Identify best practices you can use in your sustainability initiative.
Identify and read two to three articles that discuss the standard of care expected at your selected health care setting, innovative ideas on how to improve the quality of care and outcomes, or ideas on how to make patient care at the setting more sustainable.
Note: If relevant articles are not found in the University Library, expand your search to outside sources and materials.
Identify best practices you can use in your sustainability initiative.
Write a 125- to 175-word summary for each citation that explains how the article supports the sustainability initiative you are developing in this course.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
How many units should the retailer order to maximize expected profit?
A retailer sells a perishable commodity and each day he places an order for Q units. Each unit that is sold gives a profit of 60 cents and units not sold at the end of the day are discarded at a loss of 40 cents per unit. The demand, D, on any given day is uniformly distributed over [80,140]. How many units should the retailer order to maximize expected profit?
write an essay that explains how you see public relations changing in the face of these and other trends and what public relations professionals can do to adapt.
The last decade has seen the rise of social media and the decline of traditional news sources. According to Rebekah Iliff, Chief Strategy Officer for AirPR (2014), the implications of technology and other various drivers (the economic downturn and self-publishing, for example) have affected PR in ways that have yet to fully be discovered.
Please read the quote above and write an essay that explains how you see public relations changing in the face of these and other trends and what public relations professionals can do to adapt. You should use academic sources, as well as personal insight and experience, to support your argument.
Please make sure to use professional ideas about public relations.Thank
For your initial post, consider the contemporary themes represented in this story, particularly the issues facing the female characters!
Contemporary Literature
Story Themes Whole-Class Discussion
Ma, a Memoir by Lynn Freed
This forum will focus on theme and meaning! Theme in literature is the idea that holds the story together, such as a comment about society, human nature, or the human condition. It is the main idea or central meaning of a piece of writing.
For your initial post, consider the contemporary themes represented in this story, particularly the issues facing the female characters! Are these themes uniquely contemporary or more universal in nature? Do they transcend time and place or are they particular to region and culture? In your post, make specific references to the storys characters and scenes
What is the social or environmental challenge that causes human suffering that you wish to understand?
Students will write double-spaced, typed page answers to the following three sets of questions and create a visual map, which are due on the last day of regular classes. Also be sure to include a bibliography with your paper. We will discuss this assignment in more depth on the dates below in red.
Challenge Mapping: What is the social or environmental challenge that causes human
suffering that you wish to understand? What is its history and what are the social,
economic, corporate, environmental, cultural and political forces maintaining the status
quo? Who is affected by it? What is the size and scope of the impact? What is the
relationship of this challenge to other areas of concern or opportunity? Draw on readings
and lectures in formulating your answers. (3 pages)
Solution Mapping: Who is already working to solve this problem? What
are they doing? What efforts have been tried or are being tried and what are the
different models/approaches? What has worked, what hasnt? How are some of these
efforts linked to one another? What networks & resources exist that could further the
solutions landscape? What has happened in the past, and what could happen in the
future? Draw on readings and lectures in formulating your answers. (3 pages)
Impact Gaps: What is missing from the solutions landscape? Consider policy changes,
information sharing/behavior change efforts, movement building, research, market
opportunities, missing links, or other actionable responses. What role do you see for
future private, public, and social sector interventions or collaborations? What are the
lessons you have learned from researching this issue? Where were your assumptions
challenged? If you had more time, what would you research next? Draw on readings and
lectures in formulating your answers
research ethical decision-making and legal issues that influence your role as a nursing leader.
Nursing Leaders as Ethical-Legal Change Agents in Health Care
In the course, you will research ethical decision-making and legal issues that influence your role as a nursing leader. Please take this opportunity to introduce yourself, state your area of specialization, and explain how you see your role as a nursing leader making ethical-legal and moral decisions. Include what actions you plan to take to minimize or alleviate moral distress caused by ethical dilemmas and the values that support your actions.
What are three types of social mobility present in the American Society?
Please include the following questions in the essay.
Please read the question for this discussion thread carefully and answer it in details.
1. Class Inequality: What are three types of social mobility present in the American Society? Give at least one example of each mobility. (6 points)
2. Gender Inequality: What is Glass Ceiling? How does it apply to women? Please quote the textbook. (2 points)
Consider your future as a NP and what your nursing legacy will be. How will you impart Social Change?
During NP clinical practicum experiences, we identify, as nurses, many health care issues that need to be addressed at the local, state, or national level. Addressing the need for change in health care policy is now an intricate part of your role as a social change agent.
For this Discussion, you will identify a change needed in your community (state of Mississippi) and what your nursing legacy for positive social change will be.
To prepare:
Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice.
Identify a change needed in your community (state of Mississippi) in health care policy and discuss how you could impart change during your career as an NP.
Consider your future as a NP and what your nursing legacy will be. How will you impart Social Change?
To complete:
Post 1-2 pages on:
A change needed in your community (state of Mississippi) and an explanation for how you will begin to implement that change.
Then, share with your colleagues a brief explanation of what your nursing legacy will be and how will you impart Social Change.
References
Buppert, C. (2015). Buppert, C. (2015). Lawmaking and Health Policy. In Nurse Practitioners Business Practice and Legal Guide (5th ed.). (423-436). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
Christensen, C. M., Bohmer, R. M. J., & Kenagy, J. (2000). Will disruptive innovations cure health care? Harvard Business Review, 78(5), 102-112, 199.
National Conference of State Legislatures. (n.d.). Glossary of Legislative Terms. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/glossary-of-legislative-terms.asp
You may use other scholarly resources and websites as you see fit
Write a 1000 word referential paper in which you compare and contrast two periodical articles that are written on a similar topic
Write a 1000 word referential paper in which you compare and contrast two periodical articles that are written on a similar topic. Choose non-fiction articles and include a copy of each with your paper.
Suggested format:
Paragraph 1summarize and state thesis of essay #1 (100 words maximum)
Paragraph 2summarize and state thesis of essay #2 (100 words maximum)
Paragraph 3discuss and give examples of the purpose(s) in each essay (expressive, literary,
persuasive, referential)
Paragraph 4discuss and give examples of the patterns of organization in each essay (narration,
description, evaluation, classification, comparison/contrast)
Paragraph 5objectively evaluate the essays stating which is better written and explain why (or you
may explain how both are equally well-written).
Since this is a referential paper, you must avoid using first person commentary such as I think, I feel, etc.
How many guitarists play classical solos in the contest?
5/8 of the 64 musicians in a music contest are guitarists. Some of the guitarists play jazz solos, and the rest play classical solos. The ratio of the number of guitarists playing jazz solos to the number of guitarists in the contests is 1:4. How many guitarists play classical solos in the contest?
