Descriptive statistics

There is often the requirement to evaluate descriptive statistics for data within the organization or for health care information. Every year the National Cancer Institute collects and publishes data based on patient demographics. Understanding differences between the groups based upon the collected data often informs health care professionals towards research, treatment options, or patient education.

Using the data on the “National Cancer Institute Data” Excel spreadsheet, calculate the descriptive statistics indicated below for each of the Race/Ethnicity groups. Refer to your textbook and the Topic Materials, as needed, for assistance in with creating Excel formulas.

Provide the following descriptive statistics:

Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode

Measures of Variation: Variance, Standard Deviation, and Range (a formula is not needed for Range).

Nurse Practitioner, Develop at least two measurable objectives for this clinical course, including how the objectives will be obtained and how the progress will be measured.

Nurse Practitioner

Develop at least two measurable objectives for this clinical course, including how the objectives will be obtained and how the progress will be measured.

The objectives may include areas for growth in: history taking, physical assessment skills, presentation of findings to preceptors, assessment skills and management practice, documentation skills, an application of growth in the Advanced Nursing Practice role.

 

Compare and contrast Teachers

Analyze the the data collected in the interview process.

1. Summarize the interview response by comparing and contrasting the similarities/differences in the two teachers response.

2. What are the implications of the various teachers levels of development.

3. How does this information impact your role as a supervisor, mentor and/or coach?

Drug trafficking: Should the United States try to control drug production at the source through the use of U.S. troops agents, and money

 provide a brief summary to answer the following questions:

Should the United States try to control drug production at the source through the use of U.S. troops agents, and money, or should it concentrate on controlling traffic and consumption within the United States?

Of all the possible responses to organized crime and drug trafficking, which do you believe is the most effective? Why?

What implementations should be made to decrease drug trafficking?

Identify and analyze specific ethical problem in your current or past organization

Identify and analyze specific ethical problem in your current or past organization.  Pick a problem of manageable size.  The nature of the ethical problem is up to you but make sure there is an ethical component to the problem since you will be analyzing it.  Remember, this is an application exercise not a history lesson or presentation of abstract course material.

In narrative form, address the following areas:

  • What is the nature of the ethical breakdown?
  • What about the situation do you question ethically?
  • What about the situation do you find acceptable?
  • How common is this problem?
  • What guidance does the organization provide?
  • What actions would you recommend?
  • What did you learn new about managing ethical challenges?
Audience Analysis Report

Consider a document either on a website or in print (for example, instructions or the manual for a product you recently bought, a flyer, brochure, or any type of advertisement for an organization or some informational text for an event/organization/government department). What is your impression of the document? Do you feel it is successful in sharing its message? The answers to these questions depends on the audience and purpose of the document.

Think like a marketer from one of five brands. Who is their target market, and what promotional strategy(ies) do they implement to win over their customers? Did it work on you?

1. Discuss five (5) of the favorite brands that are part of your everyday life, and how and why they became part of it

(Five Brands: Nike (sneakers & apparel), Total Gym FIT (home fitness equipment because I love working out, athletic), Optimum Nutrition (whey protein powder drink mix – used to help me stay fit between meals and replenish nutrietns), Netflix because I love watching good shows, H&M clothing (very fashionable style – city style)

2. What is your overall perception toward these brands?

3. Take a moment to think like a marketer from one of the five brands you just discussed: who is their target market, and what promotional strategy(ies) do they implement to win over their customers? Did it work on you?

society and the individual, theory proposed by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Addresses the following concepts:

1. Explain the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government

2. Describe the theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau about how societies are organized.

3. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the theories in justifying the imposition of authority over individuals.

4. Apply these social contract theories to the issue you have selected.