Describe in detail your plan for how you would lobby your legislators or local government for funding and support for your chosen current issue or trend.

1. Topic: The prevalence and impact of substance abuse among nurses (impaired nursing)
2. PPT Presentation will have 8-10 slides, NOT including the title and reference slides. You will also need to include graphics to make your slides interesting.
3. You are to create bullet points for each slide, not including the title and reference slides. Include speaker notes for each slide by including 4-5 sentences to address the bulleted items on each slide. Please follow APA style and include citations in your speaker notes.
4. Including a minimum of 4-5 peer research articles as references in the presentation. All research articles need to be within 5 years from today’s date. No blog, chat, other universities, or Wikipedia information is allowed in the presentation.  The PowerPoint presentation must follow APA style. 
5. Describe in detail your plan for how you would lobby your legislators or local government for funding and support for your chosen current issue or trend. 
6. Include the following elements in your presentation:
   1. How will the topic impact your role as a nurse in nursing workforce or clinical setting?
   2. Current relevance of the topic
   3. How your topic is integrated and used in clinical practice

Research the web, create a report detailing features and functions of ERM systems.

Searching for Employee Loyalty     

You are the CEO of Razz, a start-up web-based search company, which is planning to compete directly with Google. The company had an exceptional first year and is currently receiving over 500,000 hits a day from customers all over the world.       You have hired 250 people in the past four months, doubling the size of your organization. With so many new employees starting so quickly, you are concerned about how your company’s culture will evolve and whether your employees are receiving enough attention. You are already familiar with customer relationship management and how CRM systems can help an organization create strong customer relationships. However, you are unfamiliar with employee relationship management, and you are wondering what ERM systems might be able to offer your employees and your company.       Research the web, create a report detailing features and functions of ERM systems, and determine what value will be added to your organization if you decide to implement an ERM solution. Write a 2 page report using APA formatting and submit it to your instructor          NOTE: This assignment is subject to the Information Literacy Institutional Learning Outcome.  

Post an evaluation of the 7 S Model as a tool for planning and executing change with an organization.

Discussion The 7 S Model

To prepare for this Discussion, review the section entitled “Alignment: The 7 S Model” on pages 239–244 in Dyer, Godfrey, Jensen, and Bryce (2016) and consider which components of the model might be the most beneficial in executing change within an organization. You may also want to utilize the Walden Library to identify scholarly examples of implementing the 7 S Model in professional contexts.

Post an evaluation of the 7 S Model as a tool for planning and executing change with an organization. Your evaluation should include the following:

·         A description of the value of each step within the 7 S model to implementing change with the organization, including at least one supportive example

·         An analysis of which one or two specific component(s) of the 7 S Model could be most helpful from a change management perspective, including at least one supportive example

·         An explanation for which specific component(s) of the 7 S Model could be most challenging when implementing organizational change, including at least one supportive example

Describe the steps that you would use in order to convert database tables to the First Normal Form, the Second Normal Form, and the Third Normal Form.

Assignment 2: Normalization

Worth 100 points

Suppose that you are the database developer for a local college. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has asked you to provide a summary of normalizing database tables that the IT staff will use in the upcoming training session. 

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the steps that you would use in order to convert database tables to the First Normal Form, the Second Normal Form, and the Third Normal Form.
2. Provide one (1) example that is relevant to a college environment that illustrates reasons for converting database tables to the First, Second, and Third Normal Forms.
3. Explain typical situations when denormalizing a table is acceptable. Provide one (1) example of denormalizing a database table to justify your response.
4. Explain the significant manner in which business rules impact both database normalization and the decision to denormalize database tables.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recognize the purpose and principles of normalizing a relational database structure.
• Design a relational database so that it is at least in 3NF.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article discussing blockchain technology.

Find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article discussing blockchain technology. Complete a review of the article by writing a 2-3 page overview of the article. This will be a detailed summary of the journal article, including concepts discussed and findings. Additionally, find one other source (it does not have to be a peer-reviewed journal article) that substantiates the findings in the article you are reviewing. You should use the UC library (https://www.ucumberlands.edu/library) and/or Google Scholar to find these types of articles (https://scholar.google.com/ )Once you find the article, you will read it and write a review of it.  This is considered a research article review.Your paper should meet these requirements: 

• Be approximately three to four pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Describe the behavior and the influencer, using one concept from Family Systems Theory to analyze it.

Family has great impact on an individual’s behavior. For this discussion, share an issue or behavior related to family influence that you or someone you know has experienced. Describe the behavior and the influencer, using one concept from Family Systems Theory to analyze it. How might a Human Services professional help the individual involved?

Review the posts made by your classmates. Thoughtfully and respectfully respond to two classmate’s posts using a different Family Systems Theory than originally used to analyze the issue or behavior. Additionally, provide another way the Human Services professional could assist the individual.

Analyze the evolution of social media standards and practices and how it relates to the potential need for regulation of social media.

Competencies

• Analyze the evolution of social media standards and practices and how it relates to the potential need for regulation of social media, along with ethical concerns.
• Evaluate psychological theories and their insights into the widely varying opinions and attitudes that are expressed through social media.
• Compare and contrast new social media marketing trends with more traditional forms of advertising.
• Assess the development of societal standards in relation to social media and how this can alter social norms in everyday life.
• Integrate the positive and negative effects of social media making global communication easily accessible.
• Design a personal plan to use social media to benefit the student both personally and professionally as well as minimize online mistakes and their impact.

Instructions

Social media use is critical to a dynamic and competitive brand, whether that brand is something you sell, a group home, a non-profit organization, or your self-image. This project will get you thinking about effective ways to shape your social media tools to make the most of your brand, to keep consumers talking and thinking about your brand, and to get interaction from those you seek to sell to or to help. You will take a look at what you post to social media, possible responses or reactions you will receive, as well as use social media trends and society controls to keep your brand meeting your goals.

Your final project should include a plan for the following: how you will utilize a minimum of four social media sites; what your target audience will be; your use of contacts, outreach, and advertising best practices; your posting do’s and don’ts; and explanations of your choices using the sources from the course and others you find.

If you have a real business, brand, or site to work on, you can start by putting the site profiles into the four social media sites you have chosen (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Screenshots will work for these that you have really made. If you don’t really have a business or brand, you do not need to create faux profiles. However, you should write the information you would include in your profile for each one.

In summary, your plan should contain:

• An introduction to your brand or company
• Your social media goals and general goals for the brand
• An analysis of the market comparables — similar businesses/nonprofits/brands, including what has been successful and what hasn’t worked for at least 3 good comparable brands
• Discussion of societal norms for those comparables. What seem to be the “rules” they follow? Is there open or tacit regulation you’ve noticed? Include how you can expand your influence globally by overcoming potential language and culture barriers 
• An analysis of advertising and its necessity along with the type of advertising you would do and why
• An outline of the audience you intend to reach and how to reach them. Be sure to take into account the factors that are in play when attempting to reach an audience that includes a wide range of ages (consider generational differences)
• A plan for how to use your contacts and add new ones when publicizing and staying connected
• A plan for each of four social media sites, including profile information and posting ideas
• Analysis of any of the theories you would use
• A conclusion

Your project lengths will depend on how much depth you put into your analysis of each section, but to give you a general idea, several paragraphs for most of the bullet points is a good length, and should result in a total of around 10 pages.

what was Bubonic Plague?

For this assignment, you’ll create a PowerPoint or video presentation about the Bubonic Plague that struck in the middle ages.  You need to have at least one slide/segment for each of the following:

• Explanation: what was Bubonic Plague?
• Causes
• Symptoms
• Medical Treatments- what did doctors use to try to fight the plague, and to keep themselves alive while treating it?
• Other treatments (be sure to include the Flagellants)- what did others besides doctors do to try to keep themselves from getting the disease?
• Disruption of normal life during outbreaks – how was life changed for people who were living in plague-stricken areas?  You’ll probably need to think critically for this one.
• Mortality Rate– how many are believed to have died?
• Results – how did the Black Death change Europe and the world? 3 slides for this at least.  Think in terms of social structures, economics, etc.
• Include a title slide and a works cited slide. You may use any format (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian) you wish. 
• Your background must have color and each slide must have both a picture and text information.

An explanation of the controversy that exists between models of addiction and their effects on assessment

Several models are prominent in the field of addictions; these models include the medical model, moral model, and the biopsychosocial model. A particular model advocated by an addictions professional will influence the professional’s choices of assessment methods and treatment of addiction.

To prepare:

• Consider the following definition of addiction by Michael Miller, M.D., former president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine: “At its core, addiction is not just a social problem or a moral problem or a criminal problem. It is a brain problem whose behaviors manifest in all these others areas…The disease is about brains, not drugs. It is about underlying neurology, not outward actions” (Addiction Treatment Magazine, 2011).

Assignment Directions:

• Review the article, “New Definition of Addiction Causing Controversy Among Doctors.” (See Reference)
• Research two articles that support or refute this position.
• Examine Miller’s statement and, based on your research, identify which model it reflects and the implications for the assessment process. (See attached for addiction models)

Submit by Day 7 a 3- to 4-page paper (Not including title or ref. pg.) that includes the following:

• A brief description of the articles you chose and an explanation of their significance to Miller’s definition
• An explanation of the model reflected in Miller’s statement and its implications for the assessment process
• An explanation of the controversy that exists between models of addiction and their effects on assessment
• An explanation of the relationship between the models of addiction and assessment processes

Cite your sources using APA guidelines including citing within paper).

Reference

Addiction Treatment Magazine. (2011). New definition of addiction causing controversy among doctors. Retrieved from http://www.addictiontreatmentmagazine.com/addiction/new-definition-addiction-controversy/

Explain the costs associated with the business ethics failures from a corporate social responsibility and/or environmental sustainability perspective.

Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within the field of Management Policy and Strategy. 

There is an important symbiotic relationship between strategy and policy for managers and leaders to understand. Business policy helps guide strategy implementation from a control perspective, but it can also enable innovation. Policy must be carefully developed so to empower employees but must also be stringent enough to set boundaries and enforce expectations. To understand the central significance of the relationship between policy and strategy to top managers and their organizations, you must gain an understanding of how environments, external and internal, affect the functioning of an organization. You must develop an ability to evaluate environment to detect opportunities and threats in it to which alert managers must respond. It means an understanding of the processes through which managers can best determine those missions and objectives their organizations should seek; it means the ability to formulate and evaluate the best policies and strategies to achieve these ends, and the methods to assure that policies and strategies are implemented. This is an important strategic leadership and management ability that you must demonstrate and continuously hone throughout your career.

In this Assignment, you will compose business policies using ethical theories and principles from a leadership and management perspective. Ethics plays an important role in strategic decision-making. Managers and leaders must be adept in understanding such concepts like Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainability, diversity, negotiation, sales tactics, etc. All strategic decisions involve trade-offs, and businesses might pursue one goal while subordinating another. However, managers and leaders must consider legal, ethical, and moral boundaries and regulations with company goals, objectives and directives. Leaders and managers must continuously hone strategic decision-making knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors as an important 21st Century professional competency.

To demonstrate your understanding of business policy with relation to business ethics concepts in this Assignment, design a narrated PowerPoint presentation to include the following information:

• Conduct research to identify an article highlighting a recent (no more than three years old) ethics.
• Tell the story. Provide a synopsis of the ethics  scandal by providing specific details about the company, professionals, victims, the dilemma, government, etc.
• Explain what drove the unethical behaviors and/or  business strategies that caused the scandal.
• Explain the costs associated with the business ethics failures from a corporate social responsibility and/or environmental sustainability perspective.
• Explain what managers and leaders of the company should have done to prevent the scandal.
• Explain what business policies and strategic decisions could have prevented the scandal from occurring.
• Could centralized or decentralized decision-making have prevented the scandal from occurring? Explain.
• Compose and explain business policies that  establish standards of ethical behavior no different from the ethical  standards and norms of the larger society and culture that could prevent a scandal like this from occurring ever again in the business.
• Ensure your business policies balance corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability with economic responsibilities to shareholders to prevent inequity.

Use as many concepts from Chapters 9 and 10 of your textbooks to complete this Assignment as possible. You are the professional and will need to determine how many slides and how long the presentation should be to meet the requirements of this Assignment. You are capable of making such decisions at this level of your degree program. Take the initiative to be the problem solver and strategic decision-maker. Each slide should have a verbal narration and notes. Your slides should be professionally designed