Are there specific health care issues that they advocate for or against?

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Identify a non-profit organization you would like to know more about in your community 2. Research their website and any other information available on line to become familiar with who they are and what they do. Some might be associated with a national organization. Some questions to guide this work are:
What is their mission?
What is their vision?
What are their main programs?
Are there specific health care issues that they advocate for or against?
What are some of the laws that affect the population being served?
Is there any upcoming legislation with which they are particularly concerning themselves?
How does the organization incorporate the voices of the representative group/ population referred to in (b) in its decision making?
How are they funded?
How are the funds distributed?

  1. Submit a 2-3 page double –spaced paper describing the organization and incorporating answers to the above questions. You must cite at least one scholarly article that addresses the health care issue(s) the organization addresses. You must also describe whether or not the organization needs legislative action to assist their population and how you might advocate on their behalf.

Discuss three strategies you could use to implement best practices for managing the selected disease in your current healthcare organization.

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A. Investigate one of the following disease processes: traumatic brain injury, depression, obesity, asthma, or heart disease.
1. Analyze the pathophysiology of the disease process you selected in part A.
2. Discuss the standard of practice for the selected disease process.
a. Discuss the evidence-based pharmacological treatments in your state and how they affect management of the selected disease in your community.
b. Discuss clinical guidelines for assessment, diagnosis, and patient education for the selected disease process.
c. Compare the standard practice for managing the disease within your community with state or national practices.
3. Discuss characteristics of and resources for a patient who manages the selected disease well, including access to care, treatment options, life expectancy, and outcomes.
a. Analyze disparities between management of the selected disease on a national and international level.
4. Discuss three or four factors (e.g., financial resources, access to care, insured/uninsured, Medicare/Medicaid) that contribute to a patient being able to manage the selected disease
a. Explain how a lack of the factors discussed in part A4 leads to an unmanaged disease process.
i. Describe characteristics of a patient with the selected disease that is unmanaged.
B. Analyze how the selected disease process affects patients, families, and populations in your community.
1. Discuss the financial costs associated with the selected disease process for patients, families, and populations from diagnosis to treatment.
C. Discuss how you will promote best practices for managing the selected disease in your current healthcare organization.
1. Discuss three strategies you could use to implement best practices for managing the selected disease in your current healthcare organization.
2. Discuss an appropriate method to evaluate the implementation of each of the strategies from part C1.

discuss the principles and the benefits of consumer-centred, collaborative mental health nursing practice.

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Referring to evidence-based literature, including reference to mental health consumers’ views and experiences of participating in health care, discuss the principles and the benefits of consumer-centred, collaborative mental health nursing practice, and consider the relevance of these findings for your own practice development.

Discuss coverage for medications in the two healthcare systems.

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  1. Compare the U.S. healthcare system with the healthcare system of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland, by doing the following:
  2. Identify one country from the following list whose healthcare system you will compare to the U.S. healthcare system: Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland.
  3. Compare access between the two healthcare systems for children, people who are unemployed, and for people who are retired.
  4. Discuss coverage for medications in the two healthcare systems.
  5. Determine the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist in the two healthcare systems.
  6. Discuss coverage for preexisting conditions in the two healthcare systems.
  7. Explain two financial implications for the patient with regard to the healthcare delivery differences between the two countries.