Use Critical Thinking Skills and Metacognition to research current events in the macro environment.

Access to care, quality of care, and the cost of care are the top areas that hospitals are working to improve. The cost of health care and financing health care results in a national healthcare expenditure and sources of payment must be investigated. Healthcare costs are also inextricably bound to quality issues and therefore quality initiatives are linked to healthcare spending.

National Health Expenditures (NHE) and trends are reported annually by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The expenditures are reported and tracked over time using a standard format that identifies both the private and public sources of funds as well as the objects of expense. Reports are issued annually, two years following closure of the reporting period. See Table 8-1 in the textbook.

In 2014, NHE totaled more than $3.0 trillion, 17.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and that equates to approximately $9,523 person (see Figure 8-1). There are a number of interrelated factors that contribute to healthcare expenditures. These include aging population; new drugs and medical and diagnostic technology; emphasis on specialty medicine; large numbers of uninsured and underinsured; volume-based reimbursement incentives; and labor intensity.

Assume you have been working as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and you receive a call from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who requests that the two of you work together on a healthcare spending project. Your first task is to conduct a PESTLE Analysis. Use Critical Thinking Skills and Metacognition to research current events in the macro environment. Then, prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint 10-slide narrative using a PESTLE Analysis. A PESTLE Analysisidentifies political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors.

Your 10-slide PESTLE PowerPoint should follow this format:

Slide 1: Cover Page
Include the title of your presentation, your name, the course number and course title, your professor’s name, and the date.
Slide 2: Background / Executive Summary
Describe the details of the situation. Use bullets with short sentences. The title of these slides should be Executive Summary.
Slide 3: Thesis Statement
Identify the focus of your research. The title of this slide should be Thesis Statement.
Slides 4-9: Support
Support your thesis statement following the SESC formula: State, Explain, Support, and Conclude. (An overview of using Sublevel 1 and Sublevel 2 headings is provided in the following video: APA Style – Formatting the Title Page, Abstract, and Body.
You should include at least three court cases and related peer-reviewed articles from within the past five years. In-text citations should be in the American Psychological Association (APA) format.

Provide a brief description of one ethical decision-making model.

In a 2- to 3-page paper:

Provide a brief description of one ethical decision-making model.
Discuss the steps in the model.
Explain one strength and one limitation of the model.
Explain any insights you gained about ethical decision-making from reviewing the model.
Justify your response with specific references to this week’s Learning Resources and the current literature (These resources are attached.)
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. This assignment should be completed using APA formatting.

write a PERSONAL NARRATIVE in which you define what food means to you, what factors influenced your definition, and what kind of associations you have in relation to food

write a PERSONAL NARRATIVE in which you define what food means to you, what factors influenced your definition, and what kind of associations you have in relation to food. EXAMPLES: talk about how a specific kind of food is close to you in some way or another and the reasons for that. Or you can talk about how you relate to food in general and the factors that influenced you. PERSONAL NARRATIVE type of essay. USE specific reference to the three reading attached. CHOOSE A TITLE that reflects your main idea or message. Use your own anecdotes and examples to tell your story and illustrate your point.

Compare strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients with lower respiratory disorders.

Competency
Compare strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients with lower respiratory disorders.

Scenario
You are a nurse on a pulmonary rehabilitation team at an outpatient clinic in your community. You are updating educational resources to educate clients who want to know more about health promotion and maintenance and improving pulmonary health related to their lung conditions.

Instructions
Create an infographic for a lower respiratory system disorder that includes the following components:

Risk factors associated with the common lower respiratory system disorder.
Description of three priority treatments for the lower respiratory disorder.
Description of inter professional collaborative care team members and their roles to improve health outcomes for the lower respiratory system disorder.
Description of three multidimensional nursing care strategies that support health promotion and maintenance for clients with the lower respiratory system disorder.
Description of a national organization as a support resource for your client specific to the lower respiratory system disorder.

Discuss the options to source internationally, Lexan logistics, or continue with domestic suppliers

Competency
Compare the nature of logistics operations and services in both international and domestic contexts.

Scenario
You are a newly hired Junior Analyst at Mitchell Consulting, a firm that specializes in providing managerial expertise in supply chain management. You are assigned as a support role to a senior consultant. Your role does not allow you to make selections for clients, but you will be evaluated for future promotion based upon your work in the analyst role. A client, Lexan Shaft has contacted Mitchell Consulting to provide options to achieve cost reductions and maintain their competitive advantage. Your manager, Senior Analyst Andrea Sims, has directed you to work on this case and provide analysis and options to resolve the problems.

Lexan Shaft is finding it difficult to remain competitive in supplying golf club shafts to major manufacturers due to the rising cost of the raw materials necessary to produce their patented Win-Flex shaft. Major manufacturers prefer Lexan technology, but are considering shifting to lower cost alternatives. Nunso X is a material key to the patented design of the shaft, but the raw material is mined only in Argentina. Three US suppliers currently supply all of this recently discovered metal. Nunso X demand and cost has significantly increased due to mobile device case manufacturing which results in superior durability.

Lexan Shaft’s Chief Operating Officer, Walter Mathis, believes that new opportunities to source Nunso X from Argentina need to be considered to decrease the cost of the raw material. The current US distributors do not manufacture any products. Two transportation companies have just entered into the global marketplace to deliver Nunso X from Argentina to the United States. Instanto and Momentus both offer a delivered cost that is below the cost prior to the new demand for durable mobile device cases. Because Lexan Shaft has always used the same supplier for their raw materials due to limited suppliers in the market, they have limited experience in building a plan for logistics decision-making. Walter has asked Mitchell Consulting to provide a plan to consider cost savings in sourcing Nunso X through a newly created Lexan transportation department or one of the two new Argentinian distributors.

Instructions
Your manager, Senior Analyst Andrea Sims, has asked you to prepare a presentation to be sent to Lexan Shaft’s Chief Operating Officer, Walter Mathis, presenting your analysis and a recommended selection process they can use to choose whether to source Nunso X from Instanto, Momentus, or create a logistics division of Lexan to source Nunso X. Your presentation must include the following:

Discuss the options to source internationally, Lexan logistics, or continue with domestic suppliers
Propose opportunities to reduce costs with current domestic suppliers
Compare the risks of sourcing internationally versus domestically
Examine tools to evaluate logistics sourcing options and suppliers
Outline the recommended steps to help Lexan Shaft make the best decision to source Nunso X

Explain the role capitalism plays in corporate decision making.

Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state, (Shaw, William H. (2014). Business ethics (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning). In this assignment, you will explain the role capitalism plays in corporate decision making.

Write a paper in which you:

Explain the role capitalism plays in corporate decision making.
Use at least two (2) quality references that are properly cited. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
three paragraphs 1. Intro 2. Body 3. Conclusion

In geriatric inpatients, does hand hygiene using soap and water compared to the use of hand sanitizers help in lessening the occurrences of Hospital Acquired Infection within three months?

Healthcare professionals use PICOT questions to clear clinical issues in a way that assists to efficiently and quickly find the right information to answer the clinical question (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2018). The purpose of the PICOT question is to direct the systematic search of healthcare databases to find the best available evidence to answer the question (Melnyk & Fine-out-Overholt, 2018). Understanding how to appropriately formulate a clinical question in PICOT format and using it systematically in your search is vital to efficiently begin the EBP process (Melnyk & Fine-out-Overholt, 2018). Systematically formulating a clinical question makes it possible to find an answer faster and proficiently, leading to enhanced methods and patient outcomes (Stillwell et al., 2010).

Question– In geriatric inpatients, does hand hygiene using soap and water compared to the use of hand sanitizers help in lessening the occurrences of Hospital Acquired Infection within three months?

PICOT Question

In geriatric inpatients (P), does hand hygiene using soap and water (I) compared to the use of hand sanitizers(C), help in lessening of Hospital Acquired Infection (HAIs) incidences (O) within three months (T)?

Search Terms used

The search terms used were: Hand Hygiene, hand washing, Hospital-acquired infections, inpatient geriatrics, and hand sanitizers.

Database used

The two databases used were CINAHL Plus with Full Text and MEDLINE with Full Text.

Search Results

CINAHL Plus with Full Text produced 120 results, while MEDLINE with Full Text, which had 80 (Walden University Library, n.d. – a). These presented both original research articles and systematic reviews. The search was restricted to articles within five years. Also, to conduct the search, the article towards the research question was used. It was all related to hand hygiene, hand washing, hand sanitizers, and hospital-acquired infections management. Two articles were from original research.

Addition of Boolean Operator

Adding the search terms using the Boolean operators changed my search significantly. The amounts of records returned were remarkably decreased and increased on the articles available based on their significance to my study. It expedited the accomplishment of more detailed results and helped save time as the results became more suitable for my desires. It also gets rid of unsuitable articles. Boolean operators and nesting help one search for combinations of words or phrases processed in a particular order (Library of Congress, n.d.).

Strategies to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search and example

The strategies I will make to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search for my PICOT question include: Using Boolean operators. The use of Boolean operators helps facilitates, confines the search to the most relevant results, and is more focused. I will also limit the search to a particular year range. Limiting the year range, this helps in returning current searches and also uses more than one database for my search, because everyone may have more articles. I will seek the help of a Librarian to assist me in the preliminary inquiry. Another strategy is using parentheses. The use of Parentheses will help me get the search I want.

References

Library of Congress. (n.d.). Search/browse help-Boolean Operator and nesting. Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/searchBoolean.html

Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Stillwell, S. B., Fineout-Overholt, E., Melnyk, B. M., & Williamson, K. M. (2010). Evidence-based practice, step by step: asking the clinical question: a key step in evidence-based practice. AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 110(3), 58-61.

Walden University Library (n.d.-a). Databases A-Z. Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/az.php?s=19981

WHEN IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO WHISTLE BLOW A PERSON OR SITUATION?

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW. LIST YOUR SOURCE(S) FOR ALL ANSWERS: ( IN-TEXT AND IN A REFERENCE LIST USING THE PROPER METHODOLOGY)

A) DEFINE WHISTLEBLOWING. PROVIDE ONE EXAMPLE OF A FAMOUS WHISTLE BLOWER TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.

B) WHEN IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO WHISTLE BLOW A PERSON OR SITUATION? PROVIDE ONE EXAMPLE TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.

C) DEFINE CONFLICT OF INTEREST. PROVIDE ONE EXAMPLE FROM THE NEWS TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.

D) 1-DEFINE EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY? 2- WHERE DID IT START AND WHY?

E) EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANIPULATION AND DECEPTION? PROVIDE ONE EXAMPLE FOR EACH.

F) NAME THE 6 PHASES OF A PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE

1200 WORDS MAXIMUM

Why Is Marketing Management Important?

Assignment

Activity: Select any company of your choice. Identify its strengths and weaknesses. Then analyze the company’s context, customers, competitors, and collaborators.

The assignment is to answer the question provided above in essay form. This is to be in narrative form and should be as thorough as possible. Bullet points should not to be used. The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to marketing management. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.

Discussion 500 words

Why Is Marketing Management Important?

Learning Objectives:

Understand the meaning of the term “marketing.”

Explain the importance of marketing.

Introduce and provide an overview of the marketing management framework.

Reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

Before reading this chapter or beginning class, what did you expect marketing to be? Ask a family member, classmate, or coworker what they think marketing is. How can persuade them that marketing enhances a mutually beneficial exchange between a customer and a company.

Think about a recent time when you bought something or tried to do so and you were treated poorly as a customer. What was the essential problem? If you ran the company, what would you do to ensure happier and more loyal customers?

Write a 2-page summary that will help the executives determine which SCM system and strategy to use that will ensure success

The CEO of the startup manufacturing company you are working with asked you to attend the executive steering committee meeting. The committee is looking to implement a new SCM system. The company does not currently have an SCM system and does believe there is a need for one. The lack of having one causes the company to have occasional operational issues, which results in a loss of revenue.

The executive steering committee has asked you to research the different SCM system software packages available and create a comparison chart of the different packages. They would also like you to provide a summary that will recommend what SCM system the organization should use.

Research at least four SCM system software packages.

Design a comparison chart for at least four SCM packages you researched that includes the following:

Product
Deployment
Demand planning
Import/export management
Inventory management
Shipping management
Supplier management
Transportation management
Warehouse management
Cost
Write a 2-page summary that will help the executives determine which SCM system and strategy to use that will ensure success. Be sure to include the following in your summary:

The value of SCM and how it differs from CRM and ERP
A high-level overview of the supply chain
Why each step in SCM is important to the organization?
How an SCM system will help the company succeed and correct the operational issues
What are the tasks the IT department must do in setting up an SCM and for ongoing maintenance of an SCM?
Why the selected SCM system is the best for their organization