Strategies that Boost Self-Efficacy to Improve Cardiovascular Health Behaviors

  

Base on this research Early Empowerment Strategies Boost Self-Efficacy to Improve Cardiovascular Health Behaviors (nih.gov) extract the following information. 

1. Introduction Motivation/Problem/Issue/Purpose Statement

• What is the focus of the research study?

• What specific problem/issue are researchers trying to solve?

• Why is this issue important to nursing?

• What is the purpose of the research?

• What is the research question/hypothesis?

(NOTE: This section should include the importance of the research and the potential  impact of research results on patient outcomes; answers the ‘Why?’ question.)

2. Setting/ sampling

• In what setting does the research study take place? Who is the target population?

• What are the eligibility criteria?

• What sampling strategy was used?

(NOTE: This section answers the ‘Where?’ and ‘Who’ questions.)

3. Methods/Data Collection/Data Analysis

• What was the study design?

• What instruments were used to collect data?

• Cronbach α?

• What statistical tests were used to analyze data?

(NOTE: This section answers the ‘How?’ question.)

4. Outcomes/Results

• What were the principal results? 

• Were results statistically significant? 

• Did results answer the research question?

(NOTE: This section answers the ‘What?’ question.)

5. Discussion/Implications

• What are the implications of the results? 

• What do the findings mean?

• Are findings clinically significant?

What do results mean to nursing practice? for patient outcomes?

(NOTE: This section answers the ‘What now?’ question.)

Limitations/Conclusions

• What were the study weaknesses? 

• What further research could be done in this area?

(NOTE: This section answers the ‘What next?’

question.)

Week 5 Discussion BUS3001

 Week 5 DiscussionDiscussion Topic Task: Reply to this topic Overdue – Last Fri at 12:59 AM

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial responses to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your peers as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your peers’ initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite sources in your responses to other peers. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.

The Recruiting Value of Corporate Social Responsibility
Kim and Park (2011) argue that corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities not only have value for benefitting social causes but can also be regarded as recruiting tools for attracting potential employees who perceive the organization and its CSR activities as an ethical fit. The foundation of this argument comes from an organizational perspective that views employees as important assets for a corporation. Coming from this perspective would mean that corporations would be cognizant about the imperative to have an active CSR program that matches corporate values, missions, and cultures.
Conduct research to identify the top ten companies to work for last year. Choose one of these companies and further research its CSR activities.
In your posting, respond to the following, supporting your perspectives with scholarly resources:

  • What is the company you chose?
  • What are the company’s CSR activities?
  • What do these activities communicate about the company?
  • Assess whether these activities are causing beneficial or cause exploitative? Give evidence for your answer.
  • Would you consider working for this company?
  • Support your answers with appropriate research and reasoning and initiate comments on the postings of at least two of your peers.
    Reference:
    Kim, S., & Park, H. (2011). Corporate social responsibility as an organizational
    attractiveness for prospective public relations practitioners. Journal of
    Business Ethics, 103(4), 639–653. doi:10.1007/s10551-011-0886-x

Module 5: Essay Assignment The Five Pillars of Islam

For this module, you will write and submit a thoughtful and detailed essay, of at least 1500 words, in response to the specific assigned essay question provided below.

The assigned essay question is drawn directly from both of this module’s two Explorations. Your essay should provide a relevant, thorough, and detailed response to the question below, drawing directly upon both of our Exploration readings in carefully crafting your response.

 Instructions

  1. Write and submit a thoughtful, thorough, substantial essay, of at least 1500 words, in direct response to the assigned essay question below. The essay should have a focused and clear thesis statement, including your claim and several specific supporting points.
  2. Draw directly upon our two Explorations for this module in carefully crafting your detailed response to the essay question.
  3. In responding to the question, carefully review, reflect upon, and attempt to integrate material drawn from BOTH of this module’s Explorations (7 & 8).
  4. Please, double-space your essay, and include your name at the top of its first page.
  5. Be sure to duly CITE any additional outside sources you might also choose to draw upon in writing your essay (whether directly quoting from them, or merely paraphrasing from them).
  6. CCCOnline automatically scans all student papers with plagiarism detection software. Avoid plagiarism by ensuring that any/all verbatim passages drawn from sources are always presented as direct quotes (within quotation marks), and also that both direct quotes, as well as paraphrased material, are followed by in-text citations identifying their sources.
  7. Don’t forget to include a bibliography or “works cited” page at the end!
  8. Carefully proofread your essay prior to submission, in order to correct any typos, spelling errors, or grammatical glitches.
  9. Review the Essay Rubric prior to submitting your assignment.
  10. See the Course Schedule for module start/end dates and all due dates.
  11. Submit your outline to the Assignment Submission Folder before its deadline when the module closes (by 11:59 PM MST on the module’s last day). 

Essay Question

Consider the exploration of Islam in this Module and do some additional research and reading to respond to the following essay prompts:

  • What are the Five Pillars of Islam? Describe them in some depth and detail.
  • Going beyond superficial description of what they physically entail, what might their pious performance mean on a deeper level to devout Muslims?
  • Beyond just mechanically or obediently “going through the motions” of fulfilling them as religious obligations, How might the Five Pillars impact, enrich, reinforce, or more deeply and meaningfully “resonate” with the spiritual life of thoughtful, reflective, and faithful Muslims?

Experiments with Hashing and Encryption

 We are going to try our hand at encryption and hashing of files for this assignment. We will be using AES, MD5 and SHA256. You can find your own tools for doing this, or you can use online tools, or tools built into your computer operating system. I’ve provided a couple of links below for your reference.

  1. 1. Open a text file in a text editor of your choice.
  2. 2. In your own words, explain the difference between a hash and an encryption cipher.
  3. 3. Hash your answer using MD5 and save this in the line below your answer. Don’t hash any extra returns or whitespace.
  4. 4. Now hash your answer using SHA256 and save this in a new line below the MD5 hash.
  5. 5. Finally, encrypt your answer using AES256 and save the encrypted text below your SHA hash.
  6. 6. Put your “secret” or “key” in the line below your encrypted answer.
  7. 7. List any tools or websites you used to complete the hashing and encryption.

Extra Credit: Provide the Shannon Entropy for your encrypted text.

If you are successful in the above steps, I should be able to decrypt and hash your answer, arriving at the same results you did. Points are given for each step 2 through 7.

Resources

  • https://osxdaily.com/2012/02/05/check-sha1-checksum-in-mac-os-x/
  • https://www.shellhacks.com/windows-md5-sha256-checksum-built-in-utility/
  • https://www.devglan.com/online-tools/aes-encryption-decryption
  • https://www.allkeysgenerator.com/Random/Security-Encryption-Key-Generator.aspx

Leading Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Healthcare

 

Throughout the course, you’ll use the map below to engage important population health concepts. Click on each hot spot to learn more about the population in that area.

This week, you discovered that the focus of healthcare has a growing emphasis on population health. Emphasis on quality improvement and tracking outcomes has led to exploring “why?” Why do some patients have trouble controlling their diabetes? Why do so some pediatric diabetic patients show up in the emergency department with an uncontrolled episode? These questions have led the DNP scholar and other healthcare providers to consider the social determinants of health. This query also requires that consideration be given to “how?” How do healthcare providers improve outcomes for a given population? Explore these questions as they relate to the populations represented on the interactive map below.

Select one of the populations on the map and address the following:  

I select Hialeah, Florida

  • Culture of interest – Hispanic/Latino
  • Population – 224,669
  • Individuals diagnosed with heart disease prior to the study year – 1513
    • age 30 – 40
    • age 35 – 63
    • age 40 – 143
    • age 45 – 189
    • age 50 – 203
    • age 55 – 225
    • age 60 – 299
    • age 65 – 351
  • Individuals newly diagnosed with heart disease in the study year – 409
    • Age 30 – 3
    • Age 40 – 12
    • Age 50 – 41
    • Age 55 – 82
    • Age 60 – 97
    • Age 65 – 174
  • Individuals who died of heart disease in the study year – 531
    • Age 50 – 86
    • Age 55 – 105
    • Age 60 – 130
    • Age 65 – 210
  • Average years of life expectancy reduction due to heart disease – 10

1-Create a culturagram for your selected population. Refer to Week 1, Explore page 2, for guidance in creating a culturagram. You may use the attached template, if you desire.

2-Conduct a search for evidence. Identify one evidence-based intervention to reduce health disparities in the selected population.

3-Consider how the selected intervention addresses at least one of the CLAS standards.

Share your professional experience related to the topic.

I attached the Culturagram Template, you can do it in the original template

Positive and Negative Reinforcement

 THREE PAGES FOR CONTENT THEN TITLE AND REF PAGE

ALL WORK MUST BE ORIGINAL AS IT GOES THROUGH SAFE ASSIGN ALSO ABA SOURCES ONLY!!! AND APA 7TH ADDITION.

Positive and Negative Reinforcement

Behavior analysts work to change an individual’s socially significant behaviors in meaningful ways. As the conceptually systematic dimension states, basic principles of behavior are used to change behaviors. The first basic principle we explore is reinforcement. Reinforcement is used to increase appropriate behaviors in an individual’s repertoire. Behavior analysts not only work to decrease problematic behaviors, but they also work to increase appropriate behaviors. Understanding how reinforcement works is important for adding new behaviors to an individual’s repertoire.

For this assignment, complete the following:

  • Define both positive and negative reinforcement. Be sure to explain how they are similar and how they are different in your definitions.
  • Provide two real-world, detailed examples of how positive reinforcement could be used to increase behaviors you would like to see occur more often. Also, provide two examples of how negative reinforcement could be used to increase behaviors you would like to see occur more often. For example, an individual may use positive reinforcement to increase the behavior of working out. She could “pay” herself 10 dollars after five consecutive days of working out. Another individual may use negative reinforcement to increase the behavior of cooking healthy meals. If her dinner meals include at least two different vegetables, she can skip doing the dishes immediately after eating.
  • Be sure to explain why the examples you chose will work to increase behavior in the future.

Assignment Requirements

  • Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style guidelines.
  • Resources: Minimum of 1–2 scholarly or professional resources.
  • Length: 2–4 double-spaced pages, in addition to the title page and reference page.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • SafeAssign: You are required to use SafeAssign before submitting the completed assignment to your instructor. Submit your work to SafeAssign as a draft, review the results, and make any needed changes. When you are ready, submit your assignment to the assignment area for grading.

Refer to the Positive and Negative Reinforcement Scoring Guide to ensure you understand the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.

Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two – Slide Presentation

 

The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational risk management presentation.

Building upon the outline for an educational session you created in the Educational Program on Risk Management Part One: Outline of Topic 2 assignment, develop a 12-15 slide PowerPoint presentation that expands in greater detail on how and why your organization should implement your proposed risk management strategy. Incorporate any instructor feedback from the Topic 2 assignment into this presentation and include talking points in the speaker notes section of each slide.

Keep in mind that the PowerPoint is meant to serve as a visual aide to bolster your presentation and is intended to highlight main ideas and key points. Do not use dense blocks of text or more than 7 bullet points of text per slide.  However, you may include supplementary images, graphs, and data where relevant.

To successfully complete this assignment, include the following sections as per your outline from Topic 2, though you may include any additional sections as needed:

  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Support
  4. Implementation
  5. Challenges
  6. Evaluation
  7. Opportunities

You are required to support your statements with a minimum of six citations from appropriate credible sources.

Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style. 

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

HRSA data warehouse

  1. Read about the HRSA Data website and what it does here: https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/about/abouthdw.aspx
  2. Explore the rest of the tabs on the site.
  3. Watch the “How-To Video: Find a Health Center Locator Tool” tutorial found at the following link: https://data.hrsa.gov/how-to-videos
  4. Explore some data by selecting Clark County, Nevada using the Data by Geography tool here: https://data.hrsa.gov/hdw/tools/DataByGeography.aspx
  5. Next use the HRSA Fact Sheets tool located here: https://data.hrsa.gov/data/fact-sheets to look up HRSA’s activities in HHS regions, states, counties, and congressional districts and compare the data to the Clark County, Nevada data you found using your geography results. Analyze the data included in the fact sheets. Consider the data sets found in the fact sheets. How does Nevada compare nationwide when it comes to the data sets? What about Clark County?
  6. Complete a new search using the Data for Geography tool for your state and county (Dade County, Florida). Compare the results of your query to your Clark County, Nevada search.
  7. Identify HRSA program resources for HIV/AIDS in your state and county. What are they? How many clinics are funded by HRSA?

Write a two-page paper reflecting on the data you collected and analyzed. How will this data warehouse be useful to you as a professional nurse? Your paper should be at least two pages in length, in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, and double-spaced with 1” margins.

Evaluation and Strategy for Social Media and Mobile

Marketing, specifically in the online space, is in constant flux. How could any of the tools and practices we’ve learned thus far be used to be more innovative with online marketing? 

Evaluate a company’s web, social, and mobile marketing presence. For this assignment, you should select a well-known company. Select a company that has a website and uses multiple social media channels.  Address each of the following in a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation. Note that each bullet point should be its own slide.

List all of the social sites of the small business.

What is your opinion on their website? Is there anything innovative about it?

Visit their website using a mobile device. How mobile-friendly is the website? Do they have a mobile App? 

What are the messages and/or themes on the website and social media pages? How consistent are the messages/themes across the web and social sites?

How easy is it to order their products/services through web, mobile, and social sites? How easy is it to contact someone with the company? Is Live Chat or a Contact Form available?

What about the company’s web, mobile, and social presence supports or encourages successful innovation within the organization? What innovations would you suggest to improve their web, social, and mobile strategies?

What relevant KPI’s would you recommend for tracking social and mobile success?

Discuss why it is so important for innovators and entrepreneurs to focus heavily on digital marketing

Week 9 ass. Business and Society

Challenges in the Business Environment

Overview

Changing, or even stating, a company’s values can be a long and arduous process, but it often pales in comparison to the effort it takes to make sure they are honored, implemented and projected. In this assignment, you evaluate how well your chosen company from the first assignment has done in “walking the talk” and responding to a social issue.

Preparation

Review your chosen company’s mission and values statements as well as other sources that provide insight into the company’s values with regard to social responsibility. Pick two of their primary values and research how the company manifests those values. Simple examples might be the commitment to workplace diversity or ecological sustainability. 

Instructions

Create a 3–5-minute (approximately 6–8 slides) PowerPoint presentation that evaluates how well the company embodies its issue-related values. Your presentation should contain detailed speaker’s notes that flesh out and support main points, ideas, or conclusions and have supporting citations.

  1. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.
  2. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and social responsibility.
  3. Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:
    • Empowering Workers.
    • Labor and Human Rights.
    • Health and Safety.
    • The Environment.
    • Accountability.
  4. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.
  5. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
  6. In this week’s discussion, you consider assembling a team to write a supplier code of conduct. Recommend the stakeholders roles (4–5) needed on the team and how each supports the project.

Integrate at least three supporting resources from the Strayer University Library or other reputable sources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Create a presentation about the key areas, changes, and progress in a company’s supplier responsibilities and code of conduct.