Healthcare legislation is a hot topic in some political arenas right now. Changes could be made at the local, state, and federal level. During the most recent presidential election it was been stated that “Obamacare” would be repealed. Now, people of both parties are taking a second look and indicate that some parts “are working”. Research and tell us about a healthcare issue that is up for debate and how it might affect those at the local, state, or national level. Tell what you do and don’t agree with regarding the issue and why.

For example, Alabama has faced deficits in her last few budgets and Medicaid was not fully funded until the last minute. What might changes in the federal law look like in regards to Medicaid and health care access for your state? I am living in Georgia

write a narrative describing an interesting event in which you were involved. You may choose to write about an event that has had an effect on you as a person, or just something that you think would be interesting for your reader to be told about. This essay is to be a minimum of two double-spaced pages in length.
Look into the book regarding “Narratives” and telling stories. You may choose to write this essay in second or third person if you like but, since it is a story you were involved in, writing in the first person would probably be easiest.
You can write about anything you like, but be sure to follow the process of generating ideas to include and organizing them in a logical way if you have not already done so. If you have, and I currently have them for grading, you will certainly have benefited from having done them. If necessary, you can go through the process a second time if you are not happy with your first effort.

The case study Personal Trainer was selected from the Shelly & Rosenblatt (2014) textbook, but it was copied below for convenience. There is no need to look for the textbook, as the assignment and questions are given here. The Case is about analyzing part of the systems design phase to implement an ERP or cloud system for the Personal Trainer company. It is important to remember that the purpose of selecting an application system is to ensure that this system is intended to provide the best solution for the company.

Personal Trainer, Inc.

Personal Trainer, Inc., owns and operates fitness centers in a dozen Midwestern cities. The centers have done well, and the company is planning an international expansion by opening a new “supercenter” in the Toronto area. Personal Trainer’s president, Carol Cassie, hired an IT consultant, Susan Park, to help develop an information system for the new facility. During the project, Susan will work closely with Gray Lewis, who will manage the new operation.

Background

Susan and Gray finished their work on the user interface, input, and output design. They developed a user-centered design that would be easy to learn and use. At this point, Susan turned her attention to the architecture for the new system.

Susan wanted to consider Enterprise Resource Planning, total cost of ownership, scalability, web integration, legacy systems, processing methods, and security issues. She also needed to select a network plan, or topology, that would dictate the physical cabling and network connections, or consider a wireless network. When all these tasks were completed, she would submit a system design specification for approval.

Assignment Questions

1. Would an ERP strategy work well for Personal Trainer? Investigate ERP strategies and products available from Internet vendors and submit a recommendation based on your research.
2. If Susan chooses cloud architecture, what issues must she consider? Prepare a checklist for her that includes the main topics and issues she should consider. You can look into cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure or any cloud vendor of choice.
3. What would be the benefits of using a wireless network at the fitness center? What would be the drawbacks?

A woman is seeking therapy for psychosomatic anxious reactions that occur as she is pulling into the driveway after work each night. Upon further analysis, you (the therapist) discover that two years previously her husband was experiencing a severe depression that resulted in angry outbursts each evening after she returned home from work. The husband has since recovered from his depression and the angry outbursts have stopped. Identify the US, CS, CR and provide an example of how you would work with the client to extinguish or replace the current CR. Incorporate and the video on systematic desensitization in your post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS6Z4rapuck

Please cite four references, to include the video

Cultural diversity in the work force serves to promote acceptance, respect, and teamwork regardless of an employee’s race, age, gender, native language, political beliefs, religion, or sexual orientation. There is a myriad of reasons as to why corporate America has become less and less diverse. When a corporation embraces diversity, and makes it a part of their fundamental values and deliberate business goals, it opens avenues towards greater returns not only for the corporation but also for its employee’s and communities they serve. Having a diverse workforce promotes process and product innovation from having employees that come from a wide variety of demographics and backgrounds. Unfortunately, the more diverse a workplace becomes, the more issues that arise. This paper will examine some of the cultural diversity issues, as well as, ways to resolve those issues.
I. Acceptance and respect: Conflicts can arise when there is a lack of acceptance in cultural diversity and the beliefs that different employees hold. To resolve this issue a company can offer diversity training to teach employees how to understand, accept, and respect other people’s differences.
II. Accommodation of beliefs: There can be conflict between different employees cultural, spiritual, and political beliefs. This can be resolved by having employees keep their personal beliefs separate from their work responsibilities and duties.
III. Ethnic and cultural differences: This can serve as a conflict when employees hold a prejudice against other employees who have different ethnic, cultural, and religious beliefs. This can be resolved by offering cultural sensitivity training and diversity awareness programs.
IV. Gender equality: This conflict exists when there is a gap between men and women. This can be resolved by maintaining equality and ensuring that men and women are treated equally during the hiring process, salary, opportunities, and promotions.
V. Physical and mental disabilities: People who have disabilities may find it difficult to navigate through the workplace due to poor accommodations. This can be resolved by ensuring the workplace creates a fair and comfortable environment for all employees.
VI. Generation gaps: This can be seen when there is a more diverse age group within the workplace. This may result in social circles that lead to some employees being isolated from the team. This can be resolved by creating an environment that promotes open communication, thus bridging the gaps between generations.
VII. Language and communication: The more diverse a work force becomes, the more barriers that may exist in communications. This can be resolved by providing language training.

This assignment requires you to interview a family, and then illustrate their interfamilial relationships as well as their external support systems and stressors by creating a genogram and ecomap. You will then analyze the ecomap and genogram.

Objectives
Demonstrate your ability to interview a family and analyze their relationships, support systems, and stressors.
Describe both positive and negative relationships between family members.
Identify nursing interventions and strategies that promote positive relationships and reduce family stressors.
Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)

Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMed or CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases.

A member of your family was brutally murdered. The inmate is currently on death row, awaiting execution. A member of a victims’ rights group contacts your family to discuss the possibility of meeting with your family and the convicted murderer. The inmate wants to seek forgiveness before he is executed. The members of your family are outraged that this group dared to even contact your family. Members of your family express their concern regarding the invasion of their privacy. No matter what the inmate will say, it will not bring the family member back, and your family is not concerned with the inmate’s feelings or his desire to make amends for the crime he committed. Most your family members are opposed to meeting the convicted murderer, but you have some unanswered questions, and this would help you deal with the death of your loved one.
You are going to have a family meeting on this matter to decide what action your family should take. You are preparing some information and performing research on whether or not meeting the convicted murderer would benefit your family and bring closure to this tragedy. In your discussion, include theories of morality, values, and consequences. You must also include the following information for the family to ensure that everyone is fully informed:
• In terms of ethics, describe the concepts and purposes of restorative justice and restitution.
• Address some ethical issues related to the concepts of restorative justice and restitution.
• Include some implications of restorative justice and how you would approach the decision to allow or refuse a meeting with a convicted murderer.
• Compose a description of the ethical decision-making process, including the steps on how to approach the situations, a list of questions if a meeting is granted, or a list of possible reasons for rejecting the meeting.

Exhibit 2.1 focuses on the types of healthcare quality oversight organizations in the United States (i.e. State Licensing Bodies, U.S. Department of Labor, and etc.). Read the descriptions for each; pick one in which you feel would be the best fit for you to work at. Next, discuss why you have selected that organization (to work for) along with the goals you would try to accomplish to improve healthcare quality by working for the selected organization.
For example “After reviewing the options, I feel I would like to work in “Medicare and Medicaid Compliance.” This is a special group of medical coverage recipients that I have been close to in my personal life. I have several elderly family members receiving Medicare benefits (i.e. my grandmother and I couple uncles). In general, the signup process is just too complicated (i.e. parts A, B, and C). I want to work to assure there are more healthcare navigators that can work in person with Medicare beneficiaries to assure that have the coverage that meets their health needs and is economical. “
(15 of 30) Chapter 4 discusses strategies that alert managers of underlying systemic structures: understanding history, being aware of mental models, and integrating double-loop learning into management. For this portion of the initial post, students should discuss which one of the three strategies they feel is already or will be a strength for them and tell why.
For example, “I feel understanding the history of an organization will be my strength as I transition into being the office manager at my Grandfather’s private practice. I remember when he initial started the business, and I participated in all the business’ major transitions (i.e. implementing an HER system, moving to a bigger facility, and etc.).”
Stronger post might focus on the strategy the student feels they need work the most at strengthening.

Use book as one of the references: Applying Quality Management in Healthcare: A Systems Approach. Kelly, Diane L. Jones&Bartlett Learning,4th Edition,2017.

The purpose of this assignment is to learn how to identify and effectively manage conflicts that arise in care delivery settings resulting in better management of patient care, including appropriate delegation. You will gain insight into conflict management strategies and develop a plan to collaborate with a potential nurse leader about the conflict and its impact in a practice setting.
Course Outcomes
Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)
CO3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)
CO6: Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational systems, and integrate values and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO7)
CO7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)
Points
This assignment is worth 200 points.
Directions
1. Read Finkelman (2016), Chapter 13: Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination, and Conflict Resolution, section on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, pp. 324-333.
2. Observe nurses in a care delivery setting. Identify a recurring conflict with the potential to negatively impact patient care. Decide if delegation was an issue in the conflict. This should be from your practice setting or prelicensure experiences.
3. Provide details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was unresolved.
4. Identify the type of conflict. Explain your rationale for selecting this type.
5. Outline the four stages of conflict, as described in our text, and how they relate to your example.
6. Propose strategies to resolve the conflict. Search scholarly sources in the library and the Internet for evidence on what may be effective.
7. Discuss if delegation was an issue in the conflict. Be specific.
8. Describe how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to reach consensus on the best strategy to employ to deal with the conflict.
9. Describe the rationale for selecting the best strategy.
10. Provide a summary or conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal with conflict more effectively in the future.
11. You are required to complete the form using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
12. Follow APA format. Consult your APA manual, and consider using the APA resources provided by Chamberlain.
13. Write a 5-7 page paper (not including the title or References pages) using APA format that includes the following.
a. Describe an unresolved (recurring) conflict that you experienced or observed. Identify the type of conflict.
b. Provide details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was unresolved.
c. Outline the four stages of conflict, as described in Finkelman, and how the stages relate to your example. Decide if delegation was an issue in the conflict. Be specific.
d. Describe the strategies for conflict resolution and how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to resolve the conflict. Cites the course textbook and two scholarly sources.
e. Provide a conclusion or summary about this experience and how you may deal with conflict more effectively in the future.

Write a 5 page book report on “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles. Discuss its cinematic possibilities. Please be sure to explain which parts of the story would be easy to adapt and which would resist translation. You should also touch upon some of the social, economic, technical, or spectatorial challenges a filmmaker might encounter in adapting the text. Your submission will be a well-thought-out and well-organized essay which is properly formatted, based on the APUS writing standards and policy. Be sure to include a thesis in the introduction and develop that thesis throughout the bulk of your essay.

Please do not use more than five sources. Please only use sources found from Academic Search Premier, Alexander Street Press, Credo, or ProQuest.