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End of Life and Loss

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For this week’s reading section in Grobman’s More Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 62 Professionals Tell “Real-Life” Stories From Social Work Practice, please constructively provide your thoughts as to which chapters you enjoyed and why. You will also need to provide some thought on the chapters within the section that you did not enjoy and why. Please make sure that you take the time to go in-depth on these posts as well as in your responses to your peers.

 

Part 3: Children, Youth and Families

Part 8: Older Adults
Part 9: End of Life and Loss

Polio Virus

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The Wild Polio Virus (WPV) has 3 serotypes (1, 2, 3), considered eradicated in many countries, but a few poorly resourced countries still report cases. According to The Guardian (2022), WPV2 and WPV3 are largely eradicated worldwide, and only Pakistan and Afghanistan remain endemic regions for WPV1. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has helped eradicate this disability causing WPV (WHO, 2022a). However, surveillance efforts often report cases of vaccine-derived polio in many settings (WHO, 2022b). Poliovirus is a single-stranded RNA enterovirus that is primarily fecal-orally transmitted (WHO, 2022a). WPV causes paralytic poliomyelitis that presents with generalized weakness, followed by flaccid paralysis (The Guardian, 2022). Thus massive vaccination has helped curb poliomyelitis, which is a debilitating infection.

The latest cases of WPV have been in poorly resourced settings. For the first time in 30 years, Malawi reported its first case of WPV since 1992 within its capital of Lilongwe in March 2022 (The Guardian, 2022). The case came at a backdrop of the region being declared free of the wild poliovirus in August 2020 (WHO, 2022a). The good news is that the WHO upheld the region’s certification as free of wild polio, linking the case to the Malawian WPV1 variant to the one circulating in Pakistan’s Sindh province since 2019 (The Guardian, 2022). However, the case sparked concerns of a looming outbreak, and and interregional surveillance recommended mass vaccination for more than the 23 million children under 5 years in neighboring Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (WHO, 2022b). The recently produced Enhanced Polio Inactivated Vaccine is currently being given as the first shot to prevent the emergence of vaccine-derived polio. Subsequently, vaccinations will use the oral polio vaccine (OPV).

With the possibility of a regional outbreak in the offing, it is hoped that the meticulously planned and coordinated surveillance and vaccination in the southern African countries will extinguish this threat over the four months since the case was in the capital of Malawi (The Guardian, 2022). Africa last reported WPV in northern Nigeria in 2016, and there were only 5 cases in 2021. Thus, many global partners are working together to assess and mitigate the situation in Malawi, using innovative vaccination campaign solutions (WHO, 2022a). The goal has always been to ensure that all children are polio-free since it’s a leading cause of preventable paralysis and disability.

The EI Games Presentation Skills

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Level 2 presents personality profiles as a frame for presentations. As suggested in Level 2, framing presentations with personality profiles

fosters communication on a deeper level,
establishes a connection with audience members’ dominant personality trait, and
helps understand how audience members make decisions.
While reflecting on the material offered in the EI Games: Presentation Skills Course and developing your paper, consider prior learning and prior work experience, in addition to the material presented. Disagreeing with the principles presented in Level 2 is appropriate. However, do not reject the offered principles out of hand. Support acceptance or rejection of the offered principles with critical thinking and sound reasoning. To complete this assignment, you will need to select one of the approaches offered in one of the above videos to refer to in the below bullet points.

In your paper,

Compare and contrast the personality profiles offered in the EI Games Level 2 with the profiles developed for the Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI).
Identify three significant differences.
Discuss which approach you are most comfortable with and what gives you confidence in the approach you prefer.
Appraise the value or lack of value associated with using personality types to frame a presentation prepared for those in your work environment.
How will you measure the effectiveness of personality profiles in obtaining the following desirable benefits: (a) fostering communication on a deeper level, (b) establishing a connection with audience members’ dominant personality trait, and (c) understanding how audience members make decisions?
How will you address the common use of so-called canned presentations? Is it possible to frame canned presentations with a general personality profile, or must all presentations be tailored to a specific audience?
How much training in personality assessment do those framing presentations with personality profiles need to leverage the concept effectively?
How important is it to use documented valid and reliable measures to develop personality profiles?
The EI Games Presentation Skills Course: Understanding Personality Profiles paper

Research IT policy management

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Research IT policy management and
standards for IT policy creation, formulation, technical configuration,
and management. Many organizations list this information and their
procedures publicly on their websites, along with sample screenshots
of the corresponding OS, DB, or application parameters. Some
examples are listed in this week’s resources.
Scenario:
As the CIO of NCUONE Cloud Consulting Services (NCUONE-CCS), a
growing organization where each department has historically created
their own policies and stored them locally in their own department.
Additionally, the departments have not had requirements or standard
formatting for policies and standards management. Now that
operations are expanding and resources are growing, a need for
standardization has become critical.
You are leading a task force charged with the development of a
framework for the creation, storage, approval, modification, and
removal of policies in a repository. Your responsibility, as the CIO and
leader with the most policy experience, is to lead enterprise policy
development and management. Your team includes a representative
from operational departments, a representative of management, and
legal services.
Assignment Instructions:
1. Create an IT policy development, implementation, and
management roadmap that includes the following:
o New process for creating, storing, approving, modifying,
and retiring policies in the new repository
o Diagram or flowchart of the process in the appendix, similar
to Figure 5. Use the sample roadmap provided only as a
guide. Your roadmap must be clear, concise, and precise.

EBP problem

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create a 13-16 slide PowerPoint, excluding the title and reference slides, covering the items below. This should be a high-level overview of what you’ve already discussed in your papers. Be sure to summarize your information (do not simply copy and paste).

Describe the select EBP problem
List the created PICOT question
Provide a high-level overview of the articles you found, organizing them by design (i.e.; qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods)
Summarize the search strategy you used to locate the articles.
Discuss what changes could be made as a result of these findings
Describe strategies and resources you would use to implement a change based on these findings
Describe areas of opportunity for future research and EBP related to your topic
Provide a conclusion and discussion of next steps