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This formative assessment builds the foundational skills needed for comprehensive policy evaluation, focusing
on the integration of ethics, social justice, and fiscal responsibility. It provides a structured approach to
identifying challenges and proposing solutions, which directly supports summative assessments that require
in-depth policy analysis and strategy development. By engaging in this activity, nurse leaders enhance their
ability to advocate for equitable, ethical, and sustainable healthcare policies, preparing them to address
complex systemic issues and drive meaningful change in their professional roles.
Description:
This formative assessment builds skills in evaluating the integration of social justice, ethics, and fiscal
responsibility in healthcare policies. You will analyze a healthcare policy to evaluate how it integrates ethical
principles, social justice priorities, and fiscal responsibility. Create a visual matrix or chart summarizing the
policy〔s strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for addressing challenges. Include key aspects such as
ethical considerations, equity impacts, financial sustainability, and proposed solutions. This assignment
fosters critical thinking and practical skills in policy evaluation and advocacy.
Instructions:
Select a Healthcare Policy:
Choose a healthcare policy that reflects efforts to balance ethical considerations, social justice, and financial
constraints. Examples include the Value-Based Care Initiative or Medicaid Expansion Policies.
Evaluate the Policy:
Assess how the policy incorporates ethical principles such as beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and
justice.
Analyze how the policy promotes social justice by addressing systemic inequities and prioritizing underserved
populations.
Examine the policya€™s fiscal responsibility, including its funding mechanisms and long-term sustainability.
Identify Challenges and Solutions:
Highlight challenges or conflicts in aligning social justice, ethics, and fiscal responsibility within the policy.
Propose evidence-based solutions or recommendations to address these challenges.
Deliverable:
Create a visual matrix or chart summarizing the policy€™s strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for
integrating ethical principles and social justice into a fiscally responsible framework.
Include the following sections in the matrix:
Policy Overview.
Ethical Integration.
Social Justice Priorities.
Fiscal Responsibility.
Challenges and Proposed Solutions.
Document Type/Template
You may use the platform of your choice to create the visual matrix or chart.

Competency:
This formative assessment builds foundational skills in analyzing the economic impact of healthcare policies
and visually organizing complex information, which supports summative assessments that require
comprehensive policy evaluation. It develops critical thinking and the ability to identify financial inequities.
propose solutions, and communicate ideas clearly, which are key competencies for nurse leaders advocating
for equitable and sustainable healthcare policies. These skills are essential for addressing systemic challenges
and driving impactful changes in healthcare systems.
Description:
This formative assessment develops skills in visually organizing and analyzing the economic dimensions of
healthcare policies. You will create a concept map that evaluates the economic impact of a selected
healthcare policy on marginalized and underserved populations. The map should visually represent the
map should viact of represend
policya€™”s objectives, its economic effects on populations and providers, and its implications for equity and
sustainability. Include connections between these elements and propose evidence-based recommendations for
improvement. This assignment emphasizes critical thinking and visual organization to address financial
barriers in healthcare.
Instructions:
Select a Healthcare Policy:
Choose a policy with significant economic implications, such as Medicaid expansion, high-deductible health
plans, or community health funding initiatives.
Develop a Concept Map:
Create a concept map that visually represents the following:
The policy and its objectives.
Economic impacts on marginalized and underserved populations, including direct and indirect costs.
Effects on healthcare providers and the broader system.
Connections between the policya€”s economic impact and financial equity or sustainability.
Recommendations for improving equity and sustainability.
Include Key Details:
Use clear labels, arrows, and connections to show relationships between components.
Highlight areas where the policy supports or hinders equity and sustainability.
Add brief annotations or notes to provide context for key elements of the map.
Document Type/Template
You may use the platform of your choice to create the concept map.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
In this exercise, you will complete a Mind Map to gauge your understanding of this weekâf**s content. Select
one of the possible topics provided to complete your MindMap assignment.
A• Generalized anxiety disorder
A• Depression
À• Bipolar disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Delirium and dementia
À• Obsessive compulsive disease
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to
access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 9
Submit your MindMap by Day 7 of Week 9.
Rubric
NURS 6501 Week 3, 7, 9 Mind Map Assignment

You are a staff nurse voted as the nursing delegate to sit on the Emerging Innovations Steering Committee. In
preparing for your first committee meeting, you have read through the last year of meeting minutes and
determined what the past nursing delegate had achieved and what future goals were set for this specific role.
The meeting minutes from last month show the steering committee is currently looking at emerging
communication technologies and how the hospital can leverage integration of cost-effective healthcare
technology. In preparation for the first meeting, you have created a list of best practices based on your
scholarly research and created a list of action plans for leveraging these into practice. You have been tasked
with creating a comparative analysis of two communication technologies and how they can be used to
improve communication between healthcare teams and how it can influence patient outcomes. Before the
next monthly committee meeting, they want you to send them a comparative analysis using a format of your
choice (i.e. table) of two communication technologies that you feel best improve safety and quality healthcare.
Instructions
Write a comparative analysis table including the following:
A• Discuss the two selected communication technologies you have chosen with support from scholarly
research
À• Describe the function of each technology
À• Analyze how it is used in the healthcare setting
À• Examine how the two selected technologies can be used to improve communication among the healthcare
team.
À• Provide a specific practice example from the literature to support how each technology has been shown to
improve communication among the healthcare team.
À• Discuss how each type of communication technology has been shown to improve patient outcomes
underneath the table.
À• Identify evidence from the literature to support how each technology has been shown to impact patient
outcomes.

As a human resource manager in healthcare, it is crucial to develop innovative processes and strategies that
improve workplace performance while staying current with trends and research. Your role requires analyzing
these trends and determining how to effectively implement them within your organization to create
meaningful improvements in employee productivity and satisfaction.
Assessment Preparation
Select a health care organization and a specific division within it, with which you work or are familiar.
Organization – Wellstar Health System
Specific Division- Patient Access Services
Assume you are the human resources director for your selected organization.
In a recent meeting, executive management has determined they would like to improve health care workforce
performance levels within a specific division of your organization.
Management has asked you to research and select 3 diverse strategies or processes (e.g., implementing a
performance management system, utilizing technology-enabled training programs, establishing cross-
functional teams, etc.) that use innovative management techniques, operational practices, or technology that
could be applied to improve workforce performance within the selected division at your health care
organization.
As the human resource director, you are involved in these types of initiatives because ità(*’s an important
part of HR process management, which includes continuously observing and improving the workplace
environment and employee life cycle.
Reference the Improvement Strategies Process Example for a step by step run through of an example
strategy or process.
Assessment Deliverable
Create a 1,050- to 1,100-word summary of your 3 selected diverse strategies or processes to improve
workforce performance. In your summary:
Summarize the gaps or Cofixable items€ that you intend to improve with these strategies or processes.
Identify 3 key strategies or processes to improve workforce performance for your organization and division to
address the gaps you summarized.
Analyze how your strategies or processes affect workforce needs for service delivery for your organization.
Analyze how each strategy or process could be implemented within your division and organization to improve
workforce performance.
Explain the potential cost of each strategy or process implementation.
Describe your communication strategies for implementing and evaluating your chosen strategies or
processes.
Create SMART goal(s) and action items to implement your strategies or processes.
Describe the process you will use to analyze whether or not the SMART goal(s) are met.
Cite 3 reputable sources to support your assessment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or
agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality.
Include a slide with APA-formatted references.

Social justice problems may affect different populations in unique ways. Social workers must understand the
special challenges that may arise when providing services and supports for these populations, as well as the
policies that may address the social justice problems that impact them.
The purpose of this assignment is to explore a social justice problem that addresses a specific population or
subgroup (for example, access to health care, social services, immigration, or veterans’ mental health and
services). This should be a problem that presents current challenges for social workers providing services and
support. You will need to investigate the various forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination
within this social justice problem and identify policies that are currently enacted to address this problem.
Ultimately, you will choose one of these policies as the topic for your policy analysis in the coming
assignments in this course.
To ensure you choose a viable and scholarly topic, explore the literature in your area of interest by doing
article and book searches through electronic resources, including government, educational, and
organizational websites. Exploring scholarly, respected literature will be the preliminary work for this
assignment. The United States Congress website— reading list䀔will be an invaluable resource for your
research during this assignment if you are exploring a federal-level issue.
Assignment Instructions a€* 4 PAGES – Apa format
To complete this assignment:
Choose a social justice problem that addresses the needs of a specific population or subgroup that interests
you. Use the Internet, United States Congress website, or any relevant state or local website that provides
policy and social justice information to help guide your research. Also, refer to the resources above as needed
to help guide your search.
After you have chosen a problem, write a 4 PAGES exploration of the topic and address the following:
À• Analyze the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination of your chosen population or
subgroup that exist within this social justice topic (for example, based on race, religion, disabilities, gender
orientation, socioeconomic status, or access to services).
A• In your analysis, describe how the oppression and discrimination impacted this population or subgroup.
A• Support this with data on the number of people affected that you have found during your research.
A• Analyze ethical problems associated with your selected social justice problem.
A• Use the NASW Code of Ethics web page, to guide your analysis:
À• What ethical considerations in your selected social justice problem must be addressed?
À- What are implications for social work practice and positive client outcomes?
A• Describe the current enacted policies for this social justice problem.
À• Research current enacted policies that seek to address this social justice problem. Important: These
policies must be passed legislation currently in practice. Legislation can be at the local, state, or federal level.
À• Analyze how effective these policies are in addressing the needs of your chosen population or subgroup.

Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
Trauma- and stressor-related disorders include disorders in which exposure to a traumatic or stressful ev
is listed explicitly as a diagnostic criterion. These include reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited socia
engagement disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder, adjustment disorders,
prolonged grief disorder.
This assignment provides an opportunity to review, compare, contrast, diagnose, and demonstrate an
understanding of the etiology, effects, and treatment options of the aforementioned conditions.
For this assignment, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover using Kaltura. You will
address posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), adjustment disorders, acute stress disorder, and one other
disorder of your choice (e.g., reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder, or
prolonged grief disorder). Alternatively, your additional disorder of choice could reflect a deeper dive intr
derivative of PTSD (e.g., refugee PTSD); a derivative of adjustment disorders (e.g., termination of a roma
relationship); or a derivative of acute stress disorder (e.g., acute stress following a sexual assault). The
presentation should include the following slides:
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Introduction
Slides З—7: Posttraumatic stress disorder
Slides 8—12: Adjustment disorders
Slides 13—17: Acute stress disorder
Slides 18倔22: Disorder of choice
Slide 23: Summary
Slide 24: References
For each disorder type, you will have five slides that address the following five topics:
1. Etiology and prevalence of the disorder
2. Diagnostic criteria and diagnostic features
3. Differential diagnoses
4. Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, including but not limited to therapies and follow-up
5. Cultural, gender, ethnic, spiritual, and social considerations
Assignment Requirements

Business/Management-Related Current Event
Discussion
Each student is expected to summarize a news article related to Business or Management from a reliable
news source and post an approximately one-page (double spaced) summary and critical evaluation
(approximately 50% summary, 50% your critical evaluation)
Each report should be related to business or management. For example, a hurricane or another natural is not
relevant unless you discuss the effects on or implications for business.
News should not be older than two weeks.
Submissions will be via the discussion board on Canvas.
Please make sure that you include the link to the news source and the title of the news item.
In a world of politically influenced media, you must consider the slant or biased behind the sources from
which you consume your news. Refer to the Media Bias ChartLinks to an external site.
(https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/Links to an external site.) and include where
your source falls on the chart.

For this assignment, you have been asked to present recommendations for improving policy for the protection of water and wastewater systems in the city that you select

You have been asked to meet with tribal, local, state representatives as a consultant on planning for the protection of water and wastewater systems.

For this assignment, you have been asked to present recommendations for improving policy for the protection of water and wastewater systems in the city that you select. You will need to assess risks and technological, natural, and intentional threats to water and wastewater systems. In addition, you will need to address social justice issues in policy for critical infrastructure failure in water and wastewater systems.

In this scenario, you will present your report through a narration of slides. For each slide, you will need to include notes in the notes section.

In your presentation, you must address the following:

A: Explain how CISA’s “Free Cyber Vulnerability Scanning for Water Utilities” links to an external site could support the protection of water and wastewater systems for the city that you select.

A: Analyze how the Collective Response section in CISA’s “Incident Response Guide: Water and Wastewater Sector” links to an external site, and local interests in critical infrastructure protection.

A: Examine technological, natural, and intentional risks and threats to water and wastewater systems for the city that you select, and ethical and legal issues.

A: Construct a policy for risk management that addresses capacity, equity, diversity, ethical and legal issues for a water and wastewater system failure in the city that you select.

The Risk Assessment for Waste and Wastewater Systems and Emergency Management Policy presentation

A: must be 5 to 7 double-spaced slides in length (not including title and references slides)

must utilize academic voice.

must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.

A: Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

must use at least 4 scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text

Radvanovsky, R., & McDougall, J. (2019). Critical infrastructure: Homeland security and emergency preparedness Links to an external site. (4th ed.). CRC Press.

A: Chapter 2: Demand, Capacity, Fragility, and the Emergence of Networks

The full-text version of this ebook is available through the Ebook Central database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. Chapter 2 includes information on demand in critical infrastructure and on networks. This chapter will assist with your Tribal, Local, State, and Federal Interests in Emergency Management for Critical Infrastructure Failures discussion forum and Risk Assessment for Waste and Wastewater Systems and Emergency Management Policy assignment this week.

Sylves, R. T. (2019). Disaster policy and politics: Emergency management and homeland security (3rd ed.). CQ Press.

A: Chapter 7: Civil-Military Relations and National Security

The full-text version of this ebook is available through the VitalSource platform. Chapter 7 provides information about civil-military and government and military relationships for security. This chapter will assist with your Tribal, Local, State, and Federal Interests in Emergency Management for Critical Infrastructure Failures discussion forum and your Risk Assessment for Waste and Wastewater Systems and Emergency Management Policy assignment this week.

Critique a DNP project that used bothquantitative and qualitative methods andsummarize the resultsAs a DNP-prepared nurse, it is imperative to explore the connection between research and qualityimprovement. How might a practice-focused question result in positive changes to the field of practice? Howmight the use of various methods lend itself to capturing substantive results for improvement?In this Assignment, you will explore both quantitative and qualitative methods in a critique of a publishedDNP project. You will consider how the findings connect to a practice-focused question.To prepare:the options provided.NEXT >a€¢ Review the required Learning Resources regarding how to summarize results.The AssignmentPage 1 / 1a€¢ Select a DNP project that uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to summarize the results fromaCe Consider how the findings reflect the practice-focused question in the selected project.Critique a DNP project that used both quantitative and qualitative methods and summarize the results.Link the results of both quantitative and qualitative findings to the practice-focused question in the DNPproject.CRITERIA:Critiqued the results of the quantitative methods used in the selected DNP project by:1. Response comprehensively and clearly explains the global initiative. The response comprehensively andclearly indicates how global initiative impacts the nursing profession.2. Response comprehensively and clearly describes the patient care delivery gap or problem. The responsecomprehensively and clearly includes metrics and data for support.Summarized results of the qualitative methods used in a selected DNP project .:1. The response comprehensively and clearly describes the gap or problem by addressing theindicators. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully suppidentification.2. The response comprehensively and clearly describes the gap or problem by describing wheindicator is risk adjusted. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examplessupport the description.This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome identified the connection between the results oand the practice-focused questions in the DNP project:1. The response comprehensively and clearly describes the gap or problem by explaining howorganization might establish their target or benchmark metrics. The response includes relevatappropriate examples that fully support the description.Note: Resources you can us