implementing nurse peer review board

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implementing nurse peer review board

(implementing nurse peer review board)

Question description

The topic of the project is implementing a nurse peer review board. This would take place in a hospital setting were the are in the process of applying for Pathway to Excellence status, were nurse involvement is crucial. This paper just has to follow the format below and just address how this process can occur up to the point of actual implementation. The implementation process does not have to be done, just outlined how it can be done. This would include focusing in on the recommendations for the healthcare facility to complete implementation at a later date.This is the 4- to 6-page scholarly paper, referred to as your Practicum Project Plan (PPP), in which you will formulate findings, conclusions, and recommendations in relation to the problem or issue you are examining. Your paper will include the following:

Title: The title should include the name of your project and should follow the UniformGuidelines format.

Introduction: The introduction includes the purpose of the paper, the goal of the project, and the name of the project. It also outlines the structure of the paper.

Goal statement: A goal statement identifies what you expect to accomplish, the focus area, and the population. It introduces the project and conveys, in broad terms, how you plan to solve a particular problem or issue.

Project objectives: Project objectives delineate your strategy for reaching the goal and the steps you will

follow to complete the project. You must include two or three measurable objectives that use Application-level or higher verbs from Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Evidence-based review of the literature for project justification: This review provides evidence-based support for your identified problem, project methods, and evaluation (presented in Week 4). The literature should be directed toward justifying the project, not focus on potential solutions. You must include a review of your specialization’s professional-practice standards and guidelines related to your project and a minimum of five (5) scholarly references for this section of the paper.

Methodology: This section addresses in detail how you will accomplish the project objectives. Include, as relevant, the who, when, where, and how of each objective.

Resources: Identify and justify the human, physical, and/or technical resources you will need to complete this project. Note that for this assignment, you do not have to address the financial aspects of your plan.

Formative evaluation: Describe how and when you will conduct formative evaluation of your project. Explain how you will use the evaluation results and how you will determine if the project is proceeding as planned.

Summative evaluation: Describe how and when you will conduct summative evaluation of your project. Explain how you will use the evaluation results.

Timeline: Create a graphic timeline representing significant stages of your project. Provide a narrative to help your Instructor understand the timeline. Include the timeline in an Appendix to your Practicum Project Plan.

Articles to use

The power of peer review: A pathway to professionalism
Goble, Patricia H. DNP, RN, NEA-BC; Langford, David PhD, RN; Vincent, Sharon DNP, RN; Powers, Kelly PhD, RN

Nursing Management (Springhouse): February 2017 – Volume 48 – Issue 2 – p 9–12

 
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Navigating Abortion Policy Complexities

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Navigating Abortion Policy Complexities

(Navigating Abortion Policy Complexities)

1) Abortion, the interminable debate

Abortion, The Interminable Debate Also Abortion, The Catholic Argument, And As A Structure…

Contrary to what some believe, abortion policy does not vary just a little from state in the U.S.; it is not ‘legal’ or ‘illegal’ in a simple fashion.  Most people assume, for instance, that if a woman is 3 weeks late on her menstrual cycle, then she can terminate her pregnancy…because abortion is legal, after all….isn’t it?  But is she happens to live in North Dakota, she’s one week too late: the state house passed a law last year prohibiting any abortion 6 weeks or more after a woman’s last menstrual cycle.  And many of us were dismayed by the tastelessness and crassness of a debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump last year, when Trump claimed that Hillary’s position (and by implication, the ‘pro-choice position generally) was that, “even on the operating table,” if a woman came in to deliver her baby, “she could change her mind at the last second,” and have an abortion.  He painted a truly vivid picture: of a basinet and a nurse waiting to care for the newborn on the left, and an doctor with a scalpel and a plastic bag on the right, and the woman in the middle of labour, still able to decide whether or not she will abort or give birth.  Pro-choice folks everywhere were quick to point out the next day that this literally never (as in we have no specific cases) has happened, but they were wrong about one thing: 9 states, including Alaska and Mississippi, have no restrictions whatsoever on when a pregnancy can be terminated.  As tasteless as Trump’s debate strategy may have been, it is theoretically possible in these states to abort in the late third trimester.  This New York Times graphic breaks down U.S. abortion laws by state; it’s a bit dated, being from 4.5 years ago, but it’s the only source I found that puts it all in one easy-to-read graph:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/18/us/politics/abortion-restrictions.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Question: is anyone surprised to find out that in some parts of America you can have an abortion at 9 months, and in other places are restricted at just 6 weeks?  This is because the famous Roe vs. Wade supreme court decision specified 24 weeks, and thus every state, depending on it’s politics, tends to push the restriction backwards and forwards.

At the heart of this debate are two completely deductively valid arguments.  On the pro-choice side, there is this one:

Premise 1: All women should have the right to make decisions regarding their own body, including medical procedures.

Premise 2: Whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term is a medical decision about a woman’s body, and thus it should be made by her and her alone.

Premise 3: Access to legal and safe pregnancy termination is obviously essential for a woman to be able to make decisions about whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term.

Conclusion:  Abortion must be safe and legal, or else we are violating women’s rights.

As covered in the first unit, in a deductive argument, if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true.  If one were to disagree with the above argument, Premise 2 is clearly the one that the average Pro-life position disagrees with, as we see in their own deductively valid argument:

Premise 1: All people are equal under the law, entitled to not have their basic rights violated.

Premise 2: A fetus is a person.(Navigating Abortion Policy Complexities)

Premise 3: An abortion terminates a fetus’ life, and thus is a violation of it’s basic rights.

Conclusion: Abortion violates the rights of the unborn child, AKA fetus, and thus should be legal.

This debate is, as presented here, unsolvable.  There are 4 short readings for this unit, two pro-choice and two pro-life.  We have basically different philosophical premises.  Question: how might, in theory, science weigh in on this debate?  Thus far, the primary way it has weighed in is to designate 24 to 26 weeks as the time when most fetsuses can survive outside the womb (with an incubator), and thus about half of U.S. states prohibit abortion after this time.  It has been suggested that perhaps cranial activity or a heartbeat could designate the start of life, but this, of course, happens at different times for different pregnancies.

In the readings, Peter Singer argues that from a utilitarian perspective, we should all obviously be Pro-choice, because in terms of human suffering, the suffering of the unborn child is not as significant as the millions of women, all adults with lives, families, hopes and dreams, who would die attempting to undergo illegal abortions.  Indeed, without language, without any sense of what he or she wants, even a most developed third trimester fetus, at 8 months, arguably doesn’t suffer much in simply not being allowed to live at all.  Many would argue that abortion is simply a fact of feminism, in some sense: every society that has a concerted movement for women’s equality and women’s rights has legalized abortion.

This would be my question to the pro-life side: What do you want?  If what you want is a modern, secular (meaning separatin of church and state) country, where abortion just happens to be illegal because at least 51% of people think it should be, can you not see that that has never exited, and for good reason?  We cannot change biology; we cannot change human sexuality.  Many women would argue that if you want to allow women equal access to politics, careers, money, and power, the ability to choose whether or not to be pregnant is simply part of that process.

To the pro-choice side, I would ask this: how exactly do we decide when, as a pregnancy develops, to restrict access to abortion?  Surely there is a difference between taking the morning after pill, and aborting at 8.5 months, when the fetus probably would not even require an incubator to survive, but in it’s most extreme form, pro-choicers advocate for the right to abortion at any point in the pregnancy.  Surely we are all smart enough to understand the philosophical position, even we disagree, that terminating a pregnancy in the third trimester is not a medical decision that involves only the woman’s body.  How do we decide when another body is involved?

The real question is truly this: in a society where this argument will continue, and we will each develop our own sense of right and wrong regarding it, how do we make the laws?

2) Abortion, the Catholic argument, as a structure…(Navigating Abortion Policy Complexities)

A very conservative Catholic friend of mine introduced me to a style of argument regarding abortion that fascinated me.  It is basically thus:

Premise 1: The abortion debate is interminable.  It is a valid philosophical belief, widespread and no-doubt persistent, that life begins at birth, that a pregnancy is essentially a medical condition, and thus abortion should be legal.  It is equally philosophically valid to believe, however, that life begins at conception, which leads to the opposite conclusion.  Indeed, every single scientific attempt to create consensus around when, in the middle, life begins, has failed.

Premise 2: When democracies contain large constituencies that have an unsolvable philosophical disagreement, where no compromise is possible, the right thing to do is to put it to a vote.

Conclusion: We should allow states, and possibly even counties and cities, to vote on their own abortion policy.

That’s not a bad argument.

This is a fascinating strategy: he’s basically saying, “We’re not right, you’re not right; none of us will change out minds.  Therefore, let’s just vote on it.”  Instead, the supreme court decided.

For the pro-choice side, access to abortion has taken on a moral weight similar to the end of racial segregation.  Many southern U.S. states had populations that, if they were allowed to vote on it, would have preferred to have kept racial segregation, but the federal government said no: segregated schools, parks, and other public institutions is so wrong, that it simply doesn’t matter whether most people in a given state want it back: they’re not allowed to.

If this Catholic argument won the day, at least 20 U.S. states would probably outlaw abortion tomorrow.  What might be some other issues where this style of thinking–that Democracy doesn’t work, because smaller communities might do something too wrong for the country to allow–exists?  What are issues where we shouldn’t vote, because ‘the people’ are just too unpredictable?  How do we decide which issues to pick and choose?  Are there any that should be rolled back, in your opinion; in other words, are there issues where you think that a city, state, or county ought to be allowed to make it’s own policy?(Navigating Abortion Policy Complexities)

A few suggestions: gun control; Texas already has armed teachers in 170 school districts; should states be allowed to set their own ‘armed teacher’ policy, or should the country decide for everyone?  Nutrition: should cities be allowed to try radical solutions to health problems, such as banning all sugary sodas?  Screen time: Should cities or counties be allowed to restrict, or even ban, portable electronic devices in order to create their own desired type of society?  Smoking: should this one be rolled back, perhaps?  Right now, even a small bar, run by smokers who exclusively employ smokers as bartenders and tend to attract smokers as clients, is not allowed to allow smoking inside their bar.

What are your own issues?  How radical should we allow local municipalities to be?

 
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social psychological insight

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social psychological insight

(social psychological insight)

In the final week of this course, you will design an intervention to address a specific problem you have identified utilizing social psychological insight. To ensure proper preparation for this cumulative work and to provide you with an opportunity for initial feedback, this week you will identify and describe a problem using relevant theory and research.  Note that the purpose of this assignment is formative.  At this point, you are not expected to have a perfectly firm grasp on the material or a detailed plan for addressing a particular problem, but you should be progressing in a clear direction with regard to relevant background information and resources.  Your topic statement should encompass the following:

Describe a problem of interest to you, personally, or that you are likely to encounter, professionally.

Relate the behaviors that contribute to and result from this social issue.

Discriminate relevant theoretical perspectives from social psychology.

Generate potential intervention strategies.

Synthesize the information you have acquired from your review of the literature, guided by the above points.

Conclude with a paragraph that includes questions you have, additional directions you plan to explore through your research, initial thoughts about the final paper, and any problems you are experiencing or think you might encounter.

The Topic Statement

Must be at least 3 to 5 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Introduction to APA.

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Running head

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must utilize academic voice.

See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.

Must address the topic with critical thought.

Must use at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Additional scholarly sources are encouraged.

See the Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table for additional guidance.

Must utilize in-text citations appropriately.

See the Integrating Research resource for additional guidance.

See the Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing resource for additional guidance.

See the Citing Within Your Paper guide for additional guidance.

Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style.

See Formatting your References List for additional guidance

 
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Understanding Terror: Models & Countermeasures

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Understanding Terror: Models & Countermeasures

(Understanding Terror: Models & Countermeasures)

Assignment Instructions

A fundamental issue established at the outset of this course is the fact that becoming involved in terrorist activities is a process, where numerous factors can affect the mindset and actions of an individual. We have covered many of these issues and influences, so concerning this matter, compare and contrast at least two different radicalization models that explain terrorist motivations in a 4 page paper. In this research paper also summarize behavioral and psychological factors associated with disengaging from terrorism and describe what efforts or programs are most effective in countering radicalization and why.

Recommended Source: King, M. and Taylor, D. M. (2011). The Radicalization of Homegrown Jihadists: A Review of Theoretical Models and Social Psychological Evidence. Terrorism & Political Violence, 23(4), 602-618. You should start with this article and then use other sources as well to make sure you hit the 8 expected scholarly references for this research paper.

Assignment Specifics:

  • The body of your report is to be at least FOUR FULL pages in length (not counting title page and references) and is to contain the following:
  • A brief introduction, with the topic and your thesis
  • A main body, containing the “meat” of the paper, where you provide the requested information supported by class readings and with your analysis
  • A conclusion, summarizing your information clearly and concisely

Make sure you read the instructions carefully and that you focus your paper on answering the assigned questions. This assignment is a research paper, not an opinion paper, so you need to use scholarly sources to support your thesis.  Use formal academic writing and do not use the first person such as ‘I’ or ‘my’; see the OWL site on academic writing style. Make sure you use APA style in-text parenthetical citations at the end of every sentence where you are quoting another’s ideas (or any information) that is not your own thoughts and words, like this (Bergen, 2015, para. 14). Citations are required for paraphrases as well, but not the page or paragraph number in that case. I highly recommend you use the APUS writing guide which can be found in the university library or at this link: APUS Research Writing and Style Guide. You are welcome to use supplementary sources to compliment the assigned readings based upon your research, but make sure you use only scholarly and credible sources (do not use open websites and you never want to use wikipedia for a college level paper). Also, dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as general news sites (like CNN, FOX News) are not appropriate for college level research papers. You need to use mainly scholarly and reputable academic books and journal articles. Also, see the APUS Library Homeland Security Program Guide for good sources, as well as the APUS Research Primer and the APUS Library Research FAQs.

Requirements:

  • Written according to the APA style and format (parenthetical in-text citation formats only; not end notes or footnotes);
  • Use Times New Roman 12 point font;
  • 1 inch margins on all sides with no paragraph indentation other than the first line by .5 inches
  • Double space all text (no extra lines or spaces after a paragraph or section headings and no added font sizes or lines either)
  • A respectable number of credible resources used, cited in the paper as in-text citations, and included on the reference page. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content (a minimum of 2 new scholarly sources per page in a research paper is acceptable). Use those academic and credible sources provided to you throughout the course, as well as other scholarly material obtained from conducting your own research. Freely utilize appropriate and reputable academic sources, summarize in your own words and cite accordingly.
  • The paper must be free of typographical, spelling and grammatical errors (make sure to proof read before submission)
  • Turn your paper in as a Word Document and title your assignment “Lastname_Final“

Finally, be mindful of excessive direct quotes as the paper should not contain just a string of quotations from sources. Make sure you comply with all academic integrity standards expected by APUS and as slide 14 of the APUS Academic Integrity presentation posted in course syllabus (and the week 1 introduction forum) states “Quotes cannot make up more than 10% of the text of your assignment.” So paraphrase where you can and provide your own analysis and synthesis of your research (direct quotes only when necessary to support your thesis). The bottom line for academic integrity is to write an original work for this assignment (not copied from anywhere on the internet or recycled content from your own previous papers) and to properly cite your references. 

 
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company of Bose Corporation

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company of Bose Corporation

(company of Bose Corporation)

Question description

Tipic: the company of Bose Corporation

I will be responsible for Business-level Strategy and Recommendations(Part 4,5,6)

Finist the PPT and the Project Paper follow the Policies

Your written reportmust include (but is not limited to) the following components:

1. Executive Summary(5%)This section should include an overview of the entire reportand highlight the important findings.This section usually should not exceed one page.

2. External Analysis(Industry Analysis)(20%)You mayuse analyticaltools such as Porter’s FiveForces(required), industry life cycle, and strategic group analysis. Exemplar questions may include:

•Who are the competitors and what are their market shares?

•What products or services are produced inthis industry?

•How have demographic, social, or technologicaltrendsinfluenced this industry?

•What key opportunities exist for this industry? Which company (or companies) is most likely to take advantage of theseopportunities? Why?

•What key threats (in terms of new entrants, product life cycle, product obsolescence, substitute products, etc.) exist for this industry?

3. Internal Analysis, including the assessment of the firm’s strengths and weaknesses (20%)You may discuss in greater details here about the firm’s history, products, markets, culture, vision, and so on. Some specific questions may include:

•Which functional areas within the firm are particularly strong and which are particularly weak? Why?

•Areany of the firm’s resources/capabilitiessources of competitive advantage? Are those advantages sustainable? What are the firm’s distinctive/core competences?

•What do the firm’s financial statements say about its health?Comparison to competitors?

•What has the firm’s non-financial performance (corporate governance, employment stability/growth, innovation, customer relations, etc.) been like over the past three to five years?

4. Analysis of business-level strategy used by the firm (20%)

•Whatis the firm’s primary industry? What is the generic strategy used by the firm in this industry?

•What customer needs do the firm’s products/services satisfy? What market segment does the firm serve? How does the firm use its distinctive competencies to serve the customer needs?

•How is (or is not) the business-levelstrategy supported by its functional strategies?Is the chosen generic strategy appropriate given the firm’s external and internal environments? Why or why not?

•Does the firm use other business-level strategies to competee.g. chaining, franchising, product proliferation, product development etc.? How effective are these strategies?

5. Analysis of the corporate-level strategy of the firm (20%)

•Identify the businesses the firmis in (or is considering entering), how they are related (or unrelated), and whether and how they create additional value in their combination. Be specific and detailed. If it is unclear that value is created, try to assess why the firm might have chosen to enter those businesses

.•Has the firm used any horizontal or vertical integration strategies in the past? What are the rationales and effects of these strategies? Has the firm formed any strategic alliances or used strategic outsourcing? Analyze the rationales and effects.

•Analyzethe global strategy used by the firm (if it is a multinational company) and the rationale of using that global strategy. What entry modes did the firm use to enter those countries? Were the methods of entry used (or proposed) the best choice given the firm’s objectives, environment, strengths, weaknesses, and strategy? Be sure to include any appropriate financial analysis to support your assessment.

6. Recommendations (10%)Recommendations should respond to the key issues identified earlier, and must be specificand actionable. They should be consistent with the analysis. You should evaluate the impact of each recommendation on the firm’s environment, strengths, weaknesses, and strategy. Also highlight why they are feasible to the firm. Do not forget to consider the firm’s financial standing when making recommendations.

7. Abibliography of your sources. Any external information used must be properly referenced. Failure to properly reference any external source constitutes plagiarism. Use the APA format for the bibliography. Your final papershould be in an agreeable and professional format.Be sure to useheadings for each section in the paper. It also needs to follow correct form, spelling, and grammar. (5%)

 
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Application Development Methods

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Application Development Methods

(Application Development Methods)

Question description

For me im working on section 1 part. The other section for my group 2,3,4

also let me know whats the company name so I gave to my group

For weeks 1-4, you will be participating in small group discussion, making project decisions as a team but completing individual assignment. Each student will have the option of sharing components of their assignment with other team members. However, you are not required to do so and may opt to work individually. Even if you decide to share components with others, you must submit individual deliverables at the end of each unit.

In week 5 you will complete the new sections, make all suggested modification based on your instructor’s feedback and add additional input from group member’s feedback and additional discussion. You will then combine all previous weekly submissions and submit your final project deliverable.

Group Discussion

Section 1 – Overview of Company and Client Business Case this is me

As a group, hold a discussion and make a decision on a business case that will require the development and deployment of an IT Network System Application for any organization. As an idea, the Business Case could be but not limited to:

  • The development of a custom accounting application for an accounting firm
  • The development of a Customer Service Application for a store
  • Student Information System for a small university
  • Or any other similar solution requirements

As a group determine the following:

  • Create a name for your company and a profile for your company
    • What is your company’s expertise?
    • Ensure that the expertise matches the skill sets required for the business case you have chosen
  • Client Case Overview
    • What client business case did you choose and why?
    • How does your company expertise match your client’s needs?
  • Client Application Solution
    • Based on the case you have chosen, what do you believe is the application solution? Why?

Section 2 – Application Requirement Elicitation and Strategy

Before you are able to work on the development of a solution you must have a clear understanding of the customers’ needs.

As a group discuss and determine the following:

  • How will requirement elicitation be conducted by your team?
  • Who will be the main stakeholder that you will be eliciting information from?
  • What questions need to be answered and why?
  • How will you implement your elicitation strategy?

Section 3 – System Components and Design Requirements

As a group decide and discuss the following:

  • Based on the elicitation results, finalize the system components and design requirements that are needed for your business case.
  • Does the design solution support all the customer needs?
  • Provide specifics that the proposed application should address

Based on the requirements, each individual will tackle the weekly deliverables. However, students can decide to share the work from various components of their project with each other. If this is the approach the group will use, each individual’s work must be cohesive to what other members are developing considering that the individual efforts will be combined across components.

Section 4- Methodology for Application Development Process

As a group, complete the following:

  • Choose a system development methodology for your project.
  • The methodology chosen should align with achieving the overall objective of your business case.

when you done with that. I will get my group member section put together and work on my IP

 
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Autonomy in Healthcare: Nurse Practitioner Perspectives

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Autonomy in Healthcare: Nurse Practitioner Perspectives

(Autonomy in Healthcare)

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are integral to healthcare, offering unique perspectives on autonomy within the field. Their role often involves a high degree of autonomy, particularly in primary care settings. NPs are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat patients, allowing them to independently manage a wide range of health concerns. This autonomy empowers NPs to provide timely and effective care, especially in underserved areas where access to physicians may be limited. However, while autonomy is valued, NPs also recognize the importance of collaboration within interdisciplinary teams, ensuring comprehensive patient care. Challenges to autonomy may arise from legal and regulatory constraints, as well as varying scopes of practice across different regions. Despite these challenges, NPs continue to advocate for expanded roles and increased autonomy to better meet the diverse healthcare needs of their patients. Ultimately, autonomy for NPs is not just about individual freedom, but about optimizing patient outcomes and promoting a more accessible and equitable healthcare system.

APA, citation and reference please. If you want to get information you can use the same website that this person used. I included them at the end.

I chose unstructured interview to address my research question, should Nurse Practitioner work independently, why or why not? Level of measurement would be nominal. Unstructured interview is also called discovery interview or informal interview. It is a guided conversation. It includes open ended questions. This type of interview is more flexible than others since questions can be changed and adapted depending on the answers. It also generates qualitative data and provides increased validity since it gives a chance to the person being interviewed to offer a more in depth answer. One of the disadvantages includes being time consuming (Mcleod, 2014).

The level of measurement “Nominal” is used for qualitative research. It distinguishes by name. In my research, it will distinguish Family nurse practitioners from physicians.  It represents the lowest level of measurement (Osherson, 2017).

For my research, I will choose the same amount of Nurse practitioners and physicians and I will ask them if they feel Nurse practitioners should work independently without physicians oversight and what is their reasoning behind their answers.

Osherson, D. (2017). Introduction. Levels of measurement. Retrieved from http://onlinestatbook.com/2/introduction/levels_of_measurement.html

Mcleod, S. (2014). Interviews. The interview method. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/interviews.html

 
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Team Development Strategies

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Team Development Strategies: Leadership and Effectiveness

(Team Development Strategies)

Creating, Developing, and Leading Effective Teams, writing homework help

Question description

Discussion: Creating, Developing, and Leading Effective Teams

A critical skill for all nurse managers is the ability to create, develop, and lead effective teams. When people are part of an effective and well-functioning team, they are more productive and have a stronger commitment to the organization. Nurse managers have a responsibility to create teams that fulfill functional needs within their units or departments. These can include leadership teams, ad hoc project teams, or primary work teams.

As a nurse manager, there is a variety of ways that you can enhance team functioning. The first step is developing the structural elements of the team and then designing the team with the appropriate membership. Just as you must critically examine each application during the employment process, so will you critically examine the skills and attributes of each employee before appointing him or her to a collective team.

In this week’s Discussion, you lay the groundwork for creating and developing a team for your unit, department, or health care setting. You also identify leadership strategies that you could employ to increase the team’s organizational effectiveness.

To prepare

  • Review Chapter 5, “The Art of Effectively Facilitating Processes” from the course text, From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health Care. Carefully examine the section, “Essential Elements of a Team” to identify the six steps of creating an effective team.
  • Consider a team you might create for your current organization or one with which you are familiar. For example, is there a project to be accomplished or a problem to be solved? Perhaps there is a need for a leadership team within your unit or department?
  • Identify the purpose or goal for your team. Then, reflect on the following questions:
    • What type of team would you create (leadership, ad hoc, or primary work team) to accomplish this purpose or goal? What are the benefits or disadvantages of creating this type of team?
    • What staff members would you want on this team? Why? How could their skill sets and positions make them effective team members?
  • Explore this week’s Learning Resources to identify leadership strategies you might employ before, during, and after the team-building phase. For example, what leadership strategies might influence synergy among team members while also increasing the effectiveness of the team?

Post a description of the team you would create, including the purpose or goal the team would serve, the team type, and the specific skills each member would contribute as well as their job positions. Describe at least two leadership strategies you could implement to help this team effectively achieve its purpose or goal.

APA format

3 scholarly references

1-2pages

 
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Understanding ADHD Medications

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Understanding ADHD Medications: Benefits and Concerns
Drug Addiction

Understanding ADHD Medications

Drug Addiction

ADHD medications, such as stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin, can effectively manage symptoms like impulsivity and hyperactivity, enhancing focus and attention. They work by increasing the levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain, improving signaling between neurons. For many individuals with ADHD, these medications can significantly improve daily functioning, academic performance, and overall quality of life. However, there are concerns regarding their potential for abuse and addiction, especially among those without ADHD who use them for cognitive enhancement or recreational purposes. Misuse of ADHD medications can lead to dependence, withdrawal symptoms, and other health risks, including cardiovascular complications and psychiatric issues. Proper diagnosis, monitoring, and adherence to prescribed dosages are crucial to minimize the risk of addiction and maximize the benefits of these medications. Additionally, alternative treatments and behavioral interventions should be considered alongside medication, tailored to each individual’s needs and circumstances, to promote comprehensive ADHD management and reduce reliance on pharmacotherapy.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has  received a lot of media coverage in the past ten years. One of the  things most misunderstood about the disorder is the treatment. Children  (and adults) afflicted with ADHD are often treated with stimulant drugs.  Parents are often hesitant about giving their children these stimulant  medications. Treating hyperactivity with a drug that increases activity  appears paradoxical.

Using the Argosy University online library resources,  find at least two peer-reviewed journal articles that explain the effect  of stimulant drugs (such as Adderall or Ritalin—amphetamine or  methylphenidate) on the brains of those with ADHD.

Create a brochure that explains the benefits of using  stimulant medications and addresses the concerns of parents of children  with ADHD. Be sure to use language appropriate for the audience. Include  the following in your brochure:

  • Summarize the findings of the two articles.
  • Explain the effect that these drugs have in the brain.
  • Explain the concerns of using stimulant drugs to treat ADHD.

Develop a 2-3-page brochure in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

 
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Marketing Action Plan & Financial Analysis

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Vila Health: Marketing Action Plan & Financial Analysis

Marketing Action Plan & Financial Analysis

Overview

“Marketing Action Plan &Financial Analysis” You may recall attending team meetings where colleagues said, “I feel  this would be good for our patients,” or “I believe that this plan will  help to position our department as a leader,” or “if we could only get  this budget item approved, I am sure we would be successful.”  This week you will be challenged to move beyond speculation, and to  develop some basic financial skills to demonstrate the potential impact  of a marketing idea in a measurable manner so that the senior leadership  team can make a more informed decision. Quantitative and qualitative  elements are included, and you as an intern will now be prepared with  tools that assist in more objective decision making. One of these tools,  the cost-benefit analysis, has a wide variety of applications beyond  simply estimating the impact of marketing plan action steps or  interventions.

St. Anthony Medical Center’s Labor and Delivery service line is  challenged with growing the business using a market pull strategy. To  achieve this overarching goal, you will propose a marketing action plan  with accompanying proposed costs and benefits. Additionally, your plan  will need to include costs and benefits for each proposed intervention.

In this assignment, you will use cost-benefit analysis and make a  final recommendation as to whether or not the plan should be  implemented. You will also propose a rationale for your recommendation.  Use a cost-benefit analysis spreadsheet, either the one provided by the  finance director or another of your choosing, to analyze the financial  impact to the organization. Note: Distinguished  performance includes analysis of three alternatives over a three-year  time period. These alternatives include remaining status quo with  spending ($10,000 per year), reducing the budget by 10 percent, or  increasing the budget by 10 percent. Hint: Use of various social media can decrease costs and increase market reach.

Instructions

  1. Formulate the new St. Anthony Medical Center Labor and Delivery  revised service offering including features, advantages, and benefits to  consumers.
  2. Segment the market of targeted labor and delivery consumers, using a  table that matches features and benefits to each consumer segment (for  example, age, culture, and so forth; expectant single teens, culturally  diverse groups in the community, mid-career married working women, same  sex partners seeking in vitro fertilization, and so forth).
  3. Create a plan of action comprised of marketing communication  channels to reach each customer segment (for example, Web sites, social  media, radio, TV, signage, health fairs, events, collaborative  partnerships, targeted mailings, free educational offerings, and so  forth).
  4. Explain costs and benefits for each marketing communication channel  intervention by using Plowman’s cost-benefit analysis tool from this  unit’s studies, linked in Resources. Hint: Remember to identify costs and benefits; Recall that the total cost of the action plan cannot exceed $10,000 per year.
  5. Make a recommendation as to whether or not the organization should  proceed with the proposed interventions, and provide rationale.

Submit your analysis and recommendations by Sunday of this week. Be sure to use current APA style and formatting throughout.

Resources

##IMPORTANT NOTE BY PROF–

 

Hello hope all is well!

Regarding week 6 assignment,your budget is $10,000 dollars. You are not to exceed this per the below instructions:

  1. Explain  costs and benefits for each marketing communication channel  intervention by using Plowman’s cost-benefit analysis tool from this  unit’s studies, linked in Resources. Hint: Remember to identify costs  and benefits; Recall that the total cost of the action plan cannot  exceed $10,000 per year.

Also I would consider using the table from your assignment as your  discussion post allowing feedback on your budget plan by your peers.

 
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