Assignment 2: Reflections on Racial Discrimination

Franklin hears about people being discriminated against at the workplace and in society but rarely experiences it first hand. Cortez, on the other hand, speaks English poorly and is often subject to derogatory comments from peers and coworkers.

Reflect on your experience with racial discrimination.

Identify examples of racial discrimination and provide examples you have personally witnessed or heard about firsthand from the following three realms:

• family
• workplace
• community

Write a brief summary that includes the following:

• Describe a racial incident pertaining to each realm in detail. Explain why you believe this is racial discrimination.
• Explain how this situation could have been handled to avoid discrimination against those belonging to another race.

Submit your response to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 2, Day 7. Your response should be at least two pages long. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

 Reply to at least one of your classmate’s response providing additional support as to how they can become stronger in their financial knowledge. Your reply should be a minimum of 75 words, and it should use a hypothetical (“make believe”) story specifically related to the classmate’s post you’ve decided to comment on. 

Carolina:

From the case study this week, I can best relate to Jean in the story. Jean is more relatable to me because I am naturally attracted to finances/budgets because it makes sense to met. I have always liked working with numbers because it is something fixable, it is something that can be explained through a process of how you come to the end result. The approach that Jean tells Hector makes complete sense to me. I’m a naturally organized person and her plan of analyzing last year’s budget, seeing the differences, and getting input from other workers seems great. The fact that at the end she told him to send her a copy, in case he wanted an outsider’s opinion, is her going the extra mile.

The first concept from this chapter that would further help development and growth in the financial area is that of a business plan. A business plan is an outline that is used to launch, maintain, or expand the activities of an organization  (Fallon, Begun, & Riley, 2013, p.274). The concept of a business plan is crucial because this is the first step in being able to do anything. From the case study, a business plan would be the first thing that needs to be done, before everything else that Jean had said. The second concept from this chapter that would further help development and growth in the financial area is that of budgets. Budgets include objectively defined, measurable projections of resource allocations and use obtainable data in their creation  (Fallon, Begun, & Riley, 2013, p. 284). Budgets are important because they are the monetary plan of an organization on how to achieve their goal. 

Reference:

Fallon, L.F., Begun, J. W., & Riley, W.J. (2013). Managing health organizations for quality and performance. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Melissa:

When it comes to budgeting and finance, I can best relate to Jean. Just like Jean, I like to be organized so I have an idea of what is going on in the business that way you can spend money in accordance with your values. Assessing your financial status is vital because it will help you determine the success and failure of the organization. We can start at reviewing into prior years budgeting information to gather any information that will tell us about our budget. By looking into the historical cost, we can view the changes that have occurred over time to get a better understanding of our operation. In order to see growth in our operation, creating a business plan would be very useful for the organization. Business plans provide guidance to organizations just starting out as well as those that have been in the operation (Fallon, Begun & Riley, 2013). A business plan will help us achieve our goal. It consists of financial statements, balance sheet, statement of cashflow, statement of retained earnings and anything related to the operation. Budget comes with two common approaches: incremental and zero-based budgets. Incremental budget modifies an existing budget, usually the current or immediately previous one (Fallon, Begun and Riley, 2013).   As stated earlier, we can use existing budgets to get a better understanding how our organization is doing financially. 

Fallon, L. F., Begun, J. W., & Riley, W. J. (2013). Managing health organizations for quality and performance. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Cultural Diversity and Teamwork in Healthcare Ethics

Consider the scenarios given below and answer the questions listed after each scenario. Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.

Scenario 1

In the past, paternalism among healthcare providers was an accepted way of practicing medicine. Patients sought care from physicians and accepted their opinions and treatment choices without question. However, in today’s healthcare industry, there has been a shift away from paternalism as patients become active in their treatment choices and work as a team with their healthcare professionals. In the light of these facts, answer the following questions:

• What do you feel has caused this shift and why?
• Do you think this shift is for the better? How do you think this team approach to care can affect a patient’s care choices?

Scenario 2

With increasing diversity in the United States, a question has arisen regarding what accommodations should be made to assist the diverse population. Some groups or individuals feel in order to address the increasingly diverse population; we must employ a medical staff that is reflective of a community’s population. For example, if half of the population in a community is Hispanic, the medical office staff should be comprised of Hispanic workers.

• Do you agree or disagree with this solution for addressing diversity in healthcare and why or why not? How would you address these diversity issues of the Unites States?
• In the United States healthcare system, disparities such as socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic can be found. What do you feel are the most important disparities that need to be addressed in the healthcare industry? How do the disparities affect individuals in terms of healthcare and what do you feel is the best course of action to remedy each disparity and why?
•  cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Decision Making Assignment Essay

Defining the Problem and Setting Objectives

Refine and pose a reasonably complex problem definition along with a set of objectives (elements that you want to exist in your solution).  Do not go beyond the objectives stage.

Remember: Objectives are the desirable traits of a potential solution. They are not alternatives and they are not action steps. This can be tricky, so think carefully and evaluate your list!

1.     Provide your view and just enough background detail to allow the reader to understand the problem and objectives.

2.     The length should be between 550 and 800 words (excluding the title page and references). Assignments under 550 and over 800 words will attract penalties.

3.     Formal writing is required using APA.

4.     Copied input, quotations, and paraphrasing require citations and references conforming to APA 6^th edition standards to avoid the dire consequences of plagiarism and cheating. Formal research is not required.

YOu see the powerpoint attachment for reference.

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