Select an organization that operates in a global environment.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you do the following:

Define supply chain management.

Describe the evolution of supply chain management and its effects on an organization.

Explain how you believe an organization’s supply chain supports its vision and mission.

Define what an organization’s strategic positioning is (how it competes in the market place).

 

Provide examples to explain how a supply chain may give an organization a competitive a

Discussion topic 2: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977

To prepare for this Discussion:

 

•Review Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 in the McPhee and Hammer text, as well as Chapter 31 AND  32 in the Huether and McCance text, Plus 2 MORE Credible recent articles on the subject ( Articles must be less than 5 years)

 

•Select two disorders of the male and/or female reproductive systems that interest you. Consider the similarities and differences between the disorders.

 

•Select one of the following factors: genetics, ethnicity, age, or behavior. Think about how the factor you selected might impact the diagnosis of and treatment for the reproductive disorders.

 

 

 

Post 1 page Paper on a description of the two reproductive disorders you selected, including their similarities and differences. Then explain how the factor you selected might impact the diagnosis of treatment for the reproductive disorders.

 

REFERENCES

 

•McPhee, S. J., & Hammer, G. D. (2012). Pathophysiology of disease: An introduction to clinical medicine (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Medical.

 

◦Chapter 22, “Disorders of the Female Reproductive Tract”

 

 

 

◦Chapter 23, “Disorders of the Male Reproductive Tract”

 

 

 

•Huether, S. E., & McCance, K. L. (2012). Understanding pathophysiology (Laureate custom ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

 

◦Chapter 31, “Structure and Function of the Reproductive Systems”

 

 

 

◦Chapter 32, “Alterations of the Reproductive Systems, Including Sexually Transmitted Infections”

The purpose of this discussion is to help you understand how to construct an ethical argument and how to compare ethical arguments to other types of arguments, such as arguments based on political or economic theories. Prepare and post a response to the following prompt:

• Identify the basic themes, topics, and concepts that make up the discipline of ethics. What are the themes or ideas that unite the different ethical theories? What is it that ethics aims to explain?
• Describe how you might apply an ethical theme to one of the following social issues:
  • Limiting smoking in public places, such as public buildings, restaurants, or city parks
  • Municipal governments using public funds to build stadiums for professional sports teams
  • Requiring a private landowner to provide habitat for endangered species on their properties

What is your goal when you apply an ethical theme to a specific real-world issue? Distinguish how applying an ethical theme to an issue would differ from applying one of the following perspectives: economics, politics, or religion. What themes might represent the alternative perspective to the issue?

Application: Quality Measures

“The gold standard for defining quality measurement remains Donabedian’s three-element model of structure, process, and outcome” (Varkey, p. 30).

Although this model of quality measurement may apply to all kinds of clinical care facilities, you will focus on hospitals for this assignment so that you can make use of data on the CMS’s “Hospital Compare” Web site. Using this Web site, you will examine quality information for a particular hospital, and conduct some basic benchmarking analysis.

To prepare for this Application:

• Visit the Hospital Compare Web site:

  http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

• • Click on the links at the top titled “learn about the new organization of our Hospital Compare Measures” and review them briefly.
• On the top left there is another tap titled “About Hospital Compare Data” that Shows information on Process of Care Measures, Outcome of Care Measures, and Outpatient Imaging Efficiency Measures.
• As you consider this information, bring to mind the six dimensions of quality: Safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity. Search…through step 3.
• For the purposes of this assignment, go back to the 1st page and select a hospital by either entering the zip code for the hospital or the name of the hospital. When you’ve done that and clicked on Show Hospitals, you should have hospitals that you can compare. Follow the directions to review Patient Survey Results (HCAHPS survey results), Timely and Effective Care or Readmissions, Complications and Deaths.
• Consider which organizations are most appropriate to compare for benchmarking purposes. Use the Hospital Compare website and compare your primary hospital’s data with data from another hospital – either one in the same area or one across the country, as you think appropriate.
• After comparing the data, assess which measures you think are of the greatest concern and in need of improvement in your primary/original hospital. What is your rationale for this assessment? Select two or three measures to focus on for this assignment. Consider which dimensions of quality they relate to (safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and/or equity).
• Review this week’s Learning Resources, new the hospital’s Web site, and consider what other steps you would take to get a clearer picture of these quality issues.

The Assignment

Write a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:

• Identify the primary hospital you have selected.
• Identify the measures you have chosen to focus on (those that are most in need of improvement or that otherwise warrant attention). Compare and contrast the characteristics of structure, process, and outcome measures, and explain which category or categories your chosen measure relates to. Also, indicate the dimensions of quality with which these measures are associated.
• Briefly summarize the data, including your benchmarking analysis.
• Analyze the benefits and challenges of externally reported measures for health care providers and for patients. Also, explain why benchmarking can be useful for identifying areas for improvement.

2 pages

As a result of recent campus safety concerns at XYZ University, you have been engaged by campus security team leaders to gather and analyze data about on-campus crime rates in schools in the state of Minnesota. Crime data from 181 Minnesota campuses has been compiled in the Campus Crime Data file. Write a management report for campus security team leaders, analyzing and evaluating campus crime data for Minnesota. Include your findings and recommendations for your clients.

Compare Columbus’ descriptions of the islands’ plants, natural features, and native inhabitants in the first and second letter featured in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. What kind of language does he use in the first letter? How is it different in the second? What does Columbus seem preoccupied with? How else might we account for the different versions of the new world depicted in these letters? Consider the political project each letter was intended to serve. Why might Columbus insist that “Española is a marvel” in the first letter, and then portray it as an “exhausted,” unhealthy place populated by “cruel savages” in his later account?

Using the Library or other Web resources, identify and describe a case in which an employer’s activities were restricted due to religious rights of employees. Be sure to explain how the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s criteria for religious discrimination apply to the case.

Please include in paper:

apa format

1-2 pages in length

3 references with citations

100% plagarism free

Directions: Using at least two resources (Wikipedia sources are not permitted), write a four page paper addressing the following prompts.  Your submission should comply with APA guidelines for formatting and citations.Be sure to list each resource used at the end of paper in the reference list section.

 

Part I

 

1. What kind of impact has technology had on the history of warfare?

 

2. Define and give examples for the following terms: Dominant Client; Dominant Regulator; Monopolistic Maker.

 

3. The article on the F-22 indicates it is a controversial piece of technology.  In essay form, identify at least two reasons why the author thinks the most expensive technology isn’t always the most effective.

 

4. What is meant by the statement that “AIDS is a disease that the world cannot afford?”  List and describe three programs that have been created to assist AIDS patients?

 

5. What are ethical drugs?  Provide a few examples.

 

 

Part II

 

Write a one page reaction paper on telemedicine.  How do you think that telemedicine will change the ways that doctors treat patients?  How will telemedicine help soldiers at war, pregnant mothers isolated in remote areas, and patients without local doctors?

 

 

Part III

 

Write a one page reaction paper on what is meant by “making well people better?”