briefly describe your search strategies to obtain a primary article that relates to your group’s chosen research question.
INDIVIDUAL TOPIC SEARCH STRATEGY (ITSS) GUIDELINES
PURPOSE
· The purpose of this initial paper is to briefly describe your search strategies to obtain a primary article that relates to your group’s chosen research question.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
· CO 1: Examine the sources of knowledge that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO #7)
· CO 2: Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (POs #4 and #8)
DUE DATE
· Week #2, Submit in ITSS in CANVAS
· The college’s Late Assignment policy applies to this assignment.
POINTS POSSIBLE: 160 Points.
REQUIREMENTS
· Each student will sign-up for a group to formulate an evidence-based practice topic of interest
· Each group will use their chosen research question and put into PICO format.
· Each group member will search, retrieve, and receive approval (by faculty) for 1 PRIMARY RESEARCH ARTICLE to answer the group Research Question.
· Paper should include a Title and Reference pages.
· Page Length: 3-4 pages Excluding Title and Reference pages
· The paper will include the following headings (in bold):
Clinical Question
· Describe problem
· Overview/Significance of problem in terms of outcomes or statistics
· Your PICOT question
· Purpose of your paper
Level of Evidence
· Type of question asked
· Best evidence found to answer question
Search Strategy
· Search terms
· Databases used: Chamberlain Database
· Refinement decisions made
· Identification of most relevant article
Format
· Correct grammar and spelling
· Use of headings for each section
· Use of APA format (7th edition)
· Required to write the paper based on PAPER FORMAT
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· Refers to Grading Rubric in page 3
Clinical Question
Research Question
For adult patients with COPD, does
Overview of the Problem
What statistics document this is a problem? (facts and figures)
Significance of the Problem
What health outcomes result from this problem. Why should people be concerned about this problem?
Purpose of Paper
The purpose of this paper is to describe search strategies to find evidence in supporting our group’s PICO question.
Search Strategy
Search Terms
List all terms used to search for your article (i.e. breast cancer, screening, mammography, intervention, assessment, influencing factors….etc.)
Library Databases
List Chamberlain library database used (i.e. EBSCO, Medline, OVID, PubMed….etc.)
Google search engine is NOT the library database
Availability of Articles
How many research articles were available to answer your research question?
Provide numbers of articles, NOT just saying “plenty, sufficient, many…etc.
Refinement Decisions
What decision(s) have changed from your original search strategies? (i.e. peer-review, within last 5 years, primary data article, full-text….etc.)
What was your rationale for your decision to change from original search strategies?
Final Article
Describe the decisions you made to specifically select 1 PRIMARY RESEARCH ARTICLE as relevant for answering your Research Question
Level of Evidence
Addresses Topic/Relevance to PICO
Describe how article addresses the topic, purpose and key points
Evidence Level Pyramid
Identify and describe the level of evidence based on Evidence Level/Hierarchy Pyramid
Refers to Level of Evidence Pyramid (Lecture #2)
Study Type
Identify study type of article: Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed-Method Study
examine statistical significance and meaningfulness based on sample statements.
Part of your task as a scholar-practitioner is to act as a critical consumer of research and ask informed questions of published material. Sometimes, claims are made that do not match the results of the analysis. Unfortunately, this is why statistics is sometimes unfairly associated with telling lies. These misalignments might not be solely attributable to statistical nonsense, but also “user error.†One of the greatest areas of user error is within the practice of hypothesis testing and interpreting statistical significance. As you continue to consume research, be sure and read everything with a critical eye and call out statements that do not match the results.
For this Assignment, you will examine statistical significance and meaningfulness based on sample statements.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Scenarios found in this week’s Learning Resources and select two of the four scenarios for this Assignment.
For this Assignment:
Critically evaluate the two scenarios you selected based upon the following points:
Critically evaluate the sample size.
Critically evaluate the statements for meaningfulness.
Critically evaluate the statements for statistical significance.
Based on your evaluation, provide an explanation of the implications for social change.
Use proper APA format and citations, and referencing.
What is the difference between a group “at risk” for poor health and a group considered a “vulnerable” population?
What is the difference between a group “at risk” for poor health and a group considered a “vulnerable” population?
Provide an example of an “at risk” or “vulnerable population” group in the United States and one in another country (or immigrants within the United States).
Explain why members of these groups cannot advocate for themselves or why advocating for these groups would be beneficial.What would you advocate for?Identify ethical issues that need to be addressed when working with these individuals.Provide information about the selected “at risk” group. How many individuals fall into this group and what are some issues they face.
MINIMUM OF 1 REFERENCE, 400 WORDS, NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE
Describe the method of argumentation you believe is used in the speech (Toulmin? Rogerian? A mixture of both?).
Choose one of the “Persuasive American Speeches” listed in below:
Anthony, Susan B. “On Women’s Right to Vote.”
Darrow, Clarence. “Mercy for Leopold and Loeb.”
Douglas, Frederick. “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.”
Eisenhower, Dwight. “Farewell Speech”
Kennedy, John F. “Inauguration Address.”
Discuss purpose and the claim of the speech.
Explain how the speech supports this claim (logos, ethos, and/or pathos). Is the opposing side mentioned?
Describe the method of argumentation you believe is used in the speech (Toulmin? Rogerian? A mixture of both?). Give citations to back up your points, and create a final works cited citation for this essay.
Minimum 300 words.
write about African-American civil right act
write about African-American civil right act
7-pages double spaced
MLA
DOUBLE SPACED FONT 12
How can distribution be affected by excessive inventory?
Inventory Control and Distribution: The sterile processing department at Hershey-Chocolate Medical Center has an excessive amount of inventory. Discuss what issues or concerns may occur due to this excessive inventory. What inventory system may work well for their department? Discuss at least four types of inventory systems and how each could initiate a more controlled environment of inventory for the facility. How can distribution be affected by excessive inventory?
Identify the market structure your chosen firm operates in, analyze your chosen firm’s current market share, and identify the firm’s local/global competitors.
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is the creation of a research analysis. Every day, consumers make millions of decisions that impact the marketplace and influence firms’ decisions. Firms use economic concepts, models, and other “tools” of economics to help determine pricing, output, and profit maximization. As an MBA student of economics, you can apply the “tools” of economics to microeconomic and macroeconomic data to create recommendations for how firms can maximize revenue, profit and market share.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft®Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web offering support for Office products.
Scenario: Imagine you are a business consultant to a firm of your choice (FORD Motor Corp). You have been asked to analyze, advise, and create recommendations on how the firm can ensure its future success in its current market.
Work with your instructor to choose a firm that matches the following criteria: a publicly-traded company operating in the U.S. market. Note: A publicly-traded company is a private-sector firm owned by its shareholders/stock holders.
Prepare a minimum 1,050-word analysis of economic data and business data to explain how the core economic principles impact the sustainability of the firm and what actions the firm can take to ensure success.
Address the following:
Identify the market structure your chosen firm operates in, analyze your chosen firm’s current market share, and identify the firm’s local/global competitors. Analyze the barriers to entry in this market to illustrate the potential for new competition and its impact on your firm’s future in the market. Hints: Be sure you review the barriers to entry discussed in the course text. You might consider presenting the data graphically.
Identify and explain trends in current macroeconomic indicators for last three years including:
Current stage of the business cycle.
Real gross domestic product (GDP).
Inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI).
Unemployment rate.
Federal funds rate.
Current rate for borrowing funds such as the so-called “prime rate.” Note: A requirement of the Week 1 Influence of Economics on Household Decision Making report was to gather data on the CPI, GDP, and interest rates, so you should consider reviewing the feedback you received on the Week 1 report.
Evaluate trends in demand over last three years and explain their impact on the industry and the firm. Include quarterly (last two quarters) and annual sales (last three years) figures for the product your firm sells. Create business strategies by analyzing information and data related to the demand for and supply of your firm’s product(s) to support your recommendation for the firm’s actions. Remember to include a graphical representation of the data and information used in your analysis.
Examine available, current data and information, such as pricing and the availability of substitutes, and explain how you could determine the price elasticity of demand for your firm’s product. Assess how the price elasticity of demand impacts the firm’s pricing decisions and revenue growth.
Apply the concepts of variable and fixed costs to your firm for informing its output decisions. For instance, analyze how different kinds of costs (labor, research and development, raw materials) affect the firm’s level of output.
Based on the data gathered and analysis performed for this report write a conclusion in which you:
Create business strategies, including price and non-price strategies, based on your market structure to ensure the market share and potential market expansions and explore global opportunities for your business in a dynamic business environment and provide recommendations.
Develop a recommendation for how the firm can manage its future production by synthesizing the macroeconomic and microeconomic data presented.
Propose how the firm’s position within the market and among its competitors will allow it to take your recommended action.
Recommend strategies for the firm to sustain its success going forward by evaluating the findings from demand trends, price elasticity, current stage of the business cycle, and government policies.
Practice the following pattern in your paragraph construction: 1) assertion, 2) reasons for or explanation of the assertion, and 3) evidence for the assertion. If you are particularly energetic, a fourth element is 4) application of economic theory to real world issues involving career, financial planning, business, or politics.
Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed references and a minimum of two government economic data sources/references.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
Consider the Rescola story, what should offices in skyscrapers and large buildings do other than plan for evacuations?
Instructions: CO-1 Differentiate risk communications from crisis communications.
The tragedies of 9/11 marked a turning point in the perception of the word “crisis,” especially to people in the United States who had never experienced such an attack on their own soil. The attacks were also a turning point in the perceptions of crisis management and crisis communications.
A crisis management/communications plan saved the lives of numerous people in the World Trade Center (WTC) on that fateful day. Rick Rescola was head of security for Morgan Stanley, which occupied 40 floors in one of the WTC towers. After the 1993 terrorist attack on the WTC, Rescola formed a crisis management team to try to avert an attack or to help employees survive another attack. The team members were in agreement that another attack would occur, and that it would probably occur at the WTC because of the symbolism of the towers being the tallest in the United States.
Team Rescola, as it was called, determined that the next attack would not be a ground attack, because the garage was protected after the 1993 incident. They even took a test flight around the buildings and predicted the attack would be by air.
Crisis communications was necessary to convince employees and managers that preparations needed to be made and that training for evacuation was necessary, and to explain how it would be done. Subsequently, there were drills. Rescola had lighting put in the stairways, and every person knew where the stairways were.
When the planes struck, WTC security advised all persons that it was safer to stay in the building. Rescola and his team began to evacuate employees. A glitch occurred in that one of the stairways was blocked by debris. Visibility was hampered either by smoke or darkness or both. Survivors and some of Rescola’s team members, consultants who were not in the building at the time, told the History Channel that team Rescola went to each floor and yelled, “Is anyone here?” If so, they led them out by alternate stairways. They say the team saved 95 percent of the total number of Morgan Stanley employees.
However, there was not enough time for them to reach every floor. Rescola and some of his team members died when the buildings collapsed. His wife said, when she saw the buildings go down on television, she knew her husband was there still trying to get everyone out.
Consider the Rescola story, what should offices in skyscrapers and large buildings do other than plan for evacuations?
Imagine the employees who objected to the training: what would be persuasive messages to them?
The 1993 attack was considered a prodrome by Rescola. Why didn’t others see it?
In a crisis situation, using the image restoration theory, how could an organization determine which publics should receive which messages? Why would you send different messages to different publics?
This is a required post with a minimum of 500 words.
APA Format
(How) Does the HR Strategy Support an Innovation Oriented Business Strategy?
Topic: Tactical Planning (Continued)
Benchmark – Strategic Planning: Action Plan
Details:
Use your completed strategy map to formulate functional-level strategy for the primary business functions included in your plan. Functional-level strategies are the action plans used by departments within organizations to support the execution of business-level strategy at the managerial level. Create a 500-750 word action plan that addresses the following:
Identify which management tactics and strategies you will implement to meet your strategic goals for each of the stakeholders, departments, or business functions impacted by your plan: MBO, MBM, single-use or standing plans, competitive advantage, contingency planning, building scenarios, crisis planning, and innovation.Provide an explanation of how you will apply managerial decision-making methods throughout your action plan.Which business functions will be impacted by your action plan? What tactics will you use to manage implementation across business functions? What can you do to enhance collaboration/cross-functionality to ensure the success of your plan?Identify leadership strategies you plan to implement throughout the execution of your action plan. In particular, explain which strategies you would implement to foster team collaboration among the multiple stakeholders who must collaborate to successfully implement the plan. Why do you think these will be successful?
RESOURCES
Textbook
- Management
Read Chapters 9 and 12 in Management. Review Chapters 7 and 8.
http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/cengage/2013/management_ebook_11e.php - Southwest Airlines: In a Different World
Review Harvard Business School (HBS) case reprint, “Southwest Airlines: In a Different World”(2013).
http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/harvard-business-school-press/2010/southwest-airlines_in-a-different-world_ebook_1e.php
e-Library Resource - (How) Does the HR Strategy Support an Innovation Oriented Business Strategy? An Investigation of Institutional Context and Organizational Practices in Indian Firms
Read “(How) Does the HR Strategy Support an Innovation Oriented Business Strategy? An Investigation of Institutional Context and Organizational Practices in Indian Firms,” by Fang and Saini, from Human Resource Management (2010).
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=inh&AN=11820768&site=eds-live&scope=site - Big Data: An Innovative Way to Gain Competitive Advantage Through Converting Data into Knowledge
Read “Big Data: An Innovative Way to Gain Competitive Advantage Through Converting Data into Knowledge,”
by Bhadani, from International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science (2015).
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aci&AN=101309175&site=eds-live&scope=site - Outsourcing: A Strategic Risk?
Read “Outsourcing: A Strategic Risk?” by Relph and Parker, from Management Services (2014).
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/docview/1584943851?accountid=7374 - Practicing Human Resource Strategy: Understanding the Relational Dynamics in Strategic HR Work by Means of a Narrative Approach
Read “Practicing Human Resource Strategy: Understanding the Relational Dynamics in Strategic HR Work by Means of a Narrative Approach,” by Kaudela-Baum and Endrissat, from German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management (2009).
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=40395722&site=eds-live&scope=site - Responsible Leadership and Stakeholder Management: Influence Pathways and Organizational Outcomes
Read “Responsible Leadership and Stakeholder Management: Influence Pathways and Organizational Outcomes,” by Doh and Quigley from the Academy of Management Perspectives (2014).
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=97816322&site=ehost-live&scope=site - The Relationship Between Intellectual Capital With Economic Value Added and Financial Performance
Read “The Relationship Between Intellectual Capital With Economic Value Added and Financial Performance,” by Salehi, Enayati, and Javadi, from Iranian Journal of Management Science: A Quarterly (2014).
http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=96560290&site=eds-live&scope=site
What is Jesus’ true identity? What did Jesus do? Why is Jesus’ identity and work significant for the Christian worldview?
Write a 1,250-1,500-word essay using at least two course resources (textbook, lectures, the Bible) and at least two other sources from the to support your points. Remember, the Bible counts as one reference regardless of how many times you use it or how many verses you cite.
Begin your paper with an appropriate introduction, including a thesis statement to introduce the purpose of the paper.
Organize your paper with the following sections, using the seven underlined titles for subheadings.
Write at least one paragraph for each component using the titles for a subheading.
: What is God like? What are God’s characteristics? What is his creation?
: What is human nature? What is human purpose? What is the root cause of human problems?
: What is Jesus’ true identity? What did Jesus do? Why is Jesus’ identity and work significant for the Christian worldview?
: What is the solution to human problems according to the Christian worldview? What role do grace and faith play in Christian salvation? How do Christians think that the transformation of self and society happen?
: Analyze the Christian worldview by addressing each of the following questions: What are the benefits or strengths of Christian belief? What is troublesome or confusing about Christianity? How does Christianity influence a person’s thinking and behavior?
: Reflect on your worldview by answering one of the following questions: If you are not a Christian, what similarities and differences are there between your worldview and the Christian worldview? If you are a Christian, how specifically do you live out the beliefs of the Christian worldview?
: Synthesize the main points, pulling the ideas of the paper together.
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