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You have been asked to return to your alma mater and speak to current students about performance management issues.  To make the most of this experience for yourself and the students, write a 3-5 page paper that details the following: the concept of “performance management”; the most prominent types of performance management plans; its impact on the employee and the organization; the relationship between performance management and compensation; and factors that should be considered when successfully implementing performance management within an organization.

One strategy that has proven effective for improving population health outcomes is screening. Screening programs for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer allow for early detection and treatment, thereby improving health outcomes. Advocates of early screening programs have sought to inform populations at risk of the value of participating in early screening.

Consider the following examples: In Florida, mobile mammography units have reached out to uninsured women and provided free mammograms. In Maryland, Wellmobiles go out into the community to provide primary and preventive health care services to geographically underserved communities and uninsured individuals across the state. Many such programs are available for individuals to participate in screening, regardless of ability to pay.

In this Assignment, you will evaluate the characteristics of preventive health programs that lead to successful outcomes.

To prepare:

• Review the article “Improving Female Preventive Health Care Delivery Through Practice Change” found in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider why the Every Woman Matters program was not effective in meeting its goals.
• Using the Walden Library and other credible websites, identify at least two successful advocacy programs for early cancer screening and evaluate the characteristics that made them effective based on the evidence presented in the article or website.

To complete:

Write a 4- to 5-page paper that includes the following:

• Summarize the Every Woman Matters program and how the issue of women’s preventive health care was approached. Analyze possible reasons the program was ineffective.
• Summarize the characteristics at least two prevention programs that advocate for early screening, describing what made them successful.
• If you were the nurse leader in charge of developing a follow-up to the Every Woman Matters program, what strategies would you propose for creating a more effective prevention program?

 

Required Resources

Readings

• Knickman, J. R., & Kovner, A. R. (Eds.). (2015). Health care delivery in the united states (11th ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
  • Chapter 7, “Health and Behavior” (pp. 119-144)

    This chapter discusses the role of behavior on health and describes behavioral risk factors and potential community-based interventions.

• Backer, E. L., Geske, J. A., McIlvain, H. E., Dodendorf, D. M., & Minier, W. C. (2005). Improving female preventive health care delivery through practice change: An Every Woman Matters study. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 18(5), 401–408.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article informs the Assignment as an example of a health program that was not successful. You will conduct additional research on this topic to determine current advocacy programs that have been more effective.

• Hancock, C., & Cooper, K. (2011). A global initiative to tackle chronic disease by changing lifestyles. Primary Health Care, 21(4), 24–26.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article details the efforts of the C3 Collaborating for Health charity. In particular, C3 focuses on minimizing the risk factors of poor dieting, smoking, and low physical activity.

• Schwartz, S. M., Ireland, C., Strecher, V., Nakao, D., Wang, C., & Juarez, D. (2010). The economic value of a wellness and disease prevention program. Population Health Management, 13(6), 309–317.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  The authors of this article detail a study that sought to determine the economic consequences of a disease prevention program conducted by the Hawaii Medical Service Association.

• Tengland, P. (2010). Health promotion and disease prevention: Logically different conceptions? Health Care Analysis, 18(4), 323–341.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article investigates the differences and causal connections between health promotion and disease prevention.

	Prepare: In preparation for discussing the importance of critical thinking skills, please read Chapters 1 through 3 of Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills, as well as the following articles: “Critical Thinking and the Challenges of Internet,” “Common Misconceptions of Critical Thinking.”
	Reflect: Critical thinking gets you involved in a dialogue with the ideas you read from others in this class. To be a critical thinker, you need to be able to summarize, analyze, hypothesize, and evaluate the new information that you encounter.
	Write: For this discussion Define, describe, and explain the principles of critical thinking. Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library, and find an example of good, careful (critical) thinking, and explain why you think it exemplifies strong critical thinking skills. Post a link or reference information for that source, describe the content, and explain how it is a good example of critical thinking. Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library and find an example that lacks good, careful (critical thinking). Post a link or reference information for that source, describe the content, and explain why you think it demonstrates poor critical thinking skills. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.
	Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. When responding to your classmates, please provide feedback on their examples of good and poor critical thinking skills. Discuss additional ways one can think more critically. Each participation post should be a minimum of 75 words.

Purpose: This assignment gives you a chance to produce a scholarly paper (10+ pages**) about current research in Information Science (IS) and related domains (security, business, finance, analytics, communications, social networks, etc.). By preparing it, you will familiarize yourself with information system issues, scientific methods of investigation, and theories and models used by IS researchers. See optional textbook for ideas: Davis and Shaw, ed. (2013) Introduction to Information Science and Technology. You are citing others’ ideas mainly as in a “literature review “and are not required to have original research or ideas. So your conclusion represents a synthesis of your research and conclusions.

(**Longer is better.) 

Because you have “research” and peer-reviewed publications to consider, the topic areas vary and include retrieval theory, knowledge management and information architecture, as well as user behavior, theories and models covering computer interactions, cognition, psychology, and human factors. The IS field of study includes search engines and meta-data analysis; statistical formulas and quantitative pattern analyses are evaluated. Computer-based technologies are investigated in IS to improve data base administration and information systems through knowledge-based systems (expert systems), artificial intelligence, decision support systems, data mining tools, encryption/decryption, system security (access, viruses, etc.), networking (handheld, wireless applications), collaboration, and object-oriented programming.  Current topics: healthcare databases, social networking, spam, wireless, apps, informatics, blogs, wikis, RFIDs, grids.

 

 DEVELOP A THESIS STATEMENT based on what you know that is related to news or a scholarly reference(s) you read.

Thesis Example: “The need for effective network security has increased since 9/11; however, the technology used by hackers advances each year ahead of IT efforts. Therefore, this paper will explore proven security approaches.”

 That is, use a 3-Part THESIS STRUCTURE:

• Positive statement (theory or observed “truth”)
• However statement… (problem to research)
• Therefore statement… (approach you intend to use to resolve) 

FINAL PAPER REQUIREMENTS

 

Write a 10-12 page paper (including charts, figures, bulleted lists, and other graphics; as well as reference list or bibliography).See outline and rubric below.

 

Suggested Outline: (Note that illustrations such as charts or figures are very good to have; a cognitive style issue.)

 

                        I.         Abstract (write this last to summarize)

                       II.         Thesis statement

                     III.         Literature review (or background on topic)

                     IV.         Argument/discussion of research

                      V.         Results and conclusion

                     VI.         References (sources cited/bibliography in APA style)

                   VII.         (optional) appendices (supporting material)

 

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