Gram stain bacteria

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Even though it is unlikely that a medical assistant will have to interpret the results of a gram stain, it is important to know what the different types, shapes, and colors of bacteria are and what it means when they are reported out.

  1. When bacteria are present in the blood, they are identified by their shapes. The three main shapes for the structural categories of bacteria listed below:
    • Cocci
    • Bacilli
    • Spirilla
  1. Research the three structural categories of bacteria and give an example of a disease that could be diagnosed if they were identified during microscopic examination.

Please read the following scenario:

An 86 year old patient presented to the ER with severe body shivers/chills. Her initial blood results are normal including her CBC. The physician orders blood cultures and the patient is admitted for observation. After 24 hours the patient is told that the initial blood culture shows gram positive and gram negative rods in her blood stream. It will take another 24 hours for the test to show exactly what type (species) of bacteria is in her system. The following day, the infectious disease doctor walks into the patient’s room and tells her that she has MRSA and will have to be on antibiotics for 4 weeks.

  1. If the patient had gram positive and gram negative rods in her blood stream, should the diagnosis of MRSA be questioned, why or why not?

Submit an APA formatted Word document that answers the above three questions regarding the Structural Categories of Bacteria and Their Shapes.

Department Budget

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The CFO for your healthcare organization comes to you once again to ask for your assistance with budgeting. You are tasked with developing a budget for the open imaging center that is looking to forecast its next fiscal year to present to the board of directors.

For this assignment, in a 1-2 text page Word or Excel document, develop a department budget for the open imaging center. You are able to use any figures that you would like and you may be as creative as you like, however, be sure that the calculations are accurate. At minimum, your budget must include the following points:

  • Number of procedures completed in a year.
  • A fixed cost for each procedure.
  • A variable cost for each procedure.
  • A fixed expense that the center would include in the expense budget.
  • The total annual expenses for the center which results from the above listed items.
  • Next develop an income budget for the open imaging center.
  • Finally, calculate an annual operating budget for the center which includes both expenses and income from above.

HLT324V Week 3 High Risk Nutritional Practices Paper

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Examine the high-risk nutritional behaviors associated with different cultures. Identify the historical perspectives, belief systems, and other factors associated with these high-risk nutritional behaviors for each culture. Write a 1,500-3,000 word paper on your findings in which you accomplish the following:

  • Summarize the high risk-nutritional behaviors practiced among two or three different cultures.
  • Discuss the historical perspectives and belief systems of these cultures that influence the high-risk nutritional behaviors.
  • Explore additional influencing factors on high-risk behaviors for each culture. These may include, but are not limited to (a) education, (b) family roles, (c) spiritual beliefs, (d) health care practices, and (e) drug and alcohol use.

This paper requires minimum of six outside resources in addition to the textbook.

Miami Dade Factors that Make Some People Healthy and Others Ill Discussion

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Discussion

What are some factors that make some people healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020identifies five determinants of health that influence the health of individuals and populations.Healthy People 2020 describes them as “a range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, About Determinants of Health, para. 1). Determinants fall into five categories, including (a) policy making, (b) social factors, (c) health services, (d) individual behavior, and (e) biology and genetics.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2018). Healthy People 2020: About Determinants of Health. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health

Ashworth College Medical Office Management Discussion

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Assignment 4

H01 Medical Office Management 1

Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-spaced pages; refer to the “Assignment Format” page located on the Course Home page for specific format requirements.

In Lessons 1 through 4, you learned foundational information on the profession of medical assisting. You learned about the required characteristics of a medical assistant, the history of the profession, ethic and legal obligations of the medical assistant, patient communication, and telephone techniques. For this written assignment, the concepts learned from Lessons 1-4 will be applied. Please review the learning objectives for Lessons 1-4 prior to beginning work on this assignment.

Complete Parts A and B for this assignment.

Part A:Kayla Christianson, CMA, has been employed six years by the cardiology practice of three physicians. She is a graduate of a CAAHEP-accredited school. Furthermore, Kayla received extensive hands-on training performing ECGs while doing her required externship.

Kayla has completed an ECG ordered by Dr. Hsu for Mrs. Warner, a 76-year-old patient. Dr. Hsu, Kayla’s boss, has telephoned her explaining that he was behind schedule doing rounds at the hospital. He asked her to do him a favor and interpret Mrs. Warner’s ECG, sign his name, and fax the report to Mrs. Warner’s referring internist who is expecting the results.

Provide detailed answers for each of the following questions. Your response should be two (2) pages in length.

  • Given the scope of Kayla’s education, training, and years of experience as a CMA, would this favor fall within the AAMA guidelines of her responsibilities?
  • Would any portion of Dr. Hsu’s request fall within the guidelines? If so, which portion(s)? Is an exception to these guidelines ever allowed?
  • How should Kayla respond to Dr. Hsu?

Part B:For more than two years, medical assistant Linda Lewis had been employed by Drs. Norek and Klein, who are gerontologists. Also on staff are two registered nurses, a medical laboratory technician, and a medical social worker. The daughter of one of the doctor’s patients has just called the office. She is very distraught at the seemingly diminished capacity of her mother and insists on speaking to the doctor.

Linda explains that both physicians take only emergency calls during patient appointment hours, but that she will take a detailed message. This caller, however, suggests that not only should her call be considered an emergency, but that she will sue the doctor if the call is not handled accordingly.

Provide detailed answers for each of the following questions. Your response should be two (2) pages in length.

  • What should Linda do immediately to diffuse the situation?
  • Is this clearly a case when the call should be passed on to one of the registered nurses or the medical social worker?
  • Is this a case when the physician should be called to the telephone because of the threat of an impending suit?
  • How could Linda ascertain whether or not this is indeed an emergency? Is it up to her, as a medical assistant, to make such a determination?
  • Because this is the patient’s daughter rather than the patient herself, does Linda have any reason to enter into a conversation with the caller? Could Linda be ethically bound by confidentiality not to admit the woman’s mother is a patient?

Grading Rubric

Please refer to the rubric on the next page for the grading criteria for this assignment

Guided patient education

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Patient education sessions need to evolve with the health care industry. This assignment challenges you to rethink patient education by looking at adult education principles as you guide patients to reputable sources for further review.

Create a patient education tool for the ailment you researched in this week’s learning activity. The tool should promote patient competency and e-health literacy. Consider:

  • How patients can/will use the tool
  • Patient experience managing this ailment
  • Community resources such as public libraries, parks and recreation community centers, and neighborhood service centers for free computer and internet access
  • Patient ability to perform basic computer functions
  • Graphs, charts, labels, or other visual information the consumer is likely to see
  • Direction for how to search and apply relevant online information

Format your assignment as one of the following:

  • online module

or

  • trifold brochure

Include a minimum of three scholarly sources and develop an APA-formatted reference page.

Explain your rationale for choosing the format on a new page in your reference page document.

This assignment will be one of the fun things you do in this course plus you can demonstrate your ability to optimize your clinical skills in an educational tool. Many choose to create a trifold or flyer. That seems to be what nurses like to use when teaching patients. A learning module can be a part of an education component for example, teaching how to use a glucometer which is component of diabetes education. The module can be a power point you would use and present in a class or a voice added power point you can have a patient view in private or class.

Importance of Teams

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Resources: The five-step planning process covered in the course and the Sample Business Proposal example

Consider the following scenario:

As the manager of a busy call center for a health care organization, you note that the volume of calls has doubled over the past year. Although you do not have the budget to hire additional staff, you do have an additional $20,000 to spend on your department to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Using the Sample Proposal Template example, write a 700- to 1,050-word proposal.

Address the following in your proposal:

  • Explain why teams are essential in a health care organization.
  • Explain how other industries use teams.
    • How are they used in other industries, such as aviation, auto racing, or the military?
    • What best practices from other industries could be applied in the health care industry?
  • Explain strategies you will use to create an effective team that can help you improve efficiency and customer service in your department.
  • Explain organizational processes that will impact or influence the decision making process to improve efficiency and customer service.
  • Explain what resources or tools can be offered to your staff to help with efficiency and customer service using the additional funds available.

Cite 3 references to support your position. One reference may be the course textbook.

Format your proposal according to APA guidelines.

Chronic kidney disease

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Chronic kidney disease is a gradual loss of kidney function. In this assignment, you will explore this disease in more detail using the scenario below.

Scenario:
You are a healthcare provider who is preparing to meet with a patient who has recently been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. You are tasked with explaining this disease and its treatment options to your patient.

To complete this assignment, do the following:

  1. Research this disease using a minimum of 2 source(s).
  2. In a minimum of 2 pages (not counting the references page), address the following:
    • Explain how chronic kidney disease develops and the potential causes.
    • Describe the treatment options that exist.
  3. Include a references page at the end of your document, formatted using the APA guidelines, that lists your research sources.

Develop a health maintenance plan for clients in all developmental stages of life within the primary care practice.

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To develop a health maintenance plan for a selected population

Your paper should:

1. Assess, develop, and recommend health maintenance plans for clients in all developmental stages of life within the primary care practice.
2. Apply evidence-based guidelines to the identification and prevention of significant healthcare problems affecting populations at risk.

Submission Instructions:

  • The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The paper should be formatted per current APA and 4-5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.

Please answer following questions.

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Assignment 1: Astronomical Objects

Please note that assignments are changed every semester.

DO NOT USE OLD ASSIGNMENTS TO GUIDE YOUR WORK. Any assignment that does not follow this format will not be accepted and will be considered for plagiarism, if indicated.

Please submit in PDF or a current version of .docx (MS word) to the DROPBOX area under COURSE ACTIVITIES on the top menu bar.

For the Session Two assignment, you are going to use (good, scientific) web sites to describe astronomical objects. You are to select:

  • Three objects within our solar system
  • Three objects within our galaxy but outside our solar system
  • Three objects outside our galaxy.

For the nine total objects you are to provide the following for each:

1. An image

2. Its name and brief description (about 25 words).

3. Its approximate age

4. Its approximate distance from Earth

5. Unique or interesting features (about 75 words)

You will NOT get credit for text that is cut and paste from websites. You are to digest information and summarize in your own words.

You should include a brief introducation and conclusion, so that your total assignment ends up about 1000 words.

Our TA will grade them and should return them within 2 weeks. If you have trouble submitting, please email a copy of the assignment before the due date to get full credit.

Note on Citations: For assignments you should simply cite the title, author (or publisher) and date of the article along with the URL. You do not need in-text citations on assignments, but please be prepared, for your term paper I will expect full citations.

You are welcome to discuss the assignment in your study group, but remember that in the end YOU MUST HAND IN YOUR OWN WORK.

Assignments will be graded according to the following:

40% accuracy of content; 30% scientific validity and citations; 20% completeness and clarity of writing; 20% originality of writing

Some websites you may want to use for this assignment include:

http://hubblesite.org/images/gallery

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

You are responsible for choosing a reliable web site with accurate scientific information. Finding these sites can be tricky. Here are some links with tips for finding good scientific websites:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/finding-good-information-on-the-internet/

https://www.edb.utexas.edu/petrosino/Legacy_Cycle/mf_jm/Challenge%201/website%20reliable.pdf

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/webresources