Business Side of Health Literacy

Student creates a business plan that consists of the following key components.
a. Define your purpose and goals
b. Define your primary audience and target market
c. Identify needed resources
d. Find funding sources
e. Define measures of success

Textbook:
Osborne, Helen. Health Literacy From A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message 2nd Ed. Lake Placid, NY: Aviva Publishing
ISBN 978-1-947937-13-0, required

Secondary Prevention

Chapter 10 of your text talks about predicting future offending. First, how does your text define secondary prevention? What are the common risk factors associated with offending/repeat offending? Given these risk factors, what are fruitful crime prevention approaches? Is there anywhere in the Bible where we read that certain types of behaviors/conditions of the heart (risk factors) lead to criminal behavior? Be specific and use Scripture to support your points.

Academic and Career Advising

You will share your experiences with academic/career advising with your group. In addition to advising received in school, include any influences from family, friends, teachers, media, etc on your academic/career choices.
1) Share your middle school experience of academic/career advising.
2) Share your high school experience of academic/career advising.
3) Share your college experience of academic/career advising.
4) Did you experience any “gender-biased” advising or influences? Explain. (For Example: If you are female were you advised toward stereotypical female careers? If male… male careers?
5) What do you believe influenced your career path most.
6) Looking back, do you believe your experience could have been improved? Explain.
In addition to advising received in school, include any influences from family, friends, teachers, media, etc on your academic/career choices.

Outcome Closeness-Risk and Decision making

Think of a time when a particular outcome you were hoping for came CLOSE (but no cigar!).
Describe this event, and then try to reflect back on your thought processes. Share what you recall about this event and your cognitive reaction to it.
How long did you keep thinking and re-thinking the event for? An hour? A day? A week? Still?

How the Gilded Age led to the reforms of the Progressive Era in the area of treatment of workers

High school boy simple language level 3-4 paragraph essay about how the Gilded Age led to the reforms of the Progressive era specifically regarding the treatment of workers. Also, must answer the question, ″How did the principles that began in the Progressive Era turn into government policy and do they continue to show a sense of fairness and justice with a respect for our dignity and rights today?″ The essay should be typed in 12 point font, double spaced and must include a title page and works cited page. Sources should be properly cited throughout the essay.

RIVERBEND CITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER BROCHURE

For this assignment, you will practice these skills by designing a brochure for the Riverbend City Child Development Center that advertises a service of your choice.

Using the Brochure Template, complete the following:

• Design the brochure for an audience of parents with young children.
• Choose a service that you would like to advertise.
• Describe the benefits of the service.
• Support your description with scholarly research.
Connect your service to a psychological theory or perspective.
For example, how would an after-school program connect to cognitivism?
• Apply the APA Code of Ethics.
• Be sure to include information from the confidentiality, advertising, and therapy sections.
• Information from the confidentiality and therapy sections can be provided via a disclaimer or small print.
• The information from the advertising section should be applied to the way you design the brochure and the information you chose to include.

Business Plan for New Product or Service Line

Complete your Module 4 Assignment by the end of Week 4.
Nurse leaders are involved in identifying unmet healthcare needs and working with other professionals to provide opportunities to meet those needs. This might include developing and launching a new business, product, or service. Whether as entrepreneurs or clients, nurse leaders must be aware of factors impacting the development of business plans.
Students will work in groups assigned by their faculty member to develop an initial business plan for a new healthcare-related business, product, or service line. The business plan will include an initial budget encompassing expenses associated with start-up, initial revenue projections, a discussion of marketing and implementation strategies, and regulatory considerations. The groups will also develop a slide presentation or video to introduce the idea to the board of directors.
Working as a Group:
Step 1. Decide
Participate in group decision making to determine how and how often group members will communicate for the project and the roles each member will play.
Step 2. Identify
Brainstorm with group members to identify a new healthcare-related business, product, or service line.
Step 3. Develop
Develop an initial budget including expenses associated with start-up and initial revenue projections. Justify expense and revenue projections with rationale statements.
Step 4. Outline
Outline marketing and implementation strategies, including rationale statements for each decision.
Step 5. Assess
Assess regulatory considerations for the new business, product, or service line. Articulate each regulatory standard and how it will be met.
Step 6. Develop
Develop a business plan integrating your group’s work from Steps 1–5 in an APA-formatted Word document with a title and reference pages.

Gangs: Bastards of the Party

The name of this documentary is “Bastards of the Party.” It is The History of the Crips and Bloods. It is excellent in terms of understanding the history and origins of gangs in this country and speaks to larger questions of Black oppression/Black liberation which we got into in class today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjErL1DhRtU&t=3222s
You can address these questions but you don’t have to address them all. Provide evidence, quotes, facts or anecdotes that prove you watched the documentary.
What are the different events and chapters in African American that begin to explain the emergence of these two gangs?
What would it take to “deghettoize” New York City and the cities of this country for that matter?
What does Cle Sloan say about using the N-word?
What role has the State played in our communities? (Remember the definition of the State: the organized repression of one class by another class, aka the police, the military, the courts, the jails, etc.)
What would it take to create communities where working class people are not killing one another on a daily basis?
Incorporate any personal experiences you or people close to you might have with gangs.
How is internalized oppression part of Black history?
What is the social context (racism, inequality, ect) that gives birth to both gangs?

General External Environment

Research on-line all 8 segments of the General External Environment which can influence businesses and detail findings in your post.
Detail both the actual situation and emerging trends; students may know some impacts from watching the news so use them!
For this discussion citing sources is not required.
Do not define each segement as I have done that already. The objective is to list data and information for the various definitions provided.
Demographic – composition of marketplace, expected changes, population changes, income distribution, age structure, etc.
Economic – standard of living, inflation, interest rates, energy prices, growth rate (GDP), threat of recession, job market, etc.
Political and Legal – laws, regulations, trade agreements, possible new regulations, outside group pressure on politicians (lobbyists)
Social and Cultural – social beliefs, values, customs, cultural groups, labor force participation rate,
Technological – rate of technological change, availability of technology, the impact of automation on workers and profits
Global – developing markets, global competition, cultures in other countries, unstable governments, war, terrorists
Sustainable Physical – what are the potential and actual changes in the physical environment, ecological, social, and economic systems and business practices (CSR)