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What is the name of the business?
What is the product(s) and/or service?
What do you like/dislike about it?
What drew you in?
What is their product and/or service?
Have you ever heard of this business before?
Based upon the site you found, would you be inclined to buy from them?
What is your rationale as to whether you would or would not buy from them?
examine competitive market models and competitive forces in health care economics. Prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and provider compensation are affected by the competitive forces found in health insurance and in the labor market. There is a direct relationship between insurance models, the labor market, and the financial performance of health care systems. You will write a paper about the economics of health care market models, health care delivery structures, provider compensation, and financial risk for health care systems.
Instructions
Write a 6–8-page paper in which you:
Analyze your state’s current competitive market model in health care.
Compare and contrast the market power of monopolistic and monopsony markets in health care.
Analyze the main competitive forces and the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which the competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO-managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.
Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your own state.
The U.S. is in the midst of one of the world’s most challenging pandemics. Few have been unaffected by this virus, professionally, socially, and economically. We have lost more Americans to this virus than some of our wars, even when added together. We are in an economic recession, facing a depression. Warding off mental health issues has been a challenge.
What has been our response to this crisis? Have we met the challenge the way any modern, experienced public health system should? How are other nations doing? Have we done as we have so many times before with H1N1, HIV, and Ebola to mitigate spread and damage by this Covid-19 threat?
Assess our situation. Review our systems, organizations, and ourselves. How did generations before you manage the war years? WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Mideast? How was earlier pandemics managed? The Great Depression? Some of these events went on for years. This virus has been here for only months and some seem unable to even wear a mask or avoid large gatherings. What if we had that attitude during WWII when rationing was in effect? What is our future? What have we done right? Where could we have done more or better? Where are our successes? Failures? What can we and should we be doing now? Earn points by posting or commenting on others at least three times, initiating your own post at least once
Developing Country (CHOOSE ONE): Afghanistan or Kazakhstan
Due date: follow the syllabus.
Broad question: Why did the events in Afghanistan in August 2021 (or in Kazakhstan in January 2022) unfold the way they did?
More details to ponder: Was it predetermined, who is to blame or to thank? What role has the financial aid play in the development of this country? How much, from where, in what form and on which conditions was this aid given? What do you think the people of Afghanistan (or Kazakhstan) want and how can they achieve that? Why or why not?
For Afghanistan, you can start here, but the article does not give a full history.
The DNP practice scholar has the skills, knowledge, experience, and ability to be a strong political advocate. Yet, despite this collective awareness, many nurses avoid becoming political engaged in health policy within the community and in some cases, within the organizations where they work.
This week, the focus was on understanding healthcare systems and the role of the DNP practice scholar as advocate for the patient, the community, and joining the national healthcare conversation. Reflect upon the development of your political competency and address the following:
1. Consider a time when you had the opportunity to become politically involved in an issue (at work or in your community). If you pursued the opportunity what were the results? If you did not, what were the reasons?
2. As you reflect on this week’s learning activities and your role as a practice scholar, discuss the area of your political competency that needs further development.
3. Review the Twitter feed, locate an interesting article or issue and share your thoughts on this issue with the class.
4. Compose a 140-character Tweet that shares your thoughts and opinions about the Tweet. Be mindful Twitter only allows 140 characters (be concise). Share this Tweet in the discussion.
Create a slide that summarizes your leadership style, traits, and practices.
Compare the personal leadership styles of your group members, including commonalities between group members’ strengths and weaknesses.
Explain why it is important for nursing professionals to be aware of their personal leadership style, traits, and practices.
Discuss what leadership traits and styles are necessary to be an effective communicator. Explain the importance of leaders adapting communication approaches when working interprofessionally (across ancillary departments, vendors, community members).
Discuss how nursing professionals can benefit from integrating the tenets of servant leadership to empower and influence others as they lead.
Discuss how leaders who practice servant leadership and have a strong understanding of their personal leadership traits can successfully lead others and navigate the unique challenges that are part of nursing and health care. Provide two examples that illustrate your main ideas.
You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.
The IRP you created in Week 2 was well received. In fact, the CEO reviewed it and was quite impressed. In reviewing the IRP, the CEO asked the IT manager why there is no formal Security Education, Training, and Awareness (SETA) program in place at the company. For this project, you are going to create a SETA strategy and present it to the CEO.
You will create a narrated PowerPoint presentation with at least 10 slides covering the following:
Describe the framework of a SETA program, including at least one image or figure.
Describe the benefits of implementing a SETA program and describe at least three negatives effects that could arise without a SETA program.
Describe the approach you would take for creating security education for the company, including any outside sources and costs.
Describe the approach you would take for creating security training for the company, including any outside sources and costs.
Describe the approach you would take for creating security awareness for the company to include at least three low costs components of it.
Create a prototype of one of the security awareness components you chose.
Why is Pyramus and Thisbe an essential component of the play? Which subplot, in particular, thematically resembles the Greek myth?
synthesize the thought processes you have used to be successful in this course so far.
No two troubleshooting operations will be exactly the same. Firearms vary by make, model, type, action-type, and degree of wear. Every user brings their own mistakes and maintenance habits to the table. It’s easy to see why seemingly similar malfunctions can have different causes. However, the mental process an expert applies to solve problems with a firearm must go through the same investigations and eliminate the same variables every time.
Summarize the troubleshooting process by focusing on the common elements. Be sure you include the first and last steps of any diagnostic you would perform for a customer.
Sharon is a starter on her high school volleyball team. She’s a strong server, regularly serving aces, so her coach usually puts her into the rotation right before the team needs to score a few points off some good serves. Sharon has always loved sports; she picks them up quickly, and it is easy for her to gain strength and aerobic capacity after working out in the right ways for just a few practices.
Even though she’s a starter, Sharon has always had trouble with digs; she just doesn’t react quickly enough to spikes from the other team. Her coach noticed this and told her to practice by bumping the ball up high on the gym wall and then returning it quickly to the wall again. Sharon did this for 20 min every practice, but she couldn’t figure out how it was going to help her respond to spikes that came in at different angles and faster speeds.
While Sharon worked on bumps and returns, the rest of the team did short sprints across the gym with periodic rests to improve their speed and endurance. About midway through the season, Sharon noticed that she felt winded after even short runs and dives toward the ball, and she felt as if she had less power in her legs. On her own, Sharon began doing interval training after practice. She would sprint a few times across the gym, recover for a few seconds, and then sprint again. Soon, she was able to run faster and take fewer rests, and she didn’t get nearly as winded during her games.
After a few weeks of doing her self-directed interval training every day, Sharon felt as if she wasn’t improving anymore. She seemed to have plateaued. Was she working too hard? Not hard enough? Sharon wasn’t sure what she should do next. As playoffs approached, Sharon was just plain worn out. Her team’s practices and rigorous game schedule combined with her own everyday workout had been grueling. Sharon wondered why that hadn’t been enough. Why, when they were now entering the most important part of the season and had a chance to make it past regionals, was Sharon not at her best physical condition of the entire season?
1. When Sharon began her own interval training to improve her speed and endurance, which principle did she implement?
2. There is no mention of the gradual cycling of specificity, intensity, and volume of training in this case study. Therefore, Sharon does not achieve her peak level of fitness by the end of the season, when every game counts. Which principle is Sharon’s coach apparently not implementing?
3. Sharon’s body adapts quickly to training. She shows great improvement after participating in a given program; she is a “responder.” This is an example of which principle?
4. Sharon goes all-out every practice and never gives her body a break. By the end of the season, she is fatigued and not in her best physical condition. This is an example of which principle?
5. Sharon’s coach did not understand this principle well enough to construct a good practice drill for reacting to spikes. Because a spiked ball will come in faster and at different angles than the ball Sharon is bumping to the wall, the drill Sharon was told to do will not improve her ability to respond to spikes. What principle does this reflect?
6. Make one suggestion that would help Sharon react to a spiked ball better.
7. Use table 9.2 to help you answer question “a.”
a. Sharon’s coach decided to implement a training program for the whole year. Sharon, an intermediate lifter, has a bench press 1-RM of 95 pounds and a squat 1-RM of 150 pounds. Identify the recommended values (%1RM and absolute weight) for strength development, muscle hypertrophy, muscular power, and muscular endurance for these two exercises using the tables below (fill in each blank cell).
Strength
Load
Volume
Frequency
Example: Bench Press: 50-60% 1RM; 47.5 – 57lb
Hypertrophy
Load
Volume
Frequency
Power
Load
Volume
Frequency
Endurance
Load
Volume
Frequency
b. List three other types of resistance training that the coach should incorporate and a suggestion of how to incorporate each to help the girls reach peak fitness.
8. In approximately 500 words, explain the physiologic mechanisms tha