Elite athletes and diet:

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1. Elite athletes and diet: Check out the link, below, and discuss. Also- find an elite athlete’s diet of your choice: an article or YouTube to share with the class (include the link). Your thoughts?

Kenyan long distance runners

http://beta.active.com/running/articles/eating-practices-of-the-best-endurance-athletes-in-the-world

2. Pick a sports supplement mentioned in the chapter on sports nutrition and see what you can find about it on the internet (Google it) (share the link): compare this information to what you have learned in the chapter……

3. Given the current issues in the news regarding rising food prices and hunger in the world, do you think vegetarianism is a good solution or do you have other ideas as to what might help? Thoughts on each of the two articles below? (Two different viewpoints on cattle grazing and reduction of hunger/increasing crop yield/arable-land):http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130801125704.htm (Links to an external site.)http://foodtank.org/news/2013/06/reversing-desertification-savorys-livestock-solution-miracle

What Makes a Good Leader?

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Signature Assignment Title: What Makes a Good Leader?

Signature Assignment Description/Directions:

Choose one or more leadership topic(s) from your textbook or from a scholarly source from a previous discussion or assignment from this course and write about its application to nursing practice. Provide definitions, history/background, and major concepts of chosen topic.  Describe the topic’s function in nursing practice by examining at least three different nursing roles (for example, bedside nurse, public health nurse, CNO, unit manager, etc.). Discuss how the leadership topic can be used in your own practice. Discuss your personal growth in regard to your chosen leadership topic. Evaluate personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your career advancement.

Then, discuss the top three traits you feel makes a good nurse leader. Support your statements with examples from your practice experience and scholarly sources.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1750 to 2000 words in length

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three scholarly sources plus the textbook are required.

Learning Materials

  • Weiss, S. A. & Tappen, R. M. (2015). E

Break down the differences in global health care infrastructure

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U.S. and Other’s Country’s Healthcare System

There is a difference between underdeveloped, developing, and developed countries. However, many researchers refer to underdeveloped as developing countries. For this assignment, it is important to distinguish the differences between the three. Underdeveloped countries have very low Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita (meaning lack of financial resources or monies), and infrastructure is poorly built or non- existence (facilities/shelter); limited food/adequate water supply; healthcare access for the poor; and lower life expectancies. Developed countries have more financial resources to help with food shortages/ water supply/ facilities/shelter; and life expectancy is longer as compared to the underdeveloped countries. Developed countries GDP is very high, which means that they have access to financial resources that helps implementing technology, solid infrastructure, stable government, and access to healthcare.

For this assignment, you will

Break down the differences in global health care infrastructure.

Include each of the following aspects in the assignment:

Ø  an underdeveloped country (see list above), a developed country (Germany, Croatia, Greece), and the US

Ø  the dominant health care delivery model for each country

Ø  programs to assist with access to healthcare (if any)

Ø  quality improvement efforts

Ø  coordinated care

Ø  one page paper in length

part 2

Regulatory Agencies and Laws

Throughout this course you will learn about a variety of government agencies, regulations, and laws. It will help you to create a simple way of remembering the most important ones. It will also be a useful resource in future courses.

Outline major health care organizations and rules.

Include the following aspects in the assignment:

Ø  Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA ) standards

Ø  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA)

Ø  Affordable Care Act (ACA- do NOT refer to it Obamacare)

Ø  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Ø  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Ø  Briefly summarize each

Ø  Include the URL (internet address) for each (example: CMS:  https://www.cms.gov/)

View your assignment rubric.

Would you recommend The keto or Zone Diet ( high protein/ and or fat, low carb, low kcal) to an athletic friend? Why or why not?

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1) Discuss at least 6 health benefits of physical activity…( don’t forget to think about the role exercise plays in chronic disease prevention, and how, as well… think back over the quarter, too. In terms of what we have learned in this regard)?

2) Would you recommend The keto or Zone Diet ( high protein/ and or fat, low carb, low kcal) to an athletic friend? Why or why not?

3) Describe the optimal diets for an athlete. Look at nutrient and fluid needs.

4) How would the diet differ for a power lifter versus a marathon runner?

5) Compare and contrast anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Include signs, symptoms and health consequences of each. How are these best treated?

6) Give some examples of additives, and discuss some pros and cons of adding additives to foods?

What are some strategies that the consumer and industry each can utilize to prevent food spoilage and food poisoning?

Consumer:

Industry:

7)Discuss some steps you could take, and/or are already taking to help reduce both global and local malnutrition/ hunger/ food shortages issues etc…..

8) Create a menu for a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, that is heart health, ra

Cost and Healthcare

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ach week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.

Medicare and Medicaid

U.S. health care infrastructure is complicated. The main reason for its complexity is that the U.S. system is fragmented. Some nations manage health care through their governments, some rely on the private market with government subsidies, and some mix government-run care for low-income residents with a private system. The United States utilizes all three of these. A further complication is that treatment of patients and payment for treatment are managed by different groups of institutions. Despite high costs, the American health system’s performance is poor, a great source of concern. Arguably, it might be acceptable to have the highest health care costs in the world if they provided the best outcomes in the world, but they do not, although in many areas we do pretty well

Watch the following CNN video: Obama Pokes Fun at ‘Don’t Touch My Medicare’ People

Explore the impact of Medicare on American Health

Include the following aspects in the discussion:

  • Summarize the major points in the Medicare analysis
  • Discuss the differences between Medicare and Medicaid

View your discussion rubric.

0000W2 Discussion 2

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.

Cost and Healthcare

In a recent election, on a national debate stage, a political candidate declared that “no American has ever died for lack of health care”. It is true that hospitals are required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law to stabilize and treat all patients, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. It is an unfunded mandate with hospital emergency rooms bearing the entire burden of the cost. Outside the boundaries of this act, un/underinsured patients surely do die for a lack of health care.

Have you or anyone you know been in this situation? How would someone feel if they were in a position where they could not afford treatment?  In the movie, “John Q”, John Quincy Archibald’s son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael’s only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John’s insurance won’t cover his son’s transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes extreme measures to save his son. While a compelling film, it is certainly from one point of view and sensationalized. Health care professionals must always be tasked with seeing all points of view with objectivity.

Question the impact of being uninsured.

Include the following aspects in the discussion:

  • Think of a time when you or someone you know did not seek medical care due to cost
  • What was the result?
  • Discuss if you would support paying more in taxes to have a national insurance program that covered every citizen

View your discussion rubric.

managed care, the initiatives implemented by private insurers to transform healthcare, and the various roles nurses play to improve quality patient outcomes tied to healthcare reimbursement.

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Discuss managed care, the initiatives implemented by private insurers to transform healthcare, and the various roles nurses play to improve quality patient outcomes tied to healthcare reimbursement. What are some strategies nurses can use to advocate for healthcare consumers and reduce the increasing cost of healthcare?

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

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Learning Materials

Assigned Website/readings:

  • Bugelli, T. & Crowther, T.R. (2008).  Motivational interviewing and the older population in psychiatry. Psychiatric Bulletin, 32, 23-25. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.106.010405

Center for Disease Control. (2017, January 31). Healthy aging- Depression is not a normal part of growing older. Healthy Aging. Retrieved from  https://www.cdc.gov/aging/mentalhealth/depression.htm

Hall, R. C. W., Hall, R. C. W., & Chapman, M. J. (2003). Identifying geriatric patients at risk for suicide and depression. Clinical Geriatrics, 11(10), 26-44.

Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.

Assignment:

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

Demographics, lifetime education, and career/employment

Two most significant (positive) times in their lives

What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?

Two personal strengths

Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills

Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now

Three (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?

Support the client in taking the Geriatric Depression Scale.pdf

Support the client in taking the Fulmer SPICES Assessment.pdf

Perform a Mini-Mental State Exam.pdf and Patient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf (attach here)

Perform a Hall, Hall, and Chapman Article.pdf

Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient stress questionnaire, and the mini-mental status exam

Discuss your older adult’s level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?

Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.

Create a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with two nursing interventions each.

The assignment should be written in an APA-formatted essay. The essay should be at least 1500 words in length and include at least two scholarly sources other than provided materials.

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Healthcare Organization in the United States

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Healthcare Organization in the United States

Writing Assignment 5: (55 points)

o   Judging by the amount of media coverage (and not by physical appearances), Americans are keenly interested in preserving health, preventing disease, and extending healthy life spans. The barrage of information on how to accomplish these ends, however, can be conflicting and contradictory: Do not ingest too much caffeine because of the risk of breast cancer vs. caffeine’s beneficial health effects (in some teas, for example). The debate rages on: low fat vs. nonfat; high-carb vs. low-carb diets; salt vs. low or no salt; alcohol vs. no alcohol; low fat vs. nonfat milk; ad infinitum.

o   Compose a paper answering the following questions and applying biblical Scripture relating to preserving health and preventing disease to extend healthy life spans.

·         Identify and present an array of conflicting information on nutrition and physical activity.

·         How can the average consumer begin to know what to do with all this conflicting information?

·         Who controls the advertising and marketing of food additives, supplements, vitamins, other nutritional aids and tobacco? (See www.fda.gov.)

·         What additional controls, if any, should be placed on advertising the beneficial effects of foods, vitamins, dietary and other supplements? Cigarettes? Alcohol? On the control of exercise equipment or devices (ab crunchers, triple chin thumpers, etc.)?

·         How can/should vulnerable populations (e.g., the elderly) be protected from food and other “health” products that have no beneficial effects and may, in fact, be harmful to them?

·         Should a scientific clearinghouse be established to sort out the conflicting information on nutrition and physical activity that derives from scientific inquiry?

o   Requirements: Paper must be a minimum of 500 words; APA format.

Writing Assignment 6: (55 points)

o Compose a paper answering the following questions and include Christian ethical perspective and biblical support.

·         What are some of the challenges to satisfactorily measuring the quality of care a patient receives?

·         In what ways does the focus on TQM/CQI differ from the quality assessment?

·         What are some of the key data sources used to measure quality of care? What are some of the strengths and limitations of each?

·         What federal initiatives over the last three decades have focused on quality of care (regulating quality, supporting research into quality, or setting standards for quality of care, for example?

·         How important is patient satisfaction in measuring the quality of care?

·         HEDIS has been described by some as a report card on the quality of care provided my managed care organizations. What is some strength of HEDIS as a measure of quality of care? Limitations?

·         To what extent is the quality of care currently being regulated? By whom? In your view, is more or less regulation of the quality of care needed? Why?

o Requirements: Paper must be a minimum of 500 words; APA format.

how does the 2010 healthcare reforms affect individuals, businesses, public programs such as Medicaid?

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Writing Assignment 3

o Using online research and the journal articles from your individual assignment, compose

a paper, answering the following questions:

· In brief summary, how does the 2010 healthcare reforms affect individuals, businesses, public programs such as Medicaid?

· What is the projected cost of these changes?

· What arguments did the supporters of these laws use to gain passage?

· What arguments did those who opposed the passage use?

· What interests (individual, corporate, partisan) seem to be at work on each side?

· Using a Christian ethic, what arguments can be made in support of these laws?

· Identify a biblical source which supports your arguments.

· Using a Christian ethic, what arguments can be made against these laws? Identify a biblical source which supports your arguments.

o Requirements: Paper must be a minimum of 500 words; APA format.

Writing Assignment 4: (55 points)

o Historically, the U.S. Health Services system has not been particularly receptive to “nontraditional” providers of health services such as chiropractors, naturopaths, herbalists, acupuncturists, indigenous healers, and others. In recent years, though, such providers are beginning to get a foot in the door of the conventional system, in some cases even being included in some health insurance benefit packages. CAM providers have become significant enough group to merit their own Institute within the National Institutes of Health at http://www.nih.gov/.

o Compose an essay answering the following questions and applying biblical Scripture relating to the various types of healing.

· What kinds of providers are included in the category of CAM?

· Why has the conventional U.S. health services system been reluctant to include

· CAM providers?

· What are the benefits and risks attributed to the use of CAM providers?

· What role(s) should CAM providers play in the U.S. health services system?

· Debate the role of CAM providers in the U.S. system.

o Requirements: Essay must be a minimum of 500 words; APA form

It is critical to synthesize all of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of nursing into an integrated whole that moves nurses from task completers to an overall demonstration of

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Discussion Question:

It is critical to synthesize all of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of nursing into an integrated whole that moves nurses from task completers to an overall demonstration of compassion and caring.

Thinking of nursing first as a job of caring and making a difference, as well as the work of giving medications on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces, reminds us of the synthesized whole of nursing work.

Write a reflection about this thought. Incorporate elements from this module’s objectives, as well as what you have learned in this course about leadership. You may include personal experiences and professional opinions if you wish.

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.