Discussion
The nature versus nurture question arises again in the issue of sexual orientation. This tends to be a somewhat controversial subject on which evidence is still being gathered. In this activity, we will take a look at the information that is currently available. As you create your discussion post, consider the following:

  • What are possible biological contributions to sexual orientation?
  • What are possible environmental issues that may be involved?
  • What effect do human values have on research in the area of human sexuality?

By the end of this discussion, you will be able to:

  • Discuss the impact of both biological and psychological factors on human sexual motivation

Complete the following:
What do you think?
What are your thoughts on sexual orientation?
Are we genetically disposed to either a heterosexual or homosexual orientation?
Can one change their preference for relationships with a particular sex?
Be sure to back up your arguments with information from the textbook or other reliable sources. Since this is a somewhat controversial subject that may generate strong feelings, please be respectful of your classmates’ responses.

Examine Your Barriers to Cultural Competence
1. Respond to the prompts below in full sentences.  Be sure to use standard English grammar and spelling:
· Assess your own barriers to cultural competence.
· Have you overcome these?  If not, how do you plan to overcome them?
· If you do not have barriers, why do you think you do not have them?
APA FORMAT INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT AND REFERENCE
1 FULL PAGE, PLUS THE ABSTRACT ON A SEPARATE PAGE

As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.
With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.
In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.
To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
  • Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
  • Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.

The Assignment: (1 page)
Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:

  • Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
  • Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
  • Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
  • Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.

  • Download the research articles from the Chamberlain library.
  • Retrieve the following research articles: Make sure you are viewing the full text PDF. If you view the article in HTML format, you may not be able to see the tables and figures that are referenced in the questions. George, S., & Thomas, S. (2010). Lived experience of diabetes among older, rural people. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(5), 1092-1100. http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.chamberlain.edu:8080/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2010620411&site=ehost-live Hunt, C., Sanderson, B., Ellison, K., (2014). Support for diabetes using technology: A pilot study to improve self-management. MedSurg Nursing, 23(4), 231-237. http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.chamberlain.edu:8080/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2012695204&site=ehost-live  
    1. Download NR439_RRL_form and type answers to the questions directly onto the form. Your paper does NOT need to follow APA formatting; however, you are expected to use correct grammar, spelling, syntax, and write in complete sentences.
    2. Save the file by clicking Save as and adding your last name, e.g., NR439_RRL_Smith.docx.
    3. Watch the video on how to complete this assignment. The link may be found on the Week 5 Assignments page.
    4. Submit to the Week 5 Reading Research Literature basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 5. Please post questions about this paper in the Week 5 Q & A Forum.
    The Reading Research Literature (RRL) assignment is due this week. The guidelines and grading rubric may be found in Doc Sharing. You must download two articles from the Chamberlain Library (http://library.chamberlain.edu). Links to the articles from the library are found in the guidelines in Doc Sharing. You will not write a paper for this assignment. Instead, you will answer questions that may be found on a form, which is also in Doc Sharing. Click HERE to view a helpful tutorial on how to complete this assignment. Your assignment is due by Sunday, end of week, 11:59 p.m. (MT). Submit the assignment to the Dropbox located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read thesestep-by-step instructions.]]>

    Please answer the discussion question attached in the file below. 

    You are the Chief Operating Officer of a large healthcare system, composed of acute, long term care, and community based organizations in addition to long term care managed care plans. Given your current studies in health policy and management, the Chief Executive Officer of this large healthcare system has requested that you prepare a high-level briefing for the system’s Board of Directors in which you describe: (a) factors that have contributed to dramatic growth in health care spending over the past 50 years; and (b) how health care payment and delivery models are transforming to promote greater accountability for cost and quality in the health care system. Please conclude your memo with your analysis of the most promising approaches for constraining cost growth while maintaining or improving quality, as well as the limitations or open questions that accompany new reimbursement and delivery models that are intended to promote “accountable care.” 
    The memo must be four pages in length. Please include references to course readings as well as any relevant outside sources that support your analysis. Citations and a references page (not included in page length) are required. **You must use a recognizable memorandum format for this exercise—and it is recommended that subject areas be segmented using sub headers.  Include your institution’s logo on the first page of the memo (fictitious).  Be creative.

    Search and Evaluate
    This week, you will find three scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles on your topic. Remember that next week you will submit a paper on Scientific and/or Mathematical/Analytical perspectives of inquiry, so use this week’s assignment to prepare materials and collect information for that purpose.
    Use articles that will help you explain and describe scientific issues and/or statistical data or economic information related to your topic. You will analyze and evaluate these articles in your submission, which should include:

    • A brief introductory paragraph.
    • Three separate paragraphs, one for each of the three articles, each presenting:
      • A brief 3–4 sentence summary of the article (use in-text citations)
      • An explanation as to what makes this source credible (in the WCU Library go to Research Guides > Research Basics > Evaluating Resources)
      • An explanation of why the article will be useful in addressing your problem or issue
    • A brief conclusory paragraph
    • An APA 7th edition Style reference list on a separate page

    Your paper should be 1–3 pages in length (including the References page). Adhere to APA 7th edition Style throughout.
    Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded.

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    Cultural Perspectives Draft

    The goal of this assignment is to integrate cultural nuances, expectations, and perspectives into a draft of your final paper. You will present a current diversity-related situation or dilemma; compare and contrast the cultures involved in the situation; and provide a historical perspective and analyze the contributing factors to the current state of the situation. You will then interpret the effects of the situation on the cultures involved, provide evidence in favor of and opposed to each side of the situation. Finally, you will assess your beliefs and perspectives regarding the situation or dilemma and identify strategies for building inclusion by synthesizing the varying perspectives.

    Instructions:

    This assignment will build upon your accumulated learning from the course and your written assignments from Weeks 3 and 4. Based on your identified situation or cultural dilemma (from your Week 4 written assignment), determine a personal position regarding the topic. Then write a 2800-3500 word paper that:

    • Identifies and presents your own attitudes, beliefs, cultural norms, stereotypes, or biases that you may have, or had in the past, regarding the topic.
    • Presents at least one argument supporting the perspective of each cultural group involved with the topic.
    • Considers how the situation or dilemma may be addressed moving forward with a mutually beneficial outcome.

    This written assignment will include:

    • An identified diversity situation or cultural dilemma prevalent in today’s society that involves more than one cultural group. (Week 3 written assignment)
    • A comparison of the different cultural groups involved. (Week 4 written assignment)
    • Personal position regarding the topic. (Week 5 written assignment)

    This written assignment should be double-spaced, and include a title page and references page. Additionally, utilize 5 to 7 resources, including resources provided throughout the course, to support your arguments. Make sure to gather evidence and present persuasive, well-reasoned arguments regarding your topic, and consider all perspectives and opinions.
    Submit a draft of your paper to the Writing Center for Paper Review Links to an external site.by Week 5, Day 3. Once you have received the feedback from the tutor, revise your writing based on the feedback you received and submit your final copy to Waypoint using the link below.
    To Summarize:
    Your Week 3 written assignment should identify a diversity situation or cultural dilemma that is prevalent in today’s society that involves more than one cultural group. Additionally, your paper should:

    • Identify the selected diversity situation or cultural dilemma.
    • Provide an analysis of the topic, including an historical perspective and the current day situation.
    • Explain why this is a topic of interest in general, and to you in particular.

    Your Week 4 written assignment should have included the requirements of the Week 3 paper and then continued on to compare and contrast the different cultural groups involved the situation or dilemma. Additionally, the Week 4 paper should address the:

    • stereotypes and biases associated with each of the cultural groups
    • privileges and power associated with each of the cultural groups

    This Week 5 paper should include all the requirements of the Weeks 3 and 4 papers and also:

    • Identify and present your own attitudes, beliefs, cultural norms, stereotypes, or biases that you may have, or had in the past, regarding the topic.
    • Present at least one argument supporting the perspective of each cultural group involved with the topic.
    • Consider how the situation or dilemma may be addressed moving forward with a mutually beneficial outcome.

    IMPACT OF NURSING INFORMATICS ON PRACTICE

    Impact of Nursing Informatics on Practice
    In today’s technology-driven, fast-paced world, health care professionals are faced daily with increasing amounts of information, technology, and data that require a wide-range of skills. In an effort to cope with these increasing demands, information management technologies are being employed to improve access to a larger volume of information and to enhance the flow of information. These technologies have changed the way nurses receive, send, and apply information on medications, procedures, medical knowledge, patient data, and interventions.
    For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources presented this week and consider your nursing career. Have you seen any events, actions, or other phenomena you would classify as nursing informatics? If you have not experienced a nursing informatics phenomenon, imagine such an experience and, then, answer the following questions:
    • Briefly describe one of these phenomena.
    • Would you say that the impact of this nursing informatics phenomenon has been mostly positive or mostly negative on practicing nurses, health consumers, or the nursing profession (select one group)? Why?
    Be sure to include citations from your primary source articles in your Discussion, and provide the APA reference at the bottom of your response. Support your ideas or those of others with references from the professional nursing literature.

    Deliverable 7 – Statistical Analysis Report

    Instructions

    You are currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past few days, you have noticed an increase in patients admitted with a particular infectious disease. You believe that the ages of these patients play a critical role in the method used to treat the patients. You decide to speak to your manager, and together you work to use statistical analysis to look more closely at the ages of these patients.
    You do some research and put together a spreadsheet Click for more options
    of the data that contains the following information:

    • Client number
    • Infection disease status
    • Age of the patient

    You are to put together a PowerPoint presentation that explains the analysis of your findings which you will submit to your manager. The presentation should contain all components of your findings. For review, the components of the report should include:

    1. Brief overview of the scenario and variables in the data set
    2. Discussion, calculation, and interpretation of the mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and variance
    3. Discussion, construction, and interpretation of the 95% confidence interval
    4. Explanation of the full hypothesis test
    5. Conclusion

    The calculations should be performed in your spreadsheet that you will also submit to your manager. You can find additional information on what to add to your PowerPoint presentation in this Word document Click for more options
    . Use the questions in the worksheet as your guide for the contents of your presentation.
    For your final deliverable, submit your PowerPoint presentation and the Excel workbook showing your work. Do not submit your Word document.

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