Analyze the outcomes of the conditions you chose and how they affect the patient’s quality of life. 

The purpose of this assignment is to assess your understanding of various disease processes, treatment options, how the outcomes of different pathologic conditions affect quality of life, and any adverse effects or side effects of drugs used to treat various diseases. By completing this assignment, the student will be meeting the multiple learning objectives listed below in the “Instructions.”

Instructions

Complete the following steps: Considering the following 3 conditions:

1 – Parkinson’s disease

2- Spinal stenosis disease

3- Breast cancer

· Analyze each of the conditions you chose by: 

1. Verifying the etiology of each condition.

2. Fully describe the conditions.

3. Identifying the implications of the condition on different body systems.

· Identify the various pharmacological treatment options by: 

1. Describing the various pharmacological treatment options for each condition.

2. Identifying the application and route for each treatment option.

3. Define the drug classification for each treatment option (ie. Opioid, Antibiotic, ACE Inhibitor, etc.).

4. Explaining side effects (secondary unwanted effect that occurs due to drug therapy) of each drug.

5. Identifying any adverse reactions (unintended pharmacologic effects that occur when a medication is administered correctly) for each drug.

· Analyze the outcomes of the conditions you chose and how they affect the patient’s quality of life. 

Reference: Pathopharmacology, Bruce J Colbert MS, RRT / Kurtis Pierce MBA, RRT

Review your own social media accounts.  What do you think they tell the world about your values, happiness, beliefs?

THIS IS A CRITICAL THINKING CLASS ASIGNMENT SO THINK CRITICALLY. WRITE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. 2 COMPLETE PARAGRAPHS NO SHORDY WORK.

In this forum, tell us about how media, technology and the corporate world influence your life.  What types of media/technology are in your life everyday, which do you rely on, spend the most time with, wish you could do without, etc? How does it feel to be part of a consumer world?  When are you made aware of your own habits as a consumer? How do you make decisions about what media and technology you spend your money on/spend time using? How do you make decisions about what companies you purchase items from or what businesses you shop from?

Review your own social media accounts.  What do you think they tell the world about your values, happiness, beliefs? What do they tell you about your values, happiness, and beliefs? Then, evaluate the positive and negative aspects of such influence in your life. Are you in a place where you are content with the balance of these influences? (Note: if you do not have any social media accounts, you can look at a social media account of a large company or organization of your choice).

Describe the technique(s) you would use to conduct a needs assessment for Bloomingdales’. Explain why you would use the technique(s).   

Please read the case and answer the 5 questions that follow. Note: It is important you reference your textbook, page 117- 140 when completing this assignment (for all the questions below). 

Case: Fashion and Safety at Bloomingdale’s

Bloomingdale’s is a chain of luxury department stores owned by Macy’s with more than 10,000 employees in 12 states. Founded in 1872, Bloomingdale’s has been considered a destination store to find the latest fashion design. Although retail is a safe job compared to manufacturing, there are still numerous ways that employees can get hurt on the job. For example, employees can be injured by falling off ladders while changing displays, incorrectly using boxcutters to open packages, or not following correct procedures cleaning up broken glass on the retail floor when customers drop merchandise or knock it off display shelves.

Bloomingdale’s wants to reduce safety claims to lower costs by improving employee knowledge of safe practices, providing consistent safety training across departments and stores, and encouraging employees to call out their peers’ safe and unsafe work behaviors and practices.

Bloomingdale’s currently uses a combination of approaches for increasing employees’ safety awareness, including posting safety messages in break areas, providing classroom training, and holding pre-shift meetings. But Bloomingdale’s doesn’t believe employees are getting a consistent safety message and it doesn’t know whether they understand safety practices and how to apply them while they are working.

Bloomingdale’s is looking for a training approach that (1) can be completed by employees during their work hours without taking them off of the retail floor, (2) appeals to a diverse, multigenerational workforce, (3) is flexible enough so that it can be customized to address the unique safety challenges that stores and departments have, and (4) provides a way to measure employee learning and link their learning back to business goals.

Questions (Note: be sure to reference your textbook when completing these questions). 

  1. When a needs assessment is completed, one of the key things to figure out is if training is the best solution. Do you believe reducing employee injuries at Bloomingdale’s can be solved through training? Explain your answer.
  2. Your Employee Training & Development Links to an external site. describes 7 techniques that can be used to conduct a needs assessment. However, in practice, the 5 most common techniques include:
    • Observation
    • Surveys
    • Interview
    • Focus Groups
    • Documentation

Describe the technique(s) you would use to conduct a needs assessment for Bloomingdales’. Explain why you would use the technique(s).   

3. Would you involve employees in the needs assessment? If so, why would you include them?

4. Would you involve managers in the needs assessment? If so, why would you include them?

5. What do you believe is the most difficult part of conducting a needs assessment? Explain your answer.

How did the 19th Amendment advance the equality of women in the eyes their supporters?

After reading Elaine Weiss’  The Woman’s Hour:  The Great Fight to Win the Vote, please answer, in a minimum of 200 words total, the following questions; students have nearly 12 days to complete this discussion since it is based upon a book:

1) Why did some women advocate for women’s being granted the right to vote, why other women opposed this right?  In doing so, students must refer to the cultural and the political reasons for supporting women’s right to vote and allude to the cultural, political, and racial reasons for opposing women’s right to vote;

2) Why did some men advocate for women’s being granted the right to vote, why other men opposed this right? In doing so, students must refer to the cultural and the political reasons for some men’s supporting women’s right to vote and allude to the cultural, political, and racial reasons for other men’s opposing women’s right to vote;

3) How did the 19th Amendment advance the equality of women in the eyes their supporters?

Summarize how businesses and investors can use hedging to manage exposure.

Risk is an inevitable part of financial management especially when exchanging money with international economies. In order to reduce risk, financial managers use hedging strategies to offset exposure to price risk. Think about the various hedging strategies that are employed in the foreign exchange markets including the forward market hedge, the money market hedge, and the options market hedge.

With these thoughts in mind, address the following:

  • Summarize how businesses and investors can use hedging to manage exposure.
  • Is it cost effective for most multinational corporations to hedge their foreign currency risk? Why or why not? Support your response with this week’s Learning Resources.

By Day 4

Post a brief statement.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Discuss which characteristics of a “wicked problem,” if any, apply to the crisis.

Uncertainty, “Black Swans,” Wicked Problems, and the 2008 Financial Crisis

Required Reading:

· Holmes, Jaime, Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing

· Chapter 5: Overtested USA: When to Resist Momentum

· Chapter 6: The Hemline Hassle: A Strategy of Ignorance

· Conklin, Jeff. 2001-2010.  “Wicked Problems and Social Complexity.” CogNexus Institute

· Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. 2008. Book chapter excerpt from  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable . Published in The N.Y. Times

· Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. 2011. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 

· Conclusions of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

· Short YouTube Videos 

· The Awareness Test

· The Observation Test

Week 7

1.  Taleb asserts, “Black swan logic makes  what you don’t know far more relevant than what you do know.”   Holmes observes, “the illusion of knowing is more dangerous than not knowing” (p128).  This places what we do know at the bottom of the hierarchy.  Discuss how the “illusion of knowing” led to the 2008 financial crisis.  

2.  The 2008 financial crisis was “socially complex.”  Individuals, financial and mortgage institutions, and governments contributed to the crisis.  And, many of the same players collaborated to resolve the crisis.  Was the 2008 financial crisis a “wicked problem” as well?  Discuss which characteristics of a “wicked problem,” if any, apply to the crisis.

220 words detailed and covering all aspects of the question

RESPONSES WOULD BE SENT LATER ON IN THE WEEK

How does the system that the manager uses drive the decision making within the institution?

This short paper will explore the benefits of having technologies/systems in place to provide more in-depth information that will help drive decision making.

 The information that is gathered every day in healthcare drives patient care and the improvement of the quality of care. Each staff member within a healthcare institution has a role in improving patient care. In this short paper, complete the following: 

1. Choose one of the following managers: 

 Director of Admissions

  Manager of Billing 

 Director of Nursing

  Manager of Purchasing 

 Chief of Medicine 

2. Considering what you have learned about these types of managers thus far and doing additional researching as necessary, answer the following:

  How might the manager for whichever department you chose above use technology/systems to improve patient care? To minimize costs and maximize efficiency? If you are having trouble, think generally here about how technology improves record keeping, and then consider the type of data these managers and directors have to manage.

  How does the system that the manager uses drive the decision making within the institution?

 Support your answer with relevant sources.

 Guidelines for Submission: The short paper should be submitted as a Word document and should be a minimum of 2 pages in length. All sources should be cited using APA style. 

How do these themes help stakeholders to explain a policy problem? 

The Greenberg reading talks about the five Ts of policy: themes, theories, tales, tools, and tasks. How do these themes help stakeholders to explain a policy problem? 

Your discussion statement must be 2—3 paragraphs long. This translates to 200 to 300 words. 

Describe a common claim, not in favor of inclusion, that this article could counter argue.

Philosophy of Inclusion Research Support Template

Part 1: Journal Article Reviews

Research three scholarly articles about the benefits of including students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

Article 1 Title:
Summary(Summarize how the article supports a philosophy of inclusion.)
Common Argument(Describe a common claim, not in favor of inclusion, that this article could counter argue.)
Future Professional Practice Application(Explain how you could apply this information to your own future professional practice.)
Reference(Article citation)
Article 2 Title:
Summary(Summarize how the article supports a philosophy of inclusion.)
Common Argument(Describe a common claim, not in favor of inclusion, that this article could counter argue.)
Future Professional Practice Application(Explain how you could apply this information to your own future professional practice.)
Reference(Article citation)
Article 3 Title:
Summary(Summarize how the article supports a philosophy of inclusion.)
Common Argument(Describe a common claim, not in favor of inclusion, that this article could counter argue.)
Future Professional Practice Application(Explain how you could apply this information to your own future professional practice.)
Reference(Article citation)

Part 2: Philosophy of Inclusion

In 250 words or less, compose your own philosophy of inclusion describing how inclusion supports creating a safe, inclusive, positive learning environment to engage and promote the well-being of individuals with disabilities. Use the articles reviewed in Part 1 of this assignment to support your philosophy.

Part 3: Communicating Your Philosophy

In 250-500 words, describe how you might effectively communicate your philosophy of inclusion to a school leader to build positivity toward inclusion and promote the well-being of students with disabilities. Address how you would persuade a colleague who does not believe in inclusion to share your philosophy. Support both positions using at least one of the articles reviewed in Part 1.

References

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Does the character have privilege and in what circumstances? Provide specific examples from their dialogue or actions.
Instructions
Throughout this course, we have examined a variety of different dimensions of diversity, how diversity is represented, what role intersectionality and privilege play in creating and maintaining bias and discrimination, and how we learn our “single stories” about diversity. This final project in the course will require you to bring all of these ideas together as you analyze representations of diversity in the media.On the Week 2 Assignment, you identified a fiction book, TV episode, or movie that you have recently read or watched and did an initial analysis of the representations of diversity in it. On the Week 4 Assignment, you identified two scholarly sources to help you extend your analysis of the work you chose. In this assignment, you will build on those two assignments to complete your analysis of diverse representations in your chosen work.For this assignment, you will take as your starting point the conclusion you came to on your Week 2 assignment: does this work provide a positive representation of diversity? You can maintain the position you took at the end of your Week 2 assignment or contradict it. You will then provide evidence from the work and from  at least 5 scholarly or credible resources, including the two scholarly sources you identified on your Week 4 assignment (the remainder can be course materials) to support your thesis. Please be sure to do the following:1. Provide an introduction that includes the author and title of the fiction book, name of episode and name of TV show, or the title of the movie that you chose, as well as a thesis that tells the reader whether you think this work provides a positive representation of diversity.2. Include a brief (at least 250 words) summary of the book, episode, or movie.3. Discuss whether you think the cast of characters in this book, episode, or movie is diverse. To back up your discussion, identify 3 characters from the work and do the following for each:a. Provide a brief (1-paragraph) description of the character, including what they do for a living, relationship status, role in the work (main character, minor character, comic relief, etc.), and anything else you think is important in understanding the character.b. Is the portrayal of the character stereotypical? Why or why not? Provide specific examples from their dialogue or actions.c. Does the character have privilege and in what circumstances? Provide specific examples from their dialogue or actions.d. Is this a positive representation of the group(s) that the character represents? Why or why not? Provide specific examples from their dialogue or actions.4. Taking a step back, consider who  isn’t represented in this work. Do you think this/these groups were left out intentionally? In other words, would it affect the story to include them?5. Finally, consider why representation of diverse groups is important. Draw on your resources to construct an argument for greater inclusion. Does this argument extend to other areas of life (such as in the workplace, in schools, etc.) beyond fictional representation? Why or why not?6. In your conclusion, reiterate your thesis statement and summarize the main points of your paper.
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