Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

The director sent an e-mail that requested you to conduct some research and provide an explanation of the terms that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to define the following DHS missions:

• Preventing terrorism and enhancing security
• Managing U.S. borders
• Administering immigration laws
• Securing cyberspace
• Ensuring disaster resilience

The director has requested an analysis and recommendation of which mission area is currently the most critical and where she should concentrate her efforts. You must ensure that your recommendation is fully justified in your explanation.

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Community Outreach and Service Learning

Community outreach and service learning are smart business practices. Community outreach is good public relations. It helps keep the community strong and healthy, brings in new customers to a business, and helps mentor young people through service learning.

Thematic Project Assignment

In this project you will research and then write a news story, with pictures, about a business that is working on a community project. Include information about student volunteers for the project and how they acquire knowledge while working in service to the community.

Step 1: Brainstorm Skills You Need to Complete this Activity

Your success in researching and writing a news feature story will depend on your skills. Preview the activity. Then brainstorm a list of the skills you will need to use to complete the activity and describe how you will use them. Skills you might use include:

• Academic Skills reading, writing, math, and science skills
• Basic Skills speaking, listening, thinking, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
• Technology Skills word processing, keyboarding, database, spreadsheet

Skills Preview: Click here to view a graphic organizer you can use to brainstorm the skills you will use to complete the project.

Step 2: Choose a Business and a Career That Interest You

Use your local newspaper, business magazines, and the Internet to fi nd news stories about businesses that interest you that are helping communities. Make sure they offer a career in which you are interested and are using student volunteers with the project.

Step 3: Build Background Knowledge

Preview the stories and look for the who, what, when, where, and why in each story.

Step 4: Connect with Your Community

Interview a local business owner about the company’s involvement in community proj- ects. Find out how the owner benefi ted. Ask if he or she had student volunteers and how the volunteers benefited.

Step 5: Research Business Trends

Use library or Internet resources to research community outreach. Use the checklist as a guide to your research. Keep records of your sources of information.

Step 6: Develop a Report

Use word processing to write a 350- to 400-word newspaper feature story, with photos. Use your imagination to create the “facts” for your story. Stage your friends for the photos. Include all the information described in this checklist.

News Feature

✔ Use the stories you have already read as models for your story.

✔ Write a draft of your story. Include the who, what, when, where, why, and how.

• Who: Who is the story about? What is the name of the business? Who are the student volunteers? Who had the idea?
• What: What is the community project? What is the company philosophy about community outreach?
• When: When did the business and students get together to tackle the project? When did they first meet? How did the business find student volunteers?
• Where: Where did the project take place? Why: Why did the business decide to take on this community project?
• How: How did the company benefit? How did the student volunteers benefit?

✔ Stage your friends for the photos. Have a few friends dress in clothing appropriate for your story and do things that illustrate the story. For example, if your story is about cleaning up a park, have your friends wear outdoor clothing and plant flowers or rake leaves.

Self Connections

✔ Describe the results of your research with a family member or other adult.
✔ Describe how the entrepreneur you interviewed infl uenced the business and career in which you are interested.
✔ Explain what the investigation and its results mean to you.

Submit your presentaion as a word or PDF document.

For this Assignment, you are answer the questions regarding this case study. Please make sure to support your answers using evidence based practice.

56 y/o Caucasian male presents to the primary care clinic with complains of dizziness and nausea x 4 days. The patient reports he has not been able to get out of bed since the symptoms started. The patient reports symptoms are worse when he tries to get out of bed to stand. He denies any headaches or blurry vision. He states he is urinating more over the last few days and he has noticed increase in thirst. He reports he just drank a large sweet tea before he came into the clinic.

The patient reports that he is out of his Lantus and metformin because he cannot afford the refill until he gets his disability check. He is disabled after his second CVA that left his with generalized weakness. His medical history includes DM, HTN, CAD.

Upon arrival at the clinic, the patient’s vital signs are as follows- Blood sugar 405, B/P 190/101, HR 102, R-20, T- 98.5.

Using Evidence Based practice, answer the following questions thoroughly. Be sure to use APA formatting.

1. What is the pertinent positive and negative findings in this patient assessment?
2. Create a list of differentials with rationales for this patient?
3. Discuss a medication regimen for this patient considering his financial status?
4. What is the priority concern for this patient?
5. How does this patient’s comorbid diagnosis impact his current symptoms?
6. Discuss how the patient’s’ health beliefs, culture and behaviors impact the potential outcomes for the patient.

Grading rubic below:

Discussed pertinent postives and negatives for the case study				Clearly and thoroughly presents pertinent positives and negatives. More than 4 items addressed from the case study
Create a list of differentials and provided rationales		.	List differential diagnosis but failed to rule in diagnosis with exams or lab work or other testing in detail. Did not provide rationale for differential diagnosis	Correct differential and provided rationales to support list.
Discussed medication regimen				Addresses all potential medication regimens and their rationale
Developed plan of care				Correct plan of care. Thoroughly addressed (diagnostic studies, meds, education, health promotion, developmental stages, ethical and cultural considerations, follow up, and referrals). All eight components addressed.

Discussion Question 1

For this question, please read the following scenario and then respond to the questions noted below.
To prepare for this question, visit this URL and review the materials on articulating learning objectives.

http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/design/learningobjectives.html

Page is employed by the local county health department as one of the two RNs in the county’s public health system. Her job is to cover eight of the 16 cities located within the county encompassed by her county’s health department. She provides a wide range of services including health screenings and health education and promotion programs. According to the IOM & QSEN competencies, Page needs to deliver expert, safe, effective, and patient-centered care to the community population. Page’s supervisor has alerted her to an outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) in an underprivileged community. She has been asked to prepare a health education program about whooping cough and present it in the community’s elementary school auditorium. Her audience will consist of parents, teachers, and concerned citizens. In reviewing what she knows about the city, she notes a large population of Hispanic Americans.

Page’s supervisor has also alerted her to the fact that one of the scheduled presentations will take place at a local church that serves an underprivileged population of migrant workers who primarily speak Spanish. The average educational level of this particular group is approximately at the third grade level.

1. Develop one learning objective that your leaner will meet following the class on Whooping Cough. Ensure that your learning objective is learner centered.
2. Does your learning objective break down the task and focus on specific cognitive processes? Ensure your learning objective use a Bloom’s Taxonomy action verb.
3. Is your learning objective measurable?

Due Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Apa format

1 1/2 – 2 pages

SPO MODEL OF HEALTHCARE

You have studied Donabedian’s structure-process-outcome (S-P-O) model (Kelly, 2017) of healthcare quality in your textbook readings. Based on your reading, respond to the following:

• Analyze and evaluate how quality is defined, measured, and reported with regards to the S-P-O model.
• What structural characteristics of the S-P-O model do you think are necessary in creating an effective and efficient process? Why?
• Does evidence-based medicine play a role in the S-P-O model and quality outcomes of care? Justify using examples.
• 300 to 500 words in APA format

Resource: Ayanian, J. Z., & Markel, H. (2016). Donabedian’s lasting framework for health care quality. The New England Journal of Medicine, 375(3), 205-207. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.southuniversity.libpro…