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Counselors As Contributors to Health Care Reform

The training of counselor educators and supervisors provides for instruction in the wellness model, developmental stages of lifetime adjustment, early intervention and prevention, and empowerment of clients. These values seem perfectly matched for the re-focusing of health care on the early stages of care rather than end-of-life care. An example of a health care model that utilizes early identification of mental health issues and has a client-centered approach to care is Intermountain Healthcare’s Mental Health Integration model.

Intermountain’s Mental Health Integration involves licensed mental health professionals working side-by-side with primary care physicians. Together they are administering or reviewing clients’ mental health screening instruments, consulting with physicians on mental health issues, providing same-day brief counseling and psycho-education, recommending referral for chronic and severe patients, and working in a health care team along with other professionals. This model engages community agencies such as the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) to support patients and families in the treatment process. Studies at Intermountain indicate that the Mental Health Integration model provides higher quality health care at revenue-neutral or reduced costs. The idea is for mental health workers to collaborate across professional fields to increase quality health care.

The Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders offers the following six aims to achieve high-quality health care:

“The Six Aims of High-Quality Health Care:

• Safe—avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
• Effective—providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit.
• Patient-centered—providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
• Timely—reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
• Efficient—avoiding waste, in particular waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
• Equitable—providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status”

Source: Institute of Medicine (Eds.). (2006). Improving the quality of health care for mental and substance-use conditions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11470&page=57

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the article, “Integration of Mental Health into Primary Health care in Uganda: Opportunities and Challenges.” Consider the challenges to integrating mental health care into primary care and think about strategies for overcoming these challenges.
• Review the article, “Far West Area Health Service Mental Health Integration Project: Model for Rural Australia,” and think about how mental health care can be improved by using a primary health care model.
• Review the article, “Reducing Harm Through Quality Improvement.” Consider the challenges and opportunities presented by Intermountain Healthcare’s mental health integration quality improvement program.
• Think about how you think the implementation of the mental health integration model might affect you personally.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 an explanation of how you think you would be affected personally by the implementation of the mental heath integration model. Be specific, using the model and your situation to illustrate your points.

 respond to listed statement in at least 170 words. Do you agree or disagree with the statement.  

As a leader, it is more effective to combine both the qualities of transactional and transformational leadership to improve the criminal justice organization.  When in a position of authority, the interest and personalities of all employees have to be taken into consideration.  To consider the workers, leaders should create a professional bond instilled with trust with their subordinates.  This bond is used as a place of security for employees in the criminal justice organization because they know they have strong leadership backing them up regardless of the situation.  Leaders are supposed to encourage these professionals to perform to the best of their ability. It is best to build and learn the individuals on your team strengths and weaknesses, so they can cohesively work together as a team.

Answer both questions 400 words with credible references.  Text attached. 

Question A

Many organizations are concerned about the rising cost of employee benefits and question their value to the organization and to the employees.In your opinion, what benefits are of the greatest value to employees? To the organization? Why?

Question B

To live a healthy life, medical professionals say we need to identify those things we currently do to that either impair or contribute to our health. Discuss with your classmates a way to develop a lifetime program for a health program. 

Talent Management Research Priorities and Research Priorities and Resources”  Please respond to the following:

• Considering the vast number of diverse groups represented in the workforce, create a brief research agenda that addresses how talent management strategy can proactively attract a diverse workforce.
• The course has covered a wide variety of talent management topics, and Chapter 22 highlights several ways to view the future of talent management. Review the talent management topics covered so far in this course. Prioritize five (5) of these topics and locate one potential resource for each using the Strayer Library. For instance, for the topic of equity-based pay, you might select the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance as a resource to gain more data about this topic. List your five (5) selected topics and resources, and provide a rationale as to why you selected these topics.

• Review primary, secondary and tertiary prevention using Healthy People 2030 as a guide for current initiatives related to the health of women and infants.
• Relate the three levels of prevention to the health of infants and at-risk women in your community.
• Describe how a prevention program could positively impact specific risk factors for the health of women and infants in your community.

Identify multidimensional nursing care strategies for clients with reproductive system disorders.

Scenario

You work in a gynecological office, and your office has been asked to participate in a women’s health fair. The focus of the fair is health promotion. Preventative screening for female reproductive disorders is vital to identify and treat rapidly to produce the best patient outcomes. Preventative screening includes mammogram and Pap smear and should be performed based on recommended age and associated risk factors. To promote preventative screening, your office will be creating brochures to distribute at the health fair.

Instructions

Design a women’s health brochure by choosing one of the female reproductive disorders covered in this module. In the brochure, include the following:

• Overview of the disease including disease process, signs and symptoms, and risk factors
• Preventative screening
• Diagnostics tests
• Treatment
• Multidimensional nursing care interventions

Directions:

Read the two case summaries provided here. The case summaries are on page 2. Once you read the two case summaries, follow the instructions below.

Initial Post

Compare the appropriate nursing interventions by the nurse completed in Mississippi to the inappropriate nursing interventions by the nurse in the Texas case. Provide rationale supporting your comparison citing at least two scholarly sources.

Share your story with pictures on how you decided to become a PMHNP. psychiatric nurse practitioner

Do the pictures look like yours or the pictures are different?

Here are the pictures that remind me what is a stake.Pictures attached

Deliverable 1 – Timeline of Major Periods in Art

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Competency

Determine the historical impact of art on modern culture, society, and the workplace.

Student Success Criteria

View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

Scenario

Your local library has decided to hang artwork in its lobby. You volunteer at the library and heard that the director of the library plans to go to the mall and buy artwork off the shelf in a home decor store to decorate the walls.

You are outraged, and feel that the library presents an ideal space for more meaningful public displays. After all, your town has such a rich and interesting history, and there are some artists and craftspeople living in the area. You decide to approach the City Council Chair to voice your concerns, but he informs you that the library is on a tight budget, and he doesn’t see the need to spend too much of tax payers money on “decorations.”

You now plan to attend the next City Council meeting to convince the town to do more with the exhibiting space at the library, and that it doesn’t have to be expensive if the displays are cultivated from regional resources.

Instructions

For this assignment, you may use your current location, or pick another American city.

· List five significant creations in your city/town, such as buildings in different styles of architecture, bridges, and public art. Include the year each item was created.

· Arrange the chosen creations in chronological order, along with names of their creators.

· Explain the major styles/periods in art to which each of the five creations/selections relate. Include your rationale for your selection.

· Identify three additional local creative residents from the past and present, whose work could potentially be displayed at the library. List the forms of art for which they are known.

· Your timeline should be printable so that it can be distributed to City Council members and attendees at the meeting. Use the timeline templates found under the Insert tab to create a printable timeline.

· Clearly label your chosen location.

NOTE – Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.

Deliverable 1 – Earth’s Four Spheres Presentation

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Describe the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and how they interact.

Student Success Criteria

View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

Scenario

Each of us has directly or indirectly been impacted by a natural disaster or severe weather event. For this assignment you will be required to recall a personal, real-world experience about the power of one of the Earth’s four spheres that you have experienced in your lifetime, creating a mixed media PowerPoint presentation that brings this event to life. The goal is to illustrate the interconnectedness of the Earth’s four spheres to human health and safety, to the current state of our climate, and to the mitigation of such disasters in the future as the consequences of climate change continue to worsen.

Instructions

In a well-organized presentation using PowerPoint, you will construct a visual presentation that illustrates the power of a natural disaster/geologic event in history from the standpoint of a personal experience. Consider a time in your life when you have been impacted, either directly or indirectly, by a natural disaster or severe weather event. 

Your presentation should include the following elements as well as a robust discussion of each in the slides’ speaker notes section:

· Discuss background, history, and location of your chosen event/disaster. (Where did this event occur? How many people were impacted by this event?)

· Specify measures taken to mitigate the event/disaster. (What was the response of the community/state/country to this event?)

· Discuss how we might mitigate a similar event/disaster in the future. (How can we mitigate disasters to more fully protect human health and safety?)

· Be sure to include images/maps/statistical information from your chosen event/disaster.

Resources

Please click  here  for information on Academic Search Complete.

Please click  here  for information about using speaker notes in PowerPoint.

Please click  here for information on the Science Reference Center.

Please click  here  for information on how to use the Online Library.

Please click  here  for information about using speaker notes in PowerPoint.

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