Nursing role and setting

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Due date today before 5 PM

For this assignment, you will research an advanced nursing practice role and summarize your findings in a 3- to 5-page paper (excluding the title page and references):

Focusing on the specialty for which you were admitted to South University, select an advanced nursing role to research. (Adult advance Nurse Practitioner)

1. Distinguish the role as clinical or non-clinical and how it promotes patient outcomes, ie safety, access to health care or health information relative to the ANP level

2. Apply an Advance Nursing Practice Concept to your chosen role

3. Develop a minimum of ten questions that you would like to ask the advance practice clinician or non-clinician that you have chosen to interview.  Identify in the paper the individual by name, credentials, position and your planned date for the interview (Interview is due Week 3)

4. Support your findings with at least two research articles (study, design, sample and results must be discussed). Other peer reviewed articles that are non-research and nursing organization websites may be used. All articles must be current (not more than five years old, unless it is a hallmark reference; ieAmerican Association of College of Nursing. (2010)).

Format your paper, citations, and references using correct APA Style.

Assignment 2. Online Discussion Forums

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   ASSESSMENT  ITEM 2:  ONLINE FORUMS: YOUR BEST FOUR  T hroughout the semester, you will make thoughtful, intelligent and critical contributions to the online discussion forums detailed each week in your study guide.  You may extend these discussion forum topics to other issues raised in your study that week or simply answer the question posed in the study guide directly.  In the spirit of encouraging an online community of scholars, you are encouraged to raise topics for discussion or respond to fellow student’s posting often throughout the semester. At the end of semester, you must select and submit your best four postings (ie.  of those you have written) to the online forum to your tutor.  Please note the following: 

  • Your best four posts will be between 200-250 words each
  • Each best four post will be from a different week (so you cannot include numerous posts from the same week)
  • At least two of your posts will be responses to a post from a fellow student or your tutor
  • Posts are due the end of the following week (for eg.  Week One posts are due end of Week Two).
  • You must refer to the study materials in your post and provide in text referencing where appropriate (ie.  Author, year: pg no – in text only.  No list of references required)
  • Post which either stimulate discussion or respond to another’s post are encouraged.  REMEMBER: Your questions and thoughts are useful to your fellow students, even when you may not be posting ‘best four’ standard
  • This assessment demands each student take some responsibility for the study environment – thoughtful, intelligent posts help all students, not only those who post, by stimulating discussion and debate.
  • Ensure you include the date posted and any relevant context when you submit your best four to your tutor.

Length – 1000 words max

Ifsm

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IFSM 201 Professional Memo

Before you begin this assignment, be sure you have read the Small Merchant Guide to Safe Payments documentation from the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) organization. PCI Data Security Standards are established to protect payment account data throughout the payment lifecycle, and to protect individuals and entities from the criminals who attempt to steal sensitive data. The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to all entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data, including merchants, service providers, and financial institutions.

Purpose of this Assignment

You work as an Information Technology Consultant for the Greater Washington Risk Associates (GWRA) and have been asked to write a professional memo to one of your clients as a follow-up to their recent risk assessment (RA). GWRA specializes in enterprise risk management for state agencies and municipalities. The county of Anne Arundel, Maryland (the client) hired GWRA to conduct a risk assessment of Odenton, Maryland (a community within the Anne Arundel County), with a focus on business operations within the municipality.

This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcome to enable you to:

• Identify ethical, security, and privacy considerations in conducting data and information

analysis and selecting and using information technology.

Assignment

Your supervisor has asked that the memo focus on Odenton’s information systems, and specifically, securing the processes for payments of services. Currently, the Odenton Township offices accept cash or credit card payment for the services of sanitation (sewer and refuse), water, and property taxes. Residents can pay either in-person at township offices or over the phone with a major credit card (American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa). Over the phone payment involves with speaking to an employee and giving the credit card information. Once payment is received, the Accounting Department is responsible for manually entering it into the township database system and making daily deposits to the bank.

The purpose of the professional memo is to identify a minimum of three current controls (e.g., tools, practices, policies) in Odenton Township (either a control specific to Odenton Township or a control provided by Anne Arundel county) that can be considered best practices in safe payment/data protection. Furthermore, beyond what measures are currently in place, you should highlight the need to focus on insider threats and provide a minimum of three additional recommendations. Below are the findings from the Risk Assessment:

• The IT department for Anne Arundel County requires strong passwords for users to access and use information systems.

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• The IT department for Anne Arundel County is meticulous about keeping payment terminal software, operating systems and other software (including anti-virus software) updated.

• Assessment of protection from remote access and breaches to the Anne Arundel network: Odenton Township accesses the database system for the County when updating resident’s accounts for services. It is not clear whether a secure remote connection (VPN) is standard policy.

• Assessment of physical security at the Odenton Township hall: the only current form of physical security are locks on the two outer doors; however, the facility is unlocked Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm (EST), excluding federal holidays.

• Employee awareness training on data security and secure practices for handling sensitive data (e.g., credit card information) are not in place.

• The overarching conclusion of the risk assessment was that Odenton Township is not fully compliant with the PCI Data Security Standards (v3.2).

Note: The Chief Executive for Anne Arundel County has asked for specific attention be paid to insider threats, citing a recent article about an administrator from San Francisco (see Resources). Anne Arundel County wants to understand insider threats and ways to mitigate so that they protect their resident’s personal data as well as the County’s sensitive information. These are threats to information systems, including malware and insider threats (negligent or inadvertent users, criminal or malicious insiders, and user credential theft).

Expectations and Format

Using the resources listed below, you are to write a 2-page Professional Informational Memo to the Chief Executive for Anne Arundel County that addresses the following:

• Risk Assessment Summary: Provide an overview of your concerns from the risk assessment report. Include broad ‘goal’ of the memo, as a result of the risk assessment, the broad recommendations. Specific Action Steps will come later. The summary should be no more than one paragraph.

• Background: Provide a background for your concerns. Briefly highlight why the concerns are critical to the County of Anne Arundel and Odenton Township. Clearly state the importance of data security and insider threats when dealing with personal credit cards. Be sure to establish the magnitude of the problem of insider threats.

• Concerns, Standards, Best Practices: The body of the memo needs to justify your concerns and clarify standards, based on the resources listed below, at minimum. The PCI DSS standards are well respected and used globally to protect entities and individual’s sensitive data. The body of the memo should also highlight three current controls that are considered best practice; that is, you should highlight the positive, what is currently in place, based on the risk assessment.

• Action Steps: Provide a conclusion establishing why it is important for Anne Arundel County to take steps to protect residents and county infrastructure from insider threats based on your concerns. Recommend a minimum of three (3) practical action steps, including new security controls, best practices and/or user policies that will mitigate the concerns in this memo. Be sure to include cost considerations so that the County is

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getting the biggest bang for the buck. The expectations are not for you to research and quote actual costs, but to generalize potential costs. For instance, under the category of physical security, door locks are typically less expensive than CCTV cameras.

• Be sure to review the PowerPoint presentation (in pdf format) Effective Professional Memo Writing that accompanies these instructions.

• Use the Professional Memo template that accompanies these instructions.

o Use four section subtitles, in bold.

▪ Risk Assessment Summary

▪ Background

▪ Concerns, Standards, Best Practices ▪ Action Steps

o Do not change the font size or type or page margins.

o Do not include any graphics, images or ‘snips’ of any content from copyrighted

sources. The PCI Standards (PCI DSS) document is copyrighted material.

o Paragraph text should be single spaced with ONE ‘hard return’ (Enter) after each paragraph and after each section subtitle. Note: Do not create a new ‘paragraph’

after each sentence. A single sentence is not a paragraph.

o ‘Subject’ is the subject of your memo, not the course name or number.

o Be sure to remove any remaining ‘placeholder’ text in the template file before

submitting.

o The length of the template when you download it is NOT the intended length of

the entire memo. Your completed memo should be between 1.5 pages and 2 pages (total document, including the To:/From:/Re:/Subject header).

*Note: the Professional Memo is to be in a MS Word file and all work is to be in the student’s own words (no direct quotes from external sources or the instructions) *

APA documentation requirements:

• As this is a professional memo, as long as you use resources provided with or linked from these instructions, APA documentation is NOT required.

• Citing material or resources beyond what is provided here is NOT required.

• However, you should use basic attribution and mention the source of any data, ideas

or policies that you mention, which will help establish the credibility and authority of the memo.

o For example, mentioning that the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) identify a certain control as best practice holds more weight than simply stating the control is a best practice without basic attribution.

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Strategic Application in Project Management – Activity 11

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Activity 11:

Assume that you have the following decision-making options: (1) make the decision on your own with available information, (2) consult others before making a decision, and (3) call a meeting and reach a consensus, seeking to arrive at a final decision everyone can agree on. Which approach would you use to make each of the following decisions and why?

  1. You are the project leader for Casino Night on campus, a charitable event organized by your group to raise money for the homeless. The event was a big success, garnering a net profit of $3,500. Before the event your team researched nearby organizations that support the homeless and to whom the money could be given. You narrowed the choices to the “Chunk of Coal House” and “St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen.” Eventually your group decided that the funds be given to Chunk of Coal. You are about to write a check to its director when you read in the local newspaper that the Chunk of Coal House has terminated operations. What should you do with the money?
  2. You are a golf course designer hired by Trysting Tree Golf Club to renovate their golf course. You have worked closely with the board of directors of the club to develop a new layout that is both challenging and aesthetically pleasing. Everyone is excited about the changes. The project is nearly 75 percent complete when you encounter problems on the 13th hole. The 13th hole at Trysting Tree is a 125-yard par three in which golfers have to hit their tee shots over a lake to a modulated green. During the construction of the new tee box, workers discovered that an underground spring runs beneath the box to the lake. You inspected the site and agreed with the construction supervisor that this could create serious problems, especially during the rainy winter months. After surveying the area, you believe the only viable option would be to extend the hole to 170 yards and create elevated tees on the adjacent hillside.
  3. You are the leader of a new product development project. Your team has worked hard on developing a third-generation product that incorporates new technology and meets customer demands. The project is roughly 50 percent complete. You have just received a report from the marketing department detailing a similar product that is about to be released by a competitor. The product appears to utilize radical new design principles that expand the functionality of the product. This poses a serious threat to the success of your project. Top management is considering canceling your project and starting over again. They want you to make a recommendation.

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Managing a Crisis

Crisis management and crisis communications are specialized business disciplines. In times of crisis, companies can act in a number of ways; from ignoring the situation and hoping it passes in the next news cycle to aggressively defending itself after the fact. Smart companies have plans that can be used in any crisis situation.

Using the company developed in the Unit 4 Individual Project, select a crisis that negatively affects the business from a legal or image standpoint. Develop a series of scenario statements that you write ahead of time that you will present to the management and legal departments so that they may be used swiftly in a time of crisis.

Presentation Script

Create a script to accompany the presentation. It should include background on the crisis, how the situation will be handled, and the rationale for the scenario statements.

This part of the Individual Project should be at least 2–3 pages (single-spaced).

PowerPoint Presentation

Create a professional PowerPoint presentation. You will be assessed on the design of the presentation, including colors, backgrounds, professionalism, font, and graphics. Optional content includes sound, videos, and animation.

This part of the Individual Project should be at least 15 slides. Two files that include the following will need to be uploaded:

  • Script: Use the attached template. The template is a .docx file and will need to be uploaded as a self-executing ZIP file. See MKTG340_U5IP Script in the ZIP File.
  • PowerPoint presentation

Please submit your assignment as a Word document in APA format using the attached TEMPLATE. Notice that the grading criteria components match up with the headings provided in the template. Do not change the font, page breaks, or margins. Using the template without deleting the headings ensures that you cover each segment of the assignment.

HN531 Discussion 4

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After you have completed the readings,  post your initial response to the following discussion. Your post  should respond to all parts of the topic(s) in complete sentences, and  should extend the discussion of the group by including original thoughts  or ideas with support from multiple academic outside sources and/or  course materials, correctly using APA style, both in-text and complete  reference at the end of the post.

After you have submitted your initial  post, review other posts and respond to multiple classmates. Your  response to other classmates should ask follow-up questions or provide  additional ideas that expand on the topic. Be sure to post your  responses over multiple days throughout the unit week as this helps  promote a real discussion. Refer to your Discussion Board Rubric for  specific grading explanation.

Selecting the Appropriate Intervention Strategy

  1. Describe why the articulation of a hypothesis is essential in the development of an effective program.
  2. Examine how a hypothesis is different from a hunch. Describe the differences.
  3. Describe what the statements,  “hypothesis is a series of ends/means statement” and “program evaluation  begins with the development of a hypothesis” mean.
  4. Describe how you actually develop both the lower and higher level statements in the hypothesis.

*** FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS GIVEN***

***350 MINIMUM WORDS NOT INCLUDING RESOURCE PAGE***

*** I DO NOT NEED A COVER PAGE JUST RESOURCES***

Statistics IV

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Statistics Exercise IV
 

These weekly exercises provide the opportunity for you to understand and apply statistical methods and analysis.
 

All assignments MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style and must  be written at graduate level English, citing the text in APA format.
 

#1.  Define the following terms:Sum of squares between groupsSum of squares errorMean square between groupsMean square error 
#2.  Define the following terms: Degrees of freedom between personsSum of squares between personsMean square between persons   
#3.  Explain why the critical value can be different for each hypothesis test computed using the two-way between-subjects ANOVA.
 

Use SPSS and the provided data to answer the following  questions.  Round your answers to the nearest dollar, percentage point,  or whole number. 
 

#4.  Perform a chi-square test to look at the  relationship between region of the country (REGION) and financial  comfort (FCOMFORT).  Using alpha = .05, what would you conclude from  your test: A.Financial comfort differs depending on the area one lives  in.  B.People living in less expensive areas are more likely to report  that they are financially comfortable.  C.There is not a significant  relationship between region and financial comfort.  D.People living in  the northeast region are most likely to report that they are financially  struggling.
 

#5.  Perform a one-way ANOVA to look at whether  income (INC1) differs by type of relationship (RELAT).  Which of the  following describes your result: A.F(3,396) = 4.91, p > .05  B.F(3,396) = 4.91, p < .001.  C.F(3,396) = 6.85, p > .05   D.F(3,396) = 6.85, p < .001  Perform  a 2-way ANOVA with participant’s income (INC1) as the dependent  variable and with gender (GENDER1) and          marital status (MSTAT)  as independent variables. Interpret your results in questions 6, 7 and  8. (Hint: click the “Plots” button in the Univariate routine to create a  graph).
 

#6.  The main effect due to gender indicates that:  A.Women earn more than men.  B.Men earn more than women.  C.Men and  women have incomes that are not significantly different.  D.Participants  earn more than their partners.
 

#7.  The main effect due to marital status  indicates: A.Your income tends to decrease after a divorce.  B.Getting  married tends to increase your income.  C.Marital status is unrelated to  income.  D.Married people tend to earn more than single people.
#8.  The interaction effect indicates: A.Men earn more  than women and married people earn more than singles.  B.The  male/female income difference is greater when comparing married people  than when comparing singles.  C.The interaction effect is  non-significant.  D.Marriage helps men’s careers more than it helps  women’s careers.
Assignment Outcomes:

Assess the concepts underlying appropriate use of various research methodologies 

Analyze how to recognize the inappropriate or deceptive use of research methodology 

Compare/contrast the basic assumptions underlying various statistical  operations Summarize the consequences of using various methodological  approaches Differentiate between the appropriate and inappropriate  application and interpretation of research methods and statistics  

grant writing assignment week 5

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Assignment:
Final Project: Writing the Grant Part 3: Budget, Budget Justification/Narrative, & Sustainability Plan

Constructing a budget requires time and attention to detail. This section of the grant proposal should include the narrative or justification and the financial details associated with funding the project. While the tabulated costs address the financial requirements associated with the budget, the narrative or justification should explain anything that is not apparent in the itemized budget. Be careful not to get redundant with the budget narrative. It is best to review examples to understand the required balance. Finally, as you consider developing your budget, make sure that you have fully examined the requirements of the RFP. Determine the timeline of the grant as well as your activity timeline and management plan to ensure you have covered all the nuances of project work that has associated costs. Ask yourself: Does this budget reflect all activities? Are all the project costs as well as the in-kind donations and volunteer resources documented? Is this budget realistic?

For this Assignment:

  • Review the Final Project Guidelines provided in this module’s Learning Resources.
  • Carefully review the University of Wisconsin-Extension resource as well as other Learning Resources focused on project budgets. You also may find additional online information from reputable grant-related organizations.
  • With consideration to feedback in Discussion 1 that you received from colleagues and your Instructor, and to your continued evaluation of the literature and funder guidelines, finalize your project Budget, Budget Narrative, and Sustainability Plan.

For your Assignment:

Part I: Budget Template

  • Use the budget template provided in the Learning Resources.
    • Fill in the budget template for your project.

Note: Rationale for costs will be provided in the budget narrative.

Note 2: Budget line items should consider the non-personnel and personnel resources listed in the methodology section.

Part II: Budget Narrative and Sustainability Plan

  • The Budget Narrative expands on the line items of the budget, providing a reviewer detail and justification for how you arrived at the projected dollar amounts. For example: If hiring a consultant for $2,000 is a line item, the narrative might explain that this is based on 40 hours @ $50/hour.
  • The Sustainability Plan explains how your agency plans to continue operating this program once the funding has run out.
  • It also indicates where future funding and other resources might be obtained.

Note: All relevant cost issues from the budget are addressed in the sustainability plan.

ITSD422U5IP

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The final step in developing the software development plan is to prepare for the implementation and maintenance phases. Implementation requires more than just taking the design and coding. Proper planning for implementation will ensure that the developers have the proper tools and processes in place to do their jobs efficiently.

In this stage of the project, you will add the Implementation and Maintenance section to your Software Development Plan. You will also further refine the plan to produce your final plan document for the project.

The project requires that you do the following:

  • Update the Software Development Plan title page with a new date and project name.
  • Update the previously completed sections based on instructor feedback.
  • Software Implementation
    • Identify the major milestones and deliverables for the project.
    • Discuss how source code control and versioning will be handled.
    • Perform a risk analysis, and identify at least 3 risks and mitigation strategies.
    • Identify the documentation that will be produced.
    • Define the deployment strategy for the system.
  • Software Maintenance
    • Discuss the maintenance needs for the software and how the maintenance process will occur.
    • Identify the strategy for upgrades and updates.
  • Software Development Plan Final Version
    • Review the entire document for any changes and improvements you would like to make.
    • Ensure that this final version of the plan is sufficiently detailed to allow the software developers to move forward with the project.
    • Any previous instructor feedback should be addressed with appropriate changes.
  • Be sure to update your Table of Contents before submission.
  • Name the document “yourname_ITSD422_U5Submission.doc.”

2 Pages APA format Paper. ($10 only and NO plagiarism) must include intro, body and summary

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 Software project decision point.

  1. You need to determine an interest rate to use—select an interest rate and explain why you think this number should be used. Use it in your calculations in item 1.2.
  2. Given the information below on options 1 and 2, carry out three forms of analysis: breakeven, ROI, and NPV.
  3. Make a recommendation on which way to proceed, based on the TCO for each option.
  • Option 1: Purchase the FunSoft package: Cost $200,000 for software and $85,000 for hardware in year one; with $50,000 to customize it and a $40,000 annual licensing fee for the life of the contract. There will be an annual saving of $61,000 due to the layoff of a clerk.
  • Option 2: Purchase the SoftComm package, which will operate on the vendor’s hardware: Cost $250,000 for a five-year license, payable half up front and half during the first year of implementation. The maintenance contract, at $75,000 a year, includes all currently identified modifications to the software for the first three years. The clerk’s hours will be cut by half, for a saving of $25,000 a year.

In both cases, sales are expected to increase from the current $1 million a year, by 10% per year each year (over each year’s previous year’s sales) after full implementation.

Assume a five-year life for the software.