Select a health care organization in your community to conduct an interview with an appropriate risk management employee. The organization can be your current employer, or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multi-provider private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Make sure to select an individual who can provide sufficient information regarding how that organization manages risk within its facility to answer the questions below.

In your interview, address the following:

1. Identification of the challenges the organization faces in controlling infectious diseases.
2. Risk management strategies used in the organization’s infection control program, along with specific examples.
3. How the facility’s educational risk management program addresses key professional issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and vicarious liability.
4. Policies the facility has implemented that address managing emergency triage in high-risk areas of health care service delivery.
5. Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor and maintain its risk management program.

Post-interview, compose a 750-1,000 word summary analysis of the interview to include the questions above as well as the following elements:

1. A brief assessment of the organization’s risk management program, including what works well and what could work better (the pros and cons).
2. Action steps you would take to improve the program. Select one area and provide your rationale and possible steps required to implement your suggestion.

Assignment:
Antimicrobial Agents

Antimicrobial agents are essential components in the treatment of various bacterial infections as they help to kill or prevent the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, and protozoans. Prior to the discovery of antimicrobial agents, treatment options for patients with bacterial infections were limited. For many patients, treatment often resulted in the amputation of limbs or even death. Today, treatment options for bacterial infections typically have a more positive prognosis. Due to the various types of infections presented in patients, it is essential to be able to identify the underlying cause of the infection—whether bacterial or viral—before recommending drug treatments. This will help you identify whether or not an antimicrobial agent would be appropriate and which specific agent would target the infection. In this Assignment, you consider the appropriate use of antimicrobial agents for infections.

To prepare:

• Review this week’s media presentation on principles of antimicrobial therapy, as well as Chapter 8 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text.
• Consider the categories of antimicrobial agents.
• Think about differences between viral and bacterial infections.
• Reflect on why proper identification of the infection is key to selecting the proper antimicrobial agent.

By Day 7

Write a 2- to 3- page paper that addresses the following:

• Describe the categories of antimicrobial agents.
• Describe differences between viral and bacterial infections.
• Explain why proper identification of viral and bacterial infections is key to selecting the proper antimicrobial agent.

Assignment:
Antimicrobial Agent

Prior to class, and after reading/viewing the module assignment, select one of the following and conduct an assessment.

• Eyes
• Ears
• Nose
• Mouth

You may conduct the assessment on a fellow student, friend, or family member. Remember to secure their permission.

Collect both subjective and objective data using the process described in the textbook.

Please separate the questions from each other and provide individual reference for each question. No plagiarism please 

Topic 2: Introduction to Academic Learning

1. You will submit your written assignments to Turnitin in your courses as you complete the program. The purpose is to help you determine how effectively you are integrating other sources into your own writing. Turnitin reports assist you in determining if you are integrating other’s writing into your own correctly and in accord with acceptable practices for scholarly writing. Review the Turnitin report provided. Indicate paragraphs that you believe need review and provide rationale. Also, discuss the impact of correct APA format and integration of sources on your credibility as a scholar in the discipline.

 Prepare this discussion question according to the guidelines found in the APA style guide. An abstract is not required.

2. Review the “PICOT Selection Guidelines” resource.

Using the PICOT format, formulate one evidence-based practice (EBP) question in correct format. Follow the selection guidelines in order to choose an appropriate topic idea that can be supported with empirical research.

In 200-300 words, justify why this topic fits the PICOT guidelines and is worthy of additional investigation.

Submit your PICOT question and supporting articles.

Prepare this discussion question according to the guidelines found in the APA style guide, An abstract is not required.

Topic 3: Foundations of Doctoral Research

1. After reviewing the “DNP Direct Practice Improvement Project Recommendations” PowerPoint, in addition to using the information you provided in your application to the GCU doctoral program, briefly describe a potential topic of interest for your DPI Project. How do you believe this project will contribute to the body of knowledge in your field?

2. Once you receive your Typhon access explore the website, create a sample case log with 1 minute of logged time (0:60). Create a screen shot of the completed sample log and post it in the Individual Forum for faculty review and approval. Along with your screenshot, briefly state any challenges you experienced.

Topic 4: Introduction to Critical Thinking

1. After reading the article, “Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Practical Approach,” briefly and concisely describe specifically what you learned about synthesis and meta-analysis.

2. Metacognition is thinking about thinking. What are some of the benefits of metacognition, and why is it important for doctoral learners to understand their metacognitive processes?

Topic 5: Expanded Doctoral Research

1. Why is it important to develop the skill of questioning? How does developing this skill apply to your reading of empirical articles, research conclusions, and your own DPI Project?

2. How do you determine if the conclusions of empirical research are logically supported or not? Do conclusions that are not logically supported invalidate the entire study? Why or why not? How might you address utilizing studies or information from studies with unsupported conclusions?

Topic 6: Becoming a Practitioner-Scholar

1. In your opinion, what is the difference between being a learner and being a scholar? Justify your claims.

2. What are misrepresentations that can occur while reading other’s work and using its data? How can do you determine when data is a useful source of evidence for a project? Is it possible to misrepresent data and conclusions using statistics? Why or why not? How?

Topic 7: Christian Worldview and Philosophical Principles

1. Briefly describe what you have learned from feedback given by your instructor regarding your PICOT question. How will you frame your PICOT differently moving forward? Be specific about what components, if any, that you will change.

2. Describe how your personal philosophy affects your worldview and how that impacts decision making and your approach to research. What does assessing your own worldview in this way teach you about yourself?

Topic 8: Next Steps in the Doctoral Journey

1. What is the most important skill for success in your doctoral pursuit? Why?

2. Reflect on the material and assessment given in the course and what you have learned in this course, what aspects of the doctoral pursuit do you find the most challenging? Most rewarding?

My assignment is to submit a rough draft about a medical ethics issue. For my topic I have chosen Physician Assisted Suicide, I will attach the outline I turned in, which that is what you will be using.  The paper is for you to revise, as well as add an additional page.  Below I will attach the rubric as well as my outline. 

This assignment will be turned in to turnitin.com so please refrain from any plagiarism. 

This is to be done APA style, Pence, G. E. (2017). Medical ethics: Accounts of ground-breaking cases. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education MUST BE USED AS A REFERENCE, as well as another credible source. 

These were my professors notes therefore please adjust the paper accordingly:  

 It seems that your main topic is a discussion of Physician-Assisted Suicide.  You do not need to include as much information about active and passive euthanasia.  You might make a brief statement initially about how PAS is different from active and passive euthanasia.  But then focus on the topic of PAS.

Please remember to identify and discuss the relevant ethical theories and bioethical principles for the pro and the con arguments for PAS.

Include the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that determined if PAS is a constitutionally protected right across thew U.S and also identified what level of government has the authority to determine if PAS is legal or illegal.  This is a different Supreme Court ruling from the one that determined that the right to discontinue or refuse treatment (passive euthanasia) is a constitutionally protected right across all states in the U.S., so be sure to differentiate these two cases and the rulings.

Also, the official positions of the AMA and the ANA are relevant to the discussion.