How did it feel for you to talk candidly with an individual about their illness?

Learning to live with a chronic illness is an exhausting challenge for everyone involved. From diagnosis until either the illness resolves or the client’s life ends, that individual and family must make every decision and every move with the chronic illness in mind.;

The social worker’s role is many times fairly limited. It is often a matter of following the client and seeing that their basic needs are being met. At times, it does take on the role of sleuth when the social worker is able to go in search of resources to help pay for special needs for everything from prostheses to new treatments. At the very least, it is to help the client and their family to hold on to hope.

To Prepare:

Interview an individual who has a chronic illness. With the individual’s permission, interview them about what it is like to live with a chronic illness, the most difficult parts of being chronically ill, how they manage their illness, what aspects—if any—frighten them, what kind of social support and family support they have, how willing they would be to try new treatment methods, and which social worker stands out most in their mind (good or bad) and why.

In a 5-6-minute video reflect on the following: 

• How did it feel for you to talk candidly with an individual about their illness? 
• Who would you say was more uncomfortable talking about it—you or the person you were interviewing?
• Why? 
• How informed was in the individual about their illness and the treatments and prognosis? 
• How supported did this individual feel from the community, and how did that support change from before they became ill? 
• What insights did you gain from this experience that you will take into the field as a social worker to help when you work with clients with chronic illnesses?

Specify the remote-access and WAN technologies you would employ.

think about and describe a scenario whereby you are the individual responsible for the design of a network for a large organization. This network would entail connectivity between sites in the US, Europe, Africa and Japan as well as within regions. Specify the remote-access and WAN technologies you would employ. Explain how you would choose the necessary topology, routers, switches, media, etc. Discuss reasons for choosing those technologies and explain the organizational requirements that would be addressed. 

What defines your calling as either a leader or a manager?

Write a 3-page minimum paper (750 words) describing the organization that you work for, or one with which you are familiar, from the perspective of how it employs or fails to employ teams. What defines your calling as either a leader or a manager? What were your results from the spiritual gifts test? How do you see you utilizing the gifts the Lord have given you in your workplace or future calling? Requirements: Each paper submitted in this course must have a title page and a reference page. You are expected to reference and cote a minimum of two scholarly sources in each paper. Proper APA format must be followed

What is a True Belief?

What is a True Belief?

Explain the four truth tests and illustrate each with an example of a belief that would be true by its standards. Remember to explain specific theories with supporting citations from the textbook and online lectures. (Here is a guide to help you with APA-style citations.) Below are the readings for the assignment.

What is the best way to implement quality improvement?

What is the best way to implement quality improvement? What particular strategies and/or models should be used when developing a plan? Throughout the past 7 weeks, you have explored quality improvement in healthcare and nursing practice, and you will continue this exploration by analyzing specific quality improvement models. What models might work best in your nursing practice or healthcare organization?

Healthcare is complex and varied; therefore, quality improvement cannot be a one-sized fits all approach. To fit the complex and varied needs of an organization, there are multiple strategies and methods to implement quality improvement.

For this Discussion, select one quality improvement model to explore and analyze. Using the selected model, consider how this model might be implemented in your healthcare organization or nursing practice. Examine the effectiveness of this model and consider how this model might be applied to address impacts to adverse events for nursing practice.

To Prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources for this week, and reflect on the different quality improvement models presented.
• Select one quality improvement model from the following to focus on for this Discussion:
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • A3
  • Lean
  • Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)
• Reflect on the quality improvement model you selected, and consider how it might be implemented in your healthcare organization or nursing practice.

By Day 3 of Week 8

Post a brief explanation of the quality improvement model you selected, including a description of the components that make up this model. Be specific. Then, explain how this quality improvement model might be implemented in you healthcare organization or nursing practice in response to an adverse event requiring quality improvement. Be specific and provide examples.

Please describe in detail the dimensions of the patterns and events occurring in the environment that influence organizations.

Please answer the following 3 short essay questions

each question 150 words 

• 1. Please describe in detail the dimensions of the patterns and events occurring in the environment that influence organizations.
• 2. Please summarize the perspectives for understanding interorganizational relationships.
• 3. Please describe and discuss in detail the four stages of international development.

Advertising and Public Relations

Deliverable Length:   3–5 pages (not including cover page and resource page)

Assignment Details

There is a difference between public relations, known today as earned media, and advertising, also known as paid media. Both disciplines are important in the overall marketing campaign of a brand, whether it is a product, business, company, service, person, idea, or place. Social media has also become an important way to advertise and publicize anything.

Key Concept Snapshot: Advertising is paid media, meaning the marketer crafts and pays for the message that they want to present to the audience. The marketer controls the published or presented message. 

Key Concept Snapshot: Public relations is earned media, meaning the information being marketed through persuasive messaging is earned and the public develops its own opinions about the product, service, idea, and business and beyond. The marketer does not control the published or presented message.

There are several advantages to using both disciplines in crafting and marketing a message to sell products and services. To prepare for this assignment, do the following:

• To help you understand the difference between advertising and public relations, watch the following videos: 
• Reflect on these differences in your assignment. 

Create your assignment.

Scenario: Suppose you want to start an online business part-time. Include the following 3 main ideas in your 3–5-page assignment:

• What’s the difference between public relations and advertising? First, write about the differences between advertising (paid media) and public relations (earned media). Provide examples. 
• How would you advertise and publicize the business? Write about how you might approach advertising and public relations for a product of your choice. Explain your interpretation of the differences. 
• Market, message, and media: Now that you have considered, reviewed, and analyzed public relations and advertising, think about your market, message and media. Explain your different ideas about messages to advertise and publicize a product or business.

Your company is ready to overhaul its project management practices.

Your company is ready to overhaul its project management practices. Top management is convinced that it will benefit from adopting PMI standards in organizing and managing its projects.

Create a 1-2 page report on the following:

• An overview of the concept of knowledge areas.
• Prepare a detailed outline of the ten PMI standard project management knowledge areas for company-wide release.
• Briefly define important terms. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

For more information on APA, please visit the APA Lab.

What do the authors mean by semi-authoritarian regimes?

Read the articles, “Institutional Characteristics and Regime Survival: Why are Semi-Democracies Less Durable than Autocracies and Democracies?“by Knutson and Nygard (2015), and “Legal Manoeuvres and Violence: Law Making, Protest and Semi-Authoritarianism in Uganda,” by Goodfellow (2014), which are required reading for this week. Based on these articles, respond to the following:

• What do the authors mean by semi-authoritarian regimes?
• Identify one country that is currently in the news that fits the definition of a semi-authoritarian regime.
• Why do you identify this country as such?

Requirements:

Minimum 250 Words

Minimum of 2 sources

What is natural selection? How was it derived from artificial selection

1. What is natural selection? How was it derived from artificial selection
2. What are the implications of natural selection (hint: see discussion in the Stein and Rowe text on directional natural selection and watch closely Dawkins’s discussion just after Falwell makes his Watchmaker metaphor in Origins of Species.
3. Give examples of natural selection (hint: Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands; look for that discussion in the Stein and Rowe. text. How did the 1977 study by the Grants test that theory regarding finches on Daphne Major? What did they find out in a later study in 1982?
4. What is the other side of the equation of natural selection that Darwin could not have conceived of, given knowledge at the time? In other words, what is the real origin of species? Describe the mechanisms of this process, based on your readings of .genetics and mutation. Look it up in the Stein and Rowe. text and in the Power Point lectures.
5. Why is mutation often regarded as a genetic error?
6. On the creationist/intelligence design issue, what arguments of the evolutionary model would the advocates of ID have to address? see instances in the Stein and Rowe. text.)
   1. Learn the basics of cell structure, mitosis and meiosis, replication and mutation, and translation and transcription and explain how the tie into the evolutionary process. You may look these up in your text or in You Tube (15 points)
   2. What roles do gene flow and genetic drift play in evolutionary change? Again, you may look these up in your text or You Tube

Reference:  Stein, P. L., & Rowe, B. M. (1993). Physical Anthropology. McGraw-Hill.