Category: Essays

Unit II Journal Assignment

As you journey through this unit, and are honing in on your critical thinking skills, you might have recognized the information regarding the Game Plan.

To help in your critical thinking process, the Game Plan, located on pages 38-42 in your textbook, consisting of 10 strategies, was created to help assist you in making critical decisions. One of the 10, Keep an Intellectual Journal, will be the main focus of this assignment, however, other strategies will be included.

Throughout the week you are to keep a journal. Within this journal, list at least three situations that have occurred during the week that are emotionally significant to you (meaning things you deeply care about).

From your list, accomplish the following, while keeping each situation separate from the rest:

1. Describe each situation and explain why each was important to you.

2. Describe how you behaved, with precise details, in each situation.

3. Formulate at least two questions that ask what was going on during the situation, and explain your answer to each question as a means of self-assessment.

4. Of the nine strategies remaining, remember you are keeping an intellectual journal, choose two and explain how using them will help you in decision making to solve each situation you listed.

Your journal needs to be a minimum of two pages in length, double spaced, in 12 point, Times New Roman font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

Course Textbook

Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2012). Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life (3rd ed.).

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, consisting of 10- to 12-slides, outlining the elements required to create a memo that informs staff in an accurate manner of an impending reduction in the workforce. Think about how you will be objective and informative in communicating this major management decision without deliberately raising anxiety amongst all staff.

Consider the challenges and elements of this week’s case when constructing your memo. Your last 2–3 slides should be the actual memo.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Identified and described the elements required to create a memo that informs staff in an accurate manner of an impending reduction in the workforce.	50
Described a strategy for communicating this major management decision without deliberately raising anxiety amongst all staff.	50
Identified and described the challenges and elements of this week’s case when constructing your memo.	50
Created a memo addressing all elements and challenges.	50
Written components

Review the following two research studies.

1. 1. Garne, D., Watson, M., Chapman, S., & Byrne, F. (2005). Environmental tobacco smoke research published in the journal Indoor and Built Environmentand associations with the tobacco industry. Lancet, 365(9461), 804–9. Retrieved from http://www.lphi.org/LPHIadmin/uploads/Lancet-%20I+BE.pdf

 

1. Sclar, E. D., Garau, P., Carolini, G. (2005). The 21st century health challenge of slums and cities. Lancet, 365(9462), 901–3; Retrieved fromhttp://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/TheLancetSlums.pdf

Based on your review of the two studies, create a checklist to analyze the quality of research studies.

• Your checklist should not have more than 20 items. Avoid repetition.
• Explain how each item on the checklist helps evaluate a study.
• The checklist should be clearly worded. A person using it should not have to ask for an explanation of any item.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Designed an appropriate checklist to assess the quality of a research study	80
Explained how each item evaluates a study.	80
Clearly worded the checklist.	25
Presented a structured document free of spelling and grammatical errors

Should we mount a massive effort to restore ecosystems that we have degraded even though this will be quite costly? For this weeks environmental controversy we explore this question. Using the textbook, and any additional outside resources, answer the questions below. Write a 1-2 paragraph response to the questions posed to you. Remember to cite your sources using APA.

 

Ecological restoration, which is discussed in your textbook, has a critical role in protecting and understanding the Earth’s environments. Unfortunately, even if personnel and financial resources are available, many sites are too damaged to be effectively restored. In such cases, alternatives to restoration must be pursued, including: rehabilitation, remediation, replacement, or the creation of artificial ecosystems.

Some individuals worry that large-scale ecological restoration could mislead the public into believing that any amount of environmental damage can be undone. Ultimately, a massive and expensive restoration program could be offset by weakened regulations and increased environmental damage in other areas. Furthermore, alternatives to ecological restoration may be able to repair more sites at less cost.

Based on what you have read and researched, do you believe that the loss of biodiversity is a concern for humans? Should the government not only preserve but restore ecosystems that we have degraded the biodiversity even though this will be quite costly?

Identify an international organization and analyze the financial viability of the organization in the current international financial environment. Discuss the effects of instability in the foreign currency markets on organizational elements such as the supply chain, manufacturing and production. Explain how the organization mitigates the inherent risks in international currency.

Submit your two to three page paper (not including title and reference pages) to your instructor. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in Ashford Writing Center, and you should cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook

n the United States, managed care is becoming an increasingly popular method of administering healthcare. It influences the clinical behavior of providers, as it combines the payment and delivery of healthcare into a single system, the purpose of which is to control the cost, quality, and access of healthcare services for a single bracket of health plan enrollees (Scutchfield, Lee, & Patton, 1997).

Yet, managed care often evokes strong or negative reactions from healthcare providers because they are paid a fixed amount for treating their patients, regardless of the actual cost, which may influence their level of efficiency. This can challenge the relationships between doctors and patients (Claxton, Rae, Panchal, Damico, & Lundy, 2012; Sekhri, 2000).

Research managed care’s inception and study some examples. Be sure to investigate the perspectives about managed care from the vantage of both healthcare providers and patients. You can use the following keywords for your research—United States managed care, history of managed care, and managed care timeline.

Based on your research, answer the following questions in a 8- to 10-page Microsoft Word document:

What are the positive and negative aspects of managed care? Analyze the benefits and the risks for both providers and patients, and how providers should choose among managed care contracts. Conclude with your analysis and recommendations for managed care health plans. Your response should include answers to the following questions:
Summarize the history of when, how, and why managed care was developed.
Define and discuss each type of managed care organization (MCO)—health maintenance organization (HMO), preferred provider organization (PPO), and point of sale (POS).
Explain the positive and negative aspects, respectively, of managed care organization from the provider’s point of view—a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view.
Explain the three types of incentives for providers for efficiency in the delivery of healthcare services. Explain who bears the financial risk—the provider, the patient, or the managed care organization.
Offer your recommendations, to accept o

Select an article (from a current business periodical such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Fortune, etc.) that describes successfully leading change. Describe the change and analyze how that leadership was effective in overcoming resistance and implementing change. Support your assertions with cited research.

Your submitted assignment should include correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Be sure to cite your sources per APA formatting. For more information on APA

Evaluating and criticize on this book. This is not a research paper.

And answer this question : What question about the history of technology especially interests you, and how well did Diamond address it? total 4 page

The planning for the community building session is almost complete. The last details are how to conduct the plenary sessions for sharing information across groups to develop key priorities and themes that will need to be addressed.

There are 2 sessions that need to be planned. One is to review the work done by intact work teams. In this larger session, the goal is to spot patterns and identify themes that can be used to plan actions. These patterns or themes will come from the stop–continue–start charts developed by each functional group. In this way, not only will the changes that need to happen be identified, but aspects of effective work (those things that work well and should be continued) can also be reinforced.

The external consulting team strongly recommended a “cross-functional, by-level grouping” for the first step. Their aim is to promote understanding of priorities and show how different issues at different levels of the organization can be aligned. The internal consulting team is excited about being the primary facilitators for these sessions. Everyone recognizes that a structured approach will be critical (for timing and to control decision–making inputs). The approach called Nominal Group Technique (NGT) seems to be ideally suited to this task.

You want to prepare yourself for conducting the session. Use the library, Internet, or other resources to research NGT. Because each grouping will be of a differing size, you want to tailor the overall steps of NGT to the situation you will facilitate. To do this, you must create a meeting session plan (a document of 4–5 pages) that will answer the following questions:

What is the goal of the session?
How will the nominal group technique be used to achieve this goal?
How will the members of the team work together (guidelines for effective participation)?
What specific steps and tasks will be involved in achieving the goal?
How much time will be allocated to each step or task? What voting mechanism is most appropriate for the size of the group and the specific stage of the process?
What will the outcome look like? What will the group present to the other levels?

Download a sample format here. Your assignment is to complete the missing sections (in red) and develop any additional participant materials or instructions to assist the group in completing the task

have tracked my food intake for a week and uplouded a file that has nutritional info of my diet. plese write a reflection paper after studying the nutrition information you see in the file.

 

this is the prof question

“write a one – two page paper describing your nutrition habits and how well you are fulfilling your daily nutritional needs, including what vitamins, minerals and macronutrients you are not eating in large enough quantities as well as which ones you are eating in overly large quantities. Include which results you found the most surprising or alarming. Was your daily calorie intake about what you expected?  Detail any changes you need to make in your diet and how you  plan to make the changes. Include how you plan to make changes in the amounts and types of fast foods, snacks, fruits and vegetables you consume. Also include a section on your opinion of how important the role of diet is for an individual’s well being.

The final paragraph should reflect what information you have learned from taking this Nutrition course.  Were you aware of most of the information we covered before beginning this course, or has most of the content been new to you?  Will the knowledge you have gained from this course affect your eating habits in the future?