Examine the relative importance and existence of EAPs compared with individual styles of coping, social support mechanisms, and culture-specific rites and rituals of the various cultures

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Collaborative Group Project Part 2: Outline

Your group will complete a full sentence outline in preparation for Part 3 of the Collaborative Group Project. The outline should include a thesis statement, the research question(s)/issues being answered/addressed, how much space will be allotted for each section of the paper, and a preliminary reference list of at least 7 sources (that are less than 10 years old). Submit this assignment through SafeAssign by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 5.

Full Sentence Outline

The full sentence outline format is essentially the same as the alphanumeric outline. The main difference (as the title suggests) is that full sentences are required at each level of the outline. This outline is most often used when preparing a traditional essay.

Thesis Statement:

Question(s)/Issues Begin Addressed:

  1. Man-made pollution is the primary cause of global warming.
  1. Greenhouse gas emissions are widely identified by the scientific community to be

harmful.

  1. The burning of coal and fossil fuels are the primary releasers of

hazardous greenhouse gases.

Full sentence outlines are often accompanied with an APA reference list on a separate page.

Quotes within the outline must also utilize APA in-text citations.

Article to review:

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20140105/NEWS03/301059979

Example Outline:

Examine the relative importance and existence of EAPs compared with individual styles of coping, social support mechanisms, and culture-specific rites and rituals of the various cultures

The importance of using various cultural practices to assist traumatized people is:

  1. The relationship between trauma and culture is an important one because traumatic experiences are part of the life cycle, universal in manifestation and occurrence, and typically demand a response from culture in terms of healing, treatment, interventions, counseling, and medical care.
  1. Restore harmony in mind, body, and spirit.
  1. Restore vital physical and mental energy.
  1. Promote well-being through mindfulness and psychic integration.
  1. Empower personal energy for life-course development.
  1. Access and utilize treatments available in the culture.
  1. Develop healing practices that promote resilience.
  1. The concept of traumatic stress and the multidimensional nature of cultures require a conceptual framework by which to address core issues that have direct relevance to understanding the nature of trauma as embedded within a culture and its assumptive systems of belief and patterns of behavioral regulation.
  1. A set of assumptions about the nature and causes of problems specific to their world view and construction of reality.
  1. A set of assumptions about the context, settings, and requirements for healing to occur.
  1. A set of assumptions and procedures to elicit particular expectations, emotions, and behaviors.
  1. A set of requirements for activity and participation levels and/or roles for patient, family, and therapist.
  2. Specific requirements for therapist training and skills expertise criteria.

Why does the existence of the cosmic redshift lead to the big bang picture of the universe?

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  • What is a particle accelerator?
    1. How do scientists use particle accelerators to study subatomic particles?
  • What particle is exchanged to generate each of the four fundamental forces?
  • What medical technologies (e.g. PET) rely on the physics of elementary particles?What are the benefits of noninvasive procedures such as PET?
  • How is astronomy the oldest science?
  • How does the energy produced at the core of the Sun reach the photosphere?
  • Why won’t the Sun become a supernova or black hole?
  • Why does the existence of the cosmic redshift lead to the big bang picture of the universe?
  • If a galaxy is 1,000 Mpc away, how fast is it receding from us?
  • The average temperature of the universe is 2.7 Kelvin. What is that temperature in degrees Fahrenheit?
  • The Milky Way has a radius of approximately 100,000 light years. How many miles is that? How long would it take you to travel across our galaxy if you were traveling at 50% the speed of light (be sure to show your work for full credit)?

Examine at least three key points that were made in the presentation. Did these elements make sense? Could they be accepted by the hospital?

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Compliance Presentation

Imagine that you are a hospital’s compliance officer, and you are charged with making a presentation to your hospital’s board of directors regarding the moral right to healthcare. Your presentation should include at least three of the elements learned throughout this course, which could include, but are not limited to: the Code of Ethics, resource allocation, Stark Law, medical malpractice, and cultural competency. For this discussion, begin by creating a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the issue of the moral right to healthcare.  Then, utilize the PowerPoint and create a presentation using a screencast program. Your presentation must include at least five slides (not including a cover slide and reference slide), utilize at least two scholarly sources, and be between 3 and 5 minutes long. Please post your references either on your last slide or within the discussion post. Please also post your link to your screencast as well as your actual PowerPoint presentation in the discussion forum.

Required Response I (Due by Day 5): Imagine that you are one of the board members listening to your compliance officer’s presentation. Respond with a minimum of 150 words to at least two colleagues’ cases in an appropriate matter by addressing the following:

  • Give your overall impression of the presentation. Was it clear and understandable?
  • Examine at least three key points that were made in the presentation.  Did these elements make sense?  Could they be accepted by the hospital?
  • Challenge your colleague regarding his or her presentation by questioning one or more of the key points in the presentation. Your question should not be able to be answered with a yes or no. Use phrases such as, “How can we…” “What do you think the response would be to…” and similar notations.

Required Response II (Due by Day 7): Your classmates will have posted questions to your original post. You are required to respond to their question in a scholarly manner. Use your research to support your response to the comments and question(s) they posed. Your response should be at least 100 words.

You may use Screenr, Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, or any other screencast program, however the use of a screencast program is required.

Using Screenr.com

Review the Screenr Quick-Start Guide and visit the Screenr.com website to get started.  You may view the Screenr demonstration video or contact Screenr Help directly for assistance using the software program.  If you find using Screenr to be difficult, you may elect to use a different screencast program.  Jing and Screencast-O-Matic are other good screencast resources that are free.  You may also search on your own to locate a program of your choice.  The use of a screencast program is required.

Examine the differences and similarities between the AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics requirements and the code requirements of the three hospitals that you researched.

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Review the three scenarios below. Choose one of them and address the questions asked within your selected scenario in the form of a written analysis.

Scenario No. 1: HIPAA Privacy Rule

Case Study: Imagine that you are the privacy officer for a small town hospital. You receive a report that there is a breach of privacy. You are informed that a 15-year-old girl is received at the emergency with an emergency labor. The baby is delivered in the emergency room as there is no time to move the patient to the obstetrics (OB) department. In addition to the emergency delivery, the baby is born with multiple medical problems. Once the mother and baby are moved to obstetrics and neonate, care is given to both.

The OB nurse who took care of the mother and baby completes her shift, and she goes home to her own daughter to have a talk with her. She sits her daughter down and pleads with the girl to tell her if she ever has any problems, especially when it comes to pregnancy. The nurse tells her daughter the story about the young patient who delivered that evening, and she accidentally mentions the patient’s name. The patient’s name is one of those odd names that immediately triggers the nurse’s daughter to relay that she knows the patient. The mother/nurse, realizing that she made a big mistake by mentioning the patient’s name, pleads with her daughter not to say anything. Needless to say, word shoots through the four high schools in the town the next day.

The nurse returns to work the following evening, and she contacts you to hand in her badge and keys, stating that she knows she made a mistake by breaching the young patient’s privacy and she knows she is going to be fired. In addition to the breach of the obstetrics nurse, you learn that the patient hid her pregnancy from her family, and to make matters worse, her aunt and mother are both nurses at the hospital. You know both of these nurses on a professional and personal level.

Scenario No. 1 HIPAA Privacy Rule Project Assignment:

Research the HIPAA Privacy Rule here:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2002). Standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information; Final Rule. Federal Register, 67(157), 53182-53273. Retrieved fromhttp://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/privacyrule/privrulepd.pdf.

Then, perform additional research regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule and prepare your Final Paper by analyzing the issues through these questions in regards to the above scenario:

  1. Analyze the specific requirements needed to perform this investigation.
  2. Identify whether this incident was an actual breach of privacy according to the HIPAA law.
  3. Examine the differences and similarities between the hospital’s stance and HIPAA as to whether the nurse should be fired from her job.
  4. Explain why you would fire or not fire the nurse immediately or whether you would put her on administrative leave awaiting the details of the investigation.

Scenario No. 2: DNR

Project Assignment: Review your State Government’s website and search for its official Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Form. Along with the form will be information and instructions regarding the form. In addition, research three area hospitals to determine if they provide separate DNR forms. Then, perform additional research regarding DNR and prepare your Final Paper by analyzing the issues through these steps:

  1. Analyze the requirements of your State Government’s DNR.
  2. Identify the requirements of the three hospital’s DNRs.
  3. Examine the differences and similarities between the state’s and the three hospital’s DNR requirements, and address the following questions:
    • What are they?
    • Which one should you follow?
  4. Explain how a DNR is applied if a patient is under hospice care and EMTs are called.

Scenario No. 3: Institutional Code of Ethics

Project Assignment: Codes of ethics are standards that outline how individuals or groups of people are to act. The healthcare/medical community has its own code of ethics, which is outlined in the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics. Review the following:

  1. AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics here:American Medical Association. (2013).  AMA’s code of medical ethics. Retrieved from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics.page.
  2. Three local or regional hospitals’ codes of ethics.
  3. Various scholarly research on healthcare codes of ethics  (at least seven additional sources).

Then, prepare your Final Paper by analyzing the issues through these steps:

  1. Analyze the specific requirements of a code of ethics.
  2. Identify three critical elements of the AMA’s code that you believe are most important.
  3. Examine the differences and similarities between the AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics requirements and the code requirements of the three hospitals that you researched.
  4. Explain why certain individuals and/or groups (please name these) should follow a hospital’s code of ethics.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

  1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length, excluding title and reference pages, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  2. Must include a title page with the following:
    1. Title of paper
    2. Student’s name
    3. Course name and number
    4. Instructor’s name
    5. Date submitted
  3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
  4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
  5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
  6. Must use at least eight scholarly sources (not including the course text) that were published within the last five years, including a minimum of four sources from academic journals found in the Ashford University Library.
  7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.