Designing with the End in Mind To help integrate what you are learning each week, as well as to help you illustrate your growing subject matter expertise, you’ll complete a weekly blog-style post that focuses in some way on one or more of the topics covered that week.  Each post must be a minimum of […]

Developing a Research-Based Question ns! You have successfully made it through two rounds of interviews for an internal position that will focus heavily on research skills. The hiring team has narrowed the candidate field to you and one other candidate, and now they want to understand your process and rationale for creating research-based questions. You […]

Balancing Care and Compassion The textbook suggests that healthcare professionals have lost personal, human touch due to excellent technical performance. Does this have to be the case? How can you balance technical performance with a good bedside manner? Do you feel this is important? How can we apply Biblical principles to our work in healthcare? […]

  This formative assessment focuses on teaching students how to conduct a preliminary risk identification and prioritization exercise within their healthcare organization. This activity will introduce them to the types of risks they’ll analyze in the final SWOT assessment and establish a foundation for more comprehensive risk evaluation.  Instructions:  Conduct a preliminary analysis of potential risks within a healthcare […]

Family mapping (genogram)is a structure that provides the provider with information about a family of origin issues which can be used as a therapeutic point of reference.  Sometimes refer to as a family genogram, family mapping provides a framework for understanding family patterns. Family mapping can also help a patient see connections within their family. […]

Purpose: To explore the concept of the Community Mental Health system.  Objective: Students will select and evaluate a Community Mental Health Center or Federally Qualified Health Center and formulate one evidenced-based intervention to improve patient-centered care at the chosen facility. Process: Select one Community Mental Health Center or a Federally Qualified Health Center with behavioral […]

SCENARIO 1 What are the errors in the following prescriptions (5 total)? Rewrite each prescription correctly. What is each medication classification? What is the mechanism of action (MOA)? Lupron 3.75 mg Inject SC monthly for endometriosis up to 6 months #1 5RF finasteride 1 mg PO daily for BPH #30 3RF (Note: women should not […]

  Understanding Stimulus and Response Classes Complete the readings and the interactive learning activity before you attempt the discussion question. Stimulus events can be discussed in terms of their features and relationships to behavior (physical, temporal, & functional). Changes in stimuli occur both as antecedent and consequence events, which affect an individual's response. Think about some […]

One’s sense of self or identity is shaped and transformed through interacting with others. People develop their personalities through the performance of attitudes, behaviors, and images of who they might want to be. And oftentimes, through social media channels, individuals observe these attitudes, behaviors, and images of others and imagine what it would be like […]

Informally survey 6 to 10 people, ages 15 and older, to assess their opinion on the belief that “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” and report the results—including 1 or 2 selected quotes from your participants. (3 points).  Does the information presented in chapter 3 support or deny this popular proverb? (1.5 points).  How do […]