Write an essay of about 1800 words that explains mass incarceration, based on these sources:

Intro with thesis, full paragraphs, in-text citation & Works Cited (MLA citation). Do not use any other sources for this assignment. You may also need to do a little background reading on your own if you encounter confusing political or historical references or unfamiliar terms in the sources themselves. Not all the sources see the topic in the same way, and some of their explanations might conflict with each other. Your job is NOT to decide who’s right or to take sides; your job is to help a reader know what the different views are and how they differ.
The best way to describe this kind of essay might be “background synthesis” – something an interested but uninformed person might use to get up to speed on a topic. The aim is not to prove that you know a lot, but to make your reader more knowledgeable than they were before they started reading.
How to organize your essay
For this assignment, I recommend that you plan your essay around answering two main questions:

  • What aspects of mass incarceration does everyone agree on – what it is, how it started, and what it is like? (e.g. as described by Cullen, 13th, or Sawyer & Wagner).  no more than 20% of the essay.
  • How do different scholars explain mass incarceration, and what evidence supports them? These are represented, mainly, by Fortner, Pfaff, Latzer, and Michelle Alexander (as represented in 13th). You could organize this section to contrast between what Pfaff calls the “standard story” and the various alternative views that alter or reject this conventional view.

FAQ
Q. Is this a summary essay?
A. No. You may have to summarize the ideas you encounter in the sources, but your job is to explain the topic itself. Summary and paraphrase of the sources is not a goal; it’s a tool you use to explain the topic.
Q. Is this an argument essay with a thesis?
A. Good essays usually have an identifiable thesis, but your thesis is likely to be descriptive – a statement that signals the focus of the paper. It won’t be an “argumentative” claim that takes a position and defends it.
Q. Is this a persuasive essay?
A. Yes and no. Yes, you need to persuade readers that your description of the topic is fair-minded, neutral and well-informed. No, you should not be trying to persuade a reader to agree with any particular view.

Read the Home Care scenario in the Allied Health Community. Be sure to review the Instructions and Legend information.
In a total of 250-500 words, respond to the questions located in the Home Care scenario. 
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA  Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not  required.

HOME CARE Scenario
Type of care provided
Scenario
Question 1
Instruction
Care in this capacity can range from a short-term to long-term based upon the changing needs of the patient. Patient age can range from pediatric to elderly. Care can be provided in the patient’s private home, group home, or assisted living setting. Medical homes fall into this category and are a new focus of Accountable Care Organizations through the Affordable Care Act of 2010.  
What steps would you, as the Director of Human Resources, take to rectify this issue? 
In your capacity as the Director of Human Resources, develop a plan for how you would conduct an internal and external wage analysis of your organization and respond to the impact this would have on the organization. 
As the Director of Human Resources within a home care environment, you are responsible for the administration of the organization’s labor budgets. Your Director of Clinical Services, who has a MSN, has presented some challenges regarding the compensation of her staff.This specific assisted nursing facility focuses on long-term care, providing approximately 500 nursing and support personnel who deliver direct and indirect care to approximately 225 patients representing various stages of acuity and need for nursing care. Your overall labor budget represents approximately 60% of expense revenue. 
The Director of Clinical Service complains that several of her registered nurses are threatening to leave the organization, allegedly because a competitor nearby pays their nurses higher wages. In fact, Director of Clinical Service asks for an across-the-board immediate pay adjustment of an additional $5.00 an 
hour for the nurses. She is awaiting a response from you before the day is over.

Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional health patterns for each of the following:

  1. Values/Health Perception
  2. Nutrition
  3. Sleep/Rest
  4. Elimination
  5. Activity/Exercise
  6. Cognitive
  7. Sensory-Perception
  8. Self-Perception
  9. Role Relationship
  10. Sexuality
  11. Coping

Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.

Upon completion of the interview, write a 1000- 1250 word paper. Analyze your assessment findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix with your assignment.

Include the following in your paper:

  1. Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
  2. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.
  3. Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health were identified.
  4. Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA , NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE

QUESTION

nursing theory and one non-nursing theory

Locate one nursing theory and one non-nursing theory. Describe how two practitioners can bring these separate theories together to provide meaningful patient care. Be very specific when you demonstrate how the two practitioners looking at a patient from differing theories bring meaningful care to a patient

NRSG367:  AHPRA Registered Nurse Standards – Nursing Reflection Writing Assignment Help

TASK

This assessment requires students to reflect on two of the AHPRA Registered Nurse Standard of Practice. Students are to provide a structured response describing the relevance and importance of the standards they choose reflecting on experiences from your undergraduate nursing clinical practice experiences and your imminent role registered nurse.

AHPRA Registered Nurse Standards of Practice

Standard 1 Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice

Standard 2 Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships

Standard 3 Maintains the capability for practice

Standard 4 Comprehensively conducts assessments

Standard 5 Develops a plan for nursing practice

Standard 6 Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice

Standard 7 Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9

Select a health care facility or service (e.g., hospital, physician practice, long-term care facility, ambulance service, pharmacy, or skilled nursing facility).
Design a 700- to 1,050-word proposal for a process improvement or cultural change that would affect all levels of staff in the organization (e.g., Lean Six Sigma or Studer Group).
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

What experiences have you had with research and evidence-based practice so far?Do you feel like your past/current workplace(s) have supported/promoted nursing research and evidence-based practice?What areas of research/evidence-based practice do you have an understanding of already? What areas are new to you?Why is research/evidence-based practice important to your nursing practice? How about to the larger nursing profession

QUESTION

Nursing

:

  • Describe an incident, or incidents, in your own nursing practice in which you expressed social or cultural sensitivity in order to elicit a competent health history or assessment. Explain the positive impact your sensitivity had on patient care or collegial efficacy of patient care

PLEASE ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN A WELL-WRITTEN OPEN ENDED RESPONSE. CITE REFERENCES IF USED (APA FORMAT)

1. Provide examples of clinical outcome measures.  Why are these measures important for improving clinical care?  What are the important features of effective outcome measures? 

2. Customer satisfaction measures have become much more important to healthcare organizations in recent years.  Why are these measures important?  How do organizations determine their performance relative to competitors? 

3. Define the concept of the Electronic Health Record.  How are EHRs at the heart of a clinical improvement system? 

 4.The Donabedian Model uses three types of measures in quality work to examine health services and evaluate quality of care. The information gathered are from three measures: structure, process, and outcomes. Define and describe the difference between each and provide an example of each. 

 5.What is “systems thinking”?  Why is the concept important in quality improvement? 

 6.Define special cause and common cause variation.  How do they differ?  What approaches are taken to eliminate these causes of variation? 

 
7.Describe the Lean Improvement Cycle.  Give an example of how the cycle would be applied in a healthcare setting (clinic, physician’s office, hospital, long term care facility).  

8. Why do practitioners resist efforts at standardization?  How does standardization help the problems facing the healthcare system of high cost and poor quality? 

 9.What is Value Stream Mapping?  How is this tool used in a Lean Improvement Cycle? 

 10.How are Clinical Practice Guidelines examples of standardization?  Discuss three benefits of CPGs in the healthcare delivery system. 

 11.STEEEP is the acronym used for the IOM’s healthcare industry goals and represents care that is Safe, Timely, Efficient, Effective, Equitable, and Patient-Centered. Provide an example of each of the 6 AIMS.  Why are these concepts important for healthcare practitioners? 

12. Describe Shewhart’s PDSA cycle.  How is it applied to quality improvement in healthcare? 

 13.What are the major steps in the Plan phase of PDSA?  Which lean tools might be involved in this phase? 

 
14.Name three challenges to CPG implementation and describe how they create barriers to implementation. 

 
15.What are “never events”?  How are they being used in healthcare to promote quality care?

16. What is an “episode of care”.  How does this concept apply to CPG development? 

COMPETENCIES
734.3.4 : Healthcare Utilization and Finance
The graduate analyzes financial implications related to healthcare delivery, reimbursement, access, and national initiatives.
INTRODUCTION
It is essential that nurses understand the issues related to healthcare financing, including local, state, and national healthcare policies and initiatives that affect healthcare delivery. As a patient advocate, the professional nurse is in a position to work with patients and families to access available resources to meet their healthcare needs.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Compare the U.S. healthcare system with the healthcare system of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland, by doing the following:
1. Identify one country from the following list whose healthcare system you will compare to the U.S. healthcare system: Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland.
2. Compare access between the two healthcare systems for children, people who are unemployed, and people who are retired.
a. Discuss coverage for medications in the two healthcare systems.
b. Determine the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist in the two healthcare systems.
c. Discuss coverage for preexisting conditions in the two healthcare systems.
3. Explain two financial implications for patients with regard to the healthcare delivery differences between the two countries (i.e.; how are the patients financially impacted).
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File RestrictionsFile name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
RUBRICA1:COUNTRY TO COMPARE
NOT EVIDENT
A country for comparison is not identified.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The identified country for comparison is not from the given list.
COMPETENT
The identified country for comparison is from the given list.
A2:ACCESS
NOT EVIDENT
A comparison of healthcare system access is not provided.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The comparison does not accurately describe access to healthcare systems in both the U.S. and the country chosen in A1 for one or more of the given groups of people, or the comparison does not logically describe both the similarities and differences between access to each of the healthcare systems for all of the given groups of people.
COMPETENT
The comparison accurately describes access to healthcare systems in both the U.S. and the country chosen in part A1 for children, people who are unemployed, and people who are retired. The comparison logically describes the similarities and differences between access to each of the healthcare systems for all of the given groups of people.
A2A:COVERAGE OF MEDICATIONS
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of medication coverage in both healthcare systems is not provided.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The discussion of coverage is not accurate or is not relevant to one or more of the healthcare systems.
COMPETENT
The discussion of coverage for medications is accurate and relevant to both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.
A2B:REFERRAL TO SEE A SPECIALIST
NOT EVIDENT
A determination of specialist referral requirements is not provided.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission does not accurately determine the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist for one or more of the healthcare systems.
COMPETENT
The submission accurately determines the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist for both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.
A2C:COVERAGE FOR PREEXISTING CONDITIONS
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of preexisting condition coverage is not provided.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The discussion of coverage for preexisting conditions is not accurate or does not relate to one or more of the healthcare systems.
COMPETENT
The discussion of coverage for preexisting conditions is accurate and relevant to both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.
A3:FINANCE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of 2 financial implications for the patient is not provided.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The explanation does not logically discuss 2 financial implications for the patient in regards to healthcare delivery differences, or the explanation does not include both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.
COMPETENT
The explanation logically discusses 2 financial implications for the patient in regards to the delivery differences in both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.
B:SOURCES
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not include both in-text citations and a reference list for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list; however, the citations or reference list is incomplete or inaccurate.
COMPETENT
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.
C:PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
NOT EVIDENT
Content is unstructured, is disjointed, or contains pervasive errors in mechanics, usage, or grammar. Vocabulary or tone is unprofessional or distracts from the topic.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
Content is poorly organized, is difficult to follow, or contains errors in mechanics, usage, or grammar that cause confusion. Terminology is misused or ineffective.
COMPETENT
Content reflects attention to detail, is organized, and focuses on the main ideas as prescribed in the task or chosen by the candidate. Terminology is pertinent, is used correctly, and effectively conveys the intended meaning. Mechanics, usage, and grammar promote accurate interpretation and understanding.

This week, we are going to look at reimbursement issues in long term care. Please select an issue from the readings that interest you and discuss it in more depth. See what current events/news have to do with long term care reimbursement as well.
Please read Chapter 11 and discuss the impact of public (government) and private controls on long term care. 250 word count.Please follow the appropriate APA FORMAT!! VERY IMPORTANT. POINTS WILL BE TAKEN OFF IF DOWN INCORRECT. I will leave a negative review if done inappropriately; please do your best. Must be A+ work. DISCUSSION POST REQUIREMENT VERY IMPORTANT MUST READ BEFORE DOING ASSIGNMENT
The initial discussion post must be at least 250-350 words of content, MUST reference the reading of the week. please see chapter 11, which is attached
and including at least ONE scholarly source.
All initial posts need a reference. Your initial post should never be all opinion. You need to refer to the reading and the required resources and prove your information with valid data.
A full discussion of the issues presented by the questions posed for the week.
Use of reliable, APA formatted sources (No Wikipedia).
Correct grammar and spelling.
No information is quoted or copied.
All information is in the student’s own words.
Please use correctly formatted in-text citations and references. Less than that shows a disrespect for the source. There is a particular way in which these are to be formatted. Without the proper formatting, the grade suffers.
Do NOT use the citation machine. The citation machine only provides you with the information you provide to it. If you’re unaware that there is particular information needed and do not provide it, the reference you receive will be incorrect. It will not be the fault of the citation machine.
USE intext citations. These are necessary for the post. For each area you discuss and each idea, you present you MUST add the author and date in parenthesis to your post. In-text citations should be a part of each section that you write when what you write is an idea you learned through your reading. Even if you read something that you may have known a bit about, but you have still gained more information, you need to put a citation in your work. This includes all information you write about, even when it is being discussed in your own words.
References should be listed for each citation you use.
DO NOT copy information from any source even if you’re giving credit to the source. You can use one quote in a post. More than that will drop your grade.
Avoid the use of quotations. Your rubric discourages this by placing a limit on the number of quotations that are allowed under each grading section. You may write a great post, but the use of too many quotations places it in a lower category for grading.
Avoid copying references from unaccepted sources. Many of the references are incorrect, with dates that are wrong or titles that are not complete. If you use this and it’s incorrect, it is your grade that suffers.
Do not add scholarly resources that you are not using just because. You are asked to use a scholarly resource for your post over and above your etext. If you are using a resource that is listed in your reference list and does not appear as information in your post, then it’s not actually used.
The initial post is 250-350 words of content. The initial discussion post must be at least 250-350 words of content, MUST reference the reading of the week (CHAPTER 11 AS BEEN ATTACHED AS WELL AS THE NAME OF THE BOOK, TITLE, ETC), and including at least one scholarly source. Helpful tips on how to reference and citations, please follow it. I’ll give you the template for a reference for an etext and for an article and for a citation for an either.
Here is the template for an electronic text:
Last name, F. M. (Year). Title of book [eBook edition]. Publisher. URL In the above example, the F.M. stands for the first initial (upper case). And middle initial (upper case).
They show you the way the font should appear, such as italicized as in the title of the book and also how the title is written (with only the first word’s first letter in upper case). Once you know how they describe the nuances, you can apply it to all of their examples.
For an article in a scholarly publication:
Last name, F. M., & Lastname, F. M. (Year). Title of the article. Title of Periodical, Vol. (Issue), page numbers. DOI or Last name, F. M., & Last name, F. M. (Year). Title of the article. Title of Periodical, Vol. (Issue), page numbers. Retrieved October 11, 2020, from URL URL= the link to the website.
For the citation after the paragraph of paraphrased text use (Author, year). If you have quoted use (Author, year, p. x), if there is no page, you can refer to the paragraph quoted by using (Author, year, para x).
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