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Case Study Analysis: Joey Slater’s Discharge and Readmission

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CASE INTRODUCTION – Charlotte Greene, a registered nurse, is discharging a pediatric patient, Joey Slater, to home care under the supervision of his mother. The child returns to the hospital five weeks later with some concerning issues
Brief Summary of Case
SCENE 1: Joey Slater, an 8-year-old child who received blood transfusion for femur, is now ready for discharge. Stacey, a licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse (LPN/LVN), offers to take care of discharge teaching about cast care, while Charlotte, an RN, calls home health care to arrange a home visit.
SCENE 2: Five weeks later, Joey is readmitted to the pediatric floor. On assessment by the RN, maggots were coming out of the cast, and perineal skin breakdown was noted. As Charlotte and the mother discuss the situation, it’s clear that there was a lack of education. The mother also states that home health nurses never contacted her. Later, Charlotte calls the agency and discovers that they tried repeatedly to contact the family without success.
SCENE 3: Charlotte tells Joey that the doctor says he can go home, but he seems worried and scared. Later, Charlotte calls social services to involve them in the patient’s care. Charlotte advocates for the patient by delaying his discharge and reporting subjective and objective findings to social services.
Instructions:
1. Read the case study above and then, answer the following questions for Scene 1:
a. What primary violation of the Code of Ethics in Nursing did you witness in this scene?
b. What evidence do you see for proper delegation, if any, by the RN in the video case?
• What improper delegation took place?
• What would you as the nurse have delegated in this scene?
2. Now, answer the following questions for Scene 2:
a. What evidence do we have of the potential for professional negligence and malpractice in the care delivery for this patient? (as a legal standard)
b. Is there any liability on either party?
c. Which of the nine Code of Ethics for Nursing provisions were upheld by the registered nurse in this scene?

Lessons Learned from Levi Strauss’ Type 1 Jeans Project

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In the early 2000s, Levi Strauss introduced its Type 1 Jeans, which had exaggerated features like buttons, stitches, and rivets. The company ran a Super Bowl ad (thats one project you dont want to fumble!) that only confused customers and the style never caught on, forcing Levis to walk away from this flop. Fashion is fickle.

Research the Levi Strauss project and its lessons learned.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of confirming the accuracy of status reports filed by team members?
What could have been done differently regarding status reporting on the project?
In your response post, comment on whether you agree or disagree with your classmates. Support your comments with relevant references.

 

 

Performance Tuning Case Study Analysis

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This case study demonstrates the process of performance tuning of a web-application, focusing on the performance of its Apache web-server, and Oracle database. It demonstrates many techniques and best-practices of performance tuning discussed in Chapter 11: DB Performance tuning and query optimization.

Read Chapter 11 and the case study to answer the following questions:

Provide a summary of the problem that the researchers were trying to solve.
Map the performance-tuning steps discussed in the book to the steps by the researchers to improve the performance. Make sure you read the chapter as well as the case study to find this mapping. You can make a table with one column listing the techniques discussed in the book and the second column listing the steps taken by the researchers. There may be some steps in either of the columns with no mapping.
Which steps gave them the most and the least performance improvement outcomes and why?
What is the key takeaway for you from this case study?

 

Photo voice

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Part 1:
Does Dr. Gray’s research on indigenous Canadian youth address the 3 goals of Photovoice? If so, how?

Part 2: Effectiveness of a Photovoice project
Choose two of the Photovoice studies we have read about so far (women in China, homeless/unsheltered people in US, blind/low vision adults in US, Mayan women in Guatemala, or Native youth in Canada). In comparing the action research aspect of each project, which one do you think was more effective in terms of influencing change in the community? Why?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/28/world/children-remains-discovered-canada-kamloops-school/index.html
https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/mbrintonlykes/participatory-action-research/voices-and-images-mayan-ixil-women-of-chajul

 

 

ATTITUDE FORMATION

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Advertisers successfully use classical conditioning strategies to persuade consumers. Imagine that you are an advertising manager. For this Discussion, imagine the following scenario:

You are the advertising manager at an agency that has been hired by a corporation preparing to launch a new product. Your assignment is to design an advertisement that promises to popularize the new product and ultimately boost the corporation’s profit margin. A national ad launch guarantees the new product will have wide visibility, putting pressure on you to deliver a message that will encourage consumers to purchase the product.

For this Discussion, you will apply classical conditioning strategies to an ad campaign and analyze the formation of attitudes by classical conditioning.

The angry mother

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Devon returned home from his 5th grade class with his report card. His mother, Brenda Washington, became very upset. In her middle-class suburb, she was close to several of her neighbors—parents of Devon’s friends. They frequently compared notes on their children’s progress, and she knew that Devon was doing as well as his friend, James Robinson. However, in his English class, Devon had received a D. His abilities were clearly superior to those of James, but after talking with James’ mother and finding out that James had received a C, Ms. Washington made her way to the school. She raised her voice with the teacher, claiming that she must have given Devon a lower grade because he was Black. The teacher became defensive and claimed that she ran a color-blind classroom. Ms. Washington decided to take the case to the principal. As she strode down the hallway, she saw the White teachers in their room, and the “success” posters on the wall, which all contained White children. She wondered what to expect when she saw the principal.

Case Study questions
· Is intolerance involved? Explain your answer.

· How does the case relate to some of the different dimensions of intolerance described in the book?

· Do you feel that specific intolerances, such as racism or sexism, should be determined by intent or by result? Explain your answer.

 

 

Anti-Bias Book Assessmen

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Assess a children’s book of your own choosing using criteria for anti-bias content and lessons.
1. Read the article:  Derman-Sparks, L. (2016, April 14). Guide for selecting anti-bias children’s books. Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom
Pay attention to the nine categories:
1) Illustrations 2) Story Line and Relationships between People 3) Messages about Different Lifestyles 4) Effects on Children’s Self and Social Identities 5) Children and Adults Engaging in Action for Change 6) Author’s or Illustrator’s Background & Perspective 7) Loaded Words 8) Copyright Date, and 9) Appeal of Story and Illustrations to Young Children.
2. Now choose a children’s book (preschool through 3rd grade) that you might read to children in a center, school, or your own home.  You may choose to view and/or read a book on a website.
Here are resources where you can find anti-bias children’s books:
Peace library. Child’s Peace Books [website]. The books are separated into different categories addressing different aspects of diversity.
Wright, B (2021). Now read this! Books that promote race, identity, agency, and voice. Teaching Young Children Vol. 14, No 2. NAEYC.
Feeny, S. Freeman, N. & Schaffer, K (November 2019). Focus on ethics: Gender expression and identity. Young Children, Vol. 74, No. 5. NAEYC.
3. Now assess the book using the information in the article.
A. Select two (2) of the nine categories from the article (Derman-Sparks, 2016).
For each category selected, assess your selected book by responding to at least one of the questions listed in the category.
Be specific when sharing your findings. Give reasons as to why, or why not, the selected book meets the anti-bias criteria.
You may include other Unit resources.
Provide a link to your book on Amazon, YouTube, or another web source.
In response to your peers, answer the following:
Have you heard of this book before?
Do you agree that this book meets or does not meet anti-bias criteria? Why or why not?
Would you use this book in your classroom? How? In what type of lesson?

 

 

 

Expanding services

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As a health care manager, you have been tasked with setting up a new service in your department. As part of the preparation for this new venture, you must research and decide on the best investment.
Businesses often use their profits (cash assets or revenue) to expand their portfolios, such as investments, which may include stocks, bonds, and capital expenditures. This can be used to increase revenue streams. They also invest for protection purposes so they don’t have all of their money invested in 1 place. According to Accounting, there are several reasons why a business must practice sound financial management when using its profits.
Select business investment
Selected:Expanding services (e.g., ambulatory care center, home health agency, or buying a physician practice)
Using your selected business investment option, respond to the following:
• Explain the investment option.
• Discuss what you might need to do during your analysis to decide to invest using the selected option.
• Identify the financial statement you would use to help you make the decision.
• Provide a rationale for why you think the health care organization would benefit from using their cash assets to invest in the option you selected.