Why are Service Level Agreements (SLA) important in an organization’s contracts with third party service providers?
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Growth and development issues have a tremendous impact on self-perception, behavior, and mental wellness in pediatric patients. It is important for children to have a realistic perception of where they are in terms of growth and development to function socially and to have good overall health. A negative self-perception may cause children to develop behavioral and mental health issues or may make existing issues less manageable. In your role as the provider, you must promote good self-perception, positive behavior, and mental wellness in children. You must also support parents by offering strategies that will help their children understand themselves and grow into happy, healthy young adults.
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Reflect on a patient who presented with a behavioral or mental health issue during your Practicum experience. Describe your experience in assessing and managing the patient and his or her family. Include details of your “aha” moment in identifying the patient’s behavioral or mental health issue. Then, explain how the experience connected your classroom studies to the real-world clinical setting. If you did not have an opportunity to evaluate a patient with this background during the last 4 weeks, you may select a related case study from a reputable source or reflect on previous clinical experiences.
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Oncology study involves the attempt to investigate how cancer can be diagnosed and treated through an evaluation of early symptoms in patients. The data obtained in such research is inferential on most occasions. Inferential statistical procedures can be categorized into two; parametric and non-parametric. When conducting researches, a majority of researchers can decide to use either parametric or non-parametric statistical analyses or test. However, the choice depends on the level of the data, such as nominal, ordinal, or continuous, that the researcher plans to examine. In the literal meaning, parametric tests involve making assumptions regarding the parameters of the population from which the researcher’s data is drawn. In contrary, non-parametric tests do not make such assumptions.
Parametric tests highly rely on the assumptions that the data that the researcher is testing resembles a particular distribution. For instance, a research on investigating the early signs and symptoms of cancer cannot be deemed to be nominal. This is because the symptoms vary from one patient to another. On the other hand, non-parametric tests are commonly referred to as distribution-free tests. This is because they do not involve limited assumptions to check in with regards to the distribution of the data. Additionally, parametric tests are highly selected when the dependent variable is being evaluated on a continuous scale. The non-parametric tests suit well when the dependent variable’s level of measurement is nominal or ordinal.
A good example of a parametric test is the t-tests and the analysis of variance. The investigator has to ensure that the underlying study population is normally distributed. Further, they must assume that the measures are deriving from an equal interval scale (Sullivan & Artino, 2013). For instance, the symptoms obtained during an oncology investigation can be analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) to assess the difference between the early warnings or signs of cancer diseases. Through this approach, individuals and the health personnel will be able to mitigate the effects early enough before implication of the patient’s overall health. A Pearson correlation (r), which is a parametric test can be used to evaluate the relationship between unhealthy nutrition and cancer symptoms.
The non-parametric do not follow the assumptions made by an investigator while using parametric tests (Dergiades, Martinopoulos & Tsoulfidis, 2013). On some occasions, the non-parametric tests can be utilized as alternatives to parametric tests. For instance, t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) have non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis test respectively. The Spearman correlation (p) is an alternative to Pearson correlation and it is appropriate for application when at least one of the variables in a study is measured on an ordinal scale (Garson, 2014).
Finally, there are reasons behind a selection of either parametric or non-parametric test. The parametric tests have high performance when the spread of a sample data is different and when the investigator wishes to obtain high statistical power. Contrary, the selection of non-parametric tests can be as a result of a good representation of the investigator’s data by the median, a small sample size, and the data is ordinal or ranked. It is clear that making a decision on choosing between parametric and non-parametric tests is challenging. For instance, the oncology study might be involving both small sample size and non-normal data. According to various researchers, the representation of the center of distribution and sample size of the investigator’s data can dictate the choice of a statistical test.
References
Dergiades, T., Martinopoulos, G., & Tsoulfidis, L. (2013). Energy consumption and economic growth: Parametric and non-parametric causality testing for the case of Greece. Energy Economics, 36, 686-697.
Garson, G. D. (2014). Testing statistical assumptions. Asheboro, NC: Statistical Associates Publishing.
Sullivan, G. M., & Artino Jr, A. R. (2013). Analyzing and interpreting data from Likert-type scales. Journal of graduate medical education, 5(4), 541-542.
Communication
Communication: With a portable health record available for direct and indirect access how does this enhance provider -provider and provider -patient communications.
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Traditionally, nutrition programs were targeted to the indigent and poor populations in developing countries. Many of today’s Americans are malnourished also, but they are inundated with unhealthy foods and require a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition education. What would be the three most important points to include in a public nutrition program? Provide current literature to support your answer and include two nutritional education community resources.
In a placement during my second year when I was working on a surgical ward, I was working under the supervision of my mentor, caring for a seventy-two year old gentleman, Mr Khan (pseudonym), who had undergone abdominal surgery. I had been asked to remove his wound dressing so that the doctor could assess it on the ward round.
1- Do you think that school nurses should or should not be allowed to discuss contraception and pregnancy options with students? (My opinion is yes) What are the possible pros and cons?
2- Why are some parents choosing not to vaccinate their children in recent years? How do students view this issue? Should this be a parents’ right? Discuss any current events surrounding this issue- research, lawsuits, outbreaks, CDC news.
3- Do you feel that there are enough programs and funding available for children regarding mental health promotion and developmental issues? What types of programs are students familiar with? What areas do they feel are not well addressed? How would they improve this situation if given the chance?
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Unit 2 Writing Assignment 1
Prompt: Review Appendix C of the Mathis text and choose one (1) law or regulation listed to research. Write about its history and recent developments with the law/regulation and why it’s important to an employer to adhere to?
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Unit 2 Discussion Forum 1 250words
Review your current job description. Do you feel changes need to be made? If so, what changes? If not, what makes it accurate?
Unit 2 Discussion Forum 2 250words
Sexual harassment is a concern for all employers. Find an article on the Internet regarding a sexual harassment case. Describe what the case was about, the outcome, and what the employer could have done or should have done regarding the case.
1- Do you think that school nurses should or should not be allowed to discuss contraception and pregnancy options with students? (My opinion is yes) What are the possible pros and cons?
2- Why are some parents choosing not to vaccinate their children in recent years? How do students view this issue? Should this be a parents’ right? Discuss any current events surrounding this issue- research, lawsuits, outbreaks, CDC news.
3- Do you feel that there are enough programs and funding available for children regarding mental health promotion and developmental issues? What types of programs are students familiar with? What areas do they feel are not well addressed? How would they improve this situation if given the chance?
APA format, word document,
Arial 12 font attach
-Minimum of 500 words without counting first and reference page
2 evidence based references
