Write an RUA On topic Serious Illness and Palliative Care 

Discussion: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Group therapy may be beneficial for children and adolescents, because it often provides an environment that normalizes clients’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. However, as with any therapeutic approach, group therapy might not be appropriate for every client, every setting, or even every therapist. When selecting therapies, you must always consider the psychodynamics of the client and your own skill set.

This week, as you assess and develop diagnoses for clients presenting for child and adolescent group psychotherapy, you examine the effectiveness of this therapeutic approach. You also consider legal and ethical implications of counseling children and adolescent clients with psychiatric disorders.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Assess clients presenting with disruptive behavior
• Analyze group therapeutic approaches for treating clients presenting with disruptive behavior
• Evaluate outcomes for clients presenting with disruptive behavior

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide.
• Read the case study I am Feeling Like I’m Going Crazy
• For guidance on assessing the client, refer to pages 137-142 of the Wheeler text in this week’s Learning Resources.

Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the Post to Discussion Question link and then select Create Thread to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click submit, you cannot delete or edit your own posts, and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking Submit!

By Day 3

Post an explanation of the most likely DSM-5 diagnosis for the client in the case study. Be sure to link those behaviors to the criteria in the DSM-5. Then, explain group therapeutic approaches you might use with this client.  Explain expected outcomes for the client based on these therapeutic approaches. Finally consider legal and ethical implications of counseling children and adolescent clients with psychiatric disorders. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

This week there is only one GHA exercise to complete.  This is because this one exercise may take you a substantial amount of time.  It is important that you start early in the week so that you can email me with any questions. While this exercise can take some time, if you complete it one step at a time you will get to the end!

Start by reading the chapter carefully and then working your way through the course materials that I have provided to you in this week’s Module. If you need help with how to allocate costs using excel, please click here.

This exercise represents a somewhat simplistic example of what health care finance people really do!  It is very similar to many projects that I did when I consulted to hospital Finance departments.

GHA 4

This week’s GHA is not in the eText.

You can access the template for GHA 4 by clicking here.

You can also access an example and explanation of how to complete GHA 4 here.

Please be sure that you upload the correct file when you submit your work!

Warning:  Pay close attention to where the assignment requires INDIRECT vs. DIRECT costs. Using the wrong costs is the most frequent error that students make in completing this assignment.

 Central nervous system

1. In 4 or 5 sentences, describe the anatomy of the basic unit of the nervous system, the neuron. Include each part of the neuron and a general overview of electrical impulse conduction, the pathway it travels, and the net result at the termination of the impulse. Be specific and provide examples.
2. Answer the following (listing is acceptable for these questions):
   • What are the major components that make up the subcortical structures?
   • Which component plays a role in learning, memory, and addiction?
   • What are the two key neurotransmitters located in the nigra striatal region of the brain that play a major role in motor control?
3. In 3 or 4 sentences, explain how glia cells function in the central nervous system. Be specific and provide examples.
4. The synapse is an area between two neurons that allows for chemical communication. In 3 or 4 sentences, explain what part of the neurons are communicating with each other and in which direction does this communication occur? Be specific.
5. In 3–5 sentences, explain the concept of “neuroplasticity.” Be specific and provide examples.

 I need these questions answered in about 120 words each with references

1. After watching the following short video, please post your response.  https://youtu.be/j2nIIE8sGuw

2. What is the difference between methodology and design as it relates to your QI projects?

3. How will you be able to take the course concepts from the Legal & Ethical Implications in Healthcare class and use them in everyday situations? Consider decisions that you will make on a daily basis.

Assignment Requirements

Topics

 Screening – Week 2:  Genetic Testing:  Colon, Prostate, Breast Cancer 

1. Your course faculty will supply you with a list of topics.  Choose one of the topics to use for Week 2 Discussion Board.
2. Next, choose a diagnostic or screening method (related to your choice from the list of health issues above).  You may use one of the following web sites to locate a screening tool, a scholarly article, or a tool from a professional web site of your choice (for example, from the American Psychological Association). U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
   Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
   SAMHSA-HRSA (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) 
3. Reply to the following prompt:  
   • Describe the diagnostic or screening tool selected, its purpose, and what age group it targets.  
   • Has it been specifically tested in this age group?  
   • Next, discuss the predictive ability of the test. For instance, how do you know the test is reliable and valid? What are the reliability and validity values? What are the predictive values? Is it sensitive to measure what it has been developed to measure, for instance, HIV, or depression in older adults, or Lyme disease? Would you integrate this tool into your advanced practice based on the information you have read about the test, why or why not?
4. You should include a minimum of two (2) scholarly articles from the last five (5) years (3 is recommended).    
5. Your work should have in-text citations integrating at a minimum one scholarly article and the course textbook. APA format should be utilized to include a reference list. Correct grammar, spelling, and APA should be adhered to when writing, work should be scholarly without personalization or first – person use.  1000 words

Reading about screening and surveillance.  Ask yourself, what organizations are involved with various methods of surveillance at the state and national levels?  What is the importance (and definition) of surveillance related to population health?

Also, in DB you will analyze a screening tool to include the validity data of the chosen tool.

 Curley, A.L. & Vitale, P.A. (2016). Population-Based Nursing: Concepts and Competencies for Advanced Practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing. 

 Find a scholarly, peer-reviewed article no more than four years old that discusses an ethical health promotion-related issue. Use the WCU library databases to search for appropriate articles.

In your paper:

• Briefly summarize the presented issue.
• Describe your thoughts on the role health care professionals should play in resolving the ethical issue.
• Provide specific theories and refer to specific ethical codes to support your position.

Your paper should be 2–3 pages long. Use APA to cite and reference the article and any other optional sources you use. Adhere to APA formatting throughout your paper.

Due: Sunday, 11:59 p.m.  (Pacific time)

Points: 100

nursing APA 2 academic sources

HA3220D – Health Information Systems 

 Assignment 10: Optimizing Technology

(1) Create a workflow diagram to demonstrate a process in healthcare.

To construct your diagram, you can use symbols and shapes found in Microsoft Word. (If you aren’t familiar with using symbols and shapes in Word, the NAU Online Library’s Learning Express video tutorials can help, or you can view “Creating a Simple Flowchart in Microsoft Word,” a YouTube video hosted by Floyd Jay Winters, for a very quick introduction.)

Alternatively, you may wish to use a web-based mind mapping tool such as Coggle or WiseMapping. These tools are specially built to make web-based mind mapping easy, and give you the ability to export your work as a .PDF for upload to the dropbox.

If you’d like to draw your mind map by hand and scan it as a .PDF for upload, you can do that, too. Just make sure you have access to all the tools and know-how you need to get the job done (See Alan Henry’s LifeHacker article “5 Best Mobile Document Scanning Apps” for ideas).

(2) Review the steps in the diagram to determine how technology could impact the workflow. Then, create a revised diagram that integrates the use of technology.

(3) In a 1-page double-spaced report, compare the workflow in both diagrams. Summarize how the workflow can be maximized through the use of technology and outline steps of the work flow that can be redesigned to better accommodate the use of technology.

Employee Retention Issues in Workplaces

Employee retention in workplaces remains one of the main issues human resource managers are dealing with for decades. That is why, in 2016, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) reports that 46% of HR managers deem employee turnover as their top concern (Lee et al., 2018). Therefore, many programs have been experimented to improve employee’s turnover in workplaces. This situation is also common in the healthcare system. This situation has brought many harmful consequences to workplaces. The lack of experienced workers and the increase in the cost of human resources in new employees’ orientation are the main issues that workplaces are dealing with regarding employee turnover. That is why it is understandable that the issue presented in chapter 60 of the textbook refers to programs that may help retain health care professionals in workplaces.

The main issues that make up the author’s concern are reducing employee turnover in healthcare workplaces and retaining nurses in those settings. Their approaches were trying to find some loyalty programs that may help experienced nurses and new nurses.

The finding was not easy since a program that may work for new nurses may not impact professional nurses’ interest. For instance, a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has shown that young nurses from 33 years old or younger do not plan to stay in workplaces and are determined to have their own business (Sellers et al., 2020). That is proof that policies that address the interest of experienced nurses may not influence younger nurses. One focus of professional nurses is a healthy workplace. If the environment does not protect employees, experienced nurses may leave their workplaces and look for a better one. This health protection may include better health insurance provided by the workplace.

 The student believes that those issues persist in workplaces today. Many reasons make her understand that workplaces are still suffering from this persistent situation. If we analyze the causes, one should admit that young nurses are dealing with issues like the need to feel part of an organization that will help them grow professionally. They also have concerns about their childcare system. However, they share with the experimented nurses the need for the management to value them. Those are current issues that the healthcare workplaces are dealing with. As good responses to those issues, the enforcing of the emerging nurse leader program and the magnet recognition program may bring solutions that meet nurses’ interest in the current healthcare workplaces

We can make a difference in participating in nurses’ organizations that provide ideas to help sustain the healthcare system with experienced and educated nurses. That will help solve the issues related to nurse’s turnover in workplaces that will positively impact the patient outcome.

References

Lee, T. et al. (2018). Managing Employee’s Retention and Turnover with 21st Century Ideas. Retrieved from http://assets.humanresourcesonline.net/conferences/2019/TMA/TMA%20MY%20Pre-Reading%20Articles/Journal4.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Sellers, K. et al. (2020). Using Public Health Workforce Surveillance Data to Prioritize Retention Efforts for Younger Staff. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379720301756nu