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The following position is advertised on a career Web site: RN I Surgical Job Travel Involved: None. Job Type: Full-Time. Job Level: Minimum Education Required: Associate Degree Skills: Category: Nursing FTE: 0.9. Position Summary: Description/Purpose of Position: Responsible for providing patient care based upon the nursing process; being effectively involved with maintaining the standard of care for assigned patients through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Oversees and guides employees who are under your supervision. Requirements Description/Purpose of Position: Responsible for providing patient care based upon the nursing process; being effectively involved with maintaining the standard of care for assigned patients through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Oversees and guides employees that are under your supervision. Minimum Qualifications: Education: Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing. License/Certification: Current RN license in the state of XXX. Current BCLS Certification. Other: Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care/service appropriate to the age of the patients served on the assigned unit/department. Note: An RN graduate is a nurse who has completed a course of study at a school of nursing and is eligible for the NCLEX. The RN graduate performs directly under the supervision of the charge nurse or RN designee.

1. List three substantive questions you might expect to be asked in an interview for the job, and summarize your answers.

2. Describe three to five ways in which you could prepare for the interview to make the most positive impression.

3. Be sure to describe what you would wear and what material you would bring with you.

Your best friend, Lindsey, and you are working together in the surgical ICU. Often you cover for her when she goes to lunch or on breaks. You notice that often her clients complain of being in pain, even though she has told you that she medicated them right before she left the unit. You also notice that she appears to be very jumpy and short-tempered and a bit disheveled when she comes to work. You are suspicious that she is using the medications that she says she is giving to her clients.

1. What should you do first?

2. What might be the consequences if you decide to do nothing?

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1.4 Participate in health care policy development to influence nursing practice and health care.

Research public health issues on the “Climate Change” or “Topics and Issues” pages of the American Public Health Association (APHA) website. Investigate a public health issue related to an environmental issue within the U.S. health care delivery system and examine its effect on a specific population.

Write a 750-1,000-word policy brief that summarizes the issue, explains the effect on the population, and proposes a solution to the issue.

Follow this outline when writing the policy brief:

  1. Describe the policy health issue. Include the following information: (a) what population is affected, (b) at what level does it occur (local, state, or national), and (c) evidence about the issues supported by resources.
  2. Create a problem statement.
  3. Provide suggestions for addressing the health issue caused by the current policy. Describe what steps are required to initiate policy change. Include necessary stakeholders (government officials, administrator) and budget or funding considerations, if applicable.
  4. Discuss the impact on the health care delivery system.

Include three peer-reviewed sources and two other sources to support the policy brief.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance

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Assignment 2: Discussion Question: Groupthink

By Sunday, May 18, 2014, respond to the discussion question. Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions by Sunday, May 18, 2014, and continue the discussion until Wednesday, May 21, 2014 of the week.

According to Irving Janis (1972), groupthink is the process by which we conform to others’ decisions even when we individually disagree with these decisions.

Imagine that Fred is the manager of a bookstore, and the sales of books have slowed in recent months. Fred decides to meet with his employees to find ways to reduce expenses and increase sales.

To reduce the possibility of groupthink before the start of the meeting, Fred encourages everyone to speak up with their opinions—no matter what those opinions are.

    • Discuss why groupthink takes place. What characteristics of a group most often lead to groupthink?

 

    • Do you agree with Fred’s strategy to reduce the likelihood that groupthink will occur?

 

  • Which other strategies can Fred employ to reduce the likelihood of groupthink during the meeting?Gro

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Recall any experience you had with business data perhaps at your work place, and how have you used it and what you used it for; and then:

Define business research, statistics, and decision models. Why are they important to business?

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Please answer the following questions with 1-2 paragraph’s each.

1. What is the good will in Kant’s ethics?

2.For Kant, why cannot the function of reason be to guide humans toward happiness? Kant maintains that rival theories misconstrue the nature of ethics. How do other theories err according to Kant?

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THIS IS ONLY AN INTERPRETATION, FIVE SENTENCES AND A QUESTION IS ALL I NEED. TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS

The Pocatello Police Department is a police department that serves a city of about 55,000 people (cite). As a public agency, the police department has many internal and external constraints on its orgnazation. In order to run effectively, it is important for the department to create and follow a financial strategic plan (Moynihan, 2006). Some factors that could impede the police department in developing a successful financial strategic plan are organizational culture, management style, and the economy. The first two examples are internal factors and the second is external.

Organizational culture

Organizational culture is the shared values, beliefs, and norms within an organization (McLaughlin, n.d.). If the organizational culture of the police department is such that strategic plans or financial plans are not seen as important, or their worth is not understood, not a lot of attention is going to be paid to the documents. In addition to this, if a department has other organizational issues it is facing, strategic planning may not be given as much attention as it should. The recent history of the Pocatello Police Department has shown some conflict between officers and administration. Officers surveyed stated that they felt distrustful of their leadership and that morale in the department is low (Bryce, 2016). These kinds of issues take focus off of strategic planning, with finances or otherwise, and shift the focus on repairing relations within an organization. Organizational culture can be difficult to change, but helping employees get buy-in to the importance of such planning and helping them feel like an important part of the process can help change the culture to more be more positive toward the effort it takes to create and adhere to a financial strategic plan (Casey & Seay, 2010).

Management style

Management style also has an affect on financial planning. Most of the upper management of the police department were hired at a time when education was not as important a consideration for hiring as it is now. Because of this, only 1 person in the department command staff (the upper administration) currently has a college degree. They have plenty of on the job experience, but not as much educational background. They get by creating strategic planning documents, but could do better by being trained on elements of planning and how to make them successful. Finding programs and trainings that can answer questions, give leaders tools, and educate them on planning processes is a great way to help leaders know how to implement them in their organizations (Casey & Seay, 2010). In this department, the major is in charge of the overall budget for the department. He previously had not had much formal budgeting training. His first year after taking over the budgeting for the department, he ended up having to give the city back $400,000 for the year because he had not used the money. He had been too conservative in purchasing things the department needed in order to hold money back for any unforeseen emergencies. No costly emergencies came up, so the money went unused. While it is good to save for things that are not planned for, he ended up inadvertently mismanaging the department’s budget. Many divisions had to cut things out of their budgets to be able to save that amount back. In a meeting, he talked to members of the department about this mistake on his part and resolved to do better and seek more budget and finance training (J. Peterson, personal communication, 2013). He was able to take some budgeting classes and was better equipped to wisely budget and allocate funds in following fiscal years.

The economy

The economy is always a big factor in financial planning. As the economy fluctuates, so do public organizations’ budgets. Despite sometimes smaller budgets, organizations still have expenditures, and they need to find ways to still be able to carry out their operations (Brittain, 2006). Some ways to deal with this are to develop phased approaches so that high costs are not accrued in one budget cycle and being thoughtful about services cut (Brittain, 2006). A few years ago, the department faced reduced funding to their school resource officer program. There had been an officer assigned to each school in the school district. The local school district contributed $250,000 for the program (S. Marchand, personal communication, 2009). But facing budget cuts on their end, the school district decided they needed to cut costs by no longer helping fund the school resource officers (Bloomsburg, 2009). The department did not feel like it was a good idea to end the program due to the incidents of school shootings and violence across the country. Instead, they looked into ways they could continue the program with much reduced funding. They ultimately kept all the high school resource officers, had one resource officer for every two middle schools, and had one officer for all the elementary schools. To make up for the dramatically reduced presence of officers in the elementary schools, they assigned officers on day shift to patrol the elementary schools at least once a week. In this way, services were reduced, but they were not cut out completely. Sometimes creative solutions like this can help control outside budget cuts for an organization.

The public deserves good government. Creating strategic plans and strategic financial plans are ways that public organizations can achieve better government. These plans give stakeholders a good grasp of what is going on within an organization and if it is meeting its goals and being a good steward of public funds (Young, 2003).

References

Bloomsburg, C. (2009). School system plans cuts. Idaho State Journal. Retrieved from http://idahostatejournal.com/news/breaking/school-system-plans-cuts/article_ff0f32a9-19e4-58f7-8bd3-7afdb43b8731.html

Brittain, L. (2006). City of Toronto’s long-term fiscal plan. Government Finance Review, 22(6), 18–24.

Bryce, D. (2016). Chief, mayor respond to Pocatello police department issues. Idaho State Journal. Retrieved from http://idahostatejournal.com/members/chief-mayor-respond-to-pocatello-police-department-issues/article_ae5749ee-9ffe-5c60-92ca-1755ca1660fa.html#comments

Casey, J. P., & Seay, K. T. (2010). The role of the finance officer in strategic planning. Government Finance Review, 26(6), 28–36.

McLaughlin, J. (n.d.). Understanding Organizational Culture. Retrieved from http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-organizational-culture-definition-characteristics.html

Moynihan, D. P. (2006). Managing for results in state government: Evaluating a decade of reform. Public Administration Review, 66(1), 77–89.

Young, R. D. (2003). Perspectives on strategic planning in the public sector. Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, University of South Carolina. Retrieved from http://www.ipspr.sc.edu/publication/perspectives%20on%20Strategic%20Planning.pdf

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Week
1 Case Analysis Template

1)
Define the decision problem?

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What is the general nature of
the problem?

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What event triggered the
situation?

4)
What are the imposed
constraints on the situation?

5)
What are the underlying
elements of the problem?

6)
Describe the dependencies on
other decisions?

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Content Review

Directions:

  • Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2–3paragraphs in length.
  • Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one Word document.
  • Copy and paste each question within the document, so that your Instructor can see which question that you are responding to.
  1. In Chapter 3 of your course text, Ramsey states: “In short, caring is a powerful emotion that energizes concern for ourselves and others and our willingness to confront and change inequities. Thus, it is an essential component of multicultural education” (Ramsey, 2004, p. 44). Drawing on what you have learned in this course and particularly this week, explain why this statement is true, citing the Learning Resources to support your ideas.
  2. Quality early childhood experiences and programs foster children’s development of empathy, effective communication, initiating and maintaining social interactions and relationships, playing cooperatively, and resolving conflicts. Review pages 54–66 in your text and choose two of the interpersonal skills that are of the most interest to you. Based on what you have learned from the resources this week, explain what each of these interpersonal skills entails and how each supports true multicultural education in the context of building caring, responsive, and collaborative communities.
  3. Dr. Eugene Garcia concludes the Course Media segment “Fostering Cultural Responsive Interactions” with the statement, “It’s in your hands.” Explain what he is referring to and how you plan to incorporate this commitment into your future work with children and families based on at least three of the behaviors he reviews in his list of “5R’s and a T.”