...Women’s Health: the Final Frontier Throughout history women have typically been stereotyped as being the child-bearers, and have not received much medical care or medical research beyond the reproductive organs and their functions. A woman’s body contains more than just her ovaries and uterus, but since men are predominantly in the fields of healthcare and research, this stereotype that only the reproductive organs matter continues to perpetuate and plague American women. Women account for 42% of all deaths related to heart disease and heart attacks; deaths caused by cancers have increased exponentially since the beginning of the twentieth century (Kaiser Foundation online). Although these facts are frightening, more frightening is the lack of understanding and treatment. Each year thousands of women live without the necessary healthcare and treatment in order to stay healthy; and most treatment and awareness education for women is geared towards reproduction. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services came out with a report entitled “Women’s Health Issues: An Overview” back in May of 2001. This overview states that “until recently, medical research has largely ignored many health issues important to women, and women have long been under-represented in clinical trials.” The result of this under-representation in clinical trials is that medical doctors give treatments to women as they would to men. This can potentially harm the woman, because women and men...
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...Identification of Community Originally called the Tri-City, Westminster is in Orange County, California. “Westminster is landlocked and bordered by Seal Beach on the west, by Garden Grove on the north and east, and by Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley on the south”, (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). Westminster is also called Little Saigon. “The 2010 United States Census reported that Westminster had a population of 89,701 with a population density was 8,926.5 people per square mile”, (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). 29.6% of the population is between the ages of 35-54. "Most people were hospitalized due to diseases and disorders of the circulatory system", (OC Health Info, 2011). Industry overview of Westminster is comprised of small businesses and services. Majority of adult population reported that their health was good, very good, or excellent. Summary of Assessment Population Economic Status Assessment The total population of Westminster in 2010 was 89,701 people. “The 2010 census shows racial makeup of Westminster was 32,037 White, 849 African American, 397 Native American, 42,597 Asian, 361 Pacific Islander, 10,229 from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21,176 persons, and 3,231 from two or more races”, (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). “40.2% of the population is comprised if Vietnamese Americans making Westminster the highest concentration of Vietnamese Americans in the country” (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). Westminster’s median household...
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...hospital have a reduce in the total volume it will also have a reduce in total cost. If the hospital is operating under statistics budget...in the long run, through the development or discontinuation of certain programs volume may be changed, most healthcare firms implicitly assume while developing their statistics budget that they cannot affect their overall volume during the next budgetary period. (Essentials of Health Care Finance, 7th Edition. Jones & Bartlett Publishers p. 362). 2. Question : (TCO 7) Explain the difference between a horizontal merger and a vertical merger. Student Answer: Horizontal mergers involve two firms operating in the same kind of business...i.e...The merger between Hospital A and Hospital B is considered to be a horizonal mergers. Both have the same service or product. Vertical mergers A merger between two companies producing different goods or services for one specific finished product..i.e..Laboratory services and Radiology services...these two have different services or products thus it considered a vertical mergers. (Essentials of Health Care Finance, 7th Edition. Jones & Bartlett Publishers p. 443). 3. Question : (TCO 1) Describe the Outpatient Code Editor. Student Answer: A software package developed to review each HCPCS code to ensure accurate coding of claim data. An Intergrated Outpatient Code Editor will...
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...must answer both sections A and B. Briefly sketch your responses to questions before writing. The page limitations apply to the entire section (i.e., 8 double spaced pages for section A and 7 double spaced pages for section B) and you may allocate that page limit across the questions as you see fit. Font size is the equivalent of 12 point pica. There is no penalty for submitting a response that is less than the page limit. However, I will not read or count any response more than the prescribed page limit in any section (including footnotes). The content of the response and its organization are much more important than the length of the response or the number of words. Please post your responses in your personal assignment folder under "Final Exam". All examinations are due no later than Wednesday, August 15, 2012, at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. (But I will be happy to get them earlier than the deadline!) Good luck! Examination Questions A. Short Answers. (45 Points) Please respond to three of the following four (4) questions. (15 Points for each response). Responses are limited to eight (8) typed pages. 1. Employing the contemporary fable "The Ambulance in the Valley" (see below) as a case study, respond to the following questions: a) How was the boundary set and how did this decision define "the problem"? How else could the boundary have been set? b) How does the establishment of the boundary establish the preferred interventions? c) In debating the...
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...Unit 9 Final Project Case Study Nicole Sanchez PS370: Health Psychology Professor Elizabeth Smith Clark Kaplan University October 2, 2012 Health psychology consists of the mind and body working together to contribute to the wellbeing of a person. In choosing case study number one I: John, I will be discussing the effects of stress and alcoholism to a person’s wellbeing as well as different support and therapeutic techniques that can help with stress and treat alcoholism. Case Study: John John is suffering from alcoholic hepatitis due to excessive drinking. He is having severe stomach problems and has been exhibiting moodiness, sleep deprivation, weight loss and lack of energy. Along with alcoholism, John is suffering from stress due to the possibility of his wife leaving him and his job being on the line. Evaluation of models behavior According to the case study John has multiple health issues that the doctor cannot explain from a physical point of view. His medical problems can be explored by understanding what psychosomatic medicine (the mind body relationship) is. According to Friedman (2002) “a significant proportion of patient complaints (at least 25 percent) made to physicians are psychological in nature and have no significant physical counterpart.”(pg. 80) Patients, like John, exhibit symptoms from tension (caused by an unhappy marriage) such as headaches, pain, or weakness and no physical explanation can be found because the problems are somatization...
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...The final paper- what is the criteria for marking? Well I would ask you to review the course outline and the criteria should be very obvious....critical analysis, concrete plan for transition using the scholarly framework you are to follow for the paper, internal and external influences which will affect your transition and how you will create a successful transition managing these influences. Final Major Paper 35% Due July 30th, 2013 at 1200 hrs MAJOR PAPER: Due July 30th, 2013 by 1200 hours and submitted with hard copy to Instructor plus email your paper to the faculty member. Papers must be submitted in Word format. Other formats will not be accepted. Length of paper: 8 to10 pages, excluding cover page and references, double spaced in 12 point font. Papers exceeding this length will not be graded past the 10th page. APA 6th edition format is required. Deductions up to 10% (i.e. maximum of 4 marks) for inadequate use of this format may be applied. The paper will provide students an opportunity to craft a plan for achieving success in the transition from RPN to RN. Students are asked to apply the Transition Shock Framework that is presented in Duchscher (2008) to analyze the transition to practice from RPN to RN roles. Students will discuss in detail each of the 4 quadrants of Responsibilities, Knowledge, Relationships and Roles, as well as the overarching concepts of Doubt, Confusion, Loss and Disorientation. Students are required to demonstrate a deeper...
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...|[pic] |Instructor Policies | | |HCS320 | | |Health Care Communication Strategies | Facilitator Information Kelly Hernandez khernandez8@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) kellyraejackson@gmail.com (Personal) 305-484-3555 (EST) Facilitator Availability I am available from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Eastern Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Sunday for my family. On Saturdays, I tend to be online in the morning only. If these times are not convenient for you, please let me know. I will be happy to accommodate your schedule, if possible. I provide you with these times to make it easier to communicate with me, and not to limit our contact. I want you to know that, should you need to contact me outside these time frames, you should not hesitate to do so. For emergencies, when you are not able to gain access to messages on the Online Learning System (OLS), please send a message to my personal email address. In the event a third party needs to contact me, please direct them to my contact information listed under "facilitator information." No third party should use your login credentials to gain access to the classroom. Where...
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...format. This will help you start building your Ethical Agency. Please know this is the agency you will build during the remainder of this class. As you complete each weekly assignment and participate in discussions you can continue to add to this outline which will help you in Building your Agency (Part 1 and Part 2 of the Final Paper). What type of Agency will you be creating? • What will the name be? • What type of health or human services will it provide? • Is it a new type of service – filling a gap in services in your community? Or, • Is it an agency that will improve an existing service that is not really meeting its clients’ needs? • What existing agencies are similar? (Make sure to cite your sources, use web searches to see what similar programs are in your area or surrounding areas) Staffing? • How large will the agency be? • What will be done to screen the staff? • What will the hours of operation be? These questions are to get you thinking about the agency NOW and incorporating aspects of the agency with each week’s activities. Terms from the text and weekly discussions must be incorporated and used correctly in the final 2 papers to earn all possible points. For more Assignments visit:...
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...University of Phoenix Material Weekly Progress Report Template Submit your Learning Team’s weekly progress report to the facilitator at the end of Weeks Two, Three, and Four. Use the following template and answer the questions as a team. Your team may answer either in bullet or paragraph form as long as the questions are answered. Learning Team¬¬¬¬¬¬__________________A________________ Week ________2________ 1. What did the team plan to do this week? For this week, we each established what we were going to contribute to the final project. Alyssa Noriega committed to focus on the anticipated effects of this technology on health care as well as formatting resources. 2. What is the team planning to do next week? We will all communicate with each other as well as work on our key points and rough draft for week 5. 3. Provide a summary of what the team created this week. We each chose a portion of the final assignment that we will cover. We also established an outline so that each member can get a clear understanding of what they are responsible of doing. 4. Is the team on schedule, ahead of schedule, or behind schedule? Overall the team is on schedule as well as me. We will continue to communicate with those who may be a bit tied up due to personal reasons. 5. If you are behind schedule, what will you do to get back on schedule? Not applicable. 6. What issues or obstacles face the team? How will you address them? ...
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...very second. She stated that she called the registrar’s office back in September (2015), where she spoke with someone that said that they would withdraw her from X course. Apparently, this did not happen, and she is still enrolled in the course on Folio. K. Thomas demanded, again, to speak to someone with some sort of authority, as she had already spoken with numerous student workers in the College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) Student Services Center and they had been of no help. She continued and said that the student workers have no authority, have no idea what they are talking about, and that she should not have to talk to any of them. I explained to her that I was not just a ‘student worker’, and the CHHS ‘student workers’ are not only knowledgeable, but helpful. She then stated that she did not care about what I had to say, and once again demanded to speak to someone with authority. This call lasted one minute and 35 seconds until I transferred K. Thomas to the Secretary/Staff Assistant, Donna Sasserman. K. Thomas called the upper division phone number a final time at 10:54 AM, however I did not...
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...Final Team Project A new medical clinic is opening up in your hometown and a mutual friend has recommended your services to the administrator of the clinic. You have received a letter asking you to provide information that would support their retaining your services rather than hiring employees for the same purposes. Assume that this letter may have gone out to other local firms as well. Working as a team, you will do the following two things: (a) After discussing and choosing a small business with your team, you will prepare a letter (in effect, an informal proposal) in response, offering your services to the clinic. (b) Follow up with an oral presentation before the administration of the clinic to discuss and further sell your services to them. On the date scheduled for the final presentation, each student will be responsible for evaluating one team, as assigned by the instructor, on their written and oral presentation. To help you prepare, a copy of the student team evaluation form has been provided. Additionally, students will evaluate the contribution of their fellow team members and themselves in developing the presentation. Evaluations will be taken into consideration in determining grades for the project. In preparing your written presentations, consider the following: • What business services will you choose to provide to the clinic? Billing, secretarial, computer, health, landscaping? • Who will present the letter to the clinic...
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...I used to play soccer for a club,just for recreational purposes,in fact i was one of the cofounders of the team. The team we assembled was a mixture of young and old, and for this reason we were the laughing stock of the league, because all other teams were made up solely of young players, who were exceptionally talented. The team ended up on the wrong side of the score for the first few games we played, and got nicknamed the “whopping boys”. Eventually we grew tired of the nickname and of our performances on the field, and we decided to try and improve things, first thing we did was to elect a leader for the club. Even though i didnʼt want the job, i was voted into the position, and as the president it was my duty to represent my team when the league called for club meetings. At the time we were all students, so it was decided that we would all contribute towards any and all expenses,but unfortunately when you dealing with a blend of young and old, things donʼt always go according to plan, people constantly made up excuses for not showing up for practice, or for not contributing towards our equipment. Even though it wasnʼt my duty, i took it upon myself to ensure that every single player showed up for practice, i used to drive up to the houses of all those who didnʼt have any transportation. It was a tiring job, but i realized that if i wanted the team to be successful, i had to make certain sacrifices, some of which included taking money out of my own pocket...
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...Axia College Material Appendix A Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview The final project consists of a checkout application. This application—similar to practical programs at many supermarkets—includes the following elements: • Complete requirements analysis • Design • Verification • Validation and test documentation The checkout application is a program that allows users to enter items and totals will be added up and results presented to the user. Requirements The requirements will change for each assignment section. This is because as we go along you will be able to add to the previous assignment using what you have learned during the course. Each assignment will require you to perform analysis and design and testing. We will learn more formal testing in week 6. Final Project Timeline You should budget your time wisely and work on your project throughout the course. As outlined below, some CheckPoints and assignments in the course are designed to assist you in creating your final project. If you complete your course activities and use the feedback provided by the instructor, you will be on the right track to complete your project successfully. □ Suggested in Week One: Read Appendix A regarding the final project overview and timeline. □ Due in Week Two: Initial Application Development □ Due in Week Four: Additional Application Development □ Due in Week Six: Final Application Development and Test Cases ...
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...patient for hearing aid suitability. It was agreed that these three sessions encompassed all aspects in Audiology she may come across in her future career. For example, she can fit a hearing aid, she can assess a patient and she has learnt that not all fittings are straight forward, for those presenting with a unique problem(s). The end product is patient satisfaction, provide a solution for the patient and to support that in practise. Leanne has come on in leaps and bounds since her early days in the department. She is confident, but finds it difficult to ask questions. However, she does manage talk about things in the appointment through her reflective reporting. This is something I may need to talk with her about when I have the final meeting with her. But I am not overly concerned at this moment in time. The 3 reflective reports that Leanne produces is of good quality, informative and reasonably accurate. It also highlights aspects of training she mentions that we both have undertaken together in the appointment, so I suppose she is reporting her own training and that of mine in her words, that I can use as evidence that can be signed off. Each three reflective reports enclosed have been signed by myself and my mentor-supervisor, including this document. Trainee mentor…………………….print name………………….date:……………… Mentor-supervisor…………………print...
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...the students are Bill and John. Bill believes that the completed -contract method is most like recognizing revenue at point of delivery because in the end the final product is delivered and has fulfilled any requirements to recognize revenue. John believes that percentage-of-completion is most like point of delivery and this allows a company to recognize revenue over time. I support Bill’s opinion that the completed-contract method is closest to recognizing revenue at point of delivery. The reason I support this is because while there is still construction taking place, as in the percentage-of-completion method, there still is no actual product being delivered. Along with no product being delivered, it is possible that the final product may never actually be made. If there’s a chance the end product not being made then there is no way to recognize revenue for that product. Using the completed contract method we hold off on recognizing any revenue until the final product is finished and delivered to the client. In my opinion completed contract fulfills the requirements of revenue recognition which are (1) the amount has to be realized / realizable and (2) the revenue must be earned. In completed contract at point of delivery the item can be considered earned now that it is completed and ownership has passed to the final customer. Percentage-of-completion does help serve large contracts that take years to complete so that a company can recognize some revenue every year. The problem...
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