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Science Assessment 3

Prepare a report on an emerging or infectious disease where you will be advising your employer (in the scenario) on investment decisions.

Complete the following:

· Step 1: Explain the attributes of a credible and high-quality source. Include examples of credible sources.

· Step 2: Summarize the findings and effectiveness of treating your chosen emerging or infectious disease. Include supporting examples.

· Step 3: Explain how the drug’s effectiveness was tested. Include supporting examples.

· Step 4: Describe the safety concerns surrounding a specific choice of treatment for your chosen disease, especially any adverse side effects.

· Analyze the pros and cons of this treatment.

· Include supporting examples.

· Step 5: Describe any limitations in your choice of treatment for your chosen disease. Include supporting examples.

COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT PLAN—PRIORITIES, TIMELINES, AND DECISION-MAKING PROTOCOLS

Week 4

Social Problem: Homelessness

Homelessness is a complex social issue affecting individuals and families, often rooted in factors such as lack of affordable housing, unemployment, mental health issues, and substance abuse. Addressing homelessness requires a multifaceted approach that provides immediate relief while also working toward long-term solutions.

Top Five Prioritized Strategies

1. Developing a Comprehensive Needs Assessment

· Reasoning: Understanding the specific needs of the homeless population in the community is crucial. A thorough needs assessment will identify the demographics, underlying causes, and necessary resources.

· Time and Resources: This can be done within a few months with minimal financial resources by collaborating with local organizations and volunteers.

2. Establishing Partnerships with Local Organizations

· Reasoning: Collaborating with existing shelters, food banks, and health services can maximize resources and provide immediate support to the homeless community.

· Time and Resources: Building partnerships requires time for meetings and negotiations but is cost-effective since many organizations are eager to collaborate.

3. Creating Emergency Shelter Options

· Reasoning: Providing immediate shelter is essential to prevent further deterioration of the situation. This can reduce exposure to harsh weather and increase safety.

· Time and Resources: Setting up temporary shelters can be implemented quickly using community spaces (e.g., churches or community centers) and requires relatively low funding compared to permanent housing solutions.

4. Implementing Job Training and Employment Programs

· Reasoning: Employment is a key factor in preventing homelessness. Providing job training can help individuals gain skills and secure stable jobs.

· Time and Resources: This requires more time and resources to develop programs and partnerships with local businesses, but it has the potential for significant long-term impact.

5. Advocating for Affordable Housing Initiatives

· Reasoning: Long-term solutions require addressing the root cause of homelessness, which is often a lack of affordable housing. Advocating for policies that support affordable housing development is crucial.

· Time and Resources: This is a longer-term strategy that involves advocacy work and policy change, which can take years. However, it leverages community efforts and can attract funding from various sources.

Conclusion

The prioritization of these strategies is based on a balance of immediate impact and long-term sustainability. By starting with a needs assessment and building partnerships, we can establish a solid foundation for more extensive programs like job training and housing advocacy. Each strategy builds on the others, creating a comprehensive approach to addressing homelessness effectively

Pre Assessment INSTRUCTIONS

For your Module 2 Pre-Assessment, respond to the following prompts. These prompts match those in your Final Assessment. 

Prompts: 

Module 2, Part 2: Healthcare Apps in Nursing Practice 

Find two healthcare apps that can be used in nursing practice to help improve patient healthcare outcomes (i.e., diabetes, weight loss, self-care, mental health, pregnancy). You may go to Playstore (Android) or Appstore (iPhone) to find and download the apps. 

1. Describe the app. How can it be used by nurses and patients? Explain the relevance of the apps to patient care. 

2. Evaluate the function and usability of each app. 

3. Evaluate the healthcare applications in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction. 

4. Identify any barriers to the use of these technologies to advance eHealth literacy and improve patient outcomes. 

5. Explain the social, ethical, and legal considerations of the use of each application, including HIPAA. 

6. Are any of the apps connected to social media? What are the implications?  

7. Consider underrepresented populations. How might these apps potentially improve health equity? 

8. Provide a recommendation for use for patients. How can it be used to improve health outcomes?  

9. How might it be used to overcome any barriers to the use of informatics to improve patient health literacy and health outcomes?

Manage Innovation And Continuous Improvement

Assessment 3

Assessment – BSBMGT608 Manage innovation and continuous improvement

Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer/assessor for marking. This forms part of your assessment for BSBMGT608 Manage innovation and continuous improvement.

Activity 1A

Performance Criteria

PC 1.1    Establish strategies to monitor and evaluate performance and sustainability of key systems and processes

Case Study

XYZ Corporation is a multinational organization that operates in various sectors, providing products and services globally. To ensure the efficient functioning of its critical systems and to maintain a competitive edge, and to achieve sustainability in operations, the company wants to have strategies to monitor and evaluate the performance of the key systems. Key systems of the organisation are identified as supply chain management, customer relationship management, IT infrastructure and Enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Question 1.

How XYZ corporation framed probable strategies to monitor and evaluate the performance and sustainability of the key systems? Explain. (Word limit 200 words).

Activity 1B

Performance Criteria

PC 1.2    Undertake detailed analyses of supply chains, and operational, product and service delivery systems

Question-1.

Undertake an analysis of supply chains, operation, product and service delivery systems for an E- Commerce company.

Instructions for students

Undertake the whole process of supply chain for an E commerce company, starting from receiving the order from customers to deliver the order/product/services to customer. Include all the stakeholders, institutions and internet platforms that come into picture.

Activity-1C

Performance Criteria

PC 1.3    Identify performance measures, and assessment tools and techniques, and evaluate their effectiveness

Case Study

Imagine you work for Cello retail company that sells electronic gadgets and appliances. The company operates several physical stores across different cities, and they also have an e-commerce website for online sales. The sales team is crucial to the company’s success, as they drive revenue and customer satisfaction. The company’s management has noticed a decline in sales performance over the past few months. They want to identify the factors contributing to this decline and implement measures to improve the sales team’s performance.

Question 1.

Identify any 3 factors to measure the performance of sales team and the techniques to measure the performance. Also mention the points to evaluate the effectiveness of the sale team performance.

Activity-1D

Performance Criteria

PC 1.4    Analyse performance reports and variance from plans for key result areas of the organisation

Question-1.

XYZ online company based in Australia sells gift, note that in Mid-December holiday season falls. Analyse the performance (Trend report data) from below graph data showing website traffic during last 6 month (October 2020- March 21). The graph below is indicating (x axis=month duration and Y axis=Number of viewers.)

Question-2.

Manufacturing overhead costs were budgeted (planned) to be $400,000 but were actually cost (variance) $393,000. Find out the Manufacturing overhead  budget variance. Answer whether Manufacturing overhead  budget variance is favorable or unfavorable (Key result area). Calculate variance from plans for key result areas of the organisation.

Activity-1E

Performance Criteria

PC 1.5    Identify and analyse changing trends and opportunities relevant to the organisation

Case scenario

Let’s consider a food delivery company called “Delightful Dine,” specialist in organic food chain line, which operates in several major cities of Australia. They offer an online platform and mobile app that connects customers with local restaurants, allowing them to order food for delivery or pickup to keep up the pace with competition, changing customer demands and meeting up the revenues.

Question-1.

Identify and analyse changing trends and opportunities relevant to the “Delightful Dine” organisation.

Activity 1F

Performance Criteria

PC 1.6    Seek advice from specialists, where appropriate, to identify technology and electronic commerce opportunities

Question-1.

Seek advice from specialist to identify technology and electronic commerce opportunities.

Instruction to learners

To complete Question 1, perform Role play-you are required to seek advice from head of E commerce Services and digital web manager regarding identifying the e commerce and technological opportunities exist in your business, considering you are running an online software selling business and you need to seek advice regarding the opportunities which are here in your business. In a group of 2-3 people or as instructed by your trainer, play the role. This activity will be observed by the assessor, please make sure that you

• Confirm that all the members have gone through the instruction.

• verbally explain questions to group members

• Focus on oral communication

• seek advice by showing teamwork and cooperation.

• engage in a two-way conversation and uses active listening and questioning techniques to confirm understanding

• maintains an appropriate tone, body language, and eye contact with the audience.

• Use formal language which appropriates the context discussed

Instruction to Assessor

To complete Questions 1, Assessors are required to follow the instruction below.

• Learners are required to make a group of 2-3 people; learner is to play the role of business man having online software selling business and seek advice from head of E commerce Services and digital web manager.

• Learners are required to seek advice using language and feature appropriate to group members.

• Learners are encouraged to focus on oral communication.

• Learners are required to seek advice by showing teamwork and cooperation.

• Assessors are required to complete an observation checklist for this activity.

• Observation checklist for this activity is attached after activity 1F.

Science Assessment 4

Prepare a 5-to-10 minute video or podcast analyzing an environmental issue impacting your state and/or local community, an environmental law addressing the issue, and how you would use grant money to improve the issue. A written transcript can be submitted if you choose not to record a video or podcast.

· Step 1: Analyze an environmental issue impacting your state and/or local community.

· How does this environmental issue impact human health and/or the environment?

· Step 2: Explain how the environmental law regulates your environmental issue.

· Which law did you choose? State the name of the law and the date the law was passed (include any amendments made to the law).

· What are the major provisions of the law that you chose?

· How does the environmental law regulate your environmental issue?

· Step 3: Analyze the economic impact of your environmental law.

· What are the costs of your environmental law?

· What are the annual benefits of your environmental law?

· Step 4: Describe how the environmental law has improved the issue.

· How has the environmental law reduced emissions, waste, etc.?

· How has the environmental law improved quality of life and/or the environment?

· Step 5: Explain how you will use your grant to improve the environmental issue?

· How will you use your grant money to improve the environmental issue?

Responding to Abnormal Physical Assessment Findings With Culturally Competent Care 

One goal of this Competency is to acknowledge your experience and to help you examine, interpret, and learn from it in ways that advance your nursing skills. This Competency also puts priority on addressing aspects of nursing that are inevitable yet can be inherently challenging. 

With those goals in mind, your Competency Assessment requires an example of an abnormal finding in the physical assessment of a patient. You are encouraged to draw from your own experience. However, you may also work with a focus case obtained from another professional nurse. Consider details, such as the following, that you will need to provide:

• What was the purpose of the exam?
• How was the abnormality found?
• How was it determined to be abnormal?
• Was the abnormal finding usual/unusual, otherwise characterized, based the patient’s age/place in the lifespan?
• How was the finding shared with the patient?
• What were next steps for diagnosis and/or treatment?

Explaining the role of cultural competence in nursing care is an equally important component of this Assessment. You will analyze the impact of cultural competence in conducting a physical assessment and responding to an abnormal finding. You will explain how a nurse’s demonstration of cultural competence would improve the patient’s experience and potential outcomes. For these requirements, you may incorporate details about your focus patient that you know. Or, you may approach this part of the Assessment by presenting best practices.

Your Performance Task is to draw this information on cultural competence and physical assessment together in a PowerPoint presentation to inform nurses in a practice setting on providing culturally competent care and the particular impact with physical assessments that have abnormal findings. (Note: You are not required to include audio narration.) Be sure to adhere to rules of confidentiality and omit identifying details about the patient, healthcare setting, or other healthcare providers.

Note: Be sure to delete the formatting notes and tips in the PowerPoint template. Your presentation should feature only your original content and wording.

To complete the Competency Assessment:

Using the PowerPoint template document, create a PowerPoint presentation of 11–14 slides, plus a title slide and reference slide(s), to include the following:

Part 1: Providing Culturally Competent Care   

• Explain what “cultural competence” means in professional nursing practice.
• Describe examples of how culturally competent care benefits patients and patient outcomes.
• Explain practical approaches to demonstrating cultural competence, including cultural humility, in nursing care.
• Explain how knowledge of a patient’s culture, including norms and beliefs, is important in a physical assessment, and why.
• Identify a patient who is the focus of your presentation with appropriate details: the patient’s age, cultural background, health background, and purpose of the physical assessment.

Part 2: Responding to an Abnormal Finding in a Physical Assessment 

• Explain what you found in the physical assessment of the patient, how you made the identification, and why the finding was abnormal.
• Based on the patient’s age and place in the lifespan, explain how you characterize this finding, and why.
• Explain how knowledge of the patient’s cultural norms and beliefs supports presenting the abnormal finding to the patient.
• Explain your decision making on next steps for the patient.
• If you were making a referral for this patient, explain what you would consider, and why.
• Explain the impact and value of this experience on your nursing practice, with specific examples.

INSTRUCTIONS

 Advocating to Educate on Community Resources to Support Social Determinants of Health

What are significant social needs in your community and how can you help? Through your professional role as a nurse, as well as personal interactions as a community member, you likely have insight into issues that impact certain populations. Chances are you also see from your daily interaction with patients how lack of information or information that is not easily accessible or understandable prevents patients from making changes or getting resources and support that would improve their lives. 

Using your knowledge of the social determinants of health and the needs of particular groups, you can be a significant advocate for a healthier community. Think of yourself as a bridge that connects those who need resources with those who can provide them. Every organization can use another voice to spread the word about what they do and offer. Vulnerable populations will benefit from an advocate who is aware of potential barriers, such as language or literacy levels, in recommending community resources.

For this Competency Assessment, you will identify a particular population in your community. You will research this population to understand their specific characteristics and needs and match them to organizations and services in your community. In addition, you will identify missing services to be developed and make the case for strengthening existing services. You will organize your research using a PowerPoint presentation. (Note: You are not required to add audio narration.) Think of your presentation as a place to start in determining how best to reach and inform your focus population and in filling your role as a social change agent with the information you gather. 

To prepare:

• Access the PowerPoint template document for your presentation. Reflect on how to create a presentation that could reach and inform stakeholders in your healthcare facility and your community.
• Research to identify specific needs in your community based on the social determinants of health (SDoH): economic stability, education quality and access, healthcare access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, social and community context. 
• Identify a population (e.g., children, families, the elderly, those with a particular health condition, residents of a particular neighborhood) with specific SDoH needs that you will advocate for as a social change agent in your community. Research to identify key characteristics of this population that are important in identifying resources for them, such as age, language, cultural considerations, technology access, literacy levels, and so on.
• Research resources in your community (e.g., organizations and services)  you would recommend to the target population to address their specific SDoH needs and improve health and well-being. Aim for resources that will address each SDoH as it impacts your focus population or the SDoH(s) of greatest need. Identify all important information that the population will need to access and benefit from each resource to include the following: location, hours, languages spoken/multilingual materials available, special services, free services/materials, online links. Make a point to learn as much as you can about the resource(s) you highlight, including to determine ways that services could be improved to better meet your population’s needs.
• Based on your research, identify services that are missing in the community and needed by your population.
• Consider strategies for reaching the focus population that align with characteristics of the population (e.g., technology access and forms, such as text, email, or print/poster options). 
• Based on your advocacy plan, formulate goals for improving health outcomes for this population.
• Note: The PowerPoint template includes formatting notes and tips. Be sure to delete this information from your slides. Your presentation should feature only your original content and wording.

To complete the Competency Assessment:

Using the PowerPoint template document provided, create a PowerPoint presentation of 10–12 slides, plus title and reference slides, to include the following:

Part 1: Planning for Social Change Advocacy  

• Summarize your concerns as a professional nurse about health quality and equity in your community.
• Explain your goals as a professional nurse to be a social change agent in your community. Be specific.

Part 2: Advocating for a Population Based on Social Determinants of Health

• Identify the population in your community for which you will advocate. Describe key characteristics of this population (e.g., age, language, culture). Be specific with examples.
• Identify the population’s needs based on the social determinants of health (SDoH). Include examples to explain these needs.
• Identify three (3) resources (i.e., organizations and services) in your community that you would recommend to this population to address their specific needs, as well as improve health and well-being as defined by the SDoH. Explain your rationale for selecting each resource.
• Describe essential information the population would need to access and benefit from each resource (e.g., location, hours, languages spoken/multi-lingual materials available, special services, free services/materials, online links).
• Identify at least one example of a missing resource that is needed by the population and why.
• Explain recommendations for improving existing services to better meet particular needs.

Part 3: Reaching the Population 

• Describe strategies for reaching the population with the community resource information you identified and that align with the characteristics and preferences of this population. Be specific with examples.
• Based on your advocacy plan, identify goals for improving health outcomes for this population.

 

This pre-assessment will make use of the BODY DATA Excel file created in ST3001. Comparing BMI by smoking status You are interested in determining if smokers have a BMI that is greater than nonsmokers.

1. Explain which hypothesis test would be appropriate for this situation (assume population variances are not known and sample variances are not equal).
2. Explain whether this is a left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed test and justify your choice.

Instructions:

Construct a 2- to 3-page paper in which you explore the political and civic engagement of a professional nursing organization. Provide clear connections to health equity and the impact of the organization.

Achievement vs. Mastery of the Competency

• Mastery of this Competency means that 80% or more of the rows have been assessed as Exceeds Expectations and no rows have been assessed as Does Not Meet Expectations.
• Achievement of this Competency means that all rows are assessed at Meets Expectations or above (but lower than the 80% threshold required for Mastery).

Assessment of Individual Rubric Rows

In order to achieve Meets Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in that row. This means that you have addressed all required elements to the required level of quantity and/or quality.

In order to achieve Exceeds Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in the row, and in addition, your response must reflect a depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise. Examples of this include—but are not limited to—the following:

• You provide additional, specific, and/or particularly relevant examples to illustrate points made.
• You seamlessly incorporate your original thoughts and diverse, credible, and relevant academic sources, when applicable, to express your viewpoint or develop a persuasive argument.
• You demonstrate a deeper understanding of the subject that draws from discipline-specific knowledge and theory and incorporates the viewpoints of a diverse set of business and management thought leaders.
• You draw additional connections between multiple, complex topics to support your explanations.
• You are able to apply your knowledge in unique, creative, and/or innovative ways.
• You thoroughly break down concepts into simpler parts and use your understanding of business to make connections.
• Your analysis is insightful and original.
• You design processes, products, and/or solutions that are creative, high-quality, and innovative.
• You consider diverse perspectives and relevant social, ethical, and business-related issues when proposing new ideas or formulating judgments.

 

Pre Assessment INSTRUCTIONS

For your Module 2 Pre-Assessment, respond to the following prompts. These prompts match those in your Final Assessment. 

Prompts: 

Module 2, Part 2: Healthcare Apps in Nursing Practice 

Find two healthcare apps that can be used in nursing practice to help improve patient healthcare outcomes (i.e., diabetes, weight loss, self-care, mental health, pregnancy). You may go to Playstore (Android) or Appstore (iPhone) to find and download the apps. 

1.   Describe the app. How can it be used by nurses and patients? Explain the relevance of the apps to patient care. 

2.   Evaluate the function and usability of each app. 

3.   Evaluate the healthcare applications in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction. 

4.   Identify any barriers to the use of these technologies to advance eHealth literacy and improve patient outcomes. 

5.   Explain the social, ethical, and legal considerations of the use of each application, including HIPAA. 

6.   Are any of the apps connected to social media? What are the implications?  

7.   Consider underrepresented populations. How might these apps potentially improve health equity? 

8.   Provide a recommendation for use for patients. How can it be used to improve health outcomes?  

9.   How might it be used to overcome any barriers to the use of informatics to improve patient health literacy and health outcomes?  

 

 

Once you submit your responses, assess yourself using the rubric provided. Use your Pre-Assessment submission and any feedback you may garner to improve and refine your responses.

Rubric Criteria	Exceeds Expectations	Meets Expectations	Does Not Meet Expectations
Describe the apps. How can they be used by nurses and patients? Explain the relevance of the apps to patient care. Learning Objective 2.1: Explain the usefulness of healthcare apps in patient care	Response provides a fully developed description of the app, including how it can be used by nurses and patients (including relevance to patient care).	Response provides an adequately developed description of the app, including how it can be used by nurses and patients (including relevance to patient care).	Response does not provide an adequate description of the app, including how it can be used by nurses and patients (including relevance to patient care).
Information: 5 additional facts regarding the data. Learning Objective 2.2: Apply the Information component of the DIKW model to an issue in nursing practice	Response provides 5 fully relevant additional facts regarding the data.	Response provides 5 adequately relevant additional facts regarding the data.	Response provides 4 or less relevant additional facts regarding the data; “facts” provided are unclear, incomplete, or inaccurate.
Evaluate the function and usability of the apps: Evaluate the healthcare apps in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction.  Learning Objective 2.2: Evaluate the function and usability of healthcare applications in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction	Response provides a fully developed evaluation of healthcare applications in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction.	Response provides an adequately developed evaluation of healthcare applications in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction.	Response does not provide an adequate evaluation of healthcare applications in terms of usability, cost, and user satisfaction.
Describe any barriers to the use of these technologies to advance health literacy and improve patient outcomes. Learning Objective 2.3: Describe barriers to the use of informatics as a means to advance health literacy and improve patient outcomes	Response provides a fully developed description of barriers to the use of these technologies to advance health literacy and improve patient outcomes.	Response provides an adequately developed description of barriers to the use of these technologies to advance health literacy and improve patient outcomes.	Response does not provide an adequate description of barriers to the use of these technologies to advance health literacy and improve patient outcomes.
Explain the social, ethical, and legal considerations of the use of the apps, including HIPAA: Are the apps connected to social media? What are the implications?   Learning Objective 2.4: Explain the social, ethical, and legal considerations of using healthcare apps	Response provides a fully developed explanation of the social, ethical, and legal considerations of the use of each application, including HIPAA, including a discussion of connection to social media and relevant implications.	Response provides an adequately developed explanation of the social, ethical, and legal considerations of the use of each application, including HIPAA, including a discussion of connection to social media and relevant implications.	Response does not provide an adequate explanation of the social, ethical, and legal considerations of the use of each application, including HIPAA; response does not include discussion of connection to social media and relevant implications.
Consider underrepresented populations: How might these apps potentially improve health equity?  Learning Objective 2.5: Evaluate information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and underrepresented populations	Response provides a fully developed explanation of how the apps can potentially improve health equity.	Response provides an adequately developed explanation of how the apps can potentially improve health equity.	Response does not provide an adequate explanation of how the apps can potentially improve health equity.
Provide a recommendation for use for patients: How can the apps be used to improve health outcomes and/or overcome any barriers to the use of informatics to improve patient health literacy and health outcomes?   Learning Objective 2.6: Analyze the use of information and communication technology tools to improve health literacy and health outcomes	Response provides a fully developed recommendation for use for patients to improve health outcomes and/or overcome any barriers to the use of informatics to improve patient health literacy and health outcomes.	Response provides an adequately developed recommendation for use for patients to improve health outcomes and/or overcome any barriers to the use of informatics to improve patient health literacy and health outcomes.	Response does not provide an adequate recommendation for use for patients to improve health outcomes and/or overcome any barriers to the use of informatics to improve patient health literacy and health outcomes.