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Business & Finance/COM-DISC03

Business & Finance/COM-DISC03

Nelson Mandela once wrote, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

Chances are that, at one time or another, you will be faced with communicating effectively with someone who has a completely different worldview. In those situations, how can we break down barriers and create a successful exchange of ideas?

In this discussion, reflect on the importance of leaders finding common ground through effective communication. Use best practices and systems theory principles to support your ideas.

Instruction:

Please compose a 3-5 paragraph response to the questions listed above using the resources listed as well as others as needed.

Follow the rubric requirements (attached).

Discussion Board: Documentation And Regulatory Compliance & Impaired Nurses

Discussion Board: Documentation And Regulatory Compliance & Impaired Nurses

Topic 1: Documentation and Regulatory Compliance

Based on the information you have learned in the course so far and the readings, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of charting by exception when faced with a malpractice lawsuit. Discuss how you would correct mistakes in a medical chart and the formatting of your documentation when witnessing an adverse patient occurrence (APO). What APOs have to be reported in your state? How would charting corrections be perceived in a court of law? What are the implications for handling of forensic issues?

 

Topic 2: Impaired Nurses

Assume that you have knowledge that the nurse working with you on your unit has been illegally using drugs. What are your obligations to disclose this? What are your obligations to the institution you work for? Are there any places you could refer the nurse to? What are the implications for this nurse’s license? Are there any potential risks to your license? If so, what?

Discussion Board:  Minimum 200 words, APA Style, Time New Roman, Font 12, 

(3 references- in text citations) not older than (2012-2017). No Plagiarism please.

 

Need an Essay/ English

 

Need an Essay/ English

Choose an avatar (a picture) for the class that will be visible to others in the forum and explain why you have chosen this avatar. You may use a picture of yourself or any picture that symbolizes something/everything about you.

Credit Risk Management/Business & Finance – Marketing

Credit Risk Management/Business & Finance – Marketing

Risk management practices within the financial sector are of particular interest to regulators. This is because failures within this sector disrupt the functionality of the financial system that derails economic growth and efficiency. We have referenced the subprime meltdown of 2007 several times within this course because it is the most prominent example of a massive risk management failure. In this assignment, you will evaluate the consequences of this failure.

For this assignment, you will write a minimum three-page paper (not including APA title or references pages). In this paper, please address the following:

• Discuss why credit risk management within the financial sector is so significant.
• Why do you think so many banks failed to properly manage risk prior to the financial collapse?
• What are the consequences of failures of credit risk management and who do they affect?
• What measures can banks employ to mitigate credit risks?

Are looking for an expert to do all parts in my computer science project for you and be able to do any task that is belong to the part in the project during the semester.

Are looking for an expert to do all parts in my computer science project for you and be able to do any task that is belong to the part in the project during the semester.

TRU Tree App

Planning Session

September 13, 2017

 

1. Smartphone Operating Systems

The app should run on both Android and Apple devices to broaden the audience.

 

2. Tree Apps
3. Vancouver Trees Appis perhaps the most comprehensive,produced by Doug Justice at the UBC Botanical Gardens. http://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/learn/vancouver-trees-app/

Currently available for Apple devices, Android version is in the works.

 

1. Virginia Tech Tree ID App is available for Android and Apple devices

http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/main.htm

 

1. My Tree App is available for Android and Apple devices

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.gc.nrcan.mytree&hl=en

 

1. Tree Id – British Trees Appis available for Android and Apple devices

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/identify-trees-with-our-tree-id-app/

 

3. Target Audience

The target audience includes people from many ethnic backgrounds, with a broad spectrum of horticultural knowledge.The length of their visit to campus and Kamloops varies widely, from hours, to days,weeks or months.

1. Visitors: International > National > Provincial > Local

 

1. General interest to professionals:> gardeners > master gardeners >biologists, botanists, dendrologists and arborists.

 

1. TRU Staff and Students> Dendrology, Horticulture and Biology Students

 

4. General Layout and Components…

Extracts from the TreeWorks database: > TRU Trees by Genus/ID # : ID# (see key), Location, Species, Cultivar/Variety, Common Name, Family, Hybrid

 

1. Search:“Find a Tree” … by Scientific Name or Common Name(s)

Note that some trees may have more than one widely used common name.

 

1. Identify a Standing Tree

Alternate to doing a “Search” a person could be standing in front of a tree and ask the App “What is the tree I am standing in front of?”

 

1. The first page of a given tree will have a habit image, Scientific and Common Name(s) and the Family to which it belongs.

 

 

1. Images of distinguishing features, usually three or four, with a brief description … could include:
2. Silhouette
3. Leaves

• Buds & Twigs

1. Bark
2. Flower
3. Fruit

• Cone

 

1. Hardiness Zone and culture

Practical comments on the culture of the tree in question.

 

1. Locations on Campus

Each tree to be identified by an ID Number and Location (Abbreviated, see key).

 

See Excel spreadsheets, TRU Campus Trees by Scientific Name and Location.

 

You could ask the App for all the locations of a genus, or a species / cultivar/variety

 

1. Link to Missouri Botanical Garden “Plant Finder” for each tree

This will provide the viewer with detailed information on each species.

 

5. Other items for consideration

 

1. Should we provide a link to the Kamloops City Trees?

 

1. At what stage should we explore partnership with the City of Kamloops in building a “Kamloops Tree App”? It should be noted that the City utilized the TreeWorks program to inventory the 16,000 trees that it is responsible for.

 

1. Copyright

 

1. Possible costs?
2. IT – storage and ongoing maintenance

 

1. Updating the TreeWorks database – TRU Facilities

 

iii. Updating the App

 

1. Possible Revenue
2. Sponsorship? For example, a Garden Centre such as Art Knapps.

 

1. Cost for use of the App

 

iii. Donation Button

 

 

Need Journal Article Review/Human Exceptionalities

Journal Article Review

 

You are expected to provide a brief summary, in your own words, of each assigned learning activity AND a summary of an additional peer reviewed journal article, chosen by you, that relates to a topic of your choice within each module.

You may find the journal articles through the ESC library. A peer review journal is one where any article being submitted that is the result of research or a theoretical proposal must go through a review process. This article is sent by the editors of the journal to 2-3 professionals (peers) with expertise in the same content area. Only if the article is considered to make a new and accurate contribution to the field will it be accepted for publication. You often hear about information from these articles, such as those from The New England Journal of Medicine through secondary sources, such as broadcasters or professionals; but to read the articles, you would need to access the journal. If the information is being presented orally in professionally regulated conferences, the proposal for the presentation must also go through a similar peer review process before being accepted. In this way a field polices itself by making sure (as much as possible) that information that is treated as knowledge is accurate.

 

The summary of each chapter or article should be no longer than a paragraph–at least aim for that length. The summary can take many forms, but it must have something of you in it. I do not want just the words from the book or article; I want to see the process of your understanding. What do you think about the reading?  Does it ring true for you, or do you disagree?  Can you apply it to anything in your own life or experiences?

For this module, submit summaries for Chapters 1, 5, the DVD, Big Enough, and your choice of a journal article.

Operational Tactics and Strategic Goals Presentation

Please refer to the resources below to assist with the assignment.

Resources: Ch. 5, 6, and 7 of Management: A Practical Introduction; SWOT analysis for the organization used in Week 3; company strategic plan; video creator such as Kizoa Movie Maker. 

Scenario: You have been promoted to senior level manager of a company with low employee morale and decreased productivity. You have been tasked with developing a strategic plan for the workforce to present to the CEO and other members of the leadership team.

Choose your organization or one you know well to use for this assignment. You may use the same organization you used in previous weeks.

Develop a 1-year strategic plan of action for your organization using lessons learned and your learning team activity during Week 3.

Include plans for any additional staffing and the proposed budget for your plan. Modify your SWOT analysis, if necessary, for your presentation.

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint^® presentation including the following:

• Explain rationale for plan
• Discuss SWOT of organization
• Summarize one year plan of action
• Flowchart of one year plan
• Give an overview of Budget for plan
• Evaluate the potential benefit of the plan
• Write conclusion

Develop a 700-word summary for the Executive team. Append your budget and SWOT analysis to the plan.

Create a 2- to 3-minute motivational video for the workforce highlighting your leadership style as an asset to the organization and the workforce and your assigned task.

Hospital Application: Leadership Theories

Access the “Allied Health Community” media and select “Scenarios” to access the scenarios for this course. Review the instructions and legend information. Read the Hospital Scenario for this course and complete the following assignment:

1. Evaluate the management styles and identify the positive and negatives of each manager’s characteristics.

2. Identify what transactional and transformational leadership theories are present.

3. Provide an example of how one leader mentioned in the case study could adapt the servant leadership model into practice, and how this change could have an impact on a quality improvement department within health care.

Scenario

In order to improve efficiency in the quality improvement department, a large hospital decided to elim- inate a generalist model of staffing, and instead created two specific work groups. The plan was that each work group would focus on specific projects within the department. The reorganization date would occur in a few months, at the beginning of the new fiscal year. This plan was announced to all of the staff, and then the teams were announced. The employees had been split evenly between the two managers currently overseeing people in the generalist model of staffing. It was also explained that project-specific performances would be measured through the following metrics: efficiency outcomes, survey results, and resource expenditures.

The managers, Rachel and Tomas, each met with their new teams to outline their vision:

Macqueen Only Week5/Biology – Anatomy

Macqueen Only Week5/Biology – Anatomy

 

A drop of blood contains 250 million   cells.

o Describe the   composition of a drop of blood.

o Describe the   different types of blood or blood parts donation.

A Note about Earning Full Credit on Discussions:
As you participate in discussions throughout this course, remember that your responses must be considered substantive to be awarded full credit. A quality, substantive response, must meet several criteria in order to be considered for full credit. The criteria include: length, content, relevance, proper grammar and punctuation. Your responses should add new information to the conversation (instructors and classmates do not want to read the same thing over and over), use class vocabulary, use proper APA format, clearly cite the source of information that you use, be free of major grammatical errors, and be coherent (easily and quickly understood and without contradictions). Substantive responses should not be based solely on opinion, but should reflect the content of the reading assignment for the current lesson. It is also appropriate to include personal experience/examples and/or information from outside sources that support the content from the assigned reading. A substantive post to an online discussion forum will almost always be more than one or two sentences, will contain new information or will ask questions that will continue the discussion. Short statements like “I agree” or “good work” are not considered to be substantive and will not receive full credit. Your

GUEST SERVICE IN HOSPITALITY DISCUSSION /Business Finance – Operations Management

 

GUEST SERVICE IN HOSPITALITY DISCUSSION /Business Finance – Operations Management

Basic guest services

1. What is the definition of Quality Guest Service? Please share an example of where you either received Quality Guest Service

2. Identify and explain the reasoning behind why guests share their poor experiences with others.

3. Explain and apply the concept of using quality service as a competitive advantage.

Defining guest service

4. Explain Why Expectations Differ Between Customers and Businesses.

5. Illustrate the qualities of service such as perishable, tangible, and nontangible.

6. Characterize guest expectations.

Problem solving for guest service

7. Is the guest always right? Explain your argument and provide support for your answer.

8. Explain and apply the concept of red flags.

9. Identify and apply the five steps to resolve guest issues using the G.U.E.S.T. method.