Assignment: Assessing and Treating Patients With Anxiety DisordersCommon symptoms of anxiety disorders include chest pains, shortness of breath, and other physical symptoms that may be mistaken for a heart attack or other physical ailment. These manifestations often prompt patients to seek care from their primary care providers or emergency departments. Once it is determined that there is no organic basis for these symptoms, patients are typically referred to a psychiatric mental health practitioner for anxiolytic therapy. For this Assignment, as you examine the patient case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat patients presenting with anxiety disorders.To prepare for this Assignment:Review this week’s Learning Resources, including the Medication Resources indicated for this week.Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for the assessment and treatment of patients requiring anxiolytic therapy.The Assignment: 5 pagesExamine Case Study: A Middle-Aged Caucasian Man With Anxiety. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.Introduction to the case (1 page)Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.Decision #1 (1 page)Which decision did you select?Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.Decision #2 (1 page)Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.Decision #3 (1 page)Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.Conclusion (1 page)Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of five academic resources. While you may use the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement. You should be utilizing the primary and secondary literature.CASE STUDY:The client is a 46-year-old white male who works as a welder at a local steel fabrication factory. He presents today after being referred by his PCP after a trip to the emergency room in which he felt he was having a heart attack. He stated that he felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and feeling of impending doom. He does have some mild hypertension (which is treated with low sodium diet) and is about 15 lbs. overweight. He had his tonsils removed when he was 8 years old, but his medical history since that time has been unremarkable. Myocardial infarction was ruled out in the ER and his EKG was normal. Remainder of physical exam was WNL.He admits that he still has problems with tightness in the chest and episodes of shortness of breath- he now terms these “anxiety attacks.” He will also report occasional feelings of impending doom, and the need to “run” or “escape” from wherever he is at.In your office, he confesses to occasional use of ETOH to combat worries about work. He admits to consuming about 3-4 beers/night. Although he is single, he is attempting to care for aging parents in his home. He reports that the management at his place of employment is harsh, and he fears for his job. You administer the HAM-A, which yields a score of 26.Client has never been on any type of psychotropic medication.MENTAL STATUS EXAMThe client is alert, oriented to person, place, time, and event. He is appropriately dressed. Speech is clear, coherent, and goal-directed. Client’s self-reported mood is “bleh” and he does endorse feeling “nervous”. Affect is somewhat blunted, but does brighten several times throughout the clinical interview. Affect broad. Client denies visual or auditory hallucinations, no overt delusional or paranoid thought processes readily apparent. Judgment is grossly intact, as is insight. He denies suicidal or homicidal ideation.You administer the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) which yields a score of 26.Diagnosis: Generalized anxiety disorderRESOURCES§ Hamilton, M. (1959). Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale. Psyctests, doi:10.1037/t02824-0

Unit 1: Team Project GuidelinesTeam Formation The instructor will assemble project work teams, which will consist of a Project Manager (PM) and team members. The assigned PM will be the team leader and will be responsible for planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and coordinating the effort of the team to ensure that the assigned project and its’ deliverables are successfully completed by the established deadline. Team sizes may vary based on courses enrollment and the nature and scope of the projects to be completed; however, the total team will have no fewer than three (3) and no more than four (4). The goal is to keep the team sizes small enough that each member will have an equal opportunity to make a substantive contribution to the overall success of the team in terms of meeting its goals and objectives.Important Notice: It is at the sole discretion of the instructor to change team members with or without advance notice for cause or for no reason at all. In addition, the instructor has the right to change the parameters of the team projects, including, but not limited to: moving up or pushing back due dates, changing deliverable expectations, or request progress reports.Team Meetings - Units 2-7 Online StudentsBlended StudentsOnline StudentsEach team will utilize Zoom to conduct and record their team meeting. Failure to record any of these mandatory meetings will adversely affect the both PM and team members’ grade, which will be assigned by the faculty at the end of unit 7. The meeting MUST be conducted at some point during the unit, which runs from Monday through Sunday. This will allow ample flexibility to accommodate work schedules and the geographic location of the participants (domestic or international). It is expected that a typical meeting will last 45 minutes to an hour depending on the level of group and individual preparation; however, there is no artificial limitations on the length of time the team can participate in the meeting. Zoom facilitates the sharing of one’s computer screen, which makes it possible to use these meetings as actual work session. There is no long distance charge associated with using Zoom.Team participants are responsible for viewing the tutorials on how to access and function within Zoom. See Using Zoom: Students (Links to an external site.).Team Project DescriptionTeam Project 1Team Project 1: The Future of the Patient Centered Medical HomesUnit Learning OutcomesDirectionsThe Team Project includes two parts.In the first part, conduct your research on the project topic – a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, following the project questions.In the second part, examine CareFirst Patient Centered Medical Home of Maryland, its internal and external environment, and develop a proposal for the key decision makers with specific recommendations.Part 1Explain the concepts behind the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, also known as the medical home model.Conduct systematic analysis of this model, breaking it down to components.What are the PCMH reimbursement models, incentives, economic, quality of care, legislative, staffing, and technology considerations?What approaches are working better? What is not working?Look at it from a critical point of view.What would you recommend, how to implement the PCMH model more efficiently? Please select the next tab above to move to the next content tab or the next button below to move to the next topic.Team Project Deliverables There are no page limitation associating with this deliverable; however, it should explicitly address all required components of this assignment. It is expected that the quality of the product will be consistent with that expected of industry professionals. Special attention should be given to the quality and accuracy of the content; the layout of the content; and ensuring the topics flow logically throughout the document. The document should be prepared as a practical business deliverable (single-spaced). The title page should appear as a cover of a business deliverable. The in-text citations and the list of references must adhere to the APA writing style (7th ed.).To earn the maximum number of points, the content should reflect graduate-level execution with clear evidence of critical thinking, synthesis of relevant information from credible sources, and clear mastery of the concepts necessary to successfully execute each component of the assignment. The Team Project Deliverable should be prepared as a Microsoft Word document and uploaded in the appropriate Unit 8 assignment page by Friday, 11:59 p.m. (CT) of Unit 8.

Significant Contributions to Public Health Final Assignment Part [WLOs: 1, 3, 4] [CLO: 1, 2, 3, 5] Prepare a four to five minute audio-visual presentation or a PowerPoint of at least 10 to 15 slides on one health informatics topic from the provided list. Topic During this course we explore many different components of health informatics. For this project, choose a topic of interest to you to prepare your presentation. The context of this presentation is that it will be a staff educational session on your selected topic. Your presentation should reflect new information and not recap or use previously graded content in this course or another course. In this assignment, you will prepare a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker’s notes of 100-150 words per slide. The slide count does not include the title and reference slides. Select one of the health informatics topics from the list below to address in your presentation. Please see the HIM301 PowerPoint Instructions Download document for expanded information on expected detail in your presentation. Step 1: Choose one topic from the following list: Evidence-based practice and informatics Telehealth Public health informatics The evolving ePatient International efforts, issues and innovations related to informatics Simulation in health care Analytics and design-led innovations and management Big data: challenges, opportunities, and realities Incorporating mobile devices and sensors into daily routines The potential impact for mHealth is enormous; an individual might spend 15 minutes or less per year with a primary-care physician, whereas the same person has nearly constant contact with a mobile device. Applying clinical care guidelines on, and within, mobile platforms Gathering and using data, particularly intensive longitudinal data, to study effectiveness of an mHealth intervention Consumer informatics Applications of social media in health care Biomedical applications based on sensor data Chronic disease management and preventative solutions Step 2: Define your topic and explain its relevance to health informatics. Describe any ethical issues associated with your topic. Describe any associated laws, regulations, or voluntary standards relevant to the topic. Explain how the topic relates to or impacts health care delivery, administration, education, data administration or research. Summarize associated data capture tools and technologies. Describe a specific example of your topic in use in health care. The Final Project PowerPoint: Must be 10-15 slides in length not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.) resource. Must include a separate title slide with the following: Title of presentation in bold font  Space should be between the title and the rest of the information on the title page. Student’s name Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus) Course name and number Instructor’s name Due date Must include images and text that tastefully conveys the message presented on each slide. Must cover all the requirements listed in steps 1 and 2 above. Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance. Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear statement that indicates the purpose of your presentation. For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) refer to the Writing Center resources. Must use at least five scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources (one of those may be the course text). The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. You may also want to review What Is CRAAP? A Guide to Evaluating Web Sources (Links to an external site.). The University of Arizona Global Campus Library is a great place to find resources. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment. To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Quick and Easy Library Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips. Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide. Must include a separate references slide that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications. Review the Writing Center’s Presentation Tips (Links to an external site.) to maximize your results.