ASSESSING AND TREATING PATIENTS WITH ANXIETY DISORDERS

Common symptoms of anxiety disorders include chest pains, shortness of breath, and other physical symptoms that may be mistaken for a heart attack or other physical ailment. These manifestations often prompt patients to seek care from their primary care providers or emergency departments. Once it is determined that there is no organic basis for these symptoms, patients are typically referred to a psychiatric mental health practitioner for anxiolytic therapy. For this Assignment, as you examine the patient case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat patients presenting with anxiety disorders.

Examine Case Study: A Middle-Aged Caucasian Man With Anxiety. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

• Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

• Which decision did you select?
• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

• Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

** Case study results are attached in file that is to be used to complete assignment

** rubric and outline of paper are also attached 

**paper is to be no more than 5 pages

**scholarly peer review resources are to be used and no more than 5 years old

Instructions

Developing employees through the implementation of training and development opportunities is a primary function of human resource management (HRM). Performance measurement and appraisals are one way to determine what type of additional training is needed to ensure employee success.Imagine that you have been hired as the human resource manager at an organization where you have previously worked or are currently working. Your first task is to assess areas for improving training and development and the performance appraisal system within the organization. Write an essay on your analysis of these two areas. Address the questions below in your assignment. Use headers to organize your paper and show what you are covering in your assignment.Training and Development Analysis

• What are the steps of the new hire training process? Are there any steps missing that you would add?
• As the human resource manager, how would you evaluate the training needs of your staff?
• How can you ensure that the training you would provide is effective? What data might be used to make your conclusion?
• What considerations would you make for employee learning styles?
• How would future training and development be impacted through human resource planning?
• Do you have a plan to shape employee behavior within your organization? Why, or why not?

Performance Appraisal Analysis

• As the human resource manager, what are two best practices you would follow when planning for employee performance appraisals?
• What performance methods would you choose over other methods?
• What are two of the common problems with appraisals? How would you avoid them in your organization?
• What components do you think are required for effective human resource planning?

Be sure to include an introduction. Support your essay with a minimum of two references. Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Instructions

As a manager of an organization, you will often need to find ways to cut costs. One way to cut costs is to outsource by hiring another organization to perform the service. Consider the following scenario:As a manager for the public outreach department, you realize that the current system for managing outreach issues is outdated. You would like to have a new outreach system developed using the Cloudera platform to help manage ‘big data.’ However, no one in the organization has the expertise. You will have to outsource the project to save on costs and avoid management problems. Two companies have sent in a bid, one from Vancouver, Canada and one from Mumbai, India. The bid from India was slightly lower than the bid from Canada. Compose a response that includes the following elements:

• Define what is meant by outsourcing.
• Explain how Peter Drucker’s statement (covered in the textbook) about how one company’s back room is another company’s front room pertains to outsourcing. Use an example.
• Summarize the management advantages, cost reduction, and risk reduction of outsourcing.
• Summarize the outsourcing risks concerning control, long-term costs, and exit strategy.
• Discuss which company you would outsource to and why. Does distance matter?

Your case study must be at least two pages long, and you must use at least two references as a source for your essay. See the Suggested Unit Resources section for some sample articles on outsourcing. Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format and format your essay in APA style.

Instructions

In this course, you have learned about various aspects of managerial decision-making. For this final assignment, you will reflect on everything you have learned and discuss how you will use it to improve your decision-making in the future. To complete this assignment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the best practices in rational decision-making and explains how you will use what you have learned in each of the following areas to improve your managerial decision-making.

1. Overcoming bias
2. Awareness of boundaries
3. Awareness of framing
4. Motivation in decision-making
5. Emotions in decision-making
6. Fairness and ethics
7. Investments
8. Negotiations
9. The six issues in negotiator cognition

Be as creative as you can with color and flow to make the presentation unique and powerful. Use bullet points where possible to keep it clear and concise. Pretend you are creating the presentation for an audience of managerial decision-making learners.In your presentation, you must use at least two academic references, one of which may be your textbook. The sources must be cited and referenced in APA format. Your presentation should include an introduction slide and conclusion slide; it must be a minimum of 12 slides, but no more than 20 slides (not counting the title and reference slides).

W4: Cumulative Project AssignmentProject Plan: Cloud and Networking Needs

An information system is limited in its capabilities without access to the internet. Data and communications must flow smoothly and reliably.

Infrastructure

1. What kind of infrastructure will be necessary to support your business? Consider the options discussed in Chapter 6 reading and videos and determine what kind of network and storage will be necessary to support the business.

Integration

2. Will you start small and expand or get everything in place from the beginning? What are the cost and other benefits of each?  Legal concerns or security risks3. Are there any risks or legal issues that preclude a specific option?

Cloud integration

4. What about cloud services? Can SaaS, DaaS, or other cloud-based tools be more economical and convenient than traditional ones? Do you foresee a need for occasional upscaling of services in times of increased usage like sales, inventory cycles, or holidays? If you decide against cloud services or storage, discuss why you made that decision.