Building Teams and Revolving Conflict

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400 Words/ No plagiarism

Teams have been used in organizations for many years. As the need to streamline operations to gain or maintain competitive advantage increases, the use of cross-functional or cross-departmental teams is increasing. Coupling this with the common management style of management by objectives (MBO), address the following questions:

  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of a cross-functional and a cross-departmental team?
  • When resources are scarce and one group in the equation meets their goals at the expense of the other failing due to lack of resources, how would you address the conflict that could arise?
  • When creating the objectives for the team, how should the target goals be set? Should the team members play an active role in setting the target goals for each group within the team? Explain.
  • What conflict resolution techniques do you believe would be the most effective in a cross-departmental or cross-functional team? How would you alter these techniques for a virtual team?
 
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Patient Advocacy and in the Community and Legislative

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Describe the key concepts underlying community activism and give examples of how each of these concepts applies to a specific context. Examine how advanced practice nurses can engage in community activism to limit further negative health impacts from Big Tobacco in their respective health communities.

Attached below is an additional resource, an article, that details various ways by which nursing professionals can engage in community activism.

Patient Advocacy and in the Community and Legislative Arena: http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-17-2012/No1-Jan-2012/Advocacy-in-Community-and-Legislative-Arena.html?css=print

Follow APA guideline, less than 15 % similarity

 
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Case Study Slideshow presentation

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CASE STUDY

Regional Hospital is a 500-bed hospital and several associated clinics in a major East Coast metropolitan area. It has been an aggressive adopter of computing technologies in efforts to decrease costs and improve operational efficiencies. A critical challenge facing the hospital is meeting its ongoing challenges to staff the hospital and allied clinics effectively, given the ongoing shortage of nurses; uncertainty in health care legislation; emphasis on shortening hospital stays to reduce costs, which causes the daily census (numbers of patients in various departments) to vary dramatically from day to day and shift to shift; the continued aging of the population in its primary care area; and the unending competition for employees with key skill sets. Employee expenses represent more than 80% of the overall costs of operation for the hospital, so identifying ways to match optimal skills and numbers of employees to the appropriate shifts is critical to achieving consistent success. However, individual shift managers struggle to make effective staffing decisions, resulting in consistent overstaffing or understaffing of shifts and departments. These staffing problems potentially increase the high costs of varied levels of patient care and satisfaction and potentially increase the risk that staff turnover may escalate because of dissatisfaction with the continuing inability of managers to match staffing needs to demand.

Company managers recognize the potential that HR metrics and analytics might have for their organization, and they have come to you for help. They are hearing from their peers in other hospitals that metrics can help in this area but are not quite sure where to start. They are looking for you to offer guidance on how to do HR metrics and workforce analytics.

 

Week 3 – Assignment

Regional Hospital Case Study

Case Study

You are an external consultant hired to work with hospital administration and the human resources department. You are required to create a PowerPoint for a presentation to hospital administration. Read the Case Study about Regional Hospital on page 196, then answer the Case Study Questions below.

Case Study Questions

  1. Describe why a program of HR metrics and workforce analytics might be useful in Regional Hospital. If so, why?
  2. Explain opportunities regarding “where” and “how” metrics and analytics might be applied in this organization.
  3. Identify three analyses and associated metrics that might be useful for Regional Hospital to consider.
  4. Explain how Regional Hospital can utilize benchmarking as a part of its metrics and analytics effort, if at all.
  5. Describe advice you would offer to managers at Regional Hospital about develop­ing a program of HR metrics and workforce analytics.
  6. Explain potential problems that may occur in the establishment of an HR metrics and workforce analytics program for Regional Hospital managers about which you would want to alert them prior to beginning this project.

The PowerPoint

  • Must be at least six slides in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.

 

 
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Cascade story map

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Follow the specific instructions below. Please do not write a generic paper. Instead, divide your project into three specific sections that clearly, concisely answer the following questions.

1) Introduction: (5 points)

Introduce your topic, describe the major/relevant issues and identify your research questions.

-What are you researching?

-What are the major/relevant themes/issues mentioned in what you’ve found?

-Why are you choosing to focus on it in this course?

-What are 3 questions you used to guide your research?

Minimum Requirements: > 3 images

2) Annotated Section: 5 sources total (15 points) 

Cite and annotate (make notes about) 5 sources. List the source (author, date, title, journal, publisher, and URL if its a website), at least one source must be peer-reviewed!! Answer the following questions about each source:

-What is the source about, or what is the author’s point?

-How does this specific source contribute to your research? What did you learn from it?

Minimum Requirements: > 7 images total, at least 3 must be maps or spatial graphics and at least one of those must be your infographic or map that you made.

3) Interpretation and Conclusion: (15 Points)

Finally, summarize what all of these sources says about your topic. Try to use examples, analogies, etc. directed at these questions:

-Having completed your research, what have you learned?

-What does what you’ve learned have to do with themes, concepts or issues we’ve covered in class?

–What claims can you make about your topic and the Geographies of the Western World more generally? What are the limitations of your study? 

Minimum Requirements: At least 1 graphic with a complete, well-written interpretation/conclusion.

4) Details

-Make sure to address the questions for every section.

-Points will be deducted for assignments that are late (see Recitation Policy document on canvas) or with links that do not work.

-You must both produce the academic content and achieve the minimum design specifications to achieve credit for each section: > 11 images (at least 3 maps).

-Everything you submit must be in your own words. Plagiarism and quoting or using images without attribution will result in a zero for the section, and might lead to communication with the OSU Office of Student Conduct.

-Sloppy grammar, spelling, design and formatting detract from your total score.

-Please feel free to ask questions if you don’t understand the assignment.

 
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week 3 _ assignment

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Create a chart with rows and columns to establish the following requirements of discrimination under the law in the following areas at the top:

  • Title VII Gender Discrimination in Employment Practices
  • Sexual Harassment Based on Hostile Work Environment
  • Quid-Pro-Quo Sexual Harassment
  • Sexual Orientation in the Workplace

Along the left side of the chart, create the following rows:

  • Requirements to Prove Under the Law
  • Ways Employers can Minimize Liability
  • Recent Case Example

Complete the chart for each section.

Explain in 350 to 525 words the requirements of each type of potential gender discrimination.

Explain in 350 to 525 words the specific ways employers can minimize liability for each type of gender discrimination.

Research and include a relevant case to illustrate each type of gender discrimination.

Format your citations and references consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

 
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Generic Psychological Knowledge Packet

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  • Title page
    • See requirements, including your personal quote, below.
  • Two letters
    • One letter to the Dean of the College of Health Human Services and Science
    • One letter to the President of Ashford University
    • The letters should indicate your close completion of your degree and how you believe the degree has supported your goals. (One letter draft was created in Week 2. A second letter must also be created.
  • Personal resume
  • Three writing examples
    • They must exemplify knowledge associated with the developed psychological knowledge.
    • Feedback from Week 2 should be applied.
  • Essay
    • The content of this essay should reflect your knowledge gained and how you will apply it in your future.
    • Created Week 3. Feedback and revisions should be applied.
  • A letter
    • Addressed to a person of your choosing that shares your soon completion of your degree.
    • The letter should summarize your experiences and knowledge gained.
      • In addition, discuss your suggestions to your recipient for successfully completing school. (Originally submitted in Week 4)
    • Journal goal analysis
      • Developed in the Week 2 Journal.
    • References list
      • Must include all items cited throughout your packet.
      • Formatted in APA Style.
 
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Discussion week 4

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Respond to the following in a minimum of 275 words:

· What is harm reduction? How is it different from abstinence? Do you think that it is an effective strategy? Why or why not?

·Can personality disorders be treated? Explain your answer.

 
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Answer the questions of the case study below

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Let the Chips Fall Where They May

Introduction

A Buffalo Computing Co.(ABC2) located in Fargo, ND, has designed a chip for a new scientific calculator that features high-precision floating-point accuracy to 17 significant digits for all 250 mathematical functions provided with the unit. After one-and-a-half years in development, and after shipping over 500 (or 5,000) beta units to key customers, the company discovers that there is a problem with certain calculations, as described below.

In order to expedite floating-point(ft.-pt.) operations (used in handling scientific notation in mathematical operations) in a computer or calculator, often certain tables of values are used to assist in the speed of execution of these ft.-pt. operations. (For example, a calculator requiring as long as 3 minutes to perform a tangent calculation would have no market appeal.) These tables can contain up to 100 integer entries. During beta testing, ABC2 discovers that several of these values were incorrectly entered before burning them into the firmware. Further testing concludes that because of the location and use of these table errors, the only mathematical results affected will occur in the 13th to the 17th significant digits for the double-precision fl.-pt. operations.

Numerical and Design Problems

  1. As the senior engineer on this project for ABC2, you are asked to propose a resolution for this situation. How serious is the problem? What should be done?
  2. Call together a committee of your peers and have the group propose as many different alternative solutions as you can think of within 10-15 minutes. (Do not assign any value or determine the implications of this proposed solution for now–instead, use the blue-sky or “popcorn” approach.)
  3. Now, try to project each option’s impact on the company.
  4. Assign a weighted value (0-100 with 100 as best) to each of the suggestions and resulting actions proposed above, based on your personal assessment or your peer group’s assessment of the quality of the action.
  5. Determine the best possible course of action and explain the reasons for your choice, based on the weightings given above or other criteria you create and document.
  6. Write this up in a detailed memo with explanations (2-3 pages), or imagine yourself the senior engineer on the project and write a detailed dialogue with the senior manager(s) deciding what action(s) to take.

Questions on Ethics and Professionalism

  1. Are your answers to the above questions the same regardless of whom you represent? In other words, does one’s response change depending on one’s stake in the solution? (e.g. company managers, stockholders, engineers in the firm, engineers hoping to use the chip, purchasers of the product, etc.)
  2. Suppose the chip has been installed, 100,000 units have been sold, and an additional 50,000 are on dealers’ shelves. Create a new list of possible actions and reactions.
  3. Do you see any relationship to the Challenger decision(s)?
 
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Phd Interview- each question 125 words

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  1. Tell us about yourself and your personal journey that has lead you to University of the Cumberlands.
  2. What are your research interests in the area of information technology? How did you become interested in this area of research?
  3. What is your current job/career and how will this program impact your career growth?
  4. What unique qualities do you think you have that will help you in being successful in this program?
  5. How can obtaining a doctorate impact your contribution to the practices of information technology? Where do you see yourself after obtaining a doctorate from UC?
 
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NSG 5000 Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse, Week 5 Final Paper

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Instructions

Overview/Description of Final Paper: The final written assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: APRNs, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator/executive. You will review all roles and then examine the specialty for which you were admitted, focusing on the scope of practice, core competencies, certification requirements, and legal aspects of practice for that specific role. You will also identify the practice environment and population you will be working with, as well as peers and colleagues. In addition, you will discuss your future leadership role and participation in professional organizations.

Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. The paper should be 8-10 pages excluding the title and reference pages, and APA format is required.

Criteria:  

  • Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing:
    • Briefly define advance nursing practice and the roles in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and health information. Distinguish between ANP and the APN.
    • Describe the advance nursing practice role you aspire and briefly share the experiences and/or qualities you have that have influenced your decision. Include your personal philosophy.
  • Selected Advanced Practice Role:
    • Identify the AP you interviewed and summarize the interview, which should/may include (if not in the interview, please address):
    • Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice/work.
    • Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role.
    • Identify required competencies (domains), including certification requirements for your selected role.
    • Describe the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work.
  • Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role:
    • Determine your leadership style
    • Define Transformational Leadership and as it relates to your identified leadership attributes that you possess or need to develop
    • Apply the leadership style you will embrace in AP to one of the domains
  • Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role

Based on your program of study, review the literature and address the following:

  • FNP/AGNP:Medicare reimbursement for NPs is 85%for the same health care that MDs receive at 100% reimbursement? Please address questions below and state your position on this mandate.
  • FNP/AGNP:What states have NP Full Practice Authority and which states have limitations or restrictions? How does this apply to your state? Please address questions below and state your position on this regulation.
  • Nurse Executive: What is value based care and how will it impact decisions made at the executive level relative to nursing and AP nursing? Please address and state your position on the regulation.
  • Nurse Informaticists:What law(s) was enacted to regulate health information? Please address questions below and state your position on this regulation. 
  • Nurse Educator:What agency regulates nursing education?  Explain in detail.

For the above category chosen, address the following:

  • Describe the current policy or trends and determine if it needs to change; if opposed to change state why
  • Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest; support opposition
  • Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy or keep the policy the same and the impact in healthcare quality.
  • Conclusion-Summarize your role paper by highlighting key points made in your paper.
 
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