Archive for December 17th, 2017

Week4 Assignment

FIFO and LIFO
Analyze the following scenario:

The Hospital for Ordinary Surgery uses pharmaceuticals for its patients. It started the year on January 1, with an inventory of 1,000 doses of an antibiotic drug that cost $17 per dose. On January 2, it purchased another 300 does for $21 each. From January 3 through June 30 it used 800 doses. On July 1, it bought 500 more doses at $23 each. From July 2 through the end of the year it used 400 doses. What is the inventory value at the end of the year, assuming FIFO? What is the value assuming LIFO? Clearly label the calculations of the inventory amounts using Excel. Use formulas to calculate the FIFO and LIFO inventories and format the cells to insert a comma if there is more than three numbers and round to the nearest whole number.

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of FIFO and LIFO inventory methods and evaluate the best inventory method is best for this scenario.

Submit to your instructor your two to three page Word document (not including the title and reference pages) and your Excel worksheet. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide, and you must cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

· Building on Assignments 1 and 2, continue to develop a strategic plan for the same organization (Note: Refer to the environmental analysis that you completed as part of Assignment 1 and the strategies identified in Assignment 2.)

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Select one (1) specific analytical tool that you can use to determine whether or not the adaptive strategy or strategies selected for your organization will be the most effective in helping the organization achieve its goals. Propose the manner in which you would use this analytical tool, and support your proposal with an example of its proposed use.

2. Determine one (1) internal and one (1) external factor that you discovered during the environmental analysis that could be a barrier to the success of your proposed strategy or strategies. Recommend one (1) solution to each of the barriers in question.

3. Determine the specific segment of the market that your organization’s strategy or strategies will target.

4. Recommend whether pre-service, point-of-service, or after-service activities would be the most effective in approach in marketing your strategy or strategies to the organization’s target customers. Support your recommendation with examples of such effectiveness.

5. Propose the most effective manner in which the organization can support its strategic direction within its culture and structure.

6. Determine the most effective manner in which each of the following strategic resources can be instrumental in helping the organization to achieve its strategic goals: finance, human resources, facilities, and IT. Provide a specific example relevant to each resource to support your response.

7. Evaluate how well the strategic plan you have developed aligns with the organization’s mission and vision. Recommend three (3) specific strategies to track the effectiveness of your strategic plan.

8. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

. Apply analytic skills to define strategic problems, generate and evaluate strategic alternatives, and develop implementation tactics.

. Differentiate between the target customer segments and positioning products within these segments as they apply to health care organizations.

. Differentiate between value-adding service delivery strategies and value-adding support strategies.

. Use technology and information resources to research issues in the strategic management of health care organizations.

. Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care organizations using proper writing mechanics

Case Study- Hooters

Is the Hooter Girl image, and more specifically, the weight of a Hooter Girl, a BFOQ and thus a legally justifiable reason for Hooters’ hiring, firing, and promotion decisions? Finally, Convery claims that since giving birth to her son, she has had problems maintaining her weight. In other words, having children changes a woman’s physique, making it more difficult to return to one’s pre-baby weight. If that’s so, could she possibly have a legal case on the basis of the Americans with Disability Act?

 

If you were the judge in this case, what would you do?

Discussion Mental Health Counselor U9

Individuals approach later adulthood (ages 60-75) and elderhood (age 75-death), they begin to accept the terminations of old roles and embrace the emergence of new roles, including coming to terms with the concept of death and facing issues related to death. This involves the psychosocial crisis of integrity versus despair for (older adults) and immortality and extinction (elderhood). 

· Assess the challenges and rewards for counselors working with individuals in this stage of life.

· Discuss some of the characteristic challenges present in the psychosocial crisis in these stages of development.

· Describe how your family of origin views the process of caring for the elderly within your family and views the process of death. For this portion of your post, begin a separate paragraph, and feel free to respond to this aspect in the first person.

· Please remember to cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Nutrition

Traditionally, nutrition programs were targeted to the indigent and poor populations in developing countries. Many of today's Americans are malnourished also, but they are inundated with unhealthy foods and require a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition education. What would be the three most important points to include in a public nutrition program? Provide current literature to support your answer and include two nutritional education community resources.

 

250 words minimum

Operational Tactics and Strategic Goals Presentation

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to give learners an opportunity to apply lessons learned about operational tactics and strategic goals planning. Please refer to the resources below to assist with the assignment. 

Assignment Steps

Resources: Ch. 5, 6, and 7 of Management: A Practical Introduction; SWOT analysis for the organization used in Week 3; company strategic plan; video creator such as Kizoa Movie Maker

Scenario: You have been promoted to senior level manager of a company with low employee morale and decreased productivity. You have been tasked with developing a strategic plan for the workforce to present to the CEO and other members of the leadership team. 

Choose your organization or one you know well to use for this assignment. You may use the same organization you used in previous weeks. 

Develop a 1-year strategic plan of action for your organization using lessons learned and your learning team activity during Week 3.  

Include plans for any additional staffing and the proposed budget for your plan. Modify your SWOT analysis, if necessary, for your presentation.

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation including the following: 

  • Explain rationale for plan
  • Discuss SWOT of organization
  • Summarize one year plan of action
  • Flowchart of one year plan
  • Give an overview of Budget for plan
  • Evaluate the potential benefit of the plan
  • Write conclusion

Develop a 700-word summary for the Executive team. Append your budget and SWOT analysis to the plan. 

Create a 2- to 3-minute motivational video for the workforce highlighting your leadership style as an asset to the organization and the workforce and your assigned task. 

Compare and contrast the different the different push-button guards that are commonly used

Question 2       

 

  1. Compare  and contrast the different the different push-button guards that are  commonly used. Discuss the features of each type of push-button guard  that are important to ensure that they adequately protect the operator.  In your opinion, what is the most important variable to consider in  designing a push-button guard?

    Your essay should be at least 200 words in length.

Compare and contrast each of the eight classes of mechanical hazards

  1. Compare  and contrast each of the eight classes of mechanical hazards. Describe  the type of injury that may result from these hazards. Provide at least  one control method for each of the eight classes.

    Your essay should be at least 200 words in length.    Arial3 (12pt)ParagraphFont familyFont sizePath: pWords:0       

50 points   

Nursing Competency

What is the importance of cultural competency in nursing practice? Support your response 

 

250 words minimun

Business Finance – Operations Management

Imagine that you are the administrator of a city hospital and you have been asked by your hospital’s legal counsel to prepare a presentation for your hospital’s medical team that discusses negligence in the healthcare environment.

Create a presentation consisting of at least 10 slides, not including your title slide and references slide that covers the following issues:

 

• potential legal risks that physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals may encounter in the workplace 

• methods physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals can use to ensure that no claims of negligence can be filed against them. In other words, explain what they can do to ensure that the environment is safe for their patients and themselves so that no becomes injured or is harmed.

 

Please ensure the assignment is in APA formatting and all references are cited properly.

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