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Creating a Plan of Care

Utilizing the information you have gathered over the weeks regarding the specific illness group you identified, this week, you will create a plan of care for your chronic illness group.

Create the plan in a 4- to 6-page Microsoft Word document (the 4–6 pages include the holistic care plan). Include the following in your plan:

• Start the paper with a brief introduction describing the chronically ill group you selected and provide rationale for selecting this illness and the participants. Clearly identify the Healthy People 2020 topic chosen and why this topic was chosen.
• You will want to compile the information gathered from Weeks 1–4 over 2 to 3 pages. This should be in APA format and paragraph form. This is not to be copied and pasted from previous assignments. It is to be a summary of each week.
• The paper should include the care plan for your chronic illness group organized under the following headings:
  • Nursing Diagnoses
  • Assessment Data (objective and subjective)
  • Interview Results
  • Desired Outcomes
  • Evaluation Criteria
  • Actions and Interventions
  • Evaluation of Patient Outcomes
• You will need to ensure that the care plan is holistic and includes at least 3 nursing diagnoses related to the topic and interview results from the previous weeks.
• Include strategies for the family or caregiver in the care plan and provide your rationale on how they will work.
• Include a reference page to provide reference for all citations for the paper as well as the care plan.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Submission Details

Name your document SU_NSG4055_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Submit your document to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, October 6, 2015.

• A.      Evaluate business situations concerning the nature of power and its influence.
• B.      Compare and contrast the sources and types of power in various business situations.
• C.      Compare and contrast delegation, empowerment, and stewardship in various business situations.
• D.      Evaluate the tactics for becoming an empowering leader in various business situations.

PROJECT GUIDELINES

• 3 FULL pages. SINGLE SPACED
• 1 INCH MARGINS on all four sides
• LIMITED to 3 QUOTES throughout the whole paper. (almost the whole paper needs to be paraphrased)
• MLA FORMAT
• MUST INCLUDE a BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE

THIS PAPER IS DUES TUESDAY NIGHT B4 MIDNIGHT!! 9/29/15 11:59PM

Double-spaced

• 12-15 pages each chapter

The following is my layout for thesis:

CHAPTER 5

• Brazil’s current outcomes in government, Financial, environmental, and community aspects.

1. Variation in Government economic politics
2. Yearly Financial growth
3. Environmental risk factors
4. Changes in community aspects

CHAPTER  6

• Predictions of Market progression, Industrial variations, and government changes between 2007 to 2017

1. Predictions for Industrial progression
2. a) Financial variations and deviations
3. b) Funding distribution for new technologies research and development
4. Prediction for Brazil’s political outlook
5. a) New economic laws and tax exemptions
6. b) Changes in Political parties
7. Predictions for deviations and variations in Brazil’s Market
8. a) International growth

1. b) Domestic growth

Organizational development (OD) interventions are generally described as planned change processes that take into account both technical and human psychology aspects of the organization. Interventions are defined in your readings within four categories: human process interventions, techno-structural interventions, human resource management (HRM) interventions, and strategic change interventions. For this assignment, you will analyze two interventions and offer your recommendations in a 3- to 5-page report.

Directions:

In 3 to 5 pages:

1. Using the Argosy University online library resources, identify a category of organizational development (OD) interventions that is of particular interest to you for research.
2. Identify and explain two interventions conducted in organizations between 1990 and the present year within your category of interest along with the results. Be sure to find interventions representing different time periods and industries.
3. Explain both technical and psychological aspects of the two interventions.
4. Identify the issues, processes, theories, and business outcomes of the interventions.
5. As an organizational development (OD) practitioner, recommend one improvement that would now be appropriate for the organization to consider in an effort to continuously improve. Justify your recommendations.

Your final product will be in a Microsoft Word document of approximately 3 to 5 pages. You will utilize two to four scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

The following helpful tips are numbered to correspond with the exercise number to which they refer (a dash indicates that no tips are needed):

1. This research scenario will be familiar to you. Do letters a, b, and c, answering the questions beneath your SPSS output. (3 pts for output and 2 pts each for a–c)
3. Write a current APA-style Results section based on your analyses. All homework “Results sections” must follow the example given in the SPSS tutorials and the Course Content document “Writing Results of Statistical Tests in Current APA Format” (note: you do not have to refer to a figure). Remember to include a decision about the null hypothesis. (4 pts)
4. Create a box plot as done in earlier modules/weeks. (3 pts)

2. Spear man Rho Exercise: This exercise is not found in Green and Sal kind. Open the data file “Mod8_Spearmint_Exercise File” in the Module 8 SPSS Assignments folder in Blackboard, read the following information, and answer the questions below.

Scenario: During the Vietnam War, a “draft” was put in place that selected young men born on certain dates and placed them in the armed services. The process proceeded via lottery: Dates like “Sept. 14” were placed in capsules, one for each of the 365 days of the year, and the capsules were then drawn randomly from a container. In the 1970 draft, Sept. 14 was the first date drawn, meaning that all young men born on Sept. 14 were eligible for the very first round of the draft, and so on. After the results of the 1970 draft were analyzed, many statisticians and politicians asserted that the process had not been random at all, and certain men had a higher chance of being drafted than others. This case is famous, making it to the pages of international newspapers and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the SPSS data file in Blackboard, you will find the original 1970 draft data with two variables. Column 1 contains the consecutive day of the year (1 = Jan. 1; 2 = Jan. 2; and so on). Column 2 contains the draft rank (1 = first date drawn; 2 = second date drawn; and so on). So, in the first row of the data set, Day 1 (Jan. 1) had a draft rank of 305. The lower the draft rank, the sooner and more likely a man was to be drafted. So a higher rank (like 305, for example) was preferable to those who did not want to be drafted right away.

If the process had been statistically random, there would be no correlation between the day of the year you were born and the rank that was assigned to you (r = 0). Any type of significant correlation would mean that there was something relating the variables beyond mere random error, or chance.

a) Open the data file and perform a Spear man correlation analysis for the day of year and the draft rank. Paste your output in the homework document. (2 pts)
b) Write a current APA-style Results section based on your analyses. All homework “Results sections” must follow the example given in the SPSS tutorials and the Course Content document “Writing Results of Statistical Tests in Current APA Format” (note: you do not have to refer to a figure). Remember to include a decision about the null hypothesis. (2 pts)
c) Answer the next question in “layman’s terms” as if for someone who doesn’t know much about statistics: Why did people accuse this process of not being random? (2 pts)

It is not required, but if you want to check out the original New York Times article and see an interesting graph, go to this link: http://frewm.wikispaces.com/file/view/nytimes.pdf

(Data file source: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v5n2/datasets.starr.html#rosenbaum1)

Part 2:

1. A university assessment department collects data to determine whether university rankings differ based on their regional location. Some rankings are missing because the universities ranked at that level were in different regions than those of interest to the department. Based on eight universities in each of two different regions, is there a difference between university rankings based on their regional locations? Perform a Mann-Whitney U test, being sure to follow the directions under the table. (3 pts)

West Coast East Coast
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12
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Note: Your file must be set up in the same manner as the example data file and the exercise file from Part 1, with a grouping variable and a dependent/test variable. Because these are rankings, they are ordinal data and must be identified as such in “Variable View” under the column “Measure.” Click in the cell under “Measure” in the row for your university rank variable and choose “Ordinal.” This ensures that SPSS treats the data at the proper level of measurement.

2. Create a boxplot depicting the results. (3 pts)

3. Write a current APA-style Results section based on your analyses. All homework “Results sections” must follow the example given in the SPSS tutorials and the Course Content document “Writing Results of Statistical Tests in Current APA Format” (note: you do not have to refer to a figure). Remember to include a decision about the null hypothesis. (3 pts)
Part 3: Cumulative Homework

1. A political pollster is curious about the effects of a town hall meeting on people’s intentions to support a state proposition that would legalize gambling. He interviews people as they leave and asks them whether their opinion about the proposition has changed as a result of the meeting. He records these frequencies in the table below. Choose the appropriate test to analyze this data, and follow the directions below the table.

Less likely to support No change More likely to support

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a) Paste appropriate SPSS output. (3 pts)
b) Paste appropriate SPSS graph. (3 pts)
c) Write a current APA-style Results section based on your analyses. All homework “Results sections” must follow the example given in the SPSS tutorials and the Course Content document “Writing Results of Statistical Tests in Current APA Format” (note: you do not have to refer to a figure). Remember to include a decision about the null hypothesis. (3 pts)

Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of Module/Week 8.

In the final project, the saga of Joseph Dunn’s leadership at Dunn’s Ski Emporium and The Deli continues. Students will analyze a case study and then write a consultancy report applying concepts and ideas learned throughout the course. Students are expected to effectively use a wide range of the course readings in completing the paper, which means the course readings are used to support ideas and reasoning rather than as stand-alone statements.
Note: A report is not written like a paper. Please use the Outline for the Consultancy Report

The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, students will learn how to write a consultancy report and second, students will link the concepts of Dunn as a social architect, change agent, and individual to Dunn as a relationship builder. Think of a relationship builder as a leader who aligns people to his or her vision.

Students will act as a consultant hired to help Dunn address his role as a relationship builder. Interface the plan you created in Assignment #1- The Role of a Leader, with a plan for Dunn’s need to address the potential threats to workforce harmony. Emphasize his role as leader and what he can do to build his relationship with his employees so that he empowers his managers and workforce to implement his vision for the company. Students are expected to be realistic in applying the concepts from the course to expand Dunn’s environment and leadership role.
Remember that in order to determine strategic direction, the leader must look inward, outward, forward and beyond.
In writing this paper, it is necessary to perform an analysis in terms of how and why Dunn will take a certain course of action related to the questions below. Students are not covering the topics superficially but are required to use the course readings to explain the detail:
Students will create a Consultancy Report:
• Using the leadership plan (Paper #1); explain all the changes that Dunn might consider in keeping his business expansion going strong;
• Discuss how Dunn should address cultural diversity within the organization;
• Examine and explain the areas in the original plan that would require change to accommodate Dunn’s role as a relationship builder;
• Discuss the leadership challenges that Dunn himself must address in the areas of personal skills, leading change, diversity, knowledge management, office politics and empowerment;
• Discuss how Dunn can use John’s knowledge of The Deli business to his advantage.
Required Formatting of the Consultancy Report:
• This report can be single spaced with double space between paragraph;
• Use 12-point font, and six to eight pages in length;
• Use headings such as those provided in the Outline for the Consultancy Report;
• Writing is expected to be clear and concise;
• Write in the third person;
• Outside resources may be used but the majority of the support will come from the course readings with a wide array of readings used;
• Use APA formatting for in-text citations and reference page. You are expected to paraphrase and not use direct quotes. Deductions will be taken when direct quotes are used and found to be unnecessary;
• Submit the paper in the Assignment Folder.
CASE STUDY FILE

Paper 3
BMGT 365 Organizational Leadership
Dunn’s Emporium Experiences Growth
Dunn’s Emporium is going gangbusters and George who owns the deli next door is getting ready to retire. Dunn is in the process of acquiring The Deli. Although most of the local long-time employees at Dunn’s and The Deli have been on board with the merger some employees have never been happy.
The Deli people did not trust the new ice cream manager because of his age. Fresh out of culinary school, John Levitz, at age 22 became the ice cream manager. Ice cream was one of The Deli’s biggest iconic menu offerings. The ice cream is homemade and The Deli offers a special flavor each week. John has big ideas in expanding the ice cream business by having classes and opportunities for customers to make their own flavors. He is passionate about his job but sometimes rubs the older employees the wrong way. He can be arrogant about his skill. He thinks he is being confident. The chef at The Deli is jealous of the newcomer because he has wanted to change the menu for some time. He thinks that George’s retirement will be the demise of his dreams because the new General Manager that is working with George is not on board with innovation. His attitude is “if isn’t broken don’t fix it.” However, the new General Manager tells Dunn and George that he is happy with making changes.
Dunn’s sporting goods has had a change of employment as well and a new group of South American immigrants hascome to work at the Emporium. Dunn is impressed with the wonderful skills of the workers as they display outstanding repair work and the group’s work ethic as seen by their willingness to work long hours during the ski season is impressive. Dunn’s long term employees agree that the new employees are a good addition to the staff but find working with the group hard because they are not able to understand Spanish and sometimes it creates problems in communicating order information. Also, the group tends to stick together. They even eat lunch together despite attempts by the other employees to get them to join in with the rest of the group. There seems to be a growing frustration on the part of the original group. What neither the original employees nor Dunn know is that because of the language barrier the new South American employees are apprehensive about being included in the group because they cannot speak English well and do not know how to break the language barrier. What the original employees do not know as well is that Esteban Enrique has asked to be promoted to the vacancy as head of the second shift in the repair shop. Dunn has concerns that if Estaban is promoted that it might be hard to keep the cohesiveness of the group. He is especially concerned because his nephew who works the evening shift during the off season would like the job. In short, Dunn has to revisit his organizational structure, culture and vision to make the changes necessary to prevent future problems with the business. Further, he hasn’t told anyone but he wants to put in new software to monitor the staff hours, payroll, and business sales. It will make information gathering much easier but will require some staff scheduling changes and authority delegation.
Using you first organizational plan, culture, vision and mission, discuss all the changes that Dunn might consider in keeping his business expansion going strong. Also consider all the leadership challenges that Dunn himself must address in the areas of personal skills, leading change, diversity, knowledge management, office politics and empowerment.
Concepts to Grade On:
The student must realign the new employees with the structure and culture. They must address how a leader will deal with millennium, change, diversity, knowledge management, office politics, mentoring and empowerment. The student will also discuss how Dunn might look at his own personal skills in making hard decisions (like his nephew or rewarding Estaban Enrique with a promotion). The student must also look at the Chef’s role and John’s personality issues. In short, they must give concrete ways through culture, organizational realignment and leadership skills that will solve Dunn’s relationship building concerns.
Busines 495

Rubric Name: Written Assignment (35%)

Criteria Outstanding Superior Good Substandard Failure
Critical Thinking/Reasoning 12.25 points

demonstrates a high degree of critical thinking, is consistent in accurately interpreting questions & material; provides solid assumptions, reasoning & claims; thorough analysis & evaluation with sound conclusions 10.41 points

shows good critical thinking; accurately interprets most questions & material; usually identifies relevant arguments/reasoning/claims; offers good analysis & evaluation with fairly sound conclusions 9.19 points

shows occasional critical thinking; questions & material is at times accurately interpreted; arguments/reasoning/claims are occasionally explained; offers fair analysis & evaluation with a conclusion 7.96 points

shows little critical thinking, misinterprets questions or material; ignores or superficially evaluates; justifies little and seldom explains reasoning; draws unwarranted conclusions 6.74 points

lacks critical thinking consistently offers biased interpretations; ignores or superficially evaluates; argues using poor reasoning, and/or unwarranted claims
Application of Concepts/Development 12.25 points

arguments or positions are well-supported with evidence from the readings/experience; ideas go beyond the course material and recognize implications and extensions of the material and concepts 10.41 points

arguments or positions are mostly supported by evidence from the readings and course content; ideas presented demonstrate student’s understanding of the material and concepts 9.19 points

arguments are more often based on opinion or unclear views than on position grounded in the readings of material or external sources of material 7.96 points

arguments are frequently illogical and unsubstantiated; student may resort to ad hominem attacks on the author instead of making meaningful application of the material 6.74 points

arguments lack meaningful explanation or support of ideas
Attention to Instructions 5.25 points

demonstrated full understanding of requirements responded to each aspect of assignment 4.46 points

demonstrated understanding of requirements; missed one minor aspect of assignment 3.94 points

demonstrated some understanding of requirements; missed a key element or two minor aspects of assignment 3.41 points

failed to show a firm understanding of requirement; missed two key elements or several minor aspects of assignment 2.89 points

did not demonstrate understanding of assignment requirements
Clarity; including grammar 3.5 points

writing is clear and easy to follow; grammar and spelling are all correct; formatting gives a professional look and adds to readability 2.98 points

most ideas are presented clearly; occasional spelling and/or grammar issues 2.63 points

wordy; some points require rereading to understand fully; more than an occasional spelling and/or grammar 2.28 points

unclear and difficult to understand; frequent spelling and grammar issues 1.93 points

largely incomprehensible writing/poorly written in terms of mechanics and structure
Adherence to APA Style (6th ed.) 1.75 points

no APA style errors 1.49 points

attempts in-text citation and reference list but 1 or 2 APA style errors are present 1.31 points

attempts in-text citation and reference list; APA style errors are present; inconsistencies in citation usage can be found throughout the document 1.14 points

attempts either in-text citation or reference list but omits the other 0.96 points

no attempt at APA style
Overall Score Outstanding
31.5 or more Superior
28 or more Good
24.5 or more Substandard
21 or more Failure
0 or more

Asignment number 2
Project
Topic
• Moral Advertising
http://www.ethicsbasedmarketing.net/8.html

In this two-phased final assignment, students will select a topic from the Unique Ethical Issues from weeks 3, 5, and 7, research the topic and discuss the ethical dilemma in detail.
Phase 1: (5%)-9/12/2015
In week 4, students will submit to the Assignment Folder a brief one page paper that identifies the unique ethical issue, the ethical dilemma and the traditional theories that will be used to suggest potential resolution of the dilemmas.

Phase 2: (30%)
Required Elements of Final Project:
• Using the information from Phase 1, students will thoroughly research the topic and define the ethical concerns in detail.
• Using two of the traditional theories from week 2, suggest potential resolutions to the dilemma(s)
WEEK 2 THEORIES
• Connecting the Dots Between Intentions, Action and Results: A Comprehensive Approach to Ethical Decision Making
• Values and culture in ethical decision making
• Norman Bowie: a Kantian Approach to Business Ethics
• Terms In and Types of Ethical Theory
• In the discussion of the resolution, include the impact that ethical relativism and globalization may have upon the suggested dilemma resolution.
• Select the best resolution and explain in detail why.

Required Formatting of Final Project:
• This paper should be double-spaced, 12-point font, and six to eight pages in length excluding the title page and reference page;
• Title page;
• Introductory paragraph and a summary paragraph;
• Use headings to demarcate your discussion;
• Write in the third person;
• Use APA formatting for in-text citations and a reference page. You are expected to paraphrase and not use quotes. Deductions will be taken when quotes are used and found to be unnecessary;

Review the fact pattern provided below. At this time, Mr. Kant stands convicted of either petit larceny or shoplifting, as dictated by your state statutes, and your office has been hired to handle the appeal. Based on your lessons and reading material regarding legal analysis and writing, legal research, legal citation and appellate procedure, prepare the appellate brief based on relevant statutory and case law from your state of residence. Proper format is outlined in Stat sky on pages 600-602, and detailed in your state court rules, form-books, etc.

Thoroughly research the issues involved and address the statute/s from your state under which Mr. Kant would be charged and convicted. Locate at least one binding opinion upon which to base your arguments and apply the opinion in a thorough and concise manner. You should also apply any relevant secondary authority that might be used in support of your arguments. In completing this assignment, please focus on demonstrating your research, analysis, citation and writing skills over format of the brief.

Bear in mind that you do not have access to the trial court record for this assignment, which would not be the case in an actual law office setting. Therefore, you may embellish the facts as necessary to fully develop your arguments. Use care, however, not to allow those embellishments to change the issues involved.

FACTS: Sam Kant, stands convicted of shoplifting/petit larceny (as dictated by your state statutes) from Bilmart, a national department store. At his wife’s request, Mr. Kant went to Bil mart on Wednesday, ______, 20___, and purchased a case of six 4 oz. cans of Hoover’s Baked Beans with Bacon. Upon returning home, his wife chastised him for once again failing to purchase what she had requested. Apparently, Mrs. Kant can’t stand the taste of Hoover’s Beans, but is very fond of the Handel brand, and was planning to serve them to her book club when she hosted them for lunch the following afternoon. Mrs. Kant ordered her husband to return to Bil mart to exchange the Hoover’s beans for Handel Beans.

Upon arrival at the store early the next morning, Mr. Kant found that the line for customer service was extremely long due to Bilmart’s annual sponsorship of a major community food drive. In an effort to save time, and thinking the line might be shorter upon his return, Mr. Kant placed the case of Hoover’s beans into a shopping cart, made his way through the store to the bean shelf, and then added the Handell’s beans to the cart. However, upon his return, the line had not diminished and it was obvious that Sam would be waiting a considerable amount of time to formalize the exchange. Fearing the wrath of his wife should he not return in time for lunch, Sam placed the case of Hoover’s beans inside a cart filled with what appeared to be merchandise returns in need of re-stocking. With the desired Handell’s beans in the shopping cart, Mr. Kant then proceeded to the store’s exit. As he neared the doors, Mr. Kant was approached and detained by store security, who witnessed Sam’s actions, and police were called to the store. Apparently, the cart into which Sam had placed the Hoover’s Beans did not contain returned items to be shelved, but rather, donations to the Bilmart Community Food Drive. Officers Kopp and Slickman questioned Mr. Kant and then cited him for Shoplifting.

Create a timeline of all the significant labors legislation passed in the 20th century using　Word’s Table　feature. Next to the name of each law, place a column with the year it was passed, and then another column, in your own words, provide a description of what the law covered. If the law was amended by another law, make an additional column and explain why and how it amended the previous law.
The periods before the 20th century were marked by abuse of employees by employers. There were no laws put in place to protect the rights of their employees and to prevention harassment by their employers and to promote fair treatment in a workplace. This greatly led to conflicts between the employees and the employers. However this was corrected by the introduction of various labor laws in the in the country which helped to improve the relationship of the employer and the employees (Bonasia, 2000). These laws are going to be described in the table below.
Name of Law Year which it was passed Description of the law Amendments/ failure Reasons for amendment/ failure
The Davis Bacon Act 1931 This is a law that was passed when the united states was facing the great depression and it required that the companies in the united states were to make existing wages for construction projects that were federal assisted. The aim of the act was to eliminate firms and workers that did not belong to a union from government projects and this would increase the cost of taxpayers. It received a lot of support from many unions. It was amended in 1935 by The national Labor relations Act/The Wagner Act after the setting of minimum wages. The reasons for failure were: it only aimed at protecting firms and workers who ere unionized. Secondly, the law aimed at raising wages and this affected the citizens by increasing taxes. Finally the unions that supported this did it on the basis of very bias reasons such the aim of kicking out the blacks from employment (Whitfield, 2004).
The national Labor relations Act/The Wagner Act 1935 This act was invented as a response to the much labor violence that had been experienced in the 1930s such as strikes. This act gave the right of unions which were to play the role of negotiating and bargaining on behalf of the employees to the employers. No law was put in place to amend this act but amendments have been made on the same law from time to time. It is amended from time to time to make it better and more favorable.
Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 This law played a role in establishing the required number of working hours in a week, making it compulsory for employers to pay overtime fee, set a minimum wage and set rules to regulate child labor. This law has not also been amended by another law but certain parts of the law have been amended such as the equal pay act. This is to make the law more favorable and cover emerging grievances.
References
Bonasia, J. (2000). American politics in the 20th century. San Mateo, CA: Bluewood Books.
Bulliet, R. (1998). The Columbia history of the 20th century. New York: Columbia University Press.
Whitfield, S. (2004). A companion to 20th-century America. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.