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Barriers to Practice: Using the readings from this week as well as outside reliable resources to: 1. Identify and describe practice barriers for all four APNs roles in your state of Illinois and discuss these barriers on a state and national level. The four roles include the nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist. 2. Identify forms of competition on the state and national level that interfere with APN's ability to practice independently. 3. Identify ...

Adult BMI Assessment: The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was formed to ensure quality of patient care and measurement of patient outcomes with set standards. Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a performance measurement tool used by millions of health insurance plans. There are 6 domains of care:  Effectiveness of Care.  Access/Availability of Care.  Experience of Care.  Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization.  Health Plan Descriptive I...

Beyond Paradise? Retelling Pacific Stories in Disney’s Moana: You need to read an article about the Disney movie "Moana" and then follow these instructions. For this in-class writing assignment, please identify the following for the scholarly article we read about the film: the author's primary argument at least one example from the film used to support that argument Your response should be at least one full paragraph. Assignment Goals In addition to calling upon your critical...

Reflection Essay: Individual Reflection Instructions Case study This American Life: The Right to Remain Silent You can listen to the story at:

“Gossip Girls” And How It Influences People’s Views and Expectations of Romantic Love and Relationships: In this assignment, you will explore the connection between popular culture and interpersonal communication. You will select a movie that shows some aspects of interpersonal communication and the topics covered in class. This artifact should connect a theory or concept from IPC and connect it directly to some aspect covered in class. For example, what does the TLC show Day Yes to the...

Medication Access: Some of the patients may not have prescription coverage. Discuss some low-cost measures to help patients have access to medication. How can you or the staff determine the Rx cost for the patient? Citation and reference required.

Criminal Justice: Students are to select a topic that will allow them to examine a specific issue in the field of Criminal Justice. For this week's discussion students are to post and discuss TWO thesis statements on current issues and trends in Criminal Justice they feel may be interesting topics to tackle for this course. Include references for both topics.

Criminal Justice: Students are to list the various databases and other sources utilized in their search for information on their topic. Students are to include their thesis statement in the first line of their post. Then, share with their classmates at least two helpful hints they feel will aid them in their search for information. Also, students are to post any difficulties they have encountered searching for information. * Thesis Statement* My essay’s main topic will be Gender Disparity i...

Public Administration Assignments: Please work on two assignments. Assignment 1: Around 1.5 pages for each part, please answer the fowling questions. In other words, there are two parts in total (in part1, answer the following questions with part 1 readings, and in part2, answer the same questions with part2 readings) When answering questions, no need to state whole question statements but just question numbers. 1. What has been the “muddiest” point so far in this session? That is, what...

Individual Deliverable #2: Crisis Leadership Report: PrintWeek 7: Creating a Culture and Structure that Enhances Sustainability Theme 1: Leadership drives competitive advantage when it creates a culture of inclusion of people and ideas. Leadership today must organize a culture that promotes people, collaboration, innovation, and creativity. Leaders today must compete within the marketplace and the innovation and technology that is disrupting the marketplace.  A leader must recognize the tren...