Case Study

Academy Health recently published a document that includes four interesting case studies that look at paying for population health. All four cases are included in one document, each about 5 pages long. You should skim the document and select one of the four that is of most interest to you and do the case study analysis on this article. Here is the link https://www.academyhealth.org/sites/default/files/Paying_for_Pop_Health_Case_Studies_Full_Jan2018.pdf 
 

Standardized Coding Systems

As a result of the fragmented nature of the health care system, professionals in various specialty areas of medicine have developed their own unique sets of terminology to communicate within that specialty. In the past, limited attention has been given to codifying practices in order for them to be understood and utilized across disciplines or through different information technology systems. The implementation of a federally mandated electronic medical records system, therefore, poses a challenge to nursing professionals and others who must be prepared to utilize standardized codes for the new system. Why are coding standards important for promoting consistent, high-quality care?
According to Rutherford (2008,para. 15), “Improved communication with other nurses, health care professionals, and administrators of the institution in which nurses work is a key benefit of using a standardized nursing language.” In this Discussion you consider the reasoning behind and the value of standardized codification.
To prepare
Review the information in Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice. Determine which set of terminologies are appropriate for your specialty or area of expertise.
Reflect on the importance of continuity in terminology and coding systems.
In the article, “Standardized Nursing Language: What Does It Mean for Nursing Practice?” the author recounts a visit to a local hospital to view its implementation of a new coding system. One of the nurses commented to her, “We document our care using standardized nursing languages but we don’t fully understand why we do” (Rutherford, 2008, para. 1). Consider how you would inform this nurse (and others like her) of the importance of standardized nursing terminologies.
Reflect on the value of using a standard language in nursing practice. Consider if standardization can be limited to a specialty area or if one standard language is needed across all nursing practice. Then, identify examples of standardization in your own specialty or area of expertise. Conduct additional research using the Walden Library that supports your thoughts on standardization of nursing terminology.
Post an explanation of why nurses need to document care using standardized nursing languages and whether this standardization can be limited to specialty areas or if it should be across all nursing practice. Support your response using specific examples from your own specialty or area of expertise and using at least one additional resource.

Boutique hotel business report

Business Report: 3000 words

As a future leader in Hospitality and Tourism, you will frequently use financial accounting to make better business decisions. Managers use various types of indicators to evaluate company performance and highlight areas of improvement. As a business simulation scenario, your team will manage an international hotel operation with 30 boutique properties. The group report gives you an opportunity to work with a team of your peers and investigate a topic that is of significant importance to the hotel sector.

The purpose of this assignment is threefold. First, the design of this report is to be a practicum for learning leadership skills including group decision making, conflict resolution, interpersonal communication, and critical analysis. Second, you have an opportunity to implement financial solutions both independently and as part of a diverse team. Finally, this assignment also provides you an opportunity to develop effective written communication skills.

Using the template provided, apply financial accounting decision-making concepts and skills for your business to structure your Report:

1. Prepare a “transactions analysis” of summary 20 transactions in 2014 and 2015 that shows the changes in resources over the past 2 years of operation as a business. 


2. Based on “transactions analysis” prepare an Income Statement for 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Revenues and Expenses from 2014 to 2015. 


3. Prepare a Statement of Changes in Owner’s Equity in 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Retained Earnings from 2014 to 2015. 


4. Prepare a Balance Sheet in an appropriate format for 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Assets, Liabilities and Owners’ Equity from 2014 to 2015. 


5. Calculate Current Ratio (Working Capital Ratio) and Quick Ratio for 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Liquidity from 2014 to 2015 by comparing these changes over time and with other hotel benchmarks. Use the 4th Qtr. 2015 Hotel and Tourism Industry Financial Ratios (from https://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profitability_Ratios.php?ind=906&hist=4 ) and one other global hotel from Accor, Hyatt, IHG or Marriott (2015) as your benchmarks. (from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/0069/profile) 


6. Calculate Debt to Equity ratios for 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Solvency from 2014 to 2015 by comparing these changes over time and with other hotel benchmarks. Use the 4th Qtr. 2015 Hotel and Tourism Industry Financial Ratios (from https://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profitability_Ratios.php?ind=906&hist=4 ) and one other global hotel from Accor, Hyatt, IHG or Marriott (2015) as your benchmarks. (from (from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/0069/profile) 


7. Calculate Net Profit Margin and Operating Margin for 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Profitability from 2014 to 2015 by comparing these changes over time and with other hotel benchmarks. Use the 4th Qtr. 2015 Hotel and Tourism Industry Financial Ratios (from https://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profitability_Ratios.php?ind=906&hist=4) and one other global hotel from Accor, Hyatt, IHG or Marriott (2015) as your benchmarks. (from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/0069/profile) 


8. Calculate Asset Turnover Ratio for 2014 and 2015; discuss any important changes to Efficiency Ratio from 2014 to 2015 by comparing these changes over time and with other hotel benchmarks. Use the 4th Qtr. 2015 Hotel and Tourism Industry Financial Ratios 


(from https://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profitability_Ratios.php?ind=906&hist=4 ) and one other global hotel from Accor, Hyatt, IHG or Marriott (2015) as your benchmarks. (from (from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/0069/profile)

9. Identify specific concerns or possible areas of management improvement; examine areas of liquidity, solvency and profitability, revenues and expenses together with the management of assets, liabilities and equity. Evaluate any financial areas of concern and opportunity including recommendations for future improvement by management. In this section of the Report, as a team, explain how you are making better business decisions to improve the company financially.

Please use "working capital ratio" from csimarket.com to benchmark against your work and your findings from "marketwatch.com"

QUANTITATIVE CRITIQUE SCHOLARLY PAPER

Scholarly paper should be in narrative format. Include an introductory paragraph, purpose statement and conclusion. Include level 1 heading.
4. Write the paper in third person, not first person (meaning do not use ‘we’ or ‘I’) and in a scholarly manner. To clarify: I, we, you, me, our may not be used. In addition, describing yourself as the researcher or the author should not be used.
5. Include a minimum of one -two professional peer-reviewed scholarly journal references to support the paper and be less than five (5) years old.

Research on The Effect of the U.S. Interest Rate on South Korea’s Economy

Research on The Effect of the U.S. Interest Rate on South Korea’s Economy
: How Is It Related to Households’ Debt on Housing Loans in Korea?

The relationship between traditional and modern graphic design

Aim is to identify different styles used by graphic designers and how they are effective.

Health and Wellbeing in Education

Provide an annotated rationale over a written unit of work for secondary school pupils to develop their understanding of the relationship between nutrition, exercise, health and wellbeing.

1.       Detailed description of appropriate learning activities to teach health and wellbeing

2.       Critical knowledge and understanding of choice of learning activities to teach health and wellbeing (Shown in annotations and details of learning activities)

3.       Critical understanding of learning outcomes and progression though the unit of work (Shown in learning activities, curriculum links and assessments)

4.       Link current national curriculum guidelines and aims

Chicano Studies

Write a 4-5pp

Please refer to all the documents that I have uploaded and follow/read the instruction carefully and correctly. ABSOULETLY NO PLAGIARIM IS ALLOWED. You can use quotes to support your evidence, idea, fact, and opinion. Make sure to write in your own words. Please make sure that the flow of sentence must be great. Please write a detailed, creative, interesting, and strong essay on the following topic with great thesis statement and interesting title. Thesis statement must be argumentative, creative, interesting, debatable, well-expressed (It must show what you are going to write about in the following body paragraphs), and thoughtful. Please write as much credible, correct, and interesting information/fact about the following prompt as possible.

All student papers submitted on b-course will be screened for plagiarized sources via “Turnitin”

Individual Paper!
Over the last seven weeks, we have engaged a series of questions having to do with excavating the building blocks of modern/colonial policing in relationship to the origins of racism, coloniality of power, settler colonialism and white supremacy. These are asked by activists, organizers thinkers, and other situated knowledge positions who are thinking through the following: Are prisons obsolete? Are such institutions like the police obsolete? How do we understand the role of racial/gendered violence and the law? What are the methodologies used to further the line between the human and the sub-human/non-human? What is the relationship between racial violence, concepts of whiteness as property, and citizenship in the formation of a Mexican American subject? And how does studying historical moments by which the criminalization of Mexican/Mexican Americans/Chicanxs appear to serve to undermine the very logic(s) that give them meaning?

For your assignment, write a “thought piece” that engages these conversations and questions. Obviously in such a short paper, I expect you to be as precise and sharp in your analysis. That is to say, go straight into one of the topics, themes, questions that emerged as significant to you. Be in conversation with the authors, the topics, your classmates and communities, and myself. What question(s) emerge from your engagement with these authors and topics that you want to answer or speak to? Use proper citation of the materials and lectures. You do not need to do further research or bring in other resources.

Source-based Academic Argument Essay (5-7 pages) based on music from one or more time periods in jazz history

In Paper 2 you will develop your own academic argument to analyze (objectively) and interpret (subjectively) at least two exhibits, with the help of at least two argument sources. Remember to cite the sources – and include links, if relevant – for all four or more sources. For this essay, the exhibit sources may be examples of music from any time period or genre covered in these chapters. The arguments or positions should be from published sources, e.g. relevant passages from a book, scholarly articles, or journalists’ critiques. Assess each source to ensure that it is reputable, reliable, and authoritative. Give preference to recognized critics, historians, journalists, and musicians. Avoid anonymous, poorly written, and overly general sources. To execute this assignment successfully, you must (1) advance an argument, position, or claim of your own; (2) summarize an argument or position that contrasts or conflicts with yours; and (3) support your position or claim through analysis and interpretation of the particular exhibits. Length of Final Version: 5-7 pages.

As a social worker, you will often work with clients that are perceived as "others." This "otherness" often leads to marginalization and barriers or limitations promoted by society and social institutions. Marginalization is arguably the most dangerous form of oppression (Adams, 2013) because it eventually leads to social expulsion and material deprivation. Social work is a unique profession because it empowers those who are affected by the socially constructed barriers and biases that have perpetuated long-standing inequalities. As you begin your work with clients both as an intern and social worker, it is imperative to consider not only the individual (micro) concerns the client brings to the session but the environmental or macro factors that may have either created or perpetuated the concern. You can empower your clients by helping them identify and define the oppression they experienced throughout their lifetime. Social work's commitment to social justice includes a hyperawareness of the social constructions that are used to limit some groups' autonomy and viability while supporting others.

As a social worker, you will often work with clients that are perceived as "others." This "otherness" often leads to marginalization and barriers or limitations promoted by society and social institutions. Marginalization is arguably the most dangerous form of oppression (Adams, 2013) because it eventually leads to social expulsion and material deprivation. Social work is a unique profession because it empowers those who are affected by the socially constructed barriers and biases that have perpetuated long-standing inequalities. As you begin your work with clients both as an intern and social worker, it is imperative to consider not only the individual (micro) concerns the client brings to the session but the environmental or macro factors that may have either created or perpetuated the concern. You can empower your clients by helping them identify and define the oppression they experienced throughout their lifetime. Social work's commitment to social justice includes a hyperawareness of the social constructions that are used to limit some groups' autonomy and viability while supporting others.