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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
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Unit 9 Final Project Instructions Locate and review the document called Concierge Care Backgrounder found in Doc Sharing. To prepare for this Assignment, you might also want to view the PBS NewsHour video, Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee, found here:

Source: Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee: PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec12/medicine_07-09.html Prepare a 3–4 page (1000-1200 words) analysis for Dr. Green that demonstrates your consideration of your practice’s current capabilities with regard to 1) adopting a concierge care business model or 2) expanding the existing practice. (Feel free to look at sample SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces Framework templates for ideas, but do not use a template because some applications may not be able to “read” the template you select.) It is important to note that there are no completely right or wrong answers for this Assignment. In the end, the physicians will make the final decision, but they are looking to you to evaluate the situation from a business perspective, to have asked the right questions and to do the legwork. Your submission will be graded based on your clear demonstration that the following have been considered: • Competition • Customers (mix, customer demand) • Continuity of care • Value • Sources of revenue • Costs (including marketing, technology, payroll, office fit-out) • Staffing needs (propose specific roles and responsibilities) • Ethical concerns Finally, in a concise summary paragraph or two, present your recommendation to your employers. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the status quo versus moving to a concierge care model? Does a hybrid model make sense? If so, how would you structure it, and why do you think it is the desired option?

Remember to be clear and detailed in your responses. Your writing should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.), and it should be logical, original and insightful. Finally, ensure that your paper fully conforms to APA Style and include a cover page and a reference page. Requirements

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Kaplan University School of Health Sciences HS450 Strategic Planning and Organizational Development for Healthcare

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• The body of the paper should be 3–4 pages (1000-1200 words) in length. A title page and a reference page should also be included but do not apply to the length requirement. • The paper should be written in an essay format, with transitions between paragraphs that discuss specific topic areas or thoughts. Include an introduction and conclusion. • Double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font • Follow the conventions and mechanics of Standard American English (correct grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc.). • The submission should be presented in an organized, logical and unified manner and consist of superior content that is original and insightful. • Include at least one reference. Neither the course textbook nor the PBS video may count toward the reference requirement for this Assignment, but you should still cite these sources if you utilize them. All references should follow APA style format. • Meet APA style requirements throughout the submission, including title page, formatting, citations in the body of the text as well as related references. Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you in conforming to APA style.

Refer to Chapter 6 in the text as needed.
Using the Fast, Practical Filter Design technique presented in section 6.3 design the following. Be sure to show all work for full credit.

Low-Pass Filter with critical frequency = 10kHz.
High-Pass Filter with critical frequency = 10kHz.
Narrow-Bandpass Filter with critical a band of 100kHz

Create a MultiSIM schematic of each of your designs. Provide a screenshot.
Perform a simulation of each design to demonstrate the filter behavior. Take a screenshot.
From your simulation and screenshot in the above step, what is the gain in dB at the critical frequency for the low-pass filter and the high-pass filter? What is the bandpass of the bandpass filter, and how did you determine it?
If you were to implement your high-pass filter in hardware, what considerations would you need to take into consideration? How would these considerations impact the performance and the extent to which you would meet specifications? Be specific! Provide specific examples of the issues you would encounter based on your specific initial design and actions you would need to take to finalize your design. Is there anything you would have done differently to create your initial design in step 2 above if you had thought about an implementation in hardware from the beginning?
Include all your calculations and screenshots in a Word Document with the title: “HW2_StudentID”, with your student id substituted in the file name. Show all work for full credit.
Upload file “HW2_Stu

Familiarize yourself with the Course Project Guide and multimedia program options by reading the. Using the program you decide to use for your Week 7 multimedia Presentation (Prezi or Screencast), create a brief presentation (1-2 slides/elements) about the organism you chose for your course project. The organism should come from one of the four major kingdoms (Protist, Fungus, Plant, or Animal) and be indigenous to the area in which you reside. The organism should not be a domesticated pet but rather a species that is native to the local area where you live. Please include the following information about your species in your introductory presentation via an attached link along with your virtual introduction and be sure to choose an organism not already selected by one of your classmates:

1. Common and scientific names of the organism
2. Area of residence (city, state, country, etc.)
3. Why you chose this organism

For instructions on how to create and upload your presentation see the following links: Prezi Presentation Creation and Uploading Instructions and Screencast Creation and Uploading Instructions.
One of the drawbacks to online learning is that you miss out on the interactions from your classmates. Therefore, please take this opportunity to interact with at least two of your classmates by responding to their entries. Feel free to ask questions about each other and your course projects as you will be spending the next eight weeks together sharing in the experiences of this course. On that note, classroom community is a huge part of the learning experience so in addition to your initial posts and reply posts, be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification. The forums are a great way to build a classroom community, learn from one another, and connect with your peers so be sure to check the forums regularly in order to keep the dialogue moving!
NOTE: If you are submitting a Prezi presentation, please copy and paste the URL address circled in red in the screenshot below:

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Note: Should you choose to write your posts in MS Word first, opting to cut and paste into the Rich Text Editor (RTE) Box from Word, please click HERE to review the document on RTE otherwise your post may end up containing an overwhelming and unnecessary amount of “html” coding. If you type directly into the RTE box you will not run the chance of having this coding/clutter in your posts. Please retain this information for future forums. Thank you!

The forum will be evaluated using this rubric.

Assume you are the Sales and Marketing Director for Sea Treasures, a small group of well-known retail stores specializing in exotic sea life and high-end accessories for aquariums. The company has been in business for over 50 years, but the customer base is shrinking, sales are slow, and you are faced with reducing staff and closing stores. Sea Treasures will be out of business within a year if innovative and creative changes are not made quickly. After many months, you have finally been able to convince the owner that the only way to sustain the business and increase revenue is to create an Internet Website to sell the large inventory of aquarium decorator items (currently gathering dust in a costly warehouse) . This will be a short-term, small scale change. Six months later, you will expand the Website to sell live sea creatures such as tropical fish and small sea turtles online, which is a long-term, large-scale change.

You face many challenges in this transformational change initiative, beginning with strong employee resistance, new technology, and shipping methods. Many small businesses have been faced with these same issues, and have made the transition successfully. Consider the humble beginnings of Amazon, and look where they are today. Selecting the best change model for this business, and implementing it step by step provides the foundation for creating an exciting new company.

In 3 – 5 pages, explain which change model you would follow for the short-term change and which you would follow for the long-term change. Provide rationale for your decision and discuss the effects that these changes would have on the employees, managers, and executives within the organization. Include at least three references and follow standard APA formatting for your paper.

Here are the change models

Evolution: when the change is incremental but transformation is the result. This strategy suggests proceeding in a progressive way by alsoanalyzing both the internal and external environments while implementing the change. Implementing a new software system in a division overa two-year period is such an example.

Adaptation: when the change is also incremental and the end result is realignment. This is the least intrusive in impact on the organization andthe most commonly used. Installing software applications, revising job descriptions, and including online training are examples.

Revolution: when the change is big bang and transformational. An example might be a company that is bought by another parent firm and thenew owner requests the present leaders and managers to change the vision and mission and then replace a majority of the workforce.

Reconstruction: when the change is big bang combined with realignment.

Type: Discussion Board

Due Date: Sun, 09/13/15

Points Possible: 75

Deliverable Length: 400-600 words plus peer responses

Description:

Primary Discussion Response is due by Wednesday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Sunday (11:59:59pm Central).

Reflective Summary: Review and reflect on the Government Roles and Emergency Management Discussion Board. Based on your review and reflection of new learnings in this course, write at least 400-600 words on the following points:

What have you learned from others’ responses?

What were the most compelling points from the interaction with your fellow students?

How did participating in this discussion help in your understanding of the Discussion Board task?

What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information in the students’ networking?

What is still unclear after the discussion with your classmates that needs to be clarified?

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Objectives:

Discuss and describe the emergency management concepts of, and organizational functions related to, preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery.

Discuss the types and history of hazards – both natural and man-made.

Identify the organizations, and their functions, on all levels (federal, state, and local) involved in Emergency Management.

In Module/Week 3, you will write a 750-word (3–4-pages) essay that compares and contrasts 2 stories from the Fiction Unit. Before you begin writing the essay, carefully read the guidelines for developing your paper topic that are given below. Review the Fiction Essay Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information, plan the direction of your essay, and organize your ideas by developing a 1-page thesis statement and outline for your essay. Format the thesis statement and the outline in a single Word document using current MLA, APA, or Turabian style (whichever corresponds to your degree program). You have the opportunity to submit your thesis and outline by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2 for instructor feedback.

The essay is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 3 and must include a title page (see the General Writing Requirements), a thesis/outline page, and the essay itself followed by a works cited/references page of any primary or secondary texts cited in the essay.

Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic

Chapter 39 of the Kennedy and Gioia textbook provides some helpful pointers for reading actively, taking notes, brainstorming, developing a clearly-defined thesis statement, preparing an outline, and writing a cogent fiction essay. Be sure that you have read this chapter before doing any further work for this assignment.

Choose 2 of the following short stories to compare and contrast in your essay:

· “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson,

· “The Destructors” by Graham Greene,

· “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence,

· “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

· “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe, or

· “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell.

Also, make at least 1 of these elements of fiction the focus of your essay:

· Conflict/Plot/Structure,

· Characterization,

· Setting,

· Theme/Authors’ Purposes,

· Point of View, and/or

· Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol/Imagery.

If you need help focusing your essay, ask yourself questions that correspond to your chosen element(s).

Conflict/Plot/Structure (This is not a summary of the stories)

· What are the basic conflicts? How do these conflicts build tension, leading to major, complicated incidents and climactic moment(s)?

· What are the ways in which each major character experiences conflict (either with self, with other characters, or with the social and/or physical environment)?

· How are the conflicts resolved? Do the protagonists succeed in achieving their goals?

· Who receives your deepest sympathy and why?

Characterization

Who are the main characters in the stories?
What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?
What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?
Can the characters’ motivations be determined from the text?

Setting

Where and when do the stories take place (remember to include such details as geographic location, time of year, time period, if the setting is rural or urban, etc.)?
Do the settings make the stories believable or credible? How does setting impact the plot of the story, and how would the plot be affected if the story took place in another setting?
Are the characters influenced by their setting? How might they behave if they were in a different setting?
What atmosphere or mood does the setting create (for example, darkness may create a mood of fear or unhappiness while light or bright colors may create one of happiness)?
Is the setting or any aspect of it a symbol, or does the setting express particular ideas?
Does setting create expectations that are the opposite of what occurs?

Theme/Authors’ Purposes

What is the major theme (or themes) of each story?
Are the themes of the stories similar or different?
How does the author convey the theme (or themes) to the reader?
How do the stories’ themes relate to the authors’ purposes (some examples of author purposes are to entertain, to satirize, to realistically portray life’s problems, to analyze emotions and responses, and/or to communicate a moral message)?
What unique style, techniques, or devices do the writers use to communicate their themes?

Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol

How would you describe the tone of the piece?
Does the tone correspond with the action occurring in the plot?
What style does the author use (for example, one way an author might satirize is by including a lot of ironies, hyperbole, and unrealistic scenarios)?
How might the story be different if the tone or style is changed?
Does the writer use irony or symbols to communicate the message?

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.

Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 4: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property

Due Week 9 and worth 300 points

You are a new associate at the law firm of Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. John, a former researcher at PharmaCARE, comes to your office. He has concerns about PharmaCARE’s use of AD23, one of the company’s top-selling diabetes drugs. Two (2) years ago, after PharmaCARE’s research indicated that AD23 might also slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, John and his team of pharmacists began reformulating the drug to maximize that effect. In order to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) scrutiny, PharmaCARE established a wholly-owned subsidiary, CompCARE, to operate as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new formulation to individuals on a prescription basis. CompCARE established itself in a suburban office park near its parent’s headquarters. To conserve money and time, CompCARE did a quick, low-cost renovation.

CompCARE benefited from PharmaCARE’s reputation, databases, networks, and sales and marketing expertise, and within six (6) months had the medical community buzzing about AD23. Demand soared, particularly among Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs patients. Seeing the opportunity to realize even more profit, CompCARE began advertising AD23 directly to consumers and marketing the drug directly to hospitals, clinics, and physician offices, even though compounding pharmacies are not permitted to sell drugs in bulk for general use. To circumvent this technicality, CompCARE encouraged doctors to fax lists of fictitious patient names to CompCARE. PharmaCARE sold CompCARE to WellCo, a large drugstore chain, just weeks before AD23 was publicly linked to over 200 cardiac deaths.

As CompCARE and its new parent company enjoyed record profits and PharmaCARE’s stock price approached $300 per share, reports started surfacing that people who received AD23 seemed to be suffering heart attacks at an alarming rate. The company ignored this data and continued filling large orders and paying huge bonuses to all the executives and managers, including John, whose wife recently died from a heart attack after using AD23.

John has come to you with an internal company memo describing the potential problems with AD23, and information describing the company’s willingness “roll the dice” and continue to market the drug.

Your senior partner has asked you to write a memo outlining the following issues for review by the senior partners.

In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Strayer Library to research examples of intellectual property theft that occurred within the past two (2) years.

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

Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety and examine whether PharmaCARE violated any of the issues in question.
Argue for or against Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing by drug companies. Provide support for your response.
Determine the parties responsible for regulating compounding pharmacies under the current regulatory scheme, the actions that either these parties or the FDA could / should have taken in this scenario, and whether PharmaCARE could face legal exposure surrounding its practices. Support your response.
Analyze the manner in which PharmaCARE used U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property and if John has any claim to being the true “inventor” of AD23. Suggest at least three (3) ways the company could compensate John for the use of his intellectual property.
Summarize at least one (1) current example (within the past two [2] years) of intellectual property theft, and examine the effect on that company’s brand.
Analyze the potential issue surrounding the death of John’s wife and other potential litigants against PharmaCARE as a result of AD23.
Specify both the major arguments that John can make to claim that he is a whistleblower and the type of protections that he should be afforded. Justify your response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do 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:

Analyze and assess legal and ethical restraints on marketing and advertising, relative to both consumers and organizations.
Analyze and evaluate laws and regulations relative to product safety and liability.
Explore copyright laws and intellectual property rights and assess how well they balance competing interests.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
Write clearly and concis

Identify an area of chronic illness of specific interest to you and that is represented as a Healthy People 2020 topic (healthypeople.gov). Explain your choice and your interest in it. Prepare a questionnaire utilizing your knowledge of health and illness, with the aim of acquiring all information you need from patients to prepare a plan of care for the specific illness group. Submit your information in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document. In addition to your questionnaire, be sure to include the following details in your paper.

Chronic Illness of interest
Morbidity and cormorbidity of the disease
Impact of the chronic illness and patient morbidity and the affect to overall health of nation
Healty People 2020 goals and objectives for specific illness group

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified a chronic illness of interest and discussed the morbidity and comorbidity of the disease.
32
Discussed the impact of the chronic illness and patient morbidity and discussed how this will affect the overall health of the nation.
32
Discussed Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives pertaining to the specific illness group.
28
Prepared questionnaire for assessment of specific illness group.
28
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited all sources using APA format.

There are 2 assignments that need to be completed and will be checked using turnitin.

Assignment 1: Utilize the document I have attached as the basis for assignment 1 only

This journal article review addresses criminal justice policy issues that stem from the formation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, such as concerns stemming from the passage of the Patriot Act.

Formal Report: The majority of your review should be focused on your analysis of the journal article. In your formal report:

Summarize the journal article.
Identify the key findings and issues as presented by the authors of journal article.
Summarize the recommendations of the authors.
Analyze the article as it applies to the criminal justice policy issue. (This should be the main focus of your paper.)

Your journal article review must:

Be 3 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style.
Use at least two scholarly sources in to the newspaper articles being evaluated.
Document all sources in APA style
Include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style

Assignment 2

The political makeup of the U.S. Supreme court can affect major rulings. Select a major ruling that has changed or been modified over the last 20 to 30 years (e.g., Miranda advisements, search and seizure rules, the exclusionary rules, use of DNA evidence, police surveillance, data mining, etc.). In your paper:

Explain the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in criminal justice policy making.
Explain how the court’s decisions changed the selected criminal justice policy.
Examine potential issues that must be evaluated in the future by the U.S. Supreme Court that will further shape criminal justice policy (e.g., you could discuss how advances in technology such as surveillance, computer analysis, drones, police equipment, etc., have affected the courts decisions).
Analyze how the U.S. Supreme Court criminal justice decision affects social justice.

Your paper must:

Be 3 ½ double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style
Use at least five scholarly sources Document all sources in APA style
Include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style Final Paper