Personal Improvement Project Status At the start of a new year, gyms are flooded with people who have made a resolution to be healthier. By March, the flood has dwindled to a stream. Though people may have the best of intentions, sometimes their goals do not come to fruition. How are you monitoring progress toward […]

Quality Improvement The Institute of Medicine’s six domains of healthcare quality—safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable—provide a framework for assessing quality and guiding improvement. Though broad, the domains can help in generating more specific measures to monitor within an organization.   For example, if a nurse executive were interested in the timeliness of care, […]

Personal Improvement Project Topic The aim of the Personal Improvement Project is to experiment with a small change that is under your personal control; collect, analyze, and interpret data; and then reflect on what you have learned from your project about the general challenge of changing something. Through this multi-week project, you will see how […]

Innovation Presentation You have likely looked around your healthcare organization at some point and identified a problem. Perhaps you have said, “There must be an easier way,” or “That process just doesn’t make sense.” The issue may not have been addressed, due to time or money constraints—or due to legacy thinking about the right way […]

Using Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint, create a quality dashboard based on the Community General Hospital Case Study. Your dashboard must include 6–8 measures. Use mock data to represent the measures you have chosen.   Part 2: Written Summary   To accompany your dashboard, write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you do the following: […]

Question 1The DSM-5’s section on substance-related and addictive disorders lists 11 criteria, or circumstances, that a counselor must address when developing a diagnosis. Which is NOT one of these criteria?     Any previous unsuccessful efforts to discontinue use.     Whether a treatment model exists to address the client’s drug intake.     Whether […]

Question 1 Adrenal glands   comprise a brain structure that is involved in sensory perception and the regulation of motor functions.         are glands that produce hormones that facilitate the stress response.     are the consequences of the stress response upon functioning, such as feeling anxious or becoming physically ill.   […]

Forensic Psychology and Criminal Profiling  Prepare Icon     Prepare: Interact with the Forensic and Addiction Psychology learning objects located in the left navigation bar for this week, and ensure you have finished reading Chapters 5 and 6 in your textbook and reviewed any relevant Instructor Guidance, as well as all required resources, prior to completing […]

Clinical and Counseling Cases  Prepare.png      Prepare: Prior to completing this discussion, be certain that you have completed the required readings in Chapters 1 and 2 of your required text, the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.) on the APA website, the article by Fishman and Messer […]

Primary Health Providers Consider interactions you have had with a primary care health care providers in recent years.   Now that you have reviewed models for clinical decision-making construct a discussion that reflects on an encounter you have had with a primary care provider.   Utilize one of the models presented in your lecture materials, […]