Author: chris

1- Read the assigned research article for this week. 1-2 sentence definition of descriptive statistics. Identify the descriptive statistics that are reported in the article. How can a nurse leader use descriptive statistics to justify a course of action? The article is as follows —- Swenson-Britt, E., & Reineck, C. (2009). Research education for clinical nurses: A pilot study to determine research self-efficacy in critical care nurses. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 40(10), 454–461 #2- Explore these issues on the Internet and through other resources. Share what you find out on these topics: •Confidence Intervals: Why are they useful in helping to determine clinical significance? •There are many controversies surrounding the issue of clinical significance vs. statistical significance. Identify one of them and summarize it. Finish with your opinion about the controversy

Write about your observations of mother and daughter relationships, Chinese Culture and how women are treated or any other observations.
Do not Use Wikipedia or Sparknotes

I chose to interview a family member that had just taken her first born daughter to kindergarten for the first time. This family member is my cousin that is recently married; specifically about a year ago. The name of my cousin is fatmah. I hoose her because I
know that this is significant milestone for her and her small family. The interview will take place at her house on the next day after her daughter joins kindergarten. The meeting will take a maximum of two hours. I plan to ask her just a few questions about her emotions
and that of her daughter. why she chose that specific school and did she think, sh made the right choice. Also, I will ask her she prepared herself and her daughter for this day.
I enjoyed the interview because it gave the opportunity to practice something I have never done before. Since the interviwe was a family member. it was a real experince especially because it the first time for me. My cousin, fatmah is very friendly, and I was greateful that she sacificed her time that she was supposed to rest from work to do the interview. I arrived at the interview vebue on time and interstingly, she was alreadly ready. The interview took a shorter time that I planned for, gibing a chance to emsure I had asked all the questions and that I had all my notes. This exercise, additionally, enabled me to know her and her daughter even better as family members. fatmaj was nervous at first, but I managed to make her comfortavle. I let her express her feelings and listened to all what
had to say. Futhermore, I let her choose a position for us to sit, that made her comfertable.
In my interview guide, I have included the following: First I will introduce myself and then let the interviewee do the same. However, since the interviewee is the family member, I will let her know what has been happening in my life as of late and her do them or not. After that, we will schedule the interview. I liked to be the interviewer because I have watched many interviews, but this time it was my time to ask the questions. It was a good experience.
During the interview, I encountered problems like lack of concentration. The reason for this is that the interviewee is a family member, and so there werer many occasions during the interview that we started talking about family issues. Another problem is
that the interviewee was distracted by her mobile phone with calls from her work. It was not possible to ask her to switch it off because the interview was just for class project.
The details that I found to be irrelevant were those involved family issues because they were not related to the interview. I would ask her if what mistakes she would avoid when she takes second child to kindergarten for the first time. What lessons did she learn from the experience with her first born daughter?
Now please carry out the interview and submit a summary of the data.

Works Cited/Annotated Bibliography

As part of your final proposal, you are required to include an annotated listing of your research sources.
Below are further instructions to help you get it right:
1. Compose an annotated bibliography of at least ten (10) sources for the research topic/problem you have been writing about for the second half of this semester. Please make sure that any works you cite are properly cited in-text somewhere within your paper. Remember that MLA style in-text citations use parenthesis, enclosing the author’s name or the title if no author, and the page number, if print. Do not use numbers or superscript to cite your sources as either footnotes or endnotes.
2. You must use MLA style for your listing on the last page of all your sources that are cited within the body of your proposal, and the title of the bibliography should be “Works Cited,” centered and bolded.
3. Make sure you use “hanging indents” for all of your sources. This means that you do NOT indent the first line, but indent all lines after the first. Review the instructions for hanging indents in your help section for you word processor if you need assistance with this.
4. Please refer to pages 448-456 in Rules for Writers for general guidelines. Please refer to pages 479-526 for MLA specific guidelines.
5. At least five of the sources must include a brief, one paragraph summary as an annotation. Please do NOT copy and paste the abstract from any sources you found online. Write the summary in your own words. Normally, when you are doing real research, you would write notes on a note card with the bibliographic information for citing the source.
6. At least two of these five sources (and their corresponding summaries) must be based on interviews or site visits you made to gather requirements or pricing. If you conducted more than two interviews, I would prefer that you summarize each of the interviews because it is primary research that is not available to the public, unlike web resources or print materials, but it is only mandatory for you to do two.

Formula for a good summary:

In this [journal article/editorial/book/web page/report], [author’s last name] [presents/discusses/analyzes/compares/argues][author’s thesis or purpose for writing]. [Reason/fact/item number one]. [Reason/fact/item number two]. [Reason/fact/item number three]. [Identification of author’s authority/stake in the issue/bias/position]. [Relation to/value of/insight for/opinions about this writing with respect to my research/position/thesis.]

Notes:
Summary should be 3-7 sentences long.
Should assist the reader of your paper with knowing whether this source would be valuable to them.
Identifies potential conflicts or biases of the source.
Explains significance of this source to your research.

Worldwide Laptop and Printer Company has been a market leader in providing laptops and printers geared to families and teens.
Company Background:
 Annual revenues of $2 billion.
 Incorporated 3 years ago.
 Products sold only through internet channels.
 Laptops sell for $500 – 700 each.
 Printers sell for $200 – 400 each.
 Printer cartridges sell for $25 – 45 each.
 All products are assembled using products available through regional and global suppliers. Currently, there are over 500 Suppliers that provide various services with little to no evaluation process. If a Supplier had a product they contacted the Procurement department no sourcing was completed.
 The lifecycle for all the products is estimated for 3 – 5 years.
 The company competes in the high-tech industry.
 The market for Worldwide products has seen a 30% growth rate in the last 18 months.
 Worldwide expects to sustain growth rates of 30 – 50% over the next 4 years.
Worldwide Company has grown quickly and will continue to experience growth and market changes over the next 5 years. In order to remain competitive Worldwide Company will need to develop a plan in terms of establishing a supplier sourcing strategy
Assignment:
1. Develop a plan to encourage 2nd and 3rd tier suppliers that can work with the organization’s 1st tier suppliers. The plan should benefit Worldwide by providing criteria and rewards that will address any issues that may arise.

Review V. F.’s corporate website. Prepare a two-paragraph memo to the company’s CEO outlining whether V. F. should more broadly adopt Timberland’s CSR reporting, identifying which of its brands would most likely benefit the most from sustainability reporting.
3. Upon reviewing former CEO Jeff Swartz’s final blog post, do you agree or disagree with his finding that the business world has shifted to sustainability?

Write about the importance of quality control principle to effective business management and health increase value for product and services.

The assignment is to write to a CEO about I.T. and answer the question \”What can an enterprise do to achieve I.T. success?\” (between 1000 and 2000 words). Based on the theories presented in the text book \”Reengenering the Corporation\” by Michael Hammer & James Champy and research.

Include a short statement on what the book is about and it’s central arguement or purpose. Be sure to keep this brief; the bulk of the should be focused on your critique.

ANALYZING MANAGERIAL DECISIONS: Eastman Kodak