Toward Semantic Interoperability

HITECH has defined 3 levels of interoperability (foundational, structural, and semantic). In this assignment, you will explore 2 areas that are crucial for achieving semantic interoperability: standardized nursing languages/terminologies (SNL/SNT) and the standards for transferring clinical and administrative data between organizations (HL7, FHIR, ISO).

Part 1

There are more than 12 standardized terminologies and classification systems recognized in the field of nursing. Each terminology and classification system has its own purpose, structure, and even language. Trying to integrate all these terminologies and classification systems into one EHR has resulted in a major barrier to semantic interoperability.Part 1

In this assignment, you will explore 2 standardized terminologies and classification systems (Note: This is not an all-inclusive list). You will examine the reasons each was created, its intended use, and why each poses a problem when integrating with other terminologies.

Search for recent articles pertaining to standardized nursing terminologies and interoperability.

Select 2 standardized terminologies from the following list:

NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification)
NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification)
The Omaha System
CCC (Clinical Care Classification System)
PNDS (Introduction to the Perioperative Nursing Data Set)
ICNP (International Classification for Nursing Practice)
NANDA (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association)
Select 2 standardized terminologies from the following list:

For your assignment, you must:

-Identify which component(s) of nursing practice each terminology supports.
-Explain the rationale for each terminology’s development.
-Identify essential characteristics of each terminology, explaining how the characteristics relate to its function.
-Describe any overlaps between the 2 terminologies that may become problematic when integrating into a single system (for example, if the term DOA in one system represents Date of Admission but in another Dead on Arrival; or one uses pressure sores, but another uses pressure ulcers or bed sores or decubitus ulcers, these could all cause conflict with each other).
Explain why these terminologies are both barriers and enablers to
interoperability.
-Explain how the following are being used as a bridge to support semantic interoperability (provide at least 1 example for each):
LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes)
SNOMED-CT (Systematic Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms)
-Explain why there is a need for the EHR to capture nursing-specific data.

Part 2

Another area of interoperability is a computer system’s ability to speak with other systems using the same language to exchange patient information, test results, images, etc.

Research regulatory requirements and standards that govern the interoperability of data exchange in health information technologies on The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) website.

Explain the following standards:
-Health Level 7 (HL7)
-International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
-Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

Explain what each one is and how they are used to facilitate interoperability
(provide at least 1 example for each.).For your assignment, you must:

Discuss why standardization is critical to interoperability.

refugee resettlement articles (in Canada and the US)

I would ask that you use (web science, Jsotr, and google scholar) to find the articles that would cover the following.

1- I need five articles that discuss and talk about the refugee experiences in North America (Canada and the U.S.) especially the afghan refugees who came to Canada and the US after the year 2020.
2- I need 3 articles that talk about refugees and religion.
3- I need 3 articles that talk about refugees and gender (men, women.)
3- I need 3 articles that talk about refugees and age ( children, elders)
4. one article that talks about the two years that afghan refugees spent in the US.

is football worth it ?

Create a Bullet Point Outline for an essay on either “Concussions,”

Thesis:

Body Paragraph #1.

Topic Sentence:

Illustration/Evidence:

Explanation:

Body Paragraph #2:

Topic Sentence:

Illustration/Evidence:

Explanation:

Body Paragraph #3.

Topic Sentence:

Illustration/Evidence:

Explanation:

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For this Assignment, you will write one Body Paragraph based on the outlines for either the “Concussion article.

Before you begin:

1: Let me know your thesis. You can state it simply for now.

2: Write and Submit one Body Paragraph.

Be sure to include:

– A clear Topic Sentence that supports your thesis. (option counterargument)

– Evidence (or Illustration) in the form of one or two “quotations” from the text.

– Context for the quotation, who said it? Include MLA Citation.

– 1 – 2 sentence Explanation of the Topic Sentence claim and Evidence.

– A transition sentence that leads us to the next paragraph.

Literary Critique

Literary criticism requires us to engage not only with primary source material (a poem, novel, or play, for example), but also with the discourse (conversation) around that source material. This secondary material may help provide context or offer other interpretations of a text against which our own readings take shape. For this assignment, you will practice finding, reading, and using a work of criticism in your own writing about a text. The primary purpose of the assignment is not to offer your own interpretation of a primary text, but to clearly convey the essence of another writer’s argument.
Find a peer-reviewed essay on one of the texts that we have read in class this semester: the short fiction by Kincaid, Saunders, Davis, Carver, Bambara, Barthelme; or the play by Beckett. You can search for such an essay using the electronic databases available through the UMass Library. Project Muse and JSTOR are repositories for academic journals and you can easily search their holdings by title and author to find critical essays on these texts. Please pick a scholarly essay that focuses on your chosen text, not a review of the story/play, and not one that only addresses the text briefly. (You will find many more essays on Samuel Beckett’s play than the short stories, so you may want to focus your energies in that direction.) Read the essay and summarize its contents in a 2-3 page paper.
This paper should do the following:
-The first paragraph should introduce the main thesis of the essay you have read and show how it relates to its source text.
-Divide the argument of the essay into its major points and devote a paragraph in the main body of your paper to each aspect of the argument or stage in its development.
-At points, you will need to paraphrase the argument of the essay. At other points, you will use quotations from the essay where the phrasing is significant and only those portions that are necessary to your own representation of the argument. Please have at least two quotations in your paper, but do not let quotations take up more than 1/3 of your writing.
– Incorporate quoted passages into your own writing, both stylistically and using proper citation and reference as outlined in the MLA style guide (for an overview see https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_style_introduction.html). For more on how to successfully work with quotations in literary analysis, see this helpful website: https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/quoliterature/
-In your final paragraph, please reiterate the argument of the larger essay. Please also point toward anything that the essay overlooks or suggest areas for further research or consideration that the essay opens up. Here is a good place for you to bring your own ideas into conversation with the ideas of the author of the essay.
Essay that I have chosen:Toni Cade Bambara’s Use of African American Vernacular English in “The Lesson”
Janet Ruth Heller: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.37.3.279?searchText=The+lesson+Toni+Cade+Bambara&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DThe%2Blesson%2BToni%2BCade%2BBambara&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2d11c5f7bc0ded87ea0cc16fe3b4c871&seq=1

In this lesson, we mentioned how the creation of a dedicated strategic planning office within an organization can help to assist with facilitating strategic plan development processes. Does this seem like a viable option for established organizations? Do you think it would work at your current place of employment or in an organization that you are interested in? What type of message does it send about the organization’s dedication to stability? What are some pros and cons that you can expect from such an undertaking?

In this lesson, we mentioned how the creation of a dedicated strategic planning office within an organization can help to assist with facilitating strategic plan development processes. Does this seem like a viable option for established organizations? Do you think it would work at your current place of employment or in an organization that you are interested in? What type of message does it send about the organization’s dedication to stability? What are some pros and cons that you can expect from such an undertaking?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Human resource plan

Create a pay structure for all positions in your organization as presented on your original org. chart from Part 1.
Conduct market research in your businesses’ labour market/industry/competitors to determine the appropriate pay range for your key position. Make sure you identify your market research sources, (key organizations, job titles, salaries and NOC codes as appropriate) and provide the market data you gathered.
For your key position, Identify the wage/salary you have decided to pay and justify/explain it using the market data you gathered.
Next, using your key position as the benchmark position, create a pay structure for all positions in your organization, using Pay Bands and Pay Ranges.
For full marks, be sure to complete all of the following:
Create a Grade Structure and plot your positions into the structure accordingly;
Create Pay Bands;
Complete market research as required in the instructions above;
Determine the Grade and Pay Range and specific wage of your key position;
Determine the Grade and Pay Range for all other positions in your org chart.

How to Improve Classroom Participation

Proposal Argument Essay

My Topic: How to Improve Classroom Participation.
Problem: Students don’t participate in class discussions because they are already getting participation points for just showing up to class.
Solution: Give the students extra participation points if they participate in class discussions or ask questions in class.

Write a 1,500-1,750-word proposal using five to seven academic resources. Follow your instructor’s guidance as to whether it should be a policy or a practical proposal and as to the range of topics allowed. The voice and style of your argument should be aimed at your target audience. Remember to not use first person pronouns (I, me, us, we, our, my, mine) or second person pronouns (you, your, yours), unless given permission by your instructor. Your proposal should have the following features:
Identify the problem of why students don’t participate in class.
Persuade the audience that you have selected that this is a problem that needs solving; give it presence.
Propose action offering specific details to show how the actions will help alleviate the problem.
Justify your solution(giving the students extra credit for participating in class) by providing the reasons why your audience should accept your proposal and act on it.

This essay is NOT simply a persuasive essay. It is an argumentative proposal that offers a practical and justifiable solution to a problem.

Practical Proposal Argument
This essay presents a solution to local or immediate problems. Make sure you are not addressing a global problem, as that is too broad and you will not be able to discuss effectively in 1500 words. (All topics should be approved by 3/31)
7th edition APA format must be followed. 5-7 resources are required, and 3 of these resources MUST be peer reviewed journal articles. If you do not meet this requirement, you will lose format points.
Outline for this proposal argument:
Introduction
1. Hook
2. Background – this time it actually will be about your topic!
3. Thesis statement – this MUST be the last sentence of introduction and should follow the model of Who should do what (Who refers to members of the audience who can implement a solution and what is your actual proposed solution. This has to be specific!

Define Problem 1
1. Topic Sentence
2. What is the problem
3. For whom is it a problem? You will want to make sure you explain how this affects your audience. If it is more of an individual problem or does not affect more than a handful of people, it will not be defined effectively as a problem

Define Problem 2
1. Topic Sentence
2. Why should audience care about the problem
3. Why has the problem not been solved.

Propose Solution 1
1. Topic sentence (Simply state what your solution is)
2. Explain ALL the steps necessary to make the solution work

Propose Solution 2
1. Topic sentence
2. Costs associated with the problem. Do not limit this to merely the financial costs associated with making solution work. What other types of costs will be part of the solution?

Justification Positive
1. Topic Sentence
2. Benefits of implementing the solution. Make sure to explain how and why they are beneficial.

Justification Negative
1. Topic Sentence
2. Negative consequences associated with implementing the solution. I would caution stating that there are not any negative consequences. Your audience will be skeptical of this.

Conclusion
1. Re-emphasize main points. No more than 2-3 sentences
2. Call to action. Why should your audience care about this solution?
3. Concluding sentence: reference back to hook.

Select one (1) specialized unit within a contemporary crime lab and address the functions of the unit, the importance of the particular forensic examinations within the unit, and how the unit will help investigators solve crime.

Crime is at an all-time high in the City of Crimetown, USA. City Officials are determined to reduce crime and have already allocated money for more police officers. They have additional funds and want to allocate a portion to he functions of the unit and why this unit would be the most helpful in solving crime.

Select one (1) specialized unit within a contemporary crime lab and prepare an 8 page paper (content) addressing the functions of the unit, the importance of the particular forensic examinations within the unit, and how the unit will help investigators solve crime. I recommend using real life case examples and statistics to bolster your argument.