Assignment: End-of-Life Care and Social Work Practice

The death of an elderly individual may occur in a variety of settings and circumstances. For example, an individual may die painlessly at home surrounded by the support of many loved ones, or an individual may suffer severe pain for months before dying in a health facility with little social support. In addition, it is possible that many health and helping professionals may interact with the dying person and his or her family.

For this Assignment, you consider a social worker’s role in end-of-life care. In addition to reading this week’s resources, conduct your own research and obtain at least one additional journal article that addresses how a social worker might support clients as they plan end-of-life care.

Submit a 3- to 4-page paper that analyzes the role of the social worker in helping to plan end-of-life care. Include possible consideration of palliative care, euthanasia, hospice care, the living will and advanced directives, and other factors. Research and cite at least one journal article to support your analysis.

Please include the required reading in this assignments as well:

Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

***Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

Reflective Journal: Who Am I?—The Journey Continues

This week you continued to study inequities resulting from various forms of resistance to diversity. You focused on the origins and nature of privilege and oppression and on four additional “isms”: sexism, heterosexism, LGBT-ism, and ageism. In what ways has your attention on any of these topics influenced the way you perceive yourself? What insights or questions do you now have as a consequence of your studies this week?

Title this assignment: Diversity Profile—Week 5 and complete the following:

In response to the question “Who Am I,”

• Add three new insights about yourself related to any or all of the following:
• • privilege
  • institutional inequities
  • sexism
  • heterosexism
  • LGBT-ism
  • ageism

• Review the list you created for your “Diversity Profile” last week with this week’s insights in mind. Then decide if the words and phrases you used to describe your social identities are still adequate. Change, delete, add to, or keep the list as is.

Submit your Diversity Profile—Week 5

Submit this assignment by Wednesday of this week.

The purpose of this assignment is for students to explore and analyze the SWOTT structures of the organization. Students will evaluate and explain which SWOTT elements affect the organization’s ability to remain competitive while conducting business.

Assignment Steps

Resources

• Exploring Management, Ch. 3: Managers as Decision Makers
  • Exploring Management, Ch. 4: Plans and Planning Techniques
    • Exploring Management, Ch. 5: Controls and Control Systems
      • Exploring Management, Ch. 6: Strategy and Strategic Management
        • Collaborative Activity: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, Trends
          • External and Internal Forces: The New Venture Grading Guide

: Exploring Management: Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6; Week 3 Learning Team Collaborative Activity

Use the organization you work for or an organization you know of locally to complete this assignment.

Create a SWOTT table as a Word document summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should consider, at a minimum, the following factors.

Identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table for each factor below:

• External forces and trends considerations:
  • Legal and regulatory
  • Global
  • Economic
  • Technological
  • Innovation
  • Social
  • Environmental
  • Competitive analysis
• Internal forces and trends considerations:
  • Strategy
  • Structures
  • Processes and systems
  • Resources
  • Goals
  • Strategic capabilities
  • Culture
  • Technologies
  • Innovations
  • Intellectual property
  • Leadership

Analyze relevant forces with trends from the list above.

Summarize your findings in no more than 875 words in an executive summary at the bottom of your SWOTT table including the following:

• Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.
• Review how well the organization adapts to change and provide feedback.
• Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business. Share your plans to develop and leverage core competencies and resources within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business model and the various stakeholders.

Identify issues and/or opportunities:

• Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis.
• Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.
• Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.

Cite at least three peer reviewed references, one may be your textbook and at least one must come from the University Library. To obtain peer reviewed references you must check the box for peer reviewed under the search window of the library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

The Latino/Hispanic Ethnic Group Research Paper

The Latino/Hispanic group is the only ethnic category counted separately by the United States Census. According to the U.S. Census, a Latino/Hispanic person can be of any race.

Research information about the ethnic and racial variability of the larger Latin American group using at least three outside peer reviewed sources.

Write a 625- to 725-word paper organized with introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.

Describe the variability within the larger “Latin American” group, as defined by the U.S. Census, including the ethnic and racial differences.

Include in the paper:

• When this census category became official (the first time it was used in the United States Census)
• At least five distinctive subgroups that belong under this broad category
• How people from Africa, both slaves and freemen, became part of the Latino population in Mexico, Central and South America, and the U.S.
• How Africans in Mexico, Central and South America were absorbed into the Hispanic population, in contrast to being kept separate in the U.S.
• How colorism affects membership within the Hispanic/Latino group today (i.e. a Mexican who is Black)
• The role of language in understanding the variability in the larger Latin American group.
• The role of religion in understanding the variability in the larger Latin American group.
• The role of culture in understanding the variability in the larger Latin American group.

Cite and reference in APA style all sources of information used.

Format your paper consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

• Using the library, course materials, textbook, and Web resources, research the warning signs of drug abuse and the symptoms of drug addiction.
• Address the following in 750–1,000 words:
  • Are the warning signs of drug abuse different for each substance? Explain.
    • Be sure to provide examples to support your arguments.
  • Are the symptoms of drug addiction different for each substance? Explain.
    • Be sure to provide examples to support your arguments.
  • Are there any general guidelines to follow with regard to recognizing these warning signs and symptoms? Explain.
  • What should a parent do if they suspect drug use or drug abuse/addiction? Explain.
    • What methods could be utilized? Explain.
    • When should external treatment be sought? Why?
• You are required to use at least three (3) legitimate scholarly sources.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
• 3 references