Describe the specific focus of the initiative you are designing to address some aspect of your topic and explain what the goals of the initiative are.

Collaboration and Partnerships and Identifying Stakeholders

For this assignment, everything is written out already, but need it in paragraphs format.

This assignment is a part 2/2 assignment. Part 1 was completed and will be attached for reference.

The assignment instruction is as follow:

1, For this assignment, identify and describe the stakeholders you would recruit to be part of the collaborative effort based on the topic you worked on for the qualitative news analysis project (this part was completed by the student already…Please see the attachment to view. )

2. First, in a paragraph, describe the specific focus of the initiative you are designing to address some aspect of your topic and explain what the goals of the initiative are. In other words, what does your initiative wish to accomplish? Try to be as specific as possible in terms of what outcomes your initiative would hope to achieve and what target population it would be directed to.

Second, identify all of the stakeholders you would try to recruit to be part of your initiative. Be as specific as possible when identifying stakeholders although you do not have to identify individuals by name or organization. For example, you might select "someone from law enforcement" which would be too vague whereas "the chief of police from the community where this initiative will take place" would be specific enough. For each stakeholder, explain:

why you would want them to be part of your collaborative team

Indicate whether they are a primary, secondary, or key stakeholder

Indicate what their main interests in your initiative would be (be as specific as possible)

Indicate whether you would put them into the category of the promoter, defender, latent, or apathetic stakeholder and why.

Student idea: This is what I propose for the stakeholder initiative:

Initiative to Draft Dignity in Death Policy

This initiative aims to draft a dignity in death policy for New York State, to advocate for the adoption of this policy into law, and to educate citizens about the options available for people who are facing end-of-life challenges.

Paper will be graded based on the following:

The clarity of the description of your initiative

The thoroughness/completeness in identifying the stakeholder group

Specificity of identification of each stakeholder

Identification of each stakeholder as primary, etc.

Description of each stakeholder's main interests

Categorization and rationale of each stakeholder as a defender, etc.

What is the feasibility of developing an enlisted combat medic Primary Military Occupational Specialization (PMOS) within the USMC?

An exploratory analysis of cost effectiveness and feasibility of developing a Combat Medic Military Occupational Specialization within the United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is undergoing sweeping changes to confront the institution’s principal challenges, primarily due to appropriation divestiture cuts and the emergence of new global threats. The USMC Force Design 2030 policy seeks to modernize organizational culture within the Corps, divest in outdated warfare equipment, upgrade its technological inventory, and improve the quality of its human capital. The objective is to move towards becoming a light and lethal war organization, with a broader range of force options and capabilities to ultimately create the virtues of mass without the vulnerabilities of being cumbersome (Williams, 2020).

As currently constructed, USMC doctrine relies heavily upon expeditionary maneuver warfare, large-scale amphibious forcible entry, and sustained operations ashore (Augier & Barrett, 2020). This concept of operations presents healthcare delivery challenges due to the distances combatants travel from staged facilities with capabilities to lower Marine combat mortality. To overcome such obstacles, the U.S. Navy (USN) and USMC have developed highly mobile medical teams capable of bringing advanced medical and surgical care to the forward areas of the battlefield. Fleet Marine Force (FMF) U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) assigned to USMC battalions are purchased manpower commodities that deliver emergency medical intervention at the point of attack. Fleet Marine Force (FMF) HMs are front-line lifesavers and care extenders for Marine Infantryman and women. A highly accomplished and decorated enlisted rating within the U.S. Navy, FMF HMs attend an 8-week course, a mixture of classroom and field training, and field medicine using the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) (Kotwal et al., 2013). Despite the clinical and didactic education HMs are given to prepare for assignment with the operational forces, they are not trained Riflemen, nor are they permanently assigned to USMC billets throughout their Navy career.

With force restructuring taking place, is the status-quo medical support arrangement ideal for the USMC, or would the organization benefit from organically establishing and managing its own enlisted Combat Medic inventory?

Research questions: Describe the main question or problem you will address, and any secondary or sub-questions you may look into. Justify why this is an important topic to study.

What is the feasibility of developing an enlisted combat medic Primary Military Occupational Specialization (PMOS) within the USMC?

What would be the cost consideration in creating a combat medic PMOS expansion?

Are HMs currently delivering quality healthcare to USMC beneficiaries?

Discuss ethical issues that can arise in your study design.

Randomized Control Style

This assignment addresses design strategies and ethical issues associated with experimental studies.

Instructions

Design your own randomized controlled trial using the steps given in Chapter 8 of your textbook.

You can use the example of a drug study in which is it appropriate to use a placebo or you can choose your own topic.

Discuss ethical issues that can arise in your study design.

How will this volunteer activity have an impact on your life-long learning,professional practice,and future work?

Volunteer Activity Reflection

After your volunteer experience is concluded, write a two-page reflection on your experiences. The reflection should include the dates and hours you volunteered and the name(s) of the contact person or persons you worked with from the organization.

Explain what you did for your volunteer activity. Be sure to address all of the 8 following questions:

What did you learn about yourself, about the world, or about public or global health?

What people were you serving?

Identify (or create) a strategic objective and an intermediate indicator for the place you volunteered.

Did you see or experience anything unexpected? Explain in detail.

Was there some specific aspect of your experience that you found especially helpful?

What cross-cultural aspect was present in your volunteer work? Consider the content presented in When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert when answering this question.

How will this volunteer activity have an impact on your life-long learning,professional practice,and future work?

Would you volunteer again? Explain your answer.

Explain the legal parameters for patient rights and the role that Dr. S and Dr. V play in protecting those rights.

Stark Law

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 7 of the textbook and the article Stark and Anti-Kickback Laws Limit Lab-Marketing Methods, and review the web page Health Care Fraud News (Links to an external site.), the website Stark Law (Links to an external site.), and the handout The STARK Law. Then, review the following case study:

Two physicians, Dr. S. and Dr. V., leased a nuclear camera so they would no longer have to refer their patients to the local hospital for nuclear imaging. Faced with the prospect of losing over a third of its $2,274,094 in annual gross nuclear medicine revenues, the hospital responded by threatening to revoke the doctors’ admitting privileges. Lengthy negotiations ensued, at the end of which the hospital agreed to sublease the camera from the two physicians; the camera remained at the physicians’ offices but other physicians with privileges at the hospital could use it. Four other local physicians who provided the same or similar services to patients as Dr. S. and Dr. V. brought a qui tam action alleging that the sublease violated the Anti-Kickback and Stark Acts and that the defendants falsely certified compliance with those laws in connection with claims submitted to Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act.

(Please note: This is an actual court case and an Internet search may uncover the actual case details. You are prohibited from utilizing any source materials associated with this case. Use of any related materials will result in a reduction of points on this assignment. This assignment is being graded on your ability to think critically—on your own recognizance—based on your comprehension of the knowledge provided in this week’s learning materials.)

Carefully review Chapter 7 of your textbook and research Stark Law. Given this scenario,

Analyze whether the actions of Dr. S. and Dr. V. violated Stark Law.

Explain the legal parameters for patient rights and the role that Dr. S and Dr. V play in protecting those rights.

Explain the federal, statutory, or case laws that apply in this scenario.

Provide solid evidence supporting your decision by utilizing information from the University of Arizona Global Campus

Library as well as the law itself.

The Stark Law paper

Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
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 include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

How is this information connected to microbiology content studied in class?

Extra Credit Article Summaries

The purpose of this assignment is to write a summary on a news article or video about microbiology, microorganisms, or diseases caused by pathogens (virus, bacterium, protist, fungus, or helminth). Make sure to find and summarize your own articles – do not use the same article as another student, and do not copy from others. Each Summary is worth up to 6 points added to your lowest test grade.

Articles must be a news piece no more than 3 months old, and must have a length of at least 250 words. A news video must be at least 1.5 minutes. A general educational summary or encyclopedia-style article will not count – it must be current events news. Do not use articles posted or covered by the instructor.

Summary Format

Put the title, date the article was published, and source of the article as the heading of your summary.

First Paragraph: In 50 to 75 words, write a summary of the article. Describe what subjects the article talks about, but keep it concise!

Second Paragraph: Address the following questions: 1) “How is this information relevant to me?” and 2) “How is this information connected to microbiology content studied in class?” There is no word limit for this paragraph, but try to keep the entire abstract at 1-2 pages.

Bottom: Put the web browser URL of the article or video at the end. Double check the URL; if the article can’t be found, the abstract can’t be graded. You may wish to save a copy in case there is a problem.

How to Find Articles

When searching, use general terms if you get too few choices and specific terms if you get too many

News Web Sites: The Health and Science sections of Google News (news.google.com) are useful sites for current news. Reputable websites that post news articles should be used. Good examples are USA Today, ABC News, Reuters, Associated Press, WBTV, Charlotte Observer. Do not use newsletters, reviews, personal essays, social media, and websites that are unprofessional or ‘sketchy’. CCC’s Summon Tool: Go to http://clevelandcc.summon.serialssolutions.com This will take you to a page where you can type in what you are interested in, and pull up articles from multiple sources and databases. Can use on campus or off campus with username and password. Click on and download the articles you want to use. Be sure you save the complete article URL.

Sample Summary

Virus may affect memory decades later, study finds

October 23, 2006 – from Reuters

This article is about a family of viruses called neurovirulent picornaviruses and how they may affect the brain over time. The article talks about different types of related viruses and frequency of infections. The article also discusses results of tests conducted using infected mice. The article concludes by listing viruses presently known to kill brain cells.

This article is relevant to me because of my increased exposure to potential infection as an RN giving direct patient care. Even the common cold could be related; so good hand washing can make all the difference in control and prevention to other patients, my family and myself. It relates to viruses we studied that affect the nervous system, like rabies.Will definitely follow this as more information is discovered. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-10-23T181949Z_01_N23353127_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEMORY.xml&WTmodLoc=HealthNewsHome_C2_healthNews-3

Sample Article

Virus may affect memory decades later, study finds Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:20 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Forget where you left your glasses? Did those keys go missing again? Now you do not have to blame your spouse — a virus may be to blame.

A family of viruses that cause a range of ills from the common cold to polio may be able to infect the brain and cause steady damage, a team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota reported on Monday.

“Our study suggests that virus-induced memory loss could accumulate over the lifetime of an individual and eventually lead to clinical cognitive memory deficits,” said Charles Howe, who reported the findings in the journal Neurobiology of Disease.

The viruses are called picornaviruses and infect more than 1 billion people worldwide each year. They include the virus that causes polio, as well as colds and diarrhea. People contract two or three such infections a year on average.

“We think picornavirus family members cross into the brain and cause a variety of brain injuries. For example, the polio virus can cause paralysis,” Howe said.

“It can injure the spinal cord and different parts of the brain responsible for motor function. In the murine (mouse) virus we studied, it did the same thing and also injured parts of the brain responsible for memory.”

The Mayo Clinic infected mice with a virus called Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus, which is similar to human poliovirus.

Infected mice later had difficulty learning to navigate a maze. Some were barely affected, while others were completely unable to manage, and when the mice were killed and their brains examined, a correlating amount of damage was seen in the hippocampus region, related to learning and memory.

One virus particularly likely to cause brain damage is enterovirus 71, which is common in Asia, the researchers said. It can cross over into the brain and cause encephalitis, a brain inflammation that can lead to coma and death.

“Our findings suggest that picornavirus infections throughout the lifetime of an individual may chip away at the cognitive reserve, increasing the likelihood of detectable cognitive impairment as the individual ages,” the researchers wrote in their report.

“We hypothesize that mild memory and cognitive impairments of unknown etiology may, in fact, be due to accumulative loss of hippocampus function caused by repeated infection with common and widespread neurovirulent picornaviruses.”

Other viruses are known to kill brain cells, including the herpes virus and human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.

Describe the strategies that might be used and to consider all of the elements including Accessible, relevance,timeliness,and credibility of source among others.

Annual flu shot

Design an actual message to share with your classmates but it will also be necessary to describe the strategies that might be used and to consider all of the elements including Accessible, relevance,timeliness,and credibility of source among others.

The scenario for the discussion assignment: To develop messages encouraging students on a college campus to get an annual flu shot.

Tip: The message should be

Accessible – The audience should be able to access the information; communication should reach intended audience

Actionable – Audience should know what you want them to do; communication should move them toward action

Credible – Source should be trusted by audience

Relevant – Message should be something audience cares about or feels is relevant to them

Timely – Audience should have information they need when they need it

Understandable – Message should be easy for audience to understand

Demonstrate an understanding of the pathological changes,clinical features and assessment of acute and long-term medical conditions/disorders.

Diabetes Pre hospital care

Using 1 power point slide create a poster/teaching aid that

1 Demonstrates a detailed knowledge and understanding of human anatomy and physiology including all major body systems, structure, function, and homeostasis.

2 Demonstrates an understanding of the pathological changes,clinical features and assessment of acute and long-term medical conditions/disorders.

3 Analyses the body of knowledge which underpins the treatment and management principles of a range of medical conditions in order to select an appropriate plan of care.

Have attached the research have conducted for use, including both treatment pre hospital and in hospital have also included a similar Poster/teaching aid which created the other day that seemed to be up to standard in order to get a idea of what it should look similar to.

Lewis Chamberlain

How could you use behavioral economics to increase the number of insured employees in your firm?

1 Markets and government regulations are both needed to provide healthcare goods and services effciently and effectively. Do you agree. Justify your answer.

2 Give an example of a healthcare circumstance in which both public and private regulation are present. Which serves the consumers better and why?

3 Assuming you are the manager of a company, how could you use behavioral economics to increase the number of insured employees in your firm?

References

Lee, R. H. (2019). Economics for healthcare managers. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

What are the primary sources of bias in cohort studies?How can you control for this?

Write responses to the following prompts:

What are the primary sources of bias in case-control studies?How can you control for this?

What are the primary sources of bias in cohort studies?How can you control for this?

Compare and contrast effect modification with confounding.

In Assignment 7.1, you had to determine which type of study design is most appropriate to study the effects of stress across the life span of people who have a close family member with HIV/AIDS. Is there a potential for bias in the study design that you selected?