Chemistry Discussion (150 words + 150 words )

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I need two different versions one for me and one from my friend. We are in the same class and same teacher.

Discussion

Believe it or not, cleaning is chemistry. In other words, the cleaning products you use in your home are developed using our knowledge of chemistry (Note: While enzymes are used extensively in cleaning products they are studied in more detail in biology classes).

For your main post, think of a cleaning product and explain how it cleans – in terms of chemistry.

Example: Many cleaners designed to treat pet urine stains are simply bases dissolved in solution. Urine is acidic so a base will neutralize it. The typical products of an acid/base reaction are water and some type of salt. So the base (cleaner) reacts with the acid (urine) and produces water and some type of salt. After a short period of time we can vacuum up the salt and let the water evaporate. Ta da! The pet urine stain and smell are gone!

For your responses, do a little bit of research and find some interesting info on the cleaning product that your classmate chose. This could be some interesting history on the item, other uses for it outside of its “standard” use, etc.

Your main post should be at least 150 words.

The Joint Commission

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Instructions

Use information provided on the question page and the 2 attached PDF FILES to answer the questions. Answers should be in details, do not copy and paste your answers. Responses must be thorough and complete. If you are using direct quotes, use appropriate citation and include a reference page.

QUESTIONS – Joint Commission

  • What is the Joint Commission?
  • List the 5 benefits of Accreditation by the Joint Commission.
  • List the 4 patient-focused functions of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH)?
  • Can you explain what an accreditation survey is and what happens during the survey?
  • How long is an accreditation and certification award?
  • List the 7 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals for 2019.Include an example for each section how you as a respiratory therapist contribute to ensuring patient safety.


*** Use the information below and the 2 attached PDF Files to answer the following questions:

About The Joint Commission

Q: What is The Joint Commission?

A:

Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including hospitals and health care organizations that provide ambulatory and office-based surgery, behavioral health, home health care, laboratory and nursing care center services. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. The Joint Commission has two nonprofit affiliate organizations: The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare aims to solve health care’s most critical safety and quality problems and Joint Commission Resources (JCR) provides consulting services, educational services and publications. Joint Commission International, a division of JCR, accredits and certifies international health care organizations. Learn more about The Joint Commission at www.jointcommission.org.

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Q: Is accreditation or certification mandatory?

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No. Health care organizations, programs, and services voluntarily pursue accreditation and certification.

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Q: What is an accreditation survey? What happens during an accreditation survey?

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Joint Commission surveyors visit accredited health care organizations a minimum of once every 39 months (two years for laboratories) to evaluate standards compliance. This visit is called a survey. All regular Joint Commission accreditation surveys are unannounced.

Joint Commission surveyors are highly trained experts who are doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, laboratory medical technologists, and other health care professionals. The Joint Commission is the only health care accrediting body that requires its surveyors be certified.

During the survey, surveyors select patients randomly and use their medical records as a roadmap to evaluate standards compliance. As surveyors trace a patient’s experience in a health care organization, they talk to the doctors, nurses, and other staff who interacted with the patient. Surveyors also observe doctors and nurses providing care, and often speak to the patients themselves.

Joint Commission accreditation does not begin and end with the on-site survey. It is a continuous process. Every time a nurse double-checks a patient’s identification before administering a medication, every time a surgical team calls a” time out” to verify they agree they’re about to perform the correct procedure, at the correct site, on the correct patient, they live and breathe the accreditation process. Every three months, hospitals submit data to the Joint Commission on how they treat conditions such as heart attack care and pneumonia – data that is available to the public and updated quarterly on qualitycheck.org. Throughout the accreditation cycle, organizations are provided with a self-assessment scoring tool to help monitor their ongoing standards compliance. Joint Commission accreditation is woven into the fabric of a health care organization’s operations.

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Q: What do standards focus on?

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The Joint Commission’s state-of-the-art standards focus on patient safety and quality of care. The Joint Commission standards are updated regularly to reflect the rapid advances in health care and medicine. The hospital accreditation standards number more than 250, and address everything from patient rights and education, infection control, medication management, and preventing medical errors, to how the hospital verifies that its doctors, nurses, and other staff are qualified and competent, how it prepares for emergencies, and how it collects data on its performance and uses that data to improve itself.

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Q: How long does it take The Joint Commission to render an accreditation decision?

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The Joint Commission renders accreditation decisions two weeks to two months after the survey.

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Q: How long is an accreditation and certification award?

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Accreditation is awarded for three years, except for laboratory accreditation, which is awarded for two years. Joint Commission Disease-Specific Care Certification, Primary Stroke Center Certification, and Health Care Staffing Services Certification are awarded for two years.

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Q: Where can I find information about an accredited Health Care Organization?

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Joint Commission Quality Reports give the public information on the safety and quality of care for all Joint Commission accredited/certified health care organizations. Quality Reports are available online through Quality Check® at qualitycheck.org. Quality Reports include:

  • Accreditation decision and date
  • Programs and services accredited by The Joint Commission and other bodies
  • National Patient Safety Goal performance
  • Hospital National Quality Improvement Goal performance
  • Special quality awards

:What prevents health care from having the same customer satisfaction as Amazon

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Review and consider the content you covered during Week Three.

Post a 260- to 350-word response to the following questions as a New Message into the discussion area:

  • What prevents health care from having the same customer satisfaction as Amazon?
  • What prevents health care employees from having the same satisfaction as Google employees?
  • What are the leadership skills or attributes necessary to accomplish that objective?

Cite at least 1 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Week 6 Health Insurance and Health Economics Discussion Response

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“Health Insurance” Please respond to the following:

  • Determine two to three (2-3) benefits of having health insurance for a family. Specify two (2) avenues through which families may obtain health insurance.
  • Compare and contrast two (2) differences between health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs). Classify the plan that you believe would be most beneficial for the majority of insured patients. Provide support for your rationale.
  • “Health Economics” Please respond to the following:
    • As a Human Resources manager for a mid-sized company in your area, you have been tasked with purchasing the best group health insurance for your organization. Analyze at least two (2) lifestyle choices relative to the effect(s) that these choices could have on the organization’s premiums. Support your rationale with two (2) health economic examples.
    • Debate It: Take a position that the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 will or will not create a market failure for insurance companies. Provide evidence to support your position.

Texas A & M University Global Measures of Health Philippines Case Paper

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Disease at the Global Level

A) Choose a developing nation to explore the global measures of health and the burden of chronic disease. Try to choose a developing country that has not been discussed by another student.

Statistics in Hydrology assigned discussion

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Hi All,

One topic that comes up fairly often in hydrology is the concept of climate variability. Please read the attached paper, especially the section headed as “Applications” on page 559. After reading the paper, you must participate in the discussion by posting in two different ways.

1) Post a set of five vocabulary terms (note the terms as the subject of the post) that need definitions

Define the five terms in your own words and according to your understanding of how they are used.

2) In a separate post from your terms, please describe how you interpret the use of statistics in discussing Global Warming and Climate Change.

This is Discussion online I need someone help on that >>

Mismanagement of Resources Health Care in Prisons Paper

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Key Assignment: Final Paper (I have completed this paper, I just need management theory to be incorporated into the paper more and to make sure that I have addressed the final submission information below. I will submit my draft and I will need Part 2 done for the powerpoint

Part 1

Complete the final draft of your paper based on your chosen topic.

Write a theoretical paper utilizing your work and feedback from the preceding phases of the course.

The final submission must address the following:

  • Explore the relationship of the chosen topic to organizational behavior at the following levels:
    • Individual
    • Group
    • Organizational levels
  • Discuss your awareness of the chosen topic, including the following:
    • Any assumptions you may have or have had based on your own organizational experience

The following should be the format for your paper:

  • Abstract
  • Proposal
  • Body
    • Introduction of the topic
    • Questions explored in the research
    • Literature review that integrates what was found in the literature
    • Conclusions and recommendations to organizations that, if enacted, would be helpful to individuals, groups, and organizations
  • References
    • 10 recent articles on the topic, at a minimum

Be sure to address the following:

  • Incorporate any feedback received or additional research sources developed during the course.
  • All articles must be from academic journals.
  • Submissions must be written in APA style.

Part 2

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that details the content of your paper. Describe the content as if you were presenting your topic and findings to an audience that has not read your paper.

Be sure to address the following:

  • Be clear and concise.
  • Use no more than 12 slides.

how a law becomes bill

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As you have discovered through this course, nurses are influential members of the community and the political system. Therefore, for the purposes of this assignment you will identify a problem or concern in your community, organization, etc. that has the capacity to be legislated. You will conduct research and state a proposal. Through the legislative process, your proposal for the problem or concern may influence an idea for change into a law.

First, refer to the “How a Bill Becomes a Law” media.

http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nrs440v_how-a-bill-becomes-a-law-v2.1.php/.

Then, view the “Bill to Law Process” to watch the scenario.

evr1001 class work

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  1. How and why have human population size and growth rate changed over time? What key technologies enabled societies to support more people?
  2. Where do most of the Earth’s population live today, and where is expected future population growth most likely to occur?
  3. What are population growth trends in economically developed countries as opposed to less economically developed countries?
  4. How to pronatalist pressures contribute to larger family sizes in less developed countries?
  5. Why might populations continue to grow even if younger parents have children at or below the replacement rate?
  6. Examine Infographic 4.1.4. What are the characteristics of the population growth in each of the three age-structure diagrams shown? Which country would have a growing population? Which country will have a shrinking population?
  7. Why is a shrinking population considered undesirable? Many countries are offering incentives for parents to have larger families.
  8. Explain the Demographic Transition model. Based on this model, what do demographers predict for population trends in countries now undergoing economic development? What pronatalist factors might act to continue the trend of larger families, even with economic development?
  9. How has education for women helped to reduce family size? Has smaller family sizes largely been a consequence of voluntary decisions or state-mandated decisions?
  10. The expected population of Earth by 2100 is expected to be almost double today’s population. What will be needed to provide a quality of life for this size population?
  11. 1. What types of solid waste do we produce and why do we say waste is a “human invention”?
  12. 2. Why do we say that there is no “waste” in nature?
    3. When we say that Earth is a closed system to matter, what are the consequences of burying matter in landfills where it cannot be broken down by natural processes and reused?
    4. How does discarded plastic end up in marine ecosystems? Why are microplastics the greatest concern?
    5. How might toxic substances in bits of plastic ingested by marine life end up in the food we eat? What could be the health consequences to both humans and other organisms as a result?
    6. What human activities generate the most waste? Why is the per capita rate of trash production higher in wealthy countries?
    7. What are some of the environmental problems caused by waste in both lower-income and wealthy countries?
    8. Discuss how household and electronic waste are hazardous. What are the consequences of improper disposal of these items?
    9. People are often told to flush their medications down the toilet. What could be the environmental consequences of this action?
    10. Look around your house and discuss three ways you could reduce the amount of plastic and food waste you produce.


Cultural Competence- Assignment:

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Read instruction carefully. PowerPoint presentation on the topic, a sign-in sheet, and a quiz to assess employee understanding of the topic. Your presentation must address the following areas: What is diversity? The eight dimensions of diversity; Importance of cultural competence awareness; Impact of cultural competence in healthcare cost and quality; Diversity awareness; Regulations affecting cultural diversity.