You are the IT Manager for a major bank.  The bank includes services such as checking accounts, savings accounts, and issues loans.  These services are provided at physical bank locations, through the banks web site, and using the bank’s mobile application.  As the IT Manager, what type of database backup plan would you choose for the bank?

Research Paper – Disaster Backup/Disaster Recovery
This research paper will describe, compare and contrast Database Backup & Disaster Planning. This paper will be 5 pages total:  
 
(a) You are the IT Manager for a major bank.  The bank includes services such as checking accounts, savings accounts, and issues loans.  These services are provided at physical bank locations, through the bank’s web site, and using the bank’s mobile application.  As the IT Manager, what type of database backup plan would you choose for the bank?  Be sure to include details such as the methodology and frequency of backups.  Make sure you justify the reasoning for the database backup plan chosen over other database backup plans. – 2 pages
 
(b) Describe the disaster plan you would set up for the bank.  Make sure you justify the disaster plan chosen and include key metrics such as allowed down time and the amount of time to get services up and running.  How does the chosen disaster plan reduce the interruption in banking services in the case of an emergency? – 2 pages
 
(c) The bank’s corporate office has just been hit by a devastating hurricane.  The main power has just been cut off from the building and will likely not be back up for several days.  Key personal are located at the corporate office, such as the bank’s CEO, CIO, CFO, etc.  In addition, the bank’s main servers used for data storage and on line services are also located at the corporate office.  As the IT Manager, what is your plan of action to get the bank back into working order while the services are being restored to the corporate office? – 1 page
 
APA format; minimum of 4 professional/peer review references.  Note: professional references refer to books and journals.  Typical Internet resources are not considered professional resources).
 

Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did our middle-class prisoners? Why? What about women?

Part A: Go to the following website www.prisonexp.org. Go through the website thoroughly and study the experiment described therein. When you are finished, go to the tab (on the website) labeled “Discussion Questions” and answer questions 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12 and 14 as completely as possible. Your responses should total between 1-2 original, non-plagiarized pages, with Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced.
Question # 3: What prevented “good guards” from objecting or countermanding the orders from tough or bad guards?
Question #4: If you were a prisoner, would you have been able to endure the experience? What would you have done differently than those subjects did? If you were imprisoned in a “real” prison for five years or more, could you take it?
Question #6: What factors would lead prisoners to attribute guard brutality to the guards’ disposition or character, rather than to the situation?
Question #8: What is identity? Is there a core to your self-identity independent of how others define you? How difficult would it be to remake any given person into someone with a new identity?
Question #9: Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did our middle-class prisoners? Why? What about women?
Question #12: Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research? (The experimenters did not take this issue lightly, although the Slide Show may sound somewhat matter-of-fact about the events and experiences that occurred).
Question #14: If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study?
Part B: Would you follow orders of an authority figure? Watch the following clip and discuss the influence of obedience on our behavior. What factors in this video could have increased the likelihood that the victim and the others involved followed orders? What factors could have reduced the likelihood that all persons involved complied with the “authority figure?” 
 (74) Obedience – Fast Food Strip Search – YouTube 

Describe your personal commitment to positive social change in your community as a health professional. Explain how your Walden experience might have strengthened your ability to advocate for social change in your community.

As noted in the Learning Resources this week, health professionals can be leaders of social change. Consider the story of Paul Amigh, a student and teaching assistant at Walden:
My name is Paul Amigh (pronounced Ah-me’), and I am a student in the PhD Public Health program at Walden University with a concentration in Epidemiology and a Teaching Assistant for the School of Health Sciences bachelor?s degree programs. I have obtained my entire college experience from Walden University, and it has changed my life and given me the desire to change the lives of others.
I am a U.S. Army veteran who graduated from the Academy of Health Sciences, attended vocational school in Central PA for my L.P.N. license, and hold a BS in Public Health with a concentration in Health Informatics from Walden University. I have spent my life in service of my country and others working as medic, a prison nurse, travel nurse, and as a charge nurse in an advanced Alzheimer?s unit. Feeling a greater need to do more for my community and improve the lives of others, it was my bachelor?s degree from Walden University that gave me the opportunity to work in education. I began teaching medical assisting, medical billing and coding, and health informatics classes at a local technical school in Central Pennsylvania, but I still felt I could do more.
I created a local chapter of SkillsUSA and began to train students in leadership and skills competitions related to their chosen vocational career path. It was here I discovered students just need someone to believe in them. Spending a few hours each day training and working with these students to improve upon the soft skills employers are looking for in communication, conflict resolution, critical thinking, and fundraising the entire cost of membership and travel, I created Champions at Work. Over the last six years, I have personally trained and mentored more than 50 Pennsylvania State Gold Medalists and trained fifteen National Medalists, with five of them becoming national champions!
This October I stepped down from teaching and have been appointed as the new Public Health Program Administrator of Western Pennsylvania for the PA Department of Health?s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. This special Supplemental Nutrition Program provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, healthcare referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. Established as a permanent program in 1974, WIC is considered the premiere public health program for the Department of Agriculture.
My dream is to not only complete my PhD from Walden University, but to someday call Walden University my employer and continue to work with some of the most amazing professors and mentors I have ever had the pleasure of learning from, getting to know them on a personal level, and changing the lives of more people just as Walden University changed mine.
RESOURCES
 
 
As you prepare for this Discussion:

Reflect on how you would like to harness all you have learned to be an agent for social change in your community as a healthcare professional.
View several videos from the Scholars of Change website.

BY DAY 4
 
 
Post a thoughtful response to the following:

Describe your personal commitment to positive social change in your community as a health professional.
Explain how your Walden experience might have strengthened your ability to advocate for social change in your community.
Explain two ways that your Program of Study might be strengthened to enhance student awareness of social change in the health field.

Discuss why interprofessional collaboration is important for the improvement of patient outcomes.

 250 words not including 1 reference. All posts should be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource, ideally within the last 5 years. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citations and references must adhere to APA format. 
 
Provide an example of interprofessional collaboration that was or might be utilized to improve patient outcomes.

Discuss why interprofessional collaboration is important for the improvement of patient outcomes.
As a nurse, you may encounter incivility, lateral violence, or outright bullying in the workplace. Provide an example of these behaviors from your experience or a news story.
Discuss the nurse?s role and a leader’s role in the incivility example.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues posts by offering additional ideas regarding academic achievements to include or offering alternative ways of presenting the current achievements.

  Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by offering additional ideas regarding academic achievements to include or offering alternative ways of presenting the current achievements. 
N-B- 1 reference each.
 
 
 
1. (Chelsea).  My professional development goal is to become a knowledgeable and ethical nurse practitioner who eliminates the gaps in care for patients and improves their health. This directly correlates with Walden?s emphasis on social change. Social change is the use of complex processes to ?promote the worth, dignity, and development of individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, and societies. Positive social change results in the improvement of human and social conditions.? (Walden University, 2023). To reach my professional developmental goal and develop my portfolio, I will use the following strategies: completing continued education courses, attending workshops and conferences, and getting certifications related to my area of practice. The continued development of a professional portfolio ?encourages application and integration of knowledge, helps students recognize performance gaps, fosters student development, and promotes a student’s responsibility for learning? (McMillan et al., 2014). A professional portfolio will truly represent the practitioner it belongs to. (Casey & Egan, 2013). To conclude, developing one?s professional portfolio will help one reach their professional development goals. 
References 
Casey, D. & Egan, D. (2013). The use of professional portfolios for career enhancement. British Journal of Nursing, 15(11), 547?552. 
McMillan, L. R., Parker, F., & Sport, A. (2014). Decisions, decisions! E-portfolio as an effective hiring assessment tool. Nursing Management, 45(4), 52-  54. 
Walden University. (2023). Social Change. Retrieved from https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/vision-mission-goalsLinks to an external site. 
 
2. (Whitney) 
 Two strategies I plan to implement for including my academic activities and accomplishments in my professional development goals is to start developing my portfolio early. I plan to start working on gathering all the pieces for it now. Burns (2018) encourages pieces and documents for the portfolio to be gathered as it becomes available. I plan to keep it updated and add new pieces to it at the start of each class to show my learning process through my MSN journey. I will keep it up to date as I go throughout the program so I do not have to go back through at the end to locate everything and just throw it together at once, which could cause me to skip important pieces to be included. Another strategy I plan to implement is by joining more associations and keeping up to date on those.  as it is a very important piece to include in my professional portfolio.  I will continue to work on my networking skills as another way to strengthen my portfolio. Hannans & Olivo (2017), state, ?Networking has alway+C110s been important to professional growth, and the digital world makes it easy (p. 49). These goals align with Walden University?s emphasis on social change because the goal of this portfolio will help me as I graduate and enter my FNP role. Walden (n.d.), states it, ?defines positive social change as a deliberate process of creating and applying ideas, strategies, and actions to promote the worth, dignity, and development of individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, and societies? (para. 4)
                                                             References
Burns, M. K. (2018). Creating a nursing portfolio. Ohio Nurses Review. 93(3), 16-17.
Hannans, J. & Olivo, Y. (2017). Craft a positive nursing digital identity with an  ePortfolio. American Nurse Today, 12(11), 48?49  
           https://www.americannursetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ant11- Digital-Identity-1017a-1.pdf
Walden University. (n.d.). Vision, mission, and goals. Retrieved August 7, 2023, from
https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/vision-mission-goals#s-lg-box-30140618Links to an external site.
 
 

Select a B-2-B firm such as FedEx, Apple, IBM, Boeing, GE, or Caterpillar and assess its business model. Develop a list of particular skills, resources, and strategies that are especially important to the selected firm’s strategic position. Give particular attention to those skills, resources, or characteristics that competitors would have the most difficulty in matching. Then comment on how smart, connected products/services might be particularly useful for providing value for customers and differentiating the chosen company from its competitors.

Select a B-2-B firm such as FedEx, Apple, IBM, Boeing, GE, or Caterpillar and assess its business model. Develop a list of particular skills, resources, and strategies that are especially important to the selected firm’s strategic position. Give particular attention to those skills, resources, or characteristics that competitors would have the most difficulty in matching. Then comment on how smart, connected products/services might be particularly useful for providing value for customers and differentiating the chosen company from its competitors.

Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member? How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?  

In a 3- to 4-page paper, identify the video you selected and address the following:

What group therapy techniques were demonstrated? How well do you believe these techniques were demonstrated?
What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated? 
What did you notice that the therapist did well?
Explain something that you would have handled differently.
What is an insight that you gained from watching the therapist handle the group therapy?
Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member? How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?  
Support your reasoning with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources, and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Describe your clinical experienceas a student advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) at a family health clinic treating pediatric patients for this week. Did you face any challenges, any success? If so, what were they?

Describe your clinical experienceas a student advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) at a family health clinic treating pediatric patients for this week.

Did you face any challenges, any success? If so, what were they?
Describe the assessment of a patient, detailing the signs and symptoms (S&S), assessment, plan of care, and at least 3 possible differential diagnosis with rationales.
Mention the health promotion intervention for this patient.
What did you learn from this week’s clinical experience that can beneficial for you as an advanced practice nurse?
Support your plan of care with the current peer-reviewed research guideline.

Submission Instructions:

Post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. 

As you have learned, public policy is shaped by many factors and therefore evolves over time. For this assignment, you will focus on a specific advocacy organization and identify a policy or law that connects to the chosen organization. Identify one specific policy or law that your chosen organization is currently supporting. Provide information about the policy or law as well as why the organization is supporting it. Be sure to include information on how the organization is supporting that policy or law.

 
As you have learned, public policy is shaped by many factors and therefore evolves over time. For this assignment, you will focus on a specific advocacy organization and identify a policy or law that connects to the chosen organization. Identify one specific policy or law that your chosen organization is currently supporting. Provide information about the policy or law as well as why the organization is supporting it. Be sure to include information on how the organization is supporting that policy or law.This will give you the opportunity to see this evolution within an actual organization and how it affects issues of politics, ethics, integrity, and society.
Your paper should be 5–6 pages in length. Choose an advocacy organization local to you. Then provide the following information:

Identify your chosen organization and supply a brief history of it.
Identify and briefly (in 1–2 paragraphs) explain the problem(s) or issue(s) that the organization is intended to address.
Define the stated mission goal(s) of the organization. Has its mission goal(s) changed over time? If so, how?
Identify one specific policy or law that your chosen organization is currently supporting. Provide information about the policy or law as well as why the organization is supporting it. Be sure to include information on how the organization is supporting that policy or law.
Thinking about the information above, in your opinion, has the organization been successful in achieving its mission goal(s)? Why or why not

Use at least four sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your sources page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citing sources, access the library or review library guides.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Evaluate the relationship between the evolution of public policy and issues concerning politics, ethics, integrity, and society.

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The Federal Government recently ordered Anderson Dam drained and closed due to instability in the structure that could cause the dam to break and flood a good portion of the South Bay. The dam has not been without controversy regarding its environmental impact. Rather than just fixing the infrastructure of the dam, how can we take advantage of the moment and try to reduce the impact on the environment while maintaining a valuable water source needed by Bay Area residents? Or, should it be closed completely?

 
The Federal Government recently ordered Anderson Dam drained and closed due to instability in the structure that could cause the dam to break and flood a good portion of the South Bay. The dam has not been without controversy regarding its environmental impact. Rather than just fixing the infrastructure of the dam, how can we take advantage of the moment and try to reduce the impact on the environment while maintaining a valuable water source needed by Bay Area residents? Or, should it be closed completely?
More detailed information can be found at the Valley Water website: https://www.valleywaternews.org (Links to an external site.)
Submit your response (in APA format for any references used) – 15pts.
Reply to two (2) other posted responses for full points – 5pts. + 5pts. for each reply.
Total possible points = 25