What types of experience have you had working with patients with this condition, disease, or disorder?

Assessment 1: Concept Map
Create a concept map of a chosen condition, disease, or disorder with glucose regulation or metabolic balance considerations – TOPIC: STROKE.
Write a brief narrative (2-3 pages) that explains why the evidence cited in the concept map and narrative are valuable and relevant, as well as how specific interprofessional strategies will help to improve the outcomes presented in the concept map.
Introduction
The biopsychosocial (BPS) approach to care is a way to view all aspects of a patient’s life. It encourages medical practitioners to take into account not only the physical and biological health of a patient, but all considerations like mood, personality, and socioeconomic characteristics. This course will also explore aspects of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment (the three Ps) as they relate to specific conditions, diseases, or disorders.
Create a concept map to analyze and organize the treatment of a specific patient with a specific condition, disease, or disorder with glucose regulation or metabolic balance considerations with glucose regulation or metabolic balance considerations. .
The purpose of a concept map is to visualize connections between ideas, connect new ideas to previous ideas, and to organize ideas logically. Concept maps can be an extremely useful tool to help organize and plan care decisions. This is especially true in the biopsychosocial model of health, which takes into account factors beyond just the biochemical aspects of health. By utilizing a concept map, a nurse can simplify the connection between disease pathways, drug interactions, and symptoms, as well as between emotional, personality, cultural, and socioeconomic considerations that impact health.
Preparation
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
The assessment will be based on the case of a specific patient with a specific condition, disease, or disorder. Think about an experience you have had treating a patient with a condition, disease, or disorder

• What is the primary condition, disease, or disorder affecting the patient?
o What types of experience have you had working with patients with this condition, disease, or disorder?
o How does this condition, disease, or disorder typically present?
o What are the recommended treatment options?
o What, if any, characteristics of an individual patient should be kept in mind when determining a course of treatment.
• How have you used concept maps to help plan and organize care?
o What are the advantages of concept maps, from your point of view?
o How could concept maps be more useful?
• How can interprofessional communication and collaboration strategies assist in driving patient safety, efficiency, and quality outcomes with regard to specific clinical and biopsychosocial considerations?
o What interprofessional strategies do you recommend health care providers take in order to meet patient-centered safety and outcome goals?
Instructions
Develop a concept map and a short narrative that supports and further explains how the concept map is constructed. You may choose to use the Concept Map Template as a starting point for your concept map, but are not required to do so. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your evidence-based plan addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Concept Map scoring guide and the Guiding Questions: Concept Map (see below) document to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
Part 1: Concept Map
• Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.

Concept Map Template (see other attachment). You may choose to use this template for completing this component of the assignment.
Part 2: Additional Evidence (Narrative)
• Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your concept map.
• Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.
• Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.
• Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
• Length of submission: Your concept map should be on a single page, if at all possible. You can submit the concept map as a separate file, if you need to. Your additional evidence narrative should be 2-3 double-spaced, typed pages. Your narrative should be succinct yet substantive.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3-5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that supports your concept map, decisions made regarding care, and interprofessional strategies. Resources should be no more than five years old.
• APA formatting:
o For the concept map portion of this assessment: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Please include references both in-text and in the reference page that follows your narrative.
o For the narrative portion of this assessment: use the APA Style Paper Tutorial to help you in writing and formatting your analysis. You do not need to include an abstract for this assessment.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Design patient-centered, evidence-based, advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality patient outcomes.
o Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.
o Justify the value and relevance of the evidence used as the basis for a concept map.
• Competency 4: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional care systems in achieving desired health care improvement outcomes.
o Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.
• Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
o Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.
o Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Guiding Questions: Concept Map
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Concept Map assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, as an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.

Part 1: Concept Map
Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.
• Does your concept map fully illustrate the case study, the diagnostic and treatment connections for the condition in the case study, the specific metabolic or glucose-related aspects of the condition, and interprofessional strategies?
o Does your concept map contain all the relevant sections and connections that are present in the example concept map that is most closely related to yours?
• Does your concept map illustrate the desired high-quality outcomes of treatment in the context of your chosen case study?
• Did you use at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence as the basis for your concept map?
o Note: You will need to further discuss the value and relevance of this evidence in your narrative. However, be sure to cite where specific evidence or sources were used in your concept map.
o The evidence you cite should be no more than five years old.
Part 2: Additional Evidence (Narrative)
Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your concept map.
• Have you noted why the evidence you have presented in your concept map is valuable and relevant to the case study you are using as the basis for the concept map?
o Have you explained why each particular piece of evidence is appropriate to the case study you are using?
o Have you explained the linkage between the evidence and the specific metabolic or glucose-related aspects of the condition from your chosen case study?
o Have you explained why the evidence you have used is the best available? In other words, how is it linked to best practices, professional or regulatory guidelines, et cetera?
Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.
• What interprofessional strategies are most applicable to the context of the case study that you are using as the basis for the concept map?
o Why are these interprofessional strategies appropriate in the context of the case study and your concept map?
• What are the desired outcomes in your concept map (or for the case study that you are using)?
o How will the interprofessional strategies you deemed appropriate and applicable help to achieve the desired outcomes?
o What potential challenges might you need to address to best implement the interprofessional strategies and achieve the desired outcomes?
• Remember, the evidence you cite should be no more than five years old.
Address Generally Throughout Both Parts
Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.
• Is your concept map clearly presented?
• Are the links between the evidence and your diagnostic, treatment, or other care decisions clear and justified?
• Is your writing in both the concept map and the narrative clear and professional?
• Is your writing free from errors?
• Is your narrative submission 2–3 pages (not including the title page and reference list)?
• Are you communicating in an ethical way?
o Are you communicating honestly?
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
• Did you use 3–5 sources in your assessment?
o Are the sources you used no more than five years old?
• Are your sources cited in APA format throughout the concept map and narrative?
• Have you included an attached reference list?
• Did you use the APA Paper Template for the proper formatting and to include a running head and title page?
o No abstract is needed for this assessment.

Are your competitors expanding in the current market? Explain how this impacts their market strength.

Overview
In the highly competitive automotive market, it is critical to keep up with current technology to stay in or get ahead in the marketplace. To remain competitive, companies must innovate and integrate new technologies within their product lines and services.
Scenario
You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.
The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the course scenario has been monitoring new technology developments that the company could integrate into its vehicles to enhance the usefulness of and improve access to the data acquired by the many digital sensors integrated into vehicle subsystems over the past 20 to 30 years. The technology trend of particular interest is the internet of things (IoT)—the interconnection of embedded devices, such as sensors and computers, over the internet. By taking advantage of this trend, the CTO believes the company can seize an opportunity to provide better service and predictive maintenance to its customers, improving customer satisfaction and adding additional revenue streams.
Based on briefings by the CTO and your Module One memo, senior management has decided to implement IoT into its product line. Your CTO has asked you to lead a cross-functional team to take this initiative forward. Your first task is to create a presentation that will include your recommendation for how the company should approach this business problem: should you use incremental or discontinuous innovation?
Specifically, should the company:
A. Design a completely new product line, based on the new technology (discontinuous innovation)
or
B. Add new technology features first into one model and then incrementally into the broader product line (incremental innovation)
The recommendation you and your team will make is an important first step in pursuing this new technology. Your memo and recommendations will be reviewed by senior management. Until senior management approves your approach to this innovation, your cross-functional team will not have a budget and will not be able to start work on the innovation. You should utilize your work from the Module Two presentation and data analysis when making and justifying your recommendation in this first milestone.
Prompt
Share your recommendations for how the company should pursue the IoT technology to remain competitive: either by discontinuous or incremental innovation. To make your recommendation, you will need to identify how the evolving IoT (sensor) technology fits into the company’s products and services and determine potential risks and benefits. You will also need to look at your competitors to see what they are doing. Finally, you need to analyze the company’s capability (resources) for pursuing the innovation. Use the information and data from the CTO Brief, Comparative Growth Data, Comparative Operating Statistics, and Comparative Product Plans to complete this milestone.
1. Explain potential risks and benefits for options A and B.
o Overview (1 paragraph) : Present the business problem and options A and B.
o Option A (1-2 paragraph) : Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option A.
o Option B (1–2 paragraph): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option B.
2. Compare your competition’s products and services.
o Competitors (3–4 paragraph): Evaluate the competitors’ current products and services.
• What are your competitors’ current products and services?
• Are your competitors expanding in the current market? Explain how this impacts their market strength.
3. Analyze your company’s capability to pursue the innovation.
o Complete a partial gap analysis (1-2 paragraph):
o Does your company own the technology, or does it need to be purchased?
o How is the technology currently being used in today’s products and services?
o What type of technology is available to purchase?
4. Recommend the innovation approach your company should pursue.
o Innovation approach (1-2 paragraph): Explain which innovation approach you are recommending and why.
o Consider the different stakeholders—research and development (R&D), marketing, finance—when communicating your recommendations.
1. Include a description of the incremental or discontinuous product that you are recommending for R&D.
2. Include the sales forecasts for marketing.
3. Include a financial snapshot for finance.
Guidelines for Submission
Submit a 5-6 page paper highlighting the important points you want to emphasize to senior management. If you include references, they should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

What is the situational analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa?

a. Relevance to Energy Management
In the context of current climate challenges and energy concerns, this thesis is relevant to the energy management domain. Indeed, along with other world regions, African countries and particularly West Africa will be severely affected by climate change and extreme weather events. Rigorous mitigation
measures should reduce macroeconomic losses as early as 2030
b. Research Gap
What is the situational analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa?
What are the major challenges?
What is the region’s strategy?
What is Côte d’Ivoire’s strategic action plan?

Design a piece of experimental research to explore something about how young children learn, understand or respond to music.

Music and the Mind Assessment 3 – Real World Applications

Your task is to write a 1500 word response to one of the scenarios below. You should draw on material across the module and must make sure that your answer is evidence-based. It is important that you write your answer in clear English for the audience described. This means avoiding unnecessary jargon and ensuring that any tricky concepts are explained. You can and should reference other work, but this can be done relatively informally in the text itself, e.g. “John Smith from York University has been working on….”, or “A team of researchers from the University of Westminster have argued that….” You must however include full references on a separate page. You may format the work however you like so long as it responds to the brief. For example, you may use sub-headings, pictures, diagrams, or anything that you feel will enhance the work. However, please note that you will be marked strictly according to the criteria outlined below.
Please choose ONE of the following scenarios:
(1) A well-known shopping chain approaches you to ask for advice about whether they should use music in their stores and if so, which music and why. You are asked to write an evidenced-based report for the senior management team.

(2) A dementia charity runs a regular music group but wants to promote their activities to carers through an information booklet which explains why music can be useful in this context. You are asked to provide the material for the booklet (you may provide accompanying notes if you wish so long as you stay within the word limit).

(3) You have been asked to write a piece for a music magazine that explores and discusses the music psychology of either (a) a national anthem, (b) a religious piece of music, or (c) a culture-specific folk song.

(4) Design a piece of experimental research to explore something about how young children learn, understand or respond to music. You should make the experiment as specific as possible, stating your hypothesis and providing a rationale.

You will be marked on:
• Overall quality of content and apparent understanding of the material
• Strength of your evidence base and appropriate use of references
• Breadth of your answer, i.e. the ability to draw on material from across the module (we would expect to see reference to material covered in at least 3 lecture topics)
• Readability/expression: ability to convey scientific knowledge in an accessible manner; overall clarity of expression; presentation

Devise an appropriate response and way to manage this emerging crisis.

Mock Crisis Drill
Book used for this class is
• Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M. W. (2013). Theorizing Crisis Communication. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0470659304.

PLEASE REFER TO CHAPTERS 5,6, and 8
For this assignment, you will be given a set of crisis scenarios, one of which you will choose to respond to and to craft a response. Your response should address three key publics. First, you should devise your response to internal employees, including how they should respond to the crisis. Second, you should write a response to the media (e.g., a statement or press release). Third, you should construct a response directly to your stakeholders over digital social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook, and stakeholder blogs. These responses are actual “mock” responses and not an explanation of the strategy. Write the deliverables as if you were really managing the situation.
Your responses to these three key publics should feature strategic messaging decisions and directions.

SCENARIO

You are the public relations and media affairs director of a major advertising agency. One of your outspoken employees is an account executive with an important client. He commonly discusses his frustrations around the office, but never publicly. Then, one day following a meeting with the client, your account executive posts a tirade on Twitter about the client, and how much the client has frustrated him. The employee not only names the client but also degrades the clients’ product and the specific client executive your employee was working with. The tweet was only up for 5 minutes before you saw the tweet and advised the account executive to remove the tweet, but it was up long enough for the client to see it and forward it around the company, as well as a couple of your company’s followers, including some journalists, who have retweeted the post. Though you have been following this development, only you, the client, and a few of your twitter followers noticed the Tweet, but unrest from the client and the fact that a few journalists retweeted the message, have you concerned. Devise an appropriate response and way to manage this emerging crisis.

What do you think was the most important part of their crisis communication plan?

In 1982, bottles of Tylenol were tampered with Cyanide, ultimately killing seven people. This week you will take a look back at Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol crisis (here’s a brief synopsis/look back at Johnson & Johnson and the Tylenol tampering: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/23/your-money/23iht-mjj_ed3_.html. What do you think was the most important part of their crisis communication plan? Look back through newspaper articles, use the library online webpage to search for academic articles, and feel free to use Google to help piece together your argument and rationale for what part was the most important part of their crisis communication plan.

Craft an appropriate communication response and plan to address the concerns of tax payers and voters, the city’s population, employees, and other stakeholders.

Book used for this class is
PLEASE REFER TO CHAPTER 10

• Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M. W. (2013). Theorizing Crisis Communication. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0470659304.

OTHER RESOURCES YOU CAN USE
• Austin, L., Fisher Liu, B., & Jin, Y. (2012). How audiences seek out crisis information: Exploring the social-mediated crisis communication model. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 40(2), 188-207.
• Coombs, T. (2015). The value of communication during a crisis: Insights from strategic communication research. Business Horizons, 58, 141-148.
• van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Verhoeven, J. W. M. (2014). Emotional crisis communication. Public Relations Review, 40, 526-536.
• Kim, H. J., & Cameron, G. T. (2011). Emotions matter in a crisis: The role of anger and sadness in the publics’ response to crisis news framing and corporate crisis response. Communication Research, 38(6), 826-855.
• Kim, S., & Sung, K. H. (2014). Revisiting the Effectiveness of Base Crisis Response Strategies in Comparison of Reputation Management Crisis Responses. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26(1), 62-78.
• Schultz, F., Utz, S., & Göritz, A. (2011). Is the medium the message? Perceptions of and reactions to crisis communication via Twitter, blogs, and traditional media. Public Relations Review, 37, 20-27.

You are the public affairs director of a major metropolitan transit authority. In the past decade, your city has been undergoing improvements in its light rail and bus transit system. It has also been under fire for careless accidents that, so far, have not resulted in any serious injuries. However, this morning one of your buses struck and killed a pedestrian. At the time of the accident, the pedestrian was helping a bicyclist who had been hit by a car. The pedestrian suffered severe injuries and was taken to the local hospital where she died an hour later. Media reports pin the blame on your bus driver, who could have avoided the collision.
Craft an appropriate communication response and plan to address the concerns of tax payers and voters, the city’s population, employees, and other stakeholders. Your response should address both the current crisis, and the transit authority’s reputation issues, and can draw on not only this week’s readings, but previous readings as well.

What does the story tell us about strategy, planning and success?

Karl Weick (strategy scholar): “Definitions notwithstanding, I can best show what I think strategy is by describing an incident that happened during military maneuvers in Switzerland. The young lieutenant of a small Hungarian detachment in the Alps sent a reconnaissance unit into the icy wilderness. It began to snow immediately, snowed for two days, and the unit did not return. The lieutenant suffered, fearing that he had dispatched his own people to death. But the third day the unit came back. Where had they been? How had they made their way? Yes, they said, we considered ourselves lost and waited for the end. And then one of us found a map in his pocket. That calmed us down. We pitched camp, lasted out the snowstorm, and then with the map we discovered our bearings. And here we are. The lieutenant borrowed this remarkable map and had a good look at it. He discovered to his astonishment that it was not a map of the Alps, but a map of the Pyrenees.” From: Weick, K. E. (1987) ‘Substitutes for strategy,’ in D. J. Teece (ed.) The Competitive challenge: strategies for industrial innovation and renewal. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 222-233.

Q: What does the story tell us about strategy, planning and success?

Give examples of types of innovation for your company at the component and system levels.

Overview
You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks. In response to a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, innovation has become a necessity for most organizations that want to compete in the marketplace. This includes automobile and truck manufacturers. The organization from the course scenario has decided to add IoT technology to its vehicles. While the organization is debating whether to utilize incremental or discontinuous innovation, you have been asked to create a presentation analyzing the dimensions of innovation for your team members. This presentation will help your team members understand the potential options for the organization and the possible technological trajectory (path).
Prompt
Using the information in the overview above and reviewing dimensions of innovation and the five major technological trajectories from your textbook, write a paragraph about the questions below analyzing innovations. It may be helpful to review the CTO Brief, Comparative Growth Data, Comparative Operating Statistics, and Comparative Product Plans documents. Your presentation should include the following points:
1. Give examples of types of innovation for your company at the component and system levels.
2. Describe the potential incremental innovations from the types of innovation and explain why they are incremental.
3. Describe the potential discontinuous innovations from the types of innovation and explain why they are discontinuous.
4. Explain the potential path for your organization by identifying one of the five technological trajectories for your organization along with your justification for that choice.

What are the major barriers preventing Asian populations from seeking mental health services?

Research Question
This project aims to answer the following research question: What are the major barriers
preventing Asian populations from seeking mental health services?

Significance of the Study

According to data and findings collected from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Social Security Administration, and the National Comorbidity Survey – Replication (NCS-R), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates an excess of $300 billion of total annual expenses are related to serious mental illness
which affects about 6% of the adult population. Furthermore, the approximate total amount spent on all items associated with mental illness is rooted from the direct expenditures (e.g., treatment, mental health services), as well as indirect expenditures consisting of losses resulting from disability related to the mental condition (e.g., lost earnings, disability support) (NIMH, 2016).
Lost earnings alone for serious mental illness costs the U.S. about $193.2 billion per year (Insel, 2008). The objectives of this systematic literature review are to analyze a collection of numerous studies published in the past 11 years, identifying barriers hindering Asian populations in the U.S. and Canada from receiving mental health care services and to highlight the trending barriers
found among individual Asian subgroups.
Assumptions
The systematic literature review was conducted by a single author; therefore, the assumption is that the validity of the results may be affected as there is a risk of bias during the assessment of studies. It is further assumed that production of generalize results can be found as majority of the research studies involved quantitative methodology involving large populations.
Lastly, the review can be replicated as it follows a step-by-step systematic process of collecting, examining, and synthesizing data from research studies.
Limitations
The review consisted exclusively of peer-reviewed articles published within an 11-year timeframe. Credible online resources and books were not included as they posed potential complications with coding and issues with data analysis. Due to these limitations, the review may have not examined all pertinent articles. Although, there is certainty that the results may not have differed significantly if there were more articles included. The majority of the studies were conducted in the U.S. and a few from Canada. The review itself uncovered commonalities in barriers to mental health services (e.g., stigma, strong cultural adherence among older immigrants) between both Asian Americans and Asian Canadians which contributed more knowledge of the Asian subgroups found in developed countries. Unfortunately, it does not
reflect all barriers found in populations located in other developed nations within North America.
In addition, bias may have occurred during the article selection process (e.g., setting of inclusion and exclusion criteria) and the reviewing stages (e.g., coding) due to the examination being conducted by one author