HealthCare Economic Perspective

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As you learned in Week 1, health care spending is growing faster than overall growth in the economy (as measured by GDP) and by 2026 is expected to consume 20% of GDP. In Week 2, the article by Hartman (et. al.) stated “the trade-offs required to finance health care spending have become increasingly challenging for both private and public payers.” Given what you have learned from the course material in Week 1 and 2, discuss these trade-offs and how to evaluate them from an economic perspective. Specifically, do the following:

  • From an economic perspective, explain why health care spending cannot grow greater than overall growth in the economy for an extended period of time without adverse consequences.
    • Identify what economic constraints overall and in the healthcare industry will occur if this happens.
  • Identify TWO Economic concepts that can be used to evaluate the trade-off between health care and other economic goods and services. In doing this:
    • Define the economic concept completely
    • Apply the economic concept to the current issue of rising health care spending and trade-offs
  • Evaluate the unique characteristics in health care that complicate this analysis.

This briefing report should be at least four double-spaced pages, include a reference page, and cover page. In writing, your report should rely largely on reference material in the course readings and summary slides in Week 1 and Week 2.

Technical College Data Collections in Healthcare

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Prepare a 350- to 700-word paper describing the types of data collected by hospitals, payers, governments, and practices. Within your description, include the intentions for collecting the data. Your paper should:

  • Focus on clinical, administrative, and reporting data from each of the different facilities listed above.
  • Describe how the various data types are used by the facilities.

Climate Change Impacts Essay

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In this course, you will write a persuasive essay on a topic that interests you. Each week, you will be introduced to a specific component of the final persuasive essay. This 5-part, step-by-step approach will guide you through the essay writing process using a structured method. In this first assignment, you will select a topic and research question, begin your research, and write a thesis statement. Follow the steps below to complete this assignment.

1. Review the essay topics and research questions below and select one as the focus of your persuasive essay. Keep in mind the goal of this paper is to create an argument that will persuade someone to adopt your perspective or point of view on the issue.

  • Climate Change: What argument might you make about climate change? What are 3 ways to support this argument?

Casual Loop Diagram for COVID 19 Prevention

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Create a causal loop diagram for a health issue that you would like to address, using systems thinking. Addressing the issue means that you have a goal to prevent or promote a health behavior or health condition. Therefore, you have to think about possible proximal and distal determinants and systems that could be assets and hindrances to your goal.

Health and Safety of School Community from COVID 19 Pandemic

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For this assignment, you are to assume the role of a Public Health Officer within a state/territory Health Department, undertake appropriate contact tracing and exposure assessments for a notified COVID-19 positive case in a local school. You are expected to source relevant websites and/or publications to support responses for all questions, with correctly formatted referencing.

This assignment comprises two parts. In Part A you will answer questions that provide background information on the topic and discuss the role of epidemiology in disease outbreaks and surveillance. Part A is to be written academically as answers to the questions asked, supported by evidence.

Part B is a brief report. It is to be written in layman’s terms as a report to a school community.

Answer both Part A and Part B. Refer to the next two pages for further detail.

Nursing Organizations Strengths and Weaknesses SWOT Analysis Matrix

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To prepare:

  • Review the Jasper Gardens Nursing Home case study in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Analyze strengths of the organization. Consider the following questions:
    • What does this organization do particularly well? Does it have a specific and recognized niche?
    • What resources does the organization have that might set it apart from its competition or position it for future growth?
    • What does the market perceive as strengths of the organization?
    • What financial considerations are relevant to its strengths?
  • Analyze weaknesses of the organization. Consider the following questions:
    • What needs improvement within the organization?
    • What resource deficits might impact this organization?
    • What does the market perceive as weaknesses of the organization?
    • What financial considerations are relevant to weaknesses?
  • Analyze opportunities of the organization. Consider the following questions:
    • With strengths and weaknesses in mind, what opportunities are available to this organization?
    • Are there current trends that might translate into opportunities?
  • Analyze threats to the organization. Consider the following questions:
    • What competitive threats exist for the organization?
    • Do insufficient or outdated resources hamper the organization?
    • Are there any current trends that might translate into threats?
    • Do any market, regulatory, and/or legal issues present threats?

Note: Your Assignment should show effective application of triangulation of content and resources in your conclusion and recommendations.

The Assignment

Using the SWOT Analysis Template provided in this week’s Learning Resources, complete a 1-page SWOT analysis matrix. The matrix should include a bulleted list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for Jasper Gardens Nursing Home. Synthesize the information you have gathered from your analysis so that each bullet point clearly represents the most significant considerations within each category. While this is a 1-page document that might appear to be simple, each point must be the result of deep and critical thinking.

Note: Your Assignment must be written in standard edited English. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for your citations, title page, and reference page. Your matrix, however, does not need to follow APA formatting. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. See the Week 3 Assignment Rubric for additional requirements related to research and scholarly writing.

Effect of Osteoporosis Medications on Fracture Healing Discussion

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Investigate osteoporosis and the patent medications that are prescribed for it. Discuss the evidence for and against osteoporosis medications.

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice Discussion

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After completing the Critical Thinking Inventory on pages 341-345, share what you found out about your own critical thinking skills that relate to “confidence”, “intuition”, “discrimination” and “predicting”. Use examples from your nursing practice or experience to discuss how you may be able to improve your critical thinking.

”. Use examples from your nursing practice or experience to discuss how you may be able to improve your critical thinking.

For example, share how you currently consider specific assessment data and how you may be able to improve the critical thinking process to improve patient outcomes and quality of care. Example:

  • Mr. Jones appears fine, his vital signs are stable, heart rate is slightly irregular, but he calls the nurse frequently to ask questions that do not relate to his diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. He seems very “needy.”
  • Reflect on the patient, his previous history of heart problems, considering that his anxiety level may be high due to possible complications from the atrial fibrillation (stroke) or other issues.
  • Create an action plan to talk with him about his condition, his previous experiences with his health care, and answer all questions that he may have.

Please support your initial discussion and opinions with at least two citations from the assigned readings, or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

See the Nursing Syllabus Standards & Policies Document for Discussion Participation Guidelines & Grading Criteria.

Opportunity Cost In Health Care Discussion

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Respond to the question assigned to you. Include the question at the beginning of your post. Then respond to the initial post of two other students. Ask probing questions. Always include citations and references in correct APA format. Ensure you reply to any follow-up questions by the professor.

What is the opportunity cost? Why is it important to health care economics?

You must start a thread before you can read and reply to other threads

Patient Assessment in Nursing Practice Discussion

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Assessment of the patient is critical to providing safe, high quality nursing care. Yet, often we have so many procedures to perform, medications to administer and other tasks to complete that we do not stop to critically assess the patient. Consider the following in your discussion:

  • What assessment processes do you use in your daily nursing practice?
  • Are the processes more of a systems checklist or do they truly involve the synthesis of information that involves reflection and critical thinking?
  • How can you reconsider personal habits and cognitive processes and make sure to include critical thinking in the assessment process?
  • lease support your initial discussion and opinions with at least two citations from the assigned readings, or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.