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To prepare for this Assignment:
Examine Case Study: A Puerto Rican Woman With Comorbid Addiction. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
At each decision point stop to complete the following:
Decision #1
Which decision did you select?
Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
Decision #2
Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
Decision #3
Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of three academic resources. While you may use the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement.

Required Readings
Stahl, S. M. (2013). Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (4th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

To access the following chapters, click on the Essential Psychopharmacology, 4th ed tab on the Stahl Online website and select the appropriate chapter. Be sure to read all sections on the left navigation bar for each chapter.
Chapter 14, “Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction”
Stahl, S. M., & Grady, M. (2012). Stahl’s illustrated substance use and impulsive disorder New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

To access the following chapter, click on the Illustrated Guides tab and then the Substance Use and Impulsive Disorders tab.
Chapter 10, “Disorders of Impulsivity and Compulsivity”
Stahl, S. M. (2014b). The prescriber’s guide (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

To access information on the following medications, click on The Prescriber’s Guide, 5th ed tab on the Stahl Online website and select the appropriate medication.

https://mym.cdn.laureate-media.com/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6630/08/mm/co-morbid_addiction_etoh_and_gambling/index.html

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Assignment on Professional issues in teaching. Written in the 1st person. Points to discuss:
Professional Values and code of conduct, professional development, Lesson observation (not always negative) linking to UK politics and increased accountability and pressure on public services (neoliberalism) linking into increased performance management (ofsted). Social Media, Managerialism.

there is a section where I have to reflect on my own development as a practitioner during the course – I will talk about how I am more aware of equality and diversity and the use of formative assessment.

I have attached the module handbook – the assignment guide starts at the very bottom of page 7 (what is professionalism) and continues onto the next page. Can i ask that the assignment is written to this criteria with subheadings. UK sources only please. Page number to also be included in text.

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Assignment 2: Appreciative Inquiry in a Collaborative Group. Due at the end of week 7. Please refer to the document linked below, from The Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, entitled, "Appreciative Inquiry: Asking Powerful Questions". IF the link is not working do an internet search, for "Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, Appreciative Inquiry. Asking powerful questions".

Read the document to see how the coalition used appreciative inquiry material. Then using that material in a group setting to help develop your techniques. Write a 4-5 page paper about the experience. Include your questions and answers and explain how the group or their answers changed by using appreciative inquiry as well as more powerful questions instead of less powerful questions. You can select the group and topic you want to use: a family meeting, a work group or a community based group. 

https://design.umn.edu/about/intranet/documents/AppreciativeInquiry-Asking%20Powerful%20Questions.pdf

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Develop a 1,050-word response addressing each of the following prompts: 
Define statistics with citation and reference.
Contrast quantitative data and qualitative data. Use two peer reviewed references.
Evaluate tables and charts used to represent quantitative and qualitative data.
Describe the levels of data measurement.
Describe the role of statistics in business decision-making.
Provide at least two business research questions, or problem situations, in which statistics was used or could be used.
Use two peer reviewed references. 
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines

We do not expect you to use every model mentioned in the lecture series but to select the ones that YOU think are appropriate. It would be better to use fewer models well than try and use lots of models and not do them justice because you are trying to do too much with them. 
Regarding other models such as the Value Chain, BCG matrix, Business Canvas Model, Payback, NPV, McKinsey 7S model and others, these can be in the main body if they assist the argument. We do not specify which other models we expect you to use as each of you will approach the work differently with your own thoughts and ideas.
These will be in tables, diagrams and or boxes so outside the word count limit but your discussion is key and we would expect this to short, sharp and to the point so this is where our 2,000 word guide comes into play to assist you in sticking to the point. We are basing our limit on the 16 pages not the 2,000 words so long as you do not exceed the 16 page limit you WILL NOT BE penalized or capped. I hope that is clear.
We are looking for the core content of the report and appropriate models to be within these 16 pages. The 2,000 word limit is a word guide limit meaning we expect to see lots of content in the SWOT, lots of detail on the two strategies, Suzanne will send out additional guidance on this, lots of detail on the SAFe model.
This information is presented in the SWOT which should be in the main body but the models that have populated the SWOT e.g. strategic capabilities, PESTEL & 5 Forces these should be in the appendices. We know you have done these models in the first year but the focus here is what are the key drivers and what they mean for your chosen firm so these models assist you in mapping the environment and then selecting the key issues to focus the development of your two strategies on.
as you get stuck into your coursework the whispers have started about what to do and where to put things. The coursework focus is on what are the key drivers the firm is facing in the near to long term FROM BOTH THE INTERNAL PERSPECTIVE (Strategic capabilities) and EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS (PESTEL & 5 FORCES).

How passionate are you about the products you buy or places where you shop?  Do you know whether or not these companies act responsibly and if they don’t, would you continue to buy their products or shop there?  These are questions you will soon ask yourself after researching this week’s assignment which focuses on mission statements.

First, let’s start off by defining what a mission statement is.  A mission statement is the basic purpose of an organization and its reason for existing.  Within the corporate mission statement, you will also find the corporation’s strategic vision which allows customers to understand the future direction of the company.  You may find these words used interchangeably, but please note the vision statement will clearly state the long-term direction of the company and its intent.   Some companies stand up to their promise while others make promises they fail to live up to.

Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) is one of the leading coffee distributors and one that truly lives up to its promises.   What does it promise?  Their website states:

“We believe that every cup matters — for the convenience, for the great taste, as well as for the world. Across our supply chain and within our own operations, we strive to make the world a better place.” Keurig Green Mountain (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Research for examples that would back up this statement revealed the following: 

• Since its incorporation, KGM has protected the environment by composting unused coffee beans
• It encouraged growers to farm organically and introduced organic coffees to its product line
• It gives financial grants to help farmers learn how to implement effective agricultural practices and how to care for their own and their family's health.
• In 2009, it replaced the roof at its distribution center with a solar array roof.

During my research, I also discovered KGM is having an issue with the “K-cup” that many of you may use in your Keurig coffee machines at work or at home.   These cups are not recyclable which runs counter to KGM’s commitment to protecting the environment.  However, the company is looking for ways to make K-cups recyclable and thereby showing a commitment to its mission statement  My KGM research seems to indicate this company stands by what it says and I feel very comfortable purchasing its products.  Below is a link listing Fortune 500 mission statements.  Can you find examples that indicate they live up to what they say?  Or will you discover some or all of their promises are false? 

Answer the following questions, in essay form. Each question should be rewritten and answered completely, using complete paragraphs and citing sources both in-text and on the reference page.

1. Explain the importance of conventions to associations, and identify factors that association meeting planners consider when making a site selection. Additionally, describe the tools salespeople use to locate associations and to find information about the meetings associations hold.

2. Identify factors that corporate meeting planners consider when making a site selection, and describe the tools salespeople use to locate corporations and to find information about the meetings they hold.

3. Summarize sales considerations for selling meeting services and products to SMERF organizations, identifying several SMERF organizations.

4. Describe the convention and meeting sales techniques of sales blitz selling, trade show selling, selling with convention bureaus, site-inspection selling, and familiarization tours.

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Read the attached HBR case: 'BUILDING A "BACKDOOR" TO THE IPHONE: AN ETHICAL DILEMMA'
and answer the following question: Which right should Cook choose? What are the ethical dilemmas involved in making this decision? How should Cook resolve the dilemma? Give your view.

This DB has 4 parts

Leaders are responsible for motivation.  Having low morale can be devastating to any organization.  However, motivating people is not easy.  Many leaders have tried and failed.

1. In your experience, what motivates people?  Is it always the same things or actions for every person?  Why or why not?
2. What do you believe demotivates employees?  Is it always the same things or actions for every employee?  Why or why not?
3. Motivating people in times of uncertainty is an especially difficult challenge.  What is it about uncertainty that makes motivation so difficult?
4. You are in charge of a department during a planned corporate downsizing, how would you keep morale high in your department?  Why do you believe this would be an effective strategy?

 In what situations would position-oriented staffing be preferable to talent-oriented staffing? 

Phillips, J., & Gully, S. (2015). Strategic staffing. (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.   Chapter 2 Business and Staffing Strategies

At least 200 words