Writing

Discussion

Compare the primary care Nurse practitioner (NP) role with other advance practice nursing (APN) roles. What are the similarities among the roles, what are the differences, and how would you communicate the role to a healthcare provider and a consumer?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

SDLC Project Presentation

Imagine you have been hired as an information systems (IS) consultant for Healthy Harvest, a grocery store that sources most of its products from local farmers and producers in the surrounding counties. Healthy Harvest operates in two locations and wants to expand its services online via an app customers can use to order their groceries ahead for pickup or local delivery. 

Healthy Harvest’s owner, Joan, doesn’t know much about the process of developing an information system. She balks at the estimated time it will take to have the app ready for public use, which also translates into time for which she needs to pay you to complete the product. You realize that you need to explain to her the benefits and value of approaching the project using systems analysis and design methodologies and decide to prepare a presentation to help illustrate the process and concepts. 

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation that includes comprehensive speaker notes on the following:

• Explain the systems development life cycle and 2 methodologies you could use to develop Healthy Harvest’s store app. 
• Use diagrams and other visuals that illustrate the processes.
• Explain the importance and benefits of using a structured systems analysis and design approach on this project. Provide an example to illustrate each point.
• Describe 2 tasks or deliverables in each SDLC phase you will be working on for this project. Explain why each is integral to the project.

Week 15

Cost of the Health Care System

Reading 1: Rosenthal Chapters 2 & 3

Reading 2: “Health Care Spending in the US and Other High Income Countries”  Journal of the American Medical Association 2018 (pg1024-1039)

Video 1: The Real Reason American Health Care is So Expensive (6 min)

Video 2: The Economics of Healthcare (10 min)

Guiding Questions:

What aspect of health care does the US spend the most money on?

Why does the US spend more money than other countries?

Does high spending on health care lead to improved health in the population of the US?

Home And School Connections

Part of an asset-based approach to working with ELLs is recognizing the cultural and linguistic resources they possess. The asset-based approach contrasts with the deficit-based model that once dominated how many viewed second language learners. Schools and educators can help close the inequity gap faced by our diverse student population by exhibiting asset-based behaviors and expectations, focusing on viewing cultural and linguistic differences as assets and not deficits.

Imagine you have been asked to plan a schoolwide event leveraging home and school connections for ELL families. In 150-250 words, create a proposal of the event to submit to your school principal that addresses the following:

Part 1: Schoolwide Event Proposal

• Title, description, and rationale of the event
• Agenda, including time frames and activities
• Equipment and supplies

Part 2: Cultural Connections

In addition to the proposal, write 500-750 words justifying how the event supports each of the following:

• Cultural influences, cultural competence, and social-emotional needs of ELLs in teaching and learning
• Intentional strategies for family and community engagement that support and highlight the assets of home language, communication, family involvement, and culture to build family, community, and school partnerships
• Inclusive school and classroom environment taking into consideration language acquisition and key environmental factors such as family, community practices, and the role of culture in student learning
• The role that family and community practices have in influencing language learning
• Alignment to asset-based behaviors and expectations

Support your proposal with 2-3 scholarly resources.

Discussion 3 706

Setting the Stage

Joel Barker: “A paradigm is a set of rules – written or unwritten – that establishes boundaries within which we learn how to be successful.”

According to our text, successful change requires the support of leaders at many levels of the organization. This indicates that leaders are clearly AT every level and have influence on change. The authors use scenarios to explain how change is effected through the example of a social hierarchy as explained in The Great Game of High School referenced below. 

Senge et. al. (2012)  discusses The Great Game of High School (pp.380-389) in which the notion of how “current reality”  affects student learning in high school and the conflicting pressures that students must learn to maneuver in order to be “successful” is presented and analyzed.  The reader is encouraged to reflect on these  “current realities” as they apply within their own environment to understand more clearly what factors potentially impact not only student learning, and success, but the success of the entire organization.  What factors ultimately impact leadership decisions surrounding success in an educational organization.  Eight rules associated with the social hierarchy as discussed in this section are presented and have effects on the broader social and societal system structures within current organizations. 

Objective:

For this  Discussion, reflect upon the eight rules identified in Chapter 10 (Senge et. al.,2012, pp. 380-389); consider their broader implications, and apply them in terms of planning and managing change initiatives in your educational settings.  

Instructions: Following a close review and analysis of the section in Chapter 10 referenced above, select 4 of the 8 social hierarchy rules discussed and share your interpretation of the rule coupled with your perspective of how each of the rules you choose impacts the shifting of paradigms/thinking within your current organization.  What does it take to be successful in your organization?

Consider the following thoughts in your discussion where appropriate:

1. An explanation of each rule you selected

2. How different professional groups (teachers, school leaders, administrators) at your workplace fit into the Senge et. al. (2012) model.

3. Who are the leaders of change in your organization?

4. Who attracts the most attention and who gets the least attention, and explain why you think that is the case.

5. What interventions have effected a change in your organization to garner more student voice?

Other Instructional Notes

Use textbook citations  (Senge, et. al., 2012) to support observations and a rationale for your position.