You are a healthcare administrator of your local medical facility, and you have been asked to give a presentation showing the importance of the census in the hospital setting.   Develop a PowerPoint presentation that outlines the information listed below.  ◾ How your hospital uses the census on a daily basis (when the information is collected and how is it used).  ◾How inpatient service day (IPSD) and the daily inpatient census (DIPC) affect the financial well-being of the organization (include the roles that admitted and discharged (A&D) play in the calculation of the each.  ◾How the census can help the hospital identify healthcare trends.   Your PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of seven slides in length, not counting the title and reference slides. You are required to use at least your textbook as an outside source. Additionally, be sure to include an introduction and conclusion.   If you would like to learn PowerPoint best practices, consider viewing the Success Center’s tutorial here.

Instructions:

• Browse the This I Believe Essays at www.thisibelieve.org  (Links to an external site.) 
• Choose one that you found particularly moving or effective.  Your post should consist of the following:
  • A link to the essay
  • The title of the essay
  • The name of the author of the essay
  • A summary paragraph of the essay’s main idea and key points
  • A paragraph explaining why you chose the essay as the most moving or effective essay from the website

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Week 2 Discussion

Locating and Identifying Articles

How do you know if a source is scholarly? Here are a few questions to consider:

• Would this author have a reason for bias?
• Is this source old, or is it up to date (i.e., published within the past 5 years)?
• Is the source peer reviewed? (Do other researchers regard it as trustworthy; did they read it in order for it to be published, or is it an opinion piece?)
• Does this source cite other scholarly references?

Scholarly sources should be objective, up to date, and peer reviewed; therefore, sources such as blogs or general dot com websites are not as credible as an article in a peer-reviewed journal or a government report. When you provide supporting citations and scholarly references within your papers, your writing becomes a compelling piece of work. Supporting documentation gives your writing power.

The library at Walden is staffed to assist you in finding what you need to aid you in your journey to become a scholarly writer, as well as one who correctly uses scholarly research to inform professional activities. The librarians at Walden will assist you should you experience problems finding what you need, including searching through the large collection of virtual books, journals, and periodicals.

As part of this week’s Discussion, you will explore the databases within the Walden library and compare and contrast articles found within the library to those found on other Internet sites.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review Learning Resources for this week.
• Locate two online articles that are relevant to your area of specialization: one found using a general Internet search and another found within the Walden Library databases.
• Reflect on the sources of both articles, using the questions given above to determine if one or both articles are scholarly.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a brief description of the articles you found. For each article, explain how you can tell whether the article is from a scholarly or a non-scholarly source. Explain why it is important to use peer-reviewed sources in your scholarly writing. Be sure to provide the URL for each so they can be located readily.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to this week’s Learning Resources.

Read a selection 

For this assignment, you will complete the literature review section of your action research project about Mental Illness in Adolescence: Bullying & Suicide. Follow these steps to complete this assignment: 

•Review 15-18 scholarly sources on your topic. 

•Summarize them as indicated in the Pre-Activity. If you have annotated the articles as you found them, this step may be completed already. 

•Be sure that your literature reviews flows logically; it should not read as a list of article summaries (author A studied this, author B studied this…). This should be a synthesized document – use the suggestions provided in the Notar and Cole article to help you organize. 

•Use headings to separate sections. This helps make the organization of your literature review apparent to the reader. 

•Check to ensure that you are complying with all APA requirements for in-text citations and references.  

Length: 6-7 pages not including title and reference pages 

References: A minimum of 10 scholarly resources