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the pilgrimage to mecca and how it is the most important pillar.

1.    Identify and describe an inpatient setting (e.g., acute inpatient units, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, etc.) to include the services provided, key personnel within the department, and how this department supports or is supported by other departments.
2.    Identify and describe at least two trends that have an impact on the setting you selected. These can be trends related to supply and demand, political climate, regulatory, demographic changes, or patient care.
3.    Evaluate the impact of these trends on the inpatient setting.
4.    Analyze the trends, and thinking as a healthcare administrator, how do you capitalize on these trends to improve operation and bottom line performance? How can you mitigate the negative impact of the trends?
5.    Provide an overview of the inpatient setting you have chosen.
6.    Conduct an interview with a member of the leadership team responsible for the department/unit.
7.    In your interview be sure to address, at a minimum, the following:
•    Provide background information on the interviewee (title/position, summary of academic and professional background, etc.).
•    Identify trends (e.g., supply and demand, political climate, regulatory, demographic changes, or patient care) that are impacting this particular inpatient setting and how these are being leveraged or mitigated by the leadership.
•    Identify the challenges (micro or macro level) this department is experiencing. How are they addressing these challenges?
8.  Based on your interview and the research you have conducted for both the Case and SLP assignments, create a table  that illustrates the similarities and differences in trends between the research conducted for the Case Assignment and the feedback in the interview. Analyze and discuss the findings shown in the table. This analysis should include both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyzing the data.

Compare and contrast the two ideologies in an essay format which includes an explanation of each individual ideology, both from a historical perspective and from an emerging perspective describing their impact on the current global political climate. Be sure to consider each ideology’s view of freedom with reference to the triadic model of freedom

History of music from the year 440 to 1991

1. Describe a clear and comprehensive personal vision of leadership that shows
how you envision demonstrating effective leadership with RN colleagues,
physicians, and junior student nurses on your unit (approximately 1.5 – 2 pages).
2. Develop a plan using three specific strategies to demonstrate how you will
appropriately employ power in your collaboration with physicians.
Each strategy will utilize one of the eight types of power as outlined by Sullivan and
Decker (2009). Include the following in your plan:
a. A brief summary of the personal challenges you anticipate when employing
leadership in your collaboration with physicians.
b. Three individually numbered strategies, each using one of the eight types of
power outlined in Sullivan & Decker (2009, p. 93-96). Do not duplicate the types
of power in your strategies.
A brief discussion of how you will evaluate the success of your strategies.

Create a plan that demonstrates how you will use any three of the four components of Transformational Leadership when you are working with more junior student nurses. The four components of Transformational Leadership
include: idealized influence (charisma); inspirational motivation; intellectual
stimulation; and individualized consideration. Your plan includes:
a. A summary of the personal challenges you anticipate when demonstrating
Transformational leadership with more junior SNs.
b. Three individually numbered strategies, each using one of the four components
of Transformational Leadership. Do not duplicate these components.
c. A brief discussion of how you will evaluate the success of your strategies.
Note: Do not duplicate types of power or components of Transformational
Leadership in your strategies or you will lose the full mark for that strategy.
4. Provide a brief introduction (about four sentences) that only summarizes what is
contained in the paper.
5. Provide a brief conclusion that is limited to what was covered in the paper (about
four lines).

1. I.                    Industry
   1. a.       Identification and Discussion

Define industry within which the company competes.  Indicate the NAICS* code that is used by the U.S. Census Bureau to identify businesses and give census data available on the industry.  Indicate size of industry (no. of participants, total sales), growth (3-5 year period), and profitability. Indicate scope of industry – regional, national, international.

1. b.        Trends

Discuss what is happening in the industry that may impact its long term success.  An example for the nursing home industry might be that demographic trends such as the aging of the population in the U.S. will positively affect growth in that market.

FEEL FREE TO INCLUDE OTHER RELEVANT INFO.

 

• II.                Company Analysis
• 1. a.      Intro paragraph

 

Background info on company, size of the company (revenue/sales, establishments and employees), growth and profitability figures (3-5 years), indicate whether company has an international presence, etc.

b.      Products

Identify products/product categories, discuss depth and breadth of product offerings,  indicate sales by product/product category, indicate % of company revenue each product/product category accounts for, indicate market share for each product/product category, etc.

c.       Positioning Strategy

Beginning here you can focus on one product/product category if you wish.  If you choose to look at all products/product categories, list them separately and indicate the positioning strategy for each.

d.      Key competitive advantage

The company may have a key competitive advantage or each product/product category may have its own competitive advantage – you will have to decide based on your research.

e.      Customer profile

If possible talk in terms of primary, secondary and other customers when discussing each product/product category you are addressing in the paper.  Give specifics re: what the customer looks like:  demographic information is a must, but it would be helpful to include psychographic profiling if available.

f.        Customer buying behavior

This section addresses how and why the customer buys the product.  Does the customer buy for functional reasons or emotional/psychological reasons?  Does the customer purchase at certain times of the year and not others (seasonal effect)?  Is customer loyalty a factor in the purchase?  How often does the consumer purchase the product in a given time frame (ex: most consumers purchase toothpaste 10 times a year while a person purchases a car every five years)?** Is the product an impulse purchase or does the customer carefully plan and research the purchase? Where does the consumer get information re: products/product categories (friends, media, etc. –be specific:  for example, 50% indicate they depend on friends’ recommendations, 20% use TV ads to get information, etc.)?  What is important to the consumer when purchasing this product (for example, 20% indicate price is the most important variable in the purchase, 15% indicate product features, etc.)?  Any other questions/issues you deem appropriate.  Note:  customer buying behavior does not relate to sales figures for certain products/product categories.

g.      Pricing Strategies and Price Points

Addressing the strategy issue may mean responding to a question such as:  Does the company price its products to gain maximum market penetration or does the company charge high prices with the understanding that it will not be the market share leader?  Other strategy issues may be important.  Your research should help you know what those are.  Indicate price ranges for the product/product categories you have chosen to focus on.

h.      Distribution Strategies

Indicate the number of establishments the company has (if it is a retail entity such as Wal-Mart), indicate the number of production facilities the company has (if it is a manufacturer such as Coca-Cola), indicate the number of both establishments and manufacturing facilities if the company does both, talk about growth in number of establishments/facilities over a 3-5 year period, if a company’s products are distributed in a number of venues (for instance Coca-Cola sells soft drinks in supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, and vending machines) indicate percentage of sales in each location, talk about international presence and what percentage of sales comes from the U.S. and international markets, etc.

i.        Promotional Efforts

What percentage of overall revenue is spent on marketing activities?  What types of activities does the company engage in and what percentage of the overall marketing budget do those activities account for? For example, the company may use TV ads, radio, billboards, event sponsorship, online marketing, etc. and TV ads may be 30% of the budget, radio 5%, etc.

j.        Financials

Discuss how financially stable the company is.  You can use balance sheet info, cash flow statements and ratios to drive this discussion.  Do not include full financial documents in the paper (unless you put them in an Appendix).  Pull out highlights that give the reader information on how the company is doing.

 

• III.             Competitors
• 1. a.      Identification

Identify top two to three competitors; discuss sales, profitability and growth over 3-5 year period

b.       Strategies

Indicate how competitors differ from your company in terms of the marketplace.  Use the outline above (in Section I) to identify areas you may want to highlight, but you can discuss all of the important points related to pricing, product offerings, distribution differences, etc. in this one section since you will not be covering all of them (only the most important ones) or going into as much depth as you have in the section above.

cross cultural views on vaccinations

Why, according to Descartes in the Third Mediation, is the idea of an infinite, divine being, necessarily innate?

1) Introduction describing the paper’s topic and its relevance
2) Review of the relevant literature on the issue (minimum of five scholarly sources)
3) Critique of current policies from the point of view of their effectiveness and social justice/injustice
4) Summary of findings and suggestions for alternative policies