The Director of the Office of Management and Budget has asked you to develop a background paper for the freshman class of newly-elected officials based on questions they have regarding the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches of government. Be sure to address the following in your paper:
Analyze the constitutional powers of the President to prepare and present an annual budget for congressional approval.
Evaluate the current budgeting process in terms of policy changes and their consistency with constitutional enumerated powers. Provide examples where appropriate.
Support your paper with a minimum of five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

I need between 100-120 words for each question
1) Utilize the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) website to examine the criteria that a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) must meet to be credentialed. What is the value of the PCMH to patient outcomes? How does the NCQA website help you define and measure the results of your DPI Project intervention on patient outcomes? Provide examples and literature support.
2) What are some of the current assessment tools to improve patient understanding and adherence to prescribed treatment? What assessment tools are available to determine a level of health literacy and how can these tools help improve patient outcomes? Provide examples and literature support.
3) Discuss effective means for translating and disseminating research by discussing the role of the DPI Project (Quality Improvement) and the opportunities for its dissemination. Include a discussion of the role of inter-professional collaboration. Provide examples and literature support.
4) Discuss recent health care innovations in your practice and your role in implementation. Provide examples and literature support.

Final Project Guidelines
Project Rationale
The culmination of material covered in RSCH 8210: Quantitative Reasoning and
Analysis and RSCH 8260: Advanced Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis will provide
you with a number of tools for your statistical toolbox. An enthusiastic apprentice always
looks forward to the day where the skills learned can be put into action, to display a
product to the world that demonstrates they are now an artisan.
The purpose of the Final Project in this course is much like a Final Project an
apprenticing craftsperson might undertake. This project will utilize the amalgam of your
quantitative skills to demonstrate that you can:
1. Align an appropriate statistical test to a research question you constructed.
2. Find data that meets the assumptions of your statistical tests and answers your
research question.
3. Synthesize the results to articulately present the findings via an oral presentation.
4. Present the results in a formal, written document.
5. Document how quantitative methods can assist with social change.
Expectations
Data
You are free to use data that you obtain on your own or utilize one of the datasets from
the course but, to make the project more meaningful to you, it is highly recommended
that you find your own data. If you use one of the datasets from the course, please
make sure that you are not mimicking a project already posted in one of the weekly
Collaboration Labs. You can find existing data through a number of clearinghouses on
the web (i.e., NIH, ICPSR, NIJ, NCES, www.data.gov, etc.). If you are having difficulty
obtaining data, please be sure and contact your Instructor for some suggestions. You
may also want to consider data from your workplace but be sure you have permission to
use it for learning purposes.
Deliverables
You have three deliverables for this project. The first is an oral 5- to 7-minute
presentation that you post to the Week 11 Discussion Board. You can create a video
directly in Blackboard using Kaltura; information to help you complete this task is
available via the Kaltura Media Uploader link on the course navigation menu. Your
video should be targeted toward a lay statistical audience. That is, consider giving a
presentation of your results to your co-workers/team, a group who might not have the
level of statistical knowledge you now hold. All too often, the results of great projects are
not implemented because the researcher did not translate the results and communicate
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the findings to the research consumer.
For the second deliverable, please respond to at least one peer’s video presentation,
providing constructive comments on the strengths of the Final Project, as well as
identifying ways to improve. Remember, your goal will be to provide constructive and
helpful feedback, so please be polite. In your feedback, for example, you may indicate
that some aspects of your peer’s presentation could be clearer. You might provide
suggestions that could clarify the interpretation of their findings. In any case, remember
that the purpose is to provide and obtain constructive and helpful feedback, so please
be supportive and polite.
The third deliverable is a 7- to 10-page written product that details your approach,
results, and interpretation of findings. This should be a formal, scholarly paper, one that
adheres to the APA guidelines. In this document, be sure that you:
1. Present your research question clearly.
2. Explain why you selected your dataset and the statistical test you applied to that
dataset.
3. Detail whether your test has statistical power or not.
4. Use one of the statistical tests covered in this course.
5. Visually display your results.
6. Detail how your findings might impact social change.
7. Ensure that your Final Project is 7–10 pages in length, in APA format.
While you are required to use one of the statistical tests covered in this course, you
should feel free to appropriately augment with tests you learned in RSCH 8210. For
example, you may use a correlation matrix to test for multicollinearity in a regression
model.
Suggested Milestones
Week 3: Topic of interest should be identified. Start searching for data.
Week 6: Research question and dataset should be clearly identified.
Week 10: Final analysis should be completed.
Week 11: Finalize written draft and post oral presentation.

Competency

Identify the role projects play in meeting the goals of an organization.

Scenario

You have just been hired as a Project Manager for Kingston-Bryce Limited and have been assigned your first project. Kingston-Bryce Limited (KBL) is a custom furniture manufacturer that specializes in hand-crafted dining room tables. The Board of Directors has identified an opportunity to purchase a competitor that also specializes in custom furniture. The acquisition of the competitor will enable KBL to expand operations and triple their workforce and will take 18 months to complete. In order for this acquisition to be successful, you will need to use your project management skills to ensure success.

Instructions

Your first task is to create a project plan for the Board of Directors in Microsoft Word or Excel. The project outline is essential for documenting all of the necessary tasks and milestones necessary to complete the project. The project is expected to take 18 months to complete, and the major milestones are broken up by quarters. You will need to be creative and develop the following items as if you were running the project.
Include the following (you will need to create these items):

• tasks and milestones;
• a project description;
• key stakeholders;
• timeline for the project.

NOTE – Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.