Cindy Chen, a 28-year-old female, arrives at your office complaining of the inability to sleep and nervousness. She tested positive for HIV in 2014, although she has been asymptomatic on antiviral drugs. Currently, she lives with her aunt and is going to school to become a phlebotomist. During her interview she asks, “Just feeling so nervous. Do you have anything you can give me until I see the doctor?”

Discussion Questions:

1. Cindy Chen is nervous. What techniques could you use to improve your communication with her?
2. What should you do regarding Cindy Chen’s HIV-positive health status?
3. How would you best answer Ms. Chen’s question: “Do you have anything you can give me until I see the doctor?”
4. Ms. Chen becomes agitated when you answer her question. What should you do?

2. Tenzin and Dechen have brought in their 24-month-old son, Kim, for his wellness examination and immunizations. Kim is the first child for Tenzin and Dechen, but Dechen is 6 months pregnant with their second child. Tenzin and Dechen are Tibetan refugees who have moved to the United States from India. Kim was born in the United States. Tenzin and Dechen are very focused on Kim’s physical abilities (i.e., motor skills, communication, and sensory skills). They express their desire for Kim to do well in school and be successful in business. (Learning Objectives 3, 4, 7, 11, and 13)

a. What could the nurse share with Kim’s parents regarding the normal motor, communication, and sensory development of a 24-month-old?

b. What can the nurse teach Tenzin and Dechen regarding promoting healthy growth and development in Kim?

c. Kim’s parents are curious about toilet training. How can the nurse teach Kim’s parents about toilet training with a toddler?

Problem 5

Sage Corp. enters into a contract with a customer to build an apartment building for $1,069,900. The customer hopes to rent apartments at the beginning of the school year and provides a performance bonus of $153,300 to be paid if the building is ready for rental beginning August 1, 2018. The bonus is reduced by $51,100 each week that completion is delayed. Sage commonly includes these completion bonuses in its contracts and, based on prior experience, estimates the following completion outcomes:

(a) Determine the transaction price for the contract, assuming Sage is only able to estimate whether the building can be completed by August 1, 2018, or not (Sage estimates that there is a 70% chance that the building will be completed by August 1, 2018).

Transaction price: $__________

(b) Determine the transaction price for the contract, assuming Sage has limited information with which to develop a reliable estimate of completion by the August 1, 2018, deadline.

Transaction price: $__________

Alice is planning a visit with her sister Jeannie, and her niece and nephew on the West Coast. She will be staying with them for the summer. While Alice is on the phone with Jeannie, Jeannie confides to her that she and her husband were filing for divorce. Both children are school aged, with the girl being two years older. The kids call Alice their “favorite Aunt,” and they have a high regard for her. Jeannie has asked Alice to help her talk to the kids about the upcoming divorce. After reading about the changes in the self that occurs during early childhood:

What are three things Jeannie can say or do to help the kids deal with the divorce?

What are the effects of divorce on children and families?

Should Jeannie and her husband stay together for the sake of the children?

The premise that CONFLICT rather than divorce may be the primary factor affecting WELL BEING in children. Do you agree with this premise? (Find additional research to support your response.)

What is your experience with divorce (personal or observational)?

True/false/ambiguous. For each of the following, indicate whether the statement is true, false, or ambiguous, and briefly explain your answer. If your answer depends on any assumptions, state them clearly. Use graphs or equations to illustrate your answer whenever it is helpful.

11. In efficiency wage models, employers take the market wage as given, and then choose the level of effort at which employees are required to work.

12. Mandatory retirement only makes sense in a delayed compensation (or underpayment-overpayment) model of earnings

13. In negotiating a salary with your employer, you should always try to get the highest salary possible – that is, the salary just below the level at which the employer would choose not to hire you. Otherwise you are leaving money on the table.

14. Workers are willing to invest in increasing their specific human capital as long as they capture all the economic returns to that investment.

15. If the economic return to school is due to signaling rather than human capital investment, then the private return to schooling is higher than the social return.

Exercise 3. Correlation versus correlation

Listed below are numerous bivariate relationships; data is graphed for each; all graphs suggest a correlation. For each, please answer the following:

1. Please state which of the following correlations imply causation or not, and why or why not. Remember, correlations must be based on valid theory to imply causation.
2. More specifically, are the relationships direct, spurious, intervening or interactive? If it is one of the latter two (intervening or interactive), please offer an additional variable that might explain the true causal relationship.

1. Blood pressure and age

2. Amount of fat in diets and cancer rates

3. Japanese passenger cars sold in US and suicides by crashing of motor vehicle

4. Math doctorates awarded and suicides by hanging

5. Income inequality and health and social problems

6. GPA and hours spent playing video games

7. Education level (less than high school) and well-being

8. Honey bees and drug possession

1. Wealth and well-being

10. Per capita cheese consumption and number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets

23. Close contact with families leads to family identification with the program and appreciation of teacher efforts (T/F)

24. Young children who enter school with high self-esteem are unlikely to lose it when overly challenges with academic tasks or racial bias (T/F)

25. Children in the primary grades automatically are more difficult because of their increasing wish for independence (T/F)

27. Since academic learning is so important in the primary grades, teachers should strictly limit time spent in primary physical activity (T/F)

30. Collaborative teaching means one teacher plans the lesson and gathers the materials and the other teacher teaches the lesson (T/F)

31.Themes should be addressed once per year (T/F)

35.Themes should last about one week each (T/F)

39. Teachers should give reasons for why some behaviors are acceptable and others are not every time they talk to children about behaviors (T/F)

1. Suppose that a large public university is experiencing a budget shortfall. They decide to increase tuition to try to make up for the difference. Last year (2017) the school charged out-of-state tuition of $18,000 and instate tuition of $8,000. The enrollment numbers for 2017 were 5,000 out-of-state students and 12,000 instate students. During the 2018 academic year tuition for out-of-state students increased to $20,000, and for in-state it increased to $9,000. The enrollment for 2018 dropped to 4,000 out-of-state and 11,000 instate students. a. (3 points) Calculate the price elasticity of demand for out-of-state students. Then calculate the price elasticity of demand for in-state students. (Round to 3 decimal places).

b. (2 points) Based on part a, how would you characterize demand for each group of students? Explain whether these results are what you would predict for this situation.

c. (2 point) Did this university make the right decision by raising each tuition rate? How could the administration use this information to maximize revenue?

Imagine you wanted to design a quasi-experiment to study the hypothesis that Changing the start of the day in high school start time to 8:30 a.m. or later causes teens to suffer less depression. Imagine that there are four public high schools, all in the same area of the country, that are willing to participate in this study. Currently, they all start between 7:20 a.m. and 7:35 a.m., but in fact, two of the high schools are already planning to change their starting times next fall.

1.Why might it be more practical to conduct a quasi-experiment on this question, rather than a true experiment? (2 pts)

2. Using one of the designs below, design a quasi-experiment to research this question. Clearly identify which study type you are using and clearly demonstrate knowledge of the study design. (4 pts)

•Nonequivalent control group design (posttest-only)

•Nonequivalent control group design (pretest/posttest).

•Interrupted time-series design

•Nonequivalent control group interrupted time-series design