, and so on), and

· library/Internet research to build your article. No less than three research articles and no more than five. Use current research articles that are within no older than 5-7 years. For historical context, you may use an article that was published earlier than 7 years ago, but the majority of your articles must be current and relevant to the issue.

· Please note that you are not to use websites such as Wikipedia, About.com and other such commercial websites as research sources. Doing so will earn you a zero-grade on the essay. Newspaper websites such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, CNN.com and so on are more reliable.

Provide in-text citations and Works Cited page for field research and library/Internet articles used in the essay.

YouTube Video “Evaluating Sources for Credibility”: https://youtu.be/PLTOVoHbH5c

Posing Your Problem:

A valuable kind of problem to explore for this assignment is a current public controversy (local or domestic). Often such issues involve disagreements about facts and values that merit open-ended exploration. This assignment invites you to explore and clarify where you stand on such public issues such as health care reform, energy policies, government response to terrorism, public concerns about candidates running for local, state, or national elections, and so forth.

Topics that you CANNOT select for this essay:

· Abortion, gay marriage, death penalty, stem-cell research, illegal immigration, DREAM Act, and global warming. These are broad topics that will require more than three pages in order to be discussed well and therefore, beyond the scope of our assignment.

FRAMEWORK FOR EX

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The purpose of this assignment is to create theEducating Staff:Implementing Change ProjectPowerPoint presentation. Your plan is to educate the staff that will be involved in the pilot program.

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The purpose of this assignment is to create theEducating Staff:Implementing Change ProjectPowerPoint presentation. Your plan is to educate the staff that will be involved in the pilot program.

You will need to educate them on the problem show the supporting evidence and how your pilot plan will be implemented.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the followingCourseOutcomes.
CO2: Proposes leadership and collaboration strategies for use with consumers and other healthcare providers in managing care and/or delegating responsibilities for health promotion illness prevention health restoration and maintenance and rehabilitative activities. (PO #2)
CO3: Communicates effectively with patient populations and other healthcare providers in managing the healthcare of individuals families aggregates and communities. (PO #3)
CO7:Integrates the professional role of leader teacher communicator and manager of care to plan cost-effective quality healthcare to consumers in structured and unstructured settings. (PO #7)
Due Date
Milestone3consists of thePowerPoint presentationEducating Staff:Implementing Change Project. Submit this Milestone to the Dropbox by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end ofWeek6.
Points
Milestone3is worth200points.
Directions
1.Create an educational presentation for staff before the launch of your change project. This should inform the staff of the problem your potential solution and their role in change project.
2.The format for this proposal will be a PowerPoint presentation.
3.Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful.http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspxThe Chamberlain Student Success Strategies (CCSSS) offers a module on Computer Literacy that contains a sectionon PowerPoint. The link to SSP CCSSS may be found under the Special Courses list in eCollege.
4.Thelength of the PowerPoint presentation should be 15-20 slides; excluding the title and reference slides.
5.Below are the topics for the slides:
a.Titleslide
b.Description of the change model used
c.Practice Issue
d.Scope of the problemuse statisticsfrom what you know of the problem in your work area.
e.Your team/stakeholders
f.Evidence to support your need for changefromyour Evidence Summary
g.Action Plan
h.Timeline for the plan
i.The nurses role and responsibilityin the pilot program
j.Procedure
k.Forms that will be used (if applicable)
l.Resources available to the staffincluding yourself
m.Summary
n.References
6.Citations and References must be includedto support the information within each topic area. Refer to the APA manual Chapter 7for examples of proper reference format. Citations are to be noted for all information contained in your paper that is not your original idea or thought. Ask yourself How do I know this? and then cite the source. Scholarly sources are expected which meanschoosepeer-reviewed journals andcredible websites.
Guidelines
Application: Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.
Length: The PowerPoint slide show is expected to bebetween 15-20 slidesin length (not including the title slide and reference list slide).
Submission: Submit your files via the basket in the Dropbox: Educating the Staff: Implementing the Change Project by 11:59 p.m. Sunday of Week 6.
Late Submission: See the course policy on late submissions.
Tutorial: If needed Microsoft Office has many templates and tutorials to help you get started.
Best Practices in Preparing a PowerPoint Presentation
The following are best practices in preparing this presentation.
1.Be creative.
2.Incorporate graphics clip art or photographs to increase interest.
3.Make easy to read with short bullet points and large font.
4.Usespeaker notes(found under the section View and Notes in the PowerPoint template you choose. These are for your personal use to use as a reference if you are giving your presentation to an audience.
5.Review directions thoroughly.
6.Cite all sources within the slides with (author year) as well as on the Reference slide.
7.Proofread prior to final submission.
8.Spell check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.
9.Abide by the Chamberlain academic integrity policy.
Grading Criteria: Educating Staff: Implementing Change
Grading Rubric:Educating the staffMilestone3

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