Submit Essay #1: Narration Essay Topic: Think about the last time you were involved in an argument.
Write a three-paragraph essay about what caused the argument, what took place during the argument, and how the argument was resolved. Remember to use specific time and space language to clearly narrate the events. MLA format is required.
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Describe the purpose of the Agree ll instrument.
After reviewing the website http://www.agreetrust.org/, do the following:
Describe the purpose of the Agree ll instrument.
Describe the history of the AGREE Project
Compare the original AGREE and AGREE II items.
What guidelines can be evaluated with the AGREE ll instrument.
Is there a Guideline that you are interested in that would benefit from an evaluation by the AGREE ll instrument? Why?
Does the court serves as a true check of power by the legislative and executive branches of government?
A few years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. Congress. They also held that broadcast channels should not be fined for fleeting expletives on television programs and have ruled on the matter of barriers placed to restrict protesters to certain areas. Recently, they upheld the constitutionality of same-sex marriages, upheld the executive order on travel bans, reversed the finding that the US Trademark Office can deny trademarks as “immoral” or “scandalous” saying it violates freedom of speech rights and struck down a Texas lawsuit challenging the voting process of other states during the 2020 Presidential Election. They have also denied hearing the case brought forth by the students from the University of Indiana in regards to the University’s vaccine mandate and recognized a high school student’s right to constitutional protected speech via Snapchat.
In reading the Sources of Law PowerPoint, the required resources, and from your understanding of the U.S. government system,
(1) do you agree with the statement that the US Supreme Court is an objective, unbiased government body that interprets laws and the constitution without any political influence? and (
2) does the court serves as a true check of power by the legislative and executive branches of government?
Consider the appointments of US Supreme Court justices in the last ten years when answering the questions, specifically consider whether U.S. presidential elections have a significant impact on the future of the US Supreme Court? (Consider this in light of Justice Ginsberg’s passing and with the recent US Supreme Court justice appointments).
What might be the cause(s) of the business’s financial success or failure?
Overview
In preparation for your report in Project Two, you will need to calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen business’s current financial health. Once you’ve calculated these ratios, the results will be used to analyze the business’s current financial position and help them make decisions about how to improve or maintain their financial health. Pay particular attention to working capital management. If liquidity is an issue, consider how the company will meet its short-term obligations.
Prompt
Using the Project Two Financial Formulas Spreadsheet spreadsheet and the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online for your chosen company, calculate the financial ratios for the most recent fiscal quarter. Then, compare those ratios with the same ratios for the same fiscal quarter from one year prior in Mergent Online, and analyze your results.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Financial Calculations: Calculate accurate financial ratios to assess the business’s current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following ratios:
Working capital
Current ratio
Debt ratio
Earnings per share
Price/earnings ratio
Total asset turnover ratio
Financial leverage
Net profit margin
Return on assets
Return on equity
Fiscal Quarter Comparison: Using Mergent Online, summarize the differences between the results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a year before for your chosen business.
For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the 3rd quarter in 2020, then you will compare those results to the same financial calculations from the 3rd quarter in 2019.
Comparison Analysis: Explain what the results of your calculations and your comparison indicate about the business’s current financial health, providing examples to support your explanation. You might consider the following questions:
Do the results indicate the business is financially healthy or financially unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
What might be the cause(s) of the business’s financial success or failure?
Is more information needed to determine the business’s financial health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?
Short-Term Financing: Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve its financial health. Base your response on the business’s current financial information.
The following resources can help you complete this milestone:
Video: Mergent Online: Public Company Financials (4:46)
Watch this video from the Shapiro Library to learn more about how to access and use Mergent Online. Although this video shows information on the ‘As Reported Currency’ page within the Company Financials tab, for the purposes of this course, the best option for locating financial data can be accessed by clicking on ‘Standardized’ beneath the ‘Company Financials’ tab. This will allow you to access the Standardized Annual Balance Sheet.
Shapiro Library FAQ: How Do I Cite a Company Profile From Mergent Online?
Use this resource to help answer any questions you have about citing from Mergent Online.
Guidelines for Submission
Your submission should be a 2 to 3 page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. You must also submit the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet (which you will fill in completely as part of your Project Two submission) and the Excel files for your downloaded balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online.
What does Catholic bioethics have to say?
This is what I want them to write about. “Pig Heart transplant: The Ethical Issues. What does Catholic bioethics have to say?” Is it ethical to alter genes in pigs whose heart is used for human being’s transplant? You look at the ethics of it in general – pointing the potential moral spots over patients safety and Religious concerns. Then you focus on Catholics.
Explain the problem you are trying to solve, the resources a prospective partner would bring to the relationship, and how the outcome would improve your efficiency.
Explain the problem you are trying to solve, the resources a prospective partner would bring to the relationship, and how the outcome would improve your efficiency.
Here is my schools website you can use it to talk about ways to build partnerships within the school to increase operating efficiency…my school is located on the southside of Chicago
serving at-risk youth and the majority of the population is African American Students…many
parents and families stuggle to access resources and services in the community:
https://shoop.cps.edu/
This is the video for the assignment:
Improving Performance and Efficiency in Education:
What is Efficiency?:
Efficient Education Spending:
Striving Towards Efficiency in Higher Education Institutions
Efficiency in education – Jill Johnes, Maria Portela & Emmanuel Thanassoulis:
https://orsociety.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1057/s41274-016-0109-z#aHR0cHM6Ly9vcnNvY2lldHkudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA1Ny9zNDEyNzQtMDE2LTAxMDktej9uZWVkQWNjZXNzPXRydWVAQEAw
Explain the findings from articles or other sources of evidence as it relates to the identified health care issue.
Create a 3-5 page submission in which you
develop a PICO(T) question for a specific care issue and evaluate the evidence
you locate, which could help to answer the question.
Introduction
PICO(T) is an acronym that helps researchers
and practitioners define aspects of a potential study or investigation.
It stands for:
P –
Patient/population/problem.
I – Intervention.
C – Comparison (of
potential interventions, typically).
O – Outcome(s).
T – Time frame (if time
frame is relevant).
The end goal of applying PICO(T) is to develop
a question that can help guide the search for evidence (Boswell &
Cannon, 2015). From this perspective, a PICO(T) question can be a valuable
starting point for nurses who are starting to apply an evidence-based model or
EBPs. By taking the time to precisely define the areas in which the nurse will
be looking for evidence, searches become more efficient and effective.
Essentially, by precisely defining the types of evidence within specific areas,
the nurse will be more likely to discover relevant and useful evidence during
their search. When applying the PICO(T) approach, the nurse can
isolate the interventions of interest and compare to other existing
interventions for the evidenced impact on the outcome of the concern.
You are encouraged to complete the Vila Health
PICO(T) Process activity before you develop the plan proposal. This activity
offers an opportunity to practice working through creating a PICO(T) question
within the context of an issue at a Vila Health facility. These skills will be
necessary to complete Assessment 3 successfully. This is for your own practice
and self-assessment and demonstrates your engagement in the course.
Reference
Boswell, C., &
Cannon, S. (2015). Introduction to nursing research. Jones &
Bartlett Learning.
Professional Context
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will be
responsible for locating and identifying credible and scholarly resources to
incorporate the best available evidence for the purposes of enhancing clinical
reasoning and judgement skills. When reliable and relevant evidence-based
findings are utilized, patients, health care systems, and nursing practice
outcomes are positively impacted.
PICO(T) is a framework that can help you
structure your definition of the issue, potential approach that you are going
to use, and your predictions related to the issue. Word choice is important in
the PICO(T) process because different word choices for similar concepts will
lead you toward different existing evidence and research studies that would
help inform the development of your initial question. When writing a
PICO(T)-formatted research question, you want to focus on the impact of the
intervention and the comparison on the outcome you desire.
Scenario
For this assessment, please use a health
care issue of interest from your current or past nursing practice.
If you do not have an issue of interest from
your personal nursing practice, then review the optional Case Studies presented
in the resources and select one of those as the basis for your assessment.
For this assessment, select a health
care issue of interest and apply the PICO(T) process to develop the
research question and research it.
Your initial goal is to define the population,
intervention, comparison, and outcome. In some cases, a time frame is relevant
and you should include that as well, when writing a question you can research
related to your issue of interest. After you define your question, research it,
and organize your initial findings, select the two sources of evidence that
seem the most relevant to your question and analyze them in more depth.
Specifically, interpret each source’s specific findings and best practices
related to your issues, as well explain how the evidence would help you plan
and make decisions related to your question.
If you need some structure to organize your initial thoughts and
research, the PICOT Question and Research Template document (accessible from
the “Create PICO(T) Questions”
page in the Capella library’s Evidence Based Practice guide) might be helpful. Creating a question
using the PICOT elements will provide a framework for the research you
need to conduct an evidence-based study or to make an evidence-based
decision.
PICOT Elements:
(P) – Population, Patients or
Problem: The sample of subjects used in a study, or the problem being
addressed.
(I) – Intervention: The
treatment that will be provided to subjects enrolled in your study.
(C) – Comparison or Control:
Identifies an alternative intervention or treatment to compare. Many
study designs refer to this as the control group. If an existing treatment is
considered the ‘gold standard’, then it should be the comparison group. A
control group is not required for every type of study.
(O) – Outcome: The clinical
outcome that measures the effectiveness of the intervention.
(T) – Time: Duration of the data
collection. Some versions don’t include this element, and time may not be
specified in cases where the question is focused on prediction
or diagnoses.
PICOT Question Format
Examples:
Please be sure to check your assignment, as it
may direct you to use a different format.
Intervention: In
_______ (P), how does _______ (I) compared to _______ (C)
affect _______ (O) within _______ (T)?
Prognosis/Prediction:
In _______ (P), how does _______ (I) compared to _______ (C)
influence/predict _______ (O) over _______ (T)?
Diagnosis or Diagnostic test: In _______ (P) are/is _______ (I)
compared to _______ (C) more accurate in diagnosing _______ (O)?
Etiology:
Are _______ (P), who have _______ (I) compared to those without
_______ (C) at _______ risk for/of _______ (O) over _______ (T)?
Meaning:
How do_______ (P) with _______ (I) perceive _______ (O) during
_______ (T)?
Example PICOT
Questions:
For residents of long-term care
facilities (P), how does implementation of a hydration assessment tool (I)
compared to current practice (C) affect the number of hospital admissions
with the diagnosis of dehydration (O) during a three-month period (T)?
In acute care hospitals (P),
how does having a rapid response team (I) compared with not having a
response team (C) affect the number of cardiac arrests (O) during a
three-month period (T)?
In women with gestational
diabetes (P), how does a monitored diet and exercise program over the
course of pregnancy (I &T), compare to the use of
metformin only (C) reduce the incidence of high birth weight
babies(O)?
In patients admitted for acute
myocardial infarction (P), how well does the hospital’s new data model
created from EMR data (I) compared to current practices (C) predict
readmission rates (O) within 30 days after initial discharge (T)?
For patients of a rural health
clinic (P), does the use of text message reminders (I), compared with
telephone calls (C) reduce the number of missed appointments (O) over
a six month period (T)?
In your submission, make sure you address the
following grading criteria:
Define a practice issue to
be explored via a PICO(T) approach. Create a PICO(T)-formatted
research question
Identify sources of evidence
that could be potentially effective in answering a PICO(T)
question (databases, journals, websites, etc.).
Explain the findings from
articles or other sources of evidence as it relates to the identified
health care issue.
Explain the relevance of the
findings from chosen sources of evidence to making decision related to a
PICO(T) question.
Communicate using writing
that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling
using the current APA style.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an
idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look
like:
Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following
requirements:
Length of submission: Create
a 3–5-page submission focused on defining a research question and
interpreting evidence relevant to answering it.
Number of references: Cite
a minimum of four sources of scholarly or professional evidence that
support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than
5 years old.
APA formatting: Format references and citations according to
the current APA style.
Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to
your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final capstone
course.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment,
you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the
following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Interpret
findings from scholarly quantitative, qualitative, and outcomes research
articles and studies.
Explain the findings
from articles or other sources of evidence that are relevant to the
health care issue.
Competency 2: Analyze the
relevance and potential effectiveness of evidence when making a decision.
Identify sources of
evidence that could be potentially effective in answering a PICO(T)
question.
Explain the relevance of the
findings from chosen sources of evidence to making decision related to a
PICO(T) question.
Competency 3: Apply an
evidence-based practice model to address a practice issue.
Define a practice issue to
be explored via a PICO(T) approach and develop a PICO(T)-formatted
research question.
Competency 5: Apply
professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead practice changes
based on evidence.
Organize content so ideas
flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in
grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to
in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to
APA format.
Identify and explain in detail the ethical considerations associated with Warner Lambert’s actions.
Introduction
Warner-Lambert Company manufactures and distributes Listerine antiseptic mouthwash and has since 1879. The company represented for 100 years that Listerine prevented and cured the common cold and sore throats. The Federal Trade Commission filed a false advertising lawsuit against Warner-Lambert alleging false advertising of Listerine. The district court found for the Federal Trade Commission and then the court of appeals affirmed the decision of false advertising on the part of Warner-Lambert Company.
Review the case as you prepare for this discussion: Warner Lambert Co. v. Federal Trade Commission, 562 F.2d 749 (D,C, Cir. 1977)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/562/749/293620/
Initial Post
Identify and explain in detail the ethical considerations associated with Warner Lambert’s actions.
By applying two ethical theories presented in the textbook, express your opinion as to whether under those theories Warner Lambert acted ethically over the years in making its curative claims.
In your discussion, also analyze the actions of the Warner-Lambert Company under at least one argument for and one argument against the concept that a corporation has a social responsibility to the general public.
Writing Requirements
Initial Post Length: minimum of 350 words
Using APA format, incorporate appropriate in-text citation(s) referring to the academic concept with corresponding references page for the initial post.
Minimum of 1 scholarly or professional resource in addition to the textbook for initial post.
Explain your strategy for your web sales No credit will be given without data Reminder: You should plan to make your initial post early in the week.
How will the decisions you are making in quarter 2 affect your Quarter 3 decision making? Please be specific and point to specific data that lead you to the conclusion.
2. . Explain your strategy for your web sales No credit will be given without data
Reminder: You should plan to make your initial post early in the week. I will most likely have comments on your post, which you will need to address if you want to earn full credit for the week’s DB.
Be sure you check back on the DB after you make your initial post.
What factors are likely to contribute to the growth in airfreight in future?
This week’s discussion focuses on the topics of Chapter 9: Trade Documents and Transportation, and Chapter 10: Exchange Rates and international Trade of your eText.
Chapter 9: Trade Documents and Transportation
Question: What factors are likely to contribute to the growth in airfreight in future? Is it a major mode of transportation for cargo?
Discuss the concept(s) relating to the above question. In your analysis, use some of the terms and theories in the e-Text to support your argument(s).
Reminder: Your response to Chapter 9 must be at least 150-word minimum. Reply to all the above questions to earn full credit for this portion of the initial discussion question.
Chapter 10: Exchange Rates and international Trade
Question: Do you think the U.S. dollar will continue to maintain its key currency status? Explain.
Discuss the concept(s) relating to the above question. In your analysis, use some of the terms and theories in the e-Text to support your argument(s).
Reminder: Your response to Chapter 10 must be at least 150-word minimum. Reply to all the above questions to earn full credit for this portion of the initial discussion question.
– You are required to respond to both set of questions for Chapters 9 & 10 Wednesday, 11:59 pm EST.
Reminder: you must respond to at least two additional peers during the academic week by Saturday, 11:59 pm EST. Each post must be substantive, at least 150-word minimum response. You want your post to engage your peers in a lively discussion, expanding on your knowledge, experiences, and/or providing examples to support your analysis.
– Note: Be sure to relate your post to Chapter 9 & 10 of the e-Text and other credible source(s) with proper APA in-text citations and references. This is a requirement! Failure to properly cite sources will result in a grade of zero.