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• Begin each writing assignment by identifying the question number you are answering followed by the actual question itself (in bold type).

• Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs and conclusion).

• Responses must be typed double-spaced, using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12 point type size.

. All work must be free of any form of plagiarism.

Textbook:Internationa Business-Enviroments & Operations

16th Edition, 2018

Author(s): John D. Daniels, Lee H. Radebaugh, & Daniel P. Sullivan

Publisher: Pearson

I’m trying to study for my Health & Medical course and I need some help to understand this question.

The facility for this assignment needs to be UTSW Medical Center focusing on patient satisfaction.

Requirements

Draft a proposal for your data review project. Use the Data Review Project Proposal Template, linked in the Resources of this unit.

Integrate faculty feedback on your proposal, prior to sharing it with the prospective client.

Supporting Evidence

Add a minimum of five relevant, authoritative sources, cited within the outline, Limit commercial website references to no more than two entries. Format your citations and references using APA style.

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your proposal addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Data Review Project Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

• Choose a framework appropriate for examining the type of data under investigation. Look at the following for examples and explain the basis for your choice.
  • For a compliance project, use the regulations.
  • For an accrediting assessment, use the standards and site survey criteria.
  • For the implementation of a new service line, consider using the balanced scorecard framework.
• Explain how a project addresses and adds value to each of the four areas of an organizational balanced scorecard. (The four areas being, business operations, finance, customer service, and organizational learning and growth.)
  • Create a balanced scorecard table similar to the one presented in the Balanced Scorecard Example, linked in the Resources of this unit.
  • Consider a strategic, systems perspective as you contemplate value to the organization and how the project aligns with the organizational mission, vision, and strategy.
  • Find evidence to support your assertions and conclusions.
  • Determine what additional information would strengthen your value proposition.
• Develop proposed structures (for example, pie chart, graph, spreadsheet, process map) for the visual display of summarized raw data.
  • Reflect on what type of visual display structure will best fit your selected topic. Although you are just beginning to collect data, you will want to consider how to display it.
  • Ensure that your data displays are clear and easily interpreted.
  • Ensure that the proposed title includes the focus of the data, units of measurement, the organization’s name, and time frame.
• Combine clear, coherent, and original writing, in APA style, with relevant and credible evidence from the scholarly and professional literature.
  • Apply correct APA formatting to your source citations.
  • Consider how or why a particular piece of evidence supports your main points, claims, or conclusions.
  • Make sure your supporting evidence is clear and explicit.

Balanced Scorecard Example

Applied to a Billing Process Improvement Project

The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the impact of your proposed project to a senior executive. You are quantifying what they can expect if they implement this project. What are the goals or benchmarks? What will indicate if they are making progress (performance indicators)? How will they measure their progress (units of measure: variance rate, minutes-per-day, percentage of denied claims, and percentage of reduced coding errors; resultant savings: staff time, aging accounts, delayed revenue inflow)? Essentially, you are citing the time frame in which results might be obtained and providing targets for those results.

Tips

Please keep this simple. It is not a complex exercise. You will simply make a balanced scorecard table similar to the one above for your project and add it to your existing proposal. Feel free to customize the table for your project.

Remember to review the instructor feedback from the Data Review Project Proposal assignment. Ensure that you have included any suggested revisions in your new and improved project design. Also, include any suggestions from the client, when applicable

Data Review Project Proposal Template

Your data review project proposal should include the following elements:

Cover Page: Include the project topic, the course title, your name, the date, and the instructor’s name.

Table of Contents: Headings and sub-headings with right-justified page numbers.

Executive Summary: One page, double-spaced. Include the topic, the problem, the purpose of the project or data examination, the method to examine the data (data review), and the nature of the findings (for example, quality improvement of X).

Introduction: Four-sentence topic description—statement of the problem, the performance indicators to be evaluated, the outcome measures for each indicator, and the value proposition or relevance statement.

• I am examining [state the issue or problem], because [identify the relevant and authoritative reference that validates your issue as a problem].
• I will examine [state the type of data], and will assess the data by measuring [state the performance indicators and outcome measures].
• This project will add value to [state the type of organization or name] by [mention how it aligns with an organizational need].
• This project aligns with my professional interests and career goals by [mention how it adds value or has relevance for you personally].

Statement of the Problem: State the issue in the form of a problem, and add a properly-formatted APA citation.

Background: Literature: Provide a minimum of six authoritative sources. Add a short description of each source explaining how the content directly relates to the topic. Note:Wikipedia and commercial websites are not authoritative sources.

Your sources should address the following:

The issue from a national or industry level.

Current, relevant facts, trends, and emerging issues.

The issue relative to your subsector of the health care industry or continuum of care.

Data and statistics that substantiate the need to examine the issue (or, what are the consequences and risks of not addressing the issue?).

Client Value Proposition:

State how your project will address or add value to each of the four areas of the balanced scorecard: business operations, finance, customer service, and organizational learning and growth.

Restate any pertinent information, including an industry macro overview, such as a new policy to be implemented, compliance with an existing regulation or law, and client needs and situation.

Make a precise statement about how the data review will add value to the organization.

Include a request for input and feedback from the practicing health care professional or selected health care organization. This is to ensure that your identification of key performance indicators and targeted data sets under investigation align with the needs of the organization.

Expected Outcomes and Precise Performance Measurement:

What data will be collected and analyzed?

Explain how each performance indicator that relates to the problem will be measured. Be precise in explaining how the outcome will be measured.

Explain what type of visual displays you will use to summarize or group the data you are examining (for example, a pie chart, graph, spreadsheet, and process map.)

Leadership Component:

Describe your precise roles and responsibilities in leading the effort. Human subject research is outside the scope of the Health Administration Capstone course.

Select one NCHL competency within each category or domain of People, Transformation, and Execution. Then, provide a short explanation about how each relates to your project. For example, Domain = People; Competency = Change Leadership.

Timeline: Include a week-by-week summary of major tasks to be done to complete the project.

Proposed start and end dates, weekly to-do tasks, responsible party (learner), and due dates. Note: Use the Project Management Timetable format.

Optional: For Health Administration Capstone Experience learners only, please include the project PowerPoint presentation date, location, or web conference information.

Data Review Project Proposal Scoring Guide

Need help with my Sociology question – I’m studying for my class.

Table 1 in the Smith article describes concepts, principles, and checklist items that can be used to evaluate assessments.

Select two of the checklist items you think are important when evaluating assessments for ELL students. In a 500-word essay describe those items within a brief summary of the article to defend why you believe the two items are of particular importance.

Include at least three sources from your reading to support your position

– Read “Principles and Practices of Sociocultural Assessment: Foundations for Effective Strategies for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms,” by Smith, Teemant, and Pinnegar, from Multicultural Perspectives (2004).

URL:

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– Read Chapter 21 and review Chapter 25.

URL:

http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/pearson/2015/50-strategies-for-teaching-english-language-learners_ebook_5e.php

– Read “Using Informal Assessments for English Language Learners,” located on the Colorin Colorado website.

URL:

http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/assessment/informal/

I’m studying for my Sociology class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?

Directions: In a one to two page essay, address the questions below. Your essay should be double spaced and use 12 point Times New Roman font (black).

• Research the Manson Family. Provide a summary of their crimes.
• Define influence, power, authority and deviance. How were these present within the Manson Family?
• Summarize the outcome of their court case. Do you feel this would be different if tried today?
• Apply one of the three sociological perspectives to deviance (Conflict Theory, Functionalism, or Symbolic Interactionism)

I’m stuck on a Writing question and need an explanation.

Week 2 – Three’s Company

• Changing Signs of Truth (Downing, 2012)
  • Chapter 7: A Place for the Coin
  • Chapter 8: Placing the Coin on Edge

Peirce’s (Sheriff, 1989) idea of a triadic sign was not a modification of Saussure’s structuralist approach but is simply a different understanding altogether of how a sign might be interpreted. It allows one to take account of the context that gives any sign–word, utterance, object, and so on–its meaning. This is something that the structuralist simply is unable to do. For the structuralist, words have meaning based upon a given set of possible significations. For Peirce (Sheriff, 1989), meaning is determinate but much more fluid because it takes more factors into account. In four to five paragraphs, respond to the following:

• What is Peirce’s triadic understanding of the sign? Be sure to define terms like object, representamen, and interpretant.
• Compare and contrast it with Saussure’s understanding of a sign.
• What does a Peircean triadic sign allow you to do that a Saussurean dyadic does not? How might this understanding affect the interpretation of parables?

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research.

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• Research a Fortune 500 company, but do not use the same company you used for the Week 1 “Social Responsibility” assignment. Examine the company’s strategic philanthropy and how it impacts profits, brand, image and turnover, as well as society as a whole.
• Also, address any disadvantages or associated costs the company experiences as a result of its strategic philanthropy practices.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

Basic Requirements:

Double spacing

Times New Roman 12 pt font only

All para must be at least 4 well-developed sentences, most more.

Running head:

APA Headings

Proper Sourcing (one article from your course readings; one peer-reviewed source with a doi numer; and one source of your choice but not from dictionaries, new articles, blog.

No direct quotes

Remove: great, key, like, look, you, your, we, really, basically, huge, do not begin sentences with conjunctions (It, But or Because), Eliminate According to: in order to; as well as: No Jargon.

Weekly Related Articles

Benefits of Strategic Philanthropy
Corporate Philanthropy Inspires Trust: Does It Also Prompt Higher Profits?
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1638

Incorporating Strategic Philanthropy into your Business
Giving back can create advantages in the for-profit world.
http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/08/how-to-incorporate-philanthropy-into-your-business.html

I don’t understand this Business question and need help to study.

• Begin each writing assignment by identifying the question number you are answering followed by the actual question itself (in bold type).

• Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs and conclusion).

• Responses must be typed double-spaced, using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12 point type size.

. All work must be free of any form of plagiarism.

Textbook:Internationa Business-Enviroments & Operations

16th Edition, 2018

Author(s): John D. Daniels, Lee H. Radebaugh, & Daniel P. Sullivan

Publisher: Pearson

Can you help me understand this Law question?

Case Analysis

Dave is a driver for Empire Courier Service. Around the company, Dave is known as sort of a hothead. During his previous employment at another company, Dave had been involved in a workplace fistfight with a fellow employee, resulting in criminal charges.

One day, between deliveries and in a company vehicle, Dave decides to get lunch. While leaving the parking lot at Big Burrito Bistro, the favorite lunch spot for most Empire Courier employees, Dave negligently causes a car accident with another vehicle, resulting in injuries to Victor, the driver of the other car. As Dave and Victor are waiting on the side of the road for the police to arrive, Victor comments to Dave, “Oh, you drive for Empire Courier Service. It doesn’t surprise me that Empire hires bad drivers because their service stinks, and their prices are too high!” Dave is so offended that Victor would insult his employer’s professional reputation that he punches Victor in the face, causing Victor to suffer even more injuries. Empire Courier Service does not, as a matter of policy, do criminal background checks on its employees.

Explain who is liable for Dave’s negligence for causing the car accident, and explain who is liable for Dave’s intentional tort for punching Victor. Provide your answers in a case analysis of a minimum of 500 words. Cite any direct quotes or paraphrased material from outside sources. Use APA format.

I need help with a Nursing question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.

Assignment:

Evidence-Based Practice Guideline

Write a fully developed and detailed APA essay addressing each of the following points/questions. There is no required word count; be sure to completely answer all the questions for each question in detail. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Sources are not required; however, if sources are used make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay and complete a reference page. The cover page is required. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Utilize the databases identified in the text to locate an Evidence-Based Practice Guideline, related to your topic identified in Module 1. Perform a rapid critical appraisal of the Evidence-Based Guideline by answering the following questions in APA format. All questions should be answered in detail and explanations offered according to guideline content when applicable.

• Who were the guideline developers?
• Were the developers of the guideline representative of key stakeholders in this specialty (inter-disciplinary)?
• Who funded the guideline development?
• Were any of the guideline developers funded researchers of the reviewed studies?
• Did the team have a valid development strategy?
• Was an explicit (how decisions were made), sensible, and impartial process used to identify, select, and combine evidence?
• Did its developers carry out comprehensive, reproducible literature review within the past 12 months of its publication/revision?
• Were all important options and outcomes considered?
• Is each recommendation in the guideline tagged by the level/strength of evidence upon which it is based and linked to the scientific evidence?
• Do the guidelines make explicit recommendations (reflecting value judgments about the outcomes)?
• Has the guideline been subjected to peer review and testing?
• Is the intent of use provided (i.e. national, regional, local)?
• Are the recommendations clinically relevant?
• Will the recommendations help me in caring for my patients?
• Are the recommendations practical/feasible? Are resources (people and equipment) available?
• Are the recommendations a major variation from current practice? Can the outcomes be measured through standard care?

NOTE:

Be sure to include the database from which the guideline was obtained and please submit a copy of the guideline with your paper.

Your APA formatted paper fully answer each question in complete sentences.

Learning Materials/Data bases.

• Melnyk, B. M. & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2015). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (3rd ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health. ISBN: 978-1-4511-9094-6. Read Chapters 1, 2, and 3.
• Worksheet: Question Templates for Asking PICOT Questions
• Application Case Study: Chapter 3: Finding Relevant Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions

Related Resources:

Research and view the below sites:

• Joanna Briggs Institute (2019).
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). (n.d.).
• The Cochrane Collaboration. (n.d.).
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (2018).
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (2006, March 13). AACN Position Statement on Nursing Research.
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (2018). The IHI Triple Aim.
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (2018, September).
• Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. (2018).
• American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). ANCC Magnet Recognition Program.

I’m working on a Health & Medical question and need guidance to help me study.

Choose one mental health disorder and one behavioral health disorder, one or both being related to substance abuse. Write a 1,000-1,250-word paper in which you compare and contrast each disorder.

Your paper must include the following:

1. A summary of each disorder
2. A visual such as a table or chart that compares and contrasts the symptoms and behaviors associated with each disorder
3. A list of the provider roles that could work with this client in a collaborative team approach with descriptions of how they each may function within the team
4. An explanation for how to implement preventative programs for substance use disorders such as selected in this paper within an integrated health setting. Include the previously listed roles within the explanation.

Include a minimum of three scholarly references to support the information provided in the assignment.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.