Who’s In Charge

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Note: This discussion posting has two parts, and you are expected to respond to both parts of the discussion question.

In chapter 7, your text explores the ways in which men and women tend to differ in terms of gender role-ideology, perceptual abilities, conformity and obedience, aggressiveness, sexuality, and personality, among others. After reading this section, answer each of the questions below:

  1. If you were given a second life and could choose to be either a man or a woman, which gender would you select? In presenting your answer, list reasons for your choice of returning as a man or a woman.
  2. Think for a moment about the role of a husband and the role of a wife. What should a husband and wife be like? When presenting your answer, consider the following questions (you do not have to answer or include all of these—they are simply to stimulate your thoughts): Who should complete household chores (inside and outside)? Who should make home repairs? Who should spend the most time with the children? Whose responsibility is it to take care of the older parents? Who should earn more money? Who should make family decisions? Who should be a stay-at-home parent? Who should prepare meals or wash the dishes?

No plagiarism please

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Using the corporation you chose from Assignment 1, examine its industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

  1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
  2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
  3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
  4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
  5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
  6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
  7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
  8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • Citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
  • Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
  • Identify the five forces of competition.
  • Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
  • Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Academic Success Plan (paper)

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Purpose: To assist students in identifying areas to improve on in order to be academically successful, formulating strategies to implement and meet goals, and determining the effectiveness of the strategies (outcomes).

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Describe her/himself as a learner.
  • Demonstrate improvement of study skills through a variety of exercises.

Instructions:

  1. Write a 4-8 page paper on the goals to improve, the outcomes, and the effectiveness of the strategies that you implemented this semester (use the chart below to guide you. Address each area.). Use the literature to provide the evidence to support your strategies.
  2. Create two (2) strategies for each provided “Goals to Improve” that you plan to implement this semester.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness (Outcomes) of each strategy you implement in meeting the goal of improving academically.
  4. Include a minimum of three (3) current (≤ 5 years), peer-reviewed, nursing journal articles.
  5. Your paper should be 4-8 pages, excluding title and reference pages. No abstract is needed. Current APA formatting is required.
  6. Upload each article in pdf form that is used in your paper to the Dropbox.
  7. Please refer to the OWL at Purdue APA for questions. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
  8. Do not include any block quotes (direct quotes ≥ 40 words) or direct quotes in your paper.  Instead, paraphrase the information in your own words and cite appropriately.
  9. Include a conclusion. Use headers in your paper.
  10. No more than 25% Turnitin score. 

Submit your paper to the appropriate Dropbox, in a Word docx, by the specified date/time. If the document is uploaded in a format that will not open, meaning the faculty cannot grade it as it was uploaded, then the student will receive a grade of zero (0). It is the student’s responsibility to verify that their paper is in the correct format.

Only assignments that are uploaded to the correct location will be graded. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure they upload the correct assignment to the correct location and by the posted due date/time. It is also the student’s responsibility to ensure that they upload the correct version of their assignment. Only the version that is uploaded/posted will be graded. If a student inadvertently uploads the incorrect version of an assignment, it is the student’s responsibility to contact their instructor prior to the due date/time.

Managerial Accounting Cost Analysis Motomart 2

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The project requires five steps to be presented.

Step 1 – Provide comments on a 5-year Income Statement.

Step 2 – Discuss patterns in expense items.

Step 3 – Identify High/Low activity levels.

Step 4 – Compute cost equations.

Step 5 – Summarize your findings.

-I have included feedback that I received please use this to help answer the questions above. 

  • The Excel file provides a detailed example of what needs to be done for one of the expenses in order to fill out the figures required in Steps 3 & 4. You will include this Excel file as part of your project submission along with the Word document you create to present this project.
    • There is a “60 Months” worksheet that has the 60 months of data already entered. There is also a “Sample” worksheet that an example of how to calculate the R-sq.
    • There is a “PLOT – SALARY” worksheet that shows how the FC, VC and R-sq figures are calculated for Salary.
    • There is also a “high&low” worksheet for help with the high/low method in Step 3.
    • Complete and include the Excel spreadsheet. You will need to create new worksheets for each of the other expenses following the example to calculate the figures needed for Table 5.

In one Word document, provide individual sections for each Step. This Word document along with the Excel file both documents will need to be completed with this assignment.  Please make sure carefully read the instructions so the assignment can completed in its entirely. 

• Quadruple Aim and evidence-based practice.

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· Define the Quadruple Aim and explain its application to evidence-based practice.

· Your analysis should address how evidence-based practice might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim,including each of the four measures of:  (   The response accurately and clearly defines the Quadruple Aim in detail.The response accurately and clearly explains in detail how the   Quadruple Aim applies to evidence-based practice. The response accurately and clearly explains in detail how evidence-based practice might or might not help reach the Quadruple Aim as it pertains to patient experience.
 1) Patient experience (2–3 paragraphs  (The response includes clear, accurate, and specific examples of how evidence-based practice impacts patient experience. The response synthesizes and integrates at least two outside resources and two competency-specific resources that fully support the responses provided )

2) Population health (2–3 paragraphs) ( The response accurately and clearly explains in detail how evidence-based practice might or might not help reach the Quadruple Aim as it pertains to population health.The response includes clear, accurate, and specific examples of how evidence-based practice impacts population health.The response synthesizes and integrates at least two outside resources and two competency-specific resources that fully support the responses provided. )

3) Costs (2–3 paragraphs)  The response accurately and clearly explains in detail how evidence-based practice might or might not help reach the  Quadruple Aim as it pertains to costs in healthcare. The response includes clear, accurate, and specific examples of how evidence-based practice impacts costs in healthcare.The response synthesizes and integrates at least two outside resources and two competency-specific resources that fully support the responses provided. )

4) Work-life of healthcare providers (2–3 paragraphs)  ( The response accurately and clearly explains in detail how evidence-based practice might or might not help reach the Quadruple Aim as it pertains to work-life of healthcare providers.The response includes clear, accurate, and specific examples of how evidence-based practice impacts work-life of healthcare providers. The response synthesizes and integrates at least two outside resources and two competency-specific resources that fully support the responses provided. )

week 3 project health policy and promotion

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asapnursing

Instructions

This written assignment requires the student to investigate his/her local, state and federal legislators and explore their assigned committees and legislative commitments. The student is expected to investigate current and actual legislative initiatives that have either passed or pending approval by the house, senate or Governor’s office. The student will draft a letter to a specific legislator and offer support or constructive argument against pending policy or legislation.  The letter must be supported with a minimum of 3 evidence based primary citations. (See Rubric)

  1. The letter must include a discussion regarding your local, state and federal legislator and his/her assigned committees and legislative commitments.  
  2. The letter must discuss the specific policy or legislation (Bill or Act)
  3. The letter must offer support or constructive argument against pending policy or legislation. 
  4. The letter must be supported with a minimum of 3 evidence based primary citations.
  5. Follow the Grading Rubric Closely

Rubric

Legislation Type State or federal, scope of practice, reimbursement, loan repayment etc. Review of the Literature Use a min of 3-4 primary sources of evidence. Not older than 5 years

Current Policy What is the current policy or health policy issue and how might it impact nursing or healthcare? Proposed Policy or Pending Changes to Policy What are they? Be specific. You may have multiple changes in one piece of legislation

Stakeholders Who benefits from the changes? Who supports the changes/legislation? Outcomes How will this impact nursing practice and the healthcare system?

Uses correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Provides credible resources using correct APA format.

The state I want the project focused on is Florida.

example of the letter 

Date

The Honorable________________

The State Senate (or House of Representatives)

State Capitol

Santa Fe, NM  87503

Dear Senator (or Representative)____________:

Letter Content

Cite appropriate References in the content of the Letter

Sincerely,

Your Name

References Page Must be included after the Letter

List References in APA format

I have attached weeks two assignment. for reference its on Florida. 

Week 4 Project BUS3055

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 Week 4 ProjectAssignment Task: Submit to complete this assignment Due June 29 at 12:59 AM

Legal and Ethical Scenarios

Select two of the scenarios provided below. Analyze the facts in the scenarios and develop appropriate arguments and recommendations using case law and scholarly sources. Do not copy the case studies into the paper. Cite your sources in APA format on a separate page. Submit the paper to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Scenario 1—Bankruptcy

Katrina, a risk manager for State Farm Insurance, filed a petition in bankruptcy under Chapter 7, seeking to discharge $55,000 in credit-card debts and $35,000 in student loans.  Katrina’s husband died and left her with two children, Paula, who attended college, and Dean, who was fifteen years old.  According to Katrina, Dean was an “elite” runner who practiced ten to fifteen hours a week and placed first or second at more than forty competitive events. Dean was homeschooled with academic achievements that were average for his grade level.  Katrina’s petition showed monthly income of $5,400 and expenses of $5,100.  The expenses included annual homeschool costs of $6,200 and annual running expenses of $7,500.  The expenses did not include college costs for Paula, or airfare for her upcoming summer trip to Italy, and other items.  The trustee allowed monthly expenses of $4,400, with nothing allocated for running expense  and asked the court to dismiss the petition.

  • If Katrina qualified for Chapter 7, which debts would be discharged?  Which debts would not be discharged?  Why?
  • Using the median income from your state, does Katrina qualify for Chapter 7?  Remember to count the number of people in the household.
  • Should the court grant the trustee’s request?  Does Katrina have other options if the Chapter 7 petition is dismissed?
  • Explain your answers and support them with relevant scholarly sources.

Scenario II – Insurance

Juanita owns a home in Birmingham, Alabama.  Her elderly grandmother lives in the house so Juanita can help take care of her.  Juanita decides to purchase a fire insurance policy from Allstate to cover the house and a life insurance policy from Liberty Mutual to cover funeral and other expenses that will be incurred when her grandmother dies.   Six months later, Juanita sells the house to Ben.  Juanita and her grandmother move into a rental home.  One month prior to the expiration of the fire insurance, Juanita’s old house burns to the ground.  Shortly after, her grandmother dies.  The insurance companies state that they are not liable because Juanita did not have an insurable interest in the home or her grandmother.  The premiums were returned to Juanita.

  • Discuss the claims for all parties (Juanita, Allstate and Liberty).

Scenario III— Bankruptcy

Locate one of the following scholarly articles about bankruptcy in the SUO Online Library.  Summarize the article in your own words.  Identify and discuss the most important aspect of the article, as well as any ethical issues.   

Adkisson, R. V., & Saucedo, E. (2012). Emulation and state-by-state variations in bankruptcy rates. The Journal of Socio-Economics, 41(4), 400. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2012.04.008

 Boettcher, J., Cavanagh, G., & Xu, M. (2014). Ethical Issues that arise in Bankruptcy. Business & Society Review (00453609), 119(4), 473-496. doi:10.1111/basr.12042

 Crack, T. F., & Roberts, H. (2015). Credit cards, excess debt, and the time value of money: The parable of the debt banana. Journal of Financial Education, 41(1), 117-137.

Grote, K. R., & Matheson, V. A. (2014). The impact of state lotteries and casinos on state bankruptcy filings. Growth & Change, 45(1), 121-135. doi:10.1111/grow.12030

 Joseph, M. B. (2016). Consumer pro se bankruptcy: Finding hope in hopelessness. American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, 35(5), 32-33.

Labatt, J., Forrest, M., & Swartz, R. (2016). Discharging student loans in bankruptcy: Good luck with that.     Proceedings of the Allied Academies International Conference. International Academy for Case Studies, 23(1) 8-11.

McQuade, A. (2016). The antidote to zombie foreclosures: How bankruptcy courts should address the zombie foreclosure crisis. Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, 32(2), 507-535.

Pardo, R. I. (2016). Taking bankruptcy rights seriously.  Washington Law Review, 91(3), 1115-1191.

Ramsey, S., Blough, D., Kirchhoff, A., Kreizenbeck, K., Fedorenko, C., Snell, K., . . . Overstreet, K. (2013). Washington state cancer patients found to be at greater risk for bankruptcy than people without A cancer diagnosis. Health Affairs, 32(6), 1143-52.

Sousa, M. D. (2013). Bankruptcy stigma: A socio-legal study. The American Bankruptcy Law Journal, 87(4), 435-482.

 Wikel, D., & Lane, E. (2012). Moral and ethical considerations for turnaround professionals. American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, 31(7), 36-37,88-89.

Persuasive Campaign for Online Education

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Design a persuasive campaign aimed at promoting online education. In explaining your campaign, you must identify the following items:

  • The campaign’s central message or slogan
  • The target audience for the campaign
  • The medium used to promote the campaign
  • The intended persuasion outcome for the campaign

After providing the details of your campaign, you must explain why you believe this campaign will be effective using at least three of the persuasion theories that you learned in this course. You will need to cite at least four (4) outside sources besides the textbook. Material from those sources can be used to support details of your campaign or the persuasion theories that you reference in the paper. The paper must contain an introduction with thesis statement, at least five body paragraphs, and a conclusion. For a review of how to create these elements of an essay, visit the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center (Links to an external site.). The explanation of the campaign should be no more than 1000 words out of the total word count.

The Final Paper

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

ART reflection essay

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Final Reflection Essay: What have you brought to the table? What did you take from the table?

DUE: 11:59pm, Monday May 10, 2021 

LATE submissions will be accepted until 8am Thursday May 13 but subject to an automatic 10% point reduction. 

NO ESSAYS should be submitted BEFORE our final group critique of all the finished bowls on (hopefully) Wednesday April 28, 2021.

Length: minimum 1500 words, double spaced

For the Final Reflection Essay students will draw on their overall experiences in this course.

As you prepare to write your Final Reflection reread your previous reflection assignments and reflect on what you said then and compare that to how you feel now. 

Most important for me is how this class builds community, both in and out of the studio. 

You may use some of the content from your other reflection essays, especially if it addresses any of the prompts below. However please DO NOT cut and paste word for word large sections of earlier essays. You may use the content or ideas from earlier reflection essays, but it must be with renewed research and/or personal reflection. Use the Final Reflection essay as an opportunity to revisit or revise previous viewpoints. 

You may copy word for word the self-critique you submitted for the Final Studio Production assignment submission, as well as include photos of your bowls, garden creations and/or coloring pages if these help illustrate your Final Reflection narrative.

You may find it helpful when organizing your essay to use headings for different sections. However I will still want to see an intro and a conclusion. Examples of headings could be “Service for Siena/Francis”, “Working for social justice in the studio”, etc.

Your essay should include the following:

  • a brief statement about your Empty Bowls experience. I want to use these statements in the promotion and display for the next CU Empty Bowls event (2022). You can lead with this statement (like an epigraph before the body of your essay) or include it at the end. Just make sure I know where it is, so I can easily extract it.
  • A reflection on one or more of the CCAS Charisms downloadand describe how they manifest in this course. 
  • Clearly articulated self-disclosure and connections between course activities relevant to the learning objectives listed below. For some objectives or group of objectives I’ve recommended possible course activities (studio time, service, readings) you can use to discuss your experiences relevant to the objectives. You do not need to address all of the objectives individually. 

Intersections

  • Students will become engaged in a problem (Homelessness and food insecurity in Omaha), explore its complexity through critical reading and research (course readings and previous essays), analyze and evaluate alternative solutions (studio and service activities), and justify a chosen solution with a reasoned argument.
  • Students will describe personal involvement in work related to service and/or advocacy for social justice. (relate how your work in this class contributes to the mission of Siena/Francis and the CU Empty Bowls project)
  • Students will integrate learning from various disciplines and experiences to articulate their vision of justice, of serving the common good, and of working as agents of social justice as community leaders, and global citizens. (How did this class relate to your major? Was there something you learned in another core course that was reinforced in this class?)

Designated Ethics

What are our ethical responsibilities as informed citizens?

What does it mean to “give”? Was it difficult to give “away” your bowls?

  • Students will apply analytical tools, content knowledge, and ethical principles to contextualize social conditions, evaluate the consequences of injustices, and identify opportunities to promote social justice.
  • Students will distinguish the morally relevant features of complex practical situations in the context of a chosen academic discipline, profession, or sphere of ethical responsibility.
  • Students will apply fundamental moral theories and principles, such as consequentialism, deontology, and/or virtue theory in a chosen academic discipline, code of conduct, profession, or sphere of ethical responsibility.
  • Students will critically evaluate the relationship between their ethical presuppositions, their responsibilities to society, and the values of their chosen academic discipline, profession, or sphere of ethical responsibility.

AcSL

Did this class motivate you to continue working toward the greater good? If so, how?

  • Students will integrate learning of disciplinary knowledge, gained through classroom exercises, with experiential knowledge, gained through direct contact with the everyday problems of real people.
  • Students will encounter, serve, and form relationships through structured opportunities with individuals and communities that might otherwise remain outside their personal experience. 
  • RECOMMENDED but not required: Photo-documentation of course activitieswhich supports the content of your essay. This may include your bowl making process, finished bowls, “bowls in action”, service for Siena/Francis, etc. This photo-documentation can be imbedded in your essay, listed as an Appendix with references such as “see Appendix figure 1”, or included at the conclusion of your essay. Whichever way you choose to visually represent your experiences in this course make sure it is easily followed and accessible. 

Paper’s should be well written with little to no spelling or grammatical errors.

This semester was extremely challenging and this essay is an opportunity to communicate to your professor your ideas on improving this course in the future. A vital component of this essay is personal reflection on the combined efforts of all involved. Therefore all essays should include an assessment of the class as a whole, not just your individual contribution. As such no essays should be submitted prior to our last class of the semester.

Please let me know if you need feedback on drafts or have questions. 

Respondo nino 668to

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Please respond to the following write ups  Address some of the problems, if any, with the current malpractice legal system related to malpractice with references.

Response 1

 

Advanced practice nurses (APN) are a part of an increasingly complex health care system and currently twenty-eight states allow full practice authority for APNs (American Association of Nurse Practitioners [AANP], 2021). The APN faces similar professional liability risks as the primary care physicians because they have the responsibility to protect their patients and themselves by practicing within the scope of practice that is mandated by the state statute, rules, and regulations (Heuer et al., 2019).

According to Joel (2018) table 29.1 and 29.3, in Arizona, the APN had a total of 103 medical malpractice payments from 1990-2014, while the physician had a total of 5,194 during the same time. The highest claim number for the APN was 11 in the years 2007 and 2011 and the highest number of claims for the physician was 307 in 2003. Tables 29.2 and 29.4 from Joel (2018) show the APN had a total of 21 adverse actions taken against them in Arizona from 1990-2014, while the physician had 3,337 adverse actions reported during the same time in Arizona. The difference in claims may be related to the number of practicing physicians compared to practicing nurse practitioners and the patient-provider encounters. Brock et al. (2017) discuss that three-quarters of malpractice counts against APN are due to diagnosis or treatment-related events while the physician has half of their malpractice counts for the exact reason. There could be a difference in claims in adverse events because all adverse licensure actions, clinical privilege actions are mandatory for physicians to report while it is voluntarily reported by APNs (Joel, 2018). In addition, medical errors and near misses are often and not report and not all significant allegations will result in an award, so they are not reported to the NPDB (Brock et al., 2017).  

Respose 2

 

Practice safety is the expectation for all providers, and malpractice is a serious issue.  Malpractice is considered practice that is improper, negligent or criminal (Dictionary.com, 2021).  Exposures for malpractice in Advanced Practice Nursing include: financial risks, civil and criminal risks, and licensure risks (Joel, 2018).   Similar risks are assumed by physicians and physician assistants as well.  The unfortunate reality is that mistakes happen and all providers must protect themselves with best practices, and malpractice insurance. 

     In Joel (2018), the data for malpractice suits were significantly lower for Nurse Practitioners as compared to physicians.  While there may be many reasons for this, one important factor for this may be that up until 2021, APRNs in the state of Massachusetts were not allowed independent practice. It is thought that the rates of malpractice claims against APRNs may rise in conjunction with independent practice (Gardnier et al., 2015).  Sweeney et al., (2017) states that malpractice claims against APRNs are increasing over time.

    The majority of claims against nurse practitioners is diagnosis related, and a majority involved independent practice (Sweeney et al., 2017).  Avoiding malpractice claims and suits involves excellence and precision in care along with other strategies and skills such as: good communication, good documentation, knowing your limits as an NP, not allowing others to dictate care, and prompt responses to patients (Brown, 2014).

    Nursing is a patient-centered endeavor at its core.  Advanced practice nursing is no different, and quality outcomes are a function of that care.  Malpractice can harm the care by raising the cost of care and thereby potentially reducing patient access to care. The malpractice system may also affect treatment by inducing providers to practice defensive medicine or avoid reporting incidents (Renkema, 2014).  As APRNs broaden their influence and practice, it is imperative to be aware of the pitfalls, and gain strategies for the best, safest delivery of care.