How did looking at them as a “whole” person help you see things about them that you don’t normally focus on?

Pick a friend and do an assessment on them as a “whole” person. You can do this by looking at them through the wellness model discussed in the Chapter 8 presentation and the book under the “Wellness Perspective” (the Creative Self, Coping Self, Social Self, Essential Self and Physical Self).
For the discussion, tell us something you didn’t know about them that you learned during this exercise.
How did looking at them as a “whole” person help you see things about them that you don’t normally focus on?

Develop a proposed evidence-based change-project plan specific to the environment you are using to implement your change project.

Develop a proposed evidence-based change-project plan specific to the environment you are using to implement your change project. Your environmental assessment will include a work breakdown structure, a budget plan, and a measurement tool.

This week, you will design a plan that is at least four pages in length and includes all the information listed in the instructions below to discuss the elements of your proposed plan.

Develop an environmental assessment of your change project area and its readiness for the specific change project you are going to implement.
Include a work breakdown structure. For example, you could create a (timeline/task list/Gantt chart)—a hierarchical definition of the planned tasks and activities of a project that normally begins with the highest-level activities and works downward into the individual tasks.
Include a proposed project budget (table or spreadsheet) for the project that addresses the needed personnel, equipment, and supplies that may have associated costs. Click this link for a sample budget template Click for more options .
Include your measurable evaluation methods (indicators/metrics). Include the actual measurement tool you will use and describe any of the following that are applicable to your project: cost savings, improved efficiencies, access to care (visits/procedures/admissions), patient/family satisfaction, associate satisfaction, associate engagement, retention, clinical outcomes, injury prevention, and risk reduction.

Discuss the health care support systems available in your community for someone of this culture.

You are admitting a 19-year old female college student to the hospital for fevers.
Using the patient information provided, choose a culture unfamiliar to you and describe what would be important to remember while you interview this patient.
Discuss the health care support systems available in your community for someone of this culture. If no support systems are available in your community, identify a national resource.

compose a two-page essay discussing the impact of the new world of digital communication on community-building in America.

Robert Putnam, in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, uses the example of the decline of bowling leagues across the country to suggest the passing of community and associations in the United States. Traditionally these associations provided the “social capital”* upon which society was built.

Has social media exacerbated this loss of community and neighborhood associations or has it enhanced community building? Many argue that electronic communication lacks the tactile and personal nature of face to face contact necessary for true communities. Others respond that online communication permits a much broader understanding of community, with connection across a heretofore impossible expanse of culture and geography.

Using real-world examples, please compose a two-page essay discussing the impact of the new world of digital communication on community-building in America.

Your essay should use MLA formatting and demonstrate college-level grammar, spelling and vocabulary.

*Social capital: A network of personal relationships that provide social glue

Suggest three improvements, based on total quality management, that Ted Short can use to make the current process more efficient

Activity: Pareto Analysis and Business Process Flow Charting Practice
This activity consists of two problems.

Problem One
Gary Seitz is director of procurement for the Forest Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. His medical center recently purchased more than 300 new side tables for the patient rooms from Quick-and-Cheap Furniture. His team, however, is not happy with the paint quality of these tables. They feel the firm providing the tables was rushed to get the order out and did not do a great job.They have examined each of the 312 tables that they have received so far and found the following defects, listed in alphabetical order: Table DefectsProblemNumber of OccurrencesDirt in paint65Off-color17Orange peel12Other1Sad looking43Scratch11Sealer under8Thin paint31

Instructions
Use Excel to:

Create a Pareto Chart for this situation.
Create and complete a table for this situation using the following headers:
Problem.
Frequency.
Cumulate Frequency.
Percentage.
Cumulate Percentage.
List the most frequently occurring problem first in the table, then the next more frequently occurring problem second in the table, and so forth.
In a Word document:

Draw two conclusions about the quality of the patient tables that Quick Furniture has shipped to the Forest Medical Center.
Submit both your Word and Excel files.

Problem Two
Ted Short, manager of procurement at the Lake Luna Medical Center (LLMC), is starting a process to examine at the general process that is followed at his center for procurement of medical supplies at his facility. His first step is to develop a flowchart for the current process that employees at his center follow. He has asked you to draw that flowchart for him and make any obvious changes to shorten the process.Here are the key steps that are followed:

The LLMC employee fills out a paper requisition and sends that to his department head for approval.
The department secretary first examines the requisition to see if all needed information is present. If it is, then she sends to the department head for approval. If not, she returns to the employee for any needed corrections. The employee then returns the requisition to the department secretary for review again.
Requisitions with the correct information are sent to the department head.
The department head reviews the item to determine if the material requested seems appropriate. He may contact his employee to discuss any questions he might have.
If he feels it is inappropriate, then he rejects the request and sends it back to the employee.
If he feels it is appropriate, then he checks the budget to see if there are sufficient monies in the budget to pay for this. If there are not, then he rejects the request and sends it back to the employee. If there are sufficient funds, then he approves them.
If the requisition is approved, then the department secretary sends the requisition to a member of the LLMC Procurement Team.
The LLMC procurement specialist checks to see if the suggested vendor on the requisition is on the approved vendor list (AVL).
If not, he sends the request back to the department secretary and the process starts all over if the LLMC employee wants to continue to pursue it. If the employee does not, then the requisition is terminated.
If the vendor is on the AVL, the LLMC procurement specialist checks to see if a quote is required, either based on the type of equipment and material required or on the amount of the purchase.
If no quote is required, the procurement specialist transmits the PO to the vendor for execution.
If a quote is required, then the specialist contacts the vendor and asks for a quote. If the quote is satisfactory based on past purchases of such items, the specialist approves the quote and places the order.
If the quote is too high, the specialist contacts the LLMC employee and asks for another vendor to check. The procurement specialist then checks the second vendor. Usually, a procurement specialist will have to check only two vendors at most.
If the specialist cannot find a vendor with it suitable price after two tries, then the PO is cancelled.
When the specialist finds a vendor who submits a suitable quote, the transmits the PO to the vendor for execution by US postal service or by telephone.
The procurement specialist then logs the transaction into the financial system.
The procurement specialist then forwards the request to the Accounts Payable Department for payment when the receipt of the materials and equipment ordered, if acknowledged.
Instructions
Use Microsoft Word to complete the following:

Develop a flowchart for this process.
Suggest three improvements, based on total quality management, that Ted Short can use to make the current process more efficient.
Submit your Word document(s)

Elaborate on three (3) of the obstacles that must be overcome as a business moves up the CMMI model.

Please answer the following questions with at least one paragraph for each response.

Elaborate on three (3) of the obstacles that must be overcome as a business moves up the CMMI model. Suggest key methods for overcoming the obstacles you have identified.

Describe the measurable benefits of progressing up the CMMI model. From an auditing perspective, determine the manner in which these benefits might be observed.

How many effects are too many/just right for use in a document?

Text Effects

Text effects can play an important role in polishing a document, but they also can overwhelm a document and distract readers. Consider the text effects available in the Font Dialog Box.

1-How many effects are too many/just right for use in a document?

2-What is the result of using too many effects?

3-At what point is the document overwhelmed?

4-Should the type of effect used vary according to the type of document?

Please share your experiences in which content was undermined by animated effects, or share an example of such a document that demonstrates this.

Share a distracting document, article or website

What is the Caesar ROT3 Cipher?

Primary Task Response:

Julius Caesar used one of the earliest known cipher systems to communicate with Cicero in Rome while he was conquering Europe. Caesar knew that there was a very high risk of ambush or spies when sending messages; therefore, he developed a cryptographic system now known as the Caesar cipher. Please provide a detailed response to the below to include specific details and examples.

What is the Caesar ROT3 Cipher?
How does it work?
Although the Caesar cipher is easy to use, it is easy to crack. How would an attacker break a Caesar-style cipher?
Try your hand!

1. Encrypt the below message using the Caesar ROT3 cipher.

I WILL BECOME A CRYPTOGRAPHIC GURU
2. Decrypt the below message using the Caesar ROT3 cipher.

3. Create a cipher of your own and see who can crack it! Toward the end of the week, provide the solution to your cipher.

Summarize clearly the African idea of God (spell out the attributes Africans ascribe to God) Summarize clearly the African code of ethics or moral values, and in so doing explain the African attitude vis-à-vis foreigners and foreign religions

The goal of this assignment is to help you understand and explain the African contribution to world civilization and world spirituality, mainly to monotheism (the Bible, Judaism, Christianity), philosophy and science. In so doing you shall explain African contribution to humanity and world civilization in general and to Western civilization in particular.
While doing this assignment you shall address

– the Egyptian problem

– the Greek miracle ideology (is it a miracle or no, and why is this ideology dangerous and a hindrance to a genuine understanding of Africa and world history in general)

– summarize clearly the African idea of God (spell out the attributes Africans ascribe to God)
– summarize clearly the African code of ethics or moral values, and in so doing explain the African attitude vis-à-vis foreigners and foreign religions.

Some Specific Questions
1. How do these readings dispel negative myths about African spirituality or African traditional religions?
2. What is the African conception of God (the nature of God and his characteristics)
3. Summarize the fundamental moral values of African traditional religions and in so doing explain how Africans define a “good human being,” or a genuine religious person or someone regarded as holy or “a good guy.” (the “Bumuntu” text is critical here).
4. Explain the origin of Monotheism using these texts, especially the text by Jan Assmann. What is the African contribution to the Bible, to Judaism and to Christianity?
5. How did you feel while doing this assignment? What did surprise you? What did you find unbelievable and why?
6. How did this assignment help you achieve the educational goals of our university ?
7. Identify 5 quotations from the readings that you found significant for our learning process.

Expand the checklist with your well-thought-out suggestions and include why you have added each item.

The 2010 Report to the Nations contains a Fraud Prevention Checklist. The checklist says, “The most cost-effective way to limit fraud losses is to prevent fraud from occurring.” There are 11 sections on the checklist; evaluate the effectiveness of this checklist to accomplish its stated goal of helping an organization test the effectiveness of its fraud-prevention measures. Comment on every measure in the checklist. Is every item necessary to accomplish the checklist’s goals? Expand the checklist with your well-thought-out suggestions and include why you have added each item.

Record your evaluation in a 2–3 page paper.