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Counselors As Contributors to Health Care Reform

The training of counselor educators and supervisors provides for instruction in the wellness model, developmental stages of lifetime adjustment, early intervention and prevention, and empowerment of clients. These values seem perfectly matched for the re-focusing of health care on the early stages of care rather than end-of-life care. An example of a health care model that utilizes early identification of mental health issues and has a client-centered approach to care is Intermountain Healthcare’s Mental Health Integration model.

Intermountain’s Mental Health Integration involves licensed mental health professionals working side-by-side with primary care physicians. Together they are administering or reviewing clients’ mental health screening instruments, consulting with physicians on mental health issues, providing same-day brief counseling and psycho-education, recommending referral for chronic and severe patients, and working in a health care team along with other professionals. This model engages community agencies such as the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) to support patients and families in the treatment process. Studies at Intermountain indicate that the Mental Health Integration model provides higher quality health care at revenue-neutral or reduced costs. The idea is for mental health workers to collaborate across professional fields to increase quality health care.

The Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders offers the following six aims to achieve high-quality health care:

“The Six Aims of High-Quality Health Care:

• Safe—avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
• Effective—providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit.
• Patient-centered—providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
• Timely—reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
• Efficient—avoiding waste, in particular waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
• Equitable—providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status”

Source: Institute of Medicine (Eds.). (2006). Improving the quality of health care for mental and substance-use conditions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11470&page=57

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the article, “Integration of Mental Health into Primary Health care in Uganda: Opportunities and Challenges.” Consider the challenges to integrating mental health care into primary care and think about strategies for overcoming these challenges.
• Review the article, “Far West Area Health Service Mental Health Integration Project: Model for Rural Australia,” and think about how mental health care can be improved by using a primary health care model.
• Review the article, “Reducing Harm Through Quality Improvement.” Consider the challenges and opportunities presented by Intermountain Healthcare’s mental health integration quality improvement program.
• Think about how you think the implementation of the mental health integration model might affect you personally.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 an explanation of how you think you would be affected personally by the implementation of the mental heath integration model. Be specific, using the model and your situation to illustrate your points.

For this assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of these  metrics by writing a short paper  that addresses the  following questions:

1. What can each metric demonstrate? What is its importance to HRM and strategic decision-making?
2. What would be learned from statistics derived from this metric?
3. Where  might one find (or collect) the raw data for this metric? How would you  implement tracking this metric in an organizational dashboard/balanced  scorecard?
4. What, if any, potential difficulties might create challenges in tracking this metric?

METRICS:

 Frequency of Accidents  

 Loss or Theft  

 Duration of Work Stoppages  

 Costs Associated with Workers’ Compensation Payments 

 Union Percentage  

PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT CAREFULLY

12,000-15,000 words, not including references and appendices 

You have completed the development of an Organizational Change Action Plan. Your final project should include the following components:

Part 1: Background of the Organizational and its Current Situation

 Introduction

 Overview of the organization.

 Overview of the organization’s industry, environment, and competition.

 Background of the change initiative.

 Review of the failed change effort. 

Potential consequences if effective change is not adopted. 

Part 2: Review of the Literature 

Review of the academic literature of organizational change and development.

 Review of the practitioner literature of organizational change and development.

 Review of the academic literature of decision making and analysis.

 Review of the practitioner literature of decision making and analysis. 

Review of the academic literature of organizational learning.

 Review of the practitioner literature of organizational learning.

 Synthesis of the academic and practitioner literature. 

Part 3: Development of an Organizational Change Action Plan

 Evaluation of the academic and practitioner literature as it applies to the client organization.

 Creation of a detailed outline and implementation of the Action Plan.

 Systems thinking workshops

 Personal mastery workshops.

 Mental models workshops .

Building shared vision workshops.

 Caucuses to develop new change initiative.

 Review of new change initiative.

 Implementation of new change initiative .

Proposed time line and budget .

Part 4: References and Appendices 

Include a proposed implementation time line and a proposed budget that includes compensation for your services.

 Please submit your assignment.

In a minimum 500-word expository essay in  APA format and citation style with additional title and reference pages, address the following checklist items and requirements. 

I must have ORIGINAL work; each discussion 1 page with 2 paragraphs with 150 words in each paragraph and 1 up to date reference with each discussion.

1discussion

HR Knowledge 8: Multi-Topic HRSelect and READ one of the following case studies (located in your textbook):CASE 14-2 YOU ARE NOT HURT? GOOD—YOU’RE FIRED! 
CASE 15-1 CEO COMPENSATION: DO THEY DESERVE ROCK STAR PAY? 

Next, analyze the case and provide an overview of key points or discussions. An overview is not a detailed description or regurgitated statements from the case, but instead key points in the case. Then, make 2 recommendations for improvements for any parts of the case (think like an HR leader). Saying that someone should have did this, or what you would have done are not considered improvements.NOTES:One to three small sentence-responses for analyzing the cases are not considered substantive. You may only have no more than two references for your response and each must be appropriately cited in the words. You may not copy and paste any part of another student’s response as part of your response. For this course, you must comment to a minimum of 1 other student’s response…No Exceptions! Although not mandatory, you are strongly encouraged to make your initial post by Wednesday of each week so that you have plenty of time to respond to your classmates. 

2discussion

HR Knowledge 9: Human Resource ManagementThoroughly review the following video:Based on your review, please respond to the following:Specifically focus on the key HR functional areas. Now, select any 3 of the functional areas that would be your first, second, and third choices if you could work in HR. List each by priority and briefly explain why you selected your choices. NOTE: You may not use more than 2 references for your response, and you must comment to a minimum of 1 other student’s response.

this is where you can find the video for discussion 2 and 3

Gregg Learning. (2017, July 24). HR Basis: Employment Laws. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/CJhRXBpXTPI

3 discussion

CONGRATULATIONS!You are ready to wrap up this course en route to future completion of your HRM program here at Strayer University. As your final discussion topic for the course we ask that you complete the following:Review the following video:After a thorough review of the video, what 3 main factors would convince you to take on an HR career. You may choose to come up with your own specific factors just make sure your input is specific and relevant.

Paula Plaintiff’s Really Bad Week, Part 2

Introduction

In this assignment, you’ll need to decide whether Paula Plaintiff has any legal claims arising from another series of unfortunate events. After reading the scenario, answer the questions that follow, making sure to fully explain the basis of your decision.

Paula’s bad luck continues. Five days after the events detailed in your last assignment, Paula returns to work at Capstone Corporation. Unfortunately, she used her company e-mail to send her mom a personal note about her injuries, despite being aware that Capstone’s company policy prohibits use of company e-mail for personal communication. Paula’s supervisor, Mikey Manager, discovers Paula’s violation and Paula is reprimanded. When Paula goes home, she uses her personal computer to post disparaging comments about her boss and Capstone Corporation on social media. The next day, Paula is fired from her job.

After several days of bad luck, Paula believes her luck is about to change. She finds a new job in a nearby town. Paula had been using the bus to go to work at Capstone Corporation, but she will need to purchase a car to commute to her new job. Fortunately, her neighbor Freddy Ford has just purchased a new vehicle and is selling his old Mustang. Paula meets with Freddy and agrees to purchase the Mustang for $1000. The parties also agree that Paula will bring Freddy the money the next day when she picks up the car. The next day, Paula calls Freddy and says, “I have the money. I’d like to come pick up my car.” Freddy replies that Paula is too late. He sold the car earlier in the day.

Instructions

In a 6–10 paragraph paper, answer the following questions:

• Does Paula have any legal claims against Capstone Corporation? What about Paula’s actions? Does Paula have a contract with Freddy to purchase the car? Consider the following:
  • Does Paula have a right to privacy when using Capstone Corporation’s e-mail system? Discuss one’s right to privacy and relate it to the facts in the scenario.
  • Can Paula be legally fired from her job for making negative comments about her boss and her company on social media? What about free speech? Discuss these issues and relate them to the facts of the scenario.
  • Do Paula and Freddy have a contract for the sale of the Mustang? Discuss the elements of a contract and relate those elements to the facts of the scenario.

You will create and submit your assignment by using the ecree link. Just click on the link and start writing. Your work will be saved automatically. You’ll see some feedback on the right-hand side of the screen, including text and videos to help guide you in the writing process. When you’re ready, you can turn in your assignment by clicking Submit at the bottom of the page.

Click the assignment link to start your assignment in ecree. Please note that ecree works best in Firefox and Chrome.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

In addition to your textbook, you have access to Nexus Uni through the Strayer University Library. Please take advantage of this excellent legal resource!

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Analyze constitutional issues based on the events in a given scenario.

Marketing Environment Application

In this module’s Case Assignment, you researched marketing forces using quality academic and professional sources. It is time to apply what you have learned using the product/service you chose in your Discussion assignment.

Real-World Application

• Analyze why & how each of the three marketing factors will impact the chosen product/service.
• Explore strategies to overcome the threats and/or capitalize on opportunities to product life cycle with regard to your target product/service. Be sure to consider branding.

For this session long project investigate why and in what was a piece of the three recognized marketing features from the case assignment will impact bulletproof vest. The three elements examined are the internal, external and economic environmental factors. Furthermore, we’ll discover approaches to overcome the pressures and take advantage of the opportunities to amerchandise life cycle regarding the goal of service. Finally, research will show how branding will assist the companies’ product

NOTE: All or nearly all of your research will come from the articles used in this module’s readings. The focus of this assignment is application and critical thinking. Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite and reference the sources in APA format. The paper should be written in third person; this means words like “I,” “we,” and “you” are not appropriate. For more information see Differences Between First and Third Person.

See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” on the TLC portal. All research should be cited in the body of the paper. In-text citations and corresponding references should be included in your paper. The use of direct quotes is strongly discouraged.

Use the attached APA-formatted template (MKT301 SLP1) to create your submission.

Assignment Expectations

Your submission will include:

• Trident University International’s cover page
• A two-page paper with APA citations (2-3 sentence introduction, body, 2-3 sentence conclusion)
• The reference list page in APA format

Grading Note:

At Trident University International, rubrics are used for grading. These rubrics specify the points available for each component of an assignment. Points are earned based on the level of the work submitted. The rubrics can be viewed under Assessments at the top of the page.

 For each discussion, you must create one initial post and follow up with at least two response posts. For your initial post, do the following: 

 Write a post of 1 to 2 paragraphs. 

 Consider content from other parts of the course where appropriate. Use proper citation methods for your discipline when referencing scholarly or popular sources. 

Quality Health Care Management Paper 

You are a quality analyst in a health information management (HIM) department appointed to lead a project team. Your team must assess the problem with the documentation of the patient’s discharge disposition status in the health record and present your findings in a meeting to the department. 

An increasing number of errors have been reported, and frustration among the coders has risen. These coders claim that conflicting information is often present in the record, requiring them to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to obtain verification. Coding productivity has been affected. Explain how you would assess the problem, strategies that you may develop to resolve the problem, and a way to study the effectiveness of your strategies.  Give examples of tools you would use to present your findings in the meeting.

Your research paper should be 3 to 4 pages long (excluding the cover page and reference page), supported by the readings from Week 4 and at least two additional scholarly sources (not Wikipedia etc.) Please adhere the writing rubric and let me know if you have any questions. This paper should be in proper APA format, which includes a title page, reference page, and APA-formatted references. 

PART 2

Memo 

By mid-week post a brief memo directed toward the project sponsor that provides a synopsis of the problem and a tentative plan of action. This should be a page or less. Your fellow students will provide peer-feedback. 

Step 1 – Read the Information Below

Organizational behavior is the combination of four areas of study—psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. While each of these areas involves an examination of people and their interactions, the focuses are quite different:

• Psychology studies the mind and how people make decisions.
• Social Psychology examines how people work in groups.
• Sociology explores how systems work within the organization.
• Anthropology examines how culture works within the organization.

Now, assume that you are an organizational consultant and have been asked by a new CEO to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the organization.

Step 2 – Post a Response

Respond to the following.

• Of the four areas of study listed above, which would you focus on first?
• Make sure to explain why you chose this area, and why it would take precedence over the other areas.