Describe how nonverbal feedback conveys powerful messages.
Discussion 1
Nonverbal Feedback
question 1 Describe how nonverbal feedback conveys powerful messages. question 2 Provide an example where nonverbal feedback was used and describe the end result.
Discussion 2
Virtual Organizations
Question 1 Describe the evolution of the virtual organization.
Question 2 What are the pros and cons associated with this design?
Question 3 Provide examples of three technological devices/concepts that have had the greatest impact on virtual organizations.
Required Resources
Text
Baack, D. (2017). Organizational behavior (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu
Chapter 9: Communication in Organizations
Chapter 10: Organizational Design and Change
Multimedia
Films Media Group. (2008). Balance in life and work (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video clip]. In 9 to 5 No Longer. Retrieved from https://secure.films.com/OnDemandEmbed.aspx?token=40875&aid=18596&loid=66935&plt=FOD&w=420
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Course Scenario
Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:
Emergency room services
Intensive care
Surgical care
Obstetrics
Diagnostic services
Some rehabilitation therapies
Inpatient pharmacy services
Geriatric services
Consumer physician referral services
Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.
Scenario Continued
You have been asked to present a narrated visual report for the CEO and Board of Directors on a video conference call to share your major findings and to discuss recommendations.
Competencies:
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Explain the basic models of quality improvement in healthcare.
Evaluate the role and importance of patient satisfaction.
Evaluate the role and importance of the patient experience.
Apply statistics to different quality methods in healthcare.
Apply quality improvement methods.
Instructions
Your visual report should include the following:
Types of measurements that will be used.
Overall design of the survey.
Identifies who will lead the QI task force.
Identifies who should be on the task force.
Suggestions for implementing the results of the survey.
Your visual report should be done using Microsoft PowerPoint, or any other presentation software of your choosing that also allows for narration to be added.
APA formatting for the References slide, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required.
Review the transcripts provided. Summarize the data, making it as factual and data-supported as possible. Submit a 3-5 paragraph analysis identifying the performance issues and opportunities for Turmeric & Spice Ltd. In your summary, identify documentation that you would want to find to corroborate comments by your interviewees or provide additional information that your interviewees were unable to provide.
Pat Eneewon, a performance practitioner with Turmeric & Spice, Ltd., was asked to meet with the Chief People Officer (CPO) about building a leadership development program. Pat has interviewed Ms, Abley, the CPO at Turmeric & Spice (T&S) and three people recommended by Ms. Abley. Pat has been moved on to another project, these interview transcripts have been provided to you in preparation for you taking over the project.
Review the transcripts provided. Summarize the data, making it as factual and data-supported as possible. Submit a 3-5 paragraph analysis identifying the performance issues and opportunities for Turmeric & Spice Ltd. In your summary, identify documentation that you would want to find to corroborate comments by your interviewees or provide additional information that your interviewees were unable to provide.
Write a 2 page response using APA format, include a brief summary of Pats methodology and any changes you would have made to it.
Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.
What protocol do you recommend for this network and what are its advantages?
Nishida Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods including noodle and sauce combinations. Their foods are distributed to grocery stores and specialty food stores throughout Canada, Europe, and the United States. The company is moving into a new building and has hired the company you work for, Network Design Consultants, to help them create a new network. Before the move, their head network administrator accepted a job with another company and his inexperienced assistant has been promoted as the head network administrator.
Nishida Kitchens has a business and sales unit of 42 computer users. The plant in which the foods are produced, packaged, and shipped has 45 computer users. The company has both Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The business and sales unit uses Windows 10 Professional workstations. The plant users have a combination of Windows 10 Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux computers on users desktops. The company plans to have Internet connectivity available to all network users. Nishida Kitchens has an outlet store across town which provides the public with direct sales of their products. The outlet store also has Internet connectivity on a small network of 12 computers that are running Windows 10 P Professional.
What protocol do you recommend for this network and what are its advantages?
For WAN communications, such as remote communication over the Internet connection, what protocol should be used by the Windows 10 Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstations? What are the advantages of this protocol?
List specific goals of treatment for this patient.
R.S. is a 32-year-old woman who seeks treatment for a vaginal discharge that she has had for the past month. She is sexually active and has had the same partner for the past 6 months. She reports noticing an odor, especially after sexual intercourse. Her history reveals that she has been using a commercial douche on a biweekly basis during the past year for hygienic purposes in an attempt to prevent vaginal infections. She denies any other associated symptoms. The physical examination reveals a white vaginal discharge. Microscopic examination of the vaginal discharge shows clue cells, and the pH is 5.5.
Diagnosis: Bacterial Vaginosis
1. List specific goals of treatment for this patient.
2. What drug therapy would you prescribe? Why?
3. Discuss specific patient education based on the prescribed therapy.
4. List one or two adverse reactions for the selected agent that would cause you to change therapy.
5. What OTC or alternative medications would be appropriate for this patient?
6.What dietary or lifestyle changes should be recommended?
Respond in complete sentences, 2-3 paragraphs. APA format Work must be supported by peer-reviewed article published within 5 years.
Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners
1. Provide a summary of your learning style according the VARK questionnaire
2. Describe your preferred learning strategies. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
3. Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities. Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners.
4.Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?
Compare and contrast two forms of contraception
Include: (3 references within years 2015-2018) with intext citations.
Many elements need to be considered individually by a woman, man, or couple when choosing the most appropriate contraceptive method. Some of these elements include safety, effectiveness, availability (including accessibility and affordability), and acceptability. Although most contraceptive methods are safe for use by most women, U.S. MEC provides recommendations on the safety of specific contraceptive methods for women with certain characteristics and medical conditions.
Directions:
Compare and contrast two forms of contraception including:
indications,
contraindications,
side effects,
US Medical Eligibility Criteria (USMRC),
US Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (USSPR), affordability, and mechanisms of action.
Examine why sabermetric-based player evaluation is such a shock to other executives in baseball.
Assignment 3: Moneyball
Moneyball, a book by Michael Lewis (2003), highlights how creativity, framing, and robust technical analysis all played a part in the development of a new approach to talent management in baseball. It also exhibited great examples of the biases and psychological pitfalls that plague decision makers.
Review the article Whos on First? by Thaler & Sunstein (2003) from this modules assigned readings. This article reviews the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
Write a critique of the article including the following points:
Examine why sabermetric-based player evaluation is such a shock to other executives in baseball.
Evaluate why Beane is much more effective in his success by constructing a matrix of pitfalls and heuristics that highlight the differences between Beanes team and other executives.
Moneyball highlights how people tend to overestimate the likelihood of success and end up facing financial lossin this case, it meant forfeiting millions of dollars. Analyze a professional or personal decision (yours or otherwise) that highlights this predilection in spite of substantial losses.
Explain how you would apply Moneyballs management lessons in your own endeavors.
Write a 35-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc.
By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.
Lewis, M. (2003). Moneyball. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Hayashi, A. M. (2001). When to TRUST Your GUT. Harvard Business Review, 79(2), 5965.
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How do you see the effect of this executive order so far?Consider the following assertion from Health Policymaking in the United States: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is proving to be a monumental and challenging management undertaking (Jost 2014) (textbook page 197). Based on what you know of the Affordable Care Act and the implementation process, why might this be? What about managing this act can be so monumental and challenging?
In 2017, President Trump, after failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act in congress, took his own steps toward fulfilling his vow to dismantle Obamacare, signing an executive order that he says will bring affordable health insurance to millions more people. The order broadly tasks the administration with developing policies to increase health care competition and choice in order to improve the quality of health care and lower prices. However, it could also destabilize Obamacare by siphoning out younger and healthier Americans from the exchanges. How do you see the effect of this executive order so far?Consider the following assertion from Health Policymaking in the United States: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is proving to be a monumental and challenging management undertaking (Jost 2014) (textbook page 197). Based on what you know of the Affordable Care Act and the implementation process, why might this be? What about managing this act can be so monumental and challenging? You may support your answers by referring to Appendix 1, Overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or additional Internet searches.
write an essay that argues who is the tragic hero in the play: Antigone or Creon?
In the Lecture Notes for Greek Tragedy, you learned the 8 qualities that make a character a tragic hero, according to Aristotle. Using those qualities, write an essay that argues who is the tragic hero in the play: Antigone or Creon? You do not need to discuss every quality, just enough to make your argument.
