Category: Anthropolgy

Assessing and Treating Pediatric Patients with Mood Disorders

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When pediatric patients present with mood disorders, the process of assessing, diagnosing, and treating them can be quite complex. Children not only present with different signs and symptoms than adult patients with the same disorders, they also metabolize medications much differently. Yet, there may be times when the same psychopharmacologic treatments may be used in both pediatric and adult cases with major depressive disorders. As a result, psychiatric nurse practitioners must exercise caution when prescribing psychotropic medications to these patients. For this Assignment, as you examine the patient case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat pediatric patients presenting with mood disorders.

 

Clinically relevant and patient-specific resources

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Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.
Decision #3 (1 page)

Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Professional development plan

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In a Microsoft Word document of 4-5 pages formatted in APA style, develop a strategic plan to aid your transition into the role of a professional nurse. In your paper, address each of the following criteria:

Discuss factors influencing your decision to obtain a BSN degree.
Discuss how the role of the baccalaureate differs from your current role.
Describe new opportunities that may be available after degree completion.
Examine one of the two models of socialization discussed in your readings and place yourself in one of the stages.
Provide your rationale for that placement.
If none of the models or stages fits your experience, create your own model (or stage).
Identify two professional short-term goals.
Identify two professional long-term goals.
Expound upon the challenges and barriers you face in pursuit of your short- and long-term goals.
Identify mentors and support systems that aid you in overcoming challenges and barriers necessary to achieve goals.

 

Southwest Airlines

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Research the Southwest Airline Company and write a two page paper. Use at least two (2) scholarly sources with in-text citations supporting your essay. Don’t forget to include a cover page, introduction, body, and conclusion for your essay. Review the company’s information from its website and search for information regarding the below.

Respond to the following in an essay format:

(1)From your assessment of Southwest Airlines, identify and describe in detail at least one of Porter’s generic competitive strategies Southwest has been using.
(2)Assess Southwest’s opportunities and threats.
(3)Describe a plan for implementing at least one opportunity strategy.
(4)Explain two current threats that potentially could threaten Southwest’s business operations.

Now that you’ve identified one of Porter’s competitive strategies and assessed Southwest’s opportunities and threats, describe at least one recommendation for Southwest to be more competitive in a global market.

 

Independently licensed substance abuse

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Scenario Three: Stephanie is an independently licensed substance abuse counselor who has decided to start a private practice as she transitions from public to private practice. As she makes her plans, there are many ethical issues she must consider. While these issues are of concern to all counselors, she must consider how they specifically impact a counselor in private practice.

Question One: How can she ethically handle limited resources, deal with cost containment issues, respond to discrimination, and promote community change?

Question Two: As a service provider, with what ethical issues and practices related to state insurance laws and managed care must she be familiar?

Question Three: What are the ethical obligations and limitations faced by a counselor who serves clients who have been the victim of discrimination, injustice, poverty, or lack of access to behavioral health services? What best practice community-based interventions could she refer her clients to?

Question Four: Some states offer independent substance abuse counseling licensure. Discuss the licenses offered in your state and if independent licensure is an option. What is the difference between independent licensure and dependent licensure?

Quality trainings or continuing education webinars

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Amari is an independent substance abuse counselor in her state. Her husband is in the military and they travel often. Amari hopes to strictly provide distance counseling in her private practice. She has never provided distance counseling nor does she know of anyone who does it. . Utilize the HIPAA resource located in the topic material to support your response.

Question One: What should Amari consider in regard to distance counseling?
Section Five: Will is a substance abuse counselor who is also in recovery himself. He regularly attends AA for his own recovery. He has recently accepted a position in a methadone clinic where they use a combination of counseling approaches including 12-step facilitation.

Question Two: What is the 12-step facilitation counseling approach and how can a recovering substance abuse counselor balance professional boundary, self-disclosure, 12 Step anonymity and professional confidentiality?

Question Three: Where can Will find quality trainings or continuing education webinars (or the like) for medication-assisted treatment (MAT)?

Change management project

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The board of directors at AGC needs a status update on your change management project. Shawn asks you to write an executive report for John and the board of directors about the change management process and the progress being made toward resolving the global human capital management problems at AGC. This report will be shared at an upcoming investor meeting. Because the future success of AGC depends on achieving its human capital management goals, the board of directors wants to ensure that investors understand that it has changed its strategy to align human capital goals with its organizational goals.

Review the AGC scenario for this course and prepare a 750–1000 word executive report that describes the steps in your change management plan, including the following:

Diagnosis: A summary of AGC’s problems, how they were diagnosed, and your conclusions regarding the root causes.
Intervention: A description of human capital management strategies that you recommended to create change at AGC and how they were implemented.
Evaluation: How did you measure the effectiveness of your change management plan? What were the effects on the employees and the organization’s market performance?

 

The culture of the deaf

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The culture of the deaf and hard of hearing is often overlooked because it is characterized as a nonethnic culture. What cultural characteristics do deaf people have in common with other cultural groups? If your client is both deaf and identifies with another cultural group as well, how does this affect your ability to provide quality cultural care?

Post your initial response and Respond to one student. Both responses should be a minimum of 150 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2 references are required (other than your text) for both posts.