Assignment: Assessing a Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation

Program/policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs/policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve. Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives.

Nurses can play a very important role assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this Assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.

To Prepare:

• Review the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
• Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation or choose one of interest to you.
• Review community, state, or federal policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described.

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)

Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:

• Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
• How was the success of the program or policy measured?
• How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
• How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
• At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
• What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
• What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
• What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific and provide examples.
• Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
• Would you recommend implementing this program or policy in your place of work? Why or why not?
• Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.

“Stuff” seems to be the root of many of our contemporary problems. Yet most of us seem to want more and more of it. Bigger, better, and nicer stuff! The problem? Eventually all of this stuff or all of these products break down, wear out, or fail to be of use or keep our interest. Sometimes we simply want the new model. So we wade ankle deep through our accumulated stuff, and when we’ve finally had enough, we pack it into our large garbage cans and recycling receptacles and someone takes it away. But it doesn’t simply “go away,” as we might think or hope, so where it goes is worth examining.

In this research essay we will be exploring the problem of waste or garbage: how much we produce and what we do with it. We will explore the various ways people in six countries deal with it: dumping it in landfills, burning it in incinerators, and/or recycling or re-using it. Since there is no perfect solution for dealing with waste, we will also consider how we can learn to reduce it. Here is your assignment, step by step.

First

The link to the following Washington Post essay/video on this problem will be our starting point. After seeing the introductory video, you will need to scroll down that page so you can see the commentary and additional videos about the cities: New York City, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Jakarta.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/global-waste/?utm_term=.7a69b52c9245 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)

Second

Read the article on the waste problem in Lebanon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/world/middleeast/trash-lebanon-beach.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)

Third

After viewing the videos and commentary on the six cities, and the article on Lebanon, select one of these seven cities to research. You will need to add to your knowledge by searching out articles and commentaries that further discuss the waste problem in “your” city.

Many good articles about these contemporary problems can be found in the New York Times and The Washington Post. You can go to those sites and use their search engines to look for articles on “your” city and its waste problem. You should also use other data bases as well. Even Google may help you find some good information. Or try National Geographic. Or the data bases at any library.

Your essay on the waste problems of the city you choose, should do all of the following:

discuss the extent of the problem(s): its severity, its effects, etc.
discuss the history (e.g. growth) of the city that has led to the severity of the waste problem(s)
discuss the ways in which government officials are trying to deal with the waste problem(s)
discuss the ways (if any) individuals are trying to deal with the waste problem(s)
discuss the obstacles in the way of successfully dealing with the waste problem(s). For example, are the incentives to change stronger than letting the waste conditions continue? Who benefits or at least isn’t harmed by the waste problem(s)? In other words, follow the money? Who profits from so much waste?
discuss how the waste problems of cities and countries are not isolated but related to the lifestyles and actions of other people in other cities and countries.
Please note: This is not a “solution” paper in which you are asked to recommend a way of solving these waste problems. You are merely reporting on the issue.

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Use accredited secondary source material to find your information, which should be cited in your essay. Few if any quotations should be used. Instead put the information into your own words.

Above all, your essay should be an interesting and relaxed (meaning non-stilted) discussion in your own words of these issues.

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Your essay should be 5-7 pages in the MLA format. Twenty-five point deductions will be given if the essay (including the first page–see below) is not presented in the MLA format and the citations–both in text and one the Works Cited page–do not follow the MLA format.

Use the following link to see the MLA format:

https://mlaformat.org/the-format-of-the-research-paper/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)

Ethical Team Project

You should choose an organization that has been in one of the following situations:

· It has been involved in an ethical challenge (either from a single person or at the organizational level).

· It consistently models exemplary ethical decision making or has modeled that behavior in a very difficult environment.

· It presents itself as an ethical entity, but evidence to the contrary exists.

· It has a reputation as being an unethical organization, but facts indicate the reality is more nuanced.

In all cases, you should examine the organization from three perspectives, to the degree each is possible and relevant to your case:

· Ethics and the Individual. What do we know about the people inside the organization who are/were involved in the decisions under scrutiny? Relating to the first part of this course, what are their values? Are their values related to the ethical question under study?

· Ethics in the Organization. What is the ethical culture of the organization? To the degree possible, explore this from a formal and an informal perspective. Use the organization’s website, its public statements, its legal history and other elements such as those from the ethical culture audit you performed on your own organization.

· Organizational Ethics. What is the organization’s relationship and record with regard to its stakeholders? Does it operate in a global environment? To what degree does it take into account global stakeholders in its decision making?

Formatting Details

· Use a 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double spaced 12-15 Pages long.

· Use headings to lead your reader through your train of thought.

· Do not have paragraphs that are a full page long.

· Use APA citation methodology. See Purdue’s OWL website if you are unfamiliar with this. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

A TEAM CHARTER MUST BE COMPLETED. PROFEFESSOR will provide template.

You should choose an organization that has been in one of the following situations:

· It has been involved in an ethical challenge (either from a single person or at the organizational level).

· It consistently models exemplary ethical decision making or has modeled that behavior in a very difficult environment.

· It presents itself as an ethical entity, but evidence to the contrary exists.

· It has a reputation as being an unethical organization, but facts indicate the reality is more nuanced.

In all cases, you should examine the organization from three perspectives, to the degree each is possible and relevant to your case:

· Ethics and the Individual. What do we know about the people inside the organization who are/were involved in the decisions under scrutiny? Relating to the first part of this course, what are their values? Are their values related to the ethical question under study?

· Ethics in the Organization. What is the ethical culture of the organization? To the degree possible, explore this from a formal and an informal perspective. Use the organization’s website, its public statements, its legal history and other elements such as those from the ethical culture audit you performed on your own organization.

· Organizational Ethics. What is the organization’s relationship and record with regard to its stakeholders? Does it operate in a global environment? To what degree does it take into account global stakeholders in its decision making?

Switching is practically invisible (and occurs at layer 2 of the OSI model) and generally not an issue unless you want to create a vlan, or alter the flow of data traffic for some reason. But hey, we gotta cover it because it’s a part of networking, and the switch has greatly improved networking speeds. Also, because there really isn’t much to switching (there shouldn’t be for an IT professional) we squeeze in protocols this week!

Learn to switch and protocol

·Watch the LinkedIn Learning video on switches:

Exploring the switch and the network topology in the course: Learning Cisco CLI Switch Configuration

·Research the terms: NetBIOS, WinSock, HTTP, Port 21, TFTP, Port 443, Local Area Network, VLAN

·Find a list of all of the most commonly used ports and find out which services they are linked to. You can usually search for this and find images that should lay it out for you very nicely.

·Plan on which services you would expect to find running in your project.

Select a switch for the project

Search for some major switch manufacturers and find the differences between models. Select several models depending on where they go in your project.

oHint – You don’t want to pay for a 24-port Gigabit switch if a room only has two computers that are used for browsing purposes! Similarly, you don’t want to put a 4-port switch in a room that is expected to be turned into a computer lab. Include some expandability into the project, but be realistic.

Open Packet Tracer and place some switches down and start playing with them.

oAdvanced students – Pretend you are networking in the late 1990s and switches were not yet common. Try to network a bunch of computers using hubs, and then try a number of different layouts to try and reduce collisions.

§Thankfully collisions are not an issue like they used to be. If you are interested in learning more about it check out the following link:

Network Basics Overview Article and this one Network Switching Tutorial

Update your project using switches configured correctly. This is really just making sure you drag and drop something more suitable then what you guessed at before and started with, don’t panic as it is easier than it sounds.

For your task, submit a list of protocols that would be running on your project network, and if you decided to change the ports, please specify.

·Name the switch in your project layout as the one you found, if it not available in Packet Tracer.