Essential Knowledge Areas and Skills

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In order to effectively manage co-occurring treatment services, it is important to be knowledgeable about addiction and mental illness. Describe three (3) essential knowledge areas and three (3) essential skill areas that are needed by staff and clinical supervisors for co-occurring treatment services. What professional credentials would be necessary for an employee and clinical supervisor who works in co-occurring treatment?

The Opioid Crisis in Chicago

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To understand the opioid crisis in Anytown, let’s examine the opioid crisis in another town.

In your analysis:

  1. Select a city (preferably the one in which you reside or one nearby) and describe the state of the opioid crisis there. Which specific populations are vulnerable to the crisis, and how and why has the crisis impacted them?
  2. Describe the research studies available on the opioid crisis in the city you chose: types, design, strengths, and weaknesses.
  3. What information can you apply to Anytown and why? How can another city provide guidance?

The analysis should be 3–4 pages, excluding title and references pages. Use current APA formatting to style your paper and to cite your sources. Integrate a minimum of three scholarly sources into the paragraphs of your paper. Use internal citations pointing to evidence in the literature and supporting your ideas. You will need to include a reference page.

See the rubric for specific grading criteria.

Due: Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time)
Points: 100 points

Conditions of Coverage and Participation Related to Hospitals in Illinois

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Task 2

For this task, you will write a paper reflecting on how social determinants of health affect your ‘volunteer patient’ from task 1 . Most patients are ‘healthy’ but we all have actual or potential effects (positive or negative) from the Social Determinants

  1. Before beginning, review these tips & resources and register for the cohorts:
    1. Review task directions and all attachments through link in the assessment tab of your COS
    2. Become very familiar with the Healthy People 2020 Social Determinants of Health so you can apply that information to your paper. Note: the author of the Healthy People 2020 initiative is the Office of Disease Prevention & Health Promotion (ODPHP)
    3. Task 2 Rubric Explained
    4. Demystifying XYP2 Task 2
    5. XYP2 Task 2 live OR asynchronous (recorded) cohort to assist you with your successful task completion and opportunity to apply rubric requirements to case scenarios. Register for live or recorded cohorts via the Explore Cohort Offerings tab under the Study Plan (on the left in your COS).
    6. Task 2 Bootcamp cohorts student-driven and offered live only, these cohorts focus group discussion onselected rubric sections
    7. Set up your paper with headings and subheadings from the rubric. Here is a sample template you may find helpful Your sources must be correctly APA formatted and match your in-text citations.
    8. Run your paper through spell and grammar check before submitting.
  2. Here is an informational article that discusses current aspects of the SDOH

This article will help you to understand the relevance of social determinants and their significance in the lives of our patients and ourselves!

7003.1.1 : Comprehensive Assessment of Individuals and Populations

The graduate develops a comprehensive assessment approach for the assessment of individuals and populations.

7003.1.2 : Health Maintenance and Risk Reduction Assessment for Individuals and Populations

The graduate develops strategies for assessment of health maintenance and risk reduction activities of individuals and populations.

7003.1.3 : Outcome Goals and Interventions for Individuals and Populations Based on Assessment Findings

The graduate develops outcome goals for individuals and selected populations based on assessment findings.

7003.1.4 : Strategies of Maintaining Physical and Functional Health

The graduate identifies integrative strategies for promoting physical and functional health, and preventing disease for individuals and selected populations.

COVID 19 Pandemic Infectious Disease Research

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This week, you will conduct an outbreak investigation of a disease.

You are an epidemiologist for your local health department, and you are conducting an outbreak investigation of the disease you chose for this week’s discussion.

  • In your role as a health department official, you are interviewing a fictitious patient who has/had this disease. Using research you gathered when completing your discussion assignment, complete this questionnaire with this fictitious patient’s information to determine clues to the outbreak.
  • Write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you present a hypothesis on how this outbreak could have been prevented. What prevention techniques have you learned about in the course materials and your discussions with your classmates that could have averted this outbreak?

Your paper must be 3–4 pages in length (including the questionnaire). Include evidence or information from at least two credible external sources and follow APA style for formatting and citation.

Your textbook and supplemental reading material may be used as a reference. The APA format for your text is as follows:
Nelson, K. E. (2014). Infectious disease epidemiology (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Principles of epidemiology in public health practice: Self-study course (3rd ed.). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Merit Based Incentive Payment System

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This journal covers quality, each entry at least 500 words– discussing each topic- please do not limit your entry to the questions let them spur you to a complete discussion of the topic.

Week 2

Health Plan Report Card– NCQA website

This week navigate to the Health Plan report cards– find health plans that are associated with you home state/town. Compare the scores for several of the plans that serve your selected town/region.  This week your entry should discuss the star rating process- defining the categories , discussing the use of this information by consumers and employers

Week 3

Source:  https://qpp.cms.gov/ — this week look at the payment models for physicians, What is “MACRA” and how does it improve guality?   What quality metrics are measured in MIPS- merit based incentive program?

Week 4

Summarize your finding regarding quality— include the quality requirements of the providers (be it physicians or hospitals) and the quality requirements for Health Plans.  How do these play together in the same environment protecting the patient and ensuring the patient gets the right care, right provider at the right time.?

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Whole Genome Sequencing Article

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Please write a summary about (3 pages) of the attached article in a word file.

 

Role of Technology in Improving Long Term Care

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Long Term Care

Write an introductory paragraph that discusses the elements from your outline that will be covered in your course project paper. Be sure to use correct grammar and spelling. In your introductory paragraph:

  • Identify the topic you have selected.
  • Discuss why the topic you have selected is important to you and to the industry.
  • Explain what will be discussed in your paper.
  • Create a reference list, following APA formatting, with at least three different resources related to your selected topic, that you will use when writing your course project paper.

Consultant Intervention to Increased Breastfeeding Rate

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Can you write this paper following/adjusting this PICOT statement.

In hospitalized postpartum mothers, does a consult with the lactation nurse increase the rates of breastfeeding, compared to mothers who breastfeed but did not consult with a lactation nurse.

 

P- Hospitalized postpartum mothers

I- Lactation nurse consult with postpartum mothers

C- No lactation nurse consult

O- Increased rates of breastfeeding

T- 4-8 weeks

Genetically Heart Disease Risk Modified Organism

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Complete the two attached worksheets for my fitness course

THERE CAN BE NO PLAGIARISM AT ALL

Make sure that you answer every short question on the worksheet

Terrorist Attack Experience

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Discussion: Unit 4, Due Wednesday by 11:59 pm CT

  • Describe any community public emergency you may have experienced and describe how you were notified and dealt with the event.
  • If you have not personally experienced a public emergency, research and find an article to share with the class that addresses a public emergency in which public notifications were made.
  • Describe how the public was informed of the crisis. (Example could be the “Bird Flu”, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, terrorist attack, etc.)

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 4, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Please respond to a minimum of two peers. Peer replies should be a minimum of 100 words and contribute to the academic discussion. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. Include in your response:

  • What points do you agree with?
  • What points do you disagree