Write a initial post between 100-150 words describing the object you have and writing the description to someone who has never seen such a thing.
This task will require you to have access to a common, mundane object and a ruler that shows centimeters.
Find either 1) Can Opener, or 2) Toothbrush, or 3) Scissors, or 4) Lamp
Once you’ve found the object you’d like to work with, select the discussion group with that object’s name and enter. In the forum, you need to do the following:
1. Write a initial post between 100-150 words describing the object you have and writing the description to someone who has never seen such a thing.
2. In a follow-up post after several of your peers have posted an initial post, read through the initial posts and begin assigning descriptive details to the objects. Separate subjective descriptions such as “pretty” and “ugly” from objective descriptions that give details about the object (hint: use sub-headers for the subjective and objective separations).
3. In a final post, assemble the objective descriptions you found from reading your peers’ follow-up posts and then classify objective details. For example, for a staple remover: prongs, plastic finger grips, spring mechanism. And then arrange the various classes of detail in the most logical sequence for description. For example, for a staple remover: from finger grips to plastic exterior to hollow metal prongs, including pointed tips and arms, to the coil-spring extensor mechanism. In the final paragraph of this post answer the question, “What is the intended audience of this product description?” “Will the intended audience understand the function of the product because of the description?”
What social groups or organizations are important in your life? Choose at least two and describe one or more patterns of interaction for each of them that can be analyzed as social rituals.
This third exercise is based on application of Durkheim’s theory of social gravity and the importance of rituals to your own lives and experiences; see especially pp. 188-191 of the Collins book.
Emile Durkheim is aptly considered one of the founders of the discipline of sociology and his ideas have exercised broad influence over the field for more than a century. His basic question of what forces hold society together is the central issue for the social order perspective. The point of departure for his efforts to address this question is his notion of “social gravity”—the theory that as societies grow larger and population density increases, then the effect of this greater proximity to greater numbers of peoples (“social density”) on individual behavior and ideas becomes more decisive. Some aspects of this are the growing differentiation of roles and greater interdependence among them (what he called “organic solidarity), and this holds true at the level of social groups as well as society as whole.
With greater differentiation (people’s lives and livelihoods are more different) and interdependence (people need each other fulfilling those different roles more to sustain their own lives) comes the challenge of social solidarity. What creates enough individual identity with and commitment to the larger group or society for it to hold together? The primary answer to this question, for Durkheim, was to be found in social rituals. As Collins explains, “A ritual is a moment of extremely high social density….by going through common gestures, chants, and the like, people focus their attention on the same thing. They are not only assembled, but they become overwhelmingly conscious of the group around them.” (p. 190). And rituals serve to draw individual attention to symbols, ideas and values that serve to orient their behavior toward the group or society; it becomes part of their identity.
It is within religion that this crucial role of rituals is most apparent, but the same dynamic can be applied to virtually any group or collectivity of social significance (families, schools, workplaces, clubs, communities, cities, countries, etc.). So for this exercise, train your sociological imagination on yourself and discuss these questions:
What social groups or organizations are important in your life? Choose at least two and describe one or more patterns of interaction for each of them that can be analyzed as social rituals.
What symbols are associated with those rituals? What ideas or values do you think those rituals are helping to reinforce?
Identify key obstacles/opportunities that necessitated the changes and the nature of changes made in the related industry.
It is essential to understand the development of one’s own industry in context of the factors that drove change in the past. These may also be some of the same factors that will continue to drive change in the future.
Based on the business plan you created in MBA 560: Marketing and Strategy, describe the impact of those factors of change identified in your discussion posting this week. Identify key obstacles/opportunities that necessitated the changes and the nature of changes made in the related industry. The assessment should include a section on both the enabling factors and the inhibiting factors that drove the change. The force field analysis technique can be used to help illustrate this concept [The captioned version of the video located in this document may be accessed in the following link: MBA-690 Force Field Analysis (CC)]. . The related article and video in the module resources can help you with this concept. You must use the worksheet to complete the assignment
What can happen if policy is not analyzed and updated on a regular basis?
Policy gets updated annually in most healthcare organizations. This is due to several reasons. Policy is a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. These courses are anything but permanent. A great deal of a healthcare administrator’s attention is devoted to the updating, implementation, and development of new departmental and organizational policy based on local, state, federal, and global standards.
Based on the information provided in the course and your own independent research, that addresses the following:
What can happen if policy is not analyzed and updated on a regular basis?
Provide an example of how a policy implemented to improve something may cause harm to individuals.
What do you see as critical changes that will need to be made in terms of health policy in the United States?
What resources can you use to develop new policies?
properly cite at least two scholarly resources in APA format
Write a 200 word Block Business Letter from the perspective of company management.
Professional Scenarios
Amber, Savannah, and Stephen work for Knowledge, Inc. (a consulting company). While on a conference call with Tim Rice Photography (an established client), the group discusses potential problems with a marketing campaign. Tim Rice, lead photographer and owner of Tim Rice Photography, is insistent the marketing is working and changes are not needed.
Amber reaches over to put Tim on “Mute” but accidently pushes a different button. She immediately says to Savannah and Stephen that the marketing campaign is not working and that “…Tim should stick to taking pretty pictures.”
Tim responds, “You know I can hear you, right?”
Write a 200 word Block Business Letter from the perspective of company management. It must provide bad news to the recipient and follow the guidelines outlined in Chapter 7: Delivering Bad-News Messages in BCOM7 (pages 110-128).
The message should take the block business letter form from the posted example; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.
The block business letter must adhere to the following requirements:
1. Content:
1. Address the communication issue from the scenario.
2. Provide bad news from the company to the recipient.
3. Concentrate on the facts of the situation and use either the inductive or deductive approach.
4. Assume your recipient has previously requested a review of the situation via email, letter, or personal meeting with management.
2. Format:
1. Include the proper introductory elements (sender’s address, date, recipient’s address). You may create any details necessary in the introductory elements to complete the assignment.
2. Provide an appropriate and professional greeting / salutation.
3. Single space paragraphs and double space between paragraphs.
4. Limit the letter to one page in length.
3. Clarity / Mechanics:
1. Focus on clarity, writing mechanics, and professional language/style requirements.
2. Run spell/grammar check before submitting.
Your assignment must be typed, single-spaced within paragraphs/elements and double spaced between the paragraphs/elements, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Your professor may provide additional instructions.
Assignments must be submitted through the online course shell only.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
1. Plan, create, and evaluate professional documents.
2. Write clearly, coherently, and persuasively using proper grammar, mechanics, and formatting appropriate to the situation.
3. Deliver professional information to various audiences using appropriate tone, style, and format.
4. Analyze professional communication examples to assist in revision.
Who is your target audience? Who would be most interested in your project findings, conclusions, and recommendations?
Discussion: Dissemination of Scholarship Related to the Practicum Project
According to Freemantle and Watt (1994), “effective dissemination encompasses more than just the distribution and diffusion of information. It involves the processes by which target groups become aware of, receive, accept and utilize information.” (p. 133).
Think about your Practicum Project. Which groups would find your project findings, conclusions, and recommendations most valuable? Why? How might your focus differ if you were delivering a presentation at a professional conference versus at your practicum site? What would you emphasize if you were publishing an article in a peer-reviewed journal related to your specialization as opposed to in an online forum with a wider healthcare readership?
In this Discussion, you analyze your Practicum Project in terms of conventional means of scholarly dissemination: presentations, posters, and publication.
To prepare:
Reflect on your Practicum Project.
Speak with various individuals, especially those in your practicum setting, about presentations or poster sessions they have given and/or publications they have authored. Ask which organizations or journals they would recommend you consider for dissemination based on your Practicum Project topic.
Consider the following questions related to dissemination:
Who is your target audience? Who would be most interested in your project findings, conclusions, and recommendations? Consider how the needs or dispositions of the intended audience may inform your choice of dissemination method.
Which method of dissemination would you choose to convey the findings, conclusions, or recommendations from your Practicum Project? What are the relative benefits and challenges of giving a presentation, sharing your findings through a poster session, and/or publication?
Consider various nursing, health care, informatics, and leadership and management organizations and journals. What is one organization or journal you would select for your presentation or publication?
What are some potential challenges? Evaluate what you could do to promote the possibility that your presentation, poster, or manuscript would be accepted.
Conduct a search of the literature using the Walden Library and other reliable sources. Locate two or more articles published in peer-reviewed journals within the last five years that relate to your Practicum Project. These articles should demonstrate the significance of the topic for nursing leadership and management or nursing informatics. Note: These articles may also help you determine if your project findings are related to an area that will contribute to a more comprehensive literature base.
Post a brief description of your Practicum Project, including the anticipated outcomes and implications for nursing practice in your specialty area. Explain why your results warrant dissemination. Describe your target audience, and explain which method of dissemination you would use as well as the organization or journal you would choose for sharing findings related to your Practicum Project. Support your response with at least two citations from the literature.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days, using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
Required Readings
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Alspach, G. (2010). Converting presentations into journal articles: A guide for nurses. Critical Care Nurse, 30(2), 8–15.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Explain the relationship, if any, between Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom in Practice (DIKW) and informatics.
Transformation From Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom (DIKW) in Practice
Describe a nursing-practice situation in which you experienced the transformations of DIKW.
Explain the relationship, if any, between Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom in Practice (DIKW) and informatics. Can DIKW exist independently of informatics? Please explain your rationale. In your own personal nursing practices, please describe a situation in which you experienced the transformations of the DIKW process listed above.
Prior to writing your responses, I suggest that you watch the very short you tube video, Seven Blind Mice, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3vMvfAdW88
Describe the main theories and principles (at least five) presented in the book
Book: Leadership in Organizations, 8th Edition
Author: Gary Yukl
Free Book PDF Link: http://www.mim.ac.mw/books/Leadership%20in%20Organizations%20by%20Gary%20Yukl.pdf.No1fvHJjqGHg1RgmjuyjD0oYNhx7MNeo
Prepare a Microsoft power point presentation.
You should include the following information (do not miss any point):
1. The title and a brief introduction of your selected leadership book (similar to an abstract)
2. Background information on the author(s)
3. A description of the major theme of the book
4. An explanation as to your interest in selecting this particular book for your leadership book review
5. Describe the main theories and principles (at least five) presented in the book
6. How each of the theories and principals presented in the book directly relate to being a leader
7. Show how the theories and principals presented in the book relate to specific leadership standards
8. Explain how each of the theories and principles presented in the book directly relate to your development as a leader
9. Closing comments to summarize the theories and principals presented in the book
10. Your critique of the book as it relates to developing leaders
11. How could the information you gained through reviewing this book on leadership enhance your knowledge base and development as a leader
12. Why or why would you recommend this book to your fellow class members
Important: Organization of the Presentation as below:
• 12 slides
• You must include speaker’s notes for each slide
• Include an agenda slide
• No grammar, spelling, punctuation, plagiarism or typing errors
• Must have all resources on the reference slide and are used and cited correctly. All resources used in the body of the presentation are cited correctly.
Is the hospital liable for the acts of its agent? Why? (Principle agent issue)
Instructions
In answering each question, discuss all relevant laws, and discuss whether they apply or not. Although the main issue area is given in parenthesis, apply any other laws also that come into play. Give reasons.
The responses should be written in the form of systematic legal analysis.
Choose FOUR of the five questions given here. Each question carries 5 points.
Write at least 100 words for each answer.
You may discuss and orally consult with one another; however, each student must submit his/her own individual work.
A doctor in a University of Chicago hospital seriously assaulted a patient in an examining room. The patient sued the hospital on the theory that the doctor was an agent or employee of the hospital and the assault occurred within the hospital. Is the hospital liable for the acts of its agent? Why? (Principle agent issue)
Silverman, who was elderly and somewhat disabled, lived alone on a farm. Silverman called Burch and said, “Burch, if you will move in with me and help me take care of the farm, it will be yours when I die.” Burch did as Silverman requested and on Silverman’s death two years later, claimed the farm on the basis of their oral agreement, but the estate resisted. Is Burch entitled to the farm? Why? (Contracts)
On February 12, Sally was hired to manage a company for a period of one year. She reported for work on February 26 but was fired two weeks later. She sued the owner of the company for breach of their one-year oral contract. May she recover? Why? (Contracts)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, an elderly couple, had no relatives. When Mrs. Smith became ill, the Smiths asked a friend, Henrietta, to help with various housekeeping chores, including cleaning and cooking. Although the Smiths never promised to pay her, Henrietta performed the chores for eighteen months. Henrietta now claims that she is entitled to the reasonable value of the services performed. Is she correct? Explain. (Contracts).
Sarah purchased several elegant picture frames to hang in her dorm room. She also purchased a package of self-sticking hangers. Late one evening, while Sarah was studying business law in the library, the hangers came loose and her frames came crashing to the floor. After Sarah returned to her room and discovered the rubble, she examined the box in which the hangers were packaged and found the following language: “There are no warranties except for the description on this package and specifically there is NO IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHNATABILITY.” Assuming the hangers are not of fair, average, ordinary quality, would the hanger, would the hanger company be liable for breaching an implied warranty of merchantability? Why? (warranties)
Create 1- to 2-page diagram depicting the process you took to identify the appropriate configuration settings for each device.
Your office has implemented a WLAN and needs you to configure the WLAN environment with three Cisco Meraki™ MR62 wireless access points (WAPs) in order to access the Internet and intercommunicate. Security is not overly important at this time.
WAP Placement:
The Visio® diagram provided, “Office Wireless Network,” shows the placement of each WAP within the building.
Firewall:
The firewall is located in the Data Center.
IP Information:
The organization has an external IP address of 23.4.178.126 and uses private IPv4 space on the 10 network. The IP space for internal routers and access points is 10.0.1.x with all IPs available above 10.0.1.10.
Before working on this assignment, research the wireless access pointon the Cisco Meraki™ documentation site.
Using the information from the Cisco Meraki™ site, document the configuration value to implement each device in the “WLAN Configuration Design Template” to allow all networked computers to communicate with each other and the Internet.
Complete the 1-page “WLAN Configuration Design Template” spreadsheet.
Create 1- to 2-page diagram depicting the process you took to identify the appropriate configuration settings for each device. Your audience is your director, so be clear and explain the vulnerabilities that exist in the implemented environment.
For the diagram you can use Visio®, Microsoft® Word, or PowerPoint® or other appropriate application.
