M5 Discussion: Hakim

The PBS Frontline video “The Released” (partially captioned, 54 minutes in length). Note: if you should see a blank space above the link to the video, please click on these instructions to learn how to unblock content that Firefox deems “insecure.”

For this discussion, you will first review the Hakim Case Study and then watch the PBS Frontline video entitled “The Released” (54 minutes in length, synchronized closed-captioned, transcript). This is an opportunity to apply your course learning thus far and make recommendations that address the needs of the individual presented in the case. Using the case history provided, identify and describe what interventions and offender treatment options might be appropriate for Hakim at this point. You may discuss what should have been done in the past, but you should focus on what happens in the future. Are there cultural considerations that should be taken into account?

Integrate your opinions of what theories of criminal behavior might apply to this individual and how might they affect the administration of alternative interventions (roadblocks). Ensure that you explain and support your rationales.

As always, you should post at least 250 words at the outset, and you should respond to the proposed treatment plans of other students. You will not receive full credit if you only post late in the discussion period.

Life Situation	Financial Data
Single Age 22 Starting a career No dependents	Monthly income	$2,600
	Living expenses	$2,180
	Assets	$8,200
	Liabilities	$3,470
	Emergency fund	$530

While in college, Pam Jenkins worked part-time and was never concerned about long-term financial planning. Rather than creating a budget, she used her checkbook and savings account (which usually had a very low balance) to handle her financial needs.

After completing college, Pam began her career as a sales representative for a clothing manufacturer located in California.

After one year, her assets consist of a 2002 automobile, a television set, some electronic entertainment equipment, and clothing and other personal belongs, with a total value of about $8,200.

Question:

Please answer the question in 2-3 short paragraph

Q1.

List at least three financial situations and the time value of money calculations that would be helpful to Pam in planning or making decisions?

ALL INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED!!!!!!

YOU CAN USE 1ST ATTEMPT SUBMITTED BUT MUST BE ALTERED TO FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AND FEEDBACK GIVEN IN BOTH PAPER AND PDF SCORING RUBRIC

ATTACHED- Graded Scoring Rubric, previously submitted assignment (Ideas can be based off of it), corrections need to be aimed at Distinguished category,

***STEPS MUST BE FOLLOWED***

***GRADING RUBRIC MUST BE FOLLOWED AT A MINIMUM OF PROFICIENT LEVEL***

Identify the benchmarks and quality measures used to compare with the office data for your proposal (Excel spreadsheet). Assess the compatibility of the proposed data and examine potential issues related to information quality (1-3 pages).

A key part of your proposal will be to identify benchmarks and trends for the topic you have chosen for your documentation review. Benchmarks can come from national or state quality standards or trends. If your proposal is approved, you as the office manager will want to try to answer this question: How does our office data compare to national or state trends?

You need to identify your benchmarks before you can collect and then compare the data. You decide what your benchmarks are. They could be based on national averages, state averages, or quality standards. For example, here is one quality standard: All patients with chronic, stable coronary artery disease are on an antiplatelet therapy or have supporting documentation as to why they cannot take an antiplatelet therapy. For instance, they may have an allergy.

Another question to consider when establishing benchmarks is this: Are you comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges? In addition, if you are retrieving information from a national database or data from an HIE, how do you know your office data is comparable to the information you are retrieving? Consult your suggested resources for answers to these questions.

For this second assessment, you are to:

• Analyze statistical trends and assess quality measures relevant to your proposal.
• Assess the compatibility of data drawn from multiple sources.
• Determine the effects of health information quality on an HIE.

This assessment is completed in three steps:

• Step One – Preparation: Locate data related to quality measures or trends relevant to your topic from specific websites.
• Step Two – Data Collection: Create a data collection tracking spreadsheet and dashboard.
• Step Three – Data Compatibility: Write a short paper on data compatibility and quality.

Step One: Preparation

Locate data related to quality measures relevant to your topic from one or more of these websites:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ahrq.gov/
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (n.d.). CMS data navigator. Retrieved from https://dnav.cms.gov/Default.aspx
• The Joint Commission. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.jointcommission.org/
• NCQA. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ncqa.org/
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.osha.gov/index.html
• Any other site that contains national or state health care quality measures.

Step Two: Data Collection

Using the Data Collection Spreadsheet Guide [XLSX] as an example, create a spreadsheet containing three tabs: Dashboard Tracking, Data Collection, and Trending.

On the first tab, Dashboard Tracking, draw from the information you gathered in Step One as part of your preparation for this assessment:

• Identify the specific benchmark data you will compare with your office data. Remember it is up to you to establish your benchmarks.
• Organize or create a spreadsheet to display the totals, percentages, averages, and so on of your office data and of the national or state data you will be using for comparison. Note: Your Office Data column will be blank because you are not collecting any office data. This is only a proposal to do an information review of the quality of care provided by the physician group. Data does, however, need to appear in the Benchmark (national/state) data column.
• Include at least one comparison graph of your choice on this tab.

On the second tab, Data Collection, draw from the information you gathered in Step One as part of your preparation for this assessment:

• Create a form you will use to collect specific data from the patients’ records.
• Include a row for each patient.
• Provide a column for each data collection point (quality measure) you will be comparing.

Note: The information on this page is totaled, averaged, et cetera, with the results linked to the first tab.

o create your third tab, Trends, you will need to do some additional research. Identify national benchmarks for the condition you have chosen that could be compared to your office data. For example, if the trend in your office is that you are seeing more patients with asthma, but the national trend is decreasing, you have discovered a discrepancy that needs to be investigated.

To perform your analysis:

• Visit one or more of the following websites containing national data:
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). Healthcare cost and utilization project. Retrieved from https://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/#setup
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). CDC Wonder. Retrieved from https://wonder.cdc.gov/WelcomeT.html
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (n.d.). CMS data navigator. Retrieved from https://dnav.cms.gov/Default.aspx
  • Any other site that contains national or state health care data.
• Locate and analyze statistical data relevant to the selected condition.
  • Examine trends:
    • What other meaningful trends exist? For example, consider the number of new cases, increases or decreases of cases within a specific age range or location, et cetera.
    • How do the national and state trends compare?
    • Is the national trend increasing or decreasing?
    • What is the percentage of cases who expire from the disease?
• Identify the trending of one statistical result relating to the condition you selected over the last 5–10 years.
• Create a line graph on the third tab of your spreadsheet, Trends, that illustrates the national and/or state trending of the disease you selected over the past 5–10 years.

Note: Remember you have not collected your office data yet for comparison purposes. You could add that data at a later time.

Step 3: Data Compatibility

Write a short section to add to the proposal you will complete in Assessment 3. Be sure this section of your proposal includes all of the following headings and your narrative addresses each of the bullet points.

Introduction

• Provide a brief 1–2-sentence high-level summary explaining data compatibility.

Data Compatibility

• Assess the compatibility of the data:
  • How can you ensure data from multiple sources is compatible?
  • How do you know the data you are using for comparison is compatible with your office data?
  • What challenges are associated with data standardization? We do not want to compare apples with oranges. You want to be sure data from multiple sources:
    • Represents the same condition.
    • Uses similar statistical analysis.
    • And so on.

Effects of Health Information Quality on the HIE

• Explain the difference between an HIE and a national database.
• Explain what problems can develop if facilities submit incomplete or inaccurate information to an HIE.
• Explain what problems can develop if facilities submit incomplete or inaccurate information to a national database.
• Explain how incomplete or inaccurate data may affect your proposal.

Conclusion

• Briefly reinforce your paper’s main points.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Your assessment should meet the following requirements:

• Excel spreadsheet: Your spreadsheet must contain three tabs, be organized, contain appropriate graphs, and have correct spelling.
• Written communication: Your paper does not need to be in APA format. It does need to be clear and well organized, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, to support orderly exposition of content.
• Title page: Develop a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet maintain professional decorum.
• References: Include a minimum of two citations of peer-reviewed sources in current APA format.
• Length: 2-3 typed text, double-spaced content pages, not including the title page and references page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Analysis Essay Structure

Make sure each paragraph has 5 to 7 sentences. Your introduction paragraph should include a hook (first sentence to grab the reader’s attention); then 5 to 7 supporting sentences to tell why the thesis is important. Then your thesis is the last sentence of the first paragraph. Watch this Introduction and Conclusion paragraph video to learn how to write your Introduction and conclusion paragraphs.

Example thesis: Arming Teachers with Guns in the classroom will not decrease mass school shootings because Reason 1, Reason 2 and Reason 3.

Para 2: Reason 1

Para 3: Reason 2

Para 4:Reason 3

Para 5: Counterargument paragraph (Write about the other side)–Arming teachers with guns is a good idea because arming teachers with guns will help deter mass school shootings because….)

Para 6:Rebuttal paragraph (Go back to your argument that arming teachers is not a good idea and rebut the other side point by point)

Para 7: Conclusion

When we write the conclusion paragraph, just restate the thesis statement as the first sentence in the last paragraph. Then, for your conclusion paragraph, write 5 sentences highlighting the main points of the essay without adding new information and give the reader pointers on what to do or think next pertaining to your topic. Watch this Introduction and Conclusion paragraph video to learn how to write your conclusion paragraphs.

*Use only third person case in your essay. Do not use first person case (I, my, us, we) in your essay. Do not use second person case (you and your) in your essay. Use third person case he/she/they for a more professional tone.*

Wrong sentence and wrong tone (first person case)– I took steroids while playing sports and now I am suffering side effects from the steroids. Using first person case is too personal.

Wrong sentence and wrong tone (second person case)–You should not take steroids while playing sports because you will suffer side effects from the steroids. Using second person case sounds too preachy.

Correct sentence and third person case–Barry Bonds took steroids while playing sports. (Smith, 22)–Third person case sounds more professional.

Consider the following as you write:

PURPOSE: Analytical Writing
AUDIENCE: author, instructor, others interested in the field
LENGTH: 500-750 words (Times New Roman font)
SOURCE MINIMUM: 5 total- at least one should be from a professional organization
FORMAT STYLE: APA

Outline

Thesis: Healthcare laws hurt the overall population of patients seen in a healthcare facility.

Reason 1: Some of the laws have created issues that could hurt the patients financially and cause them to have to change doctors and facilities that they have trusted for years.

Reason 2: Some laws make it difficult for patient with pre-existing conditions to obtain health insurance.

Reason 3: Patients end up paying more out of pocket for their insurance and for the services they receive from doctors, hospitals, labs, and drug companies.

Counterargument: Healthcare laws have been put in place to protect both the patients and healthcare providers. Laws like the Affordable Care Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act were all designed to help patients who cannot afford healthcare, have pre-existing conditions and could be denied health insurance when changing jobs, and protection from providers who may have had a history of malpractice. HIPPA also protects patient’s privacy when seen in any healthcare facility.

Rebuttal: Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act did little to encourage greater competition in the health care marketplace. It was assumed that the bigger corporations in each of the different industry areas like insurance, pharmacy, and hospital care could deliver given the size of the insurance expansion the ACA would promote. Instead, there is premium inflation, increased cost on prescription drugs, and long delays in patient’s ability to access care.

Conclusion

In her commentary, “The Global Dimensions of Public Health Preparedness and Implications for US Action,” Moore (2012) points out that Public Health is truly a global issue; and she discusses what that means for us here in the US in terms of our need for preparedness. She suggests four areas for action: 1) sensitize practitioners to the global nature of diseases, 2) learn from the success of other countries, 3) US Investment in Global Health, and 4) acting locally on global issues.

Instructions

Your assignment is to write an essay in which you select the single area that you feel to be the most important for public health preparedness. Justify your position.

You can submit your paper in a Question and Answer format. In other words, list the questions and provide a short answer to each.

1. What is the Area for Action that you feel is most important for public health preparedness? (Please write 1 paragraph maximum here)

   Hint: you will need to conduct your own scholarly research for information on the topic. For example, enter The Online Library and enter search terms, such as “Public Health Preparedness.” Be sure to check the box to limit your search to full-text access.

1. Why might each of the other dimensions be slightly less important? Be sure to cite sources rather than simply stating your opinion.