Immigrants often had a difficult and complicated experience when adjusting to life in America. Immigrant families had to find ways to adapt to American society. In some cases immigrants found it necessary to challenge American society. Immigrant ideals were challenged by American values that were pushed on them. Due to these as well as other hardships, immigrants from all walks of life living in America had a genuinely arduous task in adjusting to American life. One of the many hardships immigrants had to overcome was that of appalling living conditions.
They did not make enough wages to afford anything remotely close to comfortable living. However, as Jacob Iris states, this does not corrupt immigrants, however it “is a powerful argument for the optimist’s belief that the world is, after all, growing better… ” Immigrants use their poor living conditions not as an excuse but as a lightning rod for growth and expansion. They use it as a way to better themselves because they started from the bottom and are working their way up. This challenged American ideals because the majority of Americans did not think it was Seibel for people to cross social or economic boundaries.
Americans also especially did not want the immigrant population to do so because Americans did not see immigrants as equals both socially and economically. Along with the poor living conditions, another factor in the economic struggle for immigrants was the lack of steady and livable wages. Often times immigrants were forced to work the most difficult and dangerous jobs while making less than desirable wages. In a private letter written back to a relative in Europe, one immigrant wrote that “if don’t earn SSL . 50 a day, it would not e worth thinking about America…
Ere in America one must work for three horses. ” It was a difficult task for an immigrant to earn those types of wages. Stating that one had to work for three horses in America shows that the work they were forced into was backbreaking to the point that it felt like it was the work only three horses could handle properly. All of this culminates to the complete opposite of American ideology. America was supposed to be a land Of Opportunity and easy money. The immigrants were not included in either of these because they were outsiders in the country.Perhaps the most shocking adaptation to American culture by immigrants was child labor in the sass’s.
Since it was rare for a male to make enough money to provide a living for his family, often times women and children were forced into work as well. For children, this meant working during the day and if possible, going to classes at night. This was detrimental to a child’s health in many ways. Besides the fact that children were working in factories with dangerous machinery, they were working long hours only to have to go to class at night. This meant very little sleep.A human body, especially a evolving child, cannot function properly on such a small amount of sleep. This made it that much more dangerous to work because it was hard to focus on the task at hand due to the lack of sleep.
Some immigrants were not excited or anxious to adopt American lifestyles in their homes. Many times mothers would try to control the colonization of their children. This could be done so in many ways. One way is making the children speak their native language at home. In doing so, this gives children a link to their heritage.Another way of keeping their children interested in the sat was by telling stories. Story telling encouraged children to think about where they came from and what it was like there.
Thankfully for immigrants there were people that wanted to help them adjust to American life. One such person is Jane Addams. In opening the Hull House she gave immigrants a place to gather unwind from all the hard work they had been doing. The Hull House made it a much easier task to adapt to American society in numerous ways. One way is by offering classes in English.One of the biggest issues with immigrants in the workforce is the language barrier. It was difficult to get one’s ideas across to a boss or manager without being able to speak any significant English.
There were also vocational classes offered. With better job skills, one could hopefully raise his or her income by getting a better job. The Hull House offered children something they had never seen before, Chicago first playground. It gave kids a place to enjoy themselves and gave them a safer environment to play. Perhaps the most important thing that the Hull House offered was a place for class connection.Immigrants came to Hull House and could meet and talk to other immigrants n the same situations. In seeing that they weren’t alone, it made them feel not as bad about their situation in America.
They could relate to each other because they were all going through similar ordeals and feeling the same way about American life. Life in America was a difficult thing for immigrants to grasp in the sass’s. It was an uphill battle in trying to assimilate and adapt to American norms and values. There were many barriers standing in their way but with the help of others they were given a chance to break these barriers down.
Nursing Question
Develop a 6-7-page implementation plan for the initiative you proposed in Assessment 1. Include a budget for material, staffing, and capital costs over the first five years of the initiative, as well as projected earnings. In addition, include a timeline, an organizational impact analysis, and an explanation of the effects of environmental changes on the initiative.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may be expected to create budgets and implementation plans to ensure that initiatives to take advantage of economic opportunities for the organization are rolled out successfully and can be sustained over multiple years. Additionally, it is important to be able to envision how an initiative could be implemented in different contexts and for different purposes to ensure that the investment remains a viable and positive asset to your organization or care setting.
Instructions
Develop a thorough implementation plan for the economic initiative you proposed in Assessment 1. Your plan must include a budget for material, staffing, and capital costs over the first five years of the initiative, as well as projected earnings. In addition, include:
A plan and timeline for rolling out the initiative.
An analysis of how the initiative may impact other aspects of the organization or care setting.
An explanation how the initiative can remain viable in the face of environmental changes.
Sufficient relevant and credible supporting evidence.
Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft implementation plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.
The requirements for your implementation plan, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
Create a budget for expected costs and earnings over the first five years of your proposed initiative.What are the expected material, staffing, and capital costs of your proposed initiative over its first five years?
What are the projected earnings for your organization or care setting over the first five years of your economic initiative?
How does this budget take into account the findings and feedback you received on your business case?
What assumptions are you basing your budget on?
Create an implementation plan for your proposed initiative that enables achievement of quality or service improvements in an ethical and culturally equitable way.Did you create a timeline for the rollout?
How will you work with relevant stakeholders to ensure that your economic initiative is implemented successfully and sustained?
How will you ensure that the rollout is conducted in an ethical and culturally equitable manner?
How will you ensure that the desired quality or service improvements your economic initiative will achieve are on track during and after implementation?
Analyze the impact of your proposed initiative, once implemented, on other aspects of your organization or care setting and ways in which negative impacts could be mitigated.What other aspects of your organization or care setting may be positively or negatively impacted by the implementation of your proposed initiative?
How will these other aspects of your organization or care setting be affected? (For example, increased workload on a testing department, borrowing of staff hours from another part of the care setting, or better communication with the community.)
How could you mitigate at least some of the negative effects on other aspects of your organization or care setting?
Explain your strategies for ensuring that your proposed initiative can remain a viable asset to the organization or care setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.What are the environmental risks to your economic initiative?
How could your initiative, or aspects of it, still be a viable benefit to your organization or care setting if the environment shifts in unpredictable ways?
What strategies would you propose implementing to keep all, or a portion of, your initiative a viable net benefit to your organization or care setting?
Justify the relevance and significance of the quantitative and qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used throughout your plan to support your recommendations.How is the evidence relevant to your organization or care setting?
How is the evidence relevant to your proposed economic initiative?
How does the evidence illustrate a solution that has been successful in the past?
How does the evidence illustrate that a recommendation is the best course of action for your situation and organization or care setting?
Write concisely and directly, using active voice.Proofread your document before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your implementation plan.
Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Format: Format your implementation plan using current APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] to help you in writing and formatting your implementation plan. Be sure to include:A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
A running head on all pages.
Appropriate section headings.
Length: Your implementation plan should be 6–7 pages in length, not including the title page and references page.
Supporting evidence: Cite 3–5 authoritative and scholarly resources to support your implementation plan. Be sure that your sources include specific economic data.
Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your implementation plan to your ePortfolio.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.Create a budget for expected costs and earnings over the first five years of a proposed initiative.
Analyze the impact of a proposed initiative, once implemented, on other aspects of an organization or care setting and ways in which negative impacts could be mitigated.
Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.Create an implementation plan for a proposed initiative that enables achievement of quality or service improvements in an ethical and culturally equitable way.
Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.Justify the relevance and significance of quantitative and qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence used throughout an implementation plan to support recommendations.
Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care. Explain strategies for ensuring that a proposed economic initiative can remain a viable asset to an organization or care setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.
Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.Write concisely and directly using active voice.
Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.