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Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:

• A description of your core values
• A personal mission/vision statement
• An analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile
• A description of two key behaviors that you wish to strengthen
• A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be specific and provide examples.

These are the results from my Cliftons assessment. The report showed that my five core strengths are harmony, analytical, competition, relator,and intellection.

Use APA format and cite 3 references.

 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the primary federal agency for improving access to healthcare by strengthening the healthcare workforce, building healthy communities, and achieving health equity. 

Integrated care involves a team of primary care, dental, and behavioral health practitioners working together using a systematic, cost-effective approach to patient care.

After the reading the following HRSA Report:

https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/advisory-committees/primarycare-dentist/reports/actpcmd-14-report.pdf

Discuss what are the 4 main recommendations given on this report and the rationales for each one.

Architect Daniel Libeskind is credited with saying “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.” The suggestion is that his work does not copy the efforts of others but relies on it.

Understanding the work of others is critically important to new work. Contributions to the nursing body of knowledge can happen when you are able to analyze and articulate the efforts of previous research. Research analysis skills are therefore critical tools for your toolbox.

In this Assignment, you will locate relevant existing research. You also will analyze this research using a tool helpful for analysis.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources this Module’s Learning Resources in support of locating and analyzing research.
• Use the Walden Library to identify and read one peer-reviewed research article focused on a topic in your specialty field that interests you.
• Review the article you selected and reflect on the professional practice use of theories/concepts described by the article.

The Assignment:

Using the “Module 4 | Part 4” section of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the following:

• Your topic of interest.
• A correctly formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search details.
• Identify a professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.
• Analysis of the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template
• Write a 1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to inform professional practice.
• Write a 2- to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan that includes the following:
  • Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research.

See instructions attached for part 1 and part 2. 

The Zimmerman article should be used as one of the 2 articles. 

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Assess progress for clients receiving psychotherapy
• Differentiate progress notes from privileged notes
• Analyze preceptor’s use of privileged notes

To prepare:

• Reflect on the client you selected for the Week 3 Practicum Assignment. 
• Review the Cameron and Turtle-Song (2002) article in this week’s  Learning Resources for guidance on writing case notes using the SOAP  format.

The Assignment

Part 1: Progress Note

Using the client from your Week 3 Assignment, address the following in a progress note (without violating HIPAA regulations):

• Treatment modality used and efficacy of approach 
• Progress and/or lack of progress toward the mutually agreed-upon  client goals (reference the Treatment plan—progress toward goals)
• Modification(s) of the treatment plan that were made based on progress/lack of progress
• Clinical impressions regarding diagnosis and/or symptoms
• Relevant psychosocial information or changes from original  assessment (i.e., marriage, separation/divorce, new relationships, move  to a new house/apartment, change of job, etc.)
• Safety issues 
• Clinical emergencies/actions taken 
• Medications used by the patient (even if the nurse psychotherapist was not the one prescribing them)
• Treatment compliance/lack of compliance
• Clinical consultations
• Collaboration with other professionals (i.e., phone consultations  with physicians, psychiatrists, marriage/family therapists, etc.)
• Therapist’s recommendations, including whether the client agreed to the recommendations
• Referrals made/reasons for making referrals 
• Termination/issues that are relevant to the termination process  (i.e., client informed of loss of insurance or refusal of insurance  company to pay for continued sessions)
• Issues related to consent and/or informed consent for treatment 
• Information concerning child abuse, and/or elder or dependent adult  abuse, including documentation as to where the abuse was reported
• Information reflecting the therapist’s exercise of clinical judgment

Note: Be sure to exclude any information that should not be found in a discoverable progress note.
 

Part 2: Privileged Note

Based  on this week’s readings, prepare a privileged psychotherapy note that  you would use to document your impressions of therapeutic  progress/therapy sessions for your client from the Week 3 Practicum  Assignment.

• The privileged note should include items that you would not typically include in a note as part of the clinical record. 
• Explain why the items you included in the privileged note would not be included in the client’s progress note.
• Explain whether your preceptor uses privileged notes, and if so,  describe the type of information he or she might include. If not,  explain why.

Create a PowerPoint presentation to explain why and how your company (The Widget Company) will increase diversity at all levels. You may create an assessment that measured the current climate, and determine what training is needed. This presentation is for the 10-member board of directors, but it may also be released to workers, at a later date, if approved.

Use the tips at http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/ to create the slideshow. Because good PowerPoints have very few words, submit a script that describes the content of each slide – about 50 words per slide.

Assignment Expectations: 

• Length:
  • 15 – 20 Slides
  • 750 – 1000 words in the script
• Structure:
  • Title Slide shows your name, your company name, the title and date of your presentation.
  • Discuss where you are as a company
  • Propose where you’d like to be as a company
  • Explain the benefits and costs
  • Use reference page for outside sources used
• References:
  • As needed

• Briefly describe how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) are similar.
• Explain at least three differences between CBT and REBT. Include how these differences might impact your practice as a mental health counselor.
• Explain which version of cognitive behavioral therapy you might use with clients and why. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

5 PAGE – 5 REFERENCES

Assignment – Application of Concepts from Caring SciencePoints: 300 | Due Date: Week 4, Day 7 | CLO: 3, 4 | Grade Category: Assignments

Assignment Prompt

Summary: A theory can be used to guide practice.  This assignment is an exercise in supporting a clinical practice with theory and evidence.

Directions: Identify an outcome of nursing practice in your area of practice that can be improved.  For example, if you work in home health, you may identify that throw rug use by fall risk patients is too prevalent.  You may be able to use the problem that inspired the theory concepts that you developed in week two. Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that could represent or include the outcome.  In our example, the outcome would be the changes in self through the change in the patient’s floor covering practice. Identify a practice that can be changed or implemented that may influence the outcome. Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that includes the practice.  In our example, the practice could be to improve the understanding of fall hazards through the engagement in a teaching-learning experience, one of Watson’s Caritas Processes. Identify exactly how these two concepts will be measured with their operational definitions. Develop a proposition between the two. Present your outcome in an APA formatted paper  meeting the University’s standards for a written assignment.

Expectations

• Due: Monday, 11:59 pm PT
• Length: 5 to 7 pages including title and reference pages
• References: 3 to 10.  There should be enough to support the links between the concepts of the problem and the concepts of Watson’s Theory of Caring.

See USU NUR Research Paper Rubric for additional details and point weighting.

Module 3 – Discussion (Lesson 8)

Instructions:

1. Please visit the Time to Change  website. 
2. Summarize in a minimum of at least three (3) paragraphs what you learned about Mental Health. 
3. Discuss any ideas you may have to support Mental Health awareness and how to improve its outcome.
4. Include and cite references to support your answer.