Review the case scenario included in this week’s media resources, and examine the process flow chart, cause/effect diagram, and Pareto chart related to the case scenario.

Review the case scenario included in this week’s media resources, and examine the process flow chart, cause/effect diagram, and Pareto chart related to the case scenario.
In the scenario, the nurse manager and the director of pharmacy blame each other for the error. The facilitator (quality assurance person) asks everyone to avoid blaming and focus on applying the tools to analyze the data and get to the root cause of the error. While all of these tools contribute, for this Discussion, select one tool to analyze.
Analyze the composition of the RCA team. Explain what knowledge they can contribute to the RCA.
Describe the collaboration in the case study that led to effective problem solving. Identify the evidence you observe in the scenario that demonstrates effective collaboration and the avoidance of blaming.
Explain the team’s process in testing for and eliminating root causes that were not contributing.
Select one of the performance improvement charts presented in the scenario and critique its effectiveness by explaining how it contributes to identifying the root cause and determining a solution to prevent repeat medication errors.
Identify the contributing factors and discuss how to prevent this kind of error from occurring in the future.
Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level.

Notes Initial Post: This should be a 3-paragraph (at least 350 words) response. Be sure to use evidence from the readings and include in-text citations. Utilize essay-level writing practice and skills, including the use of transitional material and organizational frames. Avoid quotes; paraphrase to incorporate evidence into your own writing. A reference list is required. Use the most current evidence (usually ≤ 5 years old).

Define the cost of capital and how it appears to be measured in your selected firm.

Final Paper

One of the most effective means of learning is to apply what has been learned. The final project provides you with the opportunity to use work from previous papers and discussion forums, but you will also be required to conduct additional research regarding a specific business and country. You are required to adhere to APA guidelines and to cite your sources. Do not copy tables or material and present them as your own. A feature of good academic writing is building on the work of others in presenting a new approach to a business issue.

Imagine that you have been tasked by the Director of Finance of your company to perform an analysis of one of your competitors. Please select a publicly traded company; it can be a competitor of the company you work for or any publicly traded company you want to choose. Your assignment is to examine the company on the factors listed below and provide an evidence-based opinion regarding its financial soundness.

For this analysis, you will need to investigate the company on the Internet (e.g., www.yahoofinance.com) and through the NJ State Library, examining the various reports that are available. Through the NJ State Library, you should search the electronic databases Mergent Online, Mergent Intellect, and Hoover’s Online. You may find additional information using their subject guides for business at http://libguides.njstatelib.org/business.

Before accessing the NJ State Library databases, you will need to apply for a library card, which is free for TESU students. https://www.njstatelib.org/research_library/get_a_library_card/state_employee_and_tesu_students/

Introduction. Provide a brief focus statement about your paper and what the reader can expect.

Selection of the company. Provide a brief profile of the selected company and your rationale for selecting it.

Short- and long-range financial problems. From your analysis of research materials, examine the company and provide a report on the short- and long-range financial problems that are evident from the review. If you find no short- or long-range financial problems, provide the evidence to justify this conclusion.

Optimal capital structure to manage financial performance. Define capital structure. Provide examples of the company’s capital structure and its influence, or lack of influence, on the financial performance of the firm.

Financial statements and financial decisions. Analyze the firm’s financial statements and the decisions that appear to have been made to prepare the financial statement.

Articulate how the cost of capital is defined and measured. Define the cost of capital and how it appears to be measured in your selected firm.

Present value. Calculate present value using applicable present value tables.

Summary. Provide a few concluding paragraphs about how your chosen company adheres or does not adhere to sound financial principles.

Guidelines

For this final paper, thoroughly discuss the topics described above and, when possible, provide specific examples or recommendations. Your paper should have at least 10 references from academic books, journal articles, and/or credible online sources.

Your paper should:

Be 14 to 20 pages in length.

Include a cover sheet and a table of contents.

Follow academic research approaches and APA citation format, including in-text citations and a References list.

Be well-developed and convey your understanding of the readings and concepts.

Be organized, coherent, and unified.

Be free of spelling, structure, and grammatical errors.

If you have questions about the requirements of the paper, be sure to discuss them with your mentor well in advance of the final submission. Consult the Course Calendar for this paper’s due date. It must be submitted by the last day of the semester.

Do you think that a distinction should be drawn between religion and the other classes protected by the 1964 CRA, on grounds of mutability?

Do you think that a distinction should be drawn between religion and the other classes protected by the 1964 CRA, on grounds of mutability? The argument can be made that one can change an attribute such as gender with complex medical surgery, but even then such changes are not typically recognized by law. Religion, on the other hand, is the only class that at least on principle could be changed at the option of the individual. What do you think the logical underpinnings of the law are insofar as “choice” is concerned? If some choices are protected, should not all choices be protected?
2. Would you opine that Obama’s Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and all of the anti-discrimination legislation that preceded it is doing enough to combat gender-based pay discrimination? What would you suggest be changed or added to improve things, keeping in mind such factors as confidentiality of pay rates in the private sector and competition in the workplace?

Explain how many hours of sleep a day before exam week will help you perform better in the exams?

Explain how many hours of sleep a day before exam week will help you perform better in the exams?
we choose interview(online)

Assignment 2: Data collection essay
After receiving confirmation of the Level 1 ethics approval from the Course Organiser you should include the following statement in your second assignment:
I confirm that I have carried out the School Ethics self-audit in relation to my proposed research [give a descriptive title] and that no reasonably foreseeable ethical risks have been identified.
(Note that this statement is included in the total word count for your essay.)
Your second written submission takes the form of a 4,000 word essay. We expect you to draw on, and make reference to, some of the relevant research literature in your field and in Data Collection when discussing your use of particular methods. We want you to describe and discuss aspects of your data collection such as:
• selection and sampling
• access and recruitment
• recording
• confidentiality and ethics
In this essay you will also provide us with evidence of what data you have collected as well as how you collected it. We are looking for quotes from an interview transcript, field notes or survey results.
You should include with your essay an APPENDIX where you show us the instrument* as well as the consent form and information sheet where appropriate. We make no prescription as to how long or short your appendix should be, and will assess it only in terms of its effectiveness and efficiency in gathering the data you want.
*In most instances, you will develop what we call a research instrument, or something that helps you gather structured data. This may be a series of questions you have asked your focus group to discuss, an interview schedule or a survey questionnaire.
Your essay should be no more than 4,000 words long. Word length includes footnotes and endnotes, tables, diagrams and your ethics statement, but not any title page, bibliographies or your appendix. Given that footnotes and endnotes are included, you may wish to use a short referencing system such as Harvard.
For all the assessments please note:
a) This is a data collection, not a literature review, exercise. Nonetheless, it will be useful to contextualise your project – so an introductory section situating the study context and setting, outlining key literature and setting research questions will be beneficial.
b) This is not an exercise in data analysis, but we require you to consider the data collected. It’s an exercise in collecting (and thinking about how to collect) data in the form of your choosing – interview, focus group, ethnography, documents or visuals or a survey. So, rather than analyse the data or present findings, you should use the data collected to report on whether the data you have collected is ‘analysable’, whether the method was (or could in larger study) be successful in answering your research question, what you would change and how you would roll out your approach more widely.
c) Please note that you cannot use your workshop exercise for the assessment.
Now is the time to choose what assessment exercise to do.
Please choose ONE of the following exercises (1-5) below:
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Exercise 1: documents, artefacts and visual evidence:
Identify or generate and collect a set of documents, photographs or other artefacts you intend to use as sources of data. You may want to collect a set of already existing research objects (documents, photographs or other material things), or experiment in creating new visual data, such as by taking photographs of people, places or events.
Write a report of your data collection work that reflects on:
• its purpose;
• the reasons you chose this method;
• your methods of searching for, identifying and accessing your documents, photographs or artefacts – and/or your methods of creating new visual objects;
• the ways you selected the most useful items among them;
• what kinds of further analysis they make possible (such as content analysis or other forms of qualitative data analysis);
• how documentary and visual data collection might be used in combination with other methods such as interviews, focus groups, surveys or ethnographic observation;
• any ethical issues you may have encountered.
You should make reference, where you can, to other similar work in your field. You should provide examples of your data – extracts from documents, photographs or other materials – as appropriate in your discussion, as well as a further appendix, which simply lists the materials you have collected or created (and any other evidence, such as search results, which shows how you did so).
PLEASE NOTE
(i) this is a data collection not a literature review exercise: you are not being asked to identify an academic research literature comprising books, journal articles and so on, but to identify a set of ‘real-world’ documents and/or other visual artefacts to work with;
(ii) by the same token, it’s a data collection not a data analysis exercise: it’s an exercise in collecting (and thinking about how to collect) a set of documents, not in analysing individual documents and other items. Think in terms of the value or validity and representativeness of the set as a whole, not about what one or more individual items might say.
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Exercise 2: Interviews
Develop a topic guide or schedule and conduct TWO interviews online. Interviews might last approximately 45 minutes. Write a report that reflects on:
• the purpose of your data collection
• the reasons you chose this method
• the logic of selecting and approaching your participants
• the circumstances and setting of the interview
• the instrument you developed and used
• the form, content and order of questioning and the use of prompts
• the recording and transcription of the interview
• your management of ethical issues
• how far your approach succeeded in answering your research question
Did the interviews begin to answer your research question? To what extent? Use examples from your notes and/or transcripts to reflect on items of useful, useless or missing data. You should also provide excerpts from your notes and/or transcripts to illustrate the issues you discuss and points you make. You should provide a copy of your interview schedule, consent form and information sheet (as appropriate) in the APPENDIX.
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Exercise 3: Focus groups
Conduct an online focus group with approximately five people for thirty minutes. Write a report of your focus group that reflects on:
• the purpose of your data collection
• the reasons you chose this method
• the logic of selecting and approaching your respondents
• any issues with sampling or self-selection
• the circumstances and setting of the group
• the instrument you have developed and used
• the form, content and order of questioning and the use of prompts
• the recording and transcription of the discussion
• ethical issues
• how far your approach succeeded in answering your research question
Did the focus group create the kind of data you were looking for? To what extent? Use examples from your notes and/or transcripts to reflect on items of useful, useless or missing data. You should also provide excerpts from your notes and/or transcripts to illustrate issues you discuss. You should provide a copy of your topic guide, consent form and information sheet (as appropriate) in the APPENDIX.
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Exercise 4: Ethnographic methods
Identify a research site and conduct observational or ethnographic research on at least three separate occasions. Write an account of your experience of using observational methods that reflects on:
• the purpose of your data collection
• the reasons you chose this method
• the logic of selecting and approaching your site and/or respondents
• the process of gaining access to this site or respondents
• your recording of data in note or other form
• ethical issues
• how far your approach succeeded in answering your research question
Did your data collection methods create the kind of data you were looking for? To what extent? Illustrate with reference to your field notes. Observational methods do not ordinarily use a research instrument: in a sense, you the researcher act as research instrument. You should reflect on the way you managed your role as participant (or non-participant) observer in the APPENDIX (and add your consent form and information sheet (as appropriate).
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Exercise 5: Questionnaires
Design a structured questionnaire with a maximum of 20 questions and have it completed by at least 5 respondents. You should produce an online questionnaire using software such as Qualtrics. Write a report that reflects on:
• the purpose of your data collection
• the appropriateness of this method
• your sampling
• the design and form of your questionnaire, including the type and ordering of questions
• the method of administration or delivery you chose
• issues in cleaning, coding or computing your data
• ethical issues
• how far your approach succeeded in answering your research question
Did the questionnaire provide the data you were looking for? To what extent? You should draw on examples from your completed questionnaires to reflect on useful, useless and/or missing data. You should provide examples of responses to one or more of your questions from all five of your respondents. You should provide a copy of your questionnaire and any associated instructions you gave to your respondents in the APPENDIX (including your consent form and information sheet (as appropriate)).
Workshop facilitators and the course organisers are available for individual meetings with you to discuss your coursework preparation and any other questions or comments you have about data collection. You should arrange a short meeting with the tutor who leads your workshop to discuss your assignment idea.

What is the message the speaker leaves you with; how do you feel at the conclusion?

Assignment Let’s see if you can find and analyze an existing speech using some of the tools mentioned in this week’s content.
Step One: Locate a speech on VSOTD.com, YouTube, or Ted.com. This speech can be on any topic of your choosing; it can be informational or persuasive, political or academic in nature. The speech you choose should be greater than 6 minutes long for you to properly evaluate it.
Step Two:
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the speaker’s content and delivery. What specific things could the speaker improve on? What did you like about the speaker; why? What is the message the speaker leaves you with; how do you feel at the conclusion? If you were to deliver the speech, what would you do differently?
Compose your submission using a word processing program (e.g. Word).
Structure your submission in a 5-paragraph format Example of 5-Paragraph Essay
Include the citation for your speech in APA format in the body of your text, and on its own page at the end. This link (Links to an external site.) will help you format your citation into APA format

What do you think is occurring with the infant?

150 words initial post
100 words reply post

You are called to a postpartum room and find Michael, a two-hour-old infant, irritable and spitting up copious amounts of formula. You do not know the maternal history, so you advise the mother that you would like to return the baby to the nursery for assessment and monitoring. In the medical record, you focus on the prenatal history and find the mother had an addiction to opioids with her last pregnancy but denied drug use with this pregnancy. You witness the baby having some significant tremors, vital signs: T (axillary) – 36.0, RR- 78, HR- 166, and the infant is alert, irritable, and does not console easily. The infant is constantly moving and sucking vigorously on the pacifier.
What do you think is occurring with the infant?
What lab test can be ordered to confirm your suspected diagnosis?
What interventions can be implemented to treat this infant?

Reply post

Brianna Koren
21 hours ago, at 11:30 AM
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This baby is most likely experiencing neonatal abstinence syndrome, based upon the vital signs that are given. Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a group of conditions caused when a baby withdraws from certain drugs he’s exposed to in the womb before birth. This syndrome is most often caused when a woman takes opioids during pregnancy. “When these drugs are taken during pregnancy, they can pass through the placenta and cause serious problems for the baby” (March of Dimes, n.d.). Symptoms include tremors, overactive reflexes, tachycardia, and fussiness, excessive crying or having a high-pitched cry. Lab tests that can be ordered to confirm a suspected diagnosis of NAS are urine and meconium tests to check for drugs. Meconium is the baby’s first bowel movement. An NAS scoring system is also an option to confirm diagnosis. With this system, the baby’s provider uses points to grade how severe the baby’s withdrawal is (March of Dimes, n.d.). From there, the provider uses the score to decide what kind of treatment the baby needs. The most common treatment option includes taking medicines to treat or manage withdrawal symptoms such as morphine, methadone and buprenorphine. Then, once withdrawal is under control, the baby will start to receive smaller and smaller doses of the medicine over time so their body can adjust to being off the medicine. IV fluids may also be administered, due to the diarrhea and vomiting the newborn may be experiencing from NAS syndrome (March of Dimes, n.d.).