Author: chris

You have completed the project planning activities and are now ready to share the results with the project team. You have scheduled a project kick-off meeting in two weeks and are now preparing your materials.

Deliverable Length:  8-12 slides

Using the Library, develop a 10 – 15 slide presentation that you will use for the kick-off meeting. In the presentation, identify the participants of the meeting, the objectives of the meeting, the meeting agenda, and the project’s objectives. Use the remaining slides to share key results from your project planning activities, such as the scope control system and the communication mechanisms that will be used.

In the communication plan, identify the audiences that must be reached. For each audience, describe the communication mechanism, the frequency of communication, the format, other involved parties, and associated responsibilities.

Be sure your presentation meets the standards for an effective presentation that you have learned in other courses.

For more information on creating PowerPoint Presentations, please visit the PowerPoint Lab.

Health Care Consumer: Trends and Marketing
Instructions: I rather hear about your experiences, experiences of others you know, opinions and ideas when answering the following questions. Must write up 100 to 150 word count.
Today many doctors have patient portals.  A patient portal is a location where the consumer can log on and see their medical data.  They can see their lab results, results from prior years, make appointment, request scripts, watch videos, etc.  Do you think most patients are capable of understanding their lab results they see online without a doctor’s interpretation?
Technological advances have made it possible and necessary for health care professionals to communicate in different ways.  It is important to understand not only how to effectively communicate, but also to know to whom you are communicating.  For example, nurses will communicate differently to a physician than they would to a patient.  Also, it is important to proofread text messages and emails more than once prior to sending.  Certainly the forms of communication have changed dramatically in the last decade.  I work with multiple surgeons, and their method of communicating with patients is face to face, with doctors, via web conferencing, and their office staff work on the patient portal.  Today we also have more technological equipment in the OR that is used to communicate to the doctor vitals, perfusion, and a host of other patient data.  We are also seeing a strong trend in global surgeries, where it is being performed by a surgeon in one location, while another in another country is showing how to do the surgery. With so many different ways to communicate, how do we know we are communicating effectively?
What are the pros and cons of government agencies (i.e., agencies within the Health and Human Services umbrella)?  Are these agencies effective?
The FDA actually tests less than 1% of our food for safety.  They usually do not get involved with products unless there are outbreaks of diseases, such as Salmonella.  The little that they do test are usually imported from specific countries known for unsafe foods.  They also do not test food supplements, such as St. Johns Wort, and other popular ones OTC.
What about other agencies such as the CDC or the Office of Aging?
When you communicate, you also need to decide how you will tailor it – will you communicate to the masses or to the individual, or will it be to a select group?  Can anyone give examples?
There are many ways to establish the marketing function for an organization, two of the more common ways are by product and by market.  The product oriented structure is the more common method used in health care marketing.  For this structure the product line manager is responsible for the bulk of the responsibility and accountability.  Many times this person is the nurse.  Now for the market oriented structure a health care organization may design a marketing campaign around its major customer groups, but the focus will be on the customers who have purchasing requirements such as large corporations. Can anyone provide examples of how their organization structures marketing?
Define conformity and give an example. Name three reasons why people conform.
Give examples of disadvantages of advertising.
Social media originated in 2002 and allows us to build social networks with people who share similar interests.  Social media is highly accessible and represents a shift in how people share information.  It’s a fuse of sociology and technology.  Social media has improved how we can outreach to particular communities whether it be by: internal to the organization, geographically isolated, disease specific, demographically oriented, or widespread to the masses.  Yet, the FDA has a problem with social media.  What is that problem?

You work for your local public health department and they have asked you to create a 1 page paper to be sent out to your community describing the state of your health care market.
Research your local community.
Describe- include the following:
Cultural demographics of your community
Age breakdown of your community
How the demographics and age affect your local health care market

Part I

Examine a Manual or Help System for Task Orientation

Directions: Examine a copy of a manual for a software program such as a word processor, spreadsheet, or database, or examine a help system for a program you use regularly.  Study the table of contents, looking at all the elements in the documents (there may be more than one document included in the printed set).  Find instances where you think the manual or help reinforces the user’s workplace and workplace tasks.  How much of the document is in “how-to” format?

Part II

Evaluate the Manual 

Directions: Look back at the “Five Key-Task Orientation Questions” and answer each one for the manual you have looked at.  These answers will be fairly short, but should cover all aspects of the manual that are relevant.

Part III

Response

Directions: For this third part of the homework assignment, you should reflect back on the answers you provided and write a response between one and a half and two pages in which you explain how effective the manual is.  If you find any places in the manual that you think could use some revision based on the first two parts of this assignment and on your readings, explain how the manual is lacking, and then explain how it could be revised and what could be added to strengthen it.

Create a website consisting of 5 pages, with the following titles outlined below. Study the example website provided carefully because your design must closely mirror it in design. You are also required to have a single external cascading style sheet (named “style.css”) that will direct some of the formatting and look of your site. All CSS requirements will be explained within the following sections. ITECH 5004 students are not allowed to use tables to structure their websites. ITECH1004 students may use tables or CSS to structure their site. ITECH5004 student alternatively must only use CSS Div tags for their site structure and are not allowed to use tables.

HINT: Build your home page and CSS first and then if you make a copy of this page for all subsequent pages, they will all contain identical formatting and navigation.

All pages should have the following features:
A non-white background colour and a well-chosen text colour (use the same colour scheme for all 5 pages). All text must be easily readable against the chosen background colour;
5 links on the left-hand side of the page to the other pages on the site. – pages must not contain links to themselves;
Follow the file name conventions outlined below;
A main heading which matches the page title;

Must have elements of their formatting controlled by a single external CSS sheet (style.css). Elements which must be controlled are:
Background colour of the page;
Headings & Font size and colour;
Hyperlink state colours;
Additionally ITECH 5004 students must have their dot list formatting and any relevant DIV formatting handled by their single external style sheet.

Site & Page requirements
The Home page (index.html) should also display the following details:
Your name and student number;
The course code and name;
The assignment number;
A ‘mailto’ link to your email address;
An image of yourself (600px by 400px).
ITECH5004 students only must embed a sound file under the picture of themselves which will express the first three dot points required for this page. The sound file must be of decent listenable quality and be controllable (does not automatically start upon page load).

The “My favourite cartoon” (cartoon.html) page should display:
A photograph representing your favourite cartoon (sized at 600px by 400px) and its source referenced;
A list of five dot-points on the topic “Interesting facts about <cartoon>” – these must be in your own words and be expressive.

The “My favourite Website” (website.html) page should also display:
The title of your favourite website;
A screen capture of your favourite website (sized at 600px by 400px); In this picture only show the homepage of the website and crop out any surrounding browser features;
A list of five dot-points on the topic “What I like about <website>” – these must be in your own words and be expressive.

The “A hobby of mine” (hobby.html) page should also display:
An embedded YouTube link to a video associated with your favourite hobby;
A list of five dot-points on the topic “What I enjoy about <insert hobby>” – these must be in your own words and be expressive.

The “Facts about me” (facts.html) should also display:
Your earlier Movie Maker .mp4 embedded;
A list of five dot-points on the topic “Interesting facts about me” – these must be in your own words and be expressive.

The list of dot-points on all the pages expect for the homepage must contain five (5) dot-points each. Your dot points must be unordered and use the square bullet point style.
Font sizes
The font size for all text, except headings and sub-headings, must be 15px. Heading sizes vary depending on the heading type, but care must be taken that headings and text are balanced and use the <h1> & <h2> tags. H1 tags must be used for each pages heading (e.g. My home town) and H2 tags used for the content headings (e.g. “Interesting facts about my home town It must be obvious by the size of the different text elements that a hierarchy of size exists.

ITECH5004 students only: In addition to the above requirements you must also submit a report in the form of a Word document which describes the steps which you followed in completing this assignment, explaining the reasoning for each video creating and website creation operation and step. Include images throughout the report to help explain your steps. When describing the steps think of how a lab tutorial is written. Your report should be as detailed and as easy to follow as this assignment specifications document in describing how your website was built.

Further in regards to your website you must explain the following:
How you optimized the multimedia content of your site. For example what format you used for the sound file, images, etc and why;
How you address copyright issues regarding any multimedia content that you did not have copyright over yourself;
Three (3) key lessons that you have learnt about the multimedia design process.

Submission and marking process

Please submit a copy of this assignment via Moodle. Create a single zip file containing all of the files required for your submission and submit this single file.

You will need to submit the following files:
all 5 HTML files and a single CSS file;
all multimedia elements used in the website;
both the Movie Maker project & output files created for Stage 1;
the Word document (for ITECH5004 students only).

Before submitting, carefully check that your website is using relative rather than absolute referencing (e.g. by copying your files to a different location and then testing the webpages); otherwise it will not appear correctly when marked on a different machine and will be marked down if elements do not show or if navigation does not function. Make sure your lecturer and/or tutor has explained this concept to you.

Assignments will be marked on the basis of fulfillment of the requirements, and the quality of the final product.

In addition to the marking criteria, marks may be deducted for failure to comply with the assignment requirements, including (but not limited to):
incomplete documentation
incomplete submissions (e.g. missing files)

Refer to the Course Description for details of the policy on marking of late assignments. Any applications for extensions or special consideration should be made as early as possible, and in all cases prior to the deadline for submission.

Based on the information in Case Studies (Character.org, n.d.), identify one of the case studies you resonate with (positively or negatively) and go to the discussion thread for that school (Bayless Elementary, Ridgewood Middle, or Westwood Elementary). Post your reaction to the case by discussing the following:

• Your sense of the particular character type they sought to develop in their students
• Your reactions to how it worked and why you think they were successful
• What ideas you will (or won’t, if you didn’t like their approach) take from the case as examples to consider for your own practice.

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Submission Instructions: Please attach the assignment in Word Format. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Provide a minimum of 3 in text citations with an APA Reference List.

A health care organization is comprised of different professionals who serve different functions. Their roles may determine how they view quality initiatives, including the different methods measurement and types of improvement tools.

Design a graphic organizer (such as a chart or table) that identifies a minimum of three quality measurement/improvement tools. Describe how they are used for measuring quality by at least four professionals in a health care organization. You must include at least one administrative health professional, one midlevel provider, one physician, and one auxiliary staff member. This can be a chart or table

Possible motivations for an “earnings bath”How an “earnings bath” may be achieved

Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for a firm’s share priceWhether an “earnings bath” has implications for the value of a firm’s stock options.

1.  Obtain a current events article related to a topic in this class. You can use any legitimate resource but make sure it is within the past 18 months – see external links for assistance.  The article can be about an issues or a recent case.  Remember this class also covers child abuse and elderly abuse so you can use those articles as well.

2. Write a 2-3 paragraph opinion the article and (really important) state how it applies to this class – and state where in your book it applies to this class.   Why is the article important,   Why did you feel that you should bring this to the attention of the class.  What “caught your attention?”

You are a junior accountant with Factional Ltd, a large, publicly-listed company operating in the high-tech sector. Factional Ltd has recently appointed a new chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Magnus Bouche, who is due to take up his appointment very shortly. Last night, at the invitation of a friend, you attended a prestigious charity function which, coincidentally, was also attended by Mr Bouche. At one point during the night, you found yourself standing quite close to (but unobserved by) Mr Bouche and overheard a part of his conversation with friends, including his comment that the first thing he intended to do as CEO of Factional Ltd was to “take a bath”.

You are not sure of what it means to “take a bath”, but the conspiratorial tone of the conversation and the fact that one of Mr Bouche’s friends responded to the comment by asking about the likely impact on Factional Ltd’s share price, while another laughed and said something (which you couldn’t quite hear) about Mr Bouche’s put options in Factional Ltd shares, have aroused your suspicions.

This morning, you spoke confidentially to your supervisor in the accounting department of Factional Ltd, Ms Betta Golightly, telling her about the overheard conversation and asking her whether she knew what it meant to “take a bath”. She replied that she had heard of the Big Bath Hypothesis and knew that it related to earnings management, but confessed that she didn’t know about any likely capital markets impacts. She then asked you to conduct some research and prepare a report for her, outlining the following:

1. Possible motivations for an “earnings bath”
2. How an “earnings bath” may be achieved

iii. Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for a firm’s share price

1. Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for the value of a firm’s stock options.

Your report will provide the basis for Ms Golightly’s decision on whether the matter should be brought to the attention of Factional Ltd’s audit committee (a sub-committee of Factional Ltd’s board of directors).

* Harvard Style Referencing