The document appears to be a literature evaluation table created by a student to analyze articles related to their capstone project or evidence-based practice topic. It includes sections for 8 articles that address the author, title, year, research questions/hypotheses, study purpose, design, setting/sample, methods, analysis, findings, recommendations, and how each article relates to the student's project. The table criteria are rated as comprehensive with supporting details. The overall presentation is neat and professional. The document also includes the student's PICOT question and provides background on Prince George's County and the impact of COVID-19 in the area.
Participant-centered research design and “equal access” data sharing practice...Jason Bobe
Topics include:
What is "equal access" to data?
How have the roles of human subjects expanded over time?
Where has equal access to data been a success?
What are the barriers to equal access in research?
Participant-centered research design and “equal access” data sharing practice...Jason Bobe
Topics include:
What is "equal access" to data?
How have the roles of human subjects expanded over time?
Where has equal access to data been a success?
What are the barriers to equal access in research?
Plenary presentation at the first EHR Summit of the UP Manila Medical Informatics Unit and the Philippine Medical Informatics Society, 10 Nov 2019. Philippine Heart Center.
MINING HEALTH EXAMINATION RECORDS A GRAPH-BASED APPROACHNexgen Technology
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Social media is a broad term that encompasses many Internet
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Patient Empowerment from an Integrated Care ApproachEloisa Vargiu
In a context of growing incidence of chronic diseases and ageing populations, there is the need to research and find new solutions to shift resources into the community in an effort to deal more effectively with chronic conditions. In that direction, patient empowerment plays an important role. Approaches to increase patient empowerment vary from patient self-management programs, to promoting patient involvement in treatment shared decision-making, to facilitating the clinician-patient cooperation. This talk focuses on self-management as a way to engage and empower patients in order to improve their quality a life and to allow a better follow-up by clinicians. A practical example from the CONNECARE project will show how self-management could be put in practice for supporting complex chronic patients.
Plenary presentation at the first EHR Summit of the UP Manila Medical Informatics Unit and the Philippine Medical Informatics Society, 10 Nov 2019. Philippine Heart Center.
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TO GET THIS PROJECT COMPLETE SOURCE ON SUPPORT WITH EXECUTION PLEASE CALL BELOW CONTACT DETAILS
MOBILE: 9791938249, 0413-2211159, WEB: WWW.NEXGENPROJECT.COM,WWW.FINALYEAR-IEEEPROJECTS.COM, EMAIL:Praveen@nexgenproject.com
NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY provides total software solutions to its customers. Apsys works closely with the customers to identify their business processes for computerization and help them implement state-of-the-art solutions. By identifying and enhancing their processes through information technology solutions. NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY help it customers optimally use their resources.
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based sites through which online-users communicate and disseminate information. Social media networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, are redefining the concept of community as online users can now exchange ideas, messages, videos, and other forms of usercontent within seconds
Patient Empowerment from an Integrated Care ApproachEloisa Vargiu
In a context of growing incidence of chronic diseases and ageing populations, there is the need to research and find new solutions to shift resources into the community in an effort to deal more effectively with chronic conditions. In that direction, patient empowerment plays an important role. Approaches to increase patient empowerment vary from patient self-management programs, to promoting patient involvement in treatment shared decision-making, to facilitating the clinician-patient cooperation. This talk focuses on self-management as a way to engage and empower patients in order to improve their quality a life and to allow a better follow-up by clinicians. A practical example from the CONNECARE project will show how self-management could be put in practice for supporting complex chronic patients.
A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Prevention o...ijtsrd
Objective To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice toward coronavirus disease COVID 19 Background The World Health Organization declared COVID 19 as a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020 and declared as a global health emergency. Since then, many efforts are being carried out to control the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID 19 epidemic in India. The control measures COVID 19 is affected by their knowledge, attitudes, and practices KAP towards COVID 19. Knowledge attitude and practice of people should be directed towards strict preventive practices in order to prevents the spread of the virus. Materials and Methods The aim of the current electronic cross sectional study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among selected rural community. Structured questionnaire was created in the google forms, the link was generated and distributed among the people though email and other media to participate in the survey. A total 153 subject was enrolled through convenient sampling technique. Collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Results Majority of participant 91.50 were having the adequate information regarding the covid 19 and most of participants, 52.28 were got the information from multimedia included television, radio and newspaper regarding COVID 19. About 52.28 participants were the aware about the online training program by the government .Among 153 participants, 115 had adequate knowledge, 23 had moderately adequate and 15 had inadequate knowledge. Most 75.16 of the participants had adequate knowledge, in 15.03 moderately adequate and in 9.80 inadequate knowledge found regarding prevention of COVID 19. The mean knowledge score was 15.54 with standard deviation of 2.93. Most of the 102 66.66 had most favourable attitude, 31 20.26 had favourable and 20 13.07 had unfavourable attitude . The mean attitude score was 34.76 with standard deviation of 2.86.Majority of the participants, 129 had good practice, 20 had average practice and 4 had bad practice . Most 84.31 of the participants had good practice, in 13.07 average practice and in 2.61 bad practice found regarding prevention of COVID 19. The mean practice score was 25.2 with standard deviation of 2.56. Lalan Kumar "A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Prevention of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): An Electronic Cross-Sectional Survey among Selected Rural Community" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-3 , April 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30657.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/30657/a-study-to-assess-the-knowledge-attitude-and-practice-regarding-prevention-of-novel-coronavirus-covid19-an-electronic-crosssectional-survey-among-selected-rural-community/lalan-kumar
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Consider this scenario A cyber-attack occurred in a healthcare orAlleneMcclendon878
Consider this scenario: A cyber-attack occurred in a healthcare organization, resulting in significant data loss. You have been called as an information security management consultant to recommend an incident response plan for this incident and will need to present it to the executive board of the healthcare organization.
Develop a 10- to 12-slide multimedia-rich presentation of your recommended incident response plan to mitigate or reduce impact to the organization, and do the following:
· Define the incident response plan goal and scope for this cyber-attack.
· Analyze the impact and severity of the cyber-attack by applying a business impact analysis (BIA) to the organization, including mission performance, regulatory requirements, and compliance.
· Identify the communication requirements, including criteria for escalation and organization reporting and regulatory requirements.
· Explain the process for responding to this incident.
· Describe the relationship with other organization processes and methods, such as BCP/DR.
· Recommend prioritization, resource requirements, and any opportunity created by the event.
Use appropriate images and charts where applicable.
Include a slide with APA-formatted references.
Infectious disease in a highly connected world: Nurses’ role to prevent, detect, respond
Catherine M. Dentinger, Amy R. Kolwaite
“With Ebola back in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this year’s World Health Assembly sees the threat of pandemic diseases and the fragility of global health security once again at the forefront of the global health leaders’ minds.”
71st World Health Assembly, May 21, 2018 (retrieved from www.devex.com/news/what-to-watch-at-this-year-s-world-health-assembly-92787)
Not long ago, infectious diseases were thought to be well controlled through hygiene measures, vaccines, and antimicrobial medications, but that perspective has shifted. In the past 35 years, we have experienced infectious disease outbreaks in which global spread of severe infections has occurred due to an increasingly interconnected world. Timely detection of and efficient response to these events is key to limiting their magnitude and duration; this requires sustained attention, international engagement and coordination, and reliable resources. Nurses, the largest sector of the global health care workforce, are integral to preventing, detecting, and responding to these infectious disease threats.
Context
“Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.”
Dr. Tom Frieden, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), February 2016
By the 1960s, advances in public sanitation, immunizations, and antimicrobials led to large declines in morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases in some countries and toward what was thought to be their eventual elimination as a human health c ...
This interactive webinar is part of the world tour series designed by the World Health Organization's Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS) Global Network and hosted by Patients for Patient Safety Canada, the patient-led program of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, a WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety and Patient Engagement.
A tremendous need exists to engage hard-to-reach populations in HIV/AIDS care. That’s because numerous factors prevent people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)—especially disadvantaged and disproportionately affected populations—from engaging in care or remaining in care.
This Webcast introduces providers to several successful strategies for reaching the most vulnerable populations:
Howell Strauss, DMD, AIDS Care Group, discusses traditional street outreach, as well as his involvement with both the SPNS Oral Health Initiative and the SPNS Jail Initiative.
Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Department of Infectious Diseases University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, shares best practices in social marketing outreach in the context of her work as a SPNS Young Men who Have Sex with Men of Color Initiative grantee.
Madridge Journal of AIDS (ISSN: 2638-1958); An approach to preventing new HIV infections is the expectation that people living with the virus will disclose their status to their partners, healthcare providers, and family members.
Is there a wiser way to fight HIV? Medwiser thinks so.
Medwiser’s plan is simple, yet ambitious. Help companies and organizations focused on HIV extend reach to their key audiences, while enabling individuals to contribute to worldwide prevention efforts. The non-profit offers unique proprietary technology that combines user-driven projects, online education, social networking, and popular media with business intelligence and digital advertising. Medwiser's web and mobile tools will strengthen existing networks of HIV education, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, turning the fight against HIV into a war.
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Choose an organization according to the following:
· Current employer
· Most recent or former employer
· Place of business that you have patronized or have been familiar with over a long period of time.
· Avoid choosing an organization that is so large that historical data would be difficult to apply. Firms in the Russell 2000® index may fit well, whereas firms in the Dow 30 Industrial index probably do not.
· The organization can be a start-up that you or a significant other may create in the future. For a start-up, focus on an entrepreneurial idea that is of substantive interest, so this project leaves you with a product you may leverage in the future.
Write a 1,000-word (maximum word count) paper in which you address the following:
· Identify the major components of the strategic management process.
· Discuss how these components work together to create value for the organization.
· Evaluate the company's mission statement, vision statement, motivation strategy, innovation strategy, and people strategy. If the organization does not have one or more of these, how does that affect the organization and its people?
· Explain the role of ethics and corporate social responsibility in strategic planning. How does this direct their strategy? How does the organization's vision and mission align with your own values and vision? If you are currently working for the organization, how does your role influence this and vice versa?
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
Using the information below Create a 3-4 -slide PowerPoint presentation. Include speaker notes and citations for each slide, and create a slide at the end for References.
Immunization is important to infants as it prevents them from diseases which would be expensive to treat. The benefit of immunization and prevention of infectious diseases among mothers and infants cost-effective healthcare intervention and contribute significantly in reduction of mortality and morbidity in the country (Walls et al. 2018). Immunization also helps the mother to spend less on possible diseases that could affect their children. Prevention of infectious diseases is important to both the victim and other people who might be close to them, including the caregivers. In the maternal and infant population, immunization and infectious diseases continue to be a topic of debate. Averagely, immunization and prevention of infectious diseases has improved. In the United States the rate of immunization has gone up across all races, income groups and ethnicities. Similarities among the races where this special population are located narrowed down.
More so, prevention of diseases is less costly compared to the case where everyone is infected and needs medication. Despite the decreasing disparity, due to vaccination programs such as vaccination for infants, mother and infants from poor families, non-white have low immunization rates than those who were well off and white. Similarly, there are cost ba ...
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Organizational Evaluation
Arnaldo Perez Frometa
Capella University
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Vulnerable and Diverse Populations
Organizational Evaluation
February, 2019
As discussed in the earlier paper, around 92% of the total India Square population is immigrants from various origins. The majority of the 92% are unemployed and they usually depend on one of the family member or government aids. For this reason, they struggle to survive in most cases ending up being drugs user and alcoholic or and women into prostitution, activities which exposes them to SDIs. It is therefore not a surprise that HIV/AIDS and other STDs are very rampant in India Square. In fact, 29% of all deaths are from HIV/AIDs related communications. This paper will discuss HIV/AIDs as a health concern in the diverse population of India Square. Also, how the organization is responding to HIV/AIDs, gaps in the health care and barriers to closing those gaps.
Currently, the organization serves HIV/AIDs in the area by first; educating people on various ways through which they can avoid being infected. One of the most common prevention interventions relating to HIV/AIDS in being undertaken by the organization is advocating for protected sexual intercourse, particularly using condoms. Since abstinence, being faithful campaigns have proven to be futile, the organization has chosen to advocate for using condom, and boosted it by to avail free condoms to the population as much as it can (Woodward, 2018). Another intervention has been the implementation of antiretroviral therapy that entails counseling regarding the management of AIDS among the infected people. This therapy mostly starts immediately after an individual is tested HIV-positive in which he/she is enrolled to the program. The counseling entails healthy living, nutrition, medication, healthy sexual relations with other infected or uninfected people etc. Furthermore, the organization has initiated a program whereby individuals can access HIV testing tool kit implying that people can purchase the equipment and have their blood tested for the virus on their own free will. In addition, the organization has HIV awareness programs.
In India Square, the main health care gap exists between the minority educated population and the majority semi-educated. While majority of the educated population are whites and some few immigrants, most immigrants have little education. This reason makes a big difference regarding health care services received. The rate of HIV infections in the he educated population is less. Also, mortality rate due to HIV related complications is lower in in people who are educated.
To reduce the gap existing between the educated and the uneducated populations in terms of prevalence and mortality rate, two strategies can be used. The first str.
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On the other hand, you may have had another experience as well. An
employee storms into your office, upset about a policy that, as far as she
is concerned, just isn’t working. You listen. She continues talking; you
continue to listen. In the back of your mind, though, you are thinking, “I
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complained.” She keeps talking and you keep listening. Finally she looks
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Received: 30 June 2018 /Revised: 12 August 2018 /Accepted: 15 August 2018 /
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# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract
Social insect colonies are high-value foraging targets for insectivores, prompting the
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* Kaitlin M. Baudier
[email protected]
1 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
2 Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8450-3788
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iv. Controller
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7. What is the average home price in the area? What is the range of home prices?
Your information can just be bullet points for this.
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Alvin Ailey "Revelations" Analysis
The purpose of this assignment is to view Alvin Ailey's iconic choreography "Revelations" and identify themes expressed in the work that reflect life events/emotions. Dance comes from life, as we have been exploring in class, and this piece illustrates how themes in pre-history continue to be relevant throughout time.
Please watch the entire video that we started viewing in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrPJ4kt3a64&t=1647s
Revelations is a 3 part suite. Each of the three sections contains various scenes. You may use this listing of the musical pieces to guide you in identifying the scenes.
Music
PILGRIM OF SORROW
I Been 'Buked - Music arranged by Hall Johnson*
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - Music arranged by James Miller+
Fix Me, Jesus - Music arranged by Hall Johnson*
TAKE ME TO THE WATER
Processional/Honor, Honor - Music adapted and arranged by Howard A. Roberts
Wade in the Water - Music adapted and arranged by Howard A. Roberts
"Wade in the Water" sequence by Ella Jenkins / "A Man Went Down to the River" is an original composition by Ella Jenkins
I Wanna Be Ready - Music arranged by James Miller+
MOVE, MEMBERS, MOVE
Sinner Man - Music adapted and arranged by Howard A. Roberts
The Day is Past and Gone - Music arranged by Howard A. Roberts and Brother John Sellers
You May Run On - Music arranged by Howard A. Roberts and Brother John Sellers
Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham - Music adapted and arranged by Howard A. Roberts
For this assignment, please identify the themes expressed in each of the three sections, 1)Pilgrim of Sorrow, 2)Take me to the Water, 3)Move, Members, Move
Describe how these themes are developed in the scenes that comprise each section. Include descriptions of costuming, lighting, music, and composition (solo, duet, trio, ensemble, etc) that help create these themes.
Use the listing above as a guide to organize your paper. Create a document in Word, 12pt font, 1"margins, no more than two pages, double spaced. Separate title page, please.
Please view the video and begin your assignment. You can bring any questions regarding this assignment to our next class.
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Example :
AMMS company they have a metro project, the budget is 10,000$ per month maximum
the budget report must send a monthly update
Q1- need a plan to how to spend petty cash, close monthly budget, explain than on excel sheet
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An 'American psychologist'
Robert V. Guthrie, one of the most influential and multifaceted African-American scholars of the century, wants to be remembered only as 'an American psychologist.' In an interview with the Monitor, he recollects the barriers he overcame to claim that title.
By EILEEN M. O'CONNOR
Monitor
Staff
November 2001, Vol 32, No. 10
In 1955, when Robert Guthrie, PhD, enrolled in a master's program at the University of Kentucky, he was a singular dark face against a backdrop of white.
"I remember one of my white professors eyeing me as if I were an anthropological specimen and remarking, 'You are from one of our Negro schools,'" Guthrie recalls.
His fellow white students didn't offer much support, either, he says, though he once attended a football game after a white student begged him. But when the band played "My Ol' Kentucky Home," a song that at the time included favorable portrayals of slavery, Guthrie knew he had to "get my education, then get the hell off campus."
Despite the discomfort and frustration he felt, however, Guthrie always knew he had a right to be there. That sense of confidence is what propelled him to pursue a degree in psychology when few blacks could, to go on to teach at the University of Pittsburgh, to study multicultural issues as a senior research psychologist in Washington, D.C., and to pen the now-classic tome, "Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology."
Last spring, the National Archives of American Psychology honored Guthrie as the first African-American psychologist to deposit his papers there. Asking Guthrie to contribute was a natural choice for the archives because he has worn almost every one of psychology's hats, from research to teaching to government service, says director David Baker, PhD.
"We know almost nothing about the development of psychology at historically black colleges and universities, and only Bob Guthrie's work examines this in detail," Baker explains. "African Americans have much to be proud about their struggle against adversity, like the fact that in my lifetime they were not allowed to attend many grad schools simply because of their race. There are stories of inspiration, courage and strength, and also of anger, frustration and hurt."
First chapters
Guthrie and his twin brother were born in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1932. Weeks later, his father, a school principal, picked up the family and moved to Richmond, Ky., then to Lexington, Ky., towns in great need of teachers for African-American schools.
Growing up in the segregated South left an indelible mark on Guthrie's career outlook. "I did not think I would have an outstanding career," he says. "I was simply growing up in segregated Kentucky, and as at that time black colleges were training teachers to operate primarily in the Southern schools, I figured I might be a public school teacher. I did not know much about psychology. No one did."
He was able to attend Florida A&M University in 1948 by.
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Amazon is one of the world's most popular online retailers. The corporation provides its services on an online platform that enables many users in many parts of the world to have access to these services. Amazone company has undertaken massive investments in technology innovations. Amazone has a large base of customers who access the online service offered by the corporation. A large number of online users require that the company adopts the use of cloud computing and ERP systems in its operations.
Modern business organizations heavily rely on cloud computing technology in their operations. Cloud computing refers to the process of delivering computer services, which are on-demand from storage applications. Cloud computing happens both over the internet and also on a pay as you go basis. Companies in the modern world prefer not to have their computing infrastructure. They opt to rent access to anything from the use of applications to the storage capacity from a cloud service provider. It is costly for companies to own their cloud computing services. The Maintenace of the infrastructure is expensive too. Companies save operational expenses by renting the infrastructure.
Cloud computing enables companies to incur expenses of the only service they use, and they can pay for it only at the instance of use. The companies which engage in the provision of cloud computing services, in turn, make profits from the sale of the services to many users. (Yang et al, 2017). Cloud computing offers a wide range of services today. Through computer networking, companies can get storage space for their information and data. Cloud computing also enables networking and enhances processing power through the use of computer languages and artificial intelligence. Cloud computing also offers ideal office applications. The services do not require the users to be at the computer hardware physically. Individuals today make use of cloud computing technology.
Cloud is a term that could, in other words, mean the internet. The information stored in the cloud is information stored on the internet. There are three main models of cloud computing. The first model is the Infrastructure-as-a-service. This term refers to the units that build up the computer service that is possible to lend, such as the storage service, networking service, virtual, or even physical servers. The second model is Platform-as-a-service. The building blocks that makeup Cloud computing are in layers. The next layer up and the layer underlying is what is referred to as platform-as-a-service.
Amazon uses Enterprise resource technologies. Enterprise resource planning allows Amazon to integrate various business practices. ERP provides ideal solutions to various organizations. It will enable Amazon Corporation to optimize the use of resources with more significant innovation. Regardless of the size of the organization, ERP helps to reduce the waste of time. ERP heavily makes use of modern technology in enhan.
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American Academy of Political and Social Science
Wounded: Life after the Shooting
Author(s): JOOYOUNG LEE
Source: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 642,
Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research (July 2012), pp.
244-257
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Wounded: Life
after the
Shooting
By
JOOYOUNG LEE
Most gunshot victims do not die. In some estimates, 80
percent live to see another day. Yet social scientists
continue to focus on gun homicide. What happens to
individuals who get shot and survive? How do they
experience life after the shooting? This article examines
how gunshot injuries transform the lives of victims. In
practical ways, gunshot injuries complicate sleeping,
eating, working, and other previously taken-for-granted
activities. These disruptions also have much larger exis
tential significance to victims. Indeed, daily experiences
with a wounded body become subjective reminders that
individuals are no longer who they used to be. Ironically,
in some interactions, being wounded becomes attrac
tive and advantageous to victims. Together, these
themes illustrate the need for more sustained ethno
graphic work on the foreground of violent crime vic
timization.
Keywords: gun violence; health; identity; injury; crime
Jooyoung Lee is an assistant professor of sociologi) at
the University of Toronto. He conducted this research
as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health 6
Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He is
currently writing two books. The first is an ethno
graphic study on the careers of aspiring rappers from
Los Angeles. The second is an ethnographic study on
the individual- and community-health effects of gun
shot victimization in Philadelphia.
NOTE: This research was funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation when I was a Health & Society
Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania; the project
received a grant from die Research & Education Fund. I
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American Apparel:
Submit your completed strategy and change management plan. It should include all critical elements of the final project, incorporating all feedback and knowledge gained in the course.
1 Assignment:Economic Environment
In 2018 I worked in a soft drinks company where they adopted the recent technology in the production to increase the production rates and the accuracy of the quality of the products. After the introduction of the technology in the company, a large number of people lost their jobs since the tech replaced the labour and was cheaper than the manual production that involved individuals directly. The technological factors are one of the external factors that are increasingly affecting the business organization. The business changes relate to the presence and the development of technology.
The technology increases the supply of the products. The increase in the supply enables the company to keep up with the demand for the soft drinks. The technology enables the company to increase the productivity and the communication between the suppliers and the consumers. The company can cut down the waste as well as keep up with the demands due to technological advancement. The technology also increased the accuracy in production due to the machinery that was more accurate than the human labour and the company was able to cut down the waste again. The company reduced its expenditure in terms of the losses incurred due to poor production.
It is important to consider the environment while thinking about the strategy change. The supply and demand within the business affect organizational ability. The demand and the supply stimulate each other impacting the prices of the goods and services in the budget. The customer's interest in specific products exhausts the supply available and increases demand. The demand and supply of goods and services have a high influence in determining the prices of goods and services. The prices of the product are likely to fall if the supply keeps on growing and if the supply keeps on decreasing the prices are likely to keep on growing (Becker, 2017). However, with the market economy, the interest consumers, as well as the companies, produce limits product that matches the demand and the supply and it is used in determining the product development and production.
References
Becker, G. S. (2017).
Economic theory
. Routledge.
Introduction to Economics; Market Equilibrium and Market Forces
Macroeconomics: Crash Course Economics #5
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American Government Policy Paper
This project is an opportunity to carefully examine a contemporary foreign policy issue between the United States government and one other foreign government.
Completing this activity is a mandatory component of this course. It serves as the standard course assessment for all GOVT 2305 students and is a college requirement. Failure to submit and complete this project in its entirety will result in a failing grade for the course.
There are four steps to completing this project:
Step 1 – Identifying the Issue
The policy paper will address a US foreign policy concern toward a country or specific topic.
Only
one of the topics listed below may be selected. Pick one and begin your research immediately:
• The future of the NATO alliance
• Deforestation of the Amazon
• Political development in Afghanistan
• The use of sanctions as an effective tool of diplomacy
• Political development in Venezuela
• The threat of nuclear proliferation
• The status of Palestinian refugees
• Nigerian political instability
• Economic development in El Salvador
• Support for Saudi Arabia in light of human rights concerns
• Military aid to Egypt
• Military aid to Ukraine
• Turkey’s membership in NATO
Step 2 - Gathering Sources
Conduct research to locate
three academic journal articles
(aka: peer-reviewed or scholarly sources) that specifically address issues within the foreign policy relationship you selected and meet the following criteria:
•
The articles must be no more than ten (10) years old
.
•
The article must have more than five (5) pages of actual content (without graphs, charts, footnotes, citations, etc.).
•
Books will not count toward the scholarly source minimum requirements.
• Carefully choose sources that provide a variety of perspectives on your selected topic.
• In addition to the minimum research requirements, you should use high quality sources for essential current events information relevant to your topic. These may include academic sources that are not peer-reviewed (position papers), newspaper articles, magazine articles, and other quality or reputable sources.
• The course textbook, encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), and almanacs, are reference materials and are
not to be listed as sources on the collegiate level
.
Step 3 – The Proposal
Submit a one to two page proposal to the appropriate dropbox by the date specified in the course calendar. The proposal must:
• Identify the topic in one or two paragraphs:
Summarize the foreign policy topic you will be addressing
Describe the current status of the policy or topic
Describe why this policy is important to the United States
Cite each of your academic journal articles at least once in the paragraph using correct MLA in-text citations.
• Include the Works Cited or Reference section with the three (at a minimum) peer-reviewed academic journal articles that will .
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Literature evaluation table student name change topic (2
1. Literature Evaluation Table
Student Name:
Change Topic (2-3 sentences):
Criteria
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Author, Journal (Peer-Reviewed), and
Permalink or Working Link to Access Article
Article Title and Year Published
Research Questions (Qualitative)/Hypothesis (Quantitative)
Purposes/Aim of Study
2. Design (Type of Quantitative, or Type of Qualitative)
Setting/Sample
Methods: Intervention/Instruments
Analysis
Key Findings
Recommendations
3. Explanation of How the Article Supports EBP/Capstone Project
Criteria
Article 5
Article 6
Article 7
Article 8
Author, Journal (Peer-Reviewed), and
Permalink or Working Link to Access Article
Article Title and Year Published
Research Questions (Qualitative)/Hypothesis (Quantitative)
4. Purposes/Aim of Study
Design (Type of Quantitative, or Type of Qualitative)
Setting/Sample
Methods: Intervention/Instruments
Analysis
Key Findings
Recommendations
5. Explanation of How the Article Supports EBP/Capstone
Author, journal (peer-reviewed), and permalink or working link
to access article section is comprehensive and thoroughly
developed with supporting details.
Article title and year published section is comprehensive and
thoroughly developed with supporting details.
Research questions (qualitative) or hypothesis (quantitative),
and purposes or aim of study section is comprehensive and
thoroughly developed with supporting details.
Design (type of quantitative, or type of qualitative) section is
comprehensive and thoroughly developed with supporting
details.
Setting or sample section is comprehensive and thoroughly
developed with supporting details.
Methods: Intervention or Instruments section is comprehensive
and thoroughly developed with supporting details.
Key findings section is comprehensive and thoroughly
developed with supporting details.
Recommendations section is comprehensive and thoroughly
developed with supporting details
Explanation of how the article supports EBP or capstone section
is comprehensive and thoroughly developed with supporting
details.
The work is well presented and includes all required elements.
6. The overall appearance is neat and professional.
The Picot Question
Prince Georges' Community Hospital, now known as University
of Maryland Prince Georges Hospital, is located in Maryland,
bordering the Eastern Part of Washington DC. It has a 61% AA
population, 12 % White, and 13% Hispanics. Like many other
facilities within Maryland and the entire country, the Corona
Virus pandemic has been a significant healthcare challenge.
According to, The Baltimore Sun (NOV 29, 2020), "Allegany
County, a rural county of about 70,000 people in Western
Maryland 171.84 cases per 100,000 people Nov. 27, Garrett
County, a rural county of fewer than 30,000 people that borders
Allegany, is second with 113.74 cases per 100,000 people."
However, PG county could have done better to reduce the
spread of the disease. With the emergence of the COVID-19
pandemic, the evidence-based practice of using social
Distancing as a primary preventive measure was not
implemented in time by the health authorities in this county
until recording an increase in mortality rate. Effective
preventive measures such as social Distancing, mask-wearing,
and implementing stay at home policies are necessary to prevent
or reduce transmitting a virus. The authorities also had to reach
out to the community through nurses, providing education and
awareness on Facebook pages and other social media outlets.
PICOT Question
Will the spread of Covid-19 in PG county reduce after the
Implementation of Early preventive measures of social
Distancing, mask-wearing, and Nursing education, compared to
Neighboring counties with more cases where such actions were
not implemented to reduce the spread of the virus over the next
few months?
Evidence-Base
7. Solution
.
Generally, an evidence-based solution to a problem is based on
applying the best clinical practice, guided by the best available
clinical knowledge while prioritizing patients' needs to achieve
an optimal patient outcome. Because the effect of COVID-19 19
is predominantly amongst the African Americans in the PG.
county, educating the public on the importance of social
Distancing will be an effective intervention to reduce the spread
of the virus. (Gupta, R., 2021)," COVID-19 patients in our
predominantly Black neighborhood had higher in-hospital
mortality, likely due to a higher prevalence of comorbidities."
Early escalation on preventive care strategies such as Home
quarantining and Isolation, maintaining social Distancing, and
education on the severity could have been critical in improving
the spread rate amongst African Americans. After fewer cases
during the pandemic onset, Alleghany county, predominantly
white, recorded the highest points after the first wave.
According to Baltimore Sun (2020)," Gov. Larry Hogan said
Tuesday that perhaps some residents in those areas" weren't
being as careful" and "maybe not wearing masks and not
following advice."
8. Nursing Intervention
The nurse's primary responsibility is to help stop the pandemic's
spread while maintaining professionality and standard of
practice. As part of the Primary intervention strategy,
sensitizing the public and creating awareness to target all age-
related groups and classes. This includes posting signs with
health education material, getting involved with Twitter while
following the ethics of, avoiding breaching confidentiality or
privacy with information while posting on social media sites,
and attempting to reach each age group base on their social
media preference. They were addressing mental health issues
related to Isolation and quarantine. Many individuals became
depressed during the lock-down period while exposed to
domestic abuse and various forms of assault. The nurse had to
reach out to these individuals and open them to resources meant
for this purpose. IN PG county the Hotline number for domestic
abuse National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-SAFE
(7233). Provide education on the importance of Handwashing to
break the chain of infection. Nurses should also provide the
proper guidelines on putting on the Mask as most people have
the mask sitting under their nose while breathing through their
nose.
Patient care.
Studies have shown that African American patients with high
morbidity. Gupta R., (2021). "Our predominantly Black cohort
9. has recorded an in-hospital mortality rate from COVID-19,
which is significantly greater than that reported in other
studies." Having a high risk of acquiring these conditions, the
population needs to understand and continue practicing social
Distancing and other measures such as effective mask-wearing
and hand washing.
Healthcare Practices
Despite all the measures to prevent its spread, the pandemic
continues to spread in offices, homes, restaurants, and social
gatherings. People came into wedding celebrations all masked
up but will remove their mask in the same settings, proximity to
others once they start drinking. Traveling nurses came in from
out of state to help with the surge. "Healthcare Agencies,
private and public, have reported a higher number of infections
in the US because strict guidelines have not been considered"
(Barasteh et al., 2020). The state of Maryland had to implement
strict measures to reduce the spread of the pandemic, such as
enforcing mask-wearing, Social Distancing.
Nursing Practice
This tends to describe the patients' condition to the nurse, the
specific outcome of their intervention. During the crisis, nurses'
roles became modified as standard practices had to change due
to the lack of resources. In the Hospital, visiting protocols were
implemented to reduce the vulnerable and sick patients' contact
with the public. Patients were routinely tested for covid to
10. ensure and provide them with optimal care. Nurses continuously
work diligently despite the severity. This is because ethical
principles of autonomy in nursing practices must be observed
throughout their profession (Cherry et al., 2020).
Conclusion
The covid-19 pandemic touched every part of our society, both
local, federal as well as internally. Studies have shown that
social Distancing is one of the most effective methods of
preventing the virus's spread. Prince Georges County was one
of the counties in Maryland, predominantly black, that felt the
pandemic's full impact. I recommend that the leadership start
making drills on training nurses to be more crisis-ready and
more flexible in approaching the best possible outcome.
References
1) Gupta, R., Agrawal, R., Bukhari, Z., Jabbar, A., Wang, D.,
Diks, J., Alshal, M., Emechebe, D. Y., Brunicardi, F. C., Lazar,
