What are the signs and symptoms of a stroke?

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Stroke Case Study

Your written assignment for this module should be a 1-2 page paper (not including title page and reference page) that describes the following:

  • What are the signs and symptoms of a stroke?
  • How does the brain adapt in a patient who has had a stroke?
  • What are the evidence based care measures that need to be addressed to ensure quality care for this patient?

You should include a minimum of 3 references. Include a title page, in-text citations, and a reference page in APA format.
Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Poverty and Homelessness

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M3.D4 – Discussion

Poverty and Homelessness

Instructions:

1. Please answer all the following questions:

· What facilities are available for the homeless in your community? How do people access these resources?

· What is the demographic make-up of the homeless population in your community? Primarily male or female? Family? Ethnic group?

· What is your risk of becoming homeless? What resources would you draw on if tomorrow you woke up with no job and no housing?

· What physical illnesses or disorders are specific to homeless people in your area? What are the greatest risks?

1. Your response should be 1 PAGE. 

APA Instruction:

1-Would need an Abstract. Good reference page format, citation and APT format

2- After submission, a rating of 0-15% similarity will be considered acceptable. Over 15% will not be considered acceptable.

3-NOTE:  Wikipedia is not a source to be used in any of the generated work; using it will result in a “zero” for the assignment.

The Product Life Cycle Part

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Please respond to the following: “The Product Life Cycle Part”

  • Assess the value of the product life cycle as a tool for product succession planning and related product management activities. Give your opinion on whether or not the Product Life Cycle can help health care managers in promoting portfolio planning, strategy formulation, and forecasting. Provide one (1) example to support your rationale.
  • Select two (2) stages of the Product Life Cycle. Describe the methods for strategically and tactically managing products during each of the selected stages. Relate the selected stages to two (2) real-life examples of strategic or tactical initiatives within a health care organization.

Enforcement procedures for the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics

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Required Reading

Anonymous. (2015). Enforcement procedures for the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69(Suppl. 3) 1-13. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Baker, K. R. (2016) An obligation to society. Drug Topics, 160(10). Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Battie, R. N. (2015) Thriving through trust: Ethical practice, quality care. AORN Journal, 101(5). 505-507. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Chiarello, E. (2015) The War on Drugs comes to the pharmacy counter: Frontline work in the shadow of discrepant institutional logics. Law and Social Inquiry, 40(1) 86-122. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Divakar, D. D., Al Kheraif, A. A., Ramakrishnaiah, R., Al Zhrane, M., Al-Hazmi, A., and Parine, N. R. (2015). Ethics in dentistry an overview: Electronic search study. Revista Romana de Bioteca, 12(3). Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Grass, J. C. (2016). The Medicine Shoppe v. Loretta Lynch, et al.: Pharmacists and prescribing physicians are equally liable. The Health Lawyer, 28(3), 28-37. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Limenti, A. E. (1999). The role of ethical principles in health care and the implications for ethical codes. Journal of Medical Ethics, 25. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC479265/pdf/jmedeth00006-0032.pdf
Yang, Y. T., Attanasio, L. B., & Kozhimannil, K. B. (2016). State scope of practice laws, nurse-midwifery workforce, and childbirth procedures and outcomes. Women’s Health Issues, 26(3) 262-267. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.
Young, G., Hulcombe, J., Hurwood, A., & Nancarrow, S. (2015). The Queensland Health Ministerial Taskforce on health practitioners’ expanded scope of practice: Consultation findings. Australian Health Review, 39(3), 249-254. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.

Optional Reading

American Clinical Social Work Association (n.d.) Code of Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.acswa.org/code-ethics/
American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science (n.d.) Code of Ethics. Retrieved from  http://www.ascls.org/about-us/code-of-ethics
International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (2015) Code of Professional Conduct. Retrieved from https://iblce.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/code-of-professional-conduct.pdf
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (2013). Code of Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.naemt.org/about-ems/emt-oath
**Homework Assignment
Read the article in the required reading, “The Medicine Shoppe v. Loretta Lynch, et al.: Pharmacists and prescribing physicians are equally liable” as well as the Pharmacists Code of Ethics at the following link:
https://www.pharmacist.com/code-ethics
Discuss the following:

  1. Identify and discuss the duties and responsibilities of a pharmacist toward a patient.
  2. Based upon your research and assessment of the case, did the pharmacist perform the required duties and uphold patient rights?
  3. Is the pharmacy at fault? Why or why not?
  4. What impact can a pharmacist’s actions have on patients and community?
  5. What precautions can be taken to ensure these types of incidents by allied professionals don’t happen to others? Should there be more regulations in place?

Length: Submit a 3-page paper, using headings to correspond with each question in the assignment.

SLP Assignment Expectations

  1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your writing. This should not be an opinion piece, but an analysis.
  2. Avoid the use of first person in your paper.
  3. Limit your response to a maximum of 3-5 pages.
  4. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources, and use at least 3 references. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php and for evaluating internet sources:
    https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
  5. You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/