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Develop Section 5 (2–3 pages) of your Applied Project, which addresses the following:
1.    Create a budget for your community health intervention. You may use a standard budget template or table for this section (e.g., Excel). Your budget should include a justification for each line item.
2.    Provide a description of your Project Sustainability Plan. Identify possible financial and/or community assets and sources for continuation of the project after the initial project period.
Complete the Program Outcomes Mapping Form in the Learning Resources

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Application Assignment 2: Part 2 - Developing an Advocacy Campaign
The following application, Part 2, will be due in Week 7.
To prepare:
•    Review Chapter 3 of Milstead, J. A. (2012). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
•    In the first assignment, you reflected on whether the policy you would like to promote could best be achieved through the development of new legislation, or a change in an existing law or regulation. Refine as necessary using any feedback from your first paper.
•    Contemplate how existing laws or regulations may affect how you proceed in advocating for your proposed policy.
•    Consider how you could influence legislators or other policymakers to enact the policy you propose.
•    Think about the obstacles of the legislative process that may prevent your proposed policy from being implemented as intended.
To complete:
Part Two will have approximately 3–4 pages of content plus a title page and references. Part Two will address the following:
•    Explain whether your proposed policy could be enacted through a modification of existing law or regulation or the creation of new legislation/regulation.
•    Explain how existing laws or regulations could affect your advocacy efforts. Be sure to cite and reference the laws and regulations using primary sources.
•    Provide an analysis of the methods you could use to influence legislators or other policymakers to support your policy. In particular, explain how you would use the “three legs” of lobbying in your advocacy efforts.
o    Summarize obstacles that could arise in the legislative process and how to overcome thes



NURS 6050: Policy and Advocacy for Improving Population Health “Health Policy and Politics” Program Transcript [MUSIC] NARRATOR: Crafting policy to address health care issues. MARY WAKEFIELD: Now let's think about that public policy maker who is trying to fashion a solution to one of those challenges of cost access or quality. What is it that determines what the solution is that gets put on the table and how that solution moves through the policy-making process? NARRATOR: The important role nurses play in health care policy. KATHLEEN M. WHITE: Every nurse should care about being involved in the policy process because we are the experts in health care. NARRATOR: And a perspective that is critical. DEBORAH TRAUTMAN: I was told when I was on the Hill that all politics is local and all health care is personal. And I think that, as nurses, we understand that. NARRATOR: Getting started in the policy process. CARMELA COYLE: Policy begins with a good idea. The problem is to try to move from an idea and a concept and good research to a piece of legislation that can actually pass can be a long and winding road. NARRATOR: This week, are experts share insights into the policy process, the politics of health care policy, and the invaluable role of the professional nurse. MARY WAKEFIELD: When I first moved to Washington, D.C. and worked in the public policy arena, I was a bit of a policy purest, if you will. It was my belief that public health policies crafted to address access cost or quality were designed based on, for example, good research, on doing the right thing, if you will. And it didn't take me very long to figure out that in fact it's not just about good research or what I might view as an obvious solution to a particular problem associated with quality of health care. In fact, there are a number of factors that influence what solution gets put on the agenda, how that solution moves through the policy-making process, and whether, in fact, it even survives through to the end of that policy-making process. © 2012 Laureate Education, Inc. 1 There are a number of factors that influence health policy. Health policy can be influenced by crises. Media can influence what gets put on the policy-making agenda or how it's treated once it gets there. Political ideology. Personal experiences of members of Congress can influence how they respond to a particular health care challenge. Research findings also can be influential. Special interest groups can exert a lot of influence on what gets put on the health policy agenda. Constituents like each of you who might draw the attention of your policymakers. It might be that you'll draw the attention of your congressional delegation to a particular problem the you're saying. So constituents can be a factor that influences health policy. Market forces can also be a driver of health policy. In addition, fiscal pressures. So you have a number of different factors then that can influence both what gets put on the policy-making table and how it's treated once it gets there. In terms of personal experience, there was a congresswoman, now elected, from the state of Florida who had a close personal friend with a particular disease. And she was pretty public about introducing legislation that would be designed to cover pharmaceuticals that were important to addressing that disease. So here is a member of Congress who has a personal experience that's influencing what, in this case, she did to address that particular problem of access to pharmaceuticals to treat a particular health care problem. So personal experiences matter on the part of members of Congress, believe it or not. It's not all just about research findings. In addition, constituents' voices matter. If individuals express their views about a particular health care problem to their elected officials, it behooves elected officials to pay attention. A lot of times nurses and others think that the only influence that's exerted or factor that exerts influence in Washington or in a state capital is a special interest influence. I'd suggest to you that's not really true. There are all the factors that I've mentioned. And constituents, that is your own voice, is an extremely important one. So don't dismiss out of hand the impact that you can have as a factor, if you will, in influencing what gets put on the policy-making table and how it's treated once it's there. Because at the end of the day, guess what? Policymakers or elected officials are either voted into office or they're voted out. They are ill-prepared to be unresponsive to what is that their constituents are telling them. So do all the other factors matter? You bet they do. But your voice matters too. KATHLEEN M. WHITE: In designing health care policies, nurses have traditionally wanted to be involved. It's been a great experience for me over 30 some years being a nurse. I think I got actively involved in health care policy and © 2012 Laureate Education, Inc. 2 politics very early in my career. And it's just always been something that has fascinated me and something I've wanted to be interested in. And yet, we're constantly amazed in trying to get a policy either changed or on the public agenda that is new for nursing, is good for health care, or at least as nurses we think it's good for health care, and something that we think the public would benefit from. And I can tell you that over the years in trying to get legislation either, first on the public agenda, and then being considered, often it takes two, three, four, go arounds before a piece of legislation actually even makes it out of a committee. And it's surprising that you think, wow, this is a great idea. This will improve things. And yet when it's new to a group of legislators who are teachers or bankers or real estate agents or lawyers that really have no expertise in health care whatsoever, they don't always see the importance of a policy. And so just the fact that you have to introduce what seems to be a really good piece of legislation that will improve things two, three, even sometimes four times, before it even gets to that public agenda, I think is something that continues to surprise me over the years. A second thing that surprises me continually is that legislation often gets introduced when one person has a problem. And they go to their legislator and they say, this needs to get corrected. And the legislator meets the need of a constituent. And so when you think about elected officials, they can be in one of two camps. They can either what they call pleasing their constituents or pleasing their conscience. And so when you have one person's interests being represented, you really have to think about whether or not that policy is a good one for all, for all of society. And so certainly that evaluation of the good of society comes in looking at that. DEBORAH TRAUTMAN: When we think about, what does it mean to influence policy, I think of it quite simply as-- influencing health policy I think of three factors. And one is first in my mind is that evidence matters. That in order to effectively influence policy, it should be evidence-based. Additionally, I think that communications matter and relationships matter. And that as a profession when we think about being involved in advancing better policy that if we start with evidence-- our evidence coupled with stories-- and we share those with whomever it is that we're trying to educate about and/or work with shaping new policy, that's where we first start. But that communication is very important in that we need to be clear and articulate in what it is that we're trying to address. In addition, when we were talking about influencing policy, the policy, the politics, and the process are what folks will frequently talk about as the three P's. I would suggest that in addition © 2012 Laureate Education, Inc. 3 there's the press, the public, and personalities, and that when we're trying to move policy forward, we need to think about each of those. In our organizations we currently participate in many of the key committees and/or task force that are leading the direction for our institutions. And I think that we also should be thinking about this not just on the federal level because a lot of policy is also very state. I was told when I was on the Hill that all politics is local and all health care is personal. And I think that, as nurses, we understand that. We get what it means to advocate for better health and health care. So there is opportunity for us to think about, then what does that mean in driving some of these next steps to getting us to be a healthier America? And that not every nurse needs to go visit their member of Congress. But every nurse should know who their member of Congress is. Not every nurse needs to, in my mind, be the extrovert who is speaking on a large platform, but we have opportunities to talk to on an individual basis to the patients and to their families. And what we should be helping do is continue to think about what services and resources are necessary to help us move, again, to being healthier. CARMELA COYLE: As I think of major influences affecting health care policy, I tend to think of it as a three-legged stool. You've got the legislative process that's affecting health care policies. The laws that we shape, the laws that we enact. There's a second leg of the stole which is the regulatory process. It's the thousands of pages of detail that have to be written to clarify what it is our lawmakers had in mind. And there's a third leg of the stool. And that is the special interest groups. The special interest groups play a very, very important role by informing legislators and regulators, from the front line perspective of health care delivery, of what the implications of a new law or a new regulation might be. I think if there are forces affecting those, there are several. One is, I think, our elected officials. Our legislators are certainly being held more accountable by the voters for making certain that we've got the kind of health care system that people want to see in the United States. I think that we're also seeing consumer expectations on the rise. And more pressure, I think, today than we certainly saw at 10 or 20 years ago from a broader array of special interests to make certain that the policy we've got in place is really serving every one, not just what we've traditionally viewed as the key stakeholders in the health care system. But I think we've seen greater accountability. I think we see greater engagement and involvement. From my perspective a strength of our system, but it makes the creation of health care policy that much more challenging, © 2012 Laureate Education, Inc. 4 And I think one of the new entrants is we really are more focused on measuring how we've done at the end of the day. There's been policy that's been put into place, and we don't really know if it works or if it doesn't. I see much more emphasis in new laws and new regulations on evaluating three years out, five years out. Is it working? And if not, come back and report it and we'll have to revisit the legislation. So I think all of that is a set of new forces really helping to shape policy and refine it in ways we haven't seen before. DEBORAH TRAUTMAN: Nurses sometimes say they don't like politics. I don't disagree with them. Politics is probably the least desired part of the process. But you can't divorce policy from politics. But I believe-- especially now because we have some pretty partisan times in our federal government, at least, and maybe even at the state and local levels-- that if you could have the voice of health care professionals ringing through that partisan divide that we may be able to make more progress that we can't otherwise because of ideologies. I have never known the nursing profession to make clinical decisions and care and judgment based on someone's political ideology. But politics is a part and we have to recognize that. But what I would suggest to us as professionals is that we need to just increase our effectiveness in managing some of the politics, or at least acknowledging and addressing them. So who are the stakeholders that we should bring along with us? Who's going to be in favor and helpful to us in advancing policies? And who are those that are opposed? And we need to educate ourselves on what their positions may be. So that's a part of it and a part of, what I would say, the evidence. The communication, again. In thinking through our message and being able to be clear and succinct and brief. Because the effectiveness of getting our point across is based upon not just what we want to do but how well we communicate that. And then relationships are incredibly important. Not only building relationships within the profession of nursing, but outside. And with our elected members of Congress as well as with others. And in particular I would say for state and federal policy it's important to know who are the committees of jurisdiction that are working on policy? Who are the staffs? Some folks have said that they thought if they try to set up a meeting with their elected member and are referred instead to a staff person, that that's not as good. And I would say that that's incorrect, that many times it is the staff who are the source of information and the filter of information that goes to our elected members. And so it's as important to have relationships with those individuals as it is with members themselves. © 2012 Laureate Education, Inc. 5 The advantage that we all have is that very few of our elected members will turn down their own constituent. It may be harder to get in to see someone from another office or state. And not all of our states have representatives on some of the key health committees. But most all of the staff that I met when I was in the Speaker's office and the committee staff that work both on the minority and majority side, were very open to listening to perspectives that were being brought forward by health care professionals. Because many times what others know about health care is from their own personal experience or what someone tells them. Health care professionals, nurses in particular, have firsthand experience and know not only what might work best, but have stories to tell that help make it real beyond just a theory or a proposed solution or alternative.

Example of part one
Financing of Health Care    part one
Course Nursing 6050










Financing in health care is the allocation of funds to cover various medical expenses that incurred in the delivery of health care services in both public and private sector. Health economics are always applied in determination what programs are by covered by the government  financing program. Since resources have scarce and wants are very many, the decision has to be made to arrive at a consensus on what is to be covered and what is not going to be covered.
One of the major determinant in the evaluation of what of what is to be covered by the government program is the procedures and the treatment that is involved.  Treatment that involves so many procedures are not included on the list in which the government should fund. This is the reason why there was a debate concerning the coverage of the ventricular devices and the bariatric surgery and the drug proving 2010.
The cost of the treatment is another factor which is being used in the evaluation whether the treatment will be covered or not. For treatments which involve drugs which are too expensive are being excluded in the list of program that should be covered. A good example is the treatment of prostate cancer which involving a vaccine which is extremely expensive.
However Medicare is not supposed to put a lot of costs consideration in making its ruling, and this has raised concerns among the cancer experts, drug companies among other.
Ethical issues have to be considered while determining which program should be funded. For example, if the consequences of failing to cover a certain treatment would lead to death because the victim could not meet the cost. In such a circumstance it would be considered ethical if the life of the human being is saved without necessary considering the costs involved.


References
Washingtonpost.com. (2016). Review of prostate cancer drug Provenge renews the medical cost-benefit debate. [online] Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/07/AR2010110705205.html [Accessed 10 Dec. 2016].
(2016). Hard Economic and Finance Choices in US Healthcare - KEEN ESSAYS BLOG. [online] KEEN ESSAYS BLOG. Available at: http://blog.keenessays.com/2014/12/hard-economic-finance-choices-us-healthcare/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2016].

Evaluation Criteria for Applications and Formal Papers 

    Levels of Achievement
Criteria    Outstanding Performance    Excellent Performance    Competent Performance    Proficient Performance    Room for Improvement
QUALITY OF WORK SUBMITTED - 
1. The extent to which work meets the assigned criteria and work reflects graduate level critical and analytic thinking (0-30 Points)    30 to 30 points
Assignment exceeds expectations. All topics are addressed with a minimum of 75% containing exceptional breadth and depth about each of the assignment topics    25 to 29 points
Assignment exceeds expectations. All topics are addressed with a minimum of 75% containing exceptional breadth and depth about each of the assignment topics    20 to 24 points
Assignment meets expectations. All topics are addressed with a minimum of 50% containing good breadth and depth about each of the assignment topics.    16 to 19 points
Assignment meets most of the expectations. One required topic is either not addressed or inadequately addressed.    0 to 15 points
Assignment superficially meets some of the expectations. Two or more required topics are either not addressed or inadequately addressed.
QUALITY OF WORK SUBMITTED: Purpose of the paper is clear (0-5 Points)    5 to 5 points
A clear and comprehensive purpose statement is provided which delineates all required criteria.    5 to 5 points
A clear and comprehensive purpose statement is provided which delineates all required criteria.    4 to 4 points
Purpose of the assignment is stated, yet is brief and not descriptive.    1 to 3 points
Purpose of the assignment is vague.    0 to 0 points
No purpose statement was provided.
ASSIMILATION AND SYNTHESIS OF IDEAS 
The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to- 
1. Understand and interpret the assignment’s key concepts (0-10 Points)    10 to 10 points
Demonstrates the ability to critically appraise and intellectually explore key concepts.    9 to 9 points
Demonstrates the ability to critically appraise and intellectually explore key concepts.    8 to 8 points
Demonstrates a clear understanding of key concepts.    5 to 7 points
Shows some degree of understanding of key concepts.    0 to 4 points
Shows a lack of understanding of key concepts, deviates from topics.
 
ASSIMILATION AND SYNTHESIS OF IDEAS 2. Apply and integrate material in course resources (i.e. video, required readings, and textbook) and credible outside resources (0-20 Points)    20 to 20 points
Demonstrates and applies exceptional support of major points and integrates 2 or more credible outside sources, in addition to 3-4 course resources to support point of view.    15 to 19 points
Demonstrates and applies exceptional support of major points and integrates 2 or more credible outside sources, in addition to 3-4 course resources to support point of view.    10 to 14 points
Integrates specific information from 1 credible outside resource and 3 to 4 course resources to support major points and point of view.    3 to 9 points
Minimally includes and integrates specific information from 2-3 resources to support major points and point of view.    0 to 2 points
Includes and integrates specific information from 0 to 1 resource to support major points and point of view.
ASSIMILATION AND SYNTHESIS OF IDEAS 3. Synthesize (combines various components or different ideas into a new whole) material in course resources (i.e. video, required readings, and textbook) by comparing different points of view and highlighting similarities, differences, and connections. (0-20 Points)    20 to 20 points
Synthesizes and justifies (defends, explains, validates, confirms) information gleaned from sources to support major points presented. Applies meaning to the field of advanced nursing practice.    18 to 19 points
Synthesizes and justifies (defends, explains, validates, confirms) information gleaned from sources to support major points presented. Applies meaning to the field of advanced nursing practice.    16 to 17 points
Summarizes information gleaned from sources to support major points, but does not synthesize.    14 to 15 points
Identifies but does not interpret or apply concepts, and/or strategies correctly; ideas unclear and/or underdeveloped.    0 to 13 points
Rarely or does not interpret, apply, and synthesize concepts, and/or strategies.
WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND FORMATTING 1. Paragraph and Sentence Structure: Paragraphs make clear points that support well developed ideas, flow logically, and demonstrate continuity of ideas. Sentences are clearly structured and carefully focused--neither long and rambling nor short and lacking substance. (0-5 Points)    5 to 5 points
Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards.    5 to 5 points
Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards.    4 to 4 points
Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards 80% of the time.    3 to 3 points
Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards 70% of the time.    0 to 2 points
Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards < 70% of the time.
 
WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND FORMATTING 2. English writing standards: Correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation (0-5 Points)    5 to 5 points
Uses correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation with no errors.    5 to 5 points
Uses correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation with no errors.    4 to 4 points
Contains a few (1-2) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.    3 to 3 points
Contains several (3-4) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. 3    0 to 2 points
Contains many (≥ 5) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors that interfere with the reader’s understanding.
WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND FORMATTING 3. The paper follows correct APA format for title page, headings, font, spacing, margins, indentations, page numbers, running head, parenthetical/in-text citations, and reference list (0-5 Points)    5 to 5 points
Uses correct APA format with no errors.    5 to 5 points
Uses correct APA format with no errors.    4 to 4 points
Contains a few (1-2) APA format errors.    3 to 3 points
Contains several (3-4) APA format errors.    0 to 2 points
Contains many (≥ 5) APA format errors.









Discussion: Health Care Policy
In this week’s media presentation, Dr. Trautman, Dr. Wakefield, and Ms. Coyle discuss how public policies initiated at the national or state level ultimately influence what occurs at the institutional and local level of nursing practice and health care delivery. Health care policy usually is developed to address health care cost, quality, or access, or a combination of the three. Due to the nature of their interaction with patients, nurses are well situated to be effective, knowledgeable advocates for their patients.
In this week’s Discussion, you will examine how current policies impact how you as a nurse provide health care. You will then select an issue of interest and determine how you could advocate for policy in that area.
To prepare:
•    Select one public policy that currently is impacting you and your practice. Consider the following:
o    What health care driver was the policy designed to address: cost, quality, access, or a combination?
o    Does the policy appear to be achieving its intended results? On what data are you basing your assumption?
o    What have been the effects (adverse or positive) of this policy on health care cost, quality, and access?
o    How is this policy affecting your nursing practice?
•    Next, select a health care issue—something you see or experience on a daily basis—about which you would like to influence a practice change through the policy process.
•    Review the Learning Resources, focusing on Kingdon’s Model. How would you utilize this model to guide your policy development?
By Day 3
Post a brief description of a public policy that is having an impact on your practice; summarize your analysis of the policy using the bulleted list above as a guide. Then, summarize the issue you would like to influence though a change in public policy, and outline how you would utilize Kingdon’s Model to guide your policy development.

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Civic Responsibility

provide a more complete understanding of the term
offer a wide range of social and ethical issues and how they impact or are impacted by the selected core topic
create a wide array of ideas to help form the basis of the individual research paper (core topic + issue)

Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

You will be working with this passage from Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth Holmes:

"It is unlikely that the last hands to hold the blueberries, strawberries, peaches, asparagus, or lettuce before you pick them up in your local
grocery store belong to Latin American migrant laborers. How might we respect this intimate passing of food between hands?"

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Part 1    
Write a one-paragraph summary of your observations where you assess your results and share your thoughts on the question choices for this inventory. What did you think about the inventory? Do you think the results are accurate? Why or Why Not?

Although there is no definitive survey composed of twenty to forty questions to determine whether you are stressed or burnt out, or exactly how stressed you really are, questionnaires do help increase awareness that, indeed, there may be a problem in one or more areas of your life. The following is an example of a simple stress inventory to help you determine the level of stress in your life. Read each statement and then select it if you agree. Your personal stress level will be revealed at completion of this exercise. The stress levels are: low, moderate, high, and exceptionally high.
Selected Answers:    1. 
I have a hard time falling asleep at night.
    2. 
I tend to suffer from tension and/or migraine headaches.
    3. 
I find myself thinking about finances and making ends meet.
    5. 
More often than not, I skip breakfast or lunch to get things done.
    6. 
If I could change my job situation, I would.
    7. 
I wish I had more personal time for leisure pursuits.
    10. 
I haven’t had a quality vacation in a long time.
    11. 
I wish that my life had a clear meaning and purpose.
    13. 
I tend to suffer from chronic pain.
    15. 
I don’t exercise regularly (more than three times per week).
    20. 
I spend no time each day dedicated to mediation or centering.
Response Feedback:    If your score is 1 – 4, you have a low level of stress and maintain good coping skills.
If your score is 5 – 9, you have a moderate level of personal stress.
If your score is 10 – 14, you have a high level of personal stress.
If your score is 15 – 20, you have an exceptionally high level of stress.


Write your paper!
In Part I you identified something that makes you personally vulnerability to stress. Conduct a Boolean search using that vulnerability to refine the ‘stress management’ 
a.    Use the paragraph from Part I as your introduction.
b.    Write a brief one-page summary double-spaced of the article that you found.
c.    Write a second page that describes a lesson you learned about this vulnerability to stress that you uncovered in this assignment.
d.    Provide an APA citation.

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After reading Article: Introduction to Study Designs and completing the Outbreak at Watersedge Activity, answer the following questions.
I. Give a brief summary of the outbreak investigation at Watersedge.
II. Define exposure. What was the exposure at Watersedge outbreak?
III. Define outcome. What was the outcome at the Watersedge outbreak?
IV. How was the data collected? V. Is this an observational or experimental study?
VI. List one advantage and disadvantage of cohort studies.
VII. List one advantage and disadvantage of case-control studies.
VIII. List one advantage and disadvantage of cross-sectional studies.
IX. Define relative risk.
X. Define odds ratio.
Reminder: Provide citations for the information you provide. 

so please answer all of them as points from 1 to the end in essay and cite from the book " Crowley,    Leonard    V.    (2014).    Essentials    of    Human    Disease,    2nd    Edition. Burlington,    MA:    Jones    &    Bartlett    
Learning" in APA style.

Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

Examine the leading health indicators and goals of United Nations’ SDGs (previously MDGs, which ended in 2015) and the United States’ Healthy People 2020 [https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/About-Healthy-People]. 
Identify and analyze meaningful similarities and differences, in feasibility and appropriateness of targets. 

Review 10 peers’ posts, and make meaningful responses to at least 2 peers' posts.

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Instructions: Use the research topic assigned. Then use LIRN to find scholarly articles pertaining to physical therapy and the pathological condition with cardiopulmonary patients. The report should provide an overview of the pathological condition including but not limited to causes, population primarily affected, primary characteristics/signs/symptoms and mortality/morbidity rate. Discuss the impact the condition has on a patient’s functional abilities and appropriate or effective evidence based physical therapy interventions. Include discussion regarding the strength and validity of the research article. In the conclusion, summarize the important points that “every PTA” should know about the condition and recommended physical therapy interventions. 
**Wikipedia does not count as a valid or reliable source. 

Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

Types of Normative Ethical Theories are:

1. Authority-based 
2. Egoistic
3. Natural law 
4. Deontological 
5. Teleological
6. Virtue

4 Basic Ethical Principles are: 

1. Beneficence (acting in the patients best interest)
2. Autonomy (the patient has the final decision)
3. Non- Maleficence (do not harm)
4. Justice (the moral obligation to act on the basis of what is fair) 

Two Justice are: 

1. Distributive Justice
2. Procedural Justice 

Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

You have been hired by the Department of Global Diplomacy as a nurse consultant to assist in deciding how best to distribute funding from a new grant. A generous philanthropist has donated a large sum of restricted funds to address nutritional issues in Asia. Through a needs assessment, the key nutritional issues have been identified as over-nutrition and under-nutrition (previously known as obesity and malnutrition). 

Unfortunately, while generous, the donor only earmarked enough funding for one large scale project. The USDGD has identified that the logistics would prevent the money from covering a program that could address both under- and over-nutrition. Your role as nurse consultant is to tell the agency whether over-nutrition or under-nutrition should be funded. When creating change there are many factors to consider: economics, cultural barriers, feasibility, and need. Another very important factor is overall public good or benefit to the target population. In two to three paragraphs, state which program you would advise to fund and create a robust statement supporting your reasoning for this advice. Would it be more beneficial for the country to address over nutrition or under nutrition, and why? 

Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

The Theory of Interpersonal Relations was the catalyst in shifting the nursing profession's view of the patient from the object of care actions to a partner in the nursing process. Hildegard Peplau was first in introducing the concept of advanced nursing practice. In her theory development, she stated, " fostering personality development toward maturity is a function of nursing and nursing education. Nursing uses principles and methods that guide the process toward resolution of interpersonal problems." This coincided with her belief that nurses had the power to influence significant change in their patients' lives while providing care. Presently, the American Associations of Colleges of Nursing's Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing serve as the reference guide for advanced nursing practice. All nine of the essentials address the skills and knowledge gained by masters prepared nurses upon completion of a graduate nursing program.


Essential IX: Master’s-Level Nursing Practice:

Recognizes that nursing practice, at the master’s level, is broadly defined as any form of nursing intervention that influences healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, or systems. Master’s-level nursing graduates must have an advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences as well as the ability to integrate this knowledge into practice. Nursing practice interventions include both direct and indirect care components.


1. Discuss how the Theory of Interpersonal Relations relates to Essential IX? Are there any incompatibilities between this Essential and Peplau's theory? Explain your answer.

2. Give a specific example from your own practice in which you successfully integrated new knowledge into practice and how it influenced outcomes for the patient?

Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

1. Describe the diagnosis and staging of cancer.

2.    Describe at least three complications of cancer, the side effects of treatment, and methods to lessen physical and psychological effects.
3.    Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the
rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.

Please Note: Assignment will not be submitted to the faculty member until the "Submit" button under "Final Submission" is clicked.

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Unsatisfactory 0-72%
0.00%     2
Less Than Satisfactory 72-75%
75.00%     3
Satisfactory 76-79%
79.00%     4
Good 80-89%
89.00%     5
Excellent 90-100%
100.00% 
80.0 %Content    
30.0 % Explanation of the Diagnosis and Staging of Cancers is Provided.    An explanation of the diagnosis and staging of cancers is not provided.    An explanation of the diagnosis and staging of cancers is provided but is missing relevant information.    An explanation of the diagnosis and staging of cancers is provided that meets the assignment criteria.    An explanation of the diagnosis and staging of cancers is provided that is offered in a detailed manner.    An explanation of the diagnosis and staging of cancers is provided that is offered in a detailed manner, while demonstrating higher level or critical thinking.    
20.0 % At Least Three Complications of Cancer are Identified With Comprehensive Discussion of Available Treatments.    Less than three complications of cancer are identified.    At least three complications of cancer are identified but lacking a comprehensive discussion of available treatments.    At least three complications of cancer are identified with a comprehensive discussion of available treatments.    More than three complications of cancer are identified with a comprehensive discussion of available treatments.    More than three complications of cancer are identified with a comprehensive discussion of available treatments, while demonstrating higher level or critical thinking.    
30.0 % Provides Recommendations to Address Physiological and Psychological Side Effects of Care.    Recommendations to address physiological and psychological side effects of care are lacking.    Recommendations to address physiological and psychological side effects of care are missing relevant information.    Recommendations to address physiological and psychological side effects of care meet the assignment criteria.    Recommendations to address physiological and psychological side effects of care are offered in a detailed manner.    Recommendations to address physiological and psychological side effects of care are offered in a detailed manner, while demonstrating higher level or critical thinking.    
15.0 %Organization and Effectiveness    
5.0 % Thesis Development and Purpose    Paper lacks any discernible overall purpose or organizing claim.    Thesis and/or main claim are insufficiently developed and/or vague; purpose is not clear.    Thesis and/or main claim are apparent and appropriate to purpose.    Thesis and/or main claim are clear and forecast the development of the paper. It is descriptive and reflective of the arguments and appropriate to the purpose.    Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive; contained within the thesis is the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.    
5.0 % Paragraph Development and Transitions    Paragraphs and transitions consistently lack unity and coherence. No apparent connections between paragraphs are established. Transitions are inappropriate to purpose and scope. Organization is disjointed.    Some paragraphs and transitions may lack logical progression of ideas, unity, coherence, and/or cohesiveness. Some degree of organization is evident.    Paragraphs are generally competent, but ideas may show some inconsistency in organization and/or in their relationships to each other.    A logical progression of ideas between paragraphs is apparent. Paragraphs exhibit a unity, coherence, and cohesiveness. Topic sentences and concluding remarks are appropriate to purpose.    There is a sophisticated construction of paragraphs and transitions. Ideas progress and relate to each other. Paragraph and transition construction guide the reader. Paragraph structure is seamless.    
5.0 % Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)    Surface errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning. Inappropriate word choice and/or sentence construction are used.    Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader. Inconsistencies in language choice (register), sentence structure, and/or word choice are present.    Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but are not overly distracting to the reader. Correct sentence structure and audience-appropriate language are used.    Prose is largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present. A variety of sentence structures and effective figures of speech are used.    Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.    
5.0 %Format    
2.0 % Paper Format (1- inch margins; 12-point-font; double-spaced; Times New Roman, Arial, or Courier)    Template is not used appropriately or documentation format is rarely followed correctly.    Template is used, but some elements are missing or mistaken; lack of control with formatting is apparent.    Template is used, and formatting is correct, although some minor errors may be present.    Template is fully used; There are virtually no errors in formatting style.    All format elements are correct.    
3.0 % Research Citations (In-text citations for paraphrasing and direct quotes, and reference page listing and formatting, as appropriate to assignment)    No reference page is included. No citations are used.    Reference page is present. Citations are inconsistently used.    Reference page is included and lists sources used in the paper. Sources are appropriately documented, although some errors may be present.    Reference page is present and fully inclusive of all cited sources. Documentation is appropriate and GCU style is usually correct.    In-text citations and a reference page are complete. The documentation of cited sources is free of er