Case 10: Pleasant Bluffs: Launching a Home-Based Hospital Program – Laura Erskine, PhD

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In order to successfully respond to circumstances in your healthcare organization, you must first be able to appraise your organization, its mission, its vision, and its values. To provide you with experience doing this, you will assess the situation as described in your selected case study.

Read your case study carefully and develop a short paper that provides a summary of the case study. In the summary, be sure to address the following:

  1. Provide a brief summary of the circumstances and the problem(s) faced by the healthcare organization. Highlight details you believe to be of particular relevance.
  2. Provide an interpretation of the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Consider how the industry, the organization, and/or the stakeholders define key terms within the organization’s mission, vision, and values and how the definitions clarify the meaning.
  3. Discuss how the organization’s interpretation of its mission, vision, and values impacts the circumstance it faces. Consider how the mission and vision relate to the situation outlined in the case study.

THIS IS THE CASE STUDY

Case 10: Pleasant Bluffs: Launching a Home-Based Hospital Program – Laura Erskine, PhD

To successfully complete this assignment, view the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric document.

This short paper should be between 1 and 3 pages, not including cover page and references. This paper should be in APA format.

ORIGINAL WORK ONLY

I NEED THE WORK DONE BEFORE 10:30 PM SUNDAY NIGHT NO LONGER THAN THAT

Describe two ways that social science research helps to design good public policies.

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Public policy is one way that society addresses social problems through the use of laws and regulations adopted by governments.  In this discussion, review the American Sociological Association article Sociology and Public Policy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and address the following:

1. Consider and explain the following statement, “Public policy is both what government does and what it does not do” (Theodoulou & Kofinis, 2012).

2. What determines whether a policy is enacted or not?

3. Who holds the power and authority to create, enact and/or change public policy?

4. What is the difference between public versus private concerns in relation to policy making and the government’s role in this process?

5. Describe two ways that social science research helps to design good public policies.  Why are social science research skills important for analyzing the impact of existing policies?

Your initial post should be at least 300 words in length. Support your points with scholarly references, appropriate citations, and full references at the conclusion of your post. Cite your sources in APA format.

http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/apr09/asa-forum_0409.html

https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUSOC320.13.1/sections/sec1.2

Describe each of the musical elements in response to this piece

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Please watch and listen to the tone poem “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by conductor Gustavo Dudamel and Berlin Philharmonic.

Describe each of the musical elements in response to this piece. Read the relevant chapter and attached the summary of elements of music and use language that describes each unique element of music.

Below are examples:

1. Rhythm  – type of meter, time/meter signature, syncopation, etc

2. Melody – whether based on major, minor, chromatic scale, stepwise motion or leaps, etc

3. Harmony – Consonance , Dissonance, etc

4. Color (Timbre) – Men and Women’s voice, Instruments, Dynamics, etc

5. Texture  – Monophony, Homophony, Polyphony

How can policy makers promote implementation and also obstruct implementation?

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Reading Assignments

· Read the book by Larry Gerston, Chapter 5

· Read the attached PDF by Garry Brewer, The Foundations of Policy Analysis, The Dorsey Press, Chicago, 1983, Chapter 9: Factors Influencing Implementation (see the attached PDF)

· Read the attached PDF by Thomas Birkland, The Policy Process, M.E.Sharpe, New York, 2005, Chapter 8, Policy Implementation and Failure (see attached PDF)

· Read the attached PDF by Paul Sabatier, The Conditions Of Effective Implementation, pages 382-391, Stillman, Richard, Public Administration Concepts And Cases, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1996. (Skim for concepts as the language is a little challenging). To retrieve this article just click on the title.

Written Assignments

Write 3 pages answering the following questions: What are three reasons why the policy implementation process fails?  How can policy makers promote implementation and also obstruct implementation?

Please include an introduction, the body and conclusion. Also label each question as a title like you have been doing in all my previous assignments.

Also read the grade rubric I attached and make sure everything is covered for maximum points.