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 Discuss how each of these factors (inflation, changing population demographics, intensity, and technology of services) influence health care costs. 

Discussion: Examining Nursing Specialties(please one page -three references_)-(MY SCHOOL-WALDEN UNIVERSITY))

You have probably seen one or more of the many inspirational posters about decisions. A visual such as a forked road or a street sign is typically pictured, along with a quote designed to inspire.

Decisions are often not so easily inspired. Perhaps you discovered this when choosing a specialty within the MSN program. This decision is a critical part of your plan for success, and you no doubt want to get it right. This is yet another area where your network can help, as well as other sources of information that can help you make an informed choice.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on your decision to pursue a specialty      within the MSN program, including your professional and academic goals as      they relate to your program/specialization.

By Day 3 of Week 10

Post an explanation of your choice of a nursing specialty within the program. Describe any difficulties you had (or are having) in making your choice, and the factors that drove/are driving your decision. Identify at least one professional organization affiliated with your chosen specialty and provide details on becoming a member.

Read chapters 14 and 15 of the class textbook and review the PowerPoint presentations located in the PowerPoint folder. Once done answer the following questions.

1. Discuss the process implemented in the investigation of the outbreak of a communicable disease.

2. Discuss the difference between infectious and communicable diseases. Give one example of each one. 

3. Identify the factors that influence the emerging and reemerging of infectious diseases

4. Identify and describe a recent emerging and reemerging infectious diseases from the global perspective. (I know every is going to describe COVID 19 for the emerging).

As stated in the syllabus present your assignment in an APA format word document, APA required font attach to the forum in the discussion tab/folder of the blackboard ultra and in the SafeAssign exercise located in the assignment folder of the blackboard ultra.                       A minimum of 3 evidence-based references no older than 5 years must be used.   

700 words

APA format (intext citations and references)

Plagiarism FREE

 How does mentoring facilitate the networking process? Discuss this from the perspective of a mentor, and from the perspective of a mentee. PLEASE INCLUDE IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCE

1. Prepare examples of various coding and billing issues that you have experienced in the clinical setting (Peds and women’s health).

2. Provide a brief description about the NPI numbers for nurse practitioners.

Read the following article:

https://journals.lww.co m/jwocnonline/Fulltext/ 2012/03001/Reimburse ment_of_Advanced_Pra ctice_Registered.4.aspx

No single word responses (at least 100+ words in each response)

Give examples

Cite resources

Give the questions some thought and answer honestly

Number your answers to correspond with the question

Worth 12 points / 5%

Questions:

1 . Describe a time spirituality was important in your life or that of someone you love or cared for (e.g., family member, friend, patient). Why was it meaningful in that situation?

2.  What would you do if a patient asked you to pray with them or read the Bible or another holy book he/she might have at the bedside? How would this request make you feel? Would you experience any conflict if you were a different faith than the patient? Explain your answer.

3.  There is something called scripting which is having something written and memorized for difficult situations. Write a prayer or spiritual message you could use in the above situation. Explain why you chose those words.

Bi-weekly Practicum Journaling

Throughout this course you have been describing your clinical activities in your journal. This week you will focus on a specific topic related to your practicum experience. 

Write a brief (300-word) personal reflection describing interprofessional collaboration during your experiences in the clinical setting. Reflect on your efforts as a team member to move a client along the health continuum.

Please consider the following areas:

• What professions did you interact with?
• What challenges did the interprofessional team had to overcome to deliver competent care?
• How did the interprofessional care enhance the status of a client/population?
• How might this experience affect your future practice?

As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Support your work, using your course lectures and textbook readings. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.

• APA Citation Helper
• APA Citations Quick Sheet
• APA-Style Formatting Guidelines for a Written Essay
• Basic Essay Template

 PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

ZERO PLAGIARISM

5 REFERNCES

n the media introduction to this module, it was suggested that you as a nurse have an important role in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). With a focus on patient care and outcomes, nurses may not always see themselves as contributors to the development of new systems. However, as you may have observed in your own experience, exclusion of nurse contributions when implementing systems can have dire consequences.

In this Discussion, you will consider the role you might play in systems development and the ramifications of not being an active participant in systems development.

To Prepare:

• Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as presented in the Resources.
• Reflect on your own healthcare organization and consider any steps your healthcare organization goes through when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system.
• Consider what a nurse might contribute to decisions made at each stage of the SDLC when planning for new health information technology.

By Day 3 of Week 9

Post a description of what you believe to be the consequences of a healthcare organization not involving nurses in each stage of the SDLC when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system. Provide specific examples of potential issues at each stage of the SDLC and explain how the inclusion of nurses may help address these issues. Then, explain whether you had any input in the selection and planning of new health information technology systems in your nursing practice or healthcare organization and explain potential impacts of being included or not in the decision-making process. Be specific and provide examples.

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following: 

• Should self-awareness encourage you to alter your behavior to accommodate external pressures, or should it empower you to become steadfast in your identity? Defend your answer. 
• If people are likely to be biased or unfair in their assessment of you, how can you trust others to provide helpful criticism? 

Reply 1

 CAT: For the research of relationship of smoking and lung cancer, is it an experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental research? Why 

Reply 2

Experimental Group: The group in a research study that receives the experimental drug, treatment, or procedure (Helbig, 2018).

Experimental [Randomized] Research Design: A type of quantitative research design that is highly controlled to study cause and effect with independent and dependent variables (Helbig, 2018).

• Example: Researcher manipulates one or more areas (independent) in the effects of temperature and humidity on work performance with at least two variables (high temp, low humidity and low temp, high humidity, etc.) within as many different workplace settings as available. The researcher could then measure the performance of workers in each condition (dependent) (Stone-Romero, 2011).

Quasi-Experimental Research Design: A type of quantitative research design that is partially controlled that studies cause and effect of variables (Helbig, 2018). No randomization.

• Example: People received performance-contingent pay based on their work but their supervisors would be responsible for the planned and unplanned treatment (performance-contingent treatment) or if their supervisor did not deliver as planned could offset the design (Stone-Romero, 2011). The studies need to be fair across the board and we cannot guarantee that all supervisors will “grade” their employees on the same scale or fairly, people are picked accordingly without randomization but can be useful when experimental experiments are not possible.

Nonexperimental Research: A research study that does not involve an experimental drug, treatment, or procedure (Helbig, 2018). Quantitative or qualitative.

• Example: Causes are assumed to be measured instead of manipulated; studying the relation between job enrichment and satisfaction. This is not a randomized study the data are collected from units that have independent variable from unknown causes. “The assumption would be erroneous if the self-reports systematically as a function of factors other than objective levels of enrichment” (Stone-Romero, 2011). Since this design deals with measured levels, it can be found to have very low levels of validity. This type of design may be more likely to be manipulated since it is measured instead of manipulated so there may be “favoritism” so this type should be avoided if possible.

The differences between each can be seen in the definitions but an experimental research design is quantitative that is highly controlled study where the dependent and independent variables matter, quasi-experimental is also quantitative but is only partially controlled with no randomization, and last, nonexperimental it is research that does not involve experimental drugs, treatments or procedures; it can be qualitative or quantitative.

 References
Helbig, J. (2018). Applied statistics for health care.Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt362v/applied-statistics-for-health-care/v1.1/
Stone-Romero, E. F. (2011). Research strategies in industrial and organizational psychology: Nonexperimental, quasi-experimental, and randomized experimental research in special purpose and nonspecial purpose settings. In APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, Vol 1: Building and developing the organization. (pp. 37–72). American Psychological Association. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/12169-002