- What does Tressie McMillan Cottom mean when she says that US healthcare systems assume black women’s incompetence?
- As she conveys the story, how might Cottom’s pregnancy have been different had the healthcare workers involved read her as competent?
- What are some stereotypes and structural features of modern healthcare that (according to Kidd & Carel) make patients especially vulnerable to epistemic injustice?
- One kind of epistemic injustice in healthcare is testimonial injustice. Give an example (from Cottom, Kidd & Carel, your own experience, or elsewhere) and explain what makes it a case of testimonial injustice.
- Another kind of epistemic injustice in healthcare is hermeneutical injustice. Give an example (from Cottom, Kidd & Carel, your own experience, or elsewhere) and explain what makes it a case of hermeneutical injustice
Category: Essays
Data Visualization Dashboard
You serve as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of your city government. Recent
discussions in upper-level management meetings highlight concerns about the
government’s financial performance. Juliet Sweeting, the city’s Chief Financial
Officer (CFO) asked you to help benchmark your city’s financial performance against
another city of similar size. You have been tasked to create a Dashboard in Excel
that can use to compare your city to any other city. The comparison will be done with
ratios commonly used to evaluate the financial health of city governments.
Your goal is to choose another city similar to yours and compute the ratios for each
city. Create a dashboard whereby Ms. Sweeting, CFO can easily read and
understand the results in 30 seconds or less.
- Find the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports for two cities.
- Type in the financial statements of the two cities in side-by-side fashion on Tab 3
of your Excel file (Do not copy and paste a picture. You need these numbers for
your computations). If data not shown on the financial statements is necessary
for your ratio computations, create an “Other Information” area to post this data
for the two cities.
- Use Tab 2 of your Excel file to show the computation of the ratios by category; see the Appendix below. The information used to compute the ratios should flow
from the data in Tab 3. Make sure it is clear to your CFO that you know how to
compute and interpret these ratios.
- Use Tab 1 to create a dashboard showing the results of the ratios, comparing
the two cities. The dashboard should be composed ONLY of clearly-marked
graphs that convey the data in a way that makes it easy to read and understand
quickly.
- When Ms. Juliet Sweeting, CFO changes numbers on the financial statements
on Tab 3, the dashboard graphs should automatically change.
The ratios required fall into three categories, as shown in the Appendix
Use the most recent annual financial statements.
• Present 2 decimal points for all figures in your deliverable
• Remember all reports and dashboards should be clear and easy to read
• Use a large enough font that anyone can easily read your dashboard
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
Choose any of the 2 movies.
Papers should be double-spaced and typed
-5 pts each (max. 2 assignments-10 pts-due at the Final (assignments may be turned in earlier)
1. Watch the movie: The Mask You Live In and write a 1 page reflection on the movie.
2. Watch the movie: Concussion and write a 1 page reflection on the movie.
3. Watch “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and write a 1 page reflection regarding the
movie.
4. Watch “Inside Out” and write a 1 page reflection regarding the movie.
Therapeutic actions of Clotrimazole (Lotrimin).
Ms. Jones brings 6-week-old Sam to the clinic because of a bright red rash in the diaper area that has gotten worse since she started putting over-the-counter antibiotic cream on it 3 days ago. Sam is diagnosed with diaper Candida or a yeast infection. Clotrimazole (Lotrimin) topical TID for 14 days to the diaper area has been prescribed.
Briefly describe the therapeutic actions of Clotrimazole (Lotrimin).
Describe antifungal drugs uses and side effects.
Develop a teaching plan for Ms. Jones including age-appropriate considerations for Sam.
Ecopsychology
First, read “Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health” by Jim Robbins, located here. The URL is also here if you can’t click through to the page:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health
Next, read Hop Hopkins’ article entitled “Racism is Killing the Planet”. Also, located here (if needed):
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/racism-killing-planet#.XuKICKk5Dtu.twitter
Then, write a response to the readings; synthesize your thoughts on how the readings might be related to each other. .
For additional thoughts, you may also wish to peruse “Read Up on the Links Between Racism and the Environment” from the New York Times.
Different versions of “In the Pines”
Compare and contrast two of the different versions of “In the Pines” from this week’s required listening. As you listen, consider the form and mood and the way each singer approaches the song. Discuss their biographical and geographical situations, styles of singing, and their adaptation of the song. What emotions are being evoked? How are they evoking them? What characteristics of folk songs can you recognize as you listen?
What Tressie McMillan Cottom mean when she says that US healthcare systems assume black women’s incompetence
- What does Tressie McMillan Cottom mean when she says that US healthcare systems assume black women’s incompetence?
- As she conveys the story, how might Cottom’s pregnancy have been different had the healthcare workers involved read her as competent?
- What are some stereotypes and structural features of modern healthcare that (according to Kidd & Carel) make patients especially vulnerable to epistemic injustice?
- One kind of epistemic injustice in healthcare is testimonial injustice. Give an example (from Cottom, Kidd & Carel, your own experience, or elsewhere) and explain what makes it a case of testimonial injustice.
- Another kind of epistemic injustice in healthcare is hermeneutical injustice. Give an example (from Cottom, Kidd & Carel, your own experience, or elsewhere) and explain what makes it a case of hermeneutical injustice.
A Deeper Look In the Mirror
Take the Communications Style Inventory and Exercise. Answer each of the following questions related to your communication style:
What type of communicator are you?
What communication style did you identify with the least?
Do you think the assessment is accurate? Why or why not?
Share an example of communication with a co-worker or family member that exemplifies your dominant communication type.
In response to at least two of your peers, discuss the following:
Connections between your communication style and your classmates
Or, the communication style of George, Dave, Jean, and/or Caroline from the Communication Styles Exercise.
Emphases of the SLO
Based on the two emphases of the SLO (Student Learning Outcomes) which are:
Emergency Management and Homeland Security Emphasis Area SLO: Students will have demonstrated an ability to analyze and apply Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8) principles to emergency management and homeland security policy.
Find and summarize two podcasts or video presentations that relate to the essential elements as you have defined them. (Include the URLs for each.)
Then, prepare a well-developed, well-written, and appropriately formatted essay of about 3-5 single-spaced pages (including an introduction and a conclusion), in which you discuss how the information in the podcasts/video presentations relates to the essential elements of the SLO you described above.
Support your discussions with 3-4 academic sources from the MPA (Master of Public Administration) coursework.
People’s misplaced confidence when evaluating someone’s character
Confirmation bias is an interesting phenomenon; it explains people’s misplaced confidence when evaluating someone’s character based on first impressions. If people allow their first impressions to be challenged, there is a chance that subsequent information will compel a revision. However, not everyone is willing to change their first impressions; somehow, their belief in being a good judge of character is threatened if their impression changes.
In this case, there is a resistance to new information that may challenge what they already believe is true. They will likely focus only on details that confirm their first impression while ignoring those that do not. This is why so many insist that, based on “sound” first impressions, they are excellent judges of character. Clearly, this is not necessarily so.
Consider a personal experience regarding first impressions and apply social psychology theory to explore how impressions form quickly and persist.
Think of times when your first impressions of others were inaccurate.
Review the Learning Resources for this week and reflect on how social psychology theory explains why first impressions persist and how they can be changed.
BY DAY 4
Post a description of a time when you were certain your first impression of someone you had just met was accurate, only to discover subsequently that you were mistaken. Describe how social psychology theory explains this phenomenon.