Instructions

In this assignment, you will be required to calculate descriptive statistics for each numeric variable in the Heart Rate Dataset.

Steps

1. Open the Heart Rate Dataset in Excel
2. Sort the quantitative variables by class (e.g., Male at-rest heart rate and Female at-rest heart rate)
3. Use the Excel Data Analysis ToolPak* tools to calculate each of the following statistics:
   1. Mean of each quantitative variable
   2. Sample variance of each quantitative variable
   3. Sample standard deviation of each quantitative variable
4. Create a table in Excel that summarizes the statistics for each variable.
5. Transfer your summary results to Word.
6. Interpret what the mean and standard deviation specifically tell you about the heart rates of males and females in the sample.  Are the heart rates for males or females higher?  Which data is more spread out, and which is closest to the overall mean rate? Explain your responses.

In the topic “Measures of Center,” you were provided directions on how to upload the Data Analysis ToolPak to Excel. If you have not yet uploaded the add-in Data Analysis ToolPak, please view the appropriate video and follow the instructions.  You will not be able to complete this assignment without that add-in.

How to Install the Data Analysis ToolPac in Microsoft Excel

(Quantitative Specialists, 2013)
Estimated time to complete: 2 minutes

How to Add the Data Analysis ToolPak in Excel on Mac 2018

(Ben G. Kaiser, 2018)
Estimated time to complete: 2 minutes

Installing Excel Toolpak (Data Analysis) on Mac (versions other than 2018)

(Joseph C., 2016)
Estimated time to complete: 1 minute

For a review of how to use the Data Analysis ToolPak to create summary statistics

Review: Descriptive Statistics in Excel Mean, Median, Mode …

Directions: Review this video on how to use the Data Analysis ToolPak to create summary statistics. 

(Joshua Emmanuel, 2017)

Estimated time to complete: 1 minute

Additional Instructions:

Your assignment should be typed into a Word or other word processing document, formatted in APA style. The assignments must include

• Running head
• A title page with
  • Assignment name
  • Your name
  • Professor’s name
  • Course

Estimated time to complete: 3 hours

References

Ben G Kaiser. (2018).  How to add the Data Analysis ToolPak in Excel on Mac 2018 [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/HJay_paA6T4

Joseph C. (2016). Installing Excel Toolpak (Data Analysis) on Mac [Video].  Retrieved from https://youtu.be/mtmrAXwLcuU

Joshua Emmanuel. (, 2017). Descriptive statistics in Excel mean, median, mode, std. deviation… [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/qJR8OMQP3vw/p>

Quantitative Specialists. (, 2013). How to install the Data Analysis ToolPak in Microsoft Excel [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/_yNxLFagKgw

Assignment Files

Heart Rate Data Set [Excel Document]

 Respond to these two posts separately after reading by giving references as well either supporting or respectfully challenging their explanation on whether there is an evidence base to support the proposed health policy they described. 

Both Post are attached-  HALF A PAGE FOR EACH POST IS GOOD

Assessment 3

• PRINT
• Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy 
• Write a 3–5 page letter to the editor of an academic or professional journal. Your submission should be succinct yet substantive.
  Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
  Advocating for new policies is an important aspect of the master’s-prepared nurse. For new policies to be compelling they need to be supported by evidence. Supporting data can be used to illustrate why new policies and interventions are needed to help address a specific health issue. Compelling data can help sway the stakeholders and gain support for your policy.
  SHOW LESSAnother aspect of advocacy is disseminating new policies and interventions outside of the immediate care environment. This can be done by reaching out to professional organizations as well as academic and professional journals. A letter to the editor is one strategy for disseminating information to a wider audience, and to potentially enlist support throughout the wider professional community.
  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
  • Competency 1: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes. 
    • Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
    • Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
  • Competency 2: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes. 
    • Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
  • Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy. 
    • Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
    • Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
  • Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. 
    • Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
    • Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
  • Competency Map
    CHECK YOUR PROGRESSUse this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
• Toggle DrawerContextNurses have the opportunity to use their skills and develop programs to keep individuals and communities healthy. Health is complex however, and the nurse needs to possess strong advocacy skills to successfully support a cause or interest. The American Nurses Association’s code of ethics (2015) describes the responsibility of a nurse to include working through and with appropriate stakeholders to advocate for the health of people in and out of the work environment. To be an effective advocate, there are several important abilities a nurse must possess, including problem solving, communication, and influencing others. One way a nurse can advocate to a broader population is through effective letter writing, both to legislators and through the media, such as with editorials and research articles.
  Reference
  American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/CodeofEthicsforNurses/CodeofEthicsForNurses.html
• Toggle DrawerQuestions to ConsiderAs you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
  SHOW LESSAssessment 3 will build upon the work you have done for your previous two assessments. For this assessment, you will be writing a letter to the editor of an academic or professional journal as a means to advocate for adoption or development of policies that will improve the quality of care and outcomes around your chosen health care issue and vulnerable population.
  • Looking at your health care issue from a prevention standpoint, what are the relevant levels of prevention? 
    • What would be the benefits and challenges of applying a specific level of prevention to your chosen issue and population?
    • How might one or more approaches to prevention improve the care and outcomes? 
      • How could your policy be leveraged, or revised, to support the relevant levels of prevention?
  • What are relevant strategies that you could use to help advocate for the policy you are proposing? 
    • How could these strategies help you advocate for your policy proposal?
    • How does evidence from the literature support the benefits of your proposed policy? 
      • How does citing evidence help lend credibility to your advocacy?
  • What academic or professional journal would be the best forum to advocate for your policy? 
    • Why is your chosen journal an appropriate forum?
    • Which advocacy strategies would be most effective in this forum?
    • How will you craft your message to best appeal to the likely audience of your chosen journal?
• Toggle DrawerResourcesMSN Program Journey
  Please review this guide for your degree program. It can help you stay on track for your practicum experience, so you may wish to bookmark it for later reference.
  • MSN Program Journey |Transcript.
  • Assessment Example
  • Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
  • SHOW LESSSuggested Resources
    The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN Program Library Research Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.
    Advocacy
  • Allen, D. D., Lauffenburger, J., Law, A. V., Vanderveen, R. P., & Lang, W. G. (2012).Report of the 2011–2012 standing committee on advocacy: The relevance of excellent research: Strategies for impacting public policy. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 76(6), 13–25.
  • Jansson, B. S., Nyamathi, A., Heidemann, G., Bird, M., Rogers Ward, C., Brown-Saltzman, K., . . . Kaplan, C. (2016).Predicting levels of policy advocacy engagement among acute-care health professionals. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 17(1), 43–55.
  • Kung, Y. M., & Rudner Lugo, N. (2015). Political advocacy and practice barriers: A survey of Florida APRNs. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners,27(3), 145–151.
  • Standing up for somebody: What is advocacy and why do we do it? (2014). The Queensland Nurse, 33(3), 28–29.
  • Biopsychosocial (Population and Public Health)
  • Richmond, S. A., D’Cruz, J., Lokku, A., MacPherson, A., Howard, A., & MacArthur, C. (2016). Trends in unintentional injury mortality in Canadian children 1950–2009 and association with selected population-level interventions. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 107(4/5), e431–e437.
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Doria, J. B. (2014). A culturally congruent education group: An evidence-based approach to improve prenatal care utilization. Journal of Nursing Practice Applications & Reviews of Research, 4(2), 94–101.
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Donzelli, A. (2015). E-cigarettes may impair ability to quit, but other explanations are possible.American Journal of Public Health, 105(11), 1.
  • Lutwak, N., Dill, C., Blosnich, J. R., Bossarte, R. M., & Silenzio, V. M. B. (2012). Improved health care for sexual minority and transgender veterans.American Journal of Public Health, 102(8), E10–E11.
  • NursingSchool.org. (2017). Ultimate list of nursing journals. Retrieved from http://nursingschool.org/ultimate-list-of-nursing-journals/
  • Pharmacology
  • Åkesson, A., Larsson, S. C., Discacciati, A., & Wolk, A. (2014). Low-risk diet and lifestyle habits in the primary prevention of myocardial infarction in men. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 64(13), 1299–1306.
  • Policy
  • Olson, K. (2016).Influence through policy: Four steps YOU can take.Reflections on Nursing Leadership, 42(2), 1–3.
  • Prevention
  • Berger-Jenkins, E., Rausch, J., Okah, E., Tsao, D., Nieto, A., Lyda, E., . . . McCord, M. (2014). Evaluation of a coordinated school-based obesity prevention program in a Hispanic community: Choosing Healthy and Active Lifestyles for Kids/Healthy Schools Healthy Families.American Journal of Health Education, 45(5), 261–270.
  • Institute for Work & Health. (n.d.). What researchers mean by… primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Retrieved from http://www.iwh.on.ca/wrmb/primary-secondary-and-tertiary-prevention
  • Course Resources and Templates
  • APA Module
  • Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC].
  • Nursing Masters (MSN) Research Guide.
• Assessment InstructionsScenario
  Throughout this course, you have focused on a specific health issue occurring within a specific population. You researched position papers regarding this health concern, and you developed a health policy proposal to positively impact the health of the affected individuals. It is now time to reach a greater audience regarding your policy proposal.
  Instructions
  Develop a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed academic or professional nursing journal based on the policy proposal that you created for Assessment 2. Choose from one of the journals on the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals (in the Resources) and go to that journal’s Web site to find out the requirements for submitting a letter to the editor, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.
  The goal of your letter is to be informative about the policy that you developed for Assessment 2, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy document to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
  • Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
    • Look back to the data or scenario you used in Assessment 1 to address this criterion.
  • Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
  • Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
  • Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
  • Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
  • Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
  • Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).
  • Example Assessment:You may use the assessment example, linked in the Assessment Example section of the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
    Additional Requirements
    The submission requirements for your editorial will depend on the journal you choose. To find out the requirements, go to the journal’s Web site. There should be a section regarding submissions that will address how to format letters to the editor, and whether there is a word count limit (there usually is a limit).
  • If the journal does not have submission guidelines for the number of resources required, use 3–5 sources.
  • To be sure that your instructor knows the submission and formatting requirements for your letter, include the journal’s guidelines on a separate page at the end of the document you submit for this assessment.
  • Length of submission: 3–5 double-spaced typed pages. Your submission should be succinct yet substantive.

This assignment should only be completed after you have posted the video: SEE ATTACHED VIDEO LINK: Substance Seeking Behavior therapy video

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/whKPtou5rgI

Your reflection should address all of the following questions between 750 to 950 words. Appropriate spelling, grammar, and punctuation required. Complete sentences are expected. All writing should be in your own words. Use APA references as needed to support your ideas; there is no requirement on number of references to include. Be sure to use APA format.

SEE VIDEO in order to complete this assignment, and also See the attached assignment example for references.

1. Which skills did you use in the section? How?
2. How did the assigned Corey readings, PowerPoints, Handouts, and videos inform your therapy session? Please explain in detail.
3. What were your strengths in the interview?
4. What were your weaknesses/areas in need of further development in the interview?
5. How could you improve your interviewing skills? Are there steps you plan on taking? What are those steps?
6. Was there any time when you felt stuck or uncertain how to respond? Describe what was happening then. Were there times you felt more confident in your responses with the client? Times you were less confident? How? Does this come through in the session?
7. How were you impacted by the client…your emotions, thoughts, physical reactions, transference, and countertransference, body language?
8. What was your overall response to the interview? Did you feel connected to the client? Distracted? Disengaged?
9. What was the quality of your engagement, your empathy?
10. If you were to continue seeing this particular client, what future directions would you take? How would you conceptualize the case and what would be some of your treatment goals? How would you pursue these goals?

In relation to your partner:

1. What were the partners strengths in the interview?
2. What were the partners weaknesses/areas in need of further development in the interview?
3. How could your partner improve his/her interviewing skills?

Please, see also the attached assignment example for references.

Background: I live in South Florida, I am currently enrolled in the Psych Mental Health Practitioner Program, I am a Registered Nurse, I work in a Psychiatric Hospital.

 Research Article 

1. Research an article defending the position on the advancement of healthcare informatics and technology in healthcare. 

Instructions

1. Research Article: 

a. You will use the research-based paper grading rubric as a guide to complete the transcript and the group presentation rubric for delivering the presentation. (Both rubrics attached below)

b. Prepare an 8-10 page paper (including title and reference page) written in APA 6th edition style. References no later than 4 years old. 

Research Paper Rubric   (APA Format)

Title Page: Student has an appropriate title page, completed in an APA format with the title of the paper, the student’s name, a running head and date on the cover page.

Introduction: Contains a clear purpose of writing to inform the reader relating to the selected topic.

Body: The paper will have three main points with supporting evidence to back up the points.

Conclusion: The student will a clear conclusion with future directions.

Reference Page: Student has a minimum of 3 different references and all references are in APA format, no later than 4 years old.

Background info-historic perspective: Present with depth and clarity. APA format.

Citations and references: Both present written properly and has excellent depth of research information

Nursing RNs only who can FILL OUT THE WORK PROPERLY

Hello, I need a short, good and positive comment for each of these posts. Thank you. I need at least two references for each comment.

I need a power point of 12 slides about cerebrovascular accident 

3 Board Discussion