Assessment of Barriers and Recognition of Positive Behaviors

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Assessment of Barriers and Recognition of Positive Behaviors

Objectives

• Determine barriers to achieving the health outcome
• Promote positive behaviors for change to achieve health outcomes

Assignment Overview

In this assignment, you will assess a client and identify strengths and barriers from the assessment data.

Deliverables

1. A three-page (750-word) paper that summarizes the identified assessment data and the positive strengths and identified barriers for that data

a. Select a volunteer.

Select a volunteer from your friends. Identify the client by initials and age.

b. Identify the client’s desired behavior change.

Assess and describe the characteristics of the life span stage, including physical and psychosocial attributes identified in the selected client that support the desired behavior change.

c. Write a paper that analyzes the client’s data.

In your paper, respond to the following prompts:
• Identify the strengths of the client that will contribute to a successful health behavior change. Describe these characteristics of the client and the social support system.
• Identify and explore the barriers of the client that will impact successful achievement of the desired behavior change. Describe the underlying cause of the barriers.
• Describe methods to overcome the barriers in achieving the desired outcome.

Analyze two current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact your hiring decision as HR manager.

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Due Week 4 and worth 240 points

Imagine that you have applied for the position of Manager of Human Resources at an acute care hospital in your community. The hospital is planning to expand its services to meet the needs of a growing community. As part of the application screening process, you have been asked to write a document that outlines the steps you would take, as the manager of HR, to improve the effectiveness of HRM in this organization. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: Analyze two (2) current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact your hiring decision as HR manager. Provide support for your analysis. Suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization. Justify your response. Recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question. Provide support for your recommendation. Recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal. Determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community. Provide support for your rationale. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Evaluate forecasting strategies and methods.

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Using the Northern College Health Services visit volume in Appendix 6-1 on page 113 of the textbook, for this assignment, you will be providing a forecast of the number of clinic visits for November 2008 using the average change, confidence interval, average percent change, moving averages, and exponential smoothing forecasting methods. Use the Internet or Strayer Library to research at least two (2) examples of the forecasting methods being used in health services organizations.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

Explain each step in the forecasting process for each method. Provide a brief summary of your researched health services organizations implementing the forecasting methods. Provide a forecast of the number of clinic visits for November 2008 using each method of the forecasting process. Conclude which forecasting method provides the best forecast, and provide a rationale for your conclusion. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Evaluate forecasting strategies and methods. Use technology and information resources to research issues in quantitative methods for health services. Write clearly and concisely about quantitative methods for health services using proper writing mechanics.

What could have been done to improve the outcomes with the client? How was the intervention empowering? How may it have been discriminatory or oppressive?

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I. Client Situation. (10 points)
2-3 pages
Describe the client system. (e.g., individual, family, other small group, larger group, team, program, agency,
organization or community) and the client’s situation that is the reason for your intervention. Include a
discussion of how this client’s situation fits into your area of specialization. For example, if your area of
specialization is mental health, describe how the client’s issues/concerns fit the definition of mental health,
mental illness, and/or mental well-being.
II. Apply, synthesize and analyze knowledge, theory, and skills in relation to the client system
A. Human Behavior and the Social Environment (10 points)
2-3 pages
Select and describe one or more of the most relevant HBSE theories that contribute to the client’s
issues and concerns.
Briefly explain the theory and how this theory is relevant to your client’s area of concern/problem
situation.
B. Social Policy (15 points)
3-4 pages
Select and describe one or more of the most relevant social policies relevant to the practice
situation. This policy section refers to state and federal policies (laws, court decisions, or
regulations), not agency policy. Be sure to cite the laws and policies correctly (as you should with all
literature you reference).
Briefly explain the policy and how it is relevant to your client’s area of concern/problem situation.
Use a policy analysis model to analyze the effectiveness of the policy for the general client group
you have chosen and then your client specifically. Include carefully referenced literature sources
including books; peer-reviewed journal articles; research studies; government documents, reports
and data; and web sites. While this is not expected in the space available to be a full policy analysis,
you should draw on one of the policy analysis models with which you are familiar, and reference the
model fully.
Based on your analysis, what would you advocate in terms of policy review, application, formulation,
or revision?
III. Engaging, Assessing, Intervening, and Evaluating Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations,
and Communities
In this section you will demonstrate your ability to apply interventions from your area of specialization to the
client situation.
A. Engagement (10 points)
2-3 pages
Describe how you did engage the client in the assessment and intervention. What specific skills did you use to
engage the client?
B. Assessment (15 points)
3-4 pages
Describe your efforts to collect, organize and interpret information about the client. What are the client’s
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strengths and limitations?
Your assessment should include a discussion of relevant issues of age, class, color, disability, ethnicity, family
structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, stigma, and/or sexual orientation as
applicable to your client. Be sure that your discussion of diversity links well with the client and or client
situation.
Discuss how the issues of social and economic justice and human and civil rights may relate to this specific
practice situation.
C. Intervention (15 points)
3-4 pages
Present a mutually developed and agreed upon intervention strategy with specific goals and
objectives. Provide a rationale for your selection.
Describe your intervention from beginning to end, including termination. How did you help the
client prevent or resolve problems? How did you negotiate mediate and advocate for your client.
Select and discuss at least 3 practice skills (micro/macro) used in your intervention with the client.
Write a critique of your work with the client. What did you do well in terms of the intervention?
What could have been done to improve the outcomes with the client? How was the intervention
empowering? How may it have been discriminatory or oppressive?
Provide a discussion of whether the intervention was developed from a theoretical practice model. If
so, which practice theory? If not, what practice theory could have been used to facilitate better
outcomes? Regardless, analyze and provide evidence-based knowledge about the theory-based
intervention (used or proposed) and its effectiveness.
D. Evaluation (15 points)
3-4 pages
Select one of the methods used to evaluate change and improvement with clients/client systems
(single subject, pretest/posttest or other). Provide a rationale for the evaluation method you
selected. Describe the method and how you would facilitate using that method to collect data to
assess change and improvement.
IV. Conclusion (10 points)
2-3 pages
Critically review your practice situation and intervention as an external observer and comment on the
following:
Identify and describe one or more potential ethical and values issues related to this practice situation. Be sure
to reference the NASW Code of Ethics in your discussion.
Discuss how this assignment raises issues of professional strengths and challenges.
Formulate a plan for lifelong professional learning and continuing education.