REFLECTION PAPER INSTRUCTIONS

The goal of reflective journaling is to interact with new information that is particularly meaningful to you and to identify resources that will be help you enhance your interpersonal communication skills. As you engage in the assigned readings each week, make note of insights and understanding that emerge and that shed light on the particular communication needs, challenges, barriers, weaknesses, strengths, opportunities, etc. that exist in your interpersonal—personal and/or professional—context.

You will write a total of four reflection papers in this course. Begin each paper with a specific reference or a quote from the week’s assigned readings. Use this reference to anchor your reflections on a personally meaningful topic in first person while drawing upon and synthesizing a variety of course materials. Compare, contrast, or discuss various views on the topic articulated by different authors. The emphasis should be on self-reflecting, however, not merely summarizing or critiquing what you read. Consider the impact of your behavioral blend/personality. Examine insights about yourself, your communication style, and your relationships from the perspective of a biblical worldview and your faith journey. Note that duplicating or significantly repeating discussion board posts is unacceptable.

Each paper should be between 400 and 500 words long. The content should be engaging, substantive, and interesting. It should be written in a focused and concise manner and be well organized with a logic progression of ideas and transitions that are clear and maintain flow of thought. Submit as a Word document, formatted according to current APA style (double-spaced throughout, first line in each new paragraph indented, but without any extra space before a new paragraph, etc.), free of grammar, spelling, and other writing errors. A title page with a title that summarizes your topic is expected, but an abstract is not needed. Use APA style for both in-text citations and the reference page, while making sure references correspond and are correct.

Please use APA formatting and in text cititation

Please No Plagiarism

 

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APA FORMAT

350-500 WORDS

Discussion: Improving Quality

Improving the quality of health care delivery and patient safety continues to be a political concern and has been at the heart of reform issues for many years. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have increased awareness of health care quality and safety issues, as well as advocated for health care reform. The documents featured at the ANA and IOM websites listed in this week’s Learning Resources focus on many of the current issues surrounding quality and safety in the health care industry.

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the Six Aims for Improvement presented in the landmark report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative.”
• Consider these six aims with regard to your current organization, or one with which you are familiar. In what areas have you seen improvement? What areas still present challenges? As a nurse leader, how can you contribute to improving the organization’s achievement of these aims?
• Select one specific quality or safety issue that is presenting a challenge in the organization. Consider at least one quality improvement strategy that could be used to address the issue, as well as which of the six aims for improvement would then be addressed.
• Reflect on your professional practice and your experiences with inter-professional collaboration to improve quality and safety. How has inter-professional collaboration contributed to your organization’s efforts to realize the IOM’s six aims for improving health care? Where has inter-professional collaboration been lacking?

By Day 3

Post a description of the quality or safety issue you selected and a brief summary of the impact that this issue has on health care delivery. Describe at least one quality improvement strategy used to address this issue. Then explain which of the six “aims for improvement” are addressed by the strategy. Finally, explain how inter-professional collaboration helps improve quality in this area.

Six Aims for Improvement

Advances must begin with all health care constituencies–health professionals, federal and state policy makers, public and private purchasers of care, regulators, organization managers and governing boards, and consumers–committing to a 2

Advances must begin with all health care constituencies… committing to a national statement of purpose…

national statement of purpose for the health care system as a whole. In making this commitment, the parties would accept as their explicit purpose “to continually reduce the burden of illness, injury, and disability, and to improve the health and functioning of the people of the United States.” The parties also would adopt a shared vision of six specific aims for improvement. These aims are built around the core need for health care to be:

• Safe: avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.

• Effective: providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit, and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit.

• Patient-centered: providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.

• Timely: reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care. • Efficient: avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.

• Equitable: providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.

A health care system that achieves major gains in these six areas would be far better at meeting patient needs. Patients would experience care that is safer, more reliable, more responsive to their needs, more integrated, and more available, and they could count on receiving the full array of preventive, acute, and chronic services that are likely to prove beneficial. Clinicians and other health workers also would benefit through their increased satisfaction at being better able to do their jobs and thereby bring improved health, greater longevity, less pain and suffering, and increased personal productivity to those who receive their care.

 

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Case Study Questions 1. Suppose that liberalization occurs as in Figure 14.1 and the result is a pro-competitive effect, but instead of merging or restructuring, all firms are bought by their national governments to allow the firms to continue operating. What will be the impact of this on prices and government revenues (use 14.7)? Now that the governments are the owners, will they have an incentive to continue with liberalization? Can you imagine why this might favour firms located in nations with big, rich governments? 2. Using a diagram similar to Figure 14.2, show what the welfare effects would be following a switch from normal competition to perfect collusion. Be sure to address the change in consumer surplus and pure profits

 

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I. Basic Terminology: Do incorporate as many of the listed financial historical terms into each of the two essays as needed. **Remember to consult the required Hubbard and Kane text, the recommended Backhouse text as well as class lecture notes and other suggested scholarly books, journals, and document sources to assist in the research.**

Adam Smith

Political Arithmetick

Mercantilism

Simon Kuznets

GNP, GDP, and GDP per capita

PPP

The PWP

Angus Maddison, James Fallows, Paul Kennedy, and Matt Ridley

“Perfect Competition.”

Keynesianism

“Bounded Rationality.”

The Endowment Effect

Heuristics

Loss Aversion and Prospect Theory

“Great Power Imbalance”

Roman Hardware and Software

Institutional Software

Internal Economic Stagnation-Economic Imbalance

King Croessus

The House of Egibi

Currency Debasing

Confucious

Zheng He, Kublai Khan, and Zhu Di

Estate Management

Plato’s “Ideal State”

“Justice and Exhange” as well as “Acquistion of Wealth” by Aristotle

Averroes

Nicole Oresme

The School of Salamanca

Sir Thomas Smith

The Balance of Trade Doctrine

Rate of Interest and Case for Free Trade

The Recoinage Crisis of the 1690’s

John Law

Cantillon

Physiocracy

Turgot

II. Essay Topics: Complete an response, 5-8 pages, each regarding any two of the topics. Honours College students, however, are to complete only one 5-8 page essay from the list below yet a second 5-8 page response from the list of topics from the Martin text (50 points each).

　

1. What is Declinism in relation to the economics of competing great nation powers? Does it last forever? Should it concern all nations? Are powerful nations capable of revitalising themselves economically? Defend your view.

　

2. Illustrate and explain economic methods in which a nation’s wealth has been measured in the past as well as ways in which a country’s economic wealth is measured in the present? Are the present methods reliable? If not, why so? If so, are they reliable in absolute or relative senses or both?

　

3. In what countries does the top five highest GDP, GDP per capita as well as GNP and GIP presently exist? What economic, demographic, and political factors contribute to these results and why?

　

4. What economic factors led to the fall of Rome? How and why?

5. How and why did Ancient China transform from being an agricultural to industrial power? Illustrate ancient Chinese economic growth and innovation. What led to its’ decline and why?

6. How and why was economics taught in medieval as well as modern European universities? Why had it become an important discipline?

7. What factors contributed to the rise of Dutch commercial power and why? Illustrate and explain ways in which the Netherlands became the world’s seafaring and economic power in the seventeenth century. What led to its’ demise? What did the

Dutch contribute, however, to global finance?

8. Who was Jean Baptiste Turgot? How did he influence economic thought?

II. Felix Martin: Money-Exam I Second Essay Response Choices(Honours pupils only).

1. According to Martin, what is money? Illustrate and explain some of its’ early historical uses. Should a new form of economic transaction be used today?

2. How has money been given value throughout history? Illustrate with historical examples. How shoul money be valued in the present?

3. What in Monetary Maquis? Illustrate and explain past and recent economic historical events to explain this idea with Argentian in 2001 as a model.

4. What economic events created the birth of “Monetary Interest?” Explain.

5. According to Martin, what was the “Vampire Squid?” Illustrate and analyse.

 

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