Identifying the Need

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Read § 7.5 – Long Reports in Last, et al, Technical Writing Essentials.

For this exercise, decide what situation you want to deal with in your recommendation report. Then write a statement of 150-200 words in which you

  • Identify what the situation is that needs a solution and what your role is in finding that solution. For example, are you an office manager who has been asked by your boss to find a replacement for the office printer? Are you a homeowner who needs a better way to clean your floors? Is your cell phone about to die?
  • Explain why it is important to find the thing (tool, appliance, device, software, etc) that will fill the need. Why is it urgent? Who will suffer if a solution isn’t found, or will benefit if one is? Are there considerations of health, safety, money?
  • Identify and list a range of things that can potentially solve the need. Think in broad terms here and think of things that possibly might work. Don’t be too literal and don’t exclude things that might only be remote possibilities. The goal here is to generate as large a list as possible. Think in terms of types or categories rather than specific brands and models.

multiple regression

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The EMMA dataset was previously used to build a simple regression model that predicts “Total customer value” (Y) from “Tenure” (X). . . 

1.Connect to the VCL and run the SAS program, EMMA to output a simple regression analysis. Scroll through the output. What is the simple regression equation?  (This should match your answer from last week)

2.Edit the program code to change the prediction of customer value from a simple regression model to a multiple regression model by using TENURE, AGE, ORDERS as your predictors

3.Note that one of the three predictors is not a statistically significant predictor (How do you determine which one?). 

4.Adjust the model* so that it includes only the two variables that are statistically significant

5.What is the equation of your final multiple regression model with the two predictors? 

6.What is the predicted value for a 25 year old, that has placed 2 orders?   (does not require SAS coding)

7.What is the goodness of fit measure for your model?   Is it a good model?  (explanation does not require SAS coding)

*Helpful hint:  

/*  The SAS code for a multiple regression model to predict Y from several variables has the following form */

proc reg data=edc.emma;

      model Y = variable1 variable2 variable3 variable4 variable5 ;

  run;

NURS 6053 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT

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Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices

Competing needs arise within any organization as employees seek to meet their targets and leaders seek to meet company goals. As a leader, successful management of these goals requires establishing priorities and allocating resources accordingly.

Within a healthcare setting, the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients are often in conflict. Mandatory overtime, implementation of staffing ratios, use of unlicensed assisting personnel, and employer reductions of education benefits are examples of practices that might lead to conflicting needs in practice.

Leaders can contribute to both the problem and the solution through policies, action, and inaction. In this Assignment, you will further develop the white paper you began work on in Module 1 by addressing competing needs within your organization.

To Prepare:

  • Review the national healthcare issue/stressor you examined in your Assignment for Module 1, and review the analysis of the healthcare issue/stressor you selected.
  • Identify and review two evidence-based scholarly resources that focus on proposed policies/practices to apply to your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post regarding competing needs.

The Assignment (4-5 pages):

Developing Organizational Policies and Practices

Add a section to the paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following:

  • Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
  • Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.
  • Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.
  • Due to the nature of this assignment, your instructor may require more than 7 days to provide you with quality feedback.

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  Reply to this discussion use references

Be sure that the responses to the  Post of peers include 2 peer reviewed references with content that demonstrates critical analysis and synthesis of references used.  

General Healthcare Technology Trends

Technology is becoming more advanced in healthcare and is contributing to improved patient outcomes. Some technology trends that are spreading in my current organization are the Voalte and Rover app on the new mobile smartphones and the Electronic Health Record (EHR). “EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users” (HealthIT, 2019c, para. 1). Having access to patient records digitally saves time and allows all interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary team members authorization to the patient records creating opportunity for adequate patient care and improved patient outcomes. Voalte is an all-inclusive HIPAA-compliant platform that provides an end-to-end communication via direct calling, alarm and alert notifications, and secure text messaging (The Loop, 2020). Rover is an app that joins forces with EPIC an EHR system and allows healthcare workers to record documentation in real time and administer medication at patient bedside (HealthIT, 2019c).

Potential Challenges Associated with These Technology Trends

A big challenge with EHRs would be lack of interoperability. The inefficiency of data sharing can create a challenge for clinicians and patients to access patient information in a timely manner. This challenge leaves clinicians without information they need to make key decisions, follow up with patients, and develop strategies to improve overall outcomes (Bresnick, 2017). As for Voalte and Rover, security issues could be a potential challenge. “More specifically, 91% of medical apps had mishandled and/or weak encryption, putting them at risk of exposing IP and patient data” (Muncaster, 2020, para. 5). Healthcare is a popular place for cyber hackers and unfortunately, 2 out of 5 healthcare organizations are troubled with application security concerns (Muncaster, 2020). 

 Benefits and Risks

Benefits associated with EHRs are enabling quick access to patient records, aid clinicians to more efficiently diagnose patients, reduce medical errors, and provide safer care, enhance privacy and security, and improve productivity and work-life balance (HealthIT, 2019b). However, a breach in security can be a risk to the EHR system because healthcare organizations are a prime source for cyber hackers. A legislation benefit for EHRs is the HITECH ACT which provides the Department of Health and Human Services with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency through the promotion of health IT like EHRs (HealthIT, 2019a). Benefits of the Voalte platform can reduce miscommunication that the Joint Commission has reported as the top root cause for sentinel events and allow more direct communication via healthcare team members to promote patient safety, improve quality of care, and provide a quiet hospital environment (Miller, 2016).

Technology Trends Will Make an Impact

Technology is advancing daily and will continue to grow and develop. Technology trends in healthcare allow less risk and more reward. Technology and today’s society accommodate one another. This day and age everyone uses social media and mobile devices that contain mobile apps. Voalte and Rover mobile app will impact patient satisfaction, engagement, and health outcomes (Skiba, 2017).

Manipulating One-dimensional Arrays

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 Allows user to enter numbers into an array of 20 integers. The numbers are inputted in such a way that the array is  kept sorted. The array may or may not be filled up. Include an error message to indicate a full array (e.g., “Cannot  accommodate any more inputs. The array is full.”). 

If the user does not want to continue entering numbers (or if the array is full), segregate the numbers into two (2)  other arrays, which means you will be manipulating three (3) arrays in this program. The second array will contain  all even numbers, while the third array will have all odd numbers. Note that the first array contains the original  sorted data. Also, determine and output the largest and the smallest numbers in each array, the sum, and the average. 

Make use of structured/modular programming. This means that it is expected that you will 

1. make use of parameter passing by value and with reference (using pointers), and 

2. reuse your functions (by calling them again but with different values passed to the parameters) 

I will be adding 3 screenshots (specifications) so that it will be easy to understand it. For anyone helping, it would so grateful, thank you in advance <3 

Japan

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You will prepare 5 full pages written report on Japan about the selected country’s political, economic, legal, culture, social structure, and religious and ethical systems and what the implications for business each of these have. 

The layout of your country paper should be: 

a. Title page 

The title page should contain only the title of your paper and your byline. Do not include a running head, a page header, or a page number on the title page. Running heads and page headers are not to be used in any part of the paper. However, page numbering is required. Page numbering starts with the first page of the body of the paper and continues through the reference page(s). Page numbers should be placed in the upper right-hand corner of the page (exception: do not put a page number on the first page of the body of the paper). 

b. Introduction 

This section introduces and provides background on the subject of the paper. You may here cite articles from popular press publications (e.g., Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc.). These citations may count toward the required ten (5) references from journals and/or books. 

c. Discussion 

This section will need to be further subdivided and clearly labeled into your selected country’s political, economic, legal, culture, social structure, religious and ethical systems and what the implications for business each of these have.  There are to be at least ten (5) references. Your textbook must be referenced. 

d. Conclusions 

This section contains your conclusions drawn from the articles/books you have reviewed about how to do business in this country. 

NO PLAGIARISM!!!!

Half-life calculation

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Half-Life Calculation

Assignment Instructions

Imagine you are trying to help a colleague understand some basic concepts about psychopharmacology. Write a brief paper to address the following: 

  • Explain the concept of half-life for a drug.
  • Differentiate between half-life and steady state. 
  • Explain the difference between potency and effectiveness of a drug. 
  • Respond to the following scenario:
    • If a drug has a half-life of six hours, how long will it take for the drug to be eliminated from the body after administration of a single dose? Explain how you arrived at that particular cutoff score for complete elimination. Show your calculations on a timeline or graphs to illustrate the changes from 100 percent of the initial dose to your end point for complete elimination.

Additional Requirements

  • Length: 2–3 pages of content plus title, abstract, and reference pages.
  • References: Include at least one current, scholarly reference from a peer-reviewed academic journal or academic book. References should be no older than 5 years.
  • Formatting: Use current APA formatting, including correct in-text citations, proper punctuation, double spacing throughout, proper headings and subheadings, no skipped lines before headings and subheadings, proper paragraph and block indentation, no bolding, and no bullets. You must also use proper APA style to list your references. Refer to APA Style and Format (linked in Resources) for more information.
  • Avoid stigmatizing language.

Grant writing week 8 diss

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What happens once a proposal is submitted? How are funded proposals selected?

Funders apply a variety of strategies to select the proposals they are going to fund, including using scoring matrices, internal review staff, external reviewers, and members of their boards.

Public funders use a different system than private funders. Federal grants, for example, provide scoring criteria and include point values for those criteria. Private funders have greater flexibility and may even require all members of their board of trustees to have conversations about the applications. Their decision-making process may seem more “personal” and could include back-and-forth communication with the applicant.

In preparation for this Discussion, carefully look at any “review process” information included with your RFP and/or funding source information. With this in mind:

By Day 3 of Week 8

Address the following in a Discussion board post:

  • An outline of the review process of the funding source/RFP you selected
  • What criteria are used?
  • What do you see as the benefits and challenges of this review process?
  • How can you use this understanding to better prepare your proposal?

Be sure to support your analysis and conclusions with citations and references in APA format from the Learning Resources and your own research.

References:

 

Gitlin, L. N., & Lyons, K. J. (2014). Successful grant writing: Strategies for health and human service professionals (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

  • Chapter 16, “Learning About Your Institution,” pp. 227–241
  • Chapter 17, “Electronic Considerations,” pp. 243–248
  • Chapter 18, “Understanding the Review Process,” pp. 249–264
  • Chapter 19, “Responding to the Proposal Review,” pp. 265–275

week 3 discussion Nursing research

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Discussion Question

Formulating the Research Question, Problem Statement, Research Purpose

In the Week 1 discussion forum you had an opportunity to present a potential problem and an innovative solution specific to your role specialization. In addition, you have reviewed the literature to identify qualitative and quantitative research articles and submitted annotated bibliographies to provide evidence supporting the problem.

Considering the feedback provided to you by the faculty member it is now time to prepare your problem statement, research purpose, and research question.

First share your refined problem and proposed solution (given your review of literature this may have changed depending on the evidence you were able to provide). Next, follow the steps to help define your research question.

  1. Craft the problem statement and research purpose.
  2. Design your research question aimed at solving (a part of) the problem and include the following components which will focus the literature review.

PICOT Question:

Patient, Population or Problem

  1. What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
  2. What is the condition or disease you are interested in?

Intervention or exposure

  1. What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?

Comparison

  1. What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?

Outcome

  1. What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?
  2. Ensure that the research question is answerable, feasible and clinically relevant

The next step in Submissions Area will be to develop a research hypothesis from the research question.

Rubric

Discuss your library search strategies and briefly summarize the literature you reviewed. Focus your discussion on the “problem” and how the literature you identified provides evidence of the existence of the problem.

Include in your discussion a potential innovation that you might consider as a solution to the problem identified

Include citations/references in APA style format, using citations where appropriate.

I have attached weeks one discussion and the bibliography. please read both attached assignments in order to complete this one. 

Rhetorical Analysis Essay (this assignment have a deadline for 4:30 pm today )

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Using the rhetorical concepts and terms discussed in class, you will perform an extended rhetorical analysis of two public service announcements. (You can choose from any of the campaigns on the AdCouncil Website (Links to an external site.).) Both PSAs should be focused on the same campaign, but they need to be two different modes. For example, you could analyze and compare a print advertisement to a video. You will examine your PSAs and think about why and how each mode is used to achieve a rhetorical end for a specific audience in a specific context. Based on your understanding, you will develop a 3-4 page essay in which you analyze how the mode shapes the rhetorical composition of each composition.

When composing your essay, you should first summarize and analyze each composition. Then, you should draw comparisons and make interpretations between the two. Think about the following questions to make these comparisons: What does looking at the two compositions side by side help you to see about your topic? What are the affordances and constraints for each mode? Why might a composer choose one mode and not the other? Which do you think is the most rhetorically effective and why? In other words, your essay should do more than just summarize or describe the two compositions; rather, you should aim for thoughtful, critical analysis.

This process asks you to:

  • Describe and analyze two PSAs using the basic concepts of rhetorical analysis.
  • Develop an argument about how the PSAs are designed to work rhetorically, on whom, and to what end.
  • Provide specific evidence from the texts to support all claims about rhetorical strategies employed.
  • Organize analysis logically; provide an interesting introduction, and a “so what?” conclusion.
  • Deliver the product as a polished, conventionally formatted critical essay.

Use the Sample Preview the documentExtended Rhetorical Analysis OutlinePreview the document, the Sample Summary and Analysis Paragraph,Preview the document and the Sample Affordances/Constraints ParagraphPreview the document to brainstorm and outline your ideas for your essay. 

The final 3-4 page essay, formatted according to APA style, will have an engaging introduction, a clear argument (not summary) about how the PSAs work rhetorically, multiple supporting claims, detailed evidence from the texts, and a thoughtful conclusion that leaves the audience thinking about the broader implications of the issues raised.

Your assignment needs to be submitted on time. There will be a 5-point penalty applied for each day the assignment is late. Assignments submitted a week after the deadline will not be accepted. For more about  the assignment submission policy in First-Year Writing, please consult the course syllabus. 

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