You are a member of the interdisciplinary team working with Barbara Lund, a 36-year-old woman recovering from a recent surgical resection of a malignant thoracic spinal cord tumor. Mrs. Lund has a supportive husband and a 2-year-old son. Mrs. Lund’s husband, James, states, “I am really worried about Barbara because she was quite distressed for about 6 months prior to this surgery over the death of her father. I fear the surgery may have pushed her over the edge.” Currently, 2 weeks status post resection, Mrs. Lund is beginning to ask team members questions about her prognosis and potential functional abilities. She says, “I remember my surgeon trying to explain the surgery to me, but honestly, I didn’t really understand much of what he told me. I am a bit naive when it comes to anything medical.” Mrs. Lund appears quite anxious about the cancer diagnosis and about how she will be able to continue caring for her son.

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What are two methods you might use to assess Mrs. Lund’s learning needs? List the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

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Describe the criteria your team and the client will use to prioritize her learning needs. Give examples of specific learning needs that will likely be a priority.

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What major clues indicate Mrs. Lund’s readiness to learn? Using the PEEK model, identify potential obstacles that might interfere with her readiness to learn.

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According to the VARK model, how will knowledge of Mrs. Lund’s learning preference(s) affect your team’s instructional approach? Choose one VARK learning preference for Mrs. Lund and describe the instructional approach your team will use to support this preference.

I would like to know the answer for this case study questions and explanations. Thank you. 1. You are a home health care nurse scheduled for a home visit to your patient, a retired accounts payable clerk who is 7 days postsurgical with a new colostomy. Your patient lives with her husband who is involved in her care, they compile a list of questions between visits to ask upon your arival at their home. During this visit, the patient has questions regarding her colostomy equipment and stoma care; her husband has questions regarding his current medication regimen. Both of them express concerns over recent changes in their health care coverage.

(a) What data in the scenario are pertinent?

(b) Outline your nursing care responsibilities, as the home health nurse, in this scenario. Compare and contrast these responsibilities with those found in the acute care setting.

(c) What would be your recommendations for the husband's medication questions?

(d) What is the home health care nurse's role and responsibilities related to the challenges of health care reform?

2. You are a nursing student attending clinical at a large, urban university hospital where you engage in direct patient care with clinical instructor supervision. At the nurses' station, you overhear various nurses addressing patient care needs, including an RN requesting consults with a physical therapist, a respiratory therapist, a dietitian, and a social worker. Another nurse discusses the potential need for palliative or hospice care consults for a patient. You observe a physician assistant approach the nurse with a list of written orders.

b. Outline the roles of the various licensed healthcare workers mentioned in this scenario.

c. Compare and constrast palliative and hospice care. What is the major differnce between the two?

d. As a nurse, what is your responsibility regarding physician assistant(PA) orders?

Rapid-Heat Pty Ltd (Rapid-Heat) is an Electric Heaters manufacturer which sells Electric Heaters directly to the public. On 1 May 2017, Rapid-Heat provided one of its employees; Jasmine, with a car as Jasmine does a lot of travelling for work purposes. However, Jasmine's usage of the car is not restricted to work only. Rapid-Heat purchased the car on that date for $33,000 (including GST). For the period 1 May 2017 to 31 March 2018, Jasmine travelled 10,000 km in the car and incurred expenses of $550 (including GST) on minor repairs that have been reimbursed by Rapid-Heat. The car was not used for 10 days when Jasmine was interstate and the car was parked at the airport and for another five days when the car was scheduled for annual repairs. On 1 September 2017, Rapid-Heat provided Jasmine with a loan of $500,000 at an interest rate of 4.25%. Jasmine used $450,000 of the loan to purchase a holiday home and lent the remaining $50,000 to her husband (interest free) to purchase shares in Telstra. Interest on a loan to purchase private assets is not deductible while interest on a loan to purchase income-producing assets is deductible. During the year, Jasmine purchased an Electric Heaters manufactured by Rapid-Heat for $1,300. The Electric Heaters only cost Rapid-Heat $700 to manufacture and is sold to the general public for $2,600.

Required: (a) Advise Rapid-Heat of its FBT consequences arising out of the above information, including calculation of any FBT liability, for the year ending 31 March 2018. You may assume that Rapid-Heat would be entitled to input tax credits in relation to any GSTinclusive acquisitions. (b) How would your answer to (a) differ if Jasmine used the $50,000 to purchase the shares herself, instead of lending it to her husband?

This topic will cover the ethical debate that occurs within the practice of whistle blowing and the sometimes contrasting virtue/ value of loyalty. Therefore, imagine that you and your wife or husband own a company with twenty employees who employ their son and daughter as book keepers. It comes to your attention after a significant financial loss that your children made one honest mistake, non malicious/nor greedy mistake, in their book keeping practices recently that unfortunately cost the company a good deal of money. {PLEASE DO NOT QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT THE MISTAKE WAS A HONEST ONE OR NOT--IT WAS!) No employees had to be fired but it was a significant loss for the company that set it back a bit. Thus, you are confronted with the following moral issue/ dilemma within the realm of business----[Side A: Tell your employees of this honest mistake made by your children and blow the whistle on them as your employees would like to know of this mistake so they can decide if they would like to stay with the company or not, voice their opinion in the matter, etc.; Side B: Don't tell your employees of this honest mistake made by your children because your children admitted to you in full when confronted that it was a one time honest mistake that they will never do again upon which they promised you and your wife or husband that they will check the books more thoroughly from now on.] For this topic you are to discuss the ethical dimensions that surround this issue/dilemma and philosophically/ethically defend both sides of the topic fairly. NOTE: {I am aware of the Soles reading in our text in which Soles argues that it isn't completely accurate to set up a dichotomy between the practice of whistle blowing and the virtue/value of loyalty, i.e. he argues that they are not mutually exclusive. But it does happen in a number of cases where these two things are dichotomous and so let's just imagine for the sake of philosophical/ ethical debate that they are contrasting as depicted in this case!}

Disciplinary Measures

The appropriate disciplinary actions needed are not always apparent to those involved. That is one reason your textbook will be a wonderful reference book and a great start to your professional library. The manager who wants to be fair and just is one who gives great thought before administering discipline.

After completing the reading, respond to each of the scenarios below.

A. June Skinner is an assistant social worker at Valley Cancer Treatment Center, where you are Director of Social Work (DSW). Barb Simmons, Senior Social Worker, was not back from lunch and so June was given a phone call pertaining to one of Barb’s patients. Being inexperienced, June unintentionally shared information about a patient, Debbie Fox, over the phone with someone who was not authorized to be given medical information about Ms. Fox. That person was the patient’s ex-husband. He told June that he was Debbie’s father (who was on the list of people who could get information about Ms. Fox). Now the ex-husband is going to use the information against the patient in a child custody hearing. You, as DSW must deal with this situation and decide on the proper course of action. Describe the conflict situation using theories and key terms from your reading. In your response, also provide a course of action and justification for doing so.

B. You are the Food Services Director of St. Regis Hospital with a staff of 135 employees. The Senior Staff Dietician, Joe Smith, was dismissed on charges of embezzlement. The problem is, Mr. Smith had been with St. Regis for over 30 years, and was well loved by the food services staff. Since his departure, morale of the department has sharply declined. Explain your plan for using leadership skills to raise department morale and foster teamwork.

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The following data show the brand, price ($), and the overall score for 6 stereo headphones that were tested by Consumer Reports. The overall score is based on sound quality and effectiveness of ambient noise reduction. Scores range from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest). The estimated regression equation for these data is ŷ = 23.185 + 0.318x, where x = price ($) and y = overall score.

Round your answers to three decimal places.

a. Compute SST, SSR, and SSE.

b. Compute the coefficient of determination r². Comment on the goodness of fit.

r² =

c. What is the value of the sample correlation coefficient?

r =

a) A monopolist faces two totally separated markets with inverse demand p=100 – qA and p=160−2qB respectively. The monopolist has no fixed costs and a marginal cost given by mc= 2/ 3 q . Find the profit maximizing total output and how much of it that is sold on market A and market B respectively if the monopoly uses third degree price discrimination. What prices will our monopolist charge in the two separate markets?

b) Calculate the price elasticity of demand in each market and explain the intuition behind the relationship between the prices and elasticities in these two separate markets.

C)Use the definition of marginal revenue and the definition of the price elasticity of demand to derive an expression for the markup for a monopolist. Use this expression to calculate the markup for the two separate markets in question