You are working in the healthcare industry and are assigned to make a presentation to the purchasing department about demand and supply. Demand and supply are important factors in healthcare policy and planning, distribution of resources, and supply of health services. This week, you are going to use Dr. Jones’s pricing of services to illustrate how pricing affects the demand for services. The lower the direct price of a service, the greater the number of units of the service demanded by consumers.

The cost of Dr. Jones’s prenatal care determines the number of visits per year. At a cost of $200 per visit, patients visited 2 times; at $150, 3 visits; at $100, 4 visits; at $80, 5 visits; and at $50, 6 visits. In a PowerPoint presentation with at least 15 slides, address the following:

• Illustrate the effects of Dr. Jones’s pricing on the number of visits using a demand curve.
• Why do policy makers and planners study the demand for healthcare services?
• What factors influence the demand for health services?
• How would you measure quantity responsiveness to price change?
• How would the demand for services affect supply of healthcare workers?

Submit your assignment in APA format, as follows:

• Title slide: The title should be in all capitals.
• Length: There should be at least 15 slides.
• Body: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-point Times New Roman or 12-point Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your presentation for this assignment is 15 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. The use of a variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference slide: References that align with your in-body academic sources must be listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format and use appropriate spacing, hanging indents, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource that is used. Remember that the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations that you used in your presentation. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Nurse Shuffle worked as a registered nurse in a state-run organization for fifteen years. In 1970, the state made a decision to close and transition all state-run hospitals to the private sector. The state required a number of nurses to remain employed with the new facility for a period of eight years. Nurse Shuffle was one of the state employees to continue employment under the new ownership. The facility Nurse Shuffle worked at was transitioned to a long-term acute care facility (LTAC). Nurse Shuffle remained as a staff nurse in the LTAC, which was a small facility with thirty-five inpatient beds.

In the years that followed, Nurse Shuffle became depressed over matters in her personal life. Given the mounting life pressures, she contrived ways to obtain controlled prescription medication from the medication drawers of patients. This practice became more urgent for Nurse Shuffle, who contrived more blatant, desperate measures to obtain controlled prescription medication. Eventually, she was caught, and she also confessed to having an addiction problem. Since Nurse Shuffle was a state employee, the administration decided to not terminate her but offered her an option of treatment at an addiction center. The facility would satisfy the due process protection afforded to government employees.

In the next ninety days, the LTAC facility closed down. Nurse Shuffle was released from rehabilitation treatment services but was without employment. She decided a change was needed and sought employment with a healthcare professional agency that provided nurses with healthcare facilities throughout the country. Nurse Shuffle accepted a one-year temporary position at a large teaching hospital as a nurse working the night shift in a surgical stepdown unit. Unfortunately, the strain of acclimating to a new setting and the night shift was too much to cope with, and she found opportunities to remove controlled prescription medication from the facility for personal use. Again, the behavior was discovered, Nurse Shuffle was prosecuted, and, as a consequence, her license was revoked.

An investigation revealed that there was no information on the file for the previous controlled prescription medication offense at the LTAC. Since the LTAC facility was in its waning days, some top human resource personnel left for other opportunities and the department was understaffed. The remaining personnel were lower-level clerks, who were unaware of the policy or procedure, and hence, no information was reported to the state for licensure purposes. The LTAC believed that Nurse Shuffle was entitled to due process since she was a government employee, and hence it her offered addiction treatment to resolve the matter. The employment agency conducted the standard state nursing license verification, and Nurse Shuffle failed to offer any information regarding the substance theft matter. The teaching facility where Nurse Shuffle accepted the assignment relied on the agency’s verification process because Nurse Shuffle was not considered the facility’s employee.

• Interpret and explain the basis of due process protection and why it might or might not apply to Nurse Shuffle’s situation. Express your opinion regarding whether Nurse Shuffle should have been terminated or afforded the option of an addiction treatment program.
• Explain the applicability of the FMLA to Nurse Shuffle’s situation.
• Discuss the responsibility of the teaching hospital’s requirement to verify the licensure and professional credentials of Nurse Shuffle. Compare the verification burden for an agency employee versus a regular employee.

• Submit this topic as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document. Use APA standards for citations and references.
• Cite a minimum of three outside peer-reviewed sources to support your assertions and save it as

• Open the article How to Buy a Car in 8 Steps from Nerdwallet. Analyze the design of the car buying website to answer the following questions. 
• Answer the questions by explaining how the website create did or did not answer the question by giving examples from the website. If the answer is yes, explain why. If the answer is no, explain how the creator could have done better.

 Suppose  that you are the HR manager for a company. The judge in a current law  suit by a former employee has ordered mandatory pre-suit mediation. Your  boss is unfamiliar with mediation and she asks you to advise her as to  several issues regarding the upcoming mediation. Draft a memo thoroughly discussing, at minimum, the following questions: 

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of mediation? Is it likely to be successful? Is it likely  to make the parties more or less hostile toward one another? How do the  costs in terms of time and money compare with litigation?
2. If  your boss has no interest in mediation, does she really have to be  there? Can she send her attorney instead? If so, are there any conflicts  of interest with respect to attorney advocate representation of which  she should be aware?
3. Must the company actually participate in the mediation? Can your boss (or her attorney) just sit there and refuse to speak?
4. If  your boss (or her attorney) does decide to engage in dialogue during the  mediation, what are the risks concerning information that might be  disclosed? If the mediation fails, can the former employee use such  information at trial?