Professional Development exercises

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Please complete ALL THREE of the Professional Development exercises.

  • Develop a workflow analysis of the patient flow in the Emergency Department. This will include the time the patient enters the ED to the time they interact with the following:
    • Receptionist
    • Triage Nurse
    • Assigned Nurse
    • Physician
    • Lab and/or Imaging
    • Admit to floor or discharge to home
  • Make sure to include SmartArt to delineate the different areas within the workflow and include a key.
  • Read the Following and Answer Questions

“In my experience consulting, I have seen several examples of organizations that incorporate the printing of paper reports, which replicate information that has been entered and is available with the electronic patient record. These reports are often reviewed, signed, and acted on instead of the electronic information. Despite the knowledge that the information contained in these reports was outdated the moment the report was printed and the very nature of using the report for workflow is an inefficient practice, this method of clinical workflow is prevalent in many hospitals across the United States. There is an underlying fear that drives the decision to mold a paper-based workflow around clinical technology. There is also a lack of the appropriate amount of integration that would otherwise allow this information to be available in an electronic form.”

  • How does workflow analysis help practicing nurses?
  • Can we mold paper-based workflows into clinical information systems? Explain your answer.
  • Imagine that you are the INS charged with implementing the use of electronic records. What strategies could you use to promote a seamless transition?

Please submit one APA formatted analysis consisting of 1500 words, not including the title and reference page. The assignment should have a minimum of two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook.

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2018). Nursing science and the foundation of knowledge. In Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th  ed. (pp. 1-19). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

 
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Memo

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Please answer two of the following questions, one from Group A and one from Group B. Limit your answer to 600 words maximum PER QUESTION (no minimum limit, but I will deduct points if I don’t believe your answer is complete or is too shallow.) The thought is that you are writing a one page memo about 500 words is about one page small type (10 pt), single spaced

The two sources you cite (and you must cite your sources) do not count toward your word limit; nor does the memo header. Spelling and grammar does count (up to 20% of the grade) —you are writing this memo to your boss. Let’s presume he was an English major (and has taken IS324).

File Management Instructions: READ THESE BULLETS CAREFULLY

 You must turn in this exam as TWO MS-Word readable files on D2L (pdf okay, rtf NOT).

  • Note that you are submitting each memo as a separate document in D2L
  • Make sure to use correct memo format (with To:, From:, Date:, and Subject: fields – these do not count against the word limit). Be sure to reference your work (you MUST provide references, failure to do so will result in my grading STARTING at 80% and going down from there). References do not count in the word
  • Be sure that you follow the course standard memo structure (statement of issue, recommendation, background/justification, references), even if the memo request doesn’t specifically ask for Do NOT use url shortener (I want the full url for all citations)
  • You must indicate the question you are answering clearly in the subject line of your memo. [You’d be surprised; sometimes it is hard to tell which question people are answering if they don’t ]

 

Page two is context for your answers. It describes a fictional company where you have just been hired. Questions begin on page four. Answer two questions, one from Group A and one from Group B. Watch for restrictions based on the other question you answer.

In every case, the answer is in the form of a memo to the character in the story. Make it so.

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire is a growing brick and mortar retailer with just over 150 US stores specializing in upscale furniture and fixtures. OE sells directly to the end user as well as to interior designers; it also has a line of custom built furniture. Ottoman Empire currently does not have (or immediately plan for) a significant online sales presence, although it uses the web for customer support and marketing.

OE’s corporate offices are in downtown Chicago, IL. It has seven regional offices and distribution centers in: Manlius, NY, Columbia, SC, Copperas Cove, TX, Lincoln, NE, Medford, OR, Santa Barbara, CA, and Chicago, IL. The company grossed $395 million in sales last year and netted a $35 million dollar profit. It is growing at a rate of about twelve percent a year and opening about 10 new stores each year.

Borden Drousy, the CIO, works from the corporate office. Each regional IT staff is run by a Technical Director. So there are seven IT centers with the Chicago operation doing corporate support as well as regional operations. The IT centers are connected by rented T3 lines back to Chicago. Each of the 150 stores has a T1 line into its regional center. Chicago is running an open source ERP system called ERPNext. Right now ERPNext is housed primarily in Chicago (on-premise) and distributed out to the data centers and retail stores via the leased lines.

In addition, OE manages its email using an MS-Exchange product hosted in Chicago, and has rolled out MS-Office w/MS-SharePoint as its officing solution. MS-Exchange and the OE website are hosted on three load-balanced in-house servers in the corporate data center.

ERPNext runs on an 8 core application server with mirrored onsite backup. There are fifteen IT staff people in the corporate office (development, ERPNext maintenance, computer operations, and staff tech support) and an average of five in each regional office (the number due largely to travel demands among regional staff to visit retail stores for repair, maintenance, and upgrade of hardware, and software.)

You have just finished your MS at DePaul University and have been hired onto the corporate staff as an IT Analyst reporting to the CIO. Your responsibilities are to analyze, evaluate, and execute plans for modernizing the IT infrastructure in a way that will support growth of the company toward doubling its current size over the next ten years.

What follows are a series of memos from the CIO (and others) to you. CIO Drousy and his friends like to receive back single page memos (about 500 words) that clearly and concisely lay out issues for them. They don’t like being told basics they already know; and they don’t like to read a lot of extra fluff. But they do want meaty information. Borden permits his staff to provide background sources and citations outside of the 500 words so he knows where to turn if he wants to dig deeper. Oh, and one of his mottos is: “I can read Wikipedia myself! Tell me something I don’t know.” The word count is measured by Word (which includes everything so I will give you UP TO 600 words, after which, I stop reading!). Word count trumps page count.

When he issues a research memo, he expects a clean, clear, and complete response within the week.

There is a pool of ten memos in his hopper right now. Pick two of them (one from Group A, one from Group B) and develop some answers for Borden and his friends.

Question A1.

From: Donatello Nobatti, Technical Director To: You

Re: On the sly

Lotta B. Essen, our MicroSoft sales rep has been pushing unified communications solutions and telling me that BYOD is the next big wave. I’m not convinced but don’t have enough information. What are the considerations (pro and con) for moving forward with a BYOD plan (what are the best practices in developing a policy or do we just do chaos)? What are other firms doing to get this beast under control? Can you give me a memo on this?

Question A2.

From: Ima Hacker, Chief Security Officer To: You

Re: Lost in the clouds?

I am up in arms that we might be considering changing our enterprise architecture by moving our systems from our site to a commercial cloud vendor. Now that I’ve brought it up, Borden wants background (he knows what cloud computing is).

Can you draft me a memo that lays out the security trade-offs among our current site architecture and the principle cloud options we might consider?

 

Question A3.

From: Candace B. Rittenoff, Chief Financial Officer To: You

Re: Money for nothing?

I am wondering why we are paying six figures to Microsoft each year when there are open source alternatives to Exchange Server and MS-Office.

What are the trade-offs between open source and commercial officing software? Is open source actually free? If not, how do we cost it against commercial software? What factors other than price should we be considering? Memo, please.

Question A4.

From: Ed Amame, Chief Accountant To: You

Re: Can you hear me now?

Even though we are running T1 and T3 lines among all of our offices and stores, our corporate voice phone bill from AT&T is in low six figures a month. Is AT&T providing us with something we can’t do ourselves? Are there lower cost IP Telephony (VOIP) options for us to consider? Are there considerations we need to factor in other than price? Can you get me a one pager on this? (NOTE: I don’t want to change the WAN configuration, just the voice phone bill.)

 

 

Question A5.

 

From: Otto DeLupe, Chief Marketing Officer To: You

Re: Face time or Facebook?

I think we should be doing more with Social Media. We have a website and Facebook page, what else should we be doing to connect with our customers? What I really need to know is what you recommend for developing a social media strategy? Are there any downsides to getting more involved? Can you give me a page on this?

PART B

Question B1. (you may not choose this if you did A2) From: Orson Buggy, PC Support Manager

To: You

Re: On to something, or just a lot of SaaS?

I think we should be moving everything to the cloud. I have been pitching Borden Drousy lately on PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS. Given the cyclical nature of our business, should we be moving our ERP or MS-Officing systems to one of these? What criteria will determine which of these architectures, if any, is a better fit for us?

I’d like a memo, but mind you I am not looking for a solution recommendation here—rather a sense of the recommended method and criteria for figuring this out.

 

 

Question B2 (you may not choose this if you did A5)

 

From: Bjorn A. Payne Diaz, Marketing Director To: You

Re: It’s life, but not as we know it

 

I want to launch a major social media campaign using Facebook, Twitter, and several other web properties.

What IT infrastructure will we need to support it (consider increased web traffic, phone calls and anything else you can come up with)? What in-house technology implications (and related overhead costs) might this campaign have? How do we go about evaluating IT costs for this as part of establishing a business case for my campaign proposal? Can you get me a memo on this?

Question B3. (you may not choose this if you did A3)

From: Noah Vale, Exchange Server Manager To: You

Re: You’ve got mail! (and maybe a little virus too)

Independent of Candace’s questions (see A3), I have been complaining to Borden about spam and viruses, and other DoS2 attacks into our systems. I am spending way too much of my time troubleshooting problems that don’t deal directly with advancing our business operations. I’ve got him thinking: perhaps we do need to move our email environments to a Web2.0 SaaS solution from our current Exchange Server solution.

I want to make the case but need to know: what questions do we need to ask? How do we go about making the evaluation between hosting an Exchange server ourselves and offloading email to a hosted solution? Is there a third option we should consider along with this?

Question B4.

From: Nick F. Thyme To: You

Re: It’s just like being there, only better

I am developing a business case for using collaboration technologies to hold virtual meetings rather than have our corporate staff fly all over the country to regional offices. I believe virtual meetings can save us into six figures in travel costs each year.

Help me prove I’m right and that it is this simple (virtual collaboration is this simple, isn’t it?). What kind of technology infrastructure (hardware and software) do we need in place to run effective virtual meetings? How will we know what to buy? How will we know how to implement this? Are there other, non-technology issues to consider? Will these meetings be just as good as sending our executives on a plane (Leading a virtual meeting is just like leading a face-to-face meeting, right)?

What does Borden need to know in order to evaluate my proposal?

 

2 DoS = denial of service

 

 

 

Question B5. (you may not choose this if you did A1)

 

From: Borden Drousy To: You

Re: The naked truth

 

I had to work from home last week and found I was very productive (even though I could only get to the webmail application – what is this VPN thing I hear about?). I am thinking about permitting several of our IT staff people (keep this between us for the time being) to telecommute on a periodic basis. I am separately researching policy and HR implications of telecommuting. What I’d like you to find out for me (and report via memo) is: what are our IT infrastructure implications for VPN? (mind you I don’t want a complete redesign of our WAN just the parts to support telecommuting to HQ).

Do we save infrastructure money if some of our staff periodically telecommute? Or, will this cost us money? What if we have them telecommute all the time? Do we require any new or different infrastructure than we currently have in place? Are there security issues? How do we cost out infrastructure implications for a telecommuting project?

Can you get me a memo on this?

 
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Critical Reflections Paper

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Upon completion of watching the 5 videos on Essential Skills above, write a two-page critical reflection where you review and comment on the value to the skills.

If you can’t find the video google in YouTube with similar titles.

Essentials skills III: use of theory and planning

https://youtu.be/PwnfWMNbg48

https://youtu.be/2Om3oRZM1X0

https://youtu.be/EYHthbg1nmY

https://youtu.be/ziPuilrd4Xs

 
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Implications of external influences

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300 words on Identify and evaluate external influences that are positively and negatively affecting workforce needs in health care delivery. Also, consider PESTLE factors.

PESTEL is an acronym that stand for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal factors. However, throughout the years people have expanded the framework with factors such as Demographics, Intercultural, Ethical and Ecological resulting in variants such as STEEPLED, DESTEP and SLEPIT.

one reference.

 
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1. If an alternator is being driven by a gasoline engine, how is the speed of the alternator’s rotor controlled? A. By electronic controls C. By an exciter B. By a governor D. By an amortisseur coil 2. What is the maximum temperature rating of Class F insulation? A. 105° C C. 155° C B. 130° C D. 180° C 3. How are series-connected alternators set up so that they run in synchronization? A. They’re mechanically coupled. C. They run from a single exciter. B. They’re cross-phase connected. D. They use reaction-type rotor fields. Examination 43 EXAMINATION NUMBER: 08601200 Whichever method you use in submitting your exam answers to the school, you must use the number above. For the quickest test results, go to http://www.takeexamsonline.com 4. Which one of the following views shows the point where the coil cuts the minimum amount of flux? 5. A standard alternator would have ratings of A. 500 kW and 500 V. C. 2250 kW and 3000 V. B. 750 kW and 575 V. D. 10,000 kW and 13,800 V. 6. What is the maximum cooling air temperature allowed for in the design of an alternator? A. 20° C C. 60° C B. 40° C D. 80° C 7. A two-pole turbogenerator is designed for 60 Hz operation. What is the highest speed that would be used to turn this steam-turbine alternator? A. 600 rpm C. 2400 rpm B. 1200 rpm D. 3600 rpm 8. The damper windings of an alternator are normally carried on the A. armature. C. rotor. B. prime mover. D. stator. 9. You want to make sure that two alternators are operating properly in parallel. Which of the following readings should be the same for each of the two machines? A. Wattmeter readings C. Current readings B. Power-factor readings D. True power readings 10. How can the voltage at the terminals of an alternator be doubled? A. By cutting the strength of the magnetic field in half B. By doubling the turns of wire in the coils C. By cutting the speed of the machine in half D. By doubling the size of the coil wires 44 Examination 11. For the alternator part shown below, the electromagnets get a direct current from A. a ballast ring. C. an impulse turbine. B. a yoke. D. an exciter. 12. A 36-pole alternator will generate how many cycles of AC voltage during one revolution of the alternator? A. 6 C. 18 B. 9 D. 36 13. A single alternator isn’t operating properly. Your first step in shutting down this single alternator is to A. shut down the prime mover. C. open all of the feeder switches. B. reduce the output voltage of the alternator. D. open the field switch of the alternator. 14. What is the typical rating of exciter voltage? A. 25 V C. 125 V B. 50 V D. 400 V 15. What type of rotors will an engine alternator usually have? A. Salient-pole rotors with horizontal shafts C. Cylindrical rotors with horizontal shafts B. Salient-pole rotors with vertical shafts D. Cylindrical rotors with vertical shafts 16. Which one of the following voltages is not a typical alternator voltage? A. 125 VAC C. 4300 VAC B. 460 VAC D. 13,800 VAC 17. What is an infinite system? A. An infinite system is one that isn’t connected to a load. B. An infinite system is one that relies on all alternators to produce the proper voltage and current. C. An infinite system is one that transmits power over a large network. D. An infinite system is one that doesn’t rely on the operation of a single alternator. Examination 45 18. A static exciter unit will use what type of device to provide DC current to the field windings? A. Semiconductor rectifier C. Static straps B. A motor-generator set D. A direct-coupled generator 19. In a two-pole alternator, one cycle of AC power will equal how many electrical degrees? A. 90° C. 270° B. 180° D. 360° 20. In a three-phase or polyphase alternator, how are the coils spaced? A. 90° apart C. 150° apart B. 120° apart D. 180° apart

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Question: To help identify risks, what are some questions a project manager could ask when reviewing the project charter and WBS?

Instructions: This question involves the student posting a substantive response of at least 250 words and reference the textbook(s) and at least one (1) scholarly journal article. The journal article should provide substantive support to your answer.

 
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Rational decisions

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Decision making is the process of identifying and choosing alternative courses of action. While we want to make rational decisions, sometimes we don’t . . . sometimes we make non-rational decisions.

There are four steps in rational decision-making:

Recognize and define the problem or opportunity-In business the problem can come in the form of customer complaints, supplier breakdowns, staff turnover, sales decline, etc. Organizations proactively seek opportunities to exceed goals, surpass the industry expectations and to expand and grow the business.

Identify and analyze alternative courses of action-Leaders should seek input from multiple sources to interpret and analyze the problem/opportunity to come up with as many options as possible to solve the issue.

Choose a preferred course of action-The group want to answer the following: (1) Is the action ethical?; (2) Is it feasible? (costs, technology availability; (3) Is it effective? If your answer to this question is the resolution is “good enough” you want to rethink this solution it will cause more harm than good.

Implement the preferred course of action-You need to the participation from all teams to successfully implement the action.

On the other hand, non-rational decisions are generally the result of either Satisficing (going with the first available option without much research) or Intuition (using your “gut” or just your own feelings to make decisions).

 

think about a time when you made a non-rational decision on the job or in your personal life.

  • Was it the result of satisficing or intuition?
  • How would your decision have been different using the four steps for rational decision-making?
  • How would the steps have helped you to make a better, or more sound, decision?
 
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Proposed evidence-based change-project plan

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Develop a proposed evidence-based change-project plan specific to the environment you are using to implement your change project. Your environmental assessment will include a work breakdown structure, a budget plan, and a measurement tool.

This week, you will design a plan that is at least four pages in length and includes all the information listed in the instructions below to discuss the elements of your proposed plan.

  • Develop an environmental assessment of your change project area and its readiness for the specific change project you are going to implement.
    • Include a work breakdown structure. For example, you could create a (timeline/task list/Gantt chart)—a hierarchical definition of the planned tasks and activities of a project that normally begins with the highest-level activities and works downward into the individual tasks.
    • Include a proposed project budget (table or spreadsheet) for the project that addresses the needed personnel, equipment, and supplies that may have associated costs. Click this link for a sample budget template  .
    • Include your measurable evaluation methods (indicators/metrics). Include the actual measurement tool you will use and describe any of the following that are applicable to your project: cost savings, improved efficiencies, access to care (visits/procedures/admissions), patient/family satisfaction, associate satisfaction, associate engagement, retention, clinical outcomes, injury prevention, and risk reduction.
 
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Reliability and Validity Worksheet

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Instrument Reliability

 

A reliable instrument is one that is consistent in what it measures. If, for example, an individual scores highly on the first administration of a test and if the test is reliable, he or she should score highly on a second administration.

 

Imagine that you are conducting a study for which you must develop a test in mathematics for 7th-grade students. You develop a 30-point test and distribute it to a class of 12, 7th-grade students. You then administer the test again one month later to the day. The scores of the students on the two administrations of the test are listed below. Use Microsoft® Excel® or IBM® SPSS® to create a scatterplot with the provided scores, formatted as shown in the example graph. What observations can you make about the reliability of this test? Explain.

 

30-POINT TEST                                    30-POINT TEST

(FIRST ADMINISTRATION)                   (SECOND ADMINISTRATION)

A                         17                                                       15_______________

B                         22                                                       18_______________

C                         25                                                       21_______________

D                         12                                                       15_______________

E                           7                                                       14_______________

F                         28                                                       27_______________

G                         27                                                       24_______________

H                           8                                                         5_______________

I                          21                                                       25_______________

J                         24                                                       21_______________

K                         27                                                       27_______________

L                         21                                                       19_______________

 

 

 

What Kind of Validity Evidence: Content-Related, Criterion-Related or Construct-Related?

 

A valid instrument is one that measures what it says it measures. Validity depends on the amount and type of evidence there is to support one’s interpretations concerning data that has been collected. This week, you discussed three kinds of evidence that can be collected regarding validity: content-related, criterion-related, and construct-related evidence.

 

Each question below represents one of these three evidence types. In the space provided, write content if the question refers to content-related evidence, criterion if the question related to criterion-related evidence, and construct if the question refers to construct-related evidence of validity.

 

  1. How strong is the relationship between the students’ scores obtained using this instrument and their teacher’s rating of their ability?

 

  1. How adequately do the questions in the instrument represent that which is being measured?

 

  1. Do the items that the instrument contains logically reflect that which is being measured?

 

  1. Are there a variety of different types of evidence (test scores, teacher ratings, correlations, etc.) that all measure this variable?

 

  1. How well do the scores obtained using this instrument predict future performance?

 

  1. Is the format of the instrument appropriate?

 

 

RESPOND TO YOUR TWO FELLOW CLASSMATES BELOW IN A 175 WORD COUNT EACH WITH SEPARATE REFERENCES BELOW:

 

 

 

Rick Lucero

There are four ways of measuring reliability. These are the inter-rater reliability, test-retest reliability, parallel forms reliability, and internal consistency reliability (Sauro, 2015). These are some of the most used methods used when it comes to establishing reliability. The four methods are different and similar at the same time which is a very useful thing to be. The inter-rater reliability is used in situations such as doing interviews and the raters would give consistent estimates of the same thing (Sauro, 2015). Test-retest is when the same questionnaire or test is given to the same person twice on two different occasions to see if the results line up the same (Sauro, 2015). Parallel forms are when you use similar questions or methods and see what results you get, because these should give the same kind of results since they are basically the same but a little bit different (Sauro, 2015). Internal consistency is when the items or questions that are asked measure the same construct and this leads to similar results (Sauro, 2015).  They are all similar because they help us to find reliability. They are different because there are certain times and places that one may work and others do not. I personal like how the test-retest reliability works because it is a chance to see if some thing is going on and then you can retest it and see if this is right or not.

 

Sauro, J. (2015). How to measure the reliability of your methods and metrics. Retrieved from https://measuringu.com/measure-reliability/

 Nalley  Akinrefon

According to our reading, reliability refers to consistency with the tool of measurement (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018) . There are three methods for establishing reliability. The first is test-retest, second, alternate or parallel forms of a test, and third is internal or inter-item consistency. The test-retest refers to taking a test for the first time and noting the score, then giving the same test to the same person at a later date (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018). If a person does well on the test the first time he or she should do well the second time around. The test-retest method would be good for personality testing because our personality type does not change even though people change as they age. Alternate or parallel forms of test would give test takers equal scores from the first version to the alternate test. A parallel test is simply a different versions of a test that have been constructed so as to be parallel to the original test (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018). A test can be reliable in one area and unreliable in another. Some methods of establishing reliability are, understanding the variance in test score, using standard deviation, true variance and error variance. The greater the proportion of the total variance attributed to true variance, the more reliable the test.

 

I would prefer the test-retest method because if a test is reliable and giving under the same circumstance one should receive the same or equal results. This method is simple, which I like.

 

Cohen, R. J., & Swerdlik, M.,E., (2018), Psychological Testing and Assessment, an Introduction to Testing and Measurement, McGraw-Hill Education

 
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-https://youtu.be/IUL-g5LogtM (part 1)

-https://youtu.be/4fQyWO-siYQ (part 2)

Write a 500‐600 word paper (roughly one single‐spaced page or two double‐spaced pages) that addresses your research question and discusses the event and how it informs the theme of this course. The response must include a summary of/reference to one credible source on the topic. Cite your source correctly using the format of your choosing (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.). Be sure to include the date, time, location, and other relevant information in your paper.

 
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