Adorno

Instructions:

Please complete the following steps for your discussion post.

After you have completed the Unit 7 material and have considered the role of the culture industry, consider the following questions. 

• Describe Adorno’s views on standardization and pseudo-individualization. 
• Share a unique example from pop culture (movies, songs, books, etc.) that follows this structure (do not reiterate the same examples shared by classmates).
• Do you find merit in or agree with Adorno’s theory of popular culture?  Why or why not?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

BOOK WILL BE INCLUDED. 

APA STYLE 

250 WORDS MINIMUM 

REFERENCES QUOTE WITHIN TEXT 

1. What is meditation? Discuss the benefits of meditation? (mention at least 3). 

2. Is there any research study that support the benefits discussed? Have you ever practiced meditation? Discuss your experience? 

Guidelines: The answer should be based on the knowledge obtained from reading the book (only the last part of the question is your opinion/ experience). You must answer all the questions. Your grade will be an average of all parts of the question.

 

Grading Criteria: Discuss what is meditation? (25%). Discuss the benefits of meditation? (mention at least 3) (30% – 10 points each). Is there any research study that supports the benefits discussed? (30%). Have you ever practiced meditation? Discuss your experience? (15%).

Write a 1,200-1,500 word analysis of “Case Study: Healing and Autonomy.” In light of the readings, be sure to address the following questions:

1. Under the Christian narrative and Christian vision, what sorts of issues are most pressing in this case study?
2. Should the physician allow Mike to continue making decisions that seem to him to be irrational and harmful to James?
3. According to the Christian narrative and the discussion of the issues of treatment refusal, patient autonomy, and organ donation in the topic readings, how might one analyze this case?
4. According to the topic readings and lecture, how ought the Christian think about sickness and health? What should Mike as a Christian do? How should he reason about trusting God and treating James?

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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PHI-413V-RS-T3CaseStudy.docx 

 

Phase 4: Action Plan and Financial Implications

Table of Contents

Development of an Action Plan

At this juncture in the planning process, you have not only identified a need and defined the desired outcome for your project, but you have also assessed the various internal and external factors which influence the problem. All of this information will play an important role as you develop a plan of action to facilitate change.

Strategic Interventions to Facilitate Outcome Achievement

Much like a nursing care plan, a plan to guide change includes a detailed work schedule of activities, tasks, and interventions which are all designed to facilitate achievement of the stated outcome. These activities, tasks, and interventions can be referred to as an action plan, and will also include target dates for completion.

Clear Communication

The purpose of an action plan is to clarify for you (the project leader), your faculty or mentor and any other pertinent stakeholders, the specific plan of activities, tasks, and interventions which will be implemented, and when they are targeted to take place. If more than one person is involved in the implementation, the action plan can also serve as a communication tool to keep everyone on the same page, and may even denote ‘who’ is responsible for doing ‘what’, and ‘when’ those activities will be carried out.

Outputs and Deliverables

Within your action plan, you may have outputs or deliverables which are a necessary element in your planned change project (for example, the development of a new policy, staff education program, or teaching tool). You will include these outputs or deliverables within the action plan, as well as a date by which they should be attained or completed. Like other activities or interventions, outputs serve to facilitate achievement of the overarching project outcome. For example, a revised policy on catheter care and mandatory staff in-service sessions may facilitate achievement of an outcome geared toward the reduction of CAUTI on a particular unit.

Essential Resources

As you develop your action plan, consider the resources which will be necessary to actualize the plan. These may be human resources, financial resources, and/or material resources. Making note of the necessary resources will inform the project budget.

Helpful Reminders

As you develop an action plan, consider the following:

• What steps need to be taken to facilitate outcome achievement?
• What are the target dates for action steps, and who is responsible?
• What stakeholders need to be engaged in the process, and how will that engagement take place?
• What resources will be needed (human, financial, material)?
• How will these resources be secured and what expenses will be involved?
• Are there any special steps needed to assure that the necessary resources are available for use?
• Are there specific outputs that will be needed to facilitate the achievement of the overarching project outcome (such as a new policy or other deliverable)?
• If so, are they clearly incorporated into the action plan?

Consideration of Financial Resources

Managing fiscal resources is critical for efficient operations at the unit or organizational level. MSN-prepared nurse leaders are involved in managing the financial aspect of planned change projects that may involve stakeholders and resources both internal and external to the organization. Understanding the relationships between available resources, revenue, and expenses can influence efficiency of a project, and its future sustainability.

Just as with any personal budget that you might use, budgeting for planned change initiatives requires intentional planning. The advanced practice nurse must gather information in order to construct a solid budgetary plan to project the expenses that will occur.

Identifying Resources and Projecting Cost

Budgeting for the project is important as you plan for action steps and interventions. To initiate the process of budgeting for a planned change project it is important to forecast or project the expenses that will be involved. This will require you to:

• Identify the resources necessary to implement the planned change project
  • Financial resources
  • Material resources
  • Human resources
• Project or ‘forecast’ the expense or cost for the necessary resources

Identifying Sources of Funding

As you prepare a budget for the project, consider the funding sources available. Who will pay for the necessary resources to carry out the initiative? Will costs be absorbed by the organization? Are donations of resources a possibility? Will it be necessary to reallocate funds from other revenue streams to cover the project expenses?

Addressing Variance within Budgeted and Actual Expenses

Once the planned change project is underway, the advanced practice nurse will be responsible for managing the cost of the initiative. To facilitate this process, the nurse will note the actual expenses incurred for the necessary resources. When the actual cost differs from the projected cost, a variance occurs. Any variance that occurs between the projected and actual budget must be analyzed. As revenue and expenses deviate from the projected numbers, adjustments in the budget may be required.

Think About It

While the budgeting process may seem straightforward in terms of forecasting expenses and revenue, an effective budgeting process requires the nurse leader to anticipate and address variables that impact the budget in unexpected ways. As you forecast a budget for the planned change project, consider the following:

• What human, financial, and material resources are needed for your project?
• What expenses are associated with the required resources?
• What variables might impact the cost of the project resources?
• Should a variance occur, how might you address the situation?
• In what ways might a cost-benefit analysis demonstrate the long-term value of your planned change project?

Practicum Application and Activities

To be effective, an action plan should specify the activities and interventions that will be carried out in order to facilitate achievement of the project outcome. Also included on the action plan are target dates for implementation, along with a designation of the person(s) responsible.

Budgeting for the planned change project is necessary for efficient use of resources. In the early phases of any project, it is important to forecast or project the expenses necessary to carry out the action plan. During implementation, careful monitoring of actual expenses can help the nurse leader to identify and address variance that may occur.

Review the Johns Hopkins Appendix I located in the MSN Toolbox area of the course. Proceed with the following activities. Document your practicum-related activities on the Practicum Log:

• Prepare a plan with specific talking points to meet with your faculty (and practicum mentor if available) regarding an action plan and financial considerations for the planned change project. Think about how each activity and intervention can facilitate achievement of the project outcome.
• Meet with your faculty (and practicum mentor if available) to discuss the action plan and financial considerations for the planned change project.
• As the opportunity allows, identify, communicate, and collaborate with stakeholders impacted by plan of action.
• Complete the Johns Hopkins Appendix I document.
• Validate your work on Phase 4 with your faculty (and practicum mentor if available) as needed.
• Revise your work as necessary.
• Submit the Johns Hopkins Appendix I completed with your time log, once Phase 4 completed.

Political actions in the healthcare sector are important to the LGBTQ community as the engagement of the nurses in political actions help improve their well-being. The nurses can actively participate in elections to put up to power the leaders they want or to bring down the leaders who do not fully satisfy their needs. The nurses can therefore engage in policy making by ensuring that manifesto of the leaders elected include the various policies they need. The nurses can ensure that the leaders being elected have the potential to listen to the various proposals of the nurses on the grounds of ensuring protection for the LGBTQ community (Amann, 2017). This will facilitate the incorporation of the recommendations of nurses in the policies. 

The nurses can stand to be elected as leaders into political position which is the most important as it pertains to LGBTQ and in all the patients. The nurses can act best in that position as they leaders can be able to implement the needed policies that will improve the healthcare sector. A nurse chairing a political position will have adequate knowledge on how policies will work in the healthcare sector and how LGBTQ community could be protected. The political position will facilitate the enhancement of the health care services for all the patients regardless of the category (Groenwald andEldridge, 2019). The political action will facilitate the improvement of the LGBTQ as awareness to the public reducing the stigma associated with them due to non-acceptance in the society.  

The nurses can also obtain training and be involved in city councils and committees where they can raise issues of concern within the industry. Participating in these trainings on political issues will facilitate the enhancement of the needed knowledge to the community on the LGBTQ. The participation in the committees will facilitate the enlighteningof the society on the healthcare delivery for all the patients (Kung and Rudner Lugo, 2015). The involvement will generate an opportunity for nurses to protect the LGBTQ from being denied some services and priorities.  

References 

Amann, C. A. (2017). Undergraduate Health Policy Education: Impacting the Future of Nursing. Groenwald, S. L., & Eldridge, C. (2019, August). Politics, power, and predictability of nursing care. In Nursing forum. 

Kung, Y. M., & Rudner Lugo, N. (2015). Political advocacy and practice barriers: A survey of Florida APRNs. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 27(3), 145-151. 

Role of Nurses in Influencing Policy Making
 Nurses as Political Actors

Nurses should see themselves as practitioners with the opportunity and obligation to impact current and future delivery systems of health care to be successful. The practice of nursing is based on human health science and caring psychology. This works from a context that holistically respects all people and aims to encourage and advance the health of people throughout their lives and throughout all levels of society (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, n.d).

A large number of the leading nursing associations encourage nurses to take part in the formulating of policies actively. For instance, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing underlines the job of nursing in strategy. It distinguishes, in its “Fundamentals” reports, the standard arrangement inclusion that ought to be tended to in instructive projects at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees of expert nursing. The National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association additionally anticipate that medical caretakers should address the approach as a component of their expert job. Politically, nurses can play a significant role in influencing policies that influences the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals (LGBT) (Burke, 2016). They include individuals from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, yet society has treated them as lesser beings. Nurses can influence policymaking concerning these groups in the following ways.

Lobbying political leaders; Through unique knowledge of their constituents ‘ needs, city and county officials have the power to implement policies and programs that protect LGBTQ people, improve community engagement, and open opportunities (Burke, 2016). Nursing leaders can, therefore, lobby political leaders to pass policies that favor LGBT.

Involvement in campaign groups; Many of these LGBT individuals face discrimination due to current policies in place. Nurses can join in their campaign and together fight for their rights. Sometimes, demonstrations are the only voice that the government hears and responds to.

Volunteer to engage in conferences or activities related to strategy. Prepare a fact sheet and help prepare a document to educate policymakers. Inform stakeholders regarding events that provide incentives for policymakers to tackle.

Conclusively, there is a need for changes to be effected on policies relating to LGBT rights to ensure they feel safe in society. As such, nurses should politically intervene with members of LGBT. They have the potential to have a profound global impact on politics. Nevertheless, it is nurses ‘ ethical and professional duty to intervene in policies they deem to be affecting their patients, LGBT notwithstanding.

References
Burke Sheila A. (2016). Influence through policy: Nurses have a unique role.Retrieved 29 October 2019, from https://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org/commentary/more-commentary/Vol42_2_nurses-have-a-unique-role
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health. (n.d). Retrieved 29 October 2019, from  https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/