Week 6
Discussion Question 1: Professional Liability (Graded)How does the existing U.S. legal system, as well as the need for professional liability insurance coverage, impact patient care, physician behavior, and healthcare costs?
Discussion Question 2: Risk Management (Graded)You’ve been appointed as chair of your hospital’s risk management committee. Describe the most pressing issues that should be considered by your committee related to risk management, corporate liability, ethical com..
Week 7
Discussion Question 1: Healthcare Reform (Graded)
Based upon your learning in this course and your own personal and/or professional experiences, what are the essential reforms that must occur in the U.S. healthcare system in order to improve access, cost, and quality of care for all Americans? What does this legislation look like?
Discussion Question 2: Healthcare War Rooms (Graded)
What is a healthcare war room? As CEO of your own healthcare facility, how would you go about..
Week 8
Discussion Question 1: Looking Ahead (Graded)
Class, looking back over the Course Objectives, what are you
looking forward to learn as you move forward with your education and career?..
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USA Immigration (Version 2)For this discussion, you will use VoiceThread technology. Under the Introduction and Resources area there is a link to VoiceThread that includes videos on how to use this technology. For this discussion, first find or create a data set. Then, create a graph from those data. Your post should be a VoiceThread that explains how you created the graph and why you selected the graph that you did. In your responses to other students, discuss the type of data as well as what o..
Part A: Exploratory Data Analysis
Preparation:
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Open the files for the course
project and the data set.· For each of the five variables,
process, organize, present and summarize the data. Analyze each variable by
itself using graphical and numerical techniques of summarization. Use Excel as
much as possible, explaining what the results reveal. Some of the following
graphs may be helpful: stem-leaf diagram, frequency/relative frequency t..
Homework Problems: Questions: 1 (a to d)
1. Many
primary care doctors feel overworked and burdened by potential lawsuits. In
fact, a group of researchers reported that 64% of all general practice
physicians do not recommend medicine as a career. Let x represent the number of
sampled general practice physicians who do not recommend medicine as a
career. Complete parts a through d.
a. Explain why x is approximately a binomial
random variable.
b. Use the researchers' ..
Questions: 1-8Q1.A finance journal published a study of whether the decision to invest in the stock market is dependent on IQ. Information on a sample of 153,401 adults living in Finland formed the database for the study. An IQ score (from a low score of 1 to a high score of 9) was determined for each Finnish citizen as well as whether or not the citizen invested in the stock market. The following table gives the number of Finnish citizens in each IQ score/investment category. ..
Homework Problems: Questions: 1-8
3.36
The Organization Development Journal (Summer 2006) reported
on the results of a survey of human resource officers (HROs) at major employers
located in a southeastern city. The focus of the study was employee behavior,
namely absenteeism, promptness to work, and turnover. The study found that 55%
of the HROs had problems with employee absenteeism; also 41% had problems with
turnover. Suppose that 22% of the HROs had problems with both absenteeism and
turnov..
Week 4, Week 7 (v1) & Week 7 (v2) Quizzes - Bundled
MGMT 404 Week 4 Quiz
1. (TCO 1) Which document is created during the
initiation phase of a project? (Points : 5)2. (TCO 1) Projects have specific attributes.
Which of the following is not an attribute of a project? (Points : 5)3. (TCO 1) The purpose of a project charter is
to4. (TCO 1) Which document on a project
authorizes the project manager to begin work on the project? (Points : 5)5.&n..
Case Study
Read Case Study 2.4: The Widgets ‘R Us case study is a case with a problem of how the company is set up
and how the company will handle operations with its projected growth.
Answer The Following Questions:
You have been called in as a consultant to analyze the operations at WRU. Based on the readings, what would you advise Widgets ‘R Us to do in order to sustain the competitive advantage in the widget market?
What structural design changes might be undertaken to impr..
Project Scope – 67 Pages
As we have seen this week, project scope creation is very different in traditional project management versus Agile project management.
What advantages and disadvantages can you see with the process of scope creation in the traditional project management world?
What advantages and disadvantages can you see with the process of scope creation in the Agile project management world?
Share your experiences with projects that were created using either Agile or traditional ..
Case Study: Project Management at Dotcom.com – 65 Pages
Read Case Study 5.3: Project Management at Dotcom.com. Dotcom.com is a software engineering and systems
development consulting firm that needs some organizational improvements in the area of project management processes that will cut
cost and potentially increase the profit margin for the company.
Answer The Following Questions:
Discuss how you would begin redesigning dotcom.com’s project management processes to minimize the p..
Due Week 2: Project Charter
Provide a project charter of your selected project in
accordance with the charter template found in Doc Sharing.Please put this in proper business writing format. Consider
me to be your boss. If working in a group, include the updated Statement of
Participation for Week 2, describing how each person contributed to this
project deliverable. Please place the updated Statement of Participation in
your teams’ Doc Sharing area for review. A charter should be a minimum of ..
Agile Schedule Development (Graded)As we have seen, traditional and Agile schedule developments are quite different. Agile project management was originally developed to do software development. Could a traditional process be successfully used to develop a new software program? Why or why not? Could an Agile methodology be used to build a strip mall in your home town? Why or why not? Does it require more or less resources to perform tasks in parallel?…
What that said, what, in your opinion, do ..
Risk Management Part II (Graded)
As the work of your risk management team (from the first discussion question) continues, the discussion of your team’s risk management plan outline moves on and considers the following questions:
How should the risks be prioritized?
Who should do the prioritization of the project risks?
How should project risks be monitored and controlled?
Who should develop risk responses and contingency plans?
Who should own these responses and plans?…..
Reducing Project DurationIn your own words, describe crashing, fast tracking, and scope reduction as means of schedule compression. When would each be appropriate? Which methods would you consider better first-choice methods by most project sponsors? Would any of these methods apply to Agile projects? How does Agile address schedule compression?
Let’s take a couple of scenarios. We are going to talk about the PM’s contingency budget tonight. That is the excess (10-15%) the PM has planned as a ..
Case Study: Finding the Emotional Intelligence
Read Case Study 4.2: Finding the Emotional Intelligence.
Answer The Following Questions:What are the differences between leaders and managers?Can anyone be a leader? Which would you prefer to work for: a leader or a manager? Why?Select one of the characteristics of an effective project manager and tell why it is important.Is leadership of a project different in an Agile environment than in a traditional project environment?Take the Future Ti..
Due Week 6: Project Schedule and Budget
A project plan cannot be considered complete until the resources have been assigned (including budget and cost estimate). This week, you will assign the resources required to work on your project to your scheduled tasks. In addition, you will add the cost of the resources per hour and any direct or indirect cost required for project contracts, materials, or supplies.
You will submit a two-part summary report (business professional format) of your project ..
Agile Project Control (Graded)In the first discussion, we looked at traditional project control. Is project control different in an Agile project? What is the role of a project manager in controlling an Agile project? What is the role of the project client, sponsor, or customer at controlling project changes?…..
Due Week 7: Communication Plan
According to the PMBOK® Guide, “the Communications Planning process determines the information and communications needs of the stakeholders; for example, who needs what information, when they will need it, how it will be given to them, and by whom.” In other words, it lists the general communication requirements for the project. This week, you will create a simple communication plan for the execution of your project. Each team will need to complete the Communicatio..
Week 7 : Project Monitoring and Control Closure and Critical
Chain Project Scheduling – Quiz
Page 11. (TCO 4) An example of parametric estimating
would be: (Points : 5)
2. (TCO 6) You are the project manager of a
major IT project in Italy. You review your earned value report and you see that
your SPI is .68. What does this mean to you? (Points : 5)
3. (TCO 4) Which of the below is an example of
an indirect cost to a project? (Points : 5)
4. (T..
Test Your Knowledge Quiz - MCQs
Questions: 1-20
1. (TCO
B) Two fundamentally different types of data are
2. (TCO
B) Having a conversation with someone using a cellular phone is an example of
_____ transmission.
3. (TCO
B) Which of the following would be considered a type of wireless media?
4. (TCO
B) Which of the following media can best withstand harsh environmental conditions?
5. (TCO
B) Which of the following is not an important factor to consider when ..
Discussion 1: Communication Media Minicase (graded)
Eureka! is a telephone and Internetbased
concierge service that specializes in obtaining things that are hard to find
(e.g., Super Bowl tickets, firstedition books from the 1500s, Fabergé eggs).
It currently employees 60 staff members who work 24 hours per day (over three
shifts). Staff members answer phone calls and respond to requests entered on
the Eureka! website. Currently, each staff member has a desktop PC with two
monitors and a tw..
This week's lesson and graded assignment are opportunities for you to evaluate your own competencies in order to better understand nursing informatics and enhance your knowledge and skills. Competency assessment is an on-going process. You might be quick to assume that your competencies will always increase. Be mindful of barriers and challenges as you reflect on this topic.
As you progress in this course, in the program, and beyond, how might you expect your competencies to evolve? Provide a b..
Week 2 Discussion 2: Pre-Tanic Self-Assessment Reflection Questions - Version 1
Reflect upon your current or most recent clinical practice and answer the following:
How is informatics used?
Regarding the Pre-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how did your perceived competency level prior to the self-assessment compare to after the self-assessment? Explain in detail.
What competencies do you use in your current clinical role? Provide at least..
Week 2 Discussion 2: Pre-Tanic Self-Assessment Reflection Questions - Version 2
Reflect upon your current or most recent clinical practice and answer the following:
How is informatics used?
Regarding the Pre-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how did your perceived competency level prior to the self-assessment compare to after the self-assessment? Explain in detail.
What competencies do you use in your current clinical role? Provide at least..
Reflect upon your current or most recent clinical practice and answer the following:
How is informatics used?
Regarding the Pre-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how did your perceived competency level prior to the self-assessment compare to after the self-assessment? Explain in detail.
What competencies do you use in your current clinical role? Provide at least one example.
Identify resources to develop a strategic plan to enhance..
Regarding the Post-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how does your competency level compare to the Week 2 Self-Assessment?
Which competencies do you think may benefit you in your future role as an APN, and why?
As discussed in the lesson this week, healthcare providers must be competent in informatics in order to make ethical decisions about informatics technologies and patients' intimate healthcare data and information. To the extent that information technology is reshaping healthcare..
NRS 410V Week 1 Discussion 1 | 4x Responses
DQ1: Identify a cardiac or respiratory issue and outline the key steps necessary to include for prevention and health promotion.
NRS 410V Week 1 Discussion 2 | 4x Responses
DQ2: Discuss what resources are often necessary for nonacute care for cardiorespiratory issues. Explain how they support patient independence and decrease readmission...
Case Study Mr. M: Version 1
Critical Thinking Essay
In 750-1,000 words, critically evaluate Mr. M.'s situation. Include the following:
Describe the clinical manifestations present in Mr. M.
Based on the information presented in the case scenario, discuss what primary and secondary medical diagnoses should be considered for Mr. M. Explain why these should be considered and what data is provided for support.
When performing your nursing assessment, discuss what abnormalities would you expec..
Case Study Mr. M: Version 2
Critical Thinking Essay
In 750-1,000 words, critically evaluate Mr. M.'s situation. Include the following:
Describe the clinical manifestations present in Mr. M.
Based on the information presented in the case scenario, discuss what primary and secondary medical diagnoses should be considered for Mr. M. Explain why these should be considered and what data is provided for support.
When performing your nursing assessment, discuss what abnormalities would you expec..
Case Study Mr. M: Version 3
Critical Thinking Essay
In 750-1,000 words, critically evaluate Mr. M.'s situation. Include the following:
Describe the clinical manifestations present in Mr. M.
Based on the information presented in the case scenario, discuss what primary and secondary medical diagnoses should be considered for Mr. M. Explain why these should be considered and what data is provided for support.
When performing your nursing assessment, discuss what abnormalities would you expec..
NRS 410V Week 2 Discussion 1 | 5x Responses
DQ1: Identify a common perceptual, neurological, or cognitive issue and discuss contributing factors. Outline steps for prevention or health promotion for the patient and family.
NRS 410V Week 2 Discussion 2 | 9x Responses
DQ2: Discuss characteristic findings for a stroke and how it affects the lives of patients and their families. Discuss the nurse's role in supporting the patient's psychological and emotional needs. Provide an example...
Case Study Mr. C: Version 2
Critical Thinking Essay
In 750-1,000 words, critically evaluate Mr. C.'s potential diagnosis and intervention(s). Include the following:
Describe the clinical manifestations present in Mr. C.
Describe the potential health risks for obesity that are of concern for Mr. C. Discuss whether bariatric surgery is an appropriate intervention.
Assess each of Mr. C.'s functional health patterns using the information given. Discuss at least five actual or potential proble..