REVISED Testimonies before Congress (10%)

 

DUE: April 21 at 4:00pm

 

You are knowledgeable and passionate about a particular health policy related issue. You receive a phone call from a health legislative aide from your U.S. Senator’s office and he/she asks you to prepare and deliver testimony at an upcoming Congressional health committee hearing on a topic related to this issue.

For your written testimony, pick a health policy issue related to ONE of the below topics:

YOU MAY DO THIS ASSIGNMENT ON THE SAME TOPIC AS YOUR FINAL PAPER IF YOU WISH.

Health Insurance Coverage, the Uninsured and Uncompensated Care

Aging and Chronic Care

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Quality Improvement and Evidence-based Medicine

Health Professions Education and Supply

Medicaid and SCHIP

Long-Term Care

Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations (racial/ethnic minorities, rural/inner city residents, people with disabilities, immigrants, other)

Healthcare Spending and Cost Containment

Viability of the Healthcare ‘Safety Net’ Delivery System

Public Health

Patient Safety, Medical Injury and Malpractice

Medicare

Death, Dying and End-of-Life

Child and Adolescent Health

Health Information Technology and Privacy

Mental Health/Substance Abuse

Research your chosen health policy issue, and prepare a 3-page, double spaced written testimony.

Pretend your written testimony is being delivered to a Congressional committee with health jurisdiction interested in your policy issue and considering legislation to address the issue. Be creative on how you approach your topic. For example, you may be proposing a new piece of legislation, arguing a new policy angle to existing policy, etc.

Your testimony should include: 1) a brief background/facts on the issue, and 2) your proposal and arguments (pro and con). AT LEAST ONE-HALF OF YOUR TESTIMONY TIME MUST BE SPENT ON YOUR POLICY PROPOSAL (not the problem).

 

The format for your testimony should resemble actual short Congressional testimonies. Here is an example to follow:

think of the ways in which you can make sense of the pandemic in terms of Global Organizations. It is a reflection paper. So reflect on one or more issues that this pandemic is having you reflect on. Make sure you have a thesis statement and highlight the concepts you are integrating with your responses. Provide evidence for your response.

_______________________________________________________

if you can draw globalization concepts from this book:

Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization. Issues, reflections, practices

by George Cheney, Lars Christensen, Theodore Zorn, Shiv Ganesh.

_______________________________________________________

Example:

Example of my thesis statement: The pandemic has left me think about a couple of concepts on globalization such as global reflexivity and social imagination (see Chapter 13). Global reflexivity helps me understand how the pandemic is a consequence of interdependence between nations, and social imagination helps me think through what we can become as a collective.

Given the above thesis, for global reflexivity, I would expand on how decisions taken locally and globally have led to the pandemic. Provide evidence. For social imagination, I would list a few steps taken by the government under pressure – giving laptops and free wifi to students in public schools for 60 days, allocation of relief fund, and free tests for corona virus (cite to support these points). These are measures toward providing education benefits, healthcare benefits, and support for the poor, which should be central to our society, regardless of pandemic. Hence, social imagination led me to think about what we can become as a society in terms of ensuring fundamental rights of citizens.

Hope the example above makes it clear what this reflection paper is about. At the end of each chapter we have covered, you will find snapshots of key concepts. Those concepts can guide you explain your reflections in terms of concepts. Having said that, if you find it difficult to connect your thoughts and experiences to concepts we have read, that is fine. It is possible that your reflection is something that cannot be explained by what we have covered in class. In that case try and explain what you think is going on in your language and offer your own conceptualization.

personal reflection journal, prompt 

Please read the above short interview with a medical ethicist at the University of Arizona and reflect upon the following questions in an essay about 500 words.

You should submit your essay in the personal reflection journal #6 folder on d2l by Thursday, Apr 16, 11:59 pm.

During the pandemic of Covid-19 we are all advised to stay home, which can have distressing effects on our emotional, physical and mental health. (1) How are you dealing with this situation? (2) What are your biggest challenges? (3) Are there new habits that you like and could imagine keeping on doing once the crisis is over? (4) What do you think are reasons for people to not exercise social distancing (except of those that do not have a choice, e.g. health professional)? (5) Do you have any suggestions how I could do things better with remote teaching? I highly appreciate your constructive feedback.

This reflection is by no means to control you! I simply care about how you are doing in this situation and how you can after all have a good learning experience.

Rasmussen Medical Center is building a long term care (LTC) facility (nursing home) that will be connected to the hospital. You have been invited to a planning meeting with the HIM Director who must plan for the patient record system in the new facility. The HIM Director has asked you to prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the differences between an acute care setting and a long term care setting. What are some of the first things you could do to be sure you understand how medical records might be managed differently in this type of facility? What are some of the obvious differences between a hospital and a long term care facility that will likely affect health information at this facility?

Your presentation should be a minimum of 8 slides (including a Title slide and References slide) and address the following:

1. Overview of an acute care facility versus a LTC facility.
2. Examples of services that are specific to a LTC facility.
3. Differences in chart documentation.
4. Differences in health care payers.
5. Overview of how medical records might be managed differently in LTC versus an acute care facility.
6. Include APA formatted citations for your references.

we need a report organize as the items written below from 1 to 6 and about 7 we need two different personal reaction to what we learn throw our research our topic will be about a person with down syndrome……..

Children with Special Needs

Special Report

Purpose and overview of assignment: Each student/group in the class will research an area of special needs of particular interest to him/her. This is your opportunity to spend time finding out about a topic of your choice – something you’ve been wanting to learn more about or investigate. It is also a wonderful way to share something you learned with your fellow students and to be an advocate. Your final paper will be submitted via Canvas.