Presidential Agendas

Develop an action plan with strategies to successfully complete FlexPath course work

What’s your plan? The beginning of a degree program is full of excitement about new beginnings as well as future possibilities. Completing this assessment will help you channel that excitement and vision of possibilities into a concrete plan of action. Creating an action plan is a great way to help clarify your goals and plans and to begin transforming your aspirations into reality.

Although the preparation and directions listed below are specific to this assessment, the process they lead you through is similar to what you will do in every FlexPath academic course.

PREPARATION

To prepare for this assessment:

• Review the FlexPath Action Plan Scoring Guide (located just below the Directions) to see the criteria by which this assessment will be evaluated.
• Review the FlexPath Action Plan template linked in the Resources (located in the above section).
• Estimate the time it will take you to complete your plan and then set your target date.
  • Remember that you should plan to submit the assessment no later than the Tuesday prior to the date your first academic course starts.
  • Give yourself plenty of time to thoughtfully consider the questions it poses and summarize your responses. Although you will submit the action plan for evaluation in this practice course, remember that you are creating the plan to use as you begin your first academic course. The more you put into it, the more useful it will be.

DIRECTIONS

Step 1: Complete the Assessment.

• Open the FlexPath Action Plan template, linked in the Resources section.
• Use the template to format your assessment. Type your responses within the spaces provided in the template.
• Save your work as a Word document using the file naming conventions listed in the Assessments Attempt tab.

Step 2: Review your work.

• Review your work before submitting the plan. Do you see anything you want to change or add? Is the grammar and spelling correct? Revise the plan until you are satisfied with it and review the FlexPath Action Plan Scoring Guide again to ensure you have met the criteria.

Step 3: Submit your assessment.

Attach your Word document to this assessment and submit it. To do that, complete the following:

• Click the Submit Assessment button located at the bottom of this page.
• Click on Submit Assessment (Attempt 1).
• In the assessment area, click Browse My Computer to locate and attach your document to this assessment.
• Click Submit.

Step 4: Review your feedback.

Your facilitator will evaluate your plan according to the scoring guide and return it within two business days for you to review. You will see an alert on your Campus dashboard when your assessment has been reviewed by the facilitator. To see the facilitator feedback, complete the following:

• Click on the Assessment 1 tab.
• Click on the Attempt tab to view your feedback.

Step 5: Complete this course.

If you have demonstrated sufficient performance, select Complete This Course in the left navigation menu of the courseroom. Click the blue Complete This Course to complete this practice course. This button will activate upon completing the assessment and checking your feedback.

Congratulations, and welcome to FlexPath!

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Format: Use the FlexPath Action Plan template to format your assessment. Type your entries using double-spaced paragraphs in Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• Written communication: Communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Writing style: Expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. Because you are talking about yourself in this assessment, you may write in the first person.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING WORD LIMIT REQUIREMENTS:

Please note that each and every assignment has its own word limit.

 

A primary reason to be concerned about identifying the precise statistical software used in studies is that different software packages can produce varying results, owing to differences in the estimation methods and algorithms used to perform specific statistical analysis. (Dembe et al, 2011). Public health practice relies on the peer-reviewed public health literature for current research and findings that support an evidence basis for effective practice. Studies have shown that statistical literacy and knowledge are needed for understanding published research. The rapid growth and widespread availability in computing power and user-friendly statistical software packages in recent decades have led to the use of more advanced statistical methods and analyses being used and reported in the health literature. The most common statistical software package cited as used by most study authors was the SAS Software System.

Most public health studies show that descriptive statistics were reported in a tabular or graphical format in more than 95% of the articles. Somewhat surprisingly, when statistical techniques were used, classical statistical modeling techniques were infrequently used, with logistic regression as the most commonly reported type of model applied in the articles(Hayat et al, 2017). When statistical techniques were used, the vast majority of statistical methods seen in sample studies were classical statistical techniques commonly taught in a first or second course in introductory and intermediate statistics. Classical statistics is based on normal theory and rooted in the general linear model (GLM), a framework that includes the three t-tests, linear regression, and ANOVA. The GLM paradigm assumes independence between observations. When this assumption is violated, as is the case with repeated measures data, more advanced statistical techniques are needed to account for the data dependencies that arise. Advanced statistical modeling techniques, including mixed and marginal models, are such methods. However, these techniques, as well as complex statistical modeling techniques such as structural equation modeling and factor analysis, were rarely applied and reported in public health studies (Hayat et al, 2017).

 

Reference

Dembe, A. E., Partridge, J. S., & Geist, L. C. (2011). Statistical software applications used in health services research: analysis of published studies in the U.S. BMC health services research. 11. pp 252. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-252

Hayat, M. J., Powell, A., Johnson, T., & Cadwell, B. L. (2017). Statistical methods used in the public health literature and implications for the training of public health professionals. PloS one. 12(6). e0179032. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179032

Respond to the bold paragraph ABOVE by using one of the option below… in APA format with At least two references and a minimum of 200 words….. .(The List of References should not be older than 2016 and should not be included in the word count.)

 

 

 

• Ask a probing question.
• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
• Offer and support an opinion.

 

 

 

• Validate an idea with your own experience.
• Make a suggestion.
• Expand on your colleague’s posting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

It is important that you cover all the topics identified in the assignment. Covering the topic does not mean mentioning the topic BUT presenting an explanation from the context of ethics and the readings for this class

 

To get maximum points you need to follow the requirements listed for this assignments 1) look at the word/page limits 2) review and follow APA rules 3) create subheadings to identify the key sections you are presenting and 4) Free from typographical and sentence construction errors.

REMEMBER IN APA FORMAT JOURNAL TITLES AND VOLUME NUMBERS ARE ITALICIZED.

Facilitation Skills and Counseling Techniques

For the following client dialogue summary please generate counselor responses:

Client, “Some people say that I only like him for his money. Hahaha, well… maybe that’s true, but it makes me sad that they would think that. I don’t want to be seen that way. Sure I love going out on his yacht and I like it when he spends money on me, but it’s fun. I don’t love him and we’re just having fun now, but I think that he wants to get married. I grew up thinking it was really important to find someone you love and settle down with them, but I’m having fun. Maybe I will marry him. I don’t know. Is my time up? I don’t want to be here. Everyone has a therapist though and it’s fun to say I have one too. I guess you’re helping, but really it’s just for show. I like flashy things and you’re one of the flashy things I have that my boyfriend pays for.”

1. Reflection of Meaning (“You value_____________ . “OR “________________ gives you purpose.” or “_______________ is meaningful to you.”)

2. Confrontation – Values and Behavior (“You value ____________, but you act _______________.”)

3. Confrontation – Verbal and Verbal (“I’m hearing you say ____________________, but it sound like you are also saying ______________________.”)

4. Give the client feedback. Remember to ask first, be specific, focus on a strength, and then check in with them.

Example: “Would you mind if I gave you some feedback? When you _____________________ I feel ___________________ and it would be helpful to ____________________ instead. How did you receive that?”

 Safety and Technology

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. Focus on the following questions:

• Explain and discuss the impact that public reporting of health care performance improvement data has on health care quality and safety and whether health care organizations should or should not voluntarily report those data.
• What challenges do health care organizations face in making performance data publicly available?

The use of at least 2 scholarly references to support your argument is expected in APA style.