Macroeconomics 102

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9a.- What are the 4 phases of the business cycle?
9b.- What is the ‘labor force’?
9c.- Who is not counted as part of the labor force?
9d.- What are the 3 types of unemployment that the economy can have? (include examples)
9e.- What does ‘full-employment’ mean?
9f.- What type of unemployment increased significantly during the Great Depression that started in 1929?
9g.- What are the 2 types of inflation that the economy can have?
9h.- What type of inflation is generally associated with a large war such as World War II?

9i.- Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: (see below)
BLS.gov
Once there, on the right side, (you may need to scroll down) you will see the LATEST NUMBERS, that is the most recent informtion about the economy.
Click on Unemployment Rate, and then on Employment Situation Summary.
1- When is this information? (what month/year?)
2- What is the current unemployment rate?
3- Did total non-farm payroll employment increase/decrease in the most recent month?

Go back to the Bureau’s first page and from the LATEST NUMBERS, click on Consumer Price Index (CPI) and then on Consumer Price Index Summary.
4- How did the the CPI change in the month and for the year?
5- What item(s) accounted for the largest part of this change in the month?

NOTE: if the BLS website is under construction/revision, you can find

a.- the unemployment summary at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

b.- the inflation summary at: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

Scenario: A patient is confused about how to make payments for a recent visit to urgent care and hospital stay. Her insurance provider website allows her to use her HSA account to make a payment online. She uses her HSA debit card to make the payment, but her insurance provider sends her a check instead of sending it to the Tri-City HealthCare Agency. After contacting her insurance help desk via the website, she is told to send the check to Tri-City HealthCare agency herself. The patient asks the insurance provider help desk representative why they can’t just make the payments for her. She is told about the various payment types and payers in the healthcare industry and how the market influences the integrated delivery systems in the industry. After reading the scenario, answer the following (75-100 words each answer) in a separate document: 1. Describe the payer systems mentioned in the case study. 2. Explain how the market forces have influenced the need for integrated delivery systems. 3. How might the insurance provider explain the payment system they utilize for their clients? Explain if this method is effective or not for their clients. 4. What might be the most significant legal and regulatory effect on managed care organizations? APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. All references need to be in APA format. This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

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Scenario: A patient is confused about how to make payments for a recent visit to urgent care and hospital stay. Her insurance provider website allows her to use her HSA account to make a payment online. She uses her HSA debit card to make the payment, but her insurance provider sends her a check instead of sending it to the Tri-City HealthCare Agency. After contacting her insurance help desk via the website, she is told to send the check to Tri-City HealthCare agency herself. The patient asks the insurance provider help desk representative why they can’t just make the payments for her. She is told about the various payment types and payers in the healthcare industry and how the market influences the integrated delivery systems in the industry.

After reading the scenario, answer the following (75-100 words each answer) in a separate document:

1. Describe the payer systems mentioned in the case study.
2. Explain how the market forces have influenced the need for integrated delivery systems.
3. How might the insurance provider explain the payment system they utilize for their clients? Explain if this method is effective or not for their clients.
4. What might be the most significant legal and regulatory effect on managed care organizations?

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. All references need to be in APA format.

This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Discuss how the equilibrium price and quantity change when a change in demand occurs and the supply stays constant, and when a change in supply occurs and the demand stays constant.

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The text states that strategic decisions are (1) rare, (2) consequential, and (3) directive. These deal with the long-term future of the entire organization. To aid in the decision making, the authors suggest an eight step decision-making process. Found on page 25 in the text, these include: (1) evaluating current performance results; (2) reviewing corporate governance; (3) scanning and assessing the external environment; (4) scanning and assessing the internal corporate environment; (5) analyzing the strategic factors; (6) generating and selecting the best alternative strategy; (7) implementing selected strategies; and (8) evaluating implemented strategies. These guidelines for making and evaluating decisions at a strategic level can be important for leaders.

Open today’s issue of The Wall Street Journal and look for an article about new moves being made by a corporation, specifically the decisions that are strategic. At what level is each of the decisions that you identified? Functional/Business/Corporate? Why do you believe this to be the case? What is your assessment of these decisions? Will they be effective? Why? How have you decided this?

You are to work alone on the assignment.  NOTE: Click “Submit Assignment” in the upper right hand corner of your screen to turn in your Homework no later than Sunday, midnight CT. Name your file with your name and the unit number, i.e. Jones1 or Brown1. Your file should be in either Microsoft word (.doc or .docx) or rich text (.rtf) format.

Should an individual invest in digital currencies? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning.

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Part A

Think about a popular TV show you watch that focuses on small-group dynamics. This could be a popular TV drama, focused on the workplace, for example.

Write, individually, a one-page reaction to the small-group dynamics demonstrated in the show. From a communication perspective, what went wrong? How could the members have handled the situation differently? Post your reaction for your team. Review and comment on the reactions of each team member. Identify common observations.

Analyze, as a team, the small-group dynamics demonstrated in the videos by considering the following:

  • The scope and functions of the small group within the organization, such as idea generation, event planning, process or creation, evaluation, and quality control
  • The effectiveness of each member’s communication styles. What are the opportunities for improvement?
  • The type of leadership within the small group, such as fixed, rotational, or ad hoc
  • How the group leader and members communicate during group meetings
  • Communication obstacles, such as groupthink tendencies, credibility issues, and insufficient listening

The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

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The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

This assignment consists of both an interview and a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation.

Assessment/Interview

Select a community of interest in your region. Perform a physical assessment of the community.

  1. Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”
  2. Interview a community health and public health provider regarding that person’s role and experiences within the community.

Interview Guidelines

Interviews can take place in-person, by phone, or by Skype.

Develop interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community.

Complete the “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form” prior to conducting the interview. Submit this document separately in its respective drop box.

Compile key findings from the interview, including the interview questions used, and submit these with the presentation.

PowerPoint Presentation

Create a PowerPoint presentation of 15-20 slides (slide count does not include title and references slide) describing the chosen community interest.

Include the following in your presentation:

  1. Description of community and community boundaries: the people and the geographic, geopolitical, financial, educational level; ethnic and phenomenological features of the community, as well as types of social interactions; common goals and interests; and barriers, and challenges, including any identified social determinates of health.
  2. Summary of community assessment: (a) funding sources and (b) partnerships.
  3. Summary of interview with community health/public health provider.
  4. Identification of an issue that is lacking or an opportunity for health promotion.
  5. A conclusion summarizing your key findings and a discussion of your impressions of the general health of the community.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA format ting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH PAPER

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Topics:

· If there is a topic not listed you want to do, you must have professor’s approval before starting working on that unapproved topic.

1. Mark Twain’s Huck Finn is (or not) a racist book.

2. In Kate Chopin’s stories, characters search for female spiritual emancipation.

3. O’Henry (William Sydney Porter) masters surprise endings using New York City as the setting for his short stories.

4. Jack London combines realism with humanitarianism in The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

5. Robert Frost wrote many poems from his own life, recurrent losses, and everyday tasks.

6. Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken,” has universal appeal because it deals with contemplation of life’s decisions in retrospect.

7. In Carl Sandburg’s famous poem, “Chicago”, he uses free verse to reveal, explore, and celebrate the lives of common people.

8. E. E. Cummings is an inventive, imaginative modern American poet.

9. “In Just” by E. E. Cummings is (or is not) written from a child’s viewpoint.

10. Harlem Renaissance Poets set the tone use imagery through their language choice to represent realism and idealism in their poetry.

11. James Weldon Johnson humanizes God in his poem ”The Creation.”

12. F. Scott Fitzgerald personifies “The Jazz Age” in The Great Gatsby.

13. Obsession with wealth (or lack of it) is seen in most of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writings.

14. In Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway portrays the unconquerable spirit of man.

15. Rich in Christian symbols and metaphors, Old Man and the Sea can be considered a parable of moral value.

16. Eugene O’Neil’s Long Day’s Journey into Night is an autobiographical play.

17. Eugene O’Neil’s plays are tragically realistic.

18. John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath portrays struggles during the Great Depression.

19. Grapes of Wrath evokes both pity and anger.

20. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a modern tragedy.

21. Of Mice and Men shows the inhumanity of the human condition.

22. John Steinbeck uses California for settings and migrant workers for characters in many of his novels.

23. Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie is a drama of pathetic characters with lives of desperation artfully set in the 1930’s.

24. By dramatically portraying everyday life in a small town, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town conveys the gift of life itself.

25. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the 1930’s, portrays prejudice and tolerance, knowledge and ignorance, and courage and cowardice.

26. Pearl S. Buck’s short story, “The Enemy,” raises high level moral, medical, wartime, and family ethical questions.

27. Flannery O’Connor’s thematic element of facing death recurs in many of her short stories.

28. Arthur’s Miller’s The Crucible, written during McCarthyism with a backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials, is really a play about the human condition.

29. The Crucible shows how hysteria tears apart a community.

30. Arthur Miller puts human integrity to the test in The Crucible.

31. Sylvia Plath reveals the social pressure of American women in the 1960’s in The Bell Jar.

32. Maya Angelou’s strong belief in the power of education is present in her autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

33. John Knowles shows how war impacts everyone despite mere indirect involvement in A Separate Peace.

For this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough speaker’s notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2.

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For this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough speaker’s notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2.

As a practicing professional, you are likely to present educational in-services or training to staff pertaining to quality improvement (QI) measures of safety improvement interventions. Such in-services and training sessions should be presented in a creative and innovative manner to hold the audience’s attention and promote knowledge acquisition and skill application that changes practice for the better. The teaching sessions may include a presentation, audience participation via simulation or other interactive strategy, audiovisual media, and participant learning evaluation.

The use of in-services and/or training sessions has positive implications for nursing practice by increasing staff confidence when providing care to specific patient populations. It also allows for a safe and nonthreatening environment where staff nurses can practice their skills prior to a real patient event. Participation in learning sessions fosters a team approach, collaboration, patient safety, and greater patient satisfaction rates in the health care environment (Patel & Wright, 2018).

As you prepare to complete the assessment, consider the impact of in-service training on patient outcomes as well as practice outcomes for staff nurses. Be sure to support your thoughts on the effectiveness of educating and training staff to increase the quality of care provided to patients by examining the literature and established best practices.

You are encouraged to explore the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies Review activity before you develop the Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation. This activity will help you review your understanding of the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies—especially those related to competencies relevant to developing an effective training session and presentation. This is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates your engagement in the course.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

· Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.

o Explain the need for and process to improve safety outcomes related to a specific organizational issue.

o Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process understanding related to a safety improvement initiative.

· Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs.

o List the purpose and goals of an in-service session for nurses.

o Explain to the audience their role and importance of making the improvement plan successful.

· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.

o Communicate with nurses in a respectful and informative way that clearly presents expectations and solicits feedback on communication strategies for future improvement.

Reference

Patel, S., & Wright, M. (2018). Development of interprofessional simulation in nursing education to improve teamwork and collaboration in maternal child nursing. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing​, 47(3), s16–s17.

Professional Context

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will often find yourself in a position to lead and educate other nurses. This colleague-to-colleague education can take many forms, from mentoring to informal explanations on best practices to formal in-service training. In-services are an effective way to train a large group. Preparing to run an in-service may be daunting, as the facilitator must develop his or her message around the topic while designing activities to help the target audience learn and practice. By improving understanding and competence around designing and delivering in-service training, a BSN practitioner can demonstrate leadership and prove him- or herself a valuable resource to others.

Scenario

For this assessment it is suggested you take one of two approaches:

1. Build on the work that you have done in your first two assessments and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to your safety improvement plan, or

2. Locate a safety improvement plan through an external resource and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to the issues and improvement goals presented in your chosen context.

Instructions

The final deliverable for this assessment will be a PowerPoint presentation with detailed presenter’s notes representing the material you would deliver at an in-service session to raise awareness of your chosen safety improvement initiative and to explain the need for it. Additionally, you must educate the audience as to their role and importance to the success of the initiative. This includes providing examples and practice opportunities to test out new ideas or practices related to the safety improvement initiative.

Be sure that your presentation addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

· List the purpose and goals of an in-service session for nurses.

· Explain the need for and process to improve safety outcomes related to a specific organizational issue.

· Explain to the audience their role and importance of making the improvement plan successful.

· Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process understanding related to a safety improvement initiative.

· Communicate with nurses in a respectful and informative way that clearly presents expectations and solicits feedback on communication strategies for future improvement.

There are various ways to structure an in-service session; below is just one example:

· Part 1: Agenda and Outcomes.

o Explain to your audience what they are going to learn or do, and what they are expected to take away.

· Part 2: Safety Improvement Plan.

o Give an overview of the current problem, the proposed plan, and what the improvement plan is trying to address.

o Explain why it is important for the organization to address the current situation.

· Part 3: Audience’s Role and Importance.

o Discuss how the staff audience will be expected to help implement and drive the improvement plan.

o Explain why they are critical to the success of the improvement plan.

o Describe how their work could benefit from embracing their role in the plan.

· Part 4: New Process and Skills Practice.

o Explain new processes or skills.

o Develop an activity that allows the staff audience to practice and ask questions about these.

o In the notes section of your PowerPoint, brainstorm potential responses to likely questions or concerns.

· Part 5: Soliciting Feedback.

o Describe how you would solicit feedback from the audience on the improvement plan and the in-service.

o Explain how you might integrate this feedback for future improvements.

Remember to account for activity and discussion time.

For tips on developing PowerPoint presentations, refer to:

· Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations.

· Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX].

Additional Requirements

· Presentation length: There is no required length; use just enough slides to address all the necessary elements. Remember to use short, concise bullet points on the slides and expand on your points in the presenter’s notes. If you use 2 or 3 slides to address each of the parts in the above example, your presentation would be 10–15 slides.

· Speaker notes: Speaker notes should reflect what you would actually say if you were delivering the presentation to an audience. Another presenter would be able to use the presentation by following the speaker notes.

· APA format: Use APA formatting for in-text citations. Include an APA-formatted reference slide at the end of your presentation.

· Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your assertions. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.

Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.