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You are a new data analyst at Liberty Hospital. The HIM Director has to sit in on a meeting in two hours, she wants you to use online research tools to develop a quick report on the conditions of nursing homes in your actual area (city/state).
To begin this assignment, you will need to go to the CMS nursing home website and perform a quality analysis on three nursing homes in or around your community. You will be preparing a report (see instructions below) to rank and compare the three nursing homes based on their quality ratings in each of the following 6 categories of “Quality Measures” as well as an overall comparison based upon all “Quality Measures” presented at the above site:
• Percent of Long-Stay Residents Assessed and Given, Appropriately, the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
• Percent of Long-Stay High-Risk Residents With Pressure Ulcers
• Percent of Long-Stay Residents Who Have/Had a Catheter Inserted and Left in Their Bladder
• Percent of Long-Stay Residents Whose Need For Help With Daily Activities Has Increased
• Percent of Short-Stay Residents Assessed and Given, Appropriately, the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
• Percent of Short-Stay Residents With Pressure Ulcers that are new or worsened

Instructions: Prepare at least a four page summary (to include appropriate displays comparing each of the 6 quality measures – total of six displays) of the comparison of the three nursing homes. Provide all of the following information in your comparison:

• City and State Used in the comparison
• Names of the Nursing Homes
• Appropriate Display of the Comparisons for each category listed above (a table, graph or other appropriate display). In other words you should have a total of 7 different tables, graphs, etc. showing the comparison of the three nursing homes for each of the six given categories as well as a display that shows the comparison of the rankings.
• Rank of each Nursing Home (worst to best) for each of the six categories
• An overall ranking of the Nursing Homes (worst to best) for all categories not just the above 6.

Jenna
Often times a patient needs a lot of resources prior to being discharged from the hospital. Some organizations use discharge planners or case managers to aid in acquiring these resources. The topic of this SLP is about Jenna, a young woman who could not be discharged home until the issue of resources to care for her was resolved. This story demonstrates that resource allocation decision making is inherently complex, a process that is dynamic, multidimensional, and iterative. After reading the article, “The relational nature of case manager resource allocation decision making: An illustrated case” by Fraser, Estabrooks, and Strang and doing additional research, please respond to the questions listed below:

Provide a brief summary of Jenna’s case. What was her medical condition? What was her prognosis? Why was it important for her to go home? Did she get to go home? If so, how did that impact her recovery?
What were the resources that Jenna needed to go home? What barriers did her case manager encounter in acquiring these resources?
Discuss the theory of relational ethics as it applies to this case. What is it? How does it impact the allocation of resources? Think about your own discipline of study, how does this theory apply to acquiring scare resources? Provide an example.
Based on what you have read about this case and resource allocation, do you agree with the statement “that resource allocation decision making is inherently complex, a process that is dynamic, multidimensional, and iterative”? Why or why not? What are your views on the fairness of the process? Was it done in a fair manner in this case? Did Jenna get preferential treatment because of her case manager? If there was no one advocating for her, what do you think the outcome would have been?

Research the HIMSS Davies Award winners

Topic: Research the HIMSS Davies Award winners. Review the case study for one of them. Compare their experience with the learning from this course.

Experience of African Amerian’s in the United States
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Find one newspaper, magazine, or online article that concerns African American’s culture experience in United States. After reading the article carefully, write a 2–page (500 words) reaction paper in APA writing style. Be sure to cover the following:

• Provide a brief summary of the article and a reaction to the news.

• Consider African American culture and history and discuss how these factors influence the events in the article.

Life Affirmation
Paper details

How is the concept of the Phoenix related to affirmation and redemption? After viewing Harold and Maude what were your impressions of Maude’s philosophy of life and death?

L4 Activity: Development of a Developmental Network

Name:
Date:

NOTE: Please italicize all your responses so that nothing is missed when your work is assessed.

Before you begin this activity, please read the following article on reconceptualizing mentoring-protégé relationships.

Higgins, M. C., Kram, K. E. (2001). Reconceptualizing mentoring at work: A developmental network perspective. Academy of Management Review 26(2), 264-288. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/259122

In the article, the authors seek to redefine mentoring by extending literature that sees mentoring as individuals receiving mentoring assistance from many people at any one point in time, including senior colleagues, peers, family, and community members. Operationalizing this theory, which incorporates social network research, may help you begin to establish a developmental network that is more conducive to 21st century workplaces, geared toward the goal of having strong ties with diverse network groups. This type of developmental network is known as an “entrepreneurial” typology.

MY MENTORS
Provide a list of 5 individuals who have served as mentors to you in the past year, for either personal or professional reasons.
Mentor’s Name Affiliation What instigated the conversation? What insight did you gain from this mentor?
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5

Reflect about one of the mentors who had the most impact. What factors from the Higgins and Kram article on developmental network do you think are the most influential in supporting career change, personal learning, organizational commitment, and/or work satisfaction? You may use direct quotes from the Higgins and Kram article, as long as you create in-text citations. (200-300 words):

ANALYSIS OF MY MENTORS
#1 Mentor’s Name:

Area of Support:
Does this person provide career, or psychosocial support? Explain.

Diversity:
To what social system does person belong? Explain.

How many of your mentors is this person connected with? Explain the relationships, if applicable.

Relationship Strength:
Explain the level of emotional affect between you and this mentor.

Explain the level of reciprocity between you and this mentor.

What is the frequency of communication between you and this mentor?

Do you see your relationship with this person as a strong tie or a weak tie relationship?

#2 Mentor’s Name:

Area of Support:
Does this person provide career, or psychosocial support? Explain.

Diversity:
To what social system does person belong? Explain.

How many of your mentors is this person connected with? Explain the relationships, if applicable.

Relationship Strength:
Explain the level of emotional affect between you and this mentor.

Explain the level of reciprocity between you and this mentor.

What is the frequency of communication between you and this mentor?

Do you see your relationship with this person as a strong tie or a weak tie relationship?

#3 Mentor’s Name:

Area of Support:
Does this person provide career, or psychosocial support? Explain.

Diversity:
To what social system does person belong? Explain.

How many of your mentors is this person connected with? Explain the relationships, if applicable.

Relationship Strength:
Explain the level of emotional affect between you and this mentor.

Explain the level of reciprocity between you and this mentor.

What is the frequency of communication between you and this mentor?

Do you see your relationship with this person as a strong tie or a weak tie relationship?

#4 Mentor’s Name:

Area of Support:
Does this person provide career, or psychosocial support? Explain.

Diversity:
To what social system does person belong? Explain.

How many of your mentors is this person connected with? Explain the relationships, if applicable.

Relationship Strength:
Explain the level of emotional affect between you and this mentor.

Explain the level of reciprocity between you and this mentor.

What is the frequency of communication between you and this mentor?

Do you see your relationship with this person as a strong tie or a weak tie relationship?

#5 Mentor’s Name:

Area of Support:
Does this person provide career, or psychosocial support? Explain.

Diversity:
To what social system does person belong? Explain.

How many of your mentors is this person connected with? Explain the relationships, if applicable.

Relationship Strength:
Explain the level of emotional affect between you and this mentor.

Explain the level of reciprocity between you and this mentor.

What is the frequency of communication between you and this mentor?

Do you see your relationship with this person as a strong tie or a weak tie relationship?

ESTABLISH VIRTUAL CONNECTIONS
LinkedIn is a social networking tool used by professionals to connect with one another and to stay connected, even if workplace changes occur.

Create a LinkedIn profile for yourself. Include a professional headshot, and well-constructed summary. Add other additional and pertinent information by following the guidelines in this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2014/06/26/how-to-use-linkedin-5-smart-steps-to-career-success/

Connect with your instructor and/or academic associate so they can verify your profile. Our URLs are in Blackboard, in the Instructor button.

Connect with any of the mentors on your list who also have LinkedIn accounts.

Paste your profile URL here. (Be sure it is the correct URL by looking to see that it has your name in it. Example: www.linkedin.com/in/teresafoulger/en):

GOALS TO DEVELOP MY DEVELOPMENTAL NETWORK
Summarize why it is desirable to have an entrepreneurial network. (100-150 words)

In what way(s) is your existing developmental network conducive to becoming an entrepreneurial network?

What activities will help you strengthen the diversity within your network?
Things I could do in a day:
Things I will do this month:
Things I will do within a year:

What activities will help you strengthen the relationships within your network?
Things I could do in a day:
Things I will do this month:
Things I will do within a year:

Media proyect

3 Claims about psychology
the text book modules that relate to the subject
your critical evaluation of each claim made by the media, based on the information in your textbook.
I choose to study human behavior How to loose weight fast.

Judicial Reasoning

Critically assess this statement, drawing on a range of sources.

Legal interpretation is an arbitrary activity. When judges decide a case they do not follow a set of pre-existing standards, but rather rely on a variety of techniques to get the result that they like. This is clearly demonstrated by Fuller\’s hypothetical case of the Speluncean explorers.’

Johann faced a dilemma. He wanted to add some excitement to his Web site about classical composers by using dynamic effects. But he wanted the site to look “classy,” so he preferred not to use dynamic effects just for the sake of using them. However, the Dreamweaver application he used to develop his site offered him a wide variety of effects to use if he chose to.
Johann decided that rollover images in the site navigation would be a subtle way to spice up the site. He developed a navigation scheme that consisted of a row of pictures of composers, each of which would change to the composer’s name when the user’s mouse pointer passed over it.

When the site launched, however, Johann’s use of rollovers was widely criticized. One user commented, “I did not come to your site for a quiz on what composers look like.” Another said, “Cute effect, but completely annoying.” And several of the comments asked how to access the composer pages.
Johann had fallen into the common trap of assuming that his audience is as familiar with his site and subject as he is. By hiding the most important information users need to navigate his site until they pass their mouse pointers over the navigation, Johann had made his site much less useful than it could be.

As a class, discuss this scenario and answer the following questions:
What simple modification could Johann make to his existing rollover navigation to dramatically improve the usability of his site? Consider how he could use the same images and text in another way.

What other navigation elements could Johann add to improve the usability of his site yet still offer interactivity?
Do you think that applications such as Dreamweaver, which make it easy to incorporate dynamic effects into Web sites, encourage developers to add extraneous site elements that fail to contribute to (or even decrease) usability? Do you think that such application help developers improve usability? In what ways?

Purchasing and renovating residential property
II. Introduction
Today many entrepreneurs are seeking out properties in which they can buy, renovate and sell for profit this commonly referred to as flipping and it has some advantages. Most importantly, there seems to be great potential in business, especially in terms of making profits. The profits can be viewed under two key categories. The first type of profits comes from a quick purchase and the reselling of undervalued property. The other groups of profits result from the fact that one can renovate a house and resell it for increased price. Besides the profits, the social aspect of providing affordable and well-maintained housing cannot be ignored. Most especially, working for oneself can be highly motivating and satisfying (Barta 1).
However, house flipping also comes with major risks. These risks include: potentially overpaying for a house; the likeliness to underestimate the level and cost of repairs required; underestimating the holding time; overestimating the reselling value; overpaying the contractor before the completion of a sufficient level of work; as well as the likeliness to underestimate the costs of buying and reselling. These risks could easily nullify the main benefit, profits (Johnson 1).
To avoid these risks, it is vital to undertake an effective risk management strategy. This does not necessarily mean that the investor can avoid risks fully. Still, they may be able to minimize the risks (and their impacts) to near-microscopic levels. This paper focuses on four major areas of risk management: risk management planning; risk identification; qualitative risk analysis; and risk response planning.

III. Risk Management Planning
Risk management plan is not exactly about the specific risk management interventions. Rather, it is a general framework that facilitates risk management in a business. In this respect, the business or organization acknowledges and anticipates risks and outlines key aspects associated with the other three areas of risk management. This includes listing all the possible risks that the business or organization could face, deciding what levels of risks they are (such as low, medium and high based on the potential impacts that is/they could have on the business), and deciding what strategy to adopt in risk management: proactive (that is, avoidance or mitigation strategies) or reactive (that is, acceptance or transference strategies) (AIRMIC 7; Melone 1).
For this particular case, the risk management involves both proactive (before risks happens) and reactive (after risks has happened) strategies. The best idea is to prevent risks from occurring or keeping their impact under check. As AIRMIC (6) notes, it is always more effective to prevent the likeliness of a risk than waiting to repair the damage. However, it is also important to be realistic about the ability to do that. In this particular case, avoidance strategy would be too hopeful. The real estate industry is highly dynamic and uncertain. Moreover, the challenges of accurate costing means that it is never possible to make the ‘perfect’ decisions. Therefore, looking to avoid risks altogether would be unrealistic. As such, the plan here is to mitigate risks and/or their impacts.
Mitigation strategy focuses on reducing the likeliness and/or the consequences of a risk to an acceptable level. This involves taking action before the risks actually happen, which would reduce the likeliness of the risks happening. For example, using licensed contractors (who have valid workers’ compensation policies) will help avoid various potential liabilities.
On the reactive dimension, there are transference and acceptance strategies. Acceptance is important. It involves response to the risk item with a contingency plan when the problem occurs. This will involve ensuring work is done ahead of time to enhance the success of the contingency plan.
However, transference is also important. This is about shifting the ownership of the risk(s) and its/their consequences to a third party. An insurance cover can help cover the cost of the risk item. However, another option that can work is entering a fixed-price contract, which means that risks are transferred to the performing party.
The general implication here is that there are many risks that the business may experience. While, the general goal is to mitigate risks and/or their consequences, the choice of specific reactive response to adopt should depend on the type of risk. On that note, acceptance and transference may be used.
IV. Risk Identification
Risk identification is about determining the potential risks or risks that are already affecting the business. This involves monitoring the project regularly for risks, and managing the identified risks. Effective monitoring for risks involves: moving the high risk items to the issues matrix, which are to be assessed regularly; including risk section in status report and identifying necessary resources for likely risks; regularly evaluating risk management plan to identify new risks; and undertake constant reassessment of risks and reevaluation of risk management plan (AIRMIC 13).
Risk identification also requires the involvement of all people who have a stake in the project (stakeholders), including contractors. In this respect, the all the stakeholders should be informed about what constitutes risk and how to identify it. Finally, they should know how to report to the owner or management. But the stakeholders should only be involved in the identification of risks, but also assessment.
The risks associated with this particular case include:
• The likeliness to underestimate the level and cost of repairs required
• Underestimating the holding time
• Overestimating the reselling value
• Overpaying the contractor before the completion of a sufficient level of work
• Likeliness to underestimate the costs of buying and reselling
V. Qualitative Risk Analysis
Risk analysis focuses on the potential impacts of the identified risks. In this regard, the risks are placed under various categories that help understand them better, including how prioritize risk management (including what to start with and what to focus on later). These categories of risk identification may include:
• The probability of occurrence: frequent (occur occasionally and will continue to be experienced unless the owner or organization takes appropriate action); likely (could occur less frequently is the owner or management corrects the process); occasional (these occur sporadically); seldom (these are less likely to occur); and improbable (highly unlikely to occur).
• Area of impact: cost; scope; schedule; and performance or quality
• The level of potential impacts of the risks on the project: catastrophic (likely to lead to the collapse of the entire project); critical (may not bring the entire project down, but it still hurts that most important parts of the project; moderate (hurts the project but can be corrected quickly); minor; and negligible.