Assignment: Asthma and Stepwise Management
Asthma is a respiratory disorder that affects children and adults. Advanced practice nurses often provide treatment to patients with these disorders. Sometimes patients require immediate treatment, making it essential that you recognize and distinguish minor asthma symptoms from serious, life-threatening ones. Since symptoms and attacks are often induced by a trigger, advanced practice nurses must also help patients identify their triggers and recommend appropriate management options. Like many other disorders, there are various approaches to treating and managing care for asthmatic patients depending on individual patient factors.

One method that supports the clinical decision making of drug therapy plans for asthmatic patients is the stepwise approach, which you explore in this Assignment.

To Prepare
Reflect on drugs used to treat asthmatic patients, including long-term control and quick relief treatment options for patients. Think about the impact these drugs might have on patients, including adults and children.
Consider how you might apply the stepwise approach to address the health needs of a patient in your practice.
Reflect on how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease.

By Day 7 of Week 3
Create a 5 slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following:
Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.
Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.

Assignment 1: Case Study Assignment: Assessment Tools and Diagnostic Tests in Adults and Children
For this Assignment, you will consider the validity and reliability of different assessment tools and diagnostic tests. You will explore issues such as sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values. You will also consider examples of children with various weight issues. You will explore how you could effectively gather information and encourage parents and caregivers to be proactive about their childrens health and weight.

To Prepare
Review this weeks Learning Resources and consider factors that impact the validity and reliability of various assessment tools and diagnostic tests. You also will review examples of pediatric patients and their families as it relates to BMI.
By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned to one of the following Assignment options by your Instructor: Adult Assessment Tools or Diagnostic Tests (option 1), or Child Health Case (Option 2). Note: Please see the Course Announcements section of the classroom for your assignments from your Instructor.
Search the Walden Library and credible sources for resources explaining the tool or test you were assigned. What is its purpose, how is it conducted, and what information does it gather?
Also, as you search the Walden library and credible sources, consider what the literature discusses regarding the validity, reliability, sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, ethical dilemmas, and controversies related to the test or tool.
If you are assigned Assignment Option 2 (Child), consider what health issues and risks may be relevant to the child in the health example.
Based on the risks you identified, consider what further information you would need to gain a full understanding of the childs health. Think about how you could gather this information in a sensitive fashion.
Consider how you could encourage parents or caregivers to be proactive toward the childs health.

The Assignment
Assignment (34 pages, not including title and reference pages):
Assignment Option 1: Adult Assessment Tools or Diagnostic Tests: Mammogram
Include the following:
A description of how the assessment tool or diagnostic test you were assigned is used in healthcare.
What is its purpose?
How is it conducted?
What information does it gather?
Based on your research, evaluate the test or the tools validity and reliability, and explain any issues with sensitivity, reliability, and predictive values. Include references in appropriate APA formatting.

Diagnostic Tool: Mammogram

Rubric : PowerPoint presentation with the following: Is it a vitamin ,mineral? If it is a vitamin,its it fat-soluble or water soluble? What are the functions of the vitamin? What are the daily recommendations for infants,children,teens,women,men,elderly and breastfeeding women? What are the food sources? What are the deficiency symptoms?Include a picture of someone with deficiency What are the toxicity symptoms? Include a picture of vitamin in natural state. Include pictures of good food sources. Include a catchy phrase or slogan as the heading(do not promote the use of a vitamin supplement or have pictures of pills

Types of Unemployment

List the four types of unemployment. Under each one give a brief example, from your work-life, or the work life of someone you know, of experiencing that particular type of unemployment. Make sure that your explanation is detailed enough so it is clear to the reader which type of unemployment you were experiencing. Below is an example from my work life.

Cyclical:
After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz, I decided to enter the labor force and test drive my new bachelor’s degree. This job search, unfortunately, was taking place at the start of the 1991 recession. I remember looking through the classified advertisements and seeing very few job openings. I also remember visiting UCSC’s career services center and seeing about 20 desperate graduates crowded around one rather large bulletin board, frantically copying down the job information from the five job postings.

Background;
The expanse of combined readings and additional module resources explored over the past few weeks examined the construct of race as a source of oppression created to define characteristics of human existence and interactions in a race-based society. The readings of Marger, Buck, Freire, Gatto, Anderson and others inferred that race as a social construct depriving society from having humanism, begins and is reinforced through a banking-knowledge that teaches as well as sustains social distance through the tools of domination, binds dominant and dominated groups in co-dependency, and is unequivocally likened to defining who is an authentic-American.
Instructions for completion
Provide a critical analysis discussion using the expanse of the resources given to address the below prompts;
o Briefly (short paragraph) identify three (3) significant findings you gained through the readings, discussions, and/or resources? What impact or enlightenment have these findings added to your understanding on race?

o Evaluate the question. Is race a source of oppression since its social usage merely restricts people to assigned category imagery promoting othering, superiority and inferiority based soley on physical differences? Use the comprehensive learning outcomes found in Freire (chapters 1 and 2), Buck, and Gatto, and Anderson to shape your critical response.

o Freire (Chapter 2) establishes that oppressed groups seeking liberation must first acquire a consciousness on the source of their liberation hinting that most persons live within oppressive systems yet do not recognize their oppression as their condition is normalized. Thus, Freire proposes authentic liberation the process of becoming fully human beyond prescriptions (race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) require the components of reflection, action, critical consciousness and problem-posing (problematize), wherein the oppressed seek to liberate themselves, as well as their oppressors from the source of oppression that binds them.
Question: Considering the structured and institutionalized existence of race in American institutions (social, political, economic, education) today, is there yet a liberation praxis to transform societal members to not see the other as a race category, but to see each other as humans first, and authentic-Americans? Use the readings of Freire and Anderson to evaluate this question.
o Americanization was discussed as a process of Anglo-conformity affording differing experiences among citizens with regard to being and having a sense of belongingness as an authentic-American due to some dehumanization experiences. Are the languages of build a wall, go back to where you came from, and speak English sources dehumanization as defined through Freire? Evaluate thoroughly.

Note: Resource: American probation and parole board code of ethics Text: Community Corrections by Robert D. Hanser edition 2, Chapter 3,4 and 5 You are the corrections commissioner in the State of Euphoria. The Office of Probation, Parole and Correctional Alternatives has just been merged into your department. The office has never had any qualifications or required training for the community supervision officers that it hires. You suspect that political patronage has traditionally been the key to getting these jobs. What should be the qualifications for such jobs, keeping in mind what you have learned about the kinds of programs they might be working with? What should you, as the corrections commissioner, do to encourage the recruitment of quality officers? Should community supervision officers get the same training as your corrections officers? Should probation, parole and community treatment officers all get the same training? Keeping in mind the roles that they play and the kinds of functions they serve, what should their training include? What should they know about civil and criminal liability? What can be done to make these jobs appeal to qualified individuals and to ensure that they perform their jobs effectively and ethically and avoid burnout and frequent turnover?

Project:
Consulting Proposal (cnsltng-prpsl)
Details:
Prepare a consulting proposal (4-7 pages not including cover page, references, appendices) to identify and propose recommendations to an identified organizational problem. The organization may be either your own or another.

Open with a general review of the organization. Explain the organization’s objectives, structure, and scope of products and services. Describe the nature of the problem(s). Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of specific remedies.

Write the proposal to the senior leadership of the organization, demonstrating appreciation that a final version of the report will be presented to middle managers and other workers later.

Outline the broad scope of your proposed study in the consulting proposal, and specify the reporting tools you will use. Include the following major sections: Executive Summary, Background, Analysis, Conclusions, Recommendations (with subheadings: Project Outline, Timeline, Acceptance Criteria, Resources), and (if appropriate) Appendices.

Describe the universal health care system in place in Massachusetts.

Choose one (1) work of art from the 12th edition of Prebles Artforms to which you have a strong positive or negative reaction.

Write your report as you would present it to an ethics committee board to approve your proposed research.