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Health Info. Technology and Systems

What are your thoughts about electronic health records as opposed to paper-based records? Which type do you feel is the most secure, and why?
Response to Hello!! My name is Kelly Smeltzer. I am from a small town in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. I am a VERY proud Mimi of 3 beautiful grandchildren with another arriving in March! I am currently a Clinical Services Coordinator in the Pennsylvania Correctional System. I do enjoy what I do. However, there is no room for advancement. By completing this degree, I am looking to find a new career in either working from home or an office with the option of advancement.

My thoughts about electronic health records as opposed to paper-based records? I believe with electronic records, healthcare providers can access patient information quickly and easily, resulting in efficient and effective patient care. It allows for better coordination of care, as medical records can easily be shared and updated. Paper-based records can be time-consuming to locate and update and are prone to errors due to illegible handwriting. Electronic health records help reduce the risk of errors in medication administration, misdiagnoses, and duplicate testing. Electronic records can help reduce the physical storage space needed for paper records and free up valuable space in healthcare facilities. I do believe that there are challenges associated with the EHR system. Some of those concerns would be data security and privacy, as electronic records can be hacked and unauthorized access.

I believe that the electronic health records are more secure than the paper-based records. EHR systems can use encryption to protect patient data from hackers. It also controls who can access that information and who cannot. Paper-based records can easily be stolen, misplaced, or tampered with, putting patient information at risk of being compromised.

Human Anatomy

Discuss the similarities and differences between positive and negative feedback mechanisms in regulating homeostasis in the body. Provide an example of each type of feedback.
Response to Brianna

Homeostasis is where your body is in a stable environment internally. A negative feedback mechanism for homeostasis is when your body notices that your internal body temperature is being raised and sends a signal to your brain. It sends a signal to sweat and for your blood vessels to dilate so that your body temperature can lower back to a normal state. A positive feedback mechanism when your body increases or continues a change in your body. An example of one is the uterus contracting during childbirth. Your uterus contracts to use pressure to move the baby down the birth canal. The body produces oxytocin which increases the intensity of the contractions during childbirth. The body will keep producing it until the baby is born.

A difference between a positive and negative mechanism is that the negative is using the opposition to regulate the body where as a positive mechanism is continuing a change and increasing until the body is regulated.

Professionalism in Workplace

Describe your personality within a work environment, discussing how you deal with such things as teamwork, stress, and time management. Knowing that not all personalities are compatible, what do you do to work proactively with colleagues who have personalities or work habits that differ from your own?
Response to Devin

Hi everyone, I'm Devin Bentley. I live in the West Georgia area and currently work as a performance coach for a staffing agency. My future goal is to become an HR Vice President.

In a work environment, I consider myself to be collaborative and adaptable. I enjoy working in teams and believe that effective communication is key to successful teamwork. When it comes to stress, I try to stay calm and focused, breaking down tasks into manageable parts to avoid feeling overwhelmed. For time management, I prioritize my tasks and set clear deadlines to ensure I stay on track. Knowing that not all personalities are compatible, I make an effort to understand my colleagues' work habits and preferences. I proactively engage in open communication to find common ground and establish mutual respect. By being empathetic and flexible, I aim to create a positive and productive work environment where everyone can thrive.

Principles of Macroeconomics

In the past, comparative advantages have sometimes shifted from one nation to another. What factors do you think caused these shifts? Why? Was there anything a nation could have done to prevent an advantage from shifting to another nation?
Respond to Devin

Good Morning, my name is Devin Milton. I'm from New Orleans, LA. Currently, I'm an assistant basketball coach for boys' varsity basketball while pursuing my degree in business administration/ sports management. My future goal is to compete at the college-level Division 1 as an elite recruiter, bringing talent to a program and building a national champ.

Throughout history the competitive edges of nations have changed because of factors such as progress in technology variations in resource availability and evolving consumer tastes. For example the growth of manufacturing in East Asia can be linked to costs and better infrastructure. Moreover globalization has made it easier to share skills and knowledge enabling countries to adjust quickly. To counter these changes countries could focus on education and innovation, while keeping their industries strong through trade policies and supporting local businesses.

Principles of Accounting II

Discuss why accounting information is so important to managing a business. What benefits does an accounting information system provide to stakeholders?
Response to Della

Hello class,

My name is Delia, and work in management at a mid-size credit union in the Tri County area of Alabama. I am pursuing a 25 year degree in Business Management :0). I have been enrolled in college on and off since 1999. Once my career got going well and I married and had our two sons, I continued to put furthering my education on the back burner. However, the boys are now 21 & 14, and I am finally at a place where finishing my degree is a primary focus and I do not plan on slowing down. I am looking forward to finishing in 2025 and using this degree for employment advancement and also as a proud badge of accomplishment.

Accounting information is important in managing a business, because it helps the owners, leadership team and stakeholders know if the business is profitable. It also will show what areas of a business is struggling and which area(s) is lucrative. At the credit union where I work, our CFO (who is a CPA) uses an accounting system to show when we need to sell loans, increase interest rates, or run a CD special to gain more deposits. Our credit union is "owned" by members and not stakeholders. For this reason, an accounting system is used to determine if our members can receive a portion of dividends back, based on profitability. We use accounting every single day without even thinking about it or how necessary and important it really is.

Contemporary Ethics

Complete the Unit I Consequentialism or Deontology Quiz. Access the quiz document located in the Unit I Discussion Board Resource item provided in the unit.

Share your answers to the quiz questions and reflect on your results. Do you lean more toward rules or consequences? Are you surprised by your results? Explain your answers.

Response to Dustin

Hello Everyone,

My name is Dustin Ladd. I live in NC and currently work in law enforcement for a Sheriff's Office. I have worked many different areas of this profession starting out many years ago as a Detention Officer, Criminal Investigator, Narcotics Investigator, Patrol Deputy, Patrol Corporal, and now my current assignment as a Patrol Shift Commander (Lieutenant). I have been involved with emergency services for eight-teen years and I am currently working on my bachelors in Criminal Justice Administration. I hope during this class I will learn what makes people think or believe what they do and how to reason and understand others with different views.

After completing the quiz it appears I am a consequentialist. Some of theses questions really made me think about if I was actually placed in a situation where these choices had to be made what would I do. As for most of them they were answered without hesitation. For example question 4, If given the choice to save more lives than not I truly believe I would make this choice every time. But I also see how others would struggle with this and I can also see how their point of view may differ. I also find myself playing the "what ifs" which makes answering the questions a little more difficult.

I look forward to learning from each of you and wish you all the best of luck during this class and with your future endeavors and goals.

Managing complex projects

Consider a project that you have been involved with or aware of that you consider to be highly complex.

What made it a complex project? Did it succeed? Why, or why not?

In your responses to your peers, expand on whether you feel it is complex and what may have helped it to be more successful. Support response with research

The Denver International Airport is famously known for its advanced baggage handling system, which was a catastrophic failure. The project fell massively behind, was overbudget, and the baggage system was too complex. Considering projects such as this, what do you believe is the biggest factor leading to failure? Do you consider failed scope, schedule, and budget estimates, or is there something else that is likely to be the root cause? Support response with research

Response to Marshall

My name is Marshall. I currently live in upstate New York and am an active duty servicemember. My future goals are to complete my final term here at CSU to finish my MBA, to complete my engineering Master's in May, and to look into doctoral programs some time in late 2025 or 2026.

An example that I like to use when posed with a question like this is a large-scale training event that I was tasked with organizing and executing. We invited roughly twenty people from across the country from different units, all with differing skill levels, and brought them together for a complex, multi-layered training scenario that lasted two weeks. What made this project so complex was the amount of coordination required. Not only did we have to coordinate travel and arrivals, but we also had to coordinate the various training ranges to be used, file all of the paperwork for it, procure the ammunition, coordinate the airspace and aircraft load/offload times; write lesson plans and scenarios, act as safeties and instructors, organize logistics for moving food, personnel, and weapons to/from the field, etc. There was a lot to do. All in all, the planning alone took nearly four months of daily work, all for two weeks of execution. The exercise was considered a huge success by both the attending members and the planners (us). Granted, there is always room for improvement, and us planners had dedicated time after the exercise to sit down and identify these shortcomings so that we could improve the next iteration.

Regarding the Denver Intl baggage system--I'm actually not familiar with this, so this is news to me. Oftentimes though, I feel that the weakest links in these kinds of situations can be traced to the lack of communication with stakeholders and not sufficiently establishing requirements early in the design phase. This personal perspective is likely linked to my educational background with systems engineering. If we use the Denver example, I can just about guarantee that travelers, or aircrew, or likely baggage handlers, were sufficiently consulted to see what their preferences were for an efficient baggage system. To create a successful system, you have to get inside of the heads of those that use it. Something like this seems to be a textbook example of what the military (and likely others) call "the good idea fairy," someone who presents neat ideas on paper, but with no additional context of how to successfully implement it and no idea of how it will actually work in real life. If requirements are not sufficiently established to address stakeholder needs, this can result in budget/time overruns as designers/engineers must then go backwards to fix problems that never should have been problems in the first place if executed to stakeholder satisfaction. Another large issue according to Aloisio (2019) can be human factors. It's great to create this innovative baggage handling system, but if you never assess how humans interact with it, you fail to properly plan for how it will be implemented.

Overall, it's incredibly difficult to point to any one thing and say "That's it! That's why this project failed." Too many factors are inextricably linked, and oftentimes it takes numerous failures to ultimately bring down a system. With that in mind, it's important to start early in the design/planning phase. By properly executing, the project manager can set the conditions and maximize the chance of the project's success.

Strategic entrepreneurialship & Innovation

What do you think is the most significant problem facing either your community or a much larger community such as our global community? How is this problem connected to the field of entrepreneurship?
Respond to Delaney

Hello class,

My name is Delaney Meyer. I live in Las Vegas, and have been here since 1991. I am originally from San Francisco and still root for those bay area teams! I am currently employed at a middle school within the Clark County school district. I teach 7th grade social studies, and find it both challenging and rewarding.

My future goals are to obtain this masters degree, become the best teacher I can, and find new and innovative ways to educat, and keep students interested in history and current events.

Part II:

The most significant problem facing my community is education. Many young people do not place importance on their education, and feel it is not necessary to be successful, especially in this casino industry. I was a sanitation worker before I became an educator, and have seen many capable people who were limited to only certain professions due to not pursuing higher education. We, as people who are continuing to grow and gain more knowledge, are obligated to share what we know with others, so that they may expand their horizons as well.

Learning Strategies

Part II: Got goals? A popular phrase on the Internet is that your goals do not care how you feel. Although this is a layman's philosophy of life, it possesses some great truths. What do you think about this outlook? How do you handle situations when your goals seem to get the best of you?
Response to Natalie

Hello! My names Natalie Bishop, stay at home mom of 4! Most of which are in school now, so I’ve decided to purse my career. I’m attending CSU for BS in psychology/criminology, after which I plan to attend University of Arkansas law school to get my Juris Doctorate.

Part 2: Goals are our way of aligning with our higher purpose, that of which is one of the 5 principles of cognitive and emotional intelligence. Finding our “why” per se, Henry Ford has said “when everything seems to be going against you, remember that airplanes take off against the air- not with it”. Not everything in life will be easy, not even our goals- to challenge you maybe a way of the universe or god seeing if you’ll be able to rise above to the challenge. Many would say without a struggle, would we really know how far we had come. Most of the time, the most important tool is being able to step back and readjust how you handle the situation or goal, there could be a better way.

“the only person you are destined to become, is the person you decide to be”

English

In Lesson 1, we discussed audience awareness. As you move forward in our course, think about audience. Think about audience in all things that you do. If your coffee is not right at Starbucks, then think about the barista as your audience before you air your grievances. If you need to bring something up to your superior, consider how you are automatically aware of audience as you plan your strategy
Response to Jessica

Hello all, my name is Jessica Clifford. I live in Woodbine, a small town in the southeast corner of Georgia. I work on a NAVY base for the Department of Defense, as an Occupational Safety Health and Environmental Specialist. Although I have certifications as a NAVY OSHE Specialist it has always been a goal of mine to pursue a college degree in my field and obtain a Certified Safety Professional credential from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. I am married and have two beautifully wild children. I have several hobbies including golfing, fishing, hunting and my favorite boating.

As part of my job, I encounter several different interactions with different types of people every day. I am a true believer in adapting to different types of communication based on personalities. For instance, when I am speaking with my co-worker, she is personal and likes chatting about life, so I listen and become involved with the conversation. However, when I am speaking to the Commanding Officer, I am direct and to the point. These two interactions are different even though the information leads to the same goal. Depending on the type of person who is receiving the information, my interactions vary.

One strength I have is being creative. Being creative has helped me imagine ideas, writing them down and creating a plan. Wherever it is to remodel a piece of furniture at home or to help solve a problem at work. Writing in general has been one of my weak points. It usually takes me a long time to write anything that is important to me. Thank goodness for Google because I cannot spell. When I write I usually end up writing like I talk. I hope to gain knowledge from this class to use when writing professionally to engage the audience.

Learning stragies

Got goals? A popular phrase on the Internet is that your goals do not care how you feel. Although this is a layman's philosophy of life, it possesses some great truths. What do you think about this outlook? How do you handle situations when your goals seem to get the best of you?
Response to Bryce

Hi, my name is Bryce, and I am 19 years old. I live in Suffolk, Virginia. I am a volunteer firefighter in Smithfield, Virginia. I am attending CSU and pursuing a bachelor's degree in fire science, with the ultimate goal of becoming a professional firefighter.

phrase that your goals do not care how you feel contains many truths. I am a fourth-generation volunteer firefighter. I made it a goal to continue the family tradition, so hopefully, my kids will also follow in my footsteps. I overcame all the challenges that I faced, no matter how difficult, during my firefighter classes because I was motivated by the end goal. Ultimately, my goals are not going to be achieved themselves. They do not care if I had a bad day or if I worked late the night before. I believe that your goals do not care how you feel.