Managing Risk and Cyber Security in the Homeland

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 Drawing upon resource material provided and that discovered while conducting your own research, answer the following:

1. Examine the role of risk management within the homeland security enterprise. Drawing upon your class readings and additional research, examine how risk management is used by the homeland security enterprise including such efforts as resource/grant allocation, strategic planning, and other homeland security-related initiatives (from the federal level to state and local efforts). State the topic followed by responses.

2. Examine the role of cyber-security within the homeland security enterprise. Specifically address how cyber-security relates to our national critical infrastructure and its protection. State the topic followed by responses.

Technical Requirements

  • Your paper must be at a minimum of 5-7 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
  • Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content.
  • Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
  • Students will follow the current APA Style Format as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework. 
  • Include/State an “Introduction” and “Conclusion”.
  • Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
  • All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.

Preparing and Managing an Operating Budget

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Prepare an 8-10 page operating budget for a hospital unit.

Introduction

Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Sound financial management is essential to the fiscal well-being of all health care organizations, and the nurse leader plays an important part. Consequently, the preparation and effective management of operating budgets is a critical skill for nurse leaders. The budget guides leaders in optimizing the use of resources, and because nurses are closest to patients, they understand very well what it takes to operate on a daily basis and provide safe, high-quality care.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to develop an operating budget for a health care unit. Keep in mind, staff is a large part of this budget and is often hard to control.

Numbers on a budget sheet or report are only numbers. Nurse leaders are major decision makers who must be informed and able to make data-driven decisions, often in a very limited amount of time. Financial analysis consists of the organization and presentation of data in a meaningful and relevant format that enables analysis, comparison, and synthesis.

Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Preparation

You are the nurse manager of a 35-bed hospital unit with 20 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff. You have been given the task of getting the budget under control. Several people have recently left the unit, and you have been working to fill those open positions. Your staff work scheduled overtime and many sign up to work extra shifts. Your unit serves an older population, as well, and has incurred expenses associated with this group of patients.

Note: Remember that you can submit all of, or a portion of, your draft to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

  • What major sections would you include in an operating budget?
  • What are your primary sources of budget information?
  • Would you include nice-to-have items in your budget? Why or why not?
  • What factors, such as organizational objectives, policies, and competition for funding, might affect the development and management of an operating budget?

The following resources are required to complete the assessment.

Requirements

Note: The following requirements correspond to the grading criteria in the assessment scoring guide. Be sure that your budget addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Guiding Questions: Preparing and Managing an Operating Budget [DOCX] to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

Prepare and submit an operating budget for your hospital unit.

  • Prepare the operating budget.
    • Note: Assemble your budget figures in a table, using a format of your choice. You may use either Microsoft Word or Excel to create your budget table.
  • Explain how the budget was designed and created.
  • Develop a strategic plan.
  • Develop an approach to ongoing budget management.
  • Present budget data and information clearly and accurately.
  • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your budget data and information, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Additional Requirements

If you use Microsoft Excel to create your budget table, submit the Excel file along with your budget narrative. You may also add the Excel file to your Word document as an embedded object.

Format your budget narrative using APA style.

  • Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX], linked above, to help you in writing and formatting your document. Be sure to include:
    • An APA-formatted title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
    • A minimum of five properly formatted citations and references.
  • Your budget should be 8–10 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Design an operating budget that incorporates variances or discretionary spending.
    • Prepare an operating budget.
    • Explain how a budget is designed and created.
  • Competency 2: Develop a plan for managing the labor force, within the parameters of the budget and productivity.
    • Develop an approach to ongoing budget management.
  • Competency 5: Apply financial principles to a strategic plan for achieving organizational goals and fiscal success.
    • Develop a strategic plan.
  • Competency 6: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
    • Present budget data and information clearly and accurately.
    • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support budget data and information, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Grading Rubric:

1-  Prepare an operating budget.

Passing Grade:  Prepares an operating budget, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty where further information could improve the budget. 

2-  Explain how a budget is designed and created. 

Passing Grade:  Explains how a budget is designed and created, and impartially acknowledges conflicting data or information that was not incorporated in the budget. 

3-  Develop a strategic plan. 

Passing Grade:  Develops a strategic plan, and proposes criteria for future evaluation of whether the outcomes of the proposed plan support the organizational or unit mission. 

4-   Develop an approach to ongoing budget management. 

Passing Grade:  Develops an approach to ongoing budget management, and identifies assumptions on which the approach is based. 

5-  Present budget data and information clearly and accurately. 

Passing Grade:  Presents budget data and information clearly and accurately. Expresses main points succinctly, using correct grammar and mechanics. 

6-  Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support budget data and information, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style. 

Passing Grade:  Integrates relevant, credible, and convincing sources of evidence to support budget data and information. Sources are current, and citations and references are error-free. 

Legal and ethical issues in health care

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Health care fraud is a form of white collar crime. It involves filing illegitimate health care claims to turn an illicit profit. The 3 major laws that protect against healthcare fraud are the Anti-kickback statute, Stark, and the False Claims Act. From the readings and independent research, find one (1) specific real life legal case example of how kickback arrangements would violate the Stark Law. In addition, discuss with your colleagues how the kickback arrangements could violate trust between provider organizations and patients. From the readings and independent research, find one (1) specific real life legal case example of a breach of the False Claims Act by a health-related organization. In addition, discuss whether health care organizations are properly equipped to ensure compliance and minimize exposure risks. If not why not?

Read the background articles. This discussion requires research beyond the  articles. See Discussion Expectations and Grading for rules on discussions.

Assigned reading materials:

Need the following 1. Reflection & Discussion post 2. Short essays. These are two seperate assignments with 500 words each.

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1. NEED REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION POST OF 500 WORDS IN APA FORMAT WITH 4 CITATIONS AND 4 REFERENCES

 Reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), the term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.  

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1.   Technological advances in society have been shown to cause organizational stress. Why is this the case, given that changes in technology usually means work is less complicated or time-consuming?  

Required Text(s): 

Zimmerman, J. L. (2020).  Accounting for decision making and control (10th ed.). New York, NY:  McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN: 1259969495

2. NEED SHORT ESSAY OF 450 WORDS IN APA FORMAT WITH CITATIONS AND REFERENCES.

The assignment is to answer the question provided above in the essay form. This is to be in narrative form. Bullet points should not be used. The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to organizational behavior. This does not mean blogs or websites. This source should be a published article in a scholarly journal. This source should provide substance and not just be mentioned briefly to fulfill these criteria. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not use quotes. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used. 

1.   The management of ethical behavior is one area where national culture can rub up against corporate culture. Discuss some differences in how individualist and collectivist cultures might view the difference in the management of ethical behavior in relation to corporate culture. 

Renal trauma

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it is Friday the 13th and a full moon. You are an LPN that normally works on a medical-surgical unit, but your unit is overstaffed, and the emergency department is short staffed. The nursing supervisor asks for a volunteer to go down to be an extra pair of hands. You volunteer as tribute. When you get to the ER, you are asked to do vitals on a client in the trauma room. The client is a 24-year-old male who was stabbed multiple times to the abdomen.

The wounds appear superficial, and the client has been stable thus far. He will be going to CAT scan as soon as they can fit him in. You approach the client, who appears slightly pale with cool, clammy but is alert and talkative. The vital signs are:

97.3 (PO) P= 115 BP= 95/54 Resp rate= 24 Pain= 6/10. You notice the client voided 100 mL tea-colored urine in his urinal.

One hour later, the client becomes unconscious. His pulse is now 144, and blood pressure is 70/50. The client is taken to the OR and has a nephrectomy for a very damaged and bleeding right kidney.

Answer the following questions:

  1. What were the clues in the data collection that should have alerted you and the staff that there might be a problem? (5-10 sentences)
  2. Why is the urine “tea-colored?” (one sentence)
  3. What are some other interventions that could have been done? (2-5 sentences)
  4. Was the LPN in this scenario working within the scope of practice for an LPN? Why or why not? (5-10 sentences)
  5. How did the environment of care (busy ER) contribute to the client’s deterioration? (5-10 sentences)

Format

APA

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Using the recommendation you provided in Milestone One, develop a strategic plan to implement the innovation and gain competitive advantage. Use the Sales Forecast, Comparative Growth Data and Comparative Operating Statistics to complete this milestone.

Strategic Plan

  1. Analyze the competitors’ relative strengths in the marketplace.

Write a short paragraph describing the growth rate of each competitor. You will get the solution from the comparative growth data sheet.
How much of the market does each competitor now own? Do you see a trend of gaining or losing market share? Present your findings using Power BI.Perform your analysis for the cars and trucks category. Create pie charts using columns C and F from the comparative growth Excel sheet in Power BI.
Perform your analysis for the connected cars and trucks category. Create pie charts using columns H and K from the comparative growth Excel sheet in Power BI.
Determine each competitor’s financial strength by looking at their comparative operating data.

  1. Explain how your company’s market share compares to your competitors’.

Is your company gaining or losing market share? Expand on the analysis done in Task 1 above and explain the major factors behind the change in market share.
What is your company’s growth potential in the industry?
How do your company’s financials look compared to your competitors’?

  1. Identify future potential total available market (TAM) and growth for each chosen product/service and technology.

What is the TAM for cars and light trucks?
What is the TAM for IoT-connected cars and light trucks?
What is the projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cars and light trucks?
What is the projected CAGR for IoT-connected cars and light trucks?
Identify the fastest-growing competitor.

  1. Identify ways to adjust if business conditions change.

What can you do if your customers are slow to respond (buy) the innovation?
What can you do if one competitor is overtaking all the others, including your company?

  1. Describe the steps your company needs to take from concept outline to launch. Consider your learning from the previous two modules to ensure the steps are easy to understand for your team.

What is the size of development that will be required?
Will you require additional capital and personnel?
How would you approach determining the timeline from the beginning of development until initial product launch?

Guidelines for Submission

Strategic Plan

Submit a Word document of 5 pages, devoting 1 page to each critical element described above. Include a graphic using Power BI for competitors’ relative strengths (p. 1). Place the graphic at the top of the page with bullets underneath. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Assignment 3: Risk Workshop and Risk Register

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Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.
Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.
 

Assignment 3: Risk Workshop and Risk Register

Due Week 6 and worth 240 points

Note: The  assignments are a series of papers that are based on the same case,  which is located in the Student Center of the course shell. The  assignments are dependent upon one another.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) Risk Workshop and Risk Register Component paper in which you:

  1. Identify the required pre-workshop activities.
  2. Prepare  a risk workshop agenda based on Figure B-8, Sample Agenda for a First  Risk Assessment / Two – Day Risk Workshop (Appendix B of the Hillson  and Simon text). Include suggested time intervals for each activity and  justify why each agenda item is relevant for this case.
  3. Determine  the top five (5) threats in a risk register following Figure B-11,  Sample Simplified Risk Register Format (Appendix B of the Hillson and  Simon text). Include information from the case for each threat.
  4. Justify the assignment of probability and impacts for each threat identified in criterion number 3 of this assignment.
  5. Document  the top three (3) opportunities in a risk register following Figure  B-11, Sample Simplified Risk Register Format (Appendix B of the Hillson  and Simon text). Include information from the case for each opportunity.
  6. Justify the assignment of probability and impacts for each opportunity identified in criterion number 5 of this assignment. 
  7. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • Include  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover  page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment  page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Assess and prioritize risks to the project through an analysis of the active threats and opportunities presented.
  • Apply the Active Threats and Opportunities Management (ATOM) process to ensure a consistent, measurable result of this analysis.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in project risk management
  • Write clearly and concisely about project risk management using proper writing mechanics.

 Click here to view the grading rubric

Exercise, a treatment for depression

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There is some flexibility to discuss the specific focus of essays within these general areas to reflect the interests of students.  For example, students may focus on a specific populations (e.g., post-natal mothers), or a particular physical activity (e.g., walking).  It is important to discuss your idea with Ailsa to confirm suitability.

Well there are many options 

You need to write a 1500 word essay then a 500word communication to the population 

You can be specific or generalized 

Use the title ‘Exercise, a treatment for depression’

Then search for research studies related to this topic 

For instance ‘swimming and depression’ ‘running and depression’

Try to use the more recent studies (past 10 years)

Then compare what they say 

For instance ‘Jones (2013) studied the effect of swimming on a large group of subjects who suffered from depression and found that daily swimming had a statistically positive effect on their sense of well-being. However, Parks (2009) also studied the effect of swimming on subjects with depression and found no correlation between this form of exercise and an improvement in the subjects’ sense of happiness.

Compare different research 

And create critical arguments/analysis 

So for instance you could look at how running can help people with post-traumatic stress.

My advice would be to first make sure that you can find good literature for the topic you want. 

It might be better to be more general and look at something like ‘how running can help depression’

Coordinated School Health Programs

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 PLEASE READ FULL INSTRUCTIONS. NO PLAGIARISM! NO QUOTES, MUST PARAPHRASE. I WILL CHECK FOR RECYCLED WORK AND PLAGIARISM, SO WILL THE TEACHERS. THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE 5/24/21 AT 9PM PST. IF YOU CANT MEET THIS DEADLINE, DONT AGREE TO DO MY ASSIGNMENT. PRICE ISNT NEGOTIABLE. USE HYPERLINKS TO DO THIS ASSIGNMENT  

 

After reading Chapters 5 and 6, you should be more familiar with the power of organizing individuals within a community and the effect it can have on a population. In this assignment you will discuss the strengths associated with Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHP) and where they can be best utilized.

Go to Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance—United States, 2013 (Links to an external site.) (YRBS) to examine the CDC’s 2013 data regarding youth risk behavior. In the Results section of the abstract on page 1 of the document, you will see the following information: “During the 30 days before the survey, 41.4% of high school students nationwide among the 64.7% who drove a car or other vehicle during the 30 days before the survey had texted or e-mailed while driving, 34.9% had drunk alcohol, and 23.4% had used marijuana.” As mentioned last week and in this week’s Assignment 1, epidemiology data plays a huge role in knowing where to focus public health efforts. Documents like the YRBS are full of data that can help public health professionals identify the areas of most need. If you were a public health professional and were going to focus an aspect of your CSHP efforts in one direction, you might use the data in the sentence above to determine that texting while driving is a serious health concern.

Your task for this assignment is to choose one of the following topics discussed on pages 5–29 of the YRBS:

  • Unsafe driving behaviors (texting, drinking while driving, etc.)
  • School violence/bullying
  • Mental health
  • Tobacco use
  • Alcohol use
  • Drug use (marijuana, cocaine, inhalants, etc.)
  • Sexual behaviors (multiple partners, condom use, etc.)

Answer the following questions on an aspect of your chosen topic:

  • What is the personal reason you chose your topic and subtopic?
  • What does the data show regarding this health issue? That is, what percentage of youth engaged in the behavior, and what can you hypothesize regarding why it is reported as improving or worsening?
  • Is this health issue focused in primarily one area of the United States, or is it a problem everywhere? (Answering this question will require additional research.)
  • On which state and, more narrowing, which county will you focus your efforts?
  • From the perspective of a CSHP leader:
    • What areas of your CSHP would you like to touch upon to make your approach to this health issue as comprehensive as possible (e.g., classroom, P.E., after-school programs, cafeteria, administration, etc.)? For example: If you were studying obesity in elementary-aged children, you could have the classrooms discuss the importance of healthy eating; in P.E. students could participate in more active games and fewer elimination games; in the cafeteria you could work with the employees to develop healthier options for the daily lunch beyond the state standards; for the administration you could recruit the principal and other instructors to serve as “health champions” and models for good health behaviors; and with the after-school programs you could conduct all-school and family assemblies to allow families to see the changes that are taking place at the school while also demonstrating some simple, healthy recipes they can try at home.
    • What is the main focus of your CSHP? That is, what aspect of the school-day experience do you feel needs the most attention regarding this health issue? For example: With childhood obesity, making modifications to the P.E. class is likely to have the largest impact.
    • How will you tailor the aspects of your CSHP to be of interest to students in grades K–4? 5–8?
    • List three potential barriers that may prevent you from implementing your entire plan. How will you overcome these barriers?

The Coordinated School Health Programs assignment

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignmen

Recruitment Response 1

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Need a reply that is at least 250 words for the following post.  Response must support assertions with at least 2 scholarly citation in APA format. Each reply must incorporate Scriptural or Biblical principles and experience. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include the textbook (attached) and scholarly articles. 

Targeted Recruitment

            Today’s global marketplace is competitive and diverse.  The global marketplace is evolving and constantly changing to meet the demands of the economy.  One of the biggest shifts is in the demographics of the workforce that is rapidly changing at a faster pace than was expected. Many of today’s organizations are faced with challenges of recruiting and staffing while trying to meet the needs of their business and industry. The shift caused by technology and globalization has increased the need for a stronger more efficient workforce to help organizations reach objectives and maintain or gain an advantage. A quality workforce is not only an important source of competitive advantage, financial gains, but strengthens the organizations performance and value.  A business is just an operation, but it is the people the human capital that make it an organization.

            Because of the scarcity of top talent many organizations have chosen to use targeted recruitment as a strategy.  Organizations have turned to targeted recruiting to not only help strengthen their workforce but to balance their needs as they continue plan and strategize.  Is targeted recruitment fair?   They are fair when they are done to meet the sole needs of the organizations balance of diversity and sustainability. The topic of targeted recruitment has its share of supporters and there are some experts who will argue it puts individuals at a disadvantage.  It is important to understand and point out we are all targeted in marketing strategies, in health care strategies, on social medial platforms, and through search engines just to name a few of the frameworks. Today human resource management is experiencing a dramatic change in work patterns. Modern employees do not commit to a job forever, instead, they seek out growth-oriented roles, they look for new opportunities every two to five years consistently (Michailidis, 2018). Because the workforce has not only changed but so has recruiting becoming more of a digital format through social media and networking platforms.

Everyone has a digital footprint or fingerprint.  We are a society that relies on analytics, forecasts, and data mining this not new although it has become more visible. It makes sense that workforce analytics has become a very popular and an evolving measurement approach in human resource planning and strategy implementation (Buttner & Tullar, 2018). For years, many industries have targeted certain segments of the population, although they did not use the phraseology.  For example, for years the fast-food industry targeted the moms to work in the 9-2 shifts to get through lunch and the high school student to work the 4-10 shifts to get through the dinner hours.  Using these groups, allowed the industry to utilize an untapped workforce, it was a winning strategy until there was an economic shift in multiple directions.  Another transition into targeted recruitment came in the form of staffing organizations, and then job boards like Monster .com, Career Builders, Indeed. Com, to name a few.  These organizations use a combination of targeted recruiting and open recruiting. The platforms also provide useful data to help organization with data for their workforce planning.  Workforce planning is a key factor of human resource management and is recognized as a critical part of the strategic planning process of high performing industry leading organizations (Buttner & Tullar, 2018).

            Targeted recruitment can achieve the same results of inclusion as open recruitment but through a different framework (Heneman & Judge, 2015).  Open recruitment provides inclusiveness by asking for everyone to apply, whereas targeted recruitment seeks out specific sectors of the workforce that might not otherwise apply. Open and targeted recruitment can be used together and in some cases are recommended.  Experts agree that it is not necessary just to use one strategy.  Organizations can opt to use both open recruitment approach that essential to its performance measures and targeted approach for those employees that need highly specified KSAO’s (Heneman & Judge, 2015). Before an organization decides to recruit, they should devise a plan to examine the needs of organizations workplace needs, what type of roles need to be filled, full-time part time what time spans they many need to cover, what skills are needed to perform the jobs that need to be filled.  One a plan is devised that can begin to strategies and as to how they want to approach recruiting.  If they decide that targeted recruiting is their direction, they need to consider which groups to target, and which job skills.  

Biblical Integration

 Targeted recruiting if used properly and orderly can provide positive results to both the organization and the participant.  As Christians we serve a God of order “But all things should be done decently and in order” (1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV).  Order is an essential component because it will influence all parties and cause reactions if not done properly.  To ensure there is order we devise a plan of action to help navigate the path and to meet our objectives.  Much like God has a plan for us and he navigates our path when we are in order with him, trusting in him, believing in him God our Father.  “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11 ESV).

References

Buttner, E. H., & Tullar, W. L. (2018). A representative organizational diversity metric: a dashboard measure for executive action. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 219-232. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liberty.edu/10.1108/EDI-04-2017-0076.

Heneman, H. G., & Judge, T. A. (2015). Staffing Organizations. New York: Pangloss Industries, Inc.

Michailidis, M. P. (2018). The challenges of ai and blockchain on hr recruiting practices. The Cyprus Review, 169. http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fscholarly-journals%2Fchallenges-ai-blockchain-on-hr-recruiting%2Fdocview%2F2193108119%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D12085.