Assignment Directions

Discussion: Mr. Smith brings his 4-year-old to your office with chief complaints of right ear pain, sneezing, mild cough, and low-grade fever of 100 degrees for the last 72 hours. Today, the child is alert, cooperative, and well hydrated. You note a mildly erythemic throat with no exudate, both ears mild pink tympanic membrane with good movement, lungs clear. You diagnose an acute upper respiratory infection, probably viral in nature. Mr. Smith is states that the family is planning a trip out of town starting tomorrow and would like an antibiotic just in case.

Create a communication plan for Mr. Smith and/or families for both prescriptive and non-prescriptive drug therapies. Describe what you would tell Mr. Smith and the child. Provide resources that Mr. Smith could access which would provide information concerning your decision.

What Is The Relationship Between Employee Factors And Management Factors In Accident Causation? Why Do You Think Many Accidents Result In “Employee Error” As The Major Cause?

Premier Consulting’s two consultants, Avery and Baker, can be scheduled to work for clients up to a maximum of 160 hours each over the next four  (4) weeks. A third consultant Campbell has some adminstrative assignments already planned and is availble for clieents up to a maximum of 140 hours over the next four (4) weeks. The company has four (4) clients with projects in process. The estimated hourly requirments for each of the clients over the four-week period as follows:

CLIENT                         HOURS

A                                      180

B                                      75

C                                      100

D                                      85

Hourly rates vary form the consultant-client combinations and are based on several factors, including project type and consultants” experince. The rates( dollars per hour) for each consultants-client combination are as follows:

                                                                   CLIENT

CONSULTANTS                            A              B                    C                   D

AVERY                                        100             125               115              100

BAKER                                         120             135             115               120

CAMPBELL                                  155             150            140               130

a) Develop a network representation of the problem.

b) formulate the problem as linear program, with the optimal solution providing the hours each consultant should be scheduled for each client to maximize the consulting firm’s billings. What is the schedule and what is the total billing?

c)New information shows that Avery doesn’t have the experince to be scheduled for client B. If this consultingnassignment is not premitted, what impact does it have on total billings? What is the revised scheduled?

Pathology is the study of the nature and cause of disease.  In the Funeral Service profession, we deal with the unfortunate results of disease.  In order to appropriately prepare the dead for disposition, part of our profession is to understand a variety of diseases that may appear on a death certificate.   Moreover, a part of the profession (although not required, but expected) is to help the family to understand why their loved one died. 

 The cause of death for each was found on actual death certificates.  The names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent….

This assignment fulfills:

Course Outcome Two: You will have demonstrated applied knowledge of Pathology, by describing the four aspects of the major disease processes covered in the course:

Cause (etiology)

Mechanisms of development (pathogenesis)

Functional consequences of the molecular and morphologic changes (clinical significance)

The Assignment

 For this assignment complete the cases provided in the template by providing the following information:

Etiology –

Symptoms (at least four) –

Diagnosis –

Treatment –

Prognosis –

Read the following articles highlighting historical governmental economic regulations in the years preceding deregulation:

The History of Airline (De)Regulation In The United States/Aeronautics Online (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Deregulation: A Watershed Event/Smithsonian Institute (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Airline Deregulation: A Triumph of Ideology Over Evidence/Huffington Post (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Write a two-page (not including cover and reference pages) APA-formatted summary report that answers the question: Why was it necessary for the federal government to enact such sweeping regulatory actions in the decades prior to 1978 deregulation?

Save your assignment using a naming convention that includes your first and last name and the activity number (or description). Do not add punctuation or special characters.

Studying Amusing Ourselves to Death (Write a Chapter 9 Review)

Everyone is to read the two introductions and the foreword to the book.  Underline or otherwise note what interests you.  The “Introduction to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition” makes the case that a book which in 1985 focused so much on television is still relevant today.  For instance, he quotes one college student as saying, “When I go to a restaurant, everyone’s on their cell phone, talking or playing games.  I have no ability to sit by myself and just think.”  Several years ago, in discussing this book, one student athlete confessed in class that she realized how ridiculous things were getting on a road trip when so many of her team members were sitting in their seats texting other people on the bus.  “Why didn’t we just talk face-to-face to our friends on the team?” she wrote.  Inspired by this book, she began making a serious effort to communicate more often personally and directly with the people she cared about.

Discussion ResourcesThe following resources are provided to help you complete this discussion and may be useful in completing your course assignments:

Marr, B. (2010). The intelligent company: Five steps to success with evidence-based management. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Chapter 6, “Present and Communicate the Information,” pages 135–160.

The “Action Checklist” for Chapter 6, pages 204–205.

Discussion InstructionsGraphs, charts, and dashboards are common methods of presenting and communicating information in a business environment. Marr (2010) recommends that leaders and managers keep the target audience in mind when using a four-step process to facilitate Step 4 of the EbM model: presenting and communicating information.Research up-to-date Internet resources related to business management graphs, charts, and dashboard designs and templates.For your initial discussion post, address the following:

Explain how a manager can be certain that a presentation focuses on the needs of the audience.

Explain how Marr’s four-step process ensures that presentations are compelling and powerful enough to engage the minds of the audience.

Identify common format choices for graphic presentations.

Discuss one of Marr’s tips for producing useful graphics. Why would this tip be effective?

Explain why dashboards are popular methods for business managers to communicate information.

Discussion ResourcesThe following resources are provided to help you complete this discussion:

Marr, B. (2010). The intelligent company: Five steps to success with evidence-based management. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Chapter 7, “Turning Information Into Actionable Knowledge,” pages 163–188.

The “Action Checklist” for Chapter 7, pages 206–208.

Discussion InstructionsStep 5 of the EbM model, making evidence-based decisions, involves asking two important questions:

How can we ensure that available evidence is used to make the decisions?

How do we create a knowledge-to-action culture?

For your initial discussion post, address the following:

Briefly discuss how each of these questions can be successfully answered through management or leadership style and actions.

Think about the organization where you currently work, or one where you worked in the past.

Analyze the organization’s leadership, IT capability, and organizational culture in terms of the ability to turn information into action.

Refer directly to Marr’s seven steps to creating a knowledge-to-action culture in your discussion post.

Discussion InstructionsOverviewThrough the successful completion of your coursework in Units 6–9, you have explained the key components of the evidence-based management process used in health care management, analyzed sources of information used in evidence-based health care management, demonstrated analytical decision-making skills through the application of an evidence-based management process, and communicated in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions. Now that you have reached the end of the course, take time to reflect on your experience and learning over the past five weeks.InstructionsFor your initial discussion post, address the following:

Briefly discuss one of the most valuable personal learning experiences you have had in the last five weeks. Why does this experience stand out for you?

Share an example of something you learned that you will be able to use in your health care management career, either now or in the future. How will it affect your role?

Share an idea, material, resource, or topic that you would like to research or use further, in either your coursework or your career.

Provide links to resources you used in Units 6–9 that you want to save for future use. Provide the APA citations for your resources, and include the URLs for any online materials.

Support your ideas with references from the resources and your own research. Follow APA Style and Format guidelines for references and citations.

Describe your chosen business management issue.

Globalization and Technological Advancement

Explain the goal(s) organizational leadership would like to achieve with regard to the issue.

Describe any successes in solving the issue that have already been achieved and the improvements that are still needed.

Analyze the needs of the internal and external stakeholders with regard to the issue.

Identify the stakeholders.

Explain how and why they are affected by the issue.

Explain what they already know about the issue and what they still need to know.

Explain what the stakeholders will do with the information you are presenting.

Explaining Your Approach and Research

Provide the KPQs and/or KAQs you created for your chosen business management issue.

Describe the types of data you identified as needed to address the issue. 

Explain the role of the organization’s IT department and professionals in the data collection process. 

Describe the methodologies that could be used to analyze the data.  Be sure to include both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Summarize the example source of data that you researched. 

Describe the source of the data.

Identify the methodology used to collect the data.

Share an example of actual data you have located.

Defend the validity and reliability of both the data and its source.

Share one of the articles from a year-to-date professional, peer-reviewed journal that you chose in support of your efforts to resolve the issue.

Analyze the value of the information found in the article in addressing the business issue.

What insights did you gain from the article?

How might the information be applied to the business issue?