Rule of Law

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Write a paper (1,000-1,250 words) that discusses the following questions through your research and analysis on the effect of the rule of law and ethics on the economy of Nigeria. Support your claims using scholarly sources with in-text citations and references.

  • Using Nigeria, research the influence of colonization on that country and explain how that influence has affected the country’s current legal system.
  • Describe the current legal system. Is it a civil law code, a common law code, a religious law code, or a combination of the law codes? What is the correlation between the current rule of law and the propensity of entrepreneurship?
  • If you are an entrepreneur in Nigeria, explain the specific steps you would use to perform a market screening and environmental analysis for a product/service that meets a need in the country.
  • Evaluate at least three international market entry methods for the selected product/service in Nigeria. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each method?
  • Taking into consideration the cultural, societal, and religious values, provide examples of effective and ineffective advertisement practices you would implement to introduce an emerging/sustainable technology into Nigeria. Explain your reasoning.
  • Recommend at least three legal compliance approaches that should be used by companies conducting international business in Nigeria.
  • Provide three key recommendations to consider in regard to ethics and social responsibility in Nigeria (e.g., intellectual property, competition, corruption).

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Discussion: Working With Families

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When working with families, keep in mind that each family has its own unique culture. In other words, each family has a set of shared attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors that guide how they interact with each other and how they cope with presenting problems. It is important to become familiar with the family’s culture before offering assistance. It is also important to view the entire family as the service user and allow each member (including children) to have equal input. Ultimately, the services you provide or recommend will impact every family member.

 In doing so, you will examine cultural and ethical considerations related to working with the family in the case study as well as how a recent current event might influence your approach.

To Prepare

  • Review the case study and select one to focus on for this Discussion. 
  • Reflect on how broad structural issues, such as racism and economic disenfranchisement, affect family dynamics and functioning.
  • Review the  specific cultural considerations for the case study. Pay particular attention to information that pertains to the culture(s) of the family in the case study you selected and think about how you would use this information to assist the family.
  • Review the Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals. Identify ethical standards that would inform your work with the family in the case study.
  • Think about how current events, such as social movements, may influence how you approach the family in the case study.
  • What can you do to assist the family while respecting their culture? What cultural aspects are most important to consider in this case, and why?
  • What are your ethical responsibilities to the family? Why are these ethical considerations necessary?
  • How would one recent current event influence how you approach this case study? Be specific.

Support your post with specific NOHS ethical standards.

responding back to classmates

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A person’s credit score holds a direct link to their ability to make most large purchases such as housing and automotive decisions, a person’s credit score can also be a pretty good indicator as to whether that person is good with money and pays their bills on time. Credit scores are checked by almost all lenders, landlords, credit card companies, even some employers so when they see a low credit score most of the time they correlate that with irresponsibility. It’s because of these things that the information in chapters five and six are very important to any adult and a lot of teenagers. I think that one important thing for anyone to know about is that you have to research, research, research. You need to research the property/house history, the neighborhood, even the realtor because any of these things can throw off red flags that would make it more prudent not to move forward with such a large purchase for your own personal and financial safety. Too build your credit score it’s important that you don’t keep your credit cards maxed out and that you preferably don’t wait to make the minimum payment, paying early/extra will almost always help boost your score. It’s suggested that for your best score you keep your credit card usage around I believe 30%, if you can keep your usage down receiving credit cards can be a great way increase your credit because the more credit you have available the better it reflects on your score. Also always bear in mind that more often than not financial institutions are willing to help you if you fall behind because showing initiative that you want to pay the back balance shows them that you do intend to pay. I believe that capacity is really important because it shows lenders that you are able to afford more payments/loans, character is also very important because you as a person need to present as reliable as well. If I absolutely had the choice I would prefer to outright buy a vehicle because then the vehicle is mine from the very beginning which opens up some extra options for me with it, however for a lot of people that are in my situation can’t afford to buy a car therefore leasing through a lender is the best option even though we’ll end up paying more money in the long run. 

2nd 

 Starting with chapter 5, and building your credit and what types of cards that can be useful to your spending needs, it’s important to know that credit is not free, but a bill that states to possible lenders that you are responsible, financially. I deal with a couple credit repair systems that help build your credit, which is at fixed limit of how much you can use each month. This way I’m not looking at a bill that I can not afford to pay at the moment. Chapter 6 talks about buying a home, of which building a good credit line will help in the consideration of lenders or obtaining a low mortgage rate each month. Again, credit is not free. Credit builds an understanding on paper to others of what type of risk you may take when being fronted an opportunity that you could not afford in whole at the initial time of sale. When giving advice to my friend about buying a home and building credit, I advise you develop a budget and try to maintain a steady amount of income coming in first, get a small credit card, and pay something like gas or a phone bill with it. This will show creditors that you ate responsible with your bills and or money management. 

Module 5 Assignment: Case Study Analysis

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An understanding of the neurological and musculoskeletal systems is a critically important component of disease and disorder diagnosis and treatment. This importance is magnified by the impact that that these two systems can have on each other. A variety of factors and circumstances affecting the emergence and severity of issues in one system can also have a role in the performance of the other.

Effective analysis often requires an understanding that goes beyond these systems and their mutual impact. For example, patient characteristics such as, racial and ethnic variables can play a role.

An understanding of the symptoms of alterations in neurological and musculoskeletal systems is a critical step in diagnosis and treatment. For APRNs this understanding can also help educate patients and guide them through their treatment plans.

In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. You identify the elements that may be factors in the diagnosis, and you explain the implications to patient health.

To prepare:

By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned to a specific case study scenario for this Case Study Assignment. Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your assignment from your Instructor.

Assignment (2-page case study analysis)

In your Case Study Analysis related to the scenario provided, explain the following:

  • Both the neurological and musculoskeletal pathophysiologic processes that would account for the patient presenting these symptoms.
  • Any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.
  • How these processes interact to affect the patient.

Day 7 of Week 8

Submit your Case Study Analysis Assignment by Day 7 of Week 8.

Reminder: 

The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The sample paper provided at the Walden Writing Center provides an example of those required elements (available at https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates). All papers submitted must use this formatting.

The War Powers Act

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Please see the attached pdf essay War Powers Act.jpg (also posted above), “The President versus the World: How Presidents Seized Control of the War Power”.  This page addresses the 1973 War Powers Act and how it has evolved over the past 40 years.  Essentially, the conclusion drawn in that essay is that the War Powers Act is essentially ineffective and, for all intents and purposes, powerless to stop Presidents from unilateral military control and deployment of troops into combat. 

If this is so, after having read that page as well as the preceding page, answer the following questions:

  1. If no judicial court of authority, namely the United States Supreme Court, has stricken the 1973 War Powers Act and declared it null and void constitutionally, how is it that the authors of the text book are able to conclude Congress has few, if any, war powers remaining?  How can this be?  The law is the law, is it not?  (Specifically, explain the political phenomenon that has occurred here and has similarly occurred in other legal and constitutional matters allowing the law to be ignored.) 
  2. Attempting to think as objectively as possible and placing your political partisan beliefs aside (looking at presidents as just that, presidents, as opposed to Democratic or Republican presidents) what does the increase in presidential unilateral military power do to the United States as a nation, for better or worse?  (There is no correct answer, yet think through the checks and balances consequences.)

Discussion 09: Certification for Medicare & Medicaid

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HA4070D – Regulatory Environment in Health Care

Discussion 09: Certification for Medicare & Medicaid

 Task: Reply to this topic

For this discussion, read the Research Exercise with the above title on page 372 of the text.

Your client is a hospital that has recently undergone a series of layoffs. A disgruntled former employee, a nurse, has complained to the state health department that the quality of patient care has suffered significantly. The hospital has had reason to be concerned about high rates of nosocomial infections (infections acquired in a hospital). There is also concern about bedsores and soiled linen. One patient’s open wound was infected by maggots. The nurse’s call to the state health department triggered a surprise inspection by the unit charged with overseeing certification for participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. It appears likely that the state Department of Health will seek summarily to terminate the hospital’s status under these programs as a “participating provider” (also known as the “provider agreement”). Consult the Code of Federal Regulations or one or more of the relevant practitioner treatises (e.g., the CCH Medicare and Medicaid Guide or the Aspen Hospital Law Manual) to determine what this means and what can be done about it.

.What financial, operational, and other repercussions is your hospital now subject to?

.What can you do to protect the interests of the hospital?

.What legal and regulatory factors are involved here?

.Discuss these and all variables that apply with your fellow students.

Base your discussion on material from the text and your own experience. Cite sources when necessary. Remember to write 150 words in complete sentences.

The Law of Health Care  Finance & Regulation–Vitalsource [email protected]#magicMAN61

Trends in healthcare policy week 3 project

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First Steps on Becoming a Grassroots Lobbyist/Advocate for Health Care Policy

In a Microsoft Word document of 4-5 pages formatted in APA style, you will imagine you are going to make a visit to your representative in Congress. There are two parts to this assignment.

Address the following topics:

  • Develop a one-page document that supports your position on the AHCA that you would leave with your representative or his or her aide when you make your visit.
    • This one-pager, also called a “leave behind,” should state your position clearly in bullet points and give your reasons why your position is preferred.
    • This “leave behind” should have 1 inch margins and utilize 14-point font throughout.
    • If you were making this visit in person, you would present your “leave behind” to the person with whom you speak during your visit.
    • Include a second page that describes your rationale for the position in your “leave behind” page supported by at least two journal articles.
  • Write a two-page brief to describe the scenario surrounding your legislative visit. Understanding the political affiliation of your representative, include answers to the following:
    • Was your member in support or in opposition to the AHCA?
    • State three points that you would cover in support or opposition to your representative’s position.
    • How does your nursing experience influence the advocacy position that you take on the AHCA?

You may find it necessary to search for answers to the questions outside of the assigned reading.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.

MGMT 690 wk 3 DQ

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Write 600–800 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

You talk with Mike and Tiffany at lunch. “You’ve done some great research and brought up some good ideas to implement in the presentation,” you say. “There is one element that we are missing.”

“One of the most important aspects of the strategy: our competitors,” Tiffany states.

“I’ve already done some analysis, and there are many in the global market. It seems like there are several office furniture companies thriving, but not as many custom furniture manufacturers,” Mike elaborates.

“Well, we need to provide the board with some solid competitors. I’ll work on finding our top two,” you say. Complete the following:

  • Who are your top 2 global competitors in the market?
  • Provide a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis for each competitor.
  • Why are they direct competitors?
  • What is their competitive advantage?  
  • Could you form a cooperative strategy with any of the competitors?
    • If so, how?
    • If not, why?
  • What strategies could you use to build a competitive market profile?
  • What is balanced scorecard? 

Pediatric Teaching Project

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The pediatric teaching project is designed to allow the nursing student to demonstrate their ability and proficiency in developing and implementing an educational program for children on a specific health related topic. Groups must consist of 3-5 students. Each group will be assigned a topic along with a corresponding grade level. The topics offered are as follows:

– Stranger Safety and Street safety (bicycle, outdoor play, traffic)-4th Grade Level 

When completing the teaching plan, students should consider the age and developmental level of the group they will be teaching. What is their attention span estimated to be? What activities will you do to make the teaching interactive and get the kids involved? What level of language will you use to explain things at the child’s level of understanding?

After the project is completed, the group must submit a final summary paper (maximum 5 pages, excluding references and cover page) in APA format with a minimum of 3 peer reviewed references.  This paper should cover the following topics, which are recommended as headings in the document.

o Project description (Who was your target population? What topic did you choose? Why? What developmental consideration were included? What teaching strategies were used?

o Evaluation of learning (Were the learning objectives achieved? How did you know? What method of evaluation was used?) **Use a hypothetical scenario**

o Summary of overall experience (Do you feel it was helpful to the children? What were the strengths or weaknesses of the teaching methods used? Would you do anything differently. Were there any other health care issues observed that could be identified as areas for further instruction?) **Use a hypothetical scenario**

o References

NOTE : VERY IMPORTANT, Please I need a plagiarism report include. 

SOCW 6311 & 6070 Wk 7 Responses

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RESPONSE 1:

Respond to at least two colleagues by doing all of the following:

· Offer critiques of their logic model as if you were a member of their work groups. 

  • Identify strengths of the logic models.
  • Identify potential weaknesses in the assumptions or        areas that may require additional information or clarification.

· Offer substantial information to assist your colleagues’ efforts such as: 

  • Information to support their understanding of the        problems and needs in this population
  • Suggestions related to intervention activities, and        potential outcomes

Colleague 1: Aimee

A logic model would help us to understand the needs of the community and identify barriers to services. In looking at the needs of the community I reside in, one specific need that continues to arise is that of transportation. I live in a very rural area where public transportation is almost unheard of. There are no bus lines, taxis, or UBER. Many drivers for UBER or LIFT, will not drive out this far to aid individuals. Clients have difficulty accessing services unless they have a caseworker who is willing to transport, family in the area, or friends they can count on.

A logic model would help to identify the issue and create a plan to overcome the challenges faced with no public transportation. We could identify the need and potential solutions to the problem. Dudley tells us that “logic model provides an organizing framework for understanding evaluations” (Dudley, 2018, p. 169). IN looking at the lack of transportation, we may see a pattern in untreated mental health and substance abuse as having a correlation with a lack of transportation to appointments and no access to providers.

The short-term outcomes of public transportation would be greater access to services, such as; mental health counseling, drug and alcohol counseling, parenting, and individual counseling. The long-term outcomes would be lowered drug abuse, wider spread mental health treatment, extended revenue for the community as resources are being utilized, and the potential for lower mental health hospitalizations. Depending on how the intervention is implemented, will depend on the outcome (Dudley, 2016). The logic model, at the intervention stage, provides a framework to improve the interventions being used, (Dudley, 2016, p. 169). It allows the intervention to be focused on the unmet needs of the client and address potential success in outcomes, (Dudley, 2016).

References

Dudley, J. R. (2016). Social Work Evaluation, Enhancing What We DO (2 ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Colleague 2: Samantha

Practice-Level Logic Model Outline

  

Problem

Needs

Underlying   Causes

Intervention   Activities

Outcomes

 

Homeless Veterans IN Clark County, NV

Materials

Land

Funding

Volunteers

Donations

Medical Care 

Job Training

4th largest population of   homeless in the United States

Gambling

Drug Use

Rapid expansion

Rapid increase in population 

Rising cost of living

Veterans Village has opened 3 campus   locations that cater to transitional housing

Low cost permanent housing

And Assisted living  

Reduction in homeless Veterans in Clark   County

Awareness raised in the community

Increased volunteers and donations 

 
 

 
 

A logic model is a diagram of the relationship between the need and the ways to address those needs.  It provides a concise, one-page picture of program operations from beginning to end. The four components of logic models are the problem statement – why the service or project is needed, the goal – the overall aim, assumptions – the basis for the ideas, and the rationale – information in the model (Randolph, 2010).  

 
 

The theory of change typically shows the big picture including issues that can not be controlled.  Shows different avenues that can lead to change.  Describes the how and why the change can come about.  Explains the thought process behind the reasons the change will happen (Randolph, 2010).

 
 

Unmet needs are there is still a long waiting list of homeless Veterans looking for services.  There is also a proposed campus to be built at Veterans Village for women Veterans, but the cost of land, materials and labor has inflated due to increase in population.  Current donations and volunteers would need to double to get the fourth campus built within the allotted amount of time (Stalk, 2018).   

 
 

References

 
 

Randolph, K. A. (2010). Logic models. In B. Thyer (Ed.), The handbook of social work research methods (2nd ed., pp. 547–562). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (PDF)

 
 

Stalk, A., Executive Director. (2018). Veterans Village. Retrieved from https://www.clearinghousecdfi.com/impact_story/veterans-village/

 
 

Stalk, A., Executive Director. (2018). Veterans Village Las Vegas. Retrieved from https://vvlv.org/

RESPONSE 2:

Respond to at least two colleagues in one of the following ways:

  • Expand upon your analysis of the skills the administrator      demonstrated.
  • Describe a strategy your colleague might use to address the      aspect of the case study he or she identified as the most challenging.

Colleague 1: Sandra

An explanation of the types of skills the social work administrator demonstrated as she addressed the problem of Carla’s absence at work and the trauma-related events that followed.

The social work administration uses direct leadership style to take control of the situation. She gave instruction to the receptionist to wait another 15 minutes, after which she should apologize to the client, see if they would like to see someone else (if in crisis), and tell them that Carla would call to reschedule the appointment (Plummer, Makris,  & Brocksen, (Eds.). (2014b). She included what is expected of her, how it is to be done, and a timeline for when it should be completed (Northouse, 2013). 

The Administration uses communication to manage conflict resolution by using the principled negotiation. This highlights deciding issues on their merits. According to Fisher and Ury, 1981, principled negotiation shows individuals how to obtain a fair share without taking advantage of.  There are four parts to this approach which includes separation of the people problem from,  focus on the interest, not positions,  invent options for mutual gains and insist on using objective criteria (Norhouse, 2013, pg., 251). 

Finally, identify one aspect of the case study that would be most challenging to you if you were the administrator, and explain why.

One aspect of the case study that would be challenging is having to call the staff members to tell them that a fellow co-worker has passed. I would also feel compelled to tell them how she died so they could take steps to be mindful of their neighbors (if they are having any issues) and other people including the clients they served.

Northouse, P. G. (2018). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice (4th Ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

Chapter 10, “Listening to Out-Group Members” (pp. 217-237)

Chapter 11, “Managing Conflict” (pp. 239-271)

Chapter 13, “Overcoming Obstacles” (pp. 301-319)

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014b). Social work case studies: Concentration year. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing [Vital Source e-reader].

“Social Work Supervision: Trauma within Agencies” (pp. 7–9)

Zelnick, J. R., Slayter, E., Flanzbaum, B., Butler, N., Domingo, B., Perlstein, J., & Trust, C. (2013). Part of the job? Workplace violence in Massachusetts social service agencies. Health & Social Work, 38(2), 75–85.

Colleague 2: Tammy

Post an explanation of the types of skills the social work administrator demonstrated as she addressed the problem of Carla’s absence at work and the trauma-related events that followed.

The social work administrator demonstrated good leadership skills in the handling of Carla’s absence.  The administrator used technical competence because she knew the order of the tasks that needed to be handled.  According to (Northouse, 2018) you should understand the intricacies of how the organization functions.  The administrator made sure that the clients were handled in the proper manner.  During my first field experience, the clients that showed up for a social worker who had called off was handled in this exact same manner and it was effective.  The administrator also had interpersonal skills because cared about the staff getting notified about the death of their co-worker in a timely manner and grief counseling was available the next day (Social work supervision: Trauma within agencies, 2014b).  (Northouse) asserts that having interpersonal skills allows leaders to work more effectively with that staff and supervisors.  The administrator also demonstrated emotional intelligence.  The administrator is in tune with her emotions and she is sensitive and aware of other peoples emotions (Northouse).

Be sure to include an analysis of the administrator’s use of conflict resolution skills. 

One of the ways the administrator used conflict resolution skills was to separate the conflict from the person.  The conflict was that clients were not being seen because of an employee not showing up for work.  The administrator separated the two things and was able to handle each item separately.  The administrator also used fractionation when she realized all the elements that were involved in Carla missing, she divided the problems down into more manageable pieces (Northouse, 2018). 

Finally, identify one aspect of the case study that would be most challenging to you if you were the administrator, and explain why.

One aspect of the case study that would be most challenging to me if I were the administrator is the task of notifying Carla’s clients that she had died suddenly (Social work supervision: Trauma within agencies, 2014b).  Sometimes, I find it difficult to find the right words when speaking about the sudden death of someone you know or work with.  This same scenario happened at the prison where I worked and when I read this story it brought back the memory.  One of the things I remember is asking someone which of our supervisors had made the call to the police because I wanted to commend the supervisor for doing the right thing.  During the time, no one spoke to the staff about the death of one of its employees.  If my memory is correct they might have mentioned it in our roll call and that was it.  I have always found death notifications to be particularly uncomfortable however, I would be able to complete the task if it was assigned to me.

References

Northouse, P. G. (2018). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Social work supervision: Trauma within agencies. (2014b). In S. Plummer, S. Makris, & S. Brocksen, Social work case studies: Concentration year (pp. 7-9). Baltimore, MD: Laureate Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].