Compare and contrast how you would expect nursing leaders and managers to approach your selected issue.
In this assignment, you will be writing a 1,000-1,250-word essay describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following: Select an issue from the following list: nursing shortage and nurse turn-over, nurse staffing ratios, unit closures and restructuring, use of contract employees (i.e., registry and travel nurses), continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction, and magnet designation. Compare and contrast how you would expect nursing leaders and managers to approach your selected issue. Support your rationale by using the theories, principles, skills, and roles of the leader versus manager described in your readings. Identify the approach that best fits your personal and professional philosophy of nursing and explain why the approach is suited to your personal leadership style. Use at least two references other than your text and those provided in the course. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment
Explain the relationship between a business’s organizational strategy and its projects.
In 250-300 words and in your own words, define organizational strategy. Explain the relationship between a business’s organizational strategy and its projects. Based on your budding understanding of project management, predict which elements of project management are most influenced by the business’s organizational strategy? Provide specific examples.
Describe the blood brain barrier
Week 1 Questions to Answer- cite all answers- use APA structure and sentencing 1. Describe the blood brain barrier 2. Describe the pathophysiology of parkinson’s disease 3. Describe the mechanism of action of the dopaminergic medications to treat parkinson’;s. How do these medications reduce symptoms? Is there a cure for parkinson’s 4. Describe the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease 5. Describe the mechanism of action of the drugs for cognitive impairment (page 193). How do these medications achieve a therapeutic effect in Alzheimer’;s disease. 6. Describe the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis 7. Describe the mechanism of action of the disease modifying drugs used to treat MS 8. Discuss 3 major nursing implications to medication used to treat MS and how these would be attended to 9. Describe the 5 ways in which antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) work to reduce seizures 10. Discuss two teaching points for a patient that is starting phenytoin 11. How do centrally acting muscle relaxants work to relieve spasticity?
Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants.
Part I: Pamphlet Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants. Use the Pamphlet Template document to help you create your pamphlet. Include the following: Select an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants. Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants. Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. A minimum of three scholarly resources are required. Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource. In developing your pamphlet, take into consideration the healthcare literacy level of your target audience. Part II: Pamphlet Sharing Experience Share the pamphlet you have developed with a parent of an infant child. The parent may be a person from your neighborhood, a parent of an infant from a child-care center in your community, or a parent from another organization, such as a church group with which you have an affiliation. Provide a written summary of the teaching / learning interaction. Include in your summary: Demographical information of the parent and child (age, gender, ethnicity, educational level). Description of parent response to teaching. Assessment of parent understanding. Your impressions of the experience; what went well, what can be improved. Submit Part I and Part II of the Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants assignment by the end of Topic 1. While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Consider the four generic business strategies defined by Michael Porter. How do they compare and contrast with each other?
Write a 200-300 words on each discussion questions. Discussion 4-1: Select one external force (political/government, legal, professional/industry, economic (global, national, and regional), sociocultural, demographic, technology) that could affect your Business Plan assignment due in Topic 8. How does the identified external force affect your Business Plan? Discussion 4-2: Understanding your customer is important to the success of any organization. A strategy planner needs to know the market. How do you evaluate your market? What are some of the market segments that you could use for your strategic plan? Discussion 5-1: Using the organization you selected from your Business Plan, consider what corporate portfolio strategy the company uses or what you imagine they use and why? What are the benefits to the selected corporate portfolio strategy compared? What is the role of the corporate center and Strategic Business Unit (SBU)? Discussion 5-2: Consider the four generic business strategies defined by Michael Porter. How do they compare and contrast with each other? What are the pros and cons of a hybrid; strategy? How is it achieved? Discussion 6-1: An organization only has so much capital at its disposal. It must use this capital for day-to-day operations, as well as any other plans it may have for future growth. How does an organization decide how much of its available cash to allocate to operations and how much to allocate to strategic investments? Discussion 6-2 Discuss three problems that can arise during strategy implementation. How can an organization overcome these problems? Discussion 7-1: What are the key performance measures or indicators that an organization can use for tracking the achievement and effectiveness of its action plans? Discussion 7-2: How can an organization establish and deploy modified action plans if circumstances require a shift in plans and rapid execution of new plans? Discussion 8-1: How can senior management ensure that financial and other resources are available to support the accomplishment of the organization’;s action plans, while meeting current obligations? Discussion 8-2: What actions can senior leadership take to allocate organizational resources to support the accomplishment of the organization’s action plans? ** You can use the same references on the Discussions, however try to have at least three different references. *** Book used is: Managing Health Care Business Strategy by: George B. Moseley III. You can find the book in google scholar.
Do you consider yourself a steward of health care?
Details: Part 1 Interview a fellow peer in your class who works in a different health discipline than you. Begin your interview with the following questions: What is your role as a health care team member? How do you define professionalism and how does professional responsibility influence your work? Do you consider leaders in your organization stewards of health care? Why or Why not? Is it important to you that leaders exercise professional advocacy and authenticity as well as power and influence when working with colleagues? Why or why not? In 500-750 words, summarize your interview and share your impressions of your peer’s responses. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin Part 2 Interview a person in a formal position of leadership within your organization (e.g., a supervisor, a manager, a director). Begin your interview with the following questions: What is your role as a health care team member? How do you define professionalism and how does professional responsibility influence your work? Do you consider yourself a steward of health care? Why or Why not? Is it important to you that leaders exercise professional advocacy and authenticity as well as power and influence when working with colleagues? Why or why not? In 500-750 words, summarize your interview and share your impressions of the leader’s responses. Compare and contrast responses provided by your peer (in Professional Identity and Stewardship – Part I: Peer Interview assignment) with those provided by the leader. Share your impressions of their differences and similarities. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.
Sally is using what level of prevention according to the Neuman Systems Model?
Sally, a nurse for community mental health is caring for 3 clients today. First, she meets Sam. Sam has been admitted to a psychiatric unit with a diagnosis of psychosis and schizophrenia. Sally provides Sam with appropriate interventions to help stabilize his condition, monitors his compliance with medication and conducts therapy sessions. 1. Sally is using what level of prevention according to the Neuman Systems Model?
Construct clear and concise arguments using evidence-based psychological concepts and theories to support your perspectives regarding the literature.
The thesis is the statement of your perspectives on the literature. It should also include the rationale and relevant empirical and theoretical background supporting your perspectives. The primary objective is to outline specific areas of inquiry you intend to answer in the course of the Integrative Literature Review. Although they may change during the course of the review, articulating these areas of inquiry early will help provide focus and direction for your research. Begin by introducing the areas of inquiry to be included in your Integrative Literature Review. Explain your perspective on the literature and include how you arrived at this viewpoint, how the literature you have chosen to include supports this viewpoint, and why this perspective is relevant to the field of psychology.Based on your introduction, briefly discuss the literature you have chosen by integrating concepts developed from the four different content domains (Developmental Psychology, Psychopathology, Cognitive Psychology and Psychopharmacology). Be sure to utilize at least one peer-reviewed source per domain. Construct clear and concise arguments using evidence-based psychological concepts and theories to support your perspectives regarding the literature. To conclude, identify any overarching implications shown in the studies and describe how these influenced your perspectives on the literature?
Why did Third World cities and their slums grow so fast during the second half of the 20th Century?
What role has industrialization played in urbanization in first and third-world nations? As a result in the role of industrialization is classical or modern urbanization more likely to produce slums? Why? According to Davis, what is the principal function of the Third World urban edge? Why does he say this? Why did Third World cities and their slums grow so slowly during the first half of the 20th Century? Why did Third World cities and their slums grow so fast during the second half of the 20th Century?
How do our history and culture affect our understanding of psychological disorders?
While psychological disorders still have a stigma, steps have been taken by some individuals to help others understand the disorders a little better. For example, photographer John William Keedy captured images to express anxiety disorders, OCD, and varied neuroses in Photos Reveal What It’s Like to Have Anxiety Issues.Review What It’s Like to Have Schizophrenia, which attempts to show viewers what it’s like to have schizophrenia. (Warning: the video is graphic and may be disturbing.) Then there is a personal story from Healthline called ;In Their Shoes: Understanding What Bipolar Disorder Feels Like and another from Mills Baker called What Does It Feel Like to Have Bipolar Disorder?; Both stories are told from the point of view of someone with bipolar disorder and try to capture what it’s like living with the illness. After reviewing the readings and videos and further researching the topic, post a two-paragraph response to the following: How do our history and culture affect our understanding of psychological disorders? What, if anything, can be done to reduce the stigma attached to psychological disorders? Do the photographs, videos, and stories mentioned above help people to better understand the disorders, or do they serve to further stigmatize the disorders? Explain. Studies have shown that having a low socioeconomic status (SES) increases the risk factor for developing a mental illness. Why might this be the case? Think about some of the symptoms of psychological disorders. What connections do you see between the symptoms and low SES?
