Imagine that you are a director at a nursing home facility. You are discussing the needs of, and the changes facing, later adults to a potential client’s family. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word report in which you describe personality and social development in later adulthood to the potential client’s family. Address the following…
A hospital has contracted with an HMO to provide acute care inpatient services for $1,000 per day, subject to a 10 percent withhold. The proposed budget for inpatient services is based upon expected utilization of 600 days per 1,000 members at $1,000 per day, or $600,000 per 1,000 members. The hospital risk pool will be…
1. 38-year old Sonya is a nursing student who has a heavy, demanding schedule. She has two children and is a single parent. She also works as a full-time manager at a call center. She is trying to change careers in order to make more money to support herself and her children. She also wants…
Question 1 What are the four key health behaviors which can improve the quality of later life for Americans? Why are these so important? Provide specific examples. Your response should be at least 300 words in length. You must use at least one scholarly source other than and including your text book to complete…
1. An accounting system that collects financial and operating data on the basis of the underlying nature and extent of the cost drivers is a. Direct costing. c. Cycle-time costing. b. Activity-based costing. d. Variable costing. 2. The resource utilized by a given product divided by the total amount of the resource available is…
The health care team is at the “sharp end” of service delivery. Members of the health care team are most qualified to analyze problems, generate solutions, and implement and evaluate change. Teamwork is vital to the success of the health care system. Health care administrators must know how to form highly functioning health care teams….
After completing this week’s reading, consider the following statement: Never before has nursing been so important to a health care organization. Nurses are responsible for upholding the public’s trust as well as their health care organization’s reputation and its financial viability. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not? Provide at…
Demonstrate skills in using patient-care technologies, information systems, and communication devices that support safe nursing practice. Use telecommunication technologies to assist in effective communication in a variety of healthcare settings Apply safeguards and decision-making support tools embedded in patient care technologies and information systems to support a safe practice environment for both patients and healthcare…
Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky’s developmental theories offer us two frameworks for understanding our cognitive processing as we age. Aspects of cognition, such as information processing, attention, or memory can be different in childhood as compared to senior adulthood. To prepare for this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider what Piaget and Vygotsky had…
What sections of the Nursing Practice Act and the Board rules address documentation? The nurse can not make more staff magically appear. What could the nurse have done, under this circumstance, to improve documentation and perhaps avoid being reported to the Board? (note: In the real case upon which this scenario is built, the nurse…
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research. Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives. Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library. Validate an idea with your own experience…
Students should introduce the bioethical issue (Heroin Abuse: Nurses Confronting a Growing Trend) to include key concepts, decision making, a theoretical framework model and the significance of the decision in nursing. Discuss what concepts are highlighted and the effects on the nurse or the nursing profession. Only Nursing scholar journal in USA should be use…