discuss the evolution of health services in the united state.

discuss the evolution of health services in the united state.

1050-1400 words apa format, 4 references

Explain how critically analyzing popular culture can help in your interactions with people with different viewpoints, cultures, or perspectives.

Overview

In this activity, you will have the opportunity to examine how using critical analysis tools influences your interactions with others. You will also consider how the analysis of your example and area of popular culture might have turned out differently if you looked at it through a different lens. Completing this activity will result in a draft of the reflection section of your project. It also provides an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your project submission.

Directions

In this activity, you will work on the second part of the reflection section of your project. You should consider the feedback from your instructor on the previous activities when completing this assignment. Include diverse perspectives from varied sources to support your points. Look to the SNHU Shapiro Library for assistance and consider the sources you have used thus far to support your research. First, you will explain how the analysis of your example and area of popular culture may have been different if you had used one of the other general education lenses. Then you will describe how the knowledge and skills gained during the analysis of your example could be used in your life. Finally, you will explain how critically analyzing popular culture affects your interactions with various people.

You are not required to address each item below the rubric criteria, but you may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking and writing.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.
   1. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis, which is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
   2. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself. Citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
   3. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
2. Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different if you had used one of the other general education lenses to analyze the example and area you chose.
   1. This should be a brief (3–5 sentences) reflection about how using the language and perspective from a different lens would shift your view of your topic.
3. Describe how your analysis of the example you chose could be used in other aspects of your life.
   1. Consider how critical analysis skills could impact your personal life, community involvement, or hobbies.
4. Explain how critically analyzing popular culture can help in your interactions with people with different viewpoints, cultures, or perspectives.
   1. Think about ways in which a greater awareness of popular culture strengthens individual conversations. Consider including an example from your life.

What to Submit

Submit your short paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

create a one-to-two-page paper explaining why you decided to become a nurse and driving factors pushing you towards your goal.

Often times it is easy to forget why we started working towards a goal in the first place. 

For this assignment create a one-to-two-page paper explaining why you decided to become a nurse and driving factors pushing you towards your goal. Correlate your decision to a real-world scenario. If you could change one thing about nursing or the medical profession, what would it be and why. 

This assignment is meant to get you thinking of your goals and why you started this process. 

Use 1-inch margins with double spaced lines. Using an introduction paragraph and closing paragraph.  Use at least 1 cited website or book to back your decisions written in the paper. See the rubric for grading details.

How much funding is needed to get this business off the ground

Raising Capital                                                                                                                    

Create a document that you will present to raise capital for your idea.  Be as convincing as possible because those who invest in start-up businesses have numerous entrepreneurs approaching them.  In other words, they have other choices, so your pitch needs to be appealing. 

Here are some suggested steps or sub-headings, many of which have been covered in earlier assignments.

• First, describe your idea from a product/service standpoint
• Next, describe the idea from the business standpoint
• How much funding is needed to get this business off the ground
• If you get the funding, for what specific activities do you plan to spend it on
• Suggest why you believe the start-up business you have suggested will work
• Describe the specific market for your product/service – who will buy it and where
• Who are the closest competitors? Describe their offerings.
• Why is your product/service better than some of these competitors
• Create a timeline chart of activities that need to take place for the launch to happen
• Discuss how these activities will help the company advance
• Discuss the management team and the skill-set that they will have to have
• Discuss their wages
• Forecast sales in each quarter (you use annual figures from year 2 onwards if you like)
• Use a chart to discuss how much money is needed to reach breakeven. Keep in mind that all the negative cash flows will have to be covered by an investment or loan.  Remember that the amount of funding being requested must be related to how much investment is being requested. 

What does a Lucas machine do?

What does a Lucas machine do?

What is it used for ? what is the benefit ? 

Why does the United States still use the English system? 

prepare a paper of at least 400 words in toital the document has to be in APA style. answer all these questions. 

• Why does the United States still use the English system? 
• When was the last attempt to officially move to the metric system? 
• Does the use of English measurement units put U.S. companies at a disadvantage when competing on international contracts? 
• How has software solved the challenge? 
• Give examples of engineering software that resolves this challenge. 

Should coaches/administrators provide constructive feedback or additional support during an observation? Explain your answer.

As a principal, a key responsibility is to promote shared accountability for each student’s success. Principals who provide supportive coaching to teachers help them develop their professional skills and demonstrate that shared responsibility promotes trust and collaboration. The basic coaching cycle includes three stages: 1) pre-conference, 2) classroom observation, and 3) post-conference.

After viewing and reading this week’s topic Resources, research the teacher coaching and development process. Compose a 500–750 word  summary answering the following questions on teacher coaching and the development process :

Inquiry into Teaching and Learning: Observation Pre-Conference

• What aspects of the pre-conference is different from what you have experienced as a teacher?
• What questions do coaches/administrators ask teachers during the pre-conference? Provide specific examples.
• How could teachers’ responses indicate their level of planning and preparation for the lesson?

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: Classroom Observation

• When observing a lesson, what are components a coach/administrator might look for? Explain your answer.
• What types of feedback should coaches/administrators provide teachers after viewing the lesson? For instance, classroom management, pedagogy, and lesson components could be areas to observe. Is one of these an area that an administrator should focus on more or less? Why?
• Should coaches/administrators provide constructive feedback or additional support during an observation? Explain your answer.

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: Post-Observation Conversation

• When watching the post-observation videos, what did you notice about the opening comments by the coaches? How does this set the tone for the post-conference?
• Did the coach use specific evidence during the post-conference when giving the teacher feedback? What effect did this appear to have on the discussion?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the coach’s/administrator’s ability to provide positive feedback. In your opinion, did the coach validate the strengths of the lesson? Explain.
• When a coach/administrator provides constructive feedback, it is sometimes phrased as a question. Why is this a good strategy when asking the teacher to reflect on areas of the lesson that need refinement?

Provide a minimum of three scholarly resources to support your summary.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Discuss the role of leadership/management strategies that will help others respond to workplace challenges.

Competency

• Analyze how human resource standards and practices within the healthcare field support organizational mission, visions, and values.
• Evaluate human resources strategies, practices, and tactics for achieving optimal workforce performance within the healthcare field.
• Assess the implication and relevance of theoretical concepts and theories of leadership within healthcare settings.
• Apply selected leadership skills through problem solving , roleplaying, and simulations relevant to healthcare organizations.
• Create human resources and organizational development strategies that enable healthcare leaders to respond to opportunities and challenges in workforce and organizational development.
• Critique self-assessment leadership, communication, conflict management, and team-building theories and practices within the healthcare field.

Student Success Criteria

View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

Scenario

You are the Vice President of Human Resources at a local hospital. There has been a lot of turmoil in recent years due to leadership changes and downsizing accompanied by layoffs. The downsizing and layoffs were the result of an increase in uncompensated care due to a lack of health insurance. The layoffs have caused a decrease in morale and many department leads have also noticed a decrease in employee performance. The Board of Directors, the hospital’s CEO, and the entire executive team are in agreement that there is a need for major changes within the institution. You have been tasked with presenting a plan of action at the next board meeting.

Instructions

The three deliverables are:

Deliverable 1

• Create an employee satisfaction survey that will be distributed to all hospital employees.
• a. The survey should contain a minimum of ten questions.
• b. At least two questions should focus on leadership/management.
• c. At least two questions should focus on communication.
• Include a justification for each survey question from 1a and a description of what leadership can expect to learn from the question.

Deliverable 2

• Write an executive summary that describes the impact of leadership on employee performance and satisfaction, as well as communication challenges that leaders face, and challenges associated with trying to increase employee motivation, teamwork, and collaboration.
• Examine the literature relating to motivation, teamwork, collaboration, and conflict management.
• a. Discuss the role of leadership/management strategies that will help others respond to workplace challenges.
• b. Discuss the critical leadership skills needed to implement change.
• c. Recommend human resources strategies and practices that hospital department leaders could use to achieve optimal performance from employees.

Deliverable 3

• Create a voiceover PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the major challenges that leaders have in keeping employees motivated.
• a. Based on prior readings, identify one theoretical framework that you will use to guide your presentation.
• b. Include a minimum of three challenges that leaders have in keeping employees motivated.
• c. Include a minimum of one recommendation for each challenge identified in section 3b.

What are biometric access controls? How are they better than passwords?

Few organizations would develop an application in-house or pay another company to develop it if a similar application can be licensed. Why most organizations prefer to buy a licensed application?

The major hardware and software makers, such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, derive an increasing portion of their revenue from outsourcing contracts. Analyze and explain why they focus more of their efforts in this direction.

You are the CIO of a large manufacturing company. A software vendor approaches you with an offer to have your company serve as a beta site for a new human resource application. What would you consider before making a decision?

What is an RFI? What is the difference between an RFI and an RFP? The ideal response to an RFP is one that can be easily transformed into a contract. Why?

Assume that you are charged with developing an application to record basketball performance statistics. What limits would you include to ensure that the information entered is reasonable?

What are the goals of security measures for ISs? Explain.

What is a firewall, and how does it work?

What are biometric access controls? How are they better than passwords?

What is the purpose of business recovery plans? A growing number of companies have implemented business recovery plans, but many still have not developed such plans. What may be the reasons for that?

What might cause a client to ask to renegotiate a long-term outsourcing contract?

-Define cultural imperialism. Give three examples of cultural imperialism. 

Why do you think your examples reflect cultural imperialism?

-What are the “nationalities” of the following corporations? Consider nationality to be the country where the corporation is registered:

SAP (software) 

BP (gasoline) 

CheckPoint (security software) 

LG (electronics) 

Corona (beer) 

Heineken (beer) 

Goodyear (tires) 

JVC (electronics) 

Braun (small appliances) 

Siemens (electronics) 

Nokia (mobile telephones) 

Business Objects (software)

In your opinion, if a company has its headquarters in Bermuda, is it a “Bermudan” company? If so, in what respect? If not, explain why not.

– What are the implications of different time zones for global supply chain management systems?

– Manufacturers and retailers have used product bar codes for many years. What information does the 13-digit European Article Number (EAN) contain that the 12-digit Universal Product Code (UPC) did not, and why is this information important?

-Using software for automatic translation of webpages into other languages for local audiences saves much labor cost and time. If you were an executive for a company that maintains a multilingual website, would you settle for software-based translation only? Why or why not?

What is a GIS? What purpose does it serve?

What is the purpose of an expert system? How can it serve as a competitive tool?

How could an ES be used to detect probable fraud committed by a bank employee?

The travel industry uses DSSs for yield management. What is yield management, and what is the output of a yield management DSS? How does it affect revenue and operations?

DSSs use models to process data. Explain what a model is. Give an example.

What is the purpose of employee knowledge networks?

Explain dimensional databases and the rationale behind their name. What is their use?

What is the advantage of using a dimensional database rather than on-the-fly processing in OLAP?

What is OLAP, and why is it often associated with visual cubes?

The web is a huge resource from which almost any organization could derive knowledge, yet few do. What is the major challenge?

SDLC is usually recommended for developing an IS that interfaces with other ISs. Give two examples of an IS that is interfaced with at least two other ISs.

Systems developers often use the term “application development” rather than “systems development.” Why?

Why are agile methods so helpful when users cannot define system requirements?

As part of their IT planning, many organizations decide to standardize. What does standardization mean in this context, and what are its potential benefits?

The emergence of the web, social media, and mobile devices as vehicles for business increased the need for systems integration. How so?

What might cause a client to ask to renegotiate a long-term outsourcing contract?