The final assignment serves the following purposes:

1) To provide an opportunity for students to analyze their selected social policy using aspects from the explicitly stated policy analysis framework provided by the instructor;

2) To provide an opportunity for students to develop an advocacy brief related to a position taken on their selected social policy; and

3) To provide an opportunity for students to advocate their position on their selected social policy.

The complete guidelines for the final social policy project can be found by clicking on the link below:

Final Policy Project Guidelines

Policy Brief – Please review the ‘Developing an Effective Policy Brief’ presentation prior to beginning work on the advocacy brief portion of this assignment. Click the links below to view sample policy brief documents as examples of what is expected for your policy brief submission: NASW Policy Brief #1 (Title IV-E) NASW Policy Brief #2 (Veterans).

Sample Student Policy Brief Submissions – Sample Student Brief #1 / Sample Student Brief #2 / Sample Student Brief #3

I’m working on a nursing exercise and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

This week, you were challenged to “take a break from technology” to see how long you could make it without using it, and, how you felt after “checking out” for awhile. For this portion of your journal this week, reflect on the following questions:

• How many hours were you able to make it without technology?
• How did you feel while not connected via technology? Did you notice or experience anything in your immediate environment, that was different, surprising, or enlightening?
• What do you feel the benefits of this sort of activity could be, in regard to a person’s physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health?

**SPECIAL HOLIDAY WEEK REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY #2**

Consider the concepts learned throughout the course in regard to holistic nursing and the human experience.

As you enjoy having a few days off from classes, and hopefully have the opportunity to interact with family, friends, or others (even though socially-distanced), practice the following skills:

• Self-awareness (being aware of biases, reactions, or beliefs that come up in your thoughts)
• Mindfulness (being ‘in the moment’ without letting distractions divert your attention)
• Holistic health (awareness of how your physical health reflects the status of your mental, spiritual, and/or emotional health)

For this portion of this week’s reflective journal, write at least one paragraph (150 words or more) related to holistic health observations you made during the holiday week.

Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about diagnosing and treating addictive disorders. As you watch the 187 Models of Treatment for Addiction video, consider what treatment model you may use the most with clients presenting with addiction.

Search the Walden Library databases and choose a research article that discusses a therapeutic approach for treating clients, families, or groups with addictive disorders.

In a 5- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation, address the following. Your title and references slides do not count toward the 5- to 10-slide limit

• Provide an overview of the article you selected.

What population (individual, group, or family) is under consideration?

• What was the specific intervention that was used? Is this a new intervention or one that was already studied?
• What were the author’s claims?
• Explain the findings/outcomes of the study in the article. Include whether this will translate into practice with your own clients. If so, how? If not, why?

Explain whether the limitations of the study might impact your ability to use the findings/outcomes presented in the article. 

• Use the Notes function of PowerPoint to craft presenter notes to expand upon the content of your slides. 
• Support your response with at least three other peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. 

(1) Models of Treatment for Addiction | Addiction Counselor Training Series – YouTube 

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ANSWER MUST BE ORIGINAL

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For this Discussion, review the quality indicators for long-term and home health care organizations in the resources for this week. Reflect on the measures obtained and how this may relate to your role as a health care executive in promoting effective and efficient health care delivery.

Post an explanation of how quality standards for long-term and home health care facilities might differ. Then, explain how you, as a health executive at a hospital, might determine potential partners for an integrated health system that includes long-term care and home health care. Explain how the potential partners may help to reinforce the mission and vision of your health care organization. Then, explain how this type of partnership or integration may be reflective of social change for consumer-driven health care. Be specific and provide examples.

Required Readings

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (n.d.-a). About home health care compare data. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/homehealthcompare/Data/Ab…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2015b). Nursing home quality initiative. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-P…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2016b). Home health compare datasets. Retrieved from https://data.medicare.gov/data/home-health-compare

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2016d). Nursing home compare. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search…

For this evaluation prepare a power point presentation about your health promotion initiative. The length would equal the sections of your paper. For example, if your paper contains 8 sections, your presentation will be 8 slides plus the introduction and references, totaling 10 slides.

1. Describe the health problem. Using data and statistics support your claim that the issue you selected is a problem. What specifically will you address in your proposed health promotion program? Be sure your proposed outcome is realistic and measureable

2. Describe the vulnerable population and setting. What are the risk factors that make this a vulnerable population? Use evidence to support the risk factors you have identified.

3. Present your health promotion/disease prevention theoretical framework or conceptual model that would best serve as the framework guiding the proposal. Provide rationale for your selection which includes discussion of the concepts of the selected model.

4. Present your health promotion program using an evidence-based intervention. Include a thorough discussion of the specifics of this intervention which include resources necessary, those involved, and feasibility for a nurse in an advanced role. Be certain to include a timeline. 

5. Describe your intended outcomes. Describe the outcomes in detail concurrent with the SMART goal approach.

6. Present your plan for evaluation for each outcome. 

7. Thoroughly describe possible barriers/challenges to implementing the proposed project as well as strategies to address these barriers/challenges.