Describe how you will ensure rigour in the conduct and write up of the study.

Homeless intravenous drug users

You are a researcher employed at a private research firm. You have been tasked
with organising a number of focus groups with homeless intravenous drug users,
, to explore their experiences with, and attitudes to, a recently implemented
needle and syringe exchange programme in their city, to reduce the incidence of HIV
among IDUs. A non-governmental organisation , which provides services to
homeless IDUs in the city, will assist with the recruitment of prospective participants.
a) Briefly discuss FIVE key issues you would consider in the planning for the focus
group study. Include in your answer some detail on the materials you would
develop and prepare for use in the focus group, and other resources and
requirements for a successful focus group.
b) You want to convince the international development agency which funded the
research, and other partners, that your research is trustworthy. Describe how
you will ensure rigour in the conduct and write up of the study.
c) Bearing in mind that your findings will inform HIV policy initiatives, briefly
describe how you would analyse the data from the focus group interviews.
Include in your answer the reasons for your choice of analytic approach, and an
outline of the stages of that analytic approach.

Identify political issues in the scenario below and discuss how you would effectively and ethically handle the situation(s).

Evaluate a political issue in a health care scenario

This Competency Assessment assesses the following outcome(s):

Evaluate a political issue in a health care scenario.

Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within the field of Health Sciences.

Apply conflict management skills to resolve issues and/or build team alliances.

In this module, you will identify and evaluate the political health care issue facing healthcare administrators. In a 2-page summary, you will identify political issues in the scenario below and discuss how you would effectively and ethically handle the situation(s). Then apply two (2) conflict management skills you would use to resolve issues and/or build team alliances based on those decisions. Include two (2) academic references and submit your assignment in APA format.

Describe the issue and why and how it poses an ethical dilemma for healthcare providers and healthcare organizations? What ethical principle(s) would be applicable to the dilemma?

Organ tranplantion and artificial organs

Ethical dilemmas are those where there is neither an easy answer nor a decision that is absolutely the right one. Healthcare professionals must deal with these challenges based
on their training and knowledge of ethical principles and decision making. Choose an ethical dilemma from the list below and answer the questions that follow.

Organ transplantation and artificial organs

Describe the issue and why and how it poses an ethical dilemma for healthcare providers and healthcare organizations?

What ethical principle(s) would be applicable to the dilemma?

Describe the ethical decision-making steps used to come to an ethical decision?

With whom would a healthcare professional consult in coming to a decision?

How are your personal values challenged? What would be a personal bias or conflict of interest in resolving this dilemma?

Individual Project Rubric
The Individual Project (IP) Grading Rubric is a scoring tool that represents the performance expectations for the IP. This Individual Project Grading Rubric is divided into components that provide a clear description of what should be included within each component of the IP. It’s the roadmap that can help you in the development of your paper

How might patients and clinicians benefit from the features the app provides? What types of apps do you think would best support the health of priority communities?

Write a response to the discussion prompt in approximately 400 words, supported with at least one scholarly journal article, written within the last 10 years. Make sure to provide a link to the journal.
Include a discussion question at the end of your post for your peers to respond to.
be sure to use clear, professional, respectful, and inclusive language.
Provide word count on cover page

Discussion Prompt
Explore the SMART App Gallery at https://gallery.smarthealthit.org/ .
Select one app that you think is particularly interesting and describe it.
How might patients and clinicians benefit from the features the app provides?
What types of apps do you think would best support the health of priority communities?

Identify the best practice that you think is most essential for ensuring that an organization’s capital plan will be successful, and explain why you think it is most essential.

Capital planning 

You have been asked to represent your organization at the annual Healthcare Facilities Planning conference in Hawaii. Your specific assignment is to attend a presentation by Ray Dufresne on best practices for capital planning and, when you return, to tell your boss which of Dufresne’s practices you think is most essential for ensuring that your organization’s capital plan will be successful.

After reading Five Healthcare Construction Best Practices for Occupied Healthcare Facilities, identify the best practice that you think is most essential for ensuring that an organization’s capital plan will be successful, and explain why you think it is most essential. Support your discussion with evidence-based resources, written using APA format.

Compare the data you found about health behaviors and available public health programs.

Conduct research to identify health behaviors that are negatively affecting the community.
Use the following websites to find data about your community.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Assess Needs and Resources.
When using the Community Health Needs Assessment, first choose your location. Then choose “Health Behaviors” and run the report.
Use your city or county’s website and social media accounts to identify public health programs that are available to the community.

Part 2: Compare the Data
Compare the data you found about health behaviors and available public health programs.
Identify at least one (1) health behavior that is prevalent in your location that is not being adequately addressed.

Would you suggest a life-table approach or the Kaplan-Meier method for calculating observed survival over time? Why?Explain.

Expressing Prognosis

This week, you have learned about the natural history of disease as expressed by EPI curves. But while working with figures is integral to making key decisions, it is far from being in the position of making difficult choices. In this activity, you will be tasked with making determinations from the point of view of the epidemiologist on the ground.
In the Solve the Outbreak activity on the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/sto/web-app.html
Choose Level 1 to start. Begin going through the various scenarios, completing at least one of them and then working your scoring badge to achieve at least 5,000 points.
Afterwards, take a screenshot of your gaming badge with at least 5,000 points and submit it using the guidelines below along with the following:
Provide a brief overview of one of the scenarios you played through.
Describe which of the five ways you would select to describe prognosis in this scenario and why .
Would you suggest a life-table approach or the Kaplan-Meier method for calculating observed survival over time? Why?
Include a current scholarly citation in addition to your textbook to support your answers.