Write a one to two (1–2) page paper in which you discuss the single most important factor that must be considered when selecting a project.
Assignment 1: Selecting Projects
Write a one to two (1–2) page paper in which you discuss the single most important factor that must be considered when selecting a project.
The format of the paper is to be as follows:
Typed, double-spaced, New Times Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides. APA format.
In addition to the one to two (1–2) pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor’s name, the course title, and the date.
Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.
Would you take the account?
To Accept or Reject a Client
A well-known professional baseball player is suspected of having used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He has not been charged. His agent asks you to advise and assist him in handling the intense media interest in the case. He wants you to try to place favorable stories about the baseball star in the media and create a positive environment for him. If formally accused, it could mean irreparable damage to his baseball career. You are not asked to do anything unethical. The money is quite good, and you know the publicity from working on the case will probably help your public relations consulting career, especially if the athlete is exonerated. Would you take the account? The agent tells you confidentially that the athlete has admitted that he took some substance that was unknown to him, but may have been steroids. Does this information affect your decision? What are the ethics of the situation as you see them? Write a proposal to your business partners regarding the situation. Answer any questions brought up in the case and compare the case to at least one similar case with a well-known ballplayer found through your research. Finally, make a recommendation to your partners as to whether or not you should accept the contract. Your proposal should be two-to-three pages (not including the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved style guide. Include at least one scholarly resource in addition to the course text. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Explain the interrelationship between the nervous and endocrine systems and their related hormones and explain how the systems work together.
Explain the interrelationship between the nervous and endocrine systems and their related hormones and explain how the systems work together. You must use flow diagrams to complete this task.
a) How do hormones and the nervous system control gastric (stomach) secretions?
b) How are the nervous and endocrine systems linked in the production and effects of adrenaline in terms of fight or flight?
c) Explain the role of ADH and the role of osmo-receptors and the pituitary gland in osmoregulation.
d) Explain how both thyroxine and adrenaline are involved in thermoregulation;
e) What is the role of Melatonin in the brain and describe the daily changes in its production and effects.
Calculate the schedule variance for each task and the total project.
5-1 Earned Value Calculation
You are 4 months into a 6 month project. The project is linear, which means that the progress and spending occurs at a constant rate. Our crack project team of highly skilled associates has worked diligently and put in extra hours to keep the project going. Our accounting department has provided the following data at the end of month 4:Actual cost to date = $88,800Planned expenditures to date = $101,000The CFO is excited and has sent you an email congratulating you for being 12.07% under budget. However, is it really time to hold a team celebration? That would be fun but your project manager mentality kicks in. Those numbers look good but how are we ‘really’ doing? To understand the true project performance, we need to apply earned value techniques. The missing piece we need is Earned Value (i.e. what we have actually accomplished so far). You meet with your team and find that only 6 of the 7 tasks scheduled to be complete by the end of month 4 have actually been completed. Task 7 isn’t even started! This information gives you the final data you need to apply ‘Earned Value’ and develop an objective analysis.1. What are the PV, EV, and AC for the project at the end of month 4?2. What are the SV, CV, SPI, and CPI for the project?3. Assess the project performance to date? Do you get to have the celebration?5-2 Earned Value Calculation
Project Schedule and Budget Data Provided:……….
Status of the project at the end of day 6:……………….
Project Network Diagram…………………………………………
1. Calculate the schedule variance for each task and the total project.
2. Calculate the cost variance for each task and the total project.
3. What is your assessment of the project at this time?
Explain how the endocrine system can malfunction.
Explain how the endocrine system can malfunction. You may wish to use diagrams to support this piece of work.
Research the following conditions:
1) Goitre
2) Cushing’s Syndrome
3) Diabetes Mellitus
4) Pituitary Dwarfism
For each you need to explain:
a) What is the cause? Which hormones are involved?
b) What are the normal / healthy levels of these hormones in the blood?
c) How are these levels measured?
d) What are the symptoms of each disease and how do they come about?
Discuss how prison programs can impact a prisoner in various aspects?
In 2-3 paragraphs, Discuss how prison programs can impact a prisoner in various aspects? Do you think some prisoners shouldnt be entitled to certain programs?
All initial posts should reference the textbook or at least one outside source. All sources must be cited using APA guidelines.
submit a research paper based on an analysis of a Criminal Justice Issue that has a crime to drug or drug to crime correlation.
The paper should in APA (Links to an external site.) format, be 8-10 pages in length, not including the title (cover) page (Links to an external site.) and reference page (Links to an external site.), with a minimum of 8 references (Links to an external site.), double spaced (Links to an external site.), 12-point Times New Roman font, and 1” inch margins.
Each student will submit a research paper based on an analysis of a Criminal Justice Issue that has a crime to drug or drug to crime correlation. The paper will use multiple sources of data as support for your findings built upon Writing Assignments 1 – 2. The paper must be an original work completed for this class. You must use measurable data to support your opinion. You may cite conflicting data and state why you thought the results were flawed.
discuss the policy, laws, and practices of females giving birth to children while incarcerated in your current state.
In a minimum of 1 page, discuss the policy, laws, and practices of females giving birth to children while incarcerated in your current state. Do you believe it is fair?
The paper must be 1-2 pages.
Use proper APA formatting and citations, including ‘in-text’ citations.
Reference at least 1 outside credible resource.
Do you think Elisa Allen is a feminist figure? Why or why not?
Read “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck.
Do you think Elisa Allen is a feminist figure? Why or why not? Support your claim with evidence from the text.
Your Discussion Forum response should be a minimum of 400 words.
Determine the extent to which the care that you provided was based on evidence and research findings or supported only by your organization’s standard procedures.
Discussion: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
In your practice as a nurse, you may use procedures and methods that did not necessarily originate in evidence, but instead were derived from informal and unwritten conventions, traditions, and observations. While these techniques may have merit, practices are constantly being updated and contradicted by information from scholarly research studies and professional guidelines. This new information serves as “evidence” for revising practices to improve outcomes across health care.
Based on this evidence, you can formulate a question. In this Discussion, you consider the use of evidence-based practice in your own organization and formulate a question that you will need to answer for your portfolio project. This is called a PICOT question. You will also investigate strategies for overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based practice (EBP).
To prepare:
Consider a recent clinical experience in which you were providing care for a patient.
Determine the extent to which the care that you provided was based on evidence and research findings or supported only by your organization’s standard procedures. How do you know if the tasks were based on research?
What questions have you thought about in a particular area of care such as a procedure or policy?
Review Chapter 2, pages 31–34 on “Asking Well worded Clinical Questions” in Polit & Beck and consult the resource from the Walden Student Center for Success: Clinical Question Anatomy & examples of PICOT questions (found in this week’s Learning Resources). Formulate your background questions and PICOT question.
Reflect on the barriers that might inhibit the implementation of evidence-based practice in your clinical environment.
Review the article “Adopting Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Decision Making” in this week’s Learning Resources. Select one of the barriers described that is evident in your organization and formulate a plan for overcoming this barrier.
Post an evaluation of the use, or lack thereof, of EBP in a recent clinical experience. Identify which aspects of the care delivered, if any, were based on evidence and provide your rationale. List your background questions and PICOT question about this nursing topic. Critique how the policies, procedures, and culture in your organization may hinder or support the adoption of evidence-based practices. Identify the barrier you selected from the article and explain how this barrier could be overcome within your organization.
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, and evidence.
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 sources.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional strategies for addressing barriers to EBP based on readings and evidence.
Required Readings
Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2017). Nursing research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (10th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment”
This chapter provides an introduction to nursing research, its history, and the evolution of evidence-based practice. It includes an overview of credible sources of evidences and a description of the different paradigms used in nursing research.
Chapter 2, “Evidence-Based Nursing: Translating Research Evidence into Practice”
The focus of this chapter includes an overview of the key aspects of evidence-based practice, a review of how to identify credible research and appraise its value, and, finally, a discussion on how to take the identified evidence and convert it into a practice.
Chapter 3, “Key Concepts and Steps in Qualitative and Quantitative Research”
In this chapter, quantitative and qualitative research models are compared and the major steps in each approach are described. Information is also presented on the different sections of a research journal article and how you can identify the research model that was utilized.
Adams, J. S. (2010). Utilizing evidence-based research and practice to support the infusion alliance. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 33(5), 273–277.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article examines how evidence-based research and practice supports infusion alliances. The text also specifies the increasing challenges that infusion nurses face.
Mallory, G. A. (2010). Professional nursing societies and evidence-based practice: Strategies to cross the quality chasm. Nursing Outlook, 58(6), 279–286.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article describes strategies for reducing the gap between research knowledge and practice. The article also details how nursing societies could use these strategies to improve the quality of care.
Newhouse, R. P., & Spring, B. (2010). Interdisciplinary evidence-based practice: Moving from silos to synergy. Nursing Outlook, 58(6), 309–317.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
In this article, the authors examine the state of interdisciplinary evidence-based practice (EBP). The authors detail efforts to promote interdisciplinary EBP, academic and clinical training regarding interdisciplinary EBP, and strategies that may facilitate EBP translation across disciplines.
Shaheen, M., Foo, S., Luyt, B., Zhang, X., Theng, Y-L., Chang, Y-K., & Mokhtar, I. A. (2011). Adopting evidence-based practice in clinical decision making: Nurses’ perceptions, knowledge, and barriers. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99(3), 229–236.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article reviews a study that sought to determine nurses’ awareness of, knowledge of, and attitude toward EBP. The article also describes factors likely to promote barriers to EBP adoption.
Shivnan, J. C. (2011). How do you support your staff? Promote EBP. Nursing Management, 42(2), 12–14.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article explores the role of the nurse manager in supporting evidence-based practice. The article also explains barriers and strategies to promote EBP for a nurse manager.
Walden Student Center for Success. (2012). Clinical Question Anatomy. Retrieved July 9, 2014, from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/content.php?pid=183871&sid=2950360
Media
Laureate Education (Producer). (2012). Timeline of nursing research. Baltimore, MD: Author.
This multimedia piece features a timeline of major events in nursing research. The timeline highlights how historical events and seminal research have contributed to nursing practice.
USE THIS LINK TOO
http://mym.cdn.laureate-media.com/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6052/1/mm/timeline_of_nursing_research/index.html
