6 – Organizational Change Presentation

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Scenario

Every leader uses their traits, behaviors, and the circumstances of the situation to achieve successful outcomes. Organizational change is desirable to remain competitive, and leaders serve as change agents to ensure these changes are successful. You have been recently selected to lead an organization’s change efforts concerning the recent pandemic. During the pandemic, the organization moved to a work from home (WFH) model.

It has been several months now, and the WFH model proves to be highly successful for the company. Now the pandemic is gone, and the move back to the office is possible without sacrificing employee health and safety. Executive leadership has decided to continue the WFH module for the indefinite future; however, some managers in the organization want to move back to the office versus the continued working from home model.

The CEO has tasked you to promote this change for the organization and encourage other managers to get on board. You are serving as the change agent leader for this project by creating a presentation for an upcoming manager kickoff meeting for the work from the home model initiative. Remember, the goal is to create “buy-in” and support from managers on this new initiative.

Instructions

Create a presentation with speaker’s notes that: –

Provides a title slide (1 Slide)

  • Provides an agenda (1 Slide)
  • Provides an introduction to the current situation and direction from leadership on the WFH initiative (1 Slide)
  • Discusses the most effective leadership styles needed to continue the success of the WFH model (1 slide)
  • Examines tactics managers can use in order to be successful in influencing individual’s behaviors within the organization (1-2 slides).
  • Describes the importance of each managers contribution (traits, behaviors, etc.) on leading the organization through the WFH initiative (1-2 slides)
  • Provides a conclusion (1 Slide)
  • Provides attribution for credible references used in the development of content ideas following academic guidelines in a reference slide (1 Slide)
  • Uses examples to support the understanding of concepts in a well-created presentation
  • Contains presentation slides with only general information as a visual reference for the audience, and the speaker’s notes should include the details of each slide
  • As always, please keep in mind who your audience is and use correct grammar and spelling

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Choose one of the two options below for your discussion.

Option 1

1. What is the relationship between media and propaganda? 

2. Beyond American Sniper, present and discuss 2 Hollywood films that push American war propaganda.

3. Using current examples, demonstrate how US propaganda is pushed abroad today.

You can use the reading on the US military base in Ghana to help guide you to come up with current examples of how US propaganda manifests in the Global South today.

Reflections should be 300-500 words long. Your initial reflections are due by Thursday.

  • Incorporate references to course materials presented this week and a link to a current news event or topic that relates to the week’s materials into your reflections.

Comment on at least TWO of your classmates’ discussion posts by Monday. 

  • Your comments should reflect one or more of the following:
    • Agreement with extension
    • An alternative perspective with your rationale
    • A respectful challenge with counter argument

Option 2

1. Using current examples, demonstrate how media framing of issues around immigration and terrorism reinscribe the status quo by perpetuating the immigrant vs. expatriate and terrorist vs. lone-wolf trope. 

2. How do these week’s readings and video clips further our understanding of the relationship between media, war, and foreign policy in the post 9/11 political environment? 

3. Many would argue that the United States has become paranoid after 9/11, which has resulted in an acceleration of surveillance not just outside of U.S. borders but also within. Are we in a perpetual state of fear? What might be the consequences of this constant state of fear? 

Reflections should be 300-500 words long. Your initial reflections are due by Thursday.

  • Incorporate references to course materials presented this week and a link to a current news event or topic that relates to the week’s materials into your reflections.

Comment on at least TWO of your classmates’ discussion posts by Monday. 

  • Your comments should reflect one or more of the following:
    • Agreement with extension
    • An alternative perspective with your rationale
    • A respectful challenge with counter argument

Regulatory Requirements for Safe Non-Opioid and Opioid Prescribing Paper.

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The APRN must be knowledgeable of their state’s regulatory laws as it pertains to prescribing non-scheduled and scheduled medications across the lifespan. (Resource: Link for State Regulation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DY4y3jkPlaXSa1DMKWPJTGY-RUG1mkZh/view?usp=sharing)

Review state regulations for APRN prescribers in the state in which you live or the state where you plan to be certified. Review the CDC Interactive Training Series for Healthcare Providers in Module 1 and Module 4 https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/training/online-training.html

1. Summarize which agency/agencies regulate/oversee APRN prescribing in your state.

2. Summarize the educational requirements for prescribing as an APRN. 

3. Differentiate the regulations in your current state and state(s) you are considering practicing in or a neighboring state.

4. Create an outline of the actions required to prescribe in your identified state.

5. Summarize the Controlled Substances regulations in your state and the process for obtaining your DEA registration.

6. Summarize the main concepts for CDC Module 1 and Module 4.

7. Conclude the paper describing your plan for implementing safe prescribing practices as an APRN addressing your state’s regulations and the CDC Opioid guidelines.

8. Use APA 7 format for your write up and cite any resources/evidence that you have utilized. The paper is to be 2500-4500 words, excluding title page and references.

Expectations

  • Due: 06/04/21, 11:59 pm PT
  • Length: The paper is to be 2500-4500 words, excluding title page and references.
  • Format: APA 7 Style

Week 2 Discussion History of Art from the Middle ages to Modern Times

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 Week 2 DiscussionDiscussion Topic Task: Reply to this topic Due May 7 at 12:59 AM

By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates as early in the week as possible.

Question 1: Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture in Italy

The biblical hero David was a popular subject for sculpture and painting throughout the Renaissance and into the Baroque period. By studying, comparing, and contrasting sculptures of David created in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, you can begin to see the stylistic changes that occurred across these centuries. In a minimum of 3 well-developed paragraphs, compare and contrast the following 3 sculptures of David:

  1. Early Renaissance: Donatello. David. 1446-1460.
  2. High Renaissance: Michelangelo. David. 1501-1504.
  3. Baroque. Gianlorenzo Bernini. David. 1623.

In your comparison, discuss:

  • What specific visual similarities do you observe in these three sculptures?
  • What specific differences do you see? Consider the representation of the figure, additional objects portrayed, and the role of the viewer for each sculpture
  • How has the attitude of David changed between these three representations?
  • How is each sculpture representative of the time period and style in which it was created?

Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.

Question 2: Dutch Baroque Painting

As we learned this week, Dutch Baroque art showed the influence of Protestantism and the middle-class merchants and traders who served as patrons. Dutch Baroque artists created portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and genre scenes of domestic life.

In a minimum of 2 well developed paragraphs, discuss how the following paintings reflect the social and historical context of sixteenth-century Holland. Consider the influence of religion, commerce, social structure, and/or patrons of the art in your response. Offer specific examples of how the subject of each painting reflects the society and culture in which it was created.

  1. Frans Hals, The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem, c. 1664
  2. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632
  3. Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664

Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.

Respond to both questions as thoroughly as possible, making sure to use information from the readings and the lectures. All responses should be in complete sentence form, using proper spelling and grammar.

HI300M4 Formulating Data Storage and Retrieval Processes

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HI300-4: Formulate a secure storage and retrieval process for healthcare data.

GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.

Instructions:

  1. Create a security plan for a medium sized health care facility. In your security plan, evaluate how you would approach security threats from both inside and outside the organization. Be sure that you address the following items in your security plan:
    1. physical and administrative safeguards: employee education, health information archival and retrieval systems, disaster recovery, storage media
    2. access safeguards: authentication, password management
    3. network safeguards: cloud computing, firewalls, encryption / decryption and using mobile devices to deliver healthcare
  2. Critique the plan you have written, identifying its strengths, elements that were not covered in the text, and any additional omissions or weaknesses of the plan.

As a reference, you may want to visit the following website:

Source: HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program: United States Department of Health & Human Services. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/audit/index.html 

Requirements:

  • The Assignment should be 2–3 pages in length, prepared in a Microsoft Word document, and APA-formatted.
  • Include a title page and reference page. Length requirements do not include the title page, and the reference page.
  • Follow APA style format and citation guidelines, including Times New Roman 12 point font and double spacing.
  • This Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English featuring correct grammar, punctuation, style, and mechanics.
  • Include at least two references. The course textbook counts as one reference. All sources must be scholarly. Wikipedia is not acceptable. Use APA style for all citations including course materials.
  • Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.

Minimum Submission Requirements 

  • This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word document (2-3 pages), and include a title and reference pages.
  • Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
  • Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
  • Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
  • Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
  • A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
  • Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
  • Your submission should:
    • include a title page;
    • be double-spaced;
    • be typed in Times New Roman, 12-point font;
    • include correct citations;
    • be written in Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors; and
    • include correct references at the bottom of the last page.

If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.

nursing healthcare wk3/dis/

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SELF/PRO

  

PART 1

The Affordable Care Act and the American Health Care Act Compared

The provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs all employers to provide minimum value and affordable medical cover to all full-time employees or else be penalized whereas the American Health Care Act (AHCA) removed the penalty on defaulting employers (Conley, Dygert & Sellstrom, 2016). Under the ACA, it is the people’s mandate to buy healthcare coverage whereas the AHCA abolished the penalty requiring individuals to purchase health cover. However, the AHCA issues penalties to individuals who fail to pay their healthcare coverage for more than 63 days in the last 12 months, and youth who are past the age limit under parental cover and did not enroll for health cover of that year (Conley, Dygert & Sellstrom, 2016).

The penalty is a 30% surcharge in premiums, which can last for a period of 12 months (Conley, Dygert & Sellstrom, 2016). On the aspect of coverage affordability, ACA provides for cost-sharing subsidies in low-income families or individuals to allow for exchange plans for up to an average of 70%. The premiums to be paid by such individuals and families have tax reductions to enable low-income earners afford healthcare insurance (Mach, 2017). On the other hand, the AHCA offers credits on the basis of age with fixed amounts such as below 30 years-$2000, 30-40 years-$2500, $3,500-50-60 years, and it faced out credits for people earning incomes that exceed $75,000 (Conley, Dygert & Sellstrom, 2016). The ACA removed additional charges for health status whereas AHCA charges 30% standard rate for people with preexisting health complication for the past 12 months (Mach, 2017).

Opinion on Why AHCA Failed in the first Passage Attempt

           The most likely reasons for the failure of AHCA during its first passage attempt were due to its provisions that would impact negatively in low income families and the less-privileged individuals with regard to their preexisting health status. For instance, the AHCA lifted penalties that employers were to be charged if they defaulted paying the compulsory health cover for all their permanent employees. This implies that employees could pay their employees’ cover only when they wished, which could push the burden back to employees. The other reasons are that people with preexisting medical conditions would be required to pay more premiums, and abolished sharing of insurance cover, and charging premiums based on age instead of economic capabilities. This means that you can be charged little premiums even if you earn high, and you can be charged high premiums even if you poor depending on your age.

PART2

 Your comparisons of the ACA and AHCA were informative.  How did the mandate for employers to pay for employee’s healthcare insurance affect the employers? 

Identifying Report Writing Trends

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Scenario

The Chief liked your professional development seminar and job-aid so much that you have now been asked to assist the department on another project. You will be giving a “lunch-and-learn” seminar for your department next week. You have been asked to give a brief presentation on current and projected trends in criminal justice report writing.

Instructions

Submit a written one-page summary of the trends you have researched:

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 outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Examine the current state and future projections of technologies used in criminal justice report writing.

link#1: https://www.practicepanther.com/blog/what-new-technologies-has-to-do-with-criminal-justice/

link#2: https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Report-As-Tech-Changes-Law-Enforcement-Its-Workforce-Must-Adapt.html

Link#3: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/industries/how-safe-is-your-city/

DBassignment2

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  1. You recently attended a professional development session and were drawn to the Reggio Emilia-inspired idea, “The environment is the third teacher.”

    To further explore this concept, you decide to complete environmental scans to determine the components of early learning environments that encourage active and meaningful learning.

    Instructions:

    Part One – Observation
    First, arrange to observe an early learning program (center-based or family childcare) for a minimum of 20 minutes.

    Please note: The program should be licensed to operate in your state and preferably hold NAEYC, another credible accreditation, or a high rating in the state’s quality rating and improvement system.

    • If you choose to observe the program in which you are currently employed, you are required to arrange the observation during a time you are not directly responsible for children.
    • If you do not have access to an early learning program, please complete your environmental scan using a video option. Videos of the inside of an early learning program can be searched for using YouTube (try searching key terms such as ‘infant classroom’ or ‘family childcare environments,’. Or if you are interested in reviewing an outdoor environment, try this video – Natural Learning Environments.
    • During the observation, take detailed notes of the environment, looking for specific components that can support or hinder active learning.

      Part Two – Summary
      Next, write a 1-2 page summary of your findings (with a title page and reference page) that:

    • Describes the setting (i.e., age range, program type, accreditation, or quality rating, if available).
    • If you chose a video option, please provide the link to the video.
    • Describes what you observed in the environment.
    • Provide examples of what was seen and heard.
    • Interprets the environmental scan, including:
    • Identifies at least one component of the environment that supported active and meaningful learning for each core consideration of DAP, for example:
    • One component that addressed commonality
    • One component that addressed individuality
    • One component that addressed the children’s context
    • Recommends improvements to the environment, including:
    • Identifies at least one component of the environment that could be modified or included to support meaningful and active learning for each of the three core considerations of DAP (three recommendations in total).
    • Uses at least one credible source to support your ideas with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation in 1-2 page professional summary with title page and reference page.
    • Download the title page template below:
    • EEC1971_Title_Page.docx

       

Public Health and Sexuality

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hi dear,

I just need to 2 responses to the assignments.

Please be thorough with your response and be sure to back up all information with reputable sources.

1. For week three I decided to go with topic 2 for my discussion response. Some basic conditions for good sex that were developed by Zilbergold are through discovering all of your conditions to ensure that you are able to enjoy your sexuality. Through his studies he has explained that every individual has his or her own unique condition for good sex. You must look at both conditions sexual satisfaction of when pleasure and intimacy was at it’s highest point and also it’s lowest point when you possibly felt like you were not aroused. He Zilbergeld states that within a sexual situation you must be comfortable, confident, and excited in order to get the fulfillment of an open experience. By clearing your mind of all the unnecessary chaos, you are able to transmit sexual messages that will result in better satisfaction when it comes to intimacy. 

In order to fully understand your condition, you and your partner must communicate all factors to understand sexual desires. By incorporating sexual enhancement programs, couples are able to make time for one another in having a better understanding of sexual fulfillment. “To sustain a loving sexual relationship, individuals must be willing to face the threats to the defense system that loving another person and being loved for oneself evoke” (Yarber, Sayad, Strong, 2015 p 455). When it comes to sexual difficulties, couple have the opportunity to cooperate with one another to help each other have a better intimate relationship. 

Differences in sexual desires amongst couples can tend to cause arguments which results in a negative way within the relationship. “One of the most significant elements of enhancing our physical experience of sex is intensifying arousal” Yarber, Sayad, Strong, 2015 p 459). Through homework exercises and programs, couples are able to better understand one another. From the readings you can see that these types of programs and exercises are somewhat comparable to sex therapy. Some couples may also incorporate using erotic aids such as sex toys to enhance sexual responsiveness. Having excellent sex is adaptable and varies with couples but the outcomes are able to be altered with the time and dedication to improving the experiences.

2.  Describe the major obstacles to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) people in obtaining adequate health care.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered persons face unique health care challenges.  Fear and costs are the main reasons the LGBT community faces challenges in obtaining adequate health care.  More than half of this population of Americans state that they have experienced violence, threats, or harassment because of their sexuality or gender identity.  LGBTQ people receive poor quality of care not only due to stigma, but also because of a lack of healthcare providers’ awareness as well as insensitivity to the unique needs of this community.  These discriminations in healthcare settings endanger LGBTQ people’s lives through delays or denials of medically necessary care. 

In many times, the patients want to talk about their sexual health but fear they would be discriminated against or stigmatized.  Because they don’t want discrimination to affect the quality of healthcare they receive, many people do no tell their doctors about their sexual orientation.  Because of this hesitation, lesbians and bisexual women have higher rates of breast cancer than heterosexual women since they have been found to get less routine health care than other women.  By eliminating LGBT health disparities and enhancing efforts to improve LGBT health are necessary to ensure that the LGBT individuals can lead long, healthy lives.  

Sexuality is an integral part of a patien’ts identity that needs to uniquely defined by each patient.  It cannot be determined simply by looking at someone.  Healthcare providers may lack adequate training on the specific needs and clalenges faced by the LGBT community.  Although there has been an uprising in LGBTQ-friendly healthcare providers, we as whole need to bring more awareness and help stop the discrimination, a lot of LGBT fear of the discrimination that they stop from seeking the needed medical care that they should have.  A way to improve this, is that healthcare providers can use inclusive language so that patients doesn’t need to feel that they have defend their sexual identity. The wrong words used by the healthcare provider can be experienced as heterosexist and can reveal a lack of understanding.

Thanks,

American Literature

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QUESTION 2

  1. Answer the following question in complete sentences.  You should not merely answer in bullet style.  Write a well-developed essay that incorporates all of the ideas in the question.  The question is two-pronged.
    First, discuss the idea of conformity vs. nonconformity in the works of Emerson and Thoreau.  The focus of your essay should be the works that we studied by these authors.  This is important.  Give consideration to these things in your answer:

    • how the transcendentalists view man
    • Emerson’s concept of “man thinking” and a “foolish consistency”
    • what it means in their eyes to really be a “man” (think of Self-Reliance and the “different drummer” quote)
    • how society affects the individual 
    • obstacles that keep a person from truly being himself 
    • the general lesson about conformity that can be drawn from the path Thoreau wore between his house and the pond
    • how Thoreau defines true success
    • Though Whitman and Dickinson were quite different poets, both were greatly influenced by the transcendentalist movement.  In the second part of your essay, explain this transcendentalist influence in Whitman and Dickinson, using at least four of the poems listed in your discussion.  Ask yourself, what “tenet” of transcendentalism does each one express?
    • “Song of Myself #1” – Consider the poem as a whole, but also think specifically of these lines:
    • Creeds and schools in abeyance,
      Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
      I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
      Nature without check with original energy.
    • “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer”
    • “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense”
    • “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”
    • “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church”