Author: chris

This week’s readings emphasized the need for nurses to act as agents of change within their institutions. Of particular note, the globalization of the health care industry through the Internet has brought the world at large into the hospital to scrutinize how well it works. The forces of technology and politics play an equal role in shaping the face of medicine. Nurses confront the challenge of meeting both the needs of society and those of their patients.

To prepare for this Discussion, search the internet using the terms “Innovative Nursing Care Delivery Models”. Review at least two innovative models. Also review this week’s assigned readings, including ANA’s Nursing Scope & Standards of Practice as they apply to your specialty area, ANA’s Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nursing, and ANA’s Nursing’s Social Policy Statement. Then, respond to the following:

• How will the model support the role of the professional nurse in meeting the needs of today’s health care consumer?

• Which leadership skills  are needed by the professional nurse to promote  positive patient outcomes in this model?

• How might this model of care change or support the role of the nurse as defined by ANA’s Nursing Scope & Standards of Practice, Code of Ethics, and ANA’s Nursing’s Social Policy Statement?

Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature

Review Chapter 8 in the course text, Research Design, and the “Quantitative Methods: Examples” media segment.

• Explain how survey and experimental methods—including components, terminology, elements, statistics, etc.—are similar and different.
• Determine which kinds of research questions would be served by a survey or an experimental method.
• Examine the reasons why reliability and validity are important in research.
• Generalize about how popular quantitative methods are in your discipline.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3, 2–3 paragraphs that compare survey strategies of inquiry with experimental strategies of inquiry.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the reading(s) and/or media segment(s) and use APA format.

Developmental Parenting Paper

In this course we examine the theories and stages of Childhood Development as they relate to parenting.  You are going to write a paper on any stage of Childhood Development that interests you (birth to age two, 2-5 years old, elementary school, early adolescence, etc).  You will need to apply the theories and conceptslearned in your textbook as well as incorporate information from 2 other sources. The APUS library will be a great place to start this research as well as the sources listed at the end of the syllabus.

The introduction should be a brief summary of what you are going to write about. Your introduction should briefly describe the stage of development you chose and explain why you chose it.

This paper will be a minimum of 3-5 pages long, not including title and reference pages. APA format required.  Your textbook is the main source for this paper along with two other scholarly sources.

The CHFD331 Parenting Course Guide in the library is a good starting point http://apus.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=484563

You may not use Psychology Today, Redbook, Wikipedia, WebMD or similar sources for your material.

This paper must be submitted as a Word doc.

Part A

Read Chapter 6 in your textbook and complete the following activities.

Media Skills: Social Networking

Business networking websites such as www.linkedin.com, www.ryze.com, and www.spoke.com have become popular places for professionals to make connections that would be difficult or impossible to make without the internet. An important aspect of business networking is being able to provide a clear description of your professional background and interests. For example, a manufacturing consultant can list the industries in which she has experience, the types of projects she has worked on , and the nature of work she’d like to pursue in the future (such as a full-time position for a company or additional independent projects.

Your Task: Write a brief statement to introduce yourself, including your educational background, your job history, and the types of connections you’d like to make. You can “fast forward” to your graduation and list your degree, the business specialty you plan to pursue, and any relevant experience. If you have business experience already, you can use that experience instead. Make sure your statement is clear, concise, and compelling.

Media Skills: Email

Assume you are a member of a local volunteer group of 15 people interested in nature conservancy. Your group is considering launching a campaign to educate people about an environmental issue affecting your area (select an issue that you care about). The leader of your group has asked you to find some examples of how other conservation groups use social media to get their message out and to make some recommendations for your group’ campaign.

Your Task: Use Google to find some examples or conservation groups that use social media to promote their cause. Write an email message to your director describing how social media are currently used by one of the groups you found and give your opinion of their effectiveness, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of your group using these media. Include your suggestions.

How the current recovery (2012) is  different from what we experienced in the aftermath of the recessions that took place since WW2 ? and why?

Summarize the main findings of this article in 500 words

Don’t copy the article, use own word

http://www.voxeu.org/article/time-different-again-us-five-years-after-onset-subprime-0

  SCENARIO

Banita Jacks and he daughters fell through many cracks in the maze of government-funded human services in the District of Columbia. Jacks sought help at least 23 times from 11 different agencies, but their separate information systems made it difficult for any of them to obtain a complete understanding of the family’s desperate plight. Federal marshals finally visited their row house, where the mother had been living with her dead daughters’ bodies for more than 7 months. At her trail, Jacks claimed the children were possessed by demons, and she is now serving a 120 year prision sentence.

The poorly intergrated systems ledt gaint information gaps that hampered agencies trying to help. For example, Child and Family Services received an anonymous hotline tip that the mother must be neglecting the girls, but since the agency didnt have any home address, no caseworker followed up. Other agencies had an address but their systems didnt track the complaint. Teachers at the girls’ school attempted unsuccessfuly to contact the family when they were absent, but they knew nothing about the neglect charge. Information wasn’t shared and service workers who hanled the family’s requests rarely followed up.

Althought this tragic case led to investigations and a round of firings, the real problem was in the information systems. Agency directors want to transform the way these systems work by implementing an intergrated information system to share data. The agencies need the dame kind of customer-centic system that private industries have when thet install customer relationship management (CRM) software. In a financial institution, for  example, employees in ifferent departments might see individual events that could be warning signs pointing to a dissatisfied customer. The broker might know that the customer sold stocks and moved funds to a cash account, or the retirement counselor might receive a call from the same customer, inquiring how to roll over an IRA. With an intergrated system, these individual events will paint a picture so that companyresp can follow up.

Nevertheless, CRM efforts in human services agencies face different kids of challenges comparesd to corporate CRM intiatives. First lawmakers must approve the project and provide funding. A project of this magnitude could run $ 10 million or more, and city officials are reluctant to spend such a huge sun on IT when budgets for shelters are being cut, despite overcrowding.

Another concern involves privacy. The Child and Family Services worker, for example, would need access to data on a family’s food stamps, disabilities, homelessness, health records and schooling. Privacy advocated objects to legislation that allows widespread access to so much personal information about chilrenat risk and homeless families because it impinges on cofidentiality. Striking a balance between privacy concerns and the desire to help these families is not easy.

Medical records are legally protected, thought knowledge about past history could help caseworkers identify problmes. For exaple one women was treated for mental illness many times, but a case worker who visited her home didnt have that information. Shereported no sgnificant problems in parenting; a few weeks later, however, the trouble mother tried to drown her children.

While confidentiality, privacy and funding are challenges, resistance to change alsp comtributes. Former DC Human Serviecs Director Clarence Carter suggests that many people just want to keep doing what they do, because that’s how they’ve always done it. “We are hired and held accountable for the administration of programs, not for the well’being of individuals. That has got to change,” said Carter. Adopting a CRM approach that involves listening to the customers and adapting services to what they need will help.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1.  How did the previous lack of intergration impact the District of Columbia Department of Human Services’ ability to serve its clients?

2.  With respect to the challenges involved implementing projects involving imformation systems, how does the public sector compare with the private sector?

3. How do privacy challenges in the social services context compare with challenges in other public services such as traffic enforement?

4.If you were the DC Human Services Director, what rationale would you use to gain aproval for the multimillion-dollar investment?

5. What is an example of how intergrating with the use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) can help an organization from research or your own personal experience?

This week’s readings emphasized the need for nurses to act as agents of change within their institutions. Of particular note, the globalization of the health care industry through the Internet has brought the world at large into the hospital to scrutinize how well it works. The forces of technology and politics play an equal role in shaping the face of medicine. Nurses confront the challenge of meeting both the needs of society and those of their patients.

To prepare for this Discussion, search the internet using the terms “Innovative Nursing Care Delivery Models”. Review at least two innovative models. Also review this week’s assigned readings, including ANA’s Nursing Scope & Standards of Practice as they apply to your specialty area, ANA’s Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nursing, and ANA’s Nursing’s Social Policy Statement. Then, respond to the following:

• How will the model support the role of the professional nurse in meeting the needs of today’s health care consumer?

• Which leadership skills  are needed by the professional nurse to promote  positive patient outcomes in this model?

• How might this model of care change or support the role of the nurse as defined by ANA’s Nursing Scope & Standards of Practice, Code of Ethics, and ANA’s Nursing’s Social Policy Statement?

Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.

What are the similarities and differences among the different need theories?

Review Chapter 8 in the course text, Research Design, and the “Quantitative Methods: Examples” media segment.

• Explain how survey and experimental methods—including components, terminology, elements, statistics, etc.—are similar and different.
• Determine which kinds of research questions would be served by a survey or an experimental method.
• Examine the reasons why reliability and validity are important in research.
• Generalize about how popular quantitative methods are in your discipline.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3, 2–3 paragraphs that compare survey strategies of inquiry with experimental strategies of inquiry.

Lululemon Athletica (Lululemon) is a yoga and athletic attire company, with over 200 stores and a

presence in 14 countries. In recent years it has been faced with a number of public relations nightmares,

including a recall of 17% of its Luon pants due to excessive sheerness. Additional issues arose, when

founder and former CEO Chip Wilson made a public statement tying the sheer yoga pants issue to the

size of the woman who tried to wear the pants, stirring a public outcry. A former employee confirmed that

part of the brand strategy was to avoid the selling of larger-sized clothing. Additional outrage arose when

women tried to return the defective pants, and they were asked to bend over to demonstrate the

sheerness of the product. Additionally, investor concerns arose and lawsuits were filed due to executive

bonuses that occurred just prior to the recall.

Evaluate Lululemon from a Marketing perspective using the case study and the known recent history.

Review the their corporate website and any other publically available relevant sources such as the WSJ.

Using the criteria below identify their current marketing practices and make strategic marketing

recommendations for each.

Address the following in no more than 6 pages:

1. Identify and evaluate Lululemon’s current stated:
2. Marketing goals and objectives
3. Target audience
4. Competition
5. Competitive advantage
6. Marketing research effort
7. Marketing measures of effectiveness

2. Recommend strategic marketing changes in regards to Lulemon’s:
3. Marketing goals and objectives
4. Target audience
5. Competition
6. Competitive advantage
7. Marketing research effort
8. Marketing measures of effectiveness