Healthcare Administration Assignment (DUE TUESDAY!)

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PLEASE READ: Joint commission update on physical environment. (2015). Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, 17(10), 1-4.

For this Module SLP please complete the following tasks in a 4- to 5-page paper for a specific standard, guideline, or criteria supporting Hospital – Structures with Functions BASED ON THE READING ABOVE:

1.  Identification of the specific standard, guideline or criteria.

2.  Present the exact standard, guideline or criteria that will be critiqued in the Module SLP.

3.  Review and examine the facts and data supporting the standard, guideline or criteria. (Focus on the scientific information, research data, and findings of professional groups.

4.  Critique and analyze the body of information that you have researched and developed for the selected standard, guideline, or criteria.

5.  Present your findings and opinion on the adequacy of the selected standard, guideline or criteria.

6.  List of references

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READ REQUIREMENTS CAREFULLY!!!!!: 

1. APA FORMAT

2. SUBHEADINGS (POINTS ARE DEDUCTED FOR NOT HAVING SUBHEADINGS FOR EVERY QUESTION ANSWERED)!!!!

3. PLEASE SITE SOURCE AFTER *EVERY* FACT

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EXTRA READINGS: 

De Oliveira, J. L. C., Gabriel, C. S., Fertonani, H. P., & Matsuda, L. M. (2017). Management changes resulting from hospital accreditation. Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 25, e2851.

Flanagan, P. (2017). Aiming for quality and accreditation in the hospital blood bank. ISBT Science Series, 12(1), 46-50.

Ehlers, L.H., Simonsen, K.B., Jensen, M.B., Rasmussen, G.S., Olesen, A.V. (2017). Unannounced versus announced hospital surveys: a nationwide cluster-randomized controlled trial. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 29(3), 406–411.

Preparing for high-level disinfection audits. (2017). Association of Operating Room Nurses. AORN Journal, 105(2), P19-P20.

Ross, A., Feider, L., Nahm, E., & Staggers, N. (2017). An outpatient performance improvement project: A baseline assessment of adherence to pain reassessment standards. Military Medicine, 182(5), E1688-E1695.

White, R. (2017). The hospital administrator’s emerging professional role. Administering Health Systems, 51-69.

Joint commission update on physical environment. (2015). Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, 17(10), 1-4.

Assignment EDU – due in 16 hours

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Blended Learning

Chapter 7 of our textbook describes how technology continues to be a strong presence in our classrooms, especially with e-learning. Schools are finding that technology has provided teachers with the ability to individualize instruction; therefore, it can be a great learning tool to enhance instruction and motivate students. As future educators, you will be expected to integrate the use of technology into your classroom lessons. Many schools are turning to blended learning classrooms in which students can learn in both face-to-face and online formats.

View the following videos below for an overview of blended learning:

In a two- to three-page paper (not including title and reference pages), address these conditions:

  1. Outline the different types of blended learning. 
  2. Explain which theories inform blended learning.
  3. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning. 
  4. Use at least three scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook, to support your response. You may cite web articles, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, your own experience, and/or interviews with classroom teachers. 
  5. Explain how blended learning is changing your role as an educator. 
  6. Select two of the following Webtools: Edmodo, Twitter, Facebook, Storybird, Voicethread, Google Docs, Diigo, or TodaysMeet. Conduct an internet search to find out more about these Webtools and discuss how you might use your selected Webtools in the classroom to create your blended learning environment.

Be sure to provide an introduction and conclusion to your paper and properly cite and reference your sources using APA format.
 

Required Resources

Required Text

  1. LeFrançois, G. R. (2018). Psychology for teaching (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu
    1. Chapter Seven: Memory and Individualized Instruction
    2. Chapter Eight: Humanistic Education and Motivation

Multimedia

  1. Education Elements. (2012). The fundamentals of blended learning (Links to an external site.) [Video file] Retrieved from http://vimeopro.com/edelements/education-elements/video/29536658
  2. Khan, S. [edutopia]. (2012, December 18th). Salman Khan describes future classrooms with blended learning. (Links to an external site.) [Video file].  
    Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyOv7PiC40&feature=youtu.be

Special Cases in Coaching SLP 4

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Share Your Leadership Growth Plan

Background

Now that you have created a plan it is time to share it with your supervisor, get some feedback, and ask for his or her help in putting it into action.  You may do this by setting up a meeting with your supervisor or mentor (if you have one) and making a presentation based on all of the work you have done in this SLP. At the end of your presentation, you should have a discussion with your supervisor as to implementing the plan and receiving the resources you will need.

Assignment Instructions

For the purpose of this assignment, you will be creating a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation with a voiceover that you will submit to the professor by the end of the module. This PowerPoint should contain all of the elements of your plan and how you would present it to your supervisor and/or mentor.  It should contain the following elements:

  • A personal assessment:  Your values, leadership style, motivators, and competencies
  • A personal vision statement
  • Any obstacles you have identified to achieving your vision
  • Personal goals
  • Your action plan 

Keys to the Assignment

  • Update any information that has changed or received further consideration as the course progressed.
  • Prepare a voiceover explaining the process by which you developed your plan.
  • Explain the slides, do not just read them.

SLP Assignment Expectations

  • The length of the presentation should not exceed 15 minutes.
  • Include cover and reference slides in addition to the other slides described in the instructions.
  • Your presentation should have an introduction explaining how the plan was prepared and a conclusion indicating next steps.
  • Include a slide asking for feedback from your supervisor/mentor.
  • Use headings to indicate major sections of the report.
  • Cite and reference any outside sources.
  • Use APA formatting.

Communication Study

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This paper deals with gender from your own unique perspective and experience. Think about your performance of gender generally or in a specific context.  Then discuss and analyze this performance from a theoretical perspective.

Start with a thesis

You need a clear thesis statement in your introduction to give the paper focus and direction.  Please underline your thesis so I can clearly identify it.  Here are a few examples of thesis statements, but be sure to develop your own:

The absence a father figure led me to actively seek out masculine models in hopes of learning masculinity.

My traditional culture compels me to act hyper-masculine even in a changing world.

Helping to raise my three siblings developed my competency with traditional feminine roles.

My gender shifts further away from conventional femininity as I expand into androgyny through the performance of music.

Body of the paper

Do not write a general account of your life or childhood.  Instead, the body should be limited to material advancing your thesis.  1] First, give an account of your experience using relevant details of events, concrete observations, messages communicated, statements made, etc.  2] Second, apply a course theory to your experience.

Please keep the body organized…this is not a stream-of-consciousness journal entry.  I’d recommend outlining your paper before you write it.

Conclusion

End with an insightful or evaluative conclusion.  What critical questions does your experience raise?  How does your experience shed light on the nature of gender?  Family systems?  Parenting?  How is your chosen theory useful?  Etc.

**Note the following technical requirements.**  Erring from these will affect your grade:

– Length must be 5 pages (5 FULL pages minimum – 5 ½ pages maximum).

– Use TNR 12 font and standard margins.

– Double-space.

– Proofread for spelling and grammar.

– Submit on Canvas in .doc or .pdf form

ANLY600

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250 words

Microsoft is an active player in cloud analytics with its Azure Machine Learning Studio and Stream Analytics. Azure works with Hadoop clusters as well as with traditional relational databases. Azure ML offers a broad range of algorithms such as boosted trees and support vector machines as well as supporting R scripts and Python. Azure ML also supports a workflow interface making it more suitable for the nonprogrammer data scientist. The real-time analytics component is designed to allow streaming data from a variety of sources to be analyzed on the fly. XLMiner’s cloud version is based on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft also acquired Revolution Analytics, a major player in the R analytics business, with a view to integrating Revolution’s “R Enterprise” with SQL Server and Azure ML. R Enterprise includes extensions to R that eliminate memory limitations and take advantage of parallel processing. One drawback of the cloud-based analytics tools is a relative lack of transparency and user control over the algorithms and their parameters. In some cases, the service will simply select a single model that is a black box to the user. Another drawback is that for the most part cloud-based tools are aimed at more sophisticated data scientists who are systems savvy. Data science is playing a central role in enabling many organizations to optimize everything from production to marketing. New storage options and analytical tools promise even greater capabilities. The key is to select technology that’s appropriate for an organization’s unique goals and constraints. As always, human judgment is the most important component of a data mining solution.

This focus is on a comprehensive understanding of the different techniques and algorithms used in data mining, and less on the data management requirements of real-time deployment of data mining models. XLMiner’s short learning curve and integration with Excel makes it ideal for this purpose, and for exploration, prototyping, and piloting of solutions.

(by Herb Edelstein) page 45 in Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in R

Answer the following questions:

1. Choose three to five software which you think are most popular and useful in Data mining and comment one their pros and cons?!

2. What are the pros and cons of Cloud-based analytics?

3. Why using R for this data mining course is a good option?

​Be sure to address each point in your main post. Also, be sure to illustrate with an example (e.g., if you think clustering is relevant, describe what you think a likely cluster might contain and what the real-world meaning would be).

Unit 4 Discussion – Am I Normal?

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Unit 4 Discussion – Am I Normal?

Instructions:

The average height for all males is 69.3 inches, with a standard deviation of 2.8 inches. For females, the average height is 64 inches, and the standard deviation is 2.8.  These are population values. For this week’s discussion, you will calculate a z-score based on your own height and determine whether your score is within the 95% normal range or if it is out of that range and considered unusual.

  • Measure your height as precisely as possible to a tenth of an inch. For example, 5’2 ¼” would be 62.3 inches tall.
  • Calculate the z-score based on population values for males or females.  Use the formula:  z= (x-µ)/σ where x is your height in inches.
  • Calculate the normal range by creating the interval that is within 2 standard deviations of the population mean.  Multiply the population standard deviation by 2 and then add/subtract from the population mean.

In your discussion post, include the following, based on your calculations.

  • Is your height within the normal range?  Is this what you expected?
  • Would your height be considered unusual?  Why or why not.
  • Have you encountered any challenges based on your height?  For example, someone who is shorter or taller may have difficulty finding pants that are an appropriate length.
  • How is the concept of normality used in your field?  For example, a patient’s blood pressure is compared to a normal range of values, and a financial planner may check the “average” return of a stock.
  • How does knowing what is usual help people and corporations and government organizations plan?  For example, how do airplane manufacturers use the normal height to design aircraft seating?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Financial Accounting Project

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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788219000023/fy201910-k.htm

Data in Thousands, Page F-5

1. Determine the amounts your firm reports for total assets, total liabilities, and total stockholders’ equity in the balance sheet for the most recent year. Verify that the basic accounting equation balances.

Total Assets: 958,483

Total Liabilities: 1,696,067

Stockholders Equity (737,584)

2. Does your company refer to the income statement using another name? If so, what is it?

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS

3. Determine the amounts that your firm reports for net sales and net income in its income statement for the most recent year.

Net sales/ revenue 950,107

Net income/ net earnings 94,4347

4. Who is the company’s auditor? What does the report indicate about the amounts reported in the company’s financial statements? (See the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.) F-1

5. Is the size of your firm increasing? Determine your answer by calculating the percentage change in total assets and percentage change in net sales for the most recent year. (Calculation = (current yr-previous yr)/previous yr.)

6. Is the profitability of your firm increasing? Determine your answer by calculating the percentage change in net income for the most recent year. (Calculation = (current yr-previous yr)/previous yr.)

7. For the most recent year, what amount does your company report for current assets? What assets are listed as current assets? What is the ratio of current assets to total assets (current assets/ total assets)?

8. For the most recent year, what amount does your company report for current liabilities? What liabilities are listed as current liabilities? What is the ratio of current liabilities to total liabilities (current liabilities/total liabilities)?

9. What does the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm indicate about your company’s internal controls?

10. In the summary of significant accounting policies, how does your company define cash equivalents?

11. What is the amount of cash reported in the two most recent years? By how much has cash increased/decreased?

12. List your firm’s net cash flows from operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities in its statement of cash flows for the most recent year. What are total cash flows for the year?

13. In the summary of significant accounting policies, what procedure does your organization use to account for inventory (FIFO, LIFO, etc)?

14. For the most recent year, what is the amount of inventory in the balance sheet? What does this amount represent?

15. Does your company refer to its cost of goods sold using a different name? If so, what is it?

16. For the most recent year, what is the amount of cost of goods sold in the income statement? What does this amount represent?

17. Determine whether the trend in net sales/revenues has been increasing or decreasing for the past three years.

18. Does your organization report an allowance for uncollectible accounts in the balance sheet? If so, how much is reported for the most recent year?

19. Locate the section on property and equipment. What depreciation method does your firm use?

20. What is the cost of property and equipment? What is the trend in property and equipment for the past two years?

21. Calculate the acid-test (quick) ratio for the past two years. Did the acid-test ratio improve or weaken in the more recent year?

22. Review the balance sheet and other important financial statements. Based on this information, how would you rate the bankruptcy risk of your company?

23.What is the par value per share for the common stock?

24. How many common shares were issued at the end of the most recent year?

25. Did the company have any treasury stock?

26. Has your firm issued any bonds over the last two years (Use the footnote on Debt)?

Global Societal Problem, Argument and Solution – Lack of Education – Dr. Michelle_KM

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 Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this Sample Final Paper GEN499 for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.

The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:

  • Climate change
  • Pollution
  • Religious conflict and violence
  • Rise of artificial intelligence
  • Lack of education
  • Unemployment and lack of economic opportunity
  • Government accountability and corruption
  • Food and water security
  • International drug trafficking
  • Poverty and income inequality

Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.

In your paper,

  • Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
  • Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
    • Show why this is a societal problem.
    • Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
  • Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
    • Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
  • Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
    • Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
    • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
  • Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
    • Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
    • Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)
  • Develop a conclusion for the last paragraphs of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. (For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)

The Global Societal Problem, Argument, and Solution Paper

  • Must be 1,750 to 2,250 words in length (approximately between seven and nine pages; not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
  • Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
  • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • Must use at least eight scholarly sources.
    • Source Document Requirements:
      • Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
      • Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, and so forth. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed solution within the argument.
      • Where documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
      • Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
      • Religious texts must not be used.
    • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for an assignment. The Integrating Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting information and reasoning.
    • Must document in APA style any information used from sources, as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.).
    • Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. References list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
    • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center for specifications.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

  • Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
  • Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
  • Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
  • Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

Current event study

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  Business-Level Strategy :

In order to bring current examples of strategic issues and problems into the class, each student will prepare a current event analysis. The analysis should be drawn from material in the business press and must deal with a topic within the last 12 months. The article/material should highlight the strategic issues facing a particular firm or industry and should be directly related to specific topics of this course. Your presentation should include the following points:

  1. A very brief review of the key facts of the story.
  2. Identification and explanation of the key course concepts, tools, topics that this report relates to.
  3. Your analysis/evaluation of the actions or situations with respect to the relevant topic.
  4. One question for the class discussion

Each presenter should submit your analysis report by 5 PM of the day before the presentation. 

The length of the outline should be one to two pages. Be sure to attach a link/copy of the article and any other materials from which the outline is derived.

Each presentation should be about 3 minutes. You may be randomly selected to do an oral presentation.

The grading template for the individual case presentation is as below:

Component (total 5%)

Comments

The event is well explained to understand (1%)

The event is relevant to the topic of the week (1%)

Great analysis of the event (1%)

The question is interesting (1%)

The report was submitted by the due (1%)

Academic Integrity

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 Prepare:

 Reflect:

  • Reflect on all the concepts from the catalog and course textbook and how they might help you to become a better scholar and professional.
  • Consider how you can apply your understanding of ethical use of information to the materials you see and read daily.
  • Think about how the online writing or graphic you selected uses information unethically.

 Write:

  • Identify two key elements of the catalog’s Academic Integrity (Links to an external site.) and Academic Dishonesty (Links to an external site.) sections and describe how you feel these elements are important to you as a scholar and professional.
  • Explain how the online writing or graphic you chose uses information unethically. In your explanation, be sure to refer to the two key elements you identified in the previous step.
  • Develop a strategy for how you, as a scholar, could avoid making this same ethical mistake?

Your initial post must be at least 350 words and address all of the prompt’s elements.

You must cite and reference any sources that you use in your posts, including your textbook or any other sources of information that you use. Please refer to the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) and Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) for help with citing and referencing your sources.