Human Resource Management | Assignment 1.
You are a High school Counselor and you have just been asked to prepare a presentation outlining 5 services that the Department of Labor offers to employers and employees for your staff. Visit the Department of Labor Web site in your state. Discuss and analyze at least five services that the Department of Labor provides to employers or employees. Explain why you picked these five services over other possible services. Include in your analysis a summary of each service, the important information provided to an employee or employer, and what other important links were provided.

Human Resource Management . Assignment 2
Select and analyze an article on family-friendly workplace, either for child or elder care. Summarize the article and discuss the need for a family-friendly workplace. Discuss whether all employers should have flexible work schedules to accommodate employees who need to care for sick family members Why or why not?
If an employee needs to take a leave to care for a sick family member, should his or her employer offer partial pay, continue insurance benefits or grant the leave even if it places the employer in a difficult situation?

Long term care. Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Regulations in Long-Term Care
There are many federal and state regulations when it comes to long-term care. Using the South University Online Library and the Internet, research any four specific regulations related to long-term care and summarize them.
Based on the regulations you identified, respond to the following questions:
What are the benefits and shortcomings of your identified regulations? Which of these shortcomings have an effect on the quality and the cost of health care services? How?Do you believe there is a link between regulations and better care? Why or why not?Why do you think long-term care services are subjected to so much external control by government agencies? Provide a rationale for your responses.How is quality measured in long-term care? Is there only one, or are there several approaches to measure quality? What are they? Who should be given the responsibility to measure quality?
Long term care. Assignment 2: Discussion Assignment
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Role of Technology in Long-Term Care
Using the South University Online Library and the Internet, find three articles describing the role technology will play in addressing the challenges ahead in long-term care. Summarize your findings and based on your learning, respond to the following questions:
Which challenges in long-term care system remain unmet? Why?What changes can we expect to occur with the influx of baby boomers entering into the long-term care system?Why do you think technology is important to long-term care? Support your answer with relevant examples.What are the pros and cons of the implementation of technology in long-term care? Consider both providers and consumers while describing.How does technology improve the type and quality of care received by long-term care consumers?How important is the commitment by top management for the use of information technology in long-term care to be successful? Why?How can the challenges be proactively addressed as opposed to being reactive?Legal and Ethical Issues: Case Study
Cathy Smith, an eighty-eight-year-old woman, was admitted to the emergency room from the nursing facility with acute respiratory distress. Although Smith does not have a living will, her daughter Rose, a health care professional, has the power of attorney (POA) to make her mother’s health decisions.
Smith suffers from end-stage Alzheimer’s disease and recently experienced congestive heart failure. Her condition is alarming. The doctors want to place her on life-support equipment, including a ventilator. Smith’s son, Andrew, agrees with the doctor’s decision. However, Rose states her mother would never want to be placed on life-support machines to prolong her life.
Analyze the scenario and answer the following questions:
What are the autonomy-beneficial conflicts between Rose and Andrew related to placing their mother on life support in this case? Who has the right to make the decision on behalf of the client? Why?What are the ethical issues related to the competency and decision-making capacity of the client while making the health care decisions? Do these issues impact the services offered in long-term care? How?What are some of the critical issues related to informed consent? Who has the right to assume this responsibility? Why