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Review the Global Education and Global Citizenship video and read the article “A Model of Global Citizenship: Antecedents and Outcomes” by Stephen Reysen and Iva Katzarska-Miller. Please take some time to reflect on how the concept of global citizenship has shaped your identity and respond to the following prompts:

• Based on the video, explain the importance of educating others on global citizenship.
• Address each of the following outcomes of global citizenship as they pertain to the development of your own identity: intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and the level of responsibility to act for the betterment of this world (found in the article). Explain how your environment influences these outcomes.
• Provide at least two personal examples or events in your life that illustrate the development of global citizenship based on the outcomes.
• Analyze how your general education courses influenced you to become a global citizen.
• Demonstrate critical thinking by accurately interpreting the evidence (scholarly sources) provided.

Your paper

• Must be at least 750 words in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must cite at least the two sources used for this assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Learning Organization Paper

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper analyzing the characteristics of a learning organization and its applications in a global environment.

Outline Senge’s five disciplines and their applications.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Provide at least 2 references.

No plagiarism!!

Managed Care Organizations and Information Technology

The most important function of information technology (IT) for the managed care organization (MCO) is to support the business of the MCO. How the IT department aligns with the operational dynamics of the MCO is a vital management consideration. A well-functioning IT department will help the MCO reduce risk (e.g., costs). The IT department should design, implement, and operate the systems that run the MCO. Efficiency is the hallmark of a good system.

Your task as the manager of the MCO is to determine what the IT department in your organization should consist of, what its function will be, and what critical elements will be turned over to the IT department. Complete the following:

• Describe the key elements of an information system for an MCO. What elements are different than for a physician office or group?
• Describe the technology that you think the MCO would need to operate fully.
• Propose a specific electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) program that is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant. Describe the essential functions, costs, and projected savings for the MCO.
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of insourcing versus outsourcing your IT needs, and make a final recommendation based on that evaluation.

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation explaining the advantages and disadvantages of twisted pair cabling and fiber optics as well as the importance of wireless communication in today’s business environment.

INFO498 Final Case Studies Name______________________________

Instructions:
Your essays will be graded on content to include grammar and spelling. Each case should take 1-2 pages including diagrams. The essay answers for both #2 and #3 should be 500 to 700 words each, in order to completely answer the questions. Please submit as one document.

Assignment:
#1. Forest Point Construction (System Planning)
a. What is the correct total time?

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b. Create a Gantt chart that shows the WBS.

c. What is the critical path?

#2. Atrium Bio-Medical Supply, Inc. (System Analysis)
a. What options does Atrium have for acquiring a new system?

b. What are the pros and cons of in-house development versus purchasing a system?
c. If the decision is made to purchase a new system, what are three options for customizing the software?

d. Based on Part C of the Systems Analyst’s Toolkit, what financial analysis tools should you use to evaluate the software acquisition options for Atrium? Explain how you would apply each of the tools.
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#3. Nothing But Net (System Design)
a. Should an organization choose a new system based on client/server architecture? Why or why not?

b. Explain the pros and cons of thick or thin client characteristics.

c. What is the difference between physical and logical topology? Provide examples.

d. Will mobile devices replace desktop system units and traditional laptop computers? How would networks have to change if that were to happen?

Assignment Instructions

Legal and Ethical Conduct

As emphasized in this week’s media presentation, all nurses need to be familiar with the laws and regulations that govern their practice: their state’s Nurse Practice Act, ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, specialty group standards of practice, etc. In addition, basic ethical principles guide nurses’ decision-making process every day. ANA’s Code of Ethics and ANA’s Social Policy Statement are two important documents that outline nurses’ ethical responsibilities to their patients, themselves, and their profession. This said, there is a dilemma: The laws are not always compatible with the ethical positions nurses sometimes take. This week’s Discussion focuses on such a dilemma.

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the information in the media presentation about the relationship between the law and ethics.
• Consider the ethical responsibility of nurses in ensuring patient autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice.
• Read the following scenario:

  Lena is a community health care nurse who works exclusively with HIV-positive and AIDS patients. As a part of her job, she evaluates new cases and reviews confidential information about these patients. In the course of one of these reviews, Lena learns that her sister’s boyfriend has tested HIV positive. Lena would like to protect her sister from harm and begins to consider how her sister can find out about her boyfriend’s health status.

• Consult at least two resources to help you establish Lena’s legal and ethical position. These resources might include your state’s Nurse Practice Act, the ANA’s Code of Ethics, ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, and internal or external standards of care.
• Consider what action you would take if you were Lena and why.
• Determine whether the law and the ANA’s standards support or conflict with that action.

Post by Day 3 a description of the actions you would take in this situation, and why. Justify these actions by referencing appropriate laws, ethical standards, and professional guidelines.

Required Resources

Readings

• Milstead, J. A. (2013). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  • Chapter 4, “Government Regulation: Parallel and Powerful” (pp. 73–109)

    This chapter explains the major concepts of the regulation of health professionals, with emphasis on advanced practice nurses (APN) and the process of licensure and credentialing.

• ANA’s Foundation of Nursing Package– (Access this resource from the Walden Library databases through your NURS 6050 Course Readings List)
  • Guide to the Code of Ethics: Interpretation and Application

    This guide details the history, purpose and theory, application, and case studies of this must-have Code of Ethics.

  • Nursing Social Policy Statement

    The Nursing Social Policy Statement provides an understanding of the social framework and obligations of the nursing profession.

  • Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice

    This book contains several national standards of practice that can be used to inform the decision-making process, development, implementation, and evaluation of several functions and aspects of advanced practice nursing.

• Gallagher, T. H. (2009). A 62-year-old woman with skin cancer who experienced wrong-site surgery: Review of medical error. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(6), 669–677.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  The article showcases the different sides of medical error, from a 62-year-old patient who suffered and the components of the medical error’s impact and aftermath.

• Reinhardt, U. E. (2010, Jan 30). Repercussions of simplicity. New York Times, p. A14.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article determines that the government should take low-income families into account when determining mandatory health insurance because many Americans choose to go without insurance despite preexisting conditions presumably no longer being an issue.

• Board on Health Care Services. (2007). Preventing medication errors: Quality Chasm Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11623&page=43
  • Part 1, “Understanding the Causes and Costs of Medication Errors” (pp. 43–49)
• This article discusses the multilayered nature of medication error as a system of failures due to individual behaviors and conditions.

Media

• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012f). Legal and ethical aspects of healthcare delivery. Baltimore, MD: Author.

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.

  Accessible player–Downloads–Download Video w/CCDownload AudioDownload Transcript

HITECH Legislation

In order for organizations to receive the incentives offered through the HITECH legislation, they must be able to demonstrate that they are using the technology in meaningful ways. The following criteria for meaningful use must be evident to qualify for EHR incentives (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2012). The technology must:

• Improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and reduce health disparities
• Engage patients and families
• Improve care coordination
• Improve population and public health
• Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information

For this Discussion you consider the impact of the meaningful use criteria of the HITECH legislation on the adoption of health information technology.

To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources on the HITECH legislation and its primary goals.
• Reflect on the positive and negative impact this legislation has had on your organization or one with which you are familiar.
• Consider the incentives to encourage the use of EHRs. Focus on the definition of meaningful use and how it is measured.
• Reflect on how the incentives and meaningful use impact the quality of patient care.
• Find an article in the Walden Library dealing with one of the criteria to qualify for meaningful use and how it has been successfully met.

Post on or before Day 3 a description of how HITECH legislation has positively or negatively impacted your organization. Address how its related incentives influence the adoption of health information technology in health care and impact the quality of patient care. Provide a summary of the article you identified and explain how it demonstrates the ability of health information technology to meet the requirements of meaningful use.

Required Resources

Readings

• McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2012). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 10, “Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: HITECH and HIPAA”

    This chapter explores two pieces of legislation that dramatically impact nursing informatics: the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

• Arlotto, P. (2010). 7 strategies for improving HITECH readiness. hfm(Healthcare Financial Management), 64(11), 90–96.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article reviews seven strategies to help prepare for the implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). The central point of the article focuses on demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records.

• Begum, R., Smith Ryan, M., Winther, C. H., Wang, J. J., Bardach, N. S., Parsons, A. H., & … Adams Dudley, R. (2013). Small Practices’ Experience With EHR, Quality Measurement, and Incentives. American Journal Of Managed Care, 19eSP12-8.

  This article presents a study of clinician’s attitudes toward the use of financial incentives for the implementation of electronic health records in small practices.

• Brown, B. (2010). The final rules for meaningful use of EHRs. Journal of Health Care Compliance, 12(5), 49–50.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  In this article, the author poses four questions pertaining to the EHR system in the United States. In particular, the article examines Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments and the ways the meaningful use of certified EHRs will be verified.

• Classen, D. C., & Bates, D. W. (2011). Finding the meaning in meaningful use. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(9), 855–858.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article details the challenges of meeting the meaningful use standards in order to receive the benefits legislated under the HITECH Act. The authors specify the requisites for achieving benefits with EHRs, the relationship between meaningful use and commercial EHRs, and the tools needed to evaluate EHRs after implementation.

• Kempfert, A. E., & Reed, B. D. (2011). Health care reform in the United States: HITECH Act and HIPAA privacy, security, and enforcement Issues. FDCC Quarterly, 61(3), 240–273.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  The authors of this article examine HITECH, in addition to the impact of the privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The article details the potential negative repercussions of failing to comply with HIPAA and HITECH.

• Murphy, J. (2010b). Nursing informatics. The journey to meaningful use of electronic health records. Nursing Economic$, 28(4), 283–286.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article reviews HITECH and the background leading up to its passage. The author also details the financial incentives intended to assist health care providers in purchasing and implementing HIT and EHR systems.

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Optional Resources

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2011). Health IT home.  Retrieved from http://www.healthit.gov/
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2012).Regulations and guidance. Retrieved from http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/health-it-rules-regulations

• 3 page scanerio 11 year old girl going through puberty describe the person, the physical changes he or she experiences, and the effect of those changes on his or her sexuality, relationships, and self-concept.
• Describe the culture of the individual in the scenario and explain the influences of culture on the development of adolescence.
• Be specific and justify your response with citations from the Learning Resources to support the information embedded in your case study/scenario.
• References included

Original words only NO plagiarism!!! 

Topics are:

A. Connection of Theory to Philosophy, Values, Outcomes

B. Metaparadigm of Nursing Theory

C. Drivers of Nursing Theory

Instructions:

1. Develop a title page for your Nursing Theory Paper or Baccalaureate Essentials Project
2. Write an abstract that includes the purpose of the paper and an overview of key components that will be covered.
3. Develop a reference page that includes a citation of  1 textbook (not any course text), 1 web reference and, 1 peer reviewed journal article that supports the paper or project identified on the title page
4. Describe 2 key points from each resource, include in-text citations.
5. Submit as one document on Blackboard
6. Format
   1. First page- List APA Assignment in the Center of the page, followed by your name, credentials on the next line, and the date on the 3^rd line
   2. Second Page: Formatted Title Page for the Nursing Theory paper or the Baccalaureate Essentials Project
   3. Third Page: Abstract
   4. Fourth Page:  2 Key Points from each resource

Fifth Page: Reference page in APA format