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This should be between 250-300 words.Patient panels are developed by individuals with guidance from their organization’s internal experts. In some settings, such as government-run facilities, patient panel structure is more strictly directed.Briefly explain how a patient panel is constructed (for example, in a free-standing primary care clinic). Who is involved in the process? Are internal policies involved?Should patient panel size and diversity be regulated by the government? Explain your position.Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Question 1Contemporary societies are highly multi-cultural, which is making it more challenging for nurses to serve everyone satisfactorily. Different cultures usually come with differing healthcare preferences, which matter a lot during care provision. Individual beliefs, the values they uphold, and their attitudes must be considered for the care provided to reflect expected outcomes. There is a high demand for nurses to be culturally competent (Stanhope, Faan, Lancaster & Faan, 2019). Like other healthcare givers, nurses are required to have a good masterly of cultural concepts to enable them to prevail in delivering care in environments with diverse cultures.One of the necessary concepts for providing nursing care in the contemporary healthcare system is culturally sensitive communication. If the approach presented by nurses fails to reflect cultural aspects, a negative impact and lack of satisfaction on those being served are sure. In applying this concept, there is a need to demonstrate an understanding and respect for the patient. This is likely to promote satisfaction not only for the patient but also their family. As a nurse, I would apply both verbal and non-verbal communication to establish individual needs. At the same time, there is the need to refrain from generalizing and stereotyping, as this is bound to derive erroneous conclusions. However, it does not mean that a care provider should not reflect their own values and beliefs (Andres & Bolye, 2016). They should but along professionalism with a deep consideration of the diversity of traditions and perspectives.The above approach to communication should be built along with the concept of cultural assessment. This calls for the application of transcultural assessment models to identify preferences exhibited by patients and thereby serve them accordingly. There are several models that can be followed, but the foundation is for a caregiver first to assess his/her preferences, and biases. They also need to consider their own values, their attitudes and beliefs (Andres & Bolye, 2016). After this is accomplished, it becomes easy to employ an appropriate model to map how best to help a patient.Question 2The tendency of people to either be ill or healthy is determined by several factors. These range from social factors, biology and genetics, and individual behaviour factors. Interaction of these factors influences the nature of health in each society. Social factors relate to the physical conditions that characterize the environment in which individuals dwell in. This includes place of birth and work, generally where people spend most of their time (DeVoe, Bazemore, Cottrell, Likumahuwa-Ackman, Grandmont, Spach & Gold, 2016). People living within environments that are unhealthy for an instant where there are pollutants are likely to be affected by diseases. Where the air is polluted, the prevalence of airborne diseases would be high.Individual behaviour also influences how people’s health turns out to be. This involves their lifestyle habits like eating and substance abuse. People who stop smoking are likely to minimize the chances of developing heart diseases, among other complications that come with the habit. This explains why public health a focus on measures has to change their individual lifestyle behaviours. Next, we have biology and genetics factors, which makes some people be more vulnerable than others (DeVoe et al., 2016). A good example is on the age where the aging are at a higher risk of illnesses compared to the young. Others are born with conditions that make them more susceptible to ill-health than others; for instance, those who are born with sickle cell genes.Question 3Refugees and immigrants form a substantial population with unique cultures different from what nurses and the general healthcare fraternity is accustomed to. Misinterpretation concerning behaviours that are linked to an individual’s culture is likely to present erroneous or unsatisfactory intervention. This calls for interventions that are specific and culturally sensitive. One culturally sensitive intervention aspect is for care providers to be good active listeners. This ensures that they understand and validate what the patient communicates to them. Through active listening, nurses can avoid working along with assumptions but consider and consider the cultural background of each patient. Another way is to build trust and good rapport with patients. This works as when patients trust the caregiver; they will be more likely to offer full cultural-oriented information crucial to assist them better. It is also necessary to avoid instances of generalization and to stereotype. A group of people can be refugees but of unique cultures (Cagle & Well, 2017). As such, culturally sensitive intervention is patient-centred and is customized for each patient. Cultural barrier is often an issue with refugees; it is necessary first to find a way to break the language barrier.Question 4Cultures differ in terms of language, the beliefs and practices which define who people are and their preferences. Individuals from different cultures can exhibit significant differences. Therefore, cultural concepts present challenges of interaction and care delivery, which inform the development of transcultural nursing (Andres & Boyle, 2016). Transcultural nursing has its primary objective being to promote and facilitate congruent, appropriate and quality care. This calls for nurses to develop cultural competency necessary to enable them to handle culturally diverse patients. Nurses must understand and acknowledge the issue of diversity in race and ethnicity (Andres & Boyle, 2016). Issues of religion and traditions have to be taken into account as nurses embrace acculturation.ReferencesAndres, A.M. & Bolye, J.S. (2016). Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care (7th ed.). ISBN 978-1-4511-9397-8Cagle, C., & Wells, J. N. (2017). Culturally Sensitive Care. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 21(1).DeVoe, J. E., Bazemore, A. W., Cottrell, E. K., Likumahuwa-Ackman, S., Grandmont, J., Spach, N., & Gold, R. (2016). Perspectives in primary care: a conceptual framework and path for integrating social determinants of health into primary care practice.Stanhope, M., Faan, R. D., Lancaster, J., & Faan, R. P. (2019). Public Health Nursing E-Book: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Length & Format: 8-10 slide PowerPoint presentation with voice over.Role: Director of Community Care and OutreachAudience: Internal, hospital leadership team(s)Topic: Financing Charity CareScenario: You have worked for ABC Hospital for several years. Recently, you were promoted to be the Director of Community Care and Outreach. In this role, you are responsible for increasing the hospital’s presence in the community, reaching new patients, and ensuring patients receive effective and coordinated care. You are aware of ABC Hospital’s current issue with charity care: there is no defined policy for who can write off an account, and no defined standards for what qualifies a patient to receive charity care. The billing department has reported multiple complaints due to the lack of a policy, and frustrations from both providers and patients. Your presentation will address how to appropriately utilize the charity care resource of financing. Review the resource within Topic 3: Principles and Practices Board Sample 501c(3) Hospital Charity Care and Financial Assistance Policy and Procedures(Links to an external site.). (HFMA, n.d.) Prepare an 8-10 slide PowerPoint presentation, with voiceover. Assume fictional information to develop your content. Address the following points in your presentation: Why ABC Hospital needs and uses charity care Patient demographics and percent of hospital patient population receiving charity care in the last fiscal year (fictional data). Define the issues that have contributed to poor management of the charity care provision. Propose a new way to move forward, providing effective care to patients, utilizing charity care properly. What is different about this approach, then what was happening previously? Using bullet points, clearly define a minimum of three benefits of your plan for moving forward. These benefits should be focused on the financial health of ABC hospital, while balancing the needs of your patient population. These points will be the cornerstone for future development of a policy on charity care. APA style should be followed throughout. A title and reference slide are required. Please include a minimum of three scholarly sources.

Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some favorite online resources and databases that you use or have found useful in the past. For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.To Prepare:Review the information presented in the Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you.By Day 3Post the following:Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why notSupport main post with 3 of more current, credible sources and cite source within content of posting and on a reference list in proper APA.

In your opinion, what is the biggest advantage and biggest disadvantage of public health spending? Please include a discussion in the financial impact. Be sure to provide support for your opinion.250-275 words, APA format, credible sources required.

In this assignment, you will propose a quality improvement initiative from your place of employment that could easily be implemented if approved. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (750-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which the board will make its decision to fund your program or project. (Use Jackson Health System located in Miami, Florida). Include the following.The purpose of the quality improvement initiative.The target population or audience.The benefits of the quality improvement initiative.The interprofessional collaboration that would be required to implement the quality improvement initiative.The cost or budget justification.The basis upon which the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated.Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Purpose: This activity aims to enhance reflection, facilitate critical thought, and express feelings in writing about challenges and successes encountered during role transition clinical experiences. Journal writing provides students with the opportunity to return to experiences in an attempt to develop new perspectives that can guide future nursing practice. Cognitive Learning (2 points)Identify at least two skills or concepts that were learned or reinforced in clinical. This could be actual tactile skills (like suctioning or Foley insertion, for example) or other skills – like giving reports, communicating with patients or families, dealing with conflict, managing your time, etc.Affective & Transitioning Experiences (4 points)How did you feel about the experiences you encountered in clinical? (1 pt.)What were your strengths of performance and areas needing growth? (1 pt.)How do you feel you are transitioning to the role of a professional nurse? (1 pt.)What is helping or hindering your transition? (1 pt.)Critical Thinking Synthesis (4 points)Choose one clinical situation that you encountered in clinical. In your own words, briefly describe the situation. (1 pt.)What was your top priority in this situation? Why? (2 pts.)What was the takeaway learning lesson you gained from the situation? (This could be anything related to physical or psychosocial skills.) (1 pt.)Misc. (2 points)Organized content; double-spaced; proper sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling.

Watson’s Caring Theory, a grand theory in nursing, is the underlying framework for United States University College of Nursing’s programs. Identify a theory within her framework. Clearly identify how she defines the concepts and propositions between them. Report them to the class. Using the readings for the week, discuss why her work is considered a grand theory.Expectations Initial Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

Mr. Rivera is a 72-year-old patient with end stage COPD who is in the care of Hospice. He has a history of smoking, hypertension, obesity, and type 2 Diabetes. He is on Oxygen 2L per nasal cannula around the clock. His wife and 2 adult children help with his care. Develop a concept map for Mr. Rivera. Consider the patients Ethnic background (he and his family are from Mexico) and family dynamics. 

People in the United States vary widely in their acceptance of the sexual and gender choices and orientations. The impact of those with views of lesser acceptance is felt the hardest by the most vulnerable among us- our children. Watch the following video of a Ft. Worth City Councilman speaking about his experiences as a young man marginalized based on his sexual orientation and consider the impact such a message would have on a young person in a similar situation and on an adult who is intolerant of the LGBTQ community. · Joel Burns: It Gets Better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4 (transcript located on YouTube site) Compare and contrast what you believe the experiences of these two individuals (the insecure LGBTQ youth and the intolerant adult) viewing this message would be. How might it reinforce existing beliefs about themselves or motivate them to see themselves and/or the world differently? What additional information would you propose to share with either or both of these individuals to persuade them into such a paradigm shift? Write a 5-paragraph essay that includes each of the elements listed below in the grading rubric. Be sure to use at least 2 references to support your essay. Your paper must meet the minimum 750-word count requirements. Rubric at the bottom: Possible points Student points and instructor feedback The writer provides a clear comparison and contrast of the experiences of the two individuals viewing the message 25 The writer provides a discussion on the motivation to change or reinforcement beliefs as a result of the video 25 The writer identifies additional information to share to help promote a paradigm shift. 25 At minimum, 2 appropriate references are used to support the writing and are listed according to APA 6th ed. formatting style. Citations are included in the body of the paper to show how and where the references are used. 10 Writing structure is clear and follows spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation rules. 10 Writing assignment meets the minimum 750-word count requirement.