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Q4: Take an example of a two-goods economy and explain the concept of opportunity cost with the help of the Production possibility curve (PPC). Also, draw a PPC and explain why any combination outside the PPC is not possible.
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Instructions
Use the Cycle of Reflective Practice in this module to frame and reflect on your current self-care routines and how they can be enhanced during advanced graduate studies. Utilize the seven pillars of self-care in the El-Ost et al. (2019) article.
Write a two-page reflective journal using the following prompts:
Description
: Describe your current self-care routine and then describe your ideal self-care routine (if time, money, etc. were not a factor).
Feelings
: Reflect on your current feelings about your routine and your overall wellness. Are there areas of stress in your life, etc?
Evaluation
: Evaluate what you do well in terms of self-care and where you could improve.
Analysis
: Analyze what you would need to do to move your current self-care routine closer to your ideal routine.
Conclusion
: Conclude with what you do well with self-care and where you need to improve (
draw on SWOT from Module 1 to assist here).
Action Plan: List 3-5 steps you plan on taking to achieve your ideal self-care plan with a timeline for implementing these steps.
The comments should be phrased from the perspective an doctoral candidate going the process of obtaining this degree. I will attach my SWOT analysis as well.
I will include scholarly sources below and you may also include other scholarly sources from peer-review journals, etc.
SSBS (2022). SSBS Virtual Center for Health and Wellness References.
These are references for many national hotlines, including suicide prevention, domestic violence, united way, human trafficking, bullying prevention, NAMI, and veterans suicide prevention-
https://www.nu.edu/our-university/the-university/
GSSC. Health and Wellness Resources.
This page has a variety of resources, including articles, phone numbers and websites, and webinars to assist with health and wellness.-
https://resources.nu.edu/c.php?g=1097110&p=8106101
Week 9 Assignment – Challenges in the Business Environment
Overview
Changing, or even stating, a companys values can be a long and arduous process, but it often pales in comparison to the effort it takes to make sure they are honored, implemented and projected. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.In this assignment, you evaluate how well your chosen company from the first assignment has done in walking the talk and responding to a social issue.
Preparation
Review your chosen companys mission and values statements as well as other sources that provide insight into the companys values with regard to social responsibility. Pick two of their primary values and research how the company manifests those values. Simple examples might be the commitment to workplace diversity or ecological sustainability.
Instructions
Create a 35-minute (approximately 68 slides) PowerPoint presentation that evaluates how well the company embodies its issue-related values. Your presentation should contain detailed speakers notes that flesh out and support main points, ideas, or conclusions and have supporting citations.
Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.
In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and social responsibility.
Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:
Empowering Workers.
Labor and Human Rights.
Health and Safety.
The Environment.
Accountability.
Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.
Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
In this week’s discussion, you consider assembling a team to write a supplier code of conduct. Recommend the stakeholders roles (45) needed on the team and how each supports the project.
Integrate at least three supporting resources from the Strayer University Library or other reputable sources. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is: Create a presentation about the key areas, changes, and progress in a company’s supplier responsibilities and code of conduct. Assignment 2 Toolkit Resources & Requirements
Assessment 4
Improvement Plan Tool Kit
For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan.
Introduction
Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015). As health care organizations and nurses strive to create a culture of safety and quality care, the importance of interprofessional collaboration, the development of tool kits, and the use of wikis become more relevant and vital. In addition to the dissemination of information and evidence-based findings and the development of tool kits, continuous support for and availability of such resources are critical. Among the most popular methods to promote ongoing dialogue and information sharing are blogs, wikis, websites, and social media. Nurses know how to support people in time of need or crisis and how to support one another in the workplace; wikis in particular enable nurses to continue that support beyond the work environment. Here they can be free to share their unique perspectives, educate others, and promote health care wellness at local and global levels. (Kaminski, 2016).
You are encouraged to complete the Determining the Relevance and Usefulness of Resources activity prior to developing the repository. This activity will help you determine which resources or research will be most relevant to address a particular need. This may be useful as you consider how to explain the purpose and relevance of the resources you are assembling for your tool kit. The activity is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates course engagement.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
· Analyze usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration.
· Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
· Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality with medication administration.
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Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
· Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration.
· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
· Present reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.
· Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
References
Chard, R., & Makary, M. A. (2015). Transfer-of-care communication: Nursing best practices.
AORN Journal, 102(4), 329342.
Kaminski, J. (2016). Why all nurses can/should be authors.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 11(4), 17.
Professional Context-Nurses are often asked to implement processes, concepts, or practicessometimes with little preparatory communication or education. One way to encourage sustainability of quality and process improvements is to assemble an accessible, user-friendly tool kit for knowledge and process documentation. Creating a resource repository or tool kit is also an excellent way to follow up an educational or in-service session, as it can help to reinforce attendees’ new knowledge as well as the understanding of its value. By practicing creating a simple online tool kit, you can develop valuable technology skills to improve your competence and efficacy. This technology is easy to use, and resources are available to guide you.
Scenario-For this assessment, consider taking one of these two approaches:
1. Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action.
2. Locate a safety improvement plan (your current organization, the Institution for Healthcare Improvement, or a publicly available safety improvement initiative) pertaining to medication administration and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help an audience understand the research behind the safety improvement plan and how to put the plan into action.
Preparation- Google Sites is recommended for this assessment; the tools are free to use and should offer you a blend of flexibility and simplicity as you create your online tool kit. Please note that this requires a Google account; use your Gmail or GoogleDocs login, or create an account following the directions under the “Create Account” menu.
Refer to the following links to help you get started with Google Sites:
· G Suite Learning Center. (n.d.).
Get started with Sites
. https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/sites/get-started/#!/
· Google. (n.d.).
Sites
. https://sites.google.com
· Google. (n.d.).
Sites help
. https://support.google.com/sites/?hl=en#topic=
Instructions
Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed.
It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.
Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following:
· An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
· A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
· A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
· A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate.
Remember that you must make your site public so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.
Here is an example entry:
· Merret, A., Thomas, P., Stephens, A., Moghabghab, R., & Gruneir, M. (2011).
A collaborative approach to fall prevention. Canadian Nurse, 107(8), 2429.
· This article presents the Geriatric Emergency Management-Falls Intervention Team (GEM-FIT) project. It shows how a collaborative nurse lead project can be implemented and used to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary teamwork, as well as improve the delivery of health care services. This resource is likely more useful to nurses as a resource for strategies and models for assembling and participating in an interdisciplinary team than for specific fall-prevention strategies. It is suggested that this resource be reviewed prior to creating an interdisciplinary team for a collaborative project in a health care setting.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
· Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
· Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication administration.
· Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
· Present reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
· Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.
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Assessment 4 Example [PDF]
Download Assessment 4 Example [PDF].
To submit your online tool kit assessment, paste the link to your Google Site in the assessment submission box.
Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site,
Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.
Note: If you experience technical or other challenges in completing this assessment, please contact your faculty member.
Additional Requirements
· APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
CRITERIA
NON-PERFORMANCE
BASIC
PROFICIENT
DISTINGUISHED
Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration.
Analyze usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration.
Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality with medication administration.
Present reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit use by its target audience.
Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
Identify any social problem and analyze it using the objective and subjective criteria in the first chapter of your textbook. Why does it qualify as a “social problem” as defined within sociology?
You should discuss the following points:
What is the shared undesirable condition faced by people who have this problem? What must they face that other people don’t have to?
Who are the people (the social group) who have this problem?
By whom is the problem recognized as a problem? Are there others who deny that it is a problem?
Patagonia, Inc. is an American clothing company that markets and sells outdoor clothing. The company was founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 and is based in Ventura, California. If you are not familiar with this retail store, visit their website After reading case 4 on page 394. 1. How do you think Patagonia executives decide on what products to offer so that the outcomes will be both business practical (think profits) and environmentally friendly (think sustainability)? Take the case of a proposed hiking boot. What criteria would you use to evaluate it as a new Patagonia product?2. Even though he is no longer the CEO, Yvon Chouinard still exerts major influence over Patagonias business approach. What should he and other Patagonia executives be doing today to make sure that his ideals remain a permanent part of the companys culture after hes no longer active at the company?3. Problem Solving. Picture yourself working for Patagonia. The CEO comes to you and asks for a proposal for a new-forward looking-sustainability agenda for the firm. The goal is to drive Patagonias future, not just celebrate its past. What would you include in this proposed agenda in order to really stretch the firm beyond what it is already doing, and why?4. Further Research. Evaluate the risk that ethics might someday lose out to greed even in a company with the idealism of Patagonia. Look carefully into Patagonias products and practices and see if you can find any missteps where decisions put profits ahead of the companys publicly stated environmental goals. Can you find evidence for strong governance and leadership that will protect Chouinards values and legacy far into the future? How about the competition? Just how does Patagonia operate today to ensure that ethics and social responsibility are not displaced as core company values? And finally, how about the competition? Is Patagonia still the best role model, or can you identify other firms that deserve to be studied as well as role models in business and society relationships?
After studying Module 2: Lecture Materials & Resources, submit the following:
Starting with the precursor substance tyrosine or tryptophan, identify and briefly describe each chemical step required to create each neurotransmitter.
Submission Instructions:
The typewritten description is original work and logically organized, formatted, and cited in the current APA style, including citation of references.
Complete and submit the assignment by
Late work policies, expectations regarding proper citations, acceptable means of responding to peer feedback, and other expectations are at the discretion of the instructor.
You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.
After you have completed the installation of EHR through the vendors (outsourcing), you need to ensure that it meets the requirements of the healthcare facility, normally accomplished through various types of testing. Discuss why testing is necessary before Closing the EHR project.Which type of testing is the final testing from the user perspective and what does it test? Does it have any limitations? If yes, how can they be overcome?
You are a medical professor in charge of creating college assignments and answers for medical college students. You design and conduct lectures, evaluate student performance and provide feedback through examinations and assignments. Answer each question separately. Include and Introduction. Provide an answer to this content
Media Analysis: Analyze a piece of media (movie, TV show, article, etc.) that portrays class oppression and its effects. How accurately does it depict the issue? What stereotypes or misconceptions does it reinforce, and how can social workers counteract them?Guidelines:Work individually or in groups
As you continue on your path to earn a degree in business administration, you will deepen your understanding of how effective management is a crucial aspect of overall business success, especially in todays complex business world. As business and society continue to evolve, there will continue to be a demand for managers who are able to organize their resources and strategically implement the functions of management to achieve the goals of an organization.
The final paper for the course is divided into two parts: Final Project One and Final Project Two. Both parts of the assessment will focus on decision making and the fundamental principles of management.
In Final Project One, with the help of your instructor, you will select a successful company from the list provided. You will analyze the companys best practices and effective implementation of the fundamental principles of management. Final Project One is divided into two milestones which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Module Two and Module Three. Final Project One will be submitted in Module Five.
Assignment :
For this assignment, due in Module Three, you will submit a one-to two-page document that will provide a profile of your chosen successful company. This milestone will serve as a rough draft and must cover the six critical elements described in Part II of Prompt I. You are expected to provide a minimum of two to three sentences for each of the six critical elements: mission and vision, strategic management plan, organizational culture, decision making, principle of ethics, and human resources. Instructor feedback should be applied to your Final Project One submission.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Profile of a Successful Company
Explain how the company has communicated its mission and vision within the organization. In other words, explain how the company demonstrates the importance of the mission and vision to employees and other stakeholders.
Identify the role that management played in helping this company execute its strategic management plan. Justify your response. You could consider including a specific example of a time when this management plan led the company to success.
Describe how management has helped to positively influence the organizational culture within this company. You could consider using some specific examples, actions, or strategies that show how management has positively influenced organizational culture.
Explain managements pivotal role in the decision-making process within this company. Be sure to include specific decisions made by management based on principles of ethics. You could discuss specific decision-making models used by the company that may have helped the company be successful.
Evaluate how the use of the functions of management within this company has adhered to the principles of ethics. You could consider how using the functions of management while adhering to the principles of ethics may have impacted the employees of the company.
Explain how this company strategically uses human resources to develop its personnel. You could consider how this use of human resources has enhanced the companys business processes.
What to Submit
Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.