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Critically appraise and justify implementation of commissioning and contracting for health and social care services.

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Health and Social Care Commissioning

Learning Outcomes

Critically appraise drivers, processes and strategies of health and social care commissioning.

Analytically critique the roles of health and social care professionals in commissioning appropriate local, regional and national services.

Critically review processes of planning and designing health and social care services and incorporating partnership and collaboration with stakeholders and service users.

Critically appraise and justify implementation of commissioning and contracting for health and social care services.

Analyze the Sherman Antitrust Act, named for its author Senator John Sherman of Ohio.

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Contracts and Antitrust Protocols Based on Criminal Aspects of Health Care

Analyze the Sherman Antitrust Act, named for its author Senator John Sherman of Ohio. In preparation for the discussion this week, evaluate one of the following areas of concern in health care organizations:

Reduced market competition.
Price fixing.
Actions that bar or limit new entrants to the field.
Preferred provider arrangements.

What potential ethical and legal liabilities are there for the hospital and employees in the case presented above?

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Social Media and the Modern Impact of Informatics

The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

1. Most people remember the story below that made national headlines. As most Americans have smartphones, tablets, and computers, the utilization of social media is commonplace.

a. Finley, T. (2017, Sept. 20). Navy hospital removes staffers for calling babies
‘ mini Satan’s’ on social media. Parenting.

i. If you were writing a hospital policy on smartphone and social media
usage, what should be included in the policy?

ii. What potential ethical and legal liabilities are there for the hospital and
employees in the case presented above?

2. In 2017, Harvard University rescinded admission to 10 students after reviewing their social media posts.

a. Do you feel potential employers, current employers, and colleges have the
right to access your social media post? Do you feel employers and
universities should make decisions based on your post?

3. Discuss the relationship between accreditation decisions, reimbursement, quality of care, informatics.

Explain how these have transformed or influenced nursing practice, nursing education and training, nursing leadership, and nursing workforce development.

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IOM Future of Nursing Report and Nursing

Review the IOM report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” and explore the “Campaign for Action: State Action Coalition” website. In a 1,000-1,250 word paper, discuss the influence the IOM report and state-based action coalitions have had on nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing workforce development, and how they continue to advance the goals for the nursing profession.

Include the following:

Describe the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”

Outline the four “Key Messages” that structure the IOM Report recommendations. Explain how these have transformed or influenced nursing practice, nursing education and training, nursing leadership, and nursing workforce development. Provide examples.

Discuss the role of state-based action coalitions. Explain how these coalitions help advance the goals specified in the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”

Research the initiatives on which your state’s action coalition is working. Summarize two initiatives spearheaded by your state’s action coalition. Discuss the ways these initiatives advance the nursing profession.

Describe barriers to advancement that currently exist in your state and explain how nursing advocates in your state overcome these barriers.

You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,

What are the key things -the concepts, otherwise thought of as “nouns” in this week’s Notes?

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Response to w6 notes

Reminder that here you will write as if to a high school sophomore, i.e., they understand large words and important ideas, but they have not yet been to grad school or even college.

1. What are the key things -the concepts, otherwise thought of as “nouns” in this week’s Notes? (e.g., psychotropic medications would be one such thing). Mention five such things.

2. What are either the faculty’s – or better yet, the field’s – principles, as faculty has conveyed in the Notes (e.g. psychotropic medications can be a good thing and they can be a very bad thing – they are a mixed bag). Mention five such principles.

3. What assumptions do you see between the lines, that the Notes not directly conveyed, but that you suspect lurk in the shadows of the material, whether for good or bad (shadows are not necessarily bad). Mention five such between-the-line possible assumptions.

4. What do you not understand, whether due to lack of time on your part, or because it feels like it’s a mountain of material that you’ve only gotten a through just a bit thus far, or because it feels too complex? Mention at least three things that you don’t, as yet, understand.

 

Demonstrate an understanding of how the field functions and will utilize your communication skills

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Write a two-page paper identifying your short and long-term career goals. Explain how your course of study will help you achieve those goals.

Demonstrate an understanding of how the field functions and will utilize your communication skills; are there specific things you have learned about the communication discipline that will help you in your future career?
written in the first person

Identify areas requiring special emphasis during the audit and potential problem areas.

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Understanding the Client and Performing Analytical Procedures

Your report must address all of the following:

1. Address the overall understanding of the retail and wholesale industries and
identified areas that impact financial reporting.

2. Analyze Cloud 9’s financial position and its business risks. Include ratios supporting the business analysis.

3. Identify areas requiring special emphasis during the audit and potential problem
areas.

4. Address materiality in your response.

5. Use at least two current, quality academic or authoritative sources in this
assignment.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Analyze a company’s financial position and business risks relative to an audit

Describe the state of the U.S. Economy for the years between 2012 and now in terms of macroeconomic measures discussed in the course (GDP, unemployment, and inflation rates).

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Part I: Description of the State of the U.S. Economy
1. Describe the state of the U.S. Economy for the years between 2012 and now in terms of macroeconomic measures discussed in the course (GDP, unemployment, and inflation rates).

Select ONE of these macroeconomic measures to write about. Use data from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), http://www.recovery.gov, and other government agencies and departments, such as Department of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis), etc.

2. As you will notice from your data analysis, the economy passes through different phases and turns.

Discuss the implications of a given state (for example, recession) in terms households, businesses, and the entire society. Share your thoughts as to why it is important for you to understand the different states through which the economy passes.

Share personal examples and experiences. While Covid-19 has been a major disrupt-or of the economy, it should not form the major basis for your paper, so many other things have taken place since 2012.

Part II: Analysis of Economic Policies
1. In your analysis of the macroeconomic data, you will notice that the U.S. economy passed through a major recession. Based on research, discuss the underlying causes of the recession.

Identify monetary and fiscal policies implemented by the Federal Reserve and the government to deal with the recession.

2. Evaluate the expected and actual effects of each policy. Your response needs to include the name of the policy, description of the policy, the year it is implemented, and discussion of expected and actual outcomes in terms of the GDP, unemployment, and inflation rates.

3. After close observation of the different perspectives discussed in the course, share your position on the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies to deal with recession or inflation.

4. As part of the economy, each of us will be affected by the state of the economy and the actions policy makers take to stabilize or advance it. Conclude by sharing why understanding these actions and outcomes matter to you as an individual who is part of the economic system.

How do they affect the society/economy? What could be done differently? Share personal examples and experiences

Evaluate the two matrices using current actions by each country to see which matrix is most likely correct.

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Incorporate the concepts of game theory with international trade and tariffs. Set up two payoff matrices.

Set up the first payoff matrix such that the outcome will be harmful to both countries.

Set up the second payoff matrix such that the outcome will be beneficial to the United States.

Evaluate the two matrices using current actions by each country to see which matrix is most likely correct.

What roles do educational leaders’ social location (race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, etc.) shape their mind about leadership, teaching and learning the students/families/communities they serve on a daily basis.

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-Issues of oppression that work to undermine the academic performance of African American students in elementary education.(ideological, institutional, interpersonal, internalized )

-How educational leaders are complicit in upholding inequities.

– What roles do educational leaders’ social location (race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, etc.) shape their mind about leadership, teaching and learning the students/families/communities they serve on a daily basis.