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Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment and Solutions

Scenario: Cross, Bazron, Dennis and Isaacs (1989) defined cultural competence as “a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together as a system, that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations”. Cultural Competency is vital to the sustainability of a healthcare organization and its capability to provide high-quality healthcare to the community it serves. Cultural competency consists of a blend of ethics, values, morals, healthcare organization’s mission and commitment hat all employees, patients and visitors shall be treated equally.

A new community health center has opened in your county offering basic healthcare services, preventative care and education to migrant workers, illegal residents, and recent immigrants. To ensure the health center promotes and establishes a culturally competent environment, as the health center’s chief privacy and compliance officer (CPCO), you have been tasked to develop a cultural competency training toolkit.

Deliverables: The final product to be submitted is robust cultural competency training toolkit for the department- and organization-wide use. Your final submission must include the following. Submit as Microsoft Word document along with an accompanying Microsoft PPT presentation by the end of Week Five but no later than Tuesday, by 11:59 PM EST. This is an individual assignment.

• A 1-2 page proposal for language assistance as an effort to offer additional pay for bilingual employees willing to serve as a designated language interpreter
  • Process identifying language interpreters
  • Determine supplemental pay
  • Schedule of interpreters (be sure schedule does not interfere with regular work schedule)
  • Process to locate identified interpreters when needed
• Design an actual twenty (20) to thirty (30) minutes virtual training session for departmental and organizational use on Cultural Competency (the intent is future mandatory automated training)
  • Presentation can include clip art, links to additional sources
  • Topics must include cultural competency discussion on employees and patient care and aligned with the mission, vision, and values of the organization; define and discuss cultural competency; compare and contrast cultural competency and diversity, ethics, health disparities; impact on decision making; and measures to establish and maintain a culturally competent organization and environment.
• Using Microsoft Excel, Word or a survey software, design a tool for attendees to assess the cultural competency training
  • Identify a list of cultural competency related domains and accompanying knowledge, skills, and abilities for attendees to measure the effectiveness of the virtual training session
  • Integrate data analytics to assess, evaluate and/or recommend local state and federal cultural competence (and/or related) regulatory compliance measures.

References & Resources:

Cultural Competence in Health Care: Emerging Framework for Practical Approaches: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2002/oct/cultural-competence-health-care-emerging-frameworks-and

Tools for Assessing Cultural Competence Training: https://www.aamc.org/download/54346/data/tacct.xls

Movie “Language Barrier”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaVKy-2HWIo&WT.z_nav=healthcare-professionals%2Fresources-for-health-care-professionals%2Fhealth-equity%3BBody%3BBreaking%20Down%20the%20Language%20Barrier%20%E2%80%93%20Translating%20Limited%20English%20Proficiency%20into%20practice

Focused Notes are a way to reflect on your practicum experiences and connect the experiences to the learning you gain from your weekly learning resources. Focused Notes, such as the ones required in this practicum course, are often used in clinical settings to document patient care.

For this Assignment, you will work with a patient with a HEENT condition that you examined during the last three weeks, and complete an Episodic/Focus Note Template Form where you will gather patient information and relevant diagnostic and treatment information and reflect on health promotion and disease prevention in light of patient factors such as age, ethnic group, past medical history (PMH), socioeconomic status, and cultural background. In this week’s Learning Resources, please refer to the Focused SOAP Note resources for guidance on writing Focused Notes.

Note: All Focused Notes must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your preceptor. When you submit your Focused Notes, you should include the complete Focused Note as a Word document and pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your preceptor. You must submit your Focused Notes using SAFE ASSIGN.

Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, faculty will deduct points per the Walden Late Policies.

To prepare:

• Use the Episodic/Focus Note Template found in the Learning Resources for this week to complete this assignment.
• Select a patient that you examined during the last three weeks that suffered from any HEENT condition. With this patient in mind, address the following in a Focused Note:

Assignment:

• Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding her personal and medical history?
• Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment?
• Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why?
• Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.
• Reflection notes: What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?

Original posts must be 1-2 paragraphs. Responses must be at least three sentences in length, address specific content, be thoughtful, reflect on the readings, contribute meaningfully, and promote discussion within the class.

A. In your own words, discuss your opinion on how Henrietta Lacks and her family were treated.

B. How are the issues of social injustice and health disparities still evident in the current COVID-19 pandemic? (Please cite a relevant news article to buttress your point).

I’m working on a health & medical writing question and need an explanation to help me learn.

Are there greater advantages to having two eyes on the front of your head as opposed to having two eyes on the side of your head? Be as thorough as possible in listing and discussing the advantages.

Paper instructions

1) A description of the pathophysiology of the condition.
2) Characterization of signs and symptoms patients will experience as they have the condition..

Read the article “Learning (Your First Job)” by Robert Leamnson. Then write a reflection (of at least 250 words) using the following questions as a guide.  

1. Summarize some of the studying methods or behaviors that Leamnson describes as not helpful for learning or content mastery.
2. Summarize some of the studying methods or behaviors that Leamnson describes as most helpful for learning or content mastery.
3. Identify a course that you found particularly challenging. Why was it challenging? What did you do to try to overcome those challenges in that course or in future courses?
4. As someone who has now been in college for several years, how have your study habits changed over time? What have you learned about studying and learning new content over the years?  
5. What study habits do you employ to learn new material? Do you engage in passive behaviors? Do you cram before tests? Do you review content with a study partner or group? Do you verbalize what you are learning?
6. How can you apply the information from this article to this course in order to ensure successful mastery of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology content?

their are 2 assignments one is making a draft on any topic related to depression and another one is preparing a brochure all the details for that are given in images. 3 to 4 paragraphs in draft and brochure is unto you how you can make it

Sally Anne, aged 19, brought two children into the emergency room. The 6-month-old boy’s complaints are a cold with mild fever, fatigue, vomiting with dry coughing spells, decreased intake of cola (2 ounces every 3 hours—her version of clear liquids), one scraped diaper per 12 hours— the diaper is not soaked so Mom recycles it after scrapping off the solids. The child’s cry is weak, red eyes, sneezing moves thick mucus, prolonged cough, high-pitched noise during intake. The child’s condition did not improve over the last 24 hours.

The family of three lives in the family sedan parked behind a service station due to Mom’s fear of lack of shelter safety. Turk, the 3-year-old, sports bruises on arms and legs, and a knot on his forehead. He appears semiconscious (responds to light pain), coughs when disturbed, refuses fluids and food, and pulls away from touch. Mother states that he has been sick for more than a week, but she is concerned that he has not been as fussy the last 24 hours. His skin tents when pinched. Sally Anne believes he lost weight but has not used a scale. Turk does not look adults in the eye or follow a finger point. He moans but has not communicated with words. He appears to fantasize, and finger plays violently. His fingers seem to attack each other. He does not seem to listen nor does he respond to questions. Both children are wearing dirty clothing. Mom is exhausted and asks for help with formula and diapers.

Treatment: Both children kept overnight for assessment in a room with a bathroom and couch. Mother permitted to bath and wash children’s clothing after their baths. Cooling mist tent ordered. Children placed next to each other for convenience and for precautions. Social worker involved for discharge planning. The boys are placed on IVs for hydration and given clear fluids for drinking. Antibiotics are placed in the IV.

1. What information is needed for a complete assessment?
2. Will this family be worse off when released from the hospital? What community resources for homeless families could be activated in the small town? What prevents the family from falling through economic cracks that will prevent developmental assessments and treatments?

Part I: Presentation

Develop a presentation to present to Cedar Lake Community Center, LLC staff:

The presentation must include the following:

Highlight community demographics relative to homelessness locally and throughout the state (*Note: You can choose your own community or another community).

Describe the complex needs of homeless individuals.

• Describe the importance of social services with vulnerable populations.
• Describe why the development of this homelessness initiative is necessary, based upon objective research.
• Part II: MemoBoard members with non-profit organizations, such as Cedar Lake Community Center, LLC, ensure sustainability within the organization. Additionally, ethics and legal governance and the facilitation of financial management policies assist with ensuring programmatic advancement.Draft a one-page memo to the agency’s Board of Trustees that includes the following:
• Explain the grant received.

Identify the necessity for a homelessness assistance social services program within Cedar Lake Community Center, LLC. Explain how the agency can be transformative in providing social services to address homelessness.

• Discuss preliminary strategies of how this program may be implemented to show transparency in how Cedar Lake Community Center, LLC will implement the program.