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Topic 6 — Writing Reflection Essay

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Using MLA formatting (12 point font, double spacing, indented paragraph, heading information etc) write a two page reflection (and no more) about where you feel you are at in your writing process overall. In a total of two pages (without using any secondary source material) answer the following questions about your writing to get you started:

1) Where do you feel your level of writing was at when you started our English Composition Course and where do you think you are at now?

2) How do you think your writing has improved over the course of the semester and why and/or what do you think you still need to improve upon in your writing? (Think along the lines of some of the writing process components we went over — paragraph construction, paragraph cohesion etc.)

3) What specific assignments/materials/projects helped to challenge you in your writing process and strengthen your writing capabilities?

4) Are there some specific materials that you think should have been covered (or materials covered more) that were not covered that may have helped strengthen your writing more?

5) Given the online nature of our class this semester, do you feel there were adequate zoom conferences? If you thought there were enough, explain your answer. If you thought we needed more, explain your answer.

Medicare and medicaid (healthcare p. writ)

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Assignment:

Signature Assignment: Medicare and Medicaid

Consider how people qualify to receive Medicare and/or Medicaid and write a paper that addresses the bullets below. There should be four (4) sections in your paper; one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear brief heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Start your paper with an introduction and include a “Conclusion” section that summarizes all topics. This paper should consist of at least 1750 words and no more than 2000.

This week reflect upon the Medicare and Medicaid programs to address the following:

  • Describe the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) and explain how the QIO improves policies and healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries.  
  • Briefly define the qualifications for Medicare and Medicaid benefits. How can qualifications be modified to serve more people who are considered a vulnerable population?
  • Discuss the impact (including at least two positive and two negative aspects) that the ACA has had on benefits and coverage for Medicare and Medicaid recipients. 
  • Describe your role(s) as a healthcare leader as it applies to the practice of advocating for cost effective care for vulnerable populations.

Assignment Expectations

Length: 1750-2000 words in length

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimal word amount for this assignment.  Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use the appropriate APA style 7th edition in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of two (2) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Dealing with the Aftermath of a New Cybersecurity Policy

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Policy Soup: Dealing with the Aftermath of a New Cybersecurity Policy

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Policy Soup: Dealing with the Aftermath of a New Cybersecurity Policy

1. How can the local government officials convince residents that this “invasion of privacy” (collection of personal information during account registration) is necessary and for their benefits?

1. Should the local government suspend implementation of the new policy for 90 days (180 days?) to allow members of the public to comment on the new policy? Why or Why not?

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Prepare a 5 to 7 paragraph “Expert Opinion” for local government officials. This document should briefly present a strategy for communicating with residents about a new “cybersecurity” policy that places access restrictions upon the local government’s online services website.

Background: Due to increased hacking attempts against the Service Request system, the local government adopted the new policy without allowing time for public comment. There has been a significant amount of backlash including a protest by sports coaches and youth group leaders who were unable to file reservation requests for ball fields and meeting rooms in local Parks & Recreation facilities. https://iacademicessay.com/2021/06/06/im-working-on-a-social-science-report-and-need-support-to-help-me-study-attache/

The newly adopted “cybersecurity” policy requires two-factor authentication (logon/password, PIN) in order to gain access to online services. The registration form requires name, address, cell phone number, email address, date of birth, and the last four digits of the individual’s social security number. The PIN is sent to the cell phone number (text message) or email address each time an individual attempts to logon to the Service Request system. If the PIN is not entered correctly, the logon will fail and access to services will be denied. https://getacademicessay.com/6588/feedback-refers-to-taking-a-part-of-the-output-signal-and-feeding-it-back-into-t/

Your “Expert Opinion” (document) should address the following issues:

Post your briefing statement as a response to this message (do not use an attachment). To get you started, use this link for example of city privacy rights: https://www.google.com/search?q=city+government+services+invasion+of+privacy

Provide in-text citations and references for 3 or more authoritative sources. Put the reference list at the end of your posting.

Inflammation & Diet Discussion

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Each student must post (1) substantial initial post with a minimum of 250 words All posts and replies must contain at least (2) professional references, one may be the course textbook, properly cited in the current APA format. 

Discussion Topic

A 7-year-old boy is outside on a beautiful sunny day. As he runs around in the front yard, he sees something moving that captures his attention. He reaches down into an ivy bed and pulls. What he thinks is a nonvenomous snake is actually a member of the venomous pit viper species, a copperhead. The snake curls and bites the young boy on the palm of his right hand just below his thumb. He cries out in pain, drops the snake, and runs to his father. The mother immediately drives the child to a local hospital’s emergency department. His father follows behind after recovering what he believes to be the snake that bit his son. Upon examination, the child’s right hand is swollen and red from the fingertips to his elbow. After confirming the snake’s species, the emergency department physician orders that the child begin antivenin therapy.

  1. What is the most important in preventing further damage to surrounding tissues… mast cells, neutrophils, platelets, and/or anaphylatoxins? Explain.
  2. After several days of treatment and observation, the child is allowed to return home. He is able to wiggle all of his fingers, has full sensation, and can flex and extend his wrist without pain. The bite area remains red and scabbed over. As he continues to recover, his body must continue the reconstruction phase and then move on to the maturation phase. What are the most important cells during the reconstructive phase of wound healing? Explain.

Week 6 Assignment: Part I: How the Courts Address or Respect Our Rights as Citizens – Outline

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Instructions

This assignment is comprised of 2 parts, the first of which is due this week. Part II will be due in Week 7.

In Part I this week, choose a case from your state that involves civil rights or civil liberties that wound its way up to the United States Supreme Court. If your state does not have a case that ended up in the United States Supreme Court, choose a civil rights case from another state that ended up in the Supreme Court of the United States.

Here is a brief description of civil rights and civil liberties: Civil rights refers to equal social opportunities under the law. It gives you these freedoms such as the right to vote, the right to public education, or a fair trial, among other things, regardless of your wealth or race. Civil liberties mean freedom of religion, equal treatment and due process under the law, and the right to privacy.

You should be able to go online and look up your state and famous cases that ended up in the Supreme Court. For example, Brown v Board of Education (1951) started in Topeka, Kansas and ended up in the Supreme Court of the United States. Another example would be Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada (2020) that started in Nevada and ended up the United States Supreme Court.

Research your court case and write an outline of the case that you will be using to prepare a presentation, which will either be a narrated PowerPoint, a Kaltura Video, or some other format as approved by your instructor. Be sure to verify the presentation format with your instructor before starting work on this assignment.

This week’s assignment should include (a) summary of the case, and (b) a case outline

A. Summary of the Case

In one or two paragraphs, provide a general overview of the case that serves as a snapshot of what the case is about and how it ended up in your state high court. A summary is using your words to write a brief history of the case. Do not give your opinion or your interpretation but stick to the facts only.

B: Case Outline

Your court case outline should include:

  1. Title: Name of the case
  2. Facts of the case: Provide key facts involving the case.
  3. History of the case: What legal action was taken based on what your state laws say about this case?
  4. Legal questions: What were the legal issues the court had to decide?
  5. Decision or holdings: Did the court decide for the plaintiff or the defendant? Explain the reason behind the decision?
  6. Verdict and opinion (judgement): What were the concurring and dissenting opinions? How many judges decided for the defendant and how many justices decided against the defendant? What was the final verdict from the judge or the jury, if it was a jury trial?

Summary: What was the resulting impact of the ruling? How did the citizens of your state benefit from it? Make sure to not give our opinion but stick to the facts only. This summary just gives a brief rundown of the case and conclusion only, just the

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • The length of your outline will vary. Usually an outline is anywhere from 1-3 pages long. Make sure to write full sentences to explain your case. It is a concise list to be used as a reference for you during the presentation.
    Using the outline, you will be describing the court case in your presentation and the scenario around the court case. The use of Wikipedia as a primary source of information is to be avoided – it is not a reliable source of information.
    Search for an example of a case outline in the Internet. Without going into much detail at this state, each of the items listed above has a subject sentence with 3-6 bullet points that can help you expand on the topic.

    For Week 8, you will be creating a narrated PowerPoint, or a video as approved by your instructor, from this week’s outline.
    This assignment is worth 200 points.

  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources in addition to textbook if cited)

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Assignment 2: LASA 1 Assignment—The Leader as a Strategist ReportFor this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization.As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections:An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization
This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions: What is the target market (target customer)?What is your organization’s value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)?How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)?How is your organization sustainably different from your competitors (What is the source of uniqueness and how sustainable is it from being diminished by competitors?)?A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis
A SWOT analysis is a strategy planning tool that examines both internal and external environments for factors and trends that should shape planning and operations over the next five years. Environmental factors internal to the company are classified as strengths (to be leveraged) or weaknesses (to be mitigated), while external factors are classified as either opportunities (to be pursued) or threats (to be monitored and responded to).

Some primer questions for the SWOT analysis include the following:
StrengthsWhat advantages does your organization have?What do you do better than anyone else?What unique or lowest-cost resources can you draw upon that others cannot?What do people in your market see as your strengths?What factors mean that you “get the sale”?What is your organization’s unique selling proposition (USP)?WeaknessesWhat aspects of your product or service could you improve?What market segments or competitive areas should you avoid?What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses?What factors can make you lose sales?OpportunitiesWhat good opportunities can you spot?What interesting trends are you aware of? Useful opportunities can come from such things as the following:Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and narrow scaleChanges in government policy related to your fieldChanges in social patterns, population profiles, lifestyle changes, and so onLocal eventsThreatsWhat obstacles do you face?What are your competitors doing?Are quality standards or specifications for your job, products, or services changing?Is changing technology threatening your position?Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?A summary of the internal environment, including the organization’s values and the key elements of the organization architecture that influence worker behavior.

Include the following characteristics when analyzing the internal environment:Structure: This includes the ways the organization assigns formal roles and responsibilities, decision-making authority, expertise and skills, and work tasks. Think of the organization chart and how its implied structure directs the decision making, resource allocation, and workflow of the organization. Is it consistent with the strategy?Systems: This comprises the information flows that coordinate activities between groups and across the organization structure while helping direct worker behavior, including performance management, financial management, operating, forecasting and planning, and other regulating mechanisms. How do these systems help align workers and their actions with the strategy?Culture: This consists of the unwritten rules and norms that govern worker behavior and help coordinate the activities across structural boundaries. Is the organization culture an enabler or impediment to the corporate strategy? What specific behaviors embedded in the culture support the strategy? What specific behaviors block the strategy?A synthesis of the information evaluating the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices (for example, modeling the way) as a framework.

Include answers to the following:Company Culture Describe the values and culture of your organization.What are the values of your organization?How are they reflected in the behaviors you see at work?Employee Behaviors Describe the behaviors in your organization.Are these behaviors consistent with the business strategy?Where do they conflict with the strategy?What new behaviors are required to align with the strategy?Leadership How might you and other leaders create new behaviors to support the strategy?What specific actions would you implement to communicate, motivate, model the way, coach, inspire the vision, challenge the process, and encourage the heart?Your response to each part of the assignment should be approximately three pages.Your final product will be in a word document and be approximately 6–8 pages in length and utilize 4–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Succession Planning

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Many leaders in organizations either do not believe in succession planning or do not follow-through with the succession plan initiative.

Your goal is to help build/create a high-level leadership succession plan to convince the executive leadership team to move forward with further research to implement (do not select CEO succession planning).  The research should include major reasons why leadership succession planning is important (your plan should include a minimum of three reasons).  

Research a tailored, formal, systemic, systematic, and experientially-based leadership succession planning and recommend one of these methods as part of your plan.  

Using Welder Library E-Resources of Google Scholar find a peer-reviewed article within the last 10 years on the topic of leadership succession planning.

Assignment:

  • Write and post a brief summary (3-4 paragraphs) outlining your plan (10 points)
  • Include one peer-reviewed journal article (2 points)
  • Reply to a minimum of two classmates. (3 points)

The “like” feature will be enabled. You are encouraged to “like” the articles you find interesting. 

These are the two classmate 

1, Neeran Seth 

Succession Planning

            Succession planning is defined by Valentine, Meglich, Mathis, & Jackson, 2020,p. 307, as the “process of preparing for inevitable vacancies in the organization hierarchy. It should include a well-designed development system for employees since it takes an average of two to three years to develop a qualified successor.” All organizations can benefit from identifying crucial job skills, knowledge, social relationships, and organizational practices and passing them on to prepare the next generation of workers, in that way ensuring the efficient movement of talent within the organization. (SHRM, 2020). 

          According to Day, 2007, the formal method of succession planning is “a formal process in which the key pieces are standardized throughout an organization. It requires organizational discipline to design, implement, and discipline.” Systemic succession planning is “an overall systems-wide perspective on leadership development helps to build a broader leadership capacity and a deeper pipeline of leaders.” (Day, 2007). The focus is not just on upper leadership but includes most levels of management. The systematic method according to Day, 2007, is “the most effective succession planning and leadership development initiatives are connected across levels into a coherent whole. The development initiative builds explicit linkages across leadership levels.” Tailored succession planning loses vision of the universal value of individual differences in developmental skill because of its generic plans. The last method of succession planning mentioned by Day, 2007 is experientially based, in this method it is noted that “a significant part of the ongoing work-related experience is powerful for development, leaders learn and develop from their work experience rather than taking them away from their work to develop.”

       In creating a succession plan to help convince the executive leadership team to move forward with the implementation I would present a formal succession plan developed for the organization. I believe by allowing the executive leadership to understand the importance of the application of such a plan is important for the company and is where I begin. “Having a formal plan is necessary for an organization’s sustainability and success.  Benefits include; having a supply of highly qualified individuals ready for future job openings, providing career opportunities and plans for individuals, which helps retention and performance motivation, providing a basis for the continual review of staffing requirements as organizational changes occur over time, and generating confidence for investors and stakeholders.” ( Valentine, Meglich, Mathis, & Jackson, 2020,p. 310). The first step would be to identify employees who could potentially fill future vacancies in leadership positions. Second, consider the organization’s long-term objectives and goals in the next 5 to 10 years. Third, identify prospective vacancies in leadership positions and potential succession gaps, start to develop identified successors, have them paired with mentors in leadership positions. Fourth, integrate succession planning with the organization’s strategic planning process, to help show the possibility of growth within the organization. Fifth, update current employees on the steps the organization plans to use in the succession planning process. (Day, 2007).

References

Day, D. V. (2007). Https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/special-reports-and-expert-views/Documents/Developing-Leadership-Talent.pdf. Retrieved November 29, 2020, from https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/special-reports-and-expert-views/Documents/Developing-Leadership-Talent.pdf

SHRM. (2020, November 02). Engaging in Succession Planning. Retrieved November 30, 2020, from https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/toolkits/pages/engaginginsuccessionplanning.aspx

Valentine, S. R., Meglich, P. A., Mathis, R. L., & Jackson, J. H. (2020). Human Resource          Management (Sixteenth ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning Inc.

2, Phillip Springsteen 

Introduction and Importance

Surprise resignation, deaths, and promotions determine how an organization has been prepared for leadership succession. Succession planning is a process of identifying potential employees who can fit in the leadership positions in the future. The process influences the continuity of a business as the identified employees are nurtured to gain skills and knowledge that would be useful in a specific position in a short time. Besides, it also saves an organization recruitment costs and supports the retention of top talent.

Leadership Succession Planning

Developing leadership talent through sustainable leadership succession planning is crucial for organizational success. It enables the senior leaders and managers to develop other talents from the workforce by equipping them with the right skills that they would use in case they are promoted to the positions. Aldulaimi (2017), claims that the potential leaders need technical, management, and leadership skills that strengthen their ability to develop a vision and inspire the employees into achieving the organization/department goals. The senior managers and the potential talents should work together to develop the objectives to be achieved in the succession plan.

Leadership Succession Planning Steps

The succession planning process enables the HR management to determine its importance and benefits to the company and workforce. Before choosing a successor, several factors should be considered. What is the impact of a particular position to the department or company, and ask a question like if the current leader leaves the company, how will it affect the business operations? This will help the management identify succession candidates. It would also help in the determination of whether they will need training or not. They should be informed, and professional development should start. They should then be subjected to trial to evaluate whether they will are suitable for the position. The plan will be specific and beneficial to the company.

References

Aldulaimi, S. H. (2017). The role of leadership improvement with succession planning. International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 5(6).

The Corner Diner Dilemma

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 The corner diner – Jo’s Hash House – has outgrown its small current facility. It serves as many people as it can from breakfast to late night snack, and Jo – the owner – wants to see if she might be able to serve more customers (and make more money) by moving to a new facility. She has three top contenders: a small diner location that is about 25% bigger than her current place; a medium facility that is 50% larger than her current location; and a large facility that is 100% bigger than her current diner. Her nephew, an economics major, has helped her estimate the state of the economy over the next five years, because he feels that the economy will have a big impact on whether or not she will make or lose money in a new diner. If she stays where she is now (“no new facility”), she will make the same amount that she would have no matter what the economy does. The attached table (see below) shows what she and her nephew think will happen to revenues based on the size of the new facility and the economy. For example, if she moves to the new small facility in a robust economy, she expects to make $125,000 more than she would by staying at her current location in that same economy. If the economy is in recession, moving to the medium facility would cost her $100,000 in lost revenues compared to if she had stayed where she was. Complete the table in Excel (xls or xlsx) by filling the highlighted cells with the correct information. This assignment is worth 20 points. 

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Module 01 Course Project – Provision in the Affordable Care Act Module 01 Course Project – Provision in the Affordable Care Act

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  1. This assignment/project will cover the length of the entire course with a portion of the project due each module. You will select a role and address the assignment each week from that perspective.

    The project will require you to assess the impact of a specific provision included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on your specific role and discipline in the healthcare arena. Examine how this provision will change processes or specific duties associated with your role. Think about your organization and the services it provides and the population it serves, when thinking through the selected ACA provision.
    Select from the positions and organizations listed below:

    • Public Health Manager for Hillsborough County, FL
    • North General Hospital’s Medicaid Liaison for the State of New York
    • Patient Advocate for the City of Los Angeles, CA
    • Marketing Supervisor for the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ
    • Healthcare Administrator for Sunnyside Assisted Living Facility in Dallas, TX
    • Director of the Business Office for Kansas City HealthNetwork in Kansas City, MI
    • Assessment Requirements/Submission Requirement:
      Select a provision from the link below in order to complete the assignment: 
    • https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ppacacon.pdf
    • Write a 2-3 page paper that provides key details of the specific provision in the ACA. Be sure to include the following:
    1. Share the name/title of the provision.
    2. Explain the purpose of the provision.
    3. Describe the issue or concern that the provision is hoping to address.
    4. Explain whether there were different points of view for or against the inclusion of the provision and why.
    5. Discuss how the specific ACA provision impacts you or your organization, based on the role you have selected.
    6. Share your thoughts on whether the implementation of the provision positively or negatively affects you or your organization and its values. Explain how.
    7. Use at least 3 credible sources from the Rasmussenlibrary. Include in-text citations throughout your paper.
    8. Format paper, citations and reference page following APA guidelines.