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Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the U.S.

Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the U.S.

Opponents of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the U.S., once raised doubts about his integrity by asking a single ruinous question: Would you buy a used car from this man?

1. Choose an intriguing or controversial person or group
2. Find a picture of this person or group online. Upload your picture to your discussion board posting. Use the blue link which shows a filmstrip on the editing tool bar above to upload your picture.
3. Write a caption for your photo which is modeled after the Nixon caption.
4. Write a 300 word argument which explores the character flaws or strengths of your subject

How will healthcare be transformed by technology in the future

How will healthcare be transformed by technology in the future? 
Creative writing essay – examples related to dental healthcare would be good.

Implementing the change process reflection Journal

Implementing the Change Process Reflection

Again, self-assessment and self-awareness are very important tools/concepts in leadership and in nursing.  Here is another opportunity for you to assess yourself in specific areas, reflect, and plan for growth.  Remember, even if you are in a good place, there is always room to grow and expand your knowledge and abilities.  🙂

For this assessment, you will complete the reading for the lesson.  Specifically, look also at page 304-307 and the IHI lesson mentioned.

Like the previous self-assessment assignments throughout the course, we will use reflective journaling.  Gibbs’ Reflective Model (1988), provides our framework.  Gibbs’ reflective cycle has 6 stages.  Please reflect on each stage below:

1. Description: What are the two types of change (in the text)? Describe in your own words, at least one theory for change (also in the text).   
2. Feelings: Do you like to lead change? Or, help with change in more of a follower stance?
3. Evaluation: What attributes or responsibilities of a change agent do you possess?  Which of the errors mentioned by Kotter (2017) have you contributed to? What is your experience in collective action, what roles have you played?
4. Analysis: Are you able to positively impact change implementation?  If you have been involved in collective action, was it effective?
5. Conclusion: Explain your strengths and weaknesses in relation to change.
6. Action Plan: What strategies could you implement to improve your change agent attributes?  How can you reduce the incidence of errors in the change process (Kotter, 2017)?  How can you apply a change theory in your practice?  (Use the text materials here.)  How can you get more involved in collective action in your workplace or your profession?

How will healthcare be transformed by technology in the future?

How will healthcare be transformed by technology in the future?
Creative writing essay – examples related to dental healthcare would be good.

Calvin Klein Inc Vs. Warnaco Group Inc.

 Instructions:

Case Study Assignment: Calvin Klein Inc. Vs. Warnaco Group, Inc.
Checks your syllabus for due date, and make sure you have purchased this case study in the school bookstore.

Objective of the assignment:

1. Develop practice and skill at deciphering a lengthy reading assignment, and writing a brief, business memo to analyze the situation presented in the reading.

2. Analyze the choices the two companies, Calvin Klein Inc. and The Warnaco Group made in managing their licensed business. 

The Assignment:

1. The assignment is limited to two pages double spaced. This includes your name, course and section number at the top of the paper. Make sure you have an introduction about the case.

2. You are to identify 3 main topics of licensing that this case study deals with. You are to illustrate with specific reference to the case (page numbers), how the actions of the licensor and the licensee either contributed to building the brand, or diminished the brand in the market place, and how those actions impacted the licensed agreement.

3. In your conclusion you should stare which side of the case you agree with, and why.

The in class discussion will focus on the position of the two companies, and a group interaction to defend your position on the case using the topics you identified in the paper. In all instances you must be specific.

An ethical dilemma is a complex situation that frequently involves an apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. Laws and regulations often play a role in the decisions made in these types of cases.
Read the case study, then develop a presentation video to post in the discussion forum.
Case Study:
Devon was employed as a staff nurse at a 300-bed tertiary care facility. The hospital’s staffing plan for weather emergencies consisted of a three (3) tier disaster response team. Nurses were assigned, based on personal preference, to disaster tiers 1, 2, or 3. Tiers 1 and 2 were considered essential personnel and would be expected to report to the hospital, usually 24 hours prior to a disaster, to provide patient care during the hours before, during, and after (usually 12 hours) the disaster’s arrival and departure. During this time, the hospital would initiate a lock-in mode whereby no essential personnel would be allowed to leave the hospital premises. The lock-in phase would end immediately after the weather stabilized; however, essential personnel would not be allowed to leave until Tier 3 relief arrived. It was the responsibility of the personnel assigned to Tier 3 to provide a recovery and relief period for the personnel of Tiers 1 and 2.
Devon and his wife were preparing for tornadoes in the forecast over the next 48 hours. During that time, Devon received a phone call from a colleague (also a friend) working at the hospital, who was a Tier 1 member, requesting that Devon stops by a local store to purchase basic toiletries and drop them off to him. Devon agreed and arrived at the hospital with his friend’s supplies. While at the hospital, the announcement was made that an F5 tornado was detected on radar. As a result, more than 75% of the essential personnel from Tiers 1 and 2 were seeking shelter and had notified the hospital of their inability to fulfill their obligation as disaster response team members.
Devon’s wife has ventricular tachycardia and depends on antidysrhythmic drugs. Therefore, Devon had never agreed to designation as essential personnel (Tiers 1 and 2). In addition, Devon had never failed to report to work as Tier 3 relief personnel. The shortage of nurses prompted the hospital administrators to locate alternative personnel for the critical lock-in period. While at the hospital, Devon is recognized by a nursing administrator who pleaded with Devon to stay and assist during this crucial time. Devon explains why he cannot stay and is assured by the administrator that his wife will have her medical needs attended to as needed without providing detailed plans.
There were more than 2,000 employees, clients, and family members sheltered in the hospital during the tornado. Due to wind-damaged bridges and highways, fallen trees, and downed power lines, the hospital became virtually inaccessible to those from the outside. Therefore, there would be no Tier 3 nursing relief. Devon completed his final 12-hour shift when his wife informed him that she was experiencing chest pain and syncope and her prescriptions had only a one day supply remaining. Devon is informed by the administrator that if his wife’s condition worsens she will be cared for medically (again without providing specific details), but leaving the hospital at that time will constitute job abandonment and would, therefore, be reported to the Missouri State Board of Nursing for possible disciplinary action.
Supplemental Reading:
Review this article that will get you thinking about some of the things/issues/decisions that nurses face during disasters.
ANA Issue Brief: Who will be there? Ethics, the law, and a nurse’s duty to respond in a disaster
Assignment – Video Presentation with PowerPoint and Voiceover:
Each student individually will choose an ethical theory as the framework for a response to this case, while highlighting ethical principles, morals, and values to present a possible solution for the case to your small group. Students may choose to approach this from the standpoint of Devin, the administration, or both. What about legal implications? Develop a PowerPoint presentation.

Implementing the Change Process Reflection
Again, self-assessment and self-awareness are very important tools/concepts in leadership and in nursing. Here is another opportunity for you to assess yourself in specific areas, reflect, and plan for growth. Remember, even if you are in a good place, there is always room to grow and expand your knowledge and abilities. 🙂
For this assessment, you will complete the reading for the lesson. Specifically, look also at page 304-307 and the IHI lesson mentioned.
Like the previous self-assessment assignments throughout the course, we will use reflective journaling. Gibbs’ Reflective Model (1988), provides our framework. Gibbs’ reflective cycle has 6 stages. Please reflect on each stage below:

1. Description: What are the two types of change (in the text)? Describe in your own words, at least one theory for change (also in the text).
2. Feelings: Do you like to lead change? Or, help with change in more of a follower stance?
3. Evaluation: What attributes or responsibilities of a change agent do you possess? Which of the errors mentioned by Kotter (2017) have you contributed to? What is your experience in collective action, what roles have you played?
4. Analysis: Are you able to positively impact change implementation? If you have been involved in collective action, was it effective?
5. Conclusion: Explain your strengths and weaknesses in relation to change.
6. Action Plan: What strategies could you implement to improve your change agent attributes? How can you reduce the incidence of errors in the change process (Kotter, 2017)? How can you apply a change theory in your practice? (Use the text materials here.) How can you get more involved in collective action in your workplace or your profession?
   I have provided guiding questions above to help you get started in each of the categories. Be sure to address these and include additional reflection in each of the six areas.
   This journal is set to private, and not shared with the class.
   Once you are ready to reflect, click on the heading/title of this assignment to take you back to your very own journal page. View the rubric, look in the proficient column. This will tell you exactly what you need to include in your submission so that you earn the full points.
   In this journal, you do not need references. For the sake of this assignment, we will assume that you are well versed in the topics we are covering. Please feel free to use the textbook information as it is your own. If you use another source, please cite and reference properly.

Stress Management for Salespeople

You are going to be the project manager for the construction of a large warehouse for a major international company. Of course, there are many elements involved in constructing such a large facility, but this assignment will consider only one, the laying of the facility’s foundation (which is obviously preceded by site preparation and followed by the actual construction of the building).

In preparation for completing of this element of the project—laying the facility foundation—complete the following:

*Locate a source of data for the hourly wages that will need to be paid to those who will pour and finish the concrete foundation (the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States government is a good source for such information). Be sure to document the source of your hourly wage data for such concrete workers.

*Locate a source of data for the cost of a cubic yard of reinforced concrete. Be sure to document the source of your reinforced concrete cost data.

*Assuming that eight workers will be needed for the completion of the project, that they will work five days per week for 10 hours per day, and that it will take them three full weeks to complete the pouring of the foundation, what is your estimate (based on the hourly wage data that you located) of the labor expense of pouring the foundation?

*Assuming that the foundation will require 400 cubic yards of concrete, what is your estimate (based on the hourly wage data that you located) of the cost of the materials needed for pouring the foundation?

*How would “Overhead charges” (review the Budgeting chapter if you do not remember learning about this term) impact the two estimates that you have calculated?

*How would an increase in the cost of steel (one of the components of reinforced concrete) impact the budget that you had developed?

*If the construction site was impacted by a hurricane during the preparation of the foundation (meaning that work had to be temporarily stopped), how would the overall schedule of the construction project be impacted?

Business law- signature requirements

If Tom, Jones’ agent, signs a promissory note, promising to pay Layla $12,000 in three months in the following manner “Tom, as agent for Jones,” is Jones liable for the $12,000? Explain your response with proper support.

Mary brought her diamond engagement ring to Paul Jewelers to be cleaned. She thought she signed a receipt from Paul but he tricked her and she actually signed a negotiable promissory note for $5,000. Paul negotiated the note to Harry, a holder in due course. When Harry presented the note to Mary, she refused to pay.

Evidence review of CPR as per ARC guidelines

This part of the assessment requires the student to review a video of a skill associated with the course and assess the performance of the skill by comparing the performance to the current best practice evidence, analyse the video for quality of performance and identify the areas of performance that are in keeping with the evidence as well as those that are different to the evidence.
This will be submitted via turnitin by 5pm on the following dates: Cohort A 20/3/2021
Instructions for the Assignment
The review of evidence requires you to review the video of a cardiac arrest scenario from several years ago. The guidelines for management of cardiac arrest have changed in the intervening period. 
The BLS/ ALS video on the canvas website must be used. 
You need to analyse the video and identify practices that are in line and not in line with the ARC guidelines. Where practice is not in line with the guideline you should identify what the participants should be doing differently. You also need to consider best practice evidence for nontechnical skills in emergency situations and using that evidence critique the performance in the video against that evidence again noting what the participants should be doing if demonstrating evidenced based practice.
For all the discussion you need to link to the ARC guidelines specifically and identify the research to provide evidence to support your comments.
You are expected to search for evidence in journals available via the RMIT library.
There are many journals with research into BLS and ALS so try and use these rather than a website (although the ARC website does provide reliable information as well. Examples of journals available via the library include: Resuscitation, Chest, Heart and Lung).
Do not use sites like Wikipaedia or WebMD as a source. – any such sources will not be deemed an appropriate reference
Word limit – 1500 words. You can exceed the word count by 10% without penalty. More than 10% over word count will not be marked.
Ensure you reference your discussion. Please not that references must be from the last 10 years with preference given to sources from the last 5 years. Please review the lecture 1 section on assessment. You must nominate which ARC guideline you are alluding to when critiquing performance and then support this discussion with detail from other research sources.
Once completed submit via turnitin
An example
Evidence Review
It was noted the depth of compression appeared inadequate on multiple occasions. According to ARC guideline 5 (2019) depth of compression of at least 5cm is necessary to generate a cardiac output. Several studies have identified the importance of compression depth during cardiac arrest (Frank, 2015; Smyth, 2015; Simmonds, 2017; Alfonso & Sidonas, 2018). Franks (2019) study of survival from cardiac arrest found a statistically significant relationship between return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and compression depth. Those patients who had compressions of 6 cm had a greater likelihood of ROSC compared to those with a compression depth less than 5cm (p=0.01). …………………………….”
This is just an example.
https://youtu.be/ElLTHbslJZc