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Visit the website of the Congressional Budget Office (http://www.cbo.gov) and find the U.S. Federal deficit (surplus) and total debt.

 

As late as 1992, the United States was running budget deficits of nearly $300 billion. During the remainder of the 1990’s, deficits declined and became surpluses. As the new century began, these surpluses again turned into deficits.

 

Explain the decline in deficits and subsequent surpluses in the late 1990’s.

Explain the return to deficit spending since the turn of the century.

Consider the causes of the deficits and surpluses and provide your own insight as to whether these surpluses or deficits have a “positive” or “negative” effect on our economy.

Prior to completing this discussion, please read Modules 10.6 and 15.1 in the textbook, watch the Environmental and Genetic Influences on Intelligence video, and review any relevant Instructor Guidance.     http://searchcenter.intelecomonline.net/playClipDirect.aspx?id=4870EEC7664070BBE995401AB5C129A1BAB9DCAB9E785EA58BE17CDD92FB806C7906AC9DEC494E0444B2807322542BF6

 

 

In this post, you will explore the role of society and community agencies (more specifically, schools) in developing the optimum learning and pro-social behavior of children.  Explain the major themes of Montessori-style education and typical education formats for children.  Analyze child development research and theory by creating a bulleted list or table describing 3 benefits and 3 drawbacks of each style. Within your lists, consider and comment upon the developmental domains: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. In what ways does each style of education benefit or ignore each domain?  Explain the role of these in the development of optimum learning and pro-social behavior in children. Additionally, consider the stages of development from toddlerhood through adolescence.  In what ways are the educational needs of children and adolescen

repare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the concept of the self. Address the following items:

• Define the concept of the self in the social world.
• Apply the self to your life, including self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy.
• Describe at least two social experiences that affected your personal development.

Include at least two references in your paper.

Bullet your paper

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

.Proofread your paper.  Submissons with excessive writing errors will not be graded.

Before the digital revolution, health information technology supplied very limited support for evidence-based practice. If nurses wanted to be informed about cutting-edge research, their best bet was to either subscribe to leading journals or make periodic trips to the library. With the establishment of research databases, however, nurses became empowered to learn about and facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research. Databases are just one example of how health information technology supports evidence-based practice.

To prepare:

• Read the following scenario from the text (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2011, p. 482):
  • Twelve-hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse safety, and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine, 2004) published a report that referred to studies as early as 1988 that discussed the negative effects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy. Workers with 12-hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8-hour shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu, and Aygun (2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were age of 24 or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical intensive care units, and working for more than 8 hours.
• Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above could influence an organization’s practice.
• Select an issue in your practice that is of concern to you. Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform further action.

Follow these for my assignment outline:

1. A description of your practice concern.

2. Outline how you used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that address this concern.

3. Cite and include insights from the resources.

4. Analyze how health information technology supports evidence-based practice.

*Please use articles/references only from the period of 2011 to 2016… Make 2-3

Data collection is an important part of both quantitative and qualitative research. Although the actual approach to gathering information may vary, for either research design, researchers need to plan in advance how the data will be gathered, reported, and stored, and they need to ensure that their methods are both reliable and valid. As nurses review research when considering a new evidence-based practice, it is important to be familiar with sound collection practices in order to ascertain the credibility of the data presented.

Consider the following scenario:

Nurses and other health care professionals are often interested in assessing patient satisfaction with health care services. Imagine that you are a nurse working in a suburban primary care setting that serves 10,000 patients annually. Your organization is very interested in understanding the patient’s point of view to help determine areas of care that can be improved. With this focus in mind, consider how you would create a survey to assess patient satisfaction with the services your organization provides. You may wish to consider variables such as the ease of accessing care, patient wait time, friendliness of the staff, or the likelihood that a patient would recommend your organization to others.

For this Discussion, you generate questions and an overall plan for data collection that would be appropriate for a patient satisfaction survey in relation to the above scenario.

To prepare:

• Consider the guidelines for generating questions presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review the scenario and formulate at least five questions that you could use to evaluate patient satisfaction.
• Reflect on the different methods or instruments that can be used for gathering data described in Chapter 13 and Chapter 22 of the course text. Which methods or instruments would work well for the scenario?
• Determine an appropriate sample size for the scenario.

Please answer these as your outline for my assignment:

1. The questions that you created for gathering information about patient satisfaction based on the above scenario.
2. Explain which method or instrument you would use to gather data.
3. Describe the sample size appropriate for the population and how you would select participants.
4. Provide a rationale for your choices, and explain how you can ensure high standard of reliability and validity.

All articles/references must be from the period of 2011 to 2016. Make 2-3 pages… Thank you.

*This is for Masters of Science in Nursing.

• Instagram and Pinterest allow businesses to use pictures to create interest for their companies. Create a strategy for using Instagram and Pinterest to draw people in for a company event.  Discuss why you have created the strategy that you have. How would you try to bring awareness to a business by using Instagram and Pinterest?

• Through Instagram and Pinterest, visual marketing is clearly on the rise. How do you think marketers could leverage visual marketing within their marketing plans? What target market do you believe will be most receptive to visual marketing? Defend your answer.

• Instagram and Pinterest allow businesses to use pictures to create interest for their companies. Create a strategy for using Instagram and Pinterest to draw people in for a company event.  Discuss why you have created the strategy that you have. How would you try to bring awareness to a business by using Instagram and Pinterest?

• Through Instagram and Pinterest, visual marketing is clearly on the rise. How do you think marketers could leverage visual marketing within their marketing plans? What target market do you believe will be most receptive to visual marketing? Defend your answer.

Use this rubric for the following Applications: Factorial ANOVA (Week 3), ANOVA with Repeated Measures (Week 4), ANCOVA (Week 5), Multiple Regression (Week 6), Linear Multiple Regression (Week 7), Odds Ratio (Week 8), Logistic Regression (Week 9), Cronbach’s Alpha (Week 11).    

 

During several weeks of the term, you will be required to run statistics problems using SPSS. The website of the primary textbook author provides answers to most questions to help guide you as you work. However, you will be required to document your work and submit it as a package to your instructor. Please use this document as guidance for submitting your PASW weekly applications. Note that each assignment is worth 50 points; point assignments are indicated next to each indicator.

Create a master MS Word document (you should only be submitting ONE document each week). Label it in accordance with the convention described in your syllabus. Inside of this document, include the following information.

1. (5 pts) State the underlying assumptions for the statistical test.
2. (5 pts) State whether the assumptions have been met.  If the assumptions were not met (either in actuality or hypothetically), state what alternatives you have available to you.
3. (5 pts) State the null and alternative (research) hypotheses.
4. (5 pts) Copy your syntax file and paste it into your MS Word Document.
5. (5 pts) For your output file: Select all à Copy all objects à Paste into your MS word document. This will ensure that your output is in a form that your instructor can read.
6. (10 pts) Create a results table consistent with requirements from the APA style manual.
7. (10 pts) Report the results using correct APA format.
8. For ANOVA, ANCOVA, and Repeated Measures ANOVA models, ensure that you provide interpretations for the main effects and interactions as well as any post-hoc tests.
9. For Multiple and Logistic Regression models, ensure that you include appropriate measures of model fit as well as the specific procedure used (e.g., Hierarchical, Enter, Stepwise, Forward, Backward).

 

8. (5 pts) Describe how you would compute the sample size to achieve 80% power, alpha = .05, and the appropriate effect size.

 

Logistic Regression

This week, you have continued your work with regression by using logistic regression. In this Application, you will perform a logistic regression analysis.

To prepare for this Application:

• Review Chapter 19 of the Field text for a description of the logistic multiple regression using PASW.
• Review Chapter 5 from the APA manual, “Displaying Results.”
• Review the media resources demonstrating the logistic regression.

The assignment:

Complete Smart Alex’s Task #6 on p. 812 to complete the logistic multiple regression analysis exercise using the condom.sav dataset from the Field text. You can follow the steps outlined on p. 799 as a guide. Report your findings in APA format according to the guidelines in the PASW Application Assignment Guidelines handout. The final document should be 2–3 pages long.

Weekly Thought Evaluations (WTEs). Each week, the instructor will ask for a 3-5 page paper on the current week’s topic. The content of the paper will respond to the topic by including a summary of the relevant chapter and/or readings and an application of that chapter material to the topic.

 

WTE 1

Today’s mainstream economists speak of “rational economic man” as the fundamental character of people, immutable across time and space, and the foundation of economic activity. Key characteristics of “rational economic man” are atomism, egoism, and rationality.

 

Describe each of these concepts. Then discuss whether these concepts apply across time and space

Workflow analysis aims to determine workflow patterns that maximize the effective use of resources and minimize activities that do not add value. There are a variety of tools that can be used to analyze the workflow of processes and clarify potential avenues for eliminating waste. Flowcharts are a basic and commonly used workflow analysis method that can help highlight areas in need of streamlining.

In this Assignment, you select a common event that occurs regularly in your organization and create a flowchart representing the workflow. You analyze the process you have diagrammed and propose changes for improvement.

To prepare:

• Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in your organization that you would like to evaluate.
• Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the current workflow.
• Consider what metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:

• Create a simple flowchart of the activity you selected. (Review the Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office document found in this week’s Learning Resources for an example.)
• Next, in your paper:

o    Explain the process you have diagrammed.

o    For each step or decision point in the process, identify the following:

• Who does this step? (It can be several people.)
• What technology is used?
• What policies and rules are involved in determining how, when, why, or where the step is executed?
• What information is needed for the execution of this step?

o    Describe the metric that is currently used to measure the soundness of the workflow. Is it effective?

o    Describe any areas where improvements could occur and propose changes that could bring about these improvements in the workflow.

o    Summarize why it is important to be aware of the flow of an activity.

Remember to include a cover page, introduction, and summary for your paper.

*Please follow the outline on the first uploaded file. Thank you.

*Reminder: Please use article/references/citation between the period of 2011-2016. Use APA format. Thank you.

 

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.

o    Chapter 16, “Nursing Informatics: Improving Workflow and Meaningful Use”

This chapter reviews the reasons for conducting workflow analysis and design. The author explains specific workflow analysis and redesign techniques.

Huser, V., Rasmussen, L. V., Oberg, R., & Starren, J. B. (2011). Implementation of workflow engine technology to deliver basic clinical decision support functionality. BMC Medical Research Methodology,11(1), 43–61.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

In this article, the authors describe an implementation of workflow engine technology to support clinical decision making. The article describes some of the pitfalls of implementation, along with successful and future elements.

Koppel, R., & Kreda, D. A. (2010). Healthcare IT usability and suitability for clinical needs: Challenges of design, workflow, and contractual relations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 157, 7–14.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article points to many health information technology designs and workflow decisions that limit their value and usage. The authors also examine the structure of the conceptual relationships between HIT vendors and the clinical facilities that purchase HIT.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.b). Workflow assessment for health IT toolkit.  Retrieved, June 18, 2012, fromhttp://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/health_it_tools_and_resources/919/workflow_assessment_for_health_it_toolkit/27865

This article supplies a toolkit on the planning, design, implementation, and use of health information technology. The sections of the website provide a definition of workflow, examples of workflow tools, related anecdotes, and research.

Document: Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office (Word document)

Note: You will use this document to complete this week’s Assignment.

Media

• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012f).System design and workflow. Baltimore, MD: Author.

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.

  This video provides an overview of how workflow modeling can be used in a health care setting to target areas for revising current practices and procedures. The video also shows how technology and informatics can be used to improve workflow efficiency and increase the quality of care.

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