Describe the characteristics of patient-centered care AND the importance of each characteristic.

BOOK: Role development in professional nursing practice

1. Describe the characteristics of patient-centered care AND the importance of each characteristic.

2. You are taking care of an 80 African-American year old male patient in a medical surgical unit who was hhospitalized with congestive heart failure. He is being discharged with multiple medications and home health care. Describe the steps you would take to provide patient education including cultural considerations.

3. Describe how you will evaluate the effectiveness of your education on the scenario stated in question

What do you find to be one of the most important ethical issues today for a business owner or leader in management (if not an actual owner)?

During our discussions and your readings in this Course, you have reviewed several legal and ethical issues that affect business practices and business decisions. The business environment, for even the sole proprietor and small company, can be complex.  For this Forum, reflect on our  readings, discussions and the issues we have covered.  Consider your own life experience and the kind of business you would operate.

  • What do you find to be one of the most important ethical issues today for a business owner or leader in management (if not an actual owner)?
  • What should be the business owner or leader’s approach to this issue?
  • In responding to each other, do not hesitate to ask questions and (respectfully) challenge each other’s thinking.

Demonstrate comprehension of different perspectives about abnormality

Abnormal behavior is defined as “behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives” (Feldman, 2020, p. 412). You have probably experienced mood swings or moments of depression in your life, yet this does not necessarily mean you have a major depressive or mood disorder. To be considered a psychological disorder, behavior must be disabling or lead to dysfunction.

Anxiety, mood, and personality disorders are some of the more common psychological diagnoses. Years of research has taught us that many genetic, environmental, and social-cultural factors impact diagnosis of psychological disorders. With such diverse influences, the line between normal behavior and psychologically disordered behavior may be hard to draw and in a clinical setting, these factors influence how both patients and psychologists understand disorders and consequent treatments. For example, the biomedical model has traditionally viewed psychological disorders as illnesses that must be cured. In contrast, the psychotherapeutic approach has traditionally recognized that culture and one’s environment and life experiences also influence the circumstances by which we understand psychological disorders. Ultimately, the same problems may be treated in different ways depending on each individual’s needs and each psychologist’s theoretical approach to treatment. This week you examine several different psychological disorders, as well as various perspectives on what causes these disorders and how best to treat them.

  • Reflect on course concepts as they relate to professional and academic development, and social change
  • Demonstrate comprehension of different perspectives about abnormality
  • Define major psychological disorders
  • Recognize major approaches to psychotherapy                                                                                         Think back to Week 1 when you were asked to describe your beliefs about the field of psychology. How have your beliefs changed? Throughout the last 6 weeks you have learned to think like a psychologist by taking a scientific approach to understanding observable behaviors and internal experiences such as emotions, perceptions, and cognition. You may find that you now see the field somewhat differently. For example, you may realize that some of your beliefs from the start of this class were incorrect. You have expanded your knowledge and become more confident in your understanding of the science of psychology. Hopefully you have begun to uncover the secrets of how the brain is connected to our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Take some time to reflect on how you’ve grown and learned this term, and plan how you will incorporate your new knowledge into your everyday life.With these thoughts in mind, create a blog entry that responds to the following:

    Reflecting on what you have learned over the past 6 weeks, explain how your perception of psychology has changed. Next, describe how at least three specific topics or theories you’ve learned about this term can be applied to your personal and professional life. Finally, explain how what you learned in this course will impact your approach to social change. Feel free to comment on each other’s blog postings; responses to peers will not be graded. Support your blog assignment post with at least one reference (textbook or other scholarly, empirical resources).

    Your blog will be graded on the components listed below. For specific details refer to the Week 6 Blog Assignment Rubric located in the Course Information area.

    • Explanation of how your perceptions noted in Week 1 have changed (20 points)
    • Description of how the three selected topics/theories will be used in your life (40 points)
    • Impact approach to social change (20 points)
    • Quality of writing (20 points)–be sure to support your assignment post with at least one reference (textbook or other scholarly, empirical resources).

What are the ethical issues and obligations that come with trust once it is built? What are the ethical issues and obligations that come with trust once it is built?

Are you especially loyal to any one brand? If so, what is it and why are you so loyal? When successfully building loyalty and community, trust seems to be the biggest factor. How can a company build trust and what is the best approach to do so (incorporating concepts from both the field of marketing and psychology)? What are the ethical issues and obligations that come with trust once it is built? Should consumers trust companies? Why or why not? Do you think some consumers are just more prone to be loyal to companies and other consumers are not? Why or why not?

Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why.

 Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.

What are some variables that should be considered in discussing your measures of central tendency and variation? Is there any skewness in your measured data?

Understanding descriptive statistics, their measures of center and their variability, helps form the foundation of statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics tell us how frequently an observation occurs, what is considered average, and how far data in our sample deviate from being average. With these statistics, we are able to provide a summary of characteristics from both large and small datasets. Measures of central tendency and variability provide valuable information on their own, and form the cornerstone of the quantitative structures that we build in our research studies.

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • OpenStax Textbook: Chapter 2
  • Lesson
  • Minimum of 1 scholarly source

In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your outside reading(s).

Initial Post Instructions

For this Discussion, you will examine central tendency and variability in terms of pulse rate.

Find and record the pulse rate of 10 different people where you work. Tell us a little about the population from which you drew your data. Describe your findings in terms of central tendency and variability.

Consider using some of the following to help you form your initial discussion post:

What are your measures of central tendency (i.e., mean, median, and mode)? Which might be the better measure for central tendency and why?

What is the standard deviation of your data? How variable are the data (range)?

Are there any outliers? Investigate possible reasons for these outliers, and things that might limit them if further study were to be carried out.

What are some variables that should be considered in discussing your measures of central tendency and variation? Is there any skewness in your measured data?

How would you describe this data (i.e. what insights did you gain from this data)?

Identify a new product that you have seen introduced recently that totally failed in the market. What could have been done differently in the new product development process to prevent the failure?

Identify a new product that you have seen introduced recently that totally failed in the market. What could have been done differently in the new product development process to prevent the failure?

All discussion responses including opinion must be supported with logical reasoning and deduction using examples and source material including the textbook and supplementary sources.

Identify two or three additional problems that impact the problem on which you are focusing, and the implications these additional problems may have on the problem-solving process.

Your experiences define you. They shape you who you are, how you perceive the world, and how you interact with others. They are so influential that even the briefest of experiences can have lasting impacts on your character, self-esteem, and professional aspirations.

As you come to the conclusion of this course, think back to the ways you have engaged with colleagues, the media, and the literature. Which experiences might have contributed most to your development as a problem solver? Which might be most memorable as you continue through your coursework and plan your professional development, and why?

For your final blog post, you reflect on your experiences in this course.

To prepare for this blog post:

Reflect on your work and experience in this course by considering the following questions. Which material, stories, and/or research-proven concepts:

  • Did you connect with most?
  • Did you find to be the most surprising?
  • Might you hope to further investigate?
  • Might directly relate to your future aspirations?
  • Might motivate you most in your field of interest?

Write a 1- to 2-paragraph summary of your overall experience in this course. Include a description of the course material that you most enjoyed and explain why. Then, explain what insights might be most influential in your future approaches to problem solving.

  • Formulate a problem statement.
  • Analyze perspectives of the problem by identifying two to three stakeholders or interested parties to this problem/issue; explain how their perspectives may be similar to or different from your own and any implications their perspectives may have on the problem-solving process.
  • Create a hypothesis that might contribute to the solution of the social problem how the social problem might be solved.
  • Identify two different approaches to this problem.
  • Identify quantitative data you might collect and interpret to help with your problem-solving process.
  • Identify qualitative data you have collected related to this problem. Explain one meaning making strategy for this data—that is, a way to relate the data to the problem you have identified.
  • Identify quantitative data you have collected related to this problem. Explain one meaning making strategy for this data—that is, a way to relate the data to the problem you have identified.
  • Identify two or three additional problems that impact the problem on which you are focusing, and the implications these additional problems may have on the problem-solving process.
  • Consider how you might apply a group [or multiple-group] approach to solving the problem, and the implications for doing so.
  • Create a visual tool that supports the problem solving process.
  • Explain how you would evaluate your hypothesis. In other words, explain how you will know if your hypothesis had led you to the “more favorable circumstance.”