Assignment: Literature Review: The Use of Clinical Systems to Improve Outcomes and Efficiencies

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Assignment: Literature Review: The Use of Clinical Systems to Improve Outcomes and Efficiencies

New technology—and the application of existing technology—only appears in healthcare settings after careful and significant research. The stakes are high, and new clinical systems need to offer evidence of positive impact on outcomes or efficiencies.

Nurse informaticists and healthcare leaders formulate clinical system strategies. As these strategies are often based on technology trends, informaticists and others have then benefited from consulting existing research to inform their thinking.

In this Assignment, you will review existing research focused on the application of clinical systems. After reviewing, you will summarize your findings.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and reflect on the impact of clinical systems on outcomes and efficiencies within the context of nursing practice and healthcare delivery.
  • Conduct a search for recent (within the last 5 years) research focused on the application of clinical systems. The research should provide evidence to support the use of one type of clinical system to improve outcomes and/or efficiencies, such as “the use of personal health records or portals to support patients newly diagnosed with diabetes.”
  • Identify and select 4 peer-reviewed research articles from your research.
  • For information about annotated bibliographies, visit https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/assignments/annotatedbibliographies

The Assignment: (4-5 pages not including the title and reference page)

In a 4- to 5-page paper, synthesize the peer-reviewed research you reviewed. Format your Assignment as an Annotated Bibliography. Be sure to address the following:

  • Identify the 4 peer-reviewed research articles you reviewed, citing each in APA format.
  • Include an introduction explaining the purpose of the paper.
  • Summarize each study, explaining the improvement to outcomes, efficiencies, and lessons learned from the application of the clinical system each peer-reviewed article described. Be specific and provide examples.
  • In your conclusion, synthesize the findings from the 4 peer-reviewed research articles.
  • Use APA format and include a title page.

Investigate and describe the artistic, commercial, and ethical considerations that inform censorship debates about potentially harmful entertainment media content.

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Investigate and describe the artistic, commercial, and ethical considerations that inform censorship debates about potentially harmful entertainment media content. You must apply your understanding of the ethical principles and concepts discussed in this course to explain if and why certain types of media content should be censored and, if so, by whom.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that addresses the following:

  • Explain what typical arguments entertainers and their supporters use to justify the use of questionable content. Indicate the ethical principles that are compromised.
  • Evaluate the moral, artistic, and commercial underpinnings of those arguments.
  • Explain what types of content should be censored.
  • List the criteria that would, from your ethical perspective, be appropriate for limiting access to content.
  • Explain why these criteria are ethically appropriate.
  • Explain who should be responsible for censoring content, and why.

Cite at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed references.

Explain the relationship between statistical significance and effect size.

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Due 1/2

To prepare for this assignment:

Review Chapter 8 in your course text, Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Pay attention to the importance of statistical significance and effect size.
Consider the relationship between statistical significance and effect size.
Using the Walden Library, select and review two or three forensic psychology research articles where “effect size” was reported.
Consider what role effect size played in the statistical significance of the studies you selected.
The assignment (1–3 pages):

Explain the relationship between statistical significance and effect size.
Explain the importance of effect size in the statistical significance of the studies you reviewed.

Consider how these relationships are determined and what impact each type of relationship may have on a researcher’s ability to make predictions.

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Due 1/6

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review Chapter 9 in your course text, Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Pay attention to the descriptions and examples of linear and nonlinear relationships, positive and negative linear relationships, and curvilinear relationships.
Consider how these relationships are determined and what impact each type of relationship may have on a researcher’s ability to make predictions.
Using the Walden Library, select and review two or three articles on criminal recidivism, violent crime, or domestic violence in which the variables have positive and negative linear relationships.
Consider the implications if the variables had a curvilinear relationship instead.
Post a description of two variables that have a positive linear relationship and two variables that have a negative linear relationship in the research articles you reviewed. Then, explain the implications on the studies if each of those variables had a curvilinear relationship instead.

Stangor, C. (2015). Research methods for the behavioral sciences (5th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning. Chapter 9, “Correlational Research Designs”

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In this week’s Discussion, you will analyze Dr. Hare’s construct and evaluate how it may be applied to assessing risk facets within today’s criminal justice system.

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In this week’s Discussion, you will analyze Dr. Hare’s construct and evaluate how it may be applied to assessing risk facets within today’s criminal justice system.

To prepare

  • View the video, The Psychopath Next Door, available in the Learning Resources.
  • Review the items/factors associated with psychopathy as shown in the Learning Resources.

Post a response to the following:

  • Analyze the assessment measures and traits discussed in the documentary program, The Psychopath Next Door.
  • Based on the Psychopathy Checklist, Revised (PCL-R), explain the potential risk factors that should be addressed by forensic psychology professionals when addressing the future risk of an individual. Provide specific examples.

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Create a PowerPoint presentation to explain why and how your company (The Widget Company) will increase diversity at all levels

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Assignment:

Create a PowerPoint presentation to explain why and how your company (The Widget Company) will increase diversity at all levels. You may create an assessment that measured the current climate, and determine what training is needed. This presentation is for the 10-member board of directors, but it may also be released to workers, at a later date, if approved.

Use the tips at http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/ to create the slideshow. Because good PowerPoints have very few words, submit a script that describes the content of each slide – about 50 words per slide.

Assignment Expectations: 

  • Length:
    • 15 – 20 Slides
    • 750 – 1000 words in the script
  • Structure:
    • Title Slide shows your name, your company name, the title and date of your presentation.
    • Discuss where you are as a company
    • Propose where you’d like to be as a company
    • Explain the benefits and costs
    • Use reference page for outside sources used
  • References:
    • As needed
  • Format:
    • save your assignment as a PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx), or Open Office format
  • File name:
    • name your saved file according to your last name, first initial and the week (for example, “jonesb.week1”)
  • Submission:
    • submit your assignment to the Drop Box

explain some of the myths regarding older adults and some of the realities they often face.

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explain some of the myths regarding older adults and some of the realities they often face. Put special emphasis on the social-economic and the physical factors that you have found in your readings and research on this topic. Based on your experiences how would you interpret these myths and realities of older adults? Make sure to justify your answers by citing relevant sources.

· Using the Cowger article, identify at least two areas of strengths in Paula’s cas

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Assignment: Comprehensive Assessment

A comprehensive understanding of a client’s presenting problems depends on the use of multiple types ofassessment models. Each model gathers different information based on theoretical perspective and intent. An assessment that focuses on one area alone not only misses vital information that may be helpful in planning an intervention, but may encourage a biased evaluation that could potentially lead you to an inappropriate intervention. When gathering and reviewing a client’s history, sometimes it is easier to focus on the problems and not the positive attributes of the client. In social work, the use of a strengths perspective requires that a client’s strengths, assets, and resources must be identified and utilized. Further, using an empowerment approach in conjunction with a strengths perspective guides the practitioner to work with the client to identify shared goals. You will be asked to consider these approaches and critically analyze the multidisciplinary team’s response to the program case study of Paula Cortez.

For this Assignment, review the program case study of the Cortez family.

By Day 7

In a 3- to 4-page paper, complete the following:

· Utilizing two of the assessment models provided in Chapter 5 of the course text, provide a comprehensive assessment of Paula Cortez.

· Using the Cowger article, identify at least two areas of strengths in Paula’s case.

· Analyze the perspectives of two members of the multidisciplinary team, particularly relative to Paula’s pregnancy.

· Explain which model the social workers appear to be using to make their assessment.

· Describe the potential for bias when choosing an assessment model and completing an evaluation.

· Suggest strategies you, as Paula’s social worker, might try to avoid these biases

Personality Culminating Experinces

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Personality Culminating Experinces

·  In a short paper (1-2 pages) write about which approach to personality(psychoanalytic approach, trait approach, biological approach, humanistic approach, behavioral/social learning approach, and cognitive approach) best helps us to understand the personality construct you chose, and WHY. Use three academic sources to support your position.

·  Create a 1 page (about 10 questions) personality test for your construct, based on that same approach to personality (i.e., if you think that the psychoanalytic approach best helps us to understand “vanity” then create a personality test “How vain are you?” based on that same approach. Please note that you should include a way to score your test (e.g., if you score 70 points out of 70 on a vanity test, you should explain what this means)

·  In a 1 page reflection, outline which approach do you feel has best helped you understand yourself, and why.

Other important things:

·  Use your notes and three other sources (preferably journal articles, but books are allowed).

·  You must submit the paper in APA. You do NOT need an abstract, but you DO need a title page, in-text citations that match your reference list, and a reference list.

Goal Setting Workshop

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Goal Setting Workshop

For this week’s assignment, you will be working on a goal-setting worksheet. Choose factors within your circle of influence that you would like to, and are able to change, such as poor eating habits, lack of exercise, erratic sleeping patterns, or work-life balance, etc. Pick at least four achievable improvements that you can make to your personal habits. It can be as simple as, “I want to make sure I brush my teeth three times a day,” or “I want to spend 1 hour away from my phone at an appointed hour.”

Develop a personal goal setting plan for yourself.

Include each of the following points in your assignment:

·  Create a goal setting chart

·  Select the goals you would like to achieve

·  Set concrete steps to achieve the goals each day during the week

·  Monitor yourself during the week. Did you take actions each day to accomplish your goals?

·  Mark each day’s accomplishments with a Y or N

·  At the end of the week, reflect on What was standing in your way? Were those goals that you wrote down actually achievable? Why or why not?