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Complete the following assignment in the Information Technology and Organizational Learning textbook:

• Chapter 7 – Review the section on dealing with multiple locations and outsourcing.  Review figure 7.2 and note how virtual team communications further reiterates the importance of this model. 
• Chapter 8 – Review the Siemens AG case study.  Note the importance of understanding the interrelationships amongst all the senior leaders at every location.  Pay special attention to Figure 8.1 and Figure 8.2. Note how the corporate CIO should engage with each of the regional leaders.  Why is this important?

Complete the assignment using narrative paragraphs and explain your thoughts and findings in detail. Adhere to APA format requirements and do not use lists or bullets. Identify your answers by its chapter # to help the reader find your answers to specific items. Use Times New Roman 12 font, double-spaced. Include a coversheet with your name, class ID and the title of the assignment. Your submission needs to be at least two pages in length (one page per chapter). The coversheet, figures, tables, and reference list doesn’t count toward the page count. Post the assignment as one MS Word document by the due date in the syllabus. Do not submit any other format such as PDF. Please provide and cite two references IAW APA.

Discuss in 500 words or more the top 5 details that should be included in your cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement).

 Select three topics of interest and note:

• What you learned about the topic
• Why you selected the topic
• How you will utilize the topic in the future
• Also, write a reflection of the material you’ve learned in the course.  What did you like?  What could be improved?

NOTE: You are required to use at least two-peer reviewed sources (besides your textbook) to answer the above questions.   

The 3 topics are :

 Cloud Computing

Virtualization

Cloud Governance 

Emergency Plan for the Older Adult (OA)

Based on what you have learned so far in this course, create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least two (2) sources throughout your presentation. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Locate the American Red Cross in your area: http://www.redcross.org/ or in person

• Identify what is necessary for emergency supplies to have on hand for a healthy older adult (OA).
• Visit with an older family member or friend to identify specific needs for this older adult (reasonable for this person).
  • Assist the OA in creating their Personal Emergency Plan
• Why is this important for OA singles or couples who live independently without services?
  • Title Slide (1 slide)
  • Objective Slide (1 slide)
  • Necessary Emergency Supplies for OA (1 -2 slides)
  • OA Personal Emergency Plan (1-2 slides)
  • Importance for Independent OAs (1 slide)
  • References (1 slide)

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 6-8 slides

Structure: Include a title slide, objective slide, content slides, reference slide in APA format. 

Speaker Notes not required

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions.  A minimum of two (2) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Prepare a client information brochure on the following: Hospice care and client’s choice to die at home, organ and tissue donation 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/1995/07/16/patient-story/q8ihHg8LfyinPA25Tg5JRN/story.html

Identify concepts of Holistic nursing, using two specific examples from ‘A patient’s story’. Describe the specific interactions. How will you integrate these concepts into your nursing practice?

Freshmen/Juniors: Health is a privilege

Sophomore/Senior: Health is a right

Research what your assigned stance means.  Now post an 100 word post based on your assigned stance and back it up with a reputable reference (so no wikipedia or blogs). You must also rebutt (this means respectfully argue, not agree) someone else who has the opposite stance as you.  The rebuttal must also be a minimum of 100 words.  

Your assigned stance may not be what you truly believe, but that is what makes us acknowledge other people’s viewpoints.

Write an answer based on this assignment. Use at least 2 references but not the same that appears here.

1. Describe a situation in which the nurse manager would use problem resolution in the workplace. Describe a situation in which the nurse manager would use negotiation to resolve a conflict (or potential conflict) in the workplace. 

An exchange can be an option in contrast to settling struggle in the working environment particularly when the attendants differ on the methods for accomplishing the particular objective of the association. During the exchange cycle, nurture director asks the attendants to utilize a clear correspondence to alter their differences to eventually show up at an agreement.(Florida nurse. (n.d). Florida Nurses Association). Each attendant is permitted to share their objectives, needs, and the needs and afterward the whole nursing office is permitted to adjust to the requirements and needs so as to arrive at the shared objective of the association. The book clarifies that difficult goal is a cycle that inpatient care ought to be comfortable with. This critical thinking approach can be utilized at whatever point staff issues, for example, expanded outstanding task at hand, happen. The medical caretaker supervisor would utilize issue goal to initially distinguish the issue, create potential arrangements, actualize the picked arrangement lastly assess whether the issue has been understood.

2. Compare and contrast strategies for resolving a conflict, using first the informal negotiation method and then the formal negotiation method. 

Assertion includes the cycle whereby the contested gatherings present their contradictions to one referee. It is more affordable and more available than a preliminary. It includes the utilization of the formal and semiformal system and bits of proof. Then again, intercession is the place the third who is viewed as nonpartisan go between encourages the discourse cycle. Intervention is intentionally and non-restricting cycle instead of mediation which is automatic. This is a cycle that requires a lot of reasoning however it can lead the gatherings required to determine their contention by the methods for bargaining or consenting to the terms while additionally staying away from questions, differences and contending. Casual exchange technique is utilized when a difference has gotten too enormous, complex, and warmed for the difficult goal to be fruitful

3. Explore the American Nurses Association website for information on collective bargaining for nurses. Which states have nursing unions? Debate the issue of joining a union with another group of students. 

The states with nursing associations incorporate Minnesota, Massachusetts, Nevada, Texas, Maine, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, and Columbia locale. As an attendant, I trust it is important to join a nursing association on the grounds that there are numerous advantages to its individuals, associations allude to units that ensure and shield the privileges of the patrons. Along these lines, joining nursing associations one would get the chance to appreciate rights and opportunities, for example, better wages, aggregate dealing, better advantages, and individual portrayal with workers. Subsequently, it is essential to join a nursing association since it gives a dependable voice to individuals.

4. PART 1: Log onto the website of your state nurses association and search for information on collective bargaining. Search for news articles, union websites, and other recent information on collective bargaining for nurses in your state. Is there a great deal of collective bargaining activity in your state? If not, why? If yes, what are the primary issues under discussion?

The Florida Nurses Association is an affiliation that speaks to all enlisted medical caretakers for aggregate bartering. A cycle exists that realizes the appointment of authorities and the arrangement of agreements. Florida State has not experienced a lot of aggregate haggling movement since the state has a law that involves all workers reserve no option to strike, accordingly guaranteeing request and interference of government exercises. Florida is an option to work state; thusly, the privilege of a person to work can’t be denied dependent on participation or non-enrollment in any worker’s guild or association(Tappen, R. M. (2009). To guarantee the precise and continuous activities and elements of government, Florida’s state workers don’t reserve the privilege to strike. At present, there are seven work associations speaking to State Personnel System representatives whose classes are relegated to one of 13 aggregate haggling units.

PART 2: Review the pros and cons of becoming part of a collective bargaining unit. If you were a full-time staff nurse, would you want to join a union? Why or why not? 

I would join the union, I am in support of safeguarding the interests of people. Nursing isn’t a simple activity and it ought to be paid and celebrated all things considered. A master of joining an association would be the capacity to battle for what is correct, for example, compensation builds, extra advantages, downtime and advancement and continuation of expert practices. A con of joining an aggregate bartering is that it can make division from medical caretakers that don’t wish to join, for example, nurture directors or other staff individuals(Klug, M. (2018). This can make negative sentiments and can even advance a negative climate for all. It is important for the nursing professionals to consider the advantages and disadvantages resulting from unions, it opens doors for nurses to recognize whether the correct choice to make is to join or form a union.

References:

Florida nurse. (n.d). Florida Nurses Association. Retrieved from; https://www.floridanurse.org/page/LERC

America’s Unions. (n.d.). Collective Bargaining. Retrieved from: https://aflcio.org/what-unions-do/empower-workers/collective-bargaining 

Whitehead, D. K., Weiss, S. A., & Tappen, R. M. (2009). Essentials of nursing leadership and management. F A Davis Company.

Clay-Williams, R., Johnson, A., Lane, P., Li, Z., Camilleri, L., Winata, T., & Klug, M. (2018). Collaboration in a competitive healthcare system: negotiation 101 for clinicians. Journal of health organization and management.

Instructions for Answer to 2 Question

1- After Each DQ (question), write down references

2- 300 minimum words for every DQ, you can go up to 800 words but answer should be complete.

3- 2-3 Peer Reviewed/ scholarly references for each question

4- References should be within 4 years

5- I am in acute care nurse practitioner program.

6- The response to the DQ is expected to be a minimum of 300 words. A minimum of two peer reviewed/ scholarly  resources are expected. These need to be appropriate for a clinical professional to guide decisions about patient care. If a textbook is used for one of these responses, the other needs to be journal or professional-level website. The references need to be correctly formatted, as do the citations for those references.  “ Question words” don’t count towards 300 minimum count”

1) Minimum 8 full pages (Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part)

Parts 1, and 2 must be different. Different writing and perspective, but always answering questions objectively

              Part 1: Minimum 4 page

              Part 2: minimum 4 page

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms

          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs

          Bulleted responses are not accepted

          Dont write in the first person 

          Dont copy and pase the questions.

          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

         Submit 1 document per part

3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks) 

********************************It will be verified by SafeAssign (Identify the percentage of similarity of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)

4) Minimum 6 references per part not older than 5 years

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question.

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.doc 

__________________________________________________________________________________

Part 1: Community Nursing

Purpose

The student will read and understand the given case scenario and further develop a hypothetical project/ paper. The student will answer given questions that will serve as a guide for this project. Also, the student will explain key concepts and apply theoretical frameworks, models and/ or theories pertinent to this case.

 Please, review the following case study. The following questions with guide your research paper.

Maria is 15 years old and 74 pounds overweight. Her father is an uber driver who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Her mother works for a cleaning company. She is overweight with lipid disorder (high blood levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides). She is taking two antihypertensive medications at present time. At a recent health science fair at Maria’s school, a student-led screening clinic documented Maria’s blood pressure at 141/92 mm Hg. The family immigrated from Nicaragua 3 years ago and they do not have health insurance. 

During health science fair, the following data was recorded: 56% of the students with BMI 25.0 to <30 and 18% of the students with BMI 30.0 or higher.

Consider yourself a community health nurse. 

1. Is obesity a major health issue in the United States? 

2. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NCHS, CDC; BRFSS, 2012), how is obesity defined?

3. What is your role as a community nurse? 

4. What risk factors should be explored for Maria’s family for cardiovascular disease? Mention social determinants of health in this case. Incorporate the concepts of health promotion and risk reduction. 

5. Would you apply any of the behavioral change models to address health promotion and risk reduction in this case (theoretical frameworks of behavioral change / models discussed on Chapter 5 of textbook). Describe your selection. 

6. Public health nurses use statistics to demonstrate the need for obesity program development and community interventions. According to the most recent CDC data: What data were identified about obesity in children and adults? 

7. Is there a necessity of planning a community nursing intervention? How will you do that? Will you work alone or in collaboration / teamwork? Will you look for funding? How? 

8. If you decide to do a community intervention. How would you evaluate the community-level intervention(s)? 

9. Will you use social marketing to change health behaviors or beliefs, social or cultural norms, or community standards to improve health or benefit society. Which resources will you use?

10. Mention research studies that support any of the above (1 through 9) (mention at least 3 research studies in the paper).

Include the following components (MANDATORY):

1. Introduction

2. Problem Statement

3. Population of Interest

4. Key concepts such as: obesity, social determinants of health, health promotion and risk reduction, role of community health nurses.

5. Theoretical frameworks of behavioral change / models

6. Planning community intervention / Funding

7. Evaluate the community-level intervention

8. Social marketing / resources 

9. Research studies (at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles in the paper) an other 3 articles related to the topic

10. Conclusion

11. References Page

Part 2: Community Nursing 2

Purpose

The student will read and understand the given case scenario and further develop a hypothetical project/ paper. The student will answer given questions that will serve as a guide for this project. Also, the student will explain key concepts and apply theoretical frameworks, models and/ or theories pertinent to this case.

 Please, review the following case study. The following questions with guide your research paper.

Maria is 15 years old and 74 pounds overweight. Her father is an uber driver who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Her mother works for a cleaning company. She is overweight with lipid disorder (high blood levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides). She is taking two antihypertensive medications at present time. At a recent health science fair at Maria’s school, a student-led screening clinic documented Maria’s blood pressure at 141/92 mm Hg. The family immigrated from Nicaragua 3 years ago and they do not have health insurance. 

During health science fair, the following data was recorded: 56% of the students with BMI 25.0 to <30 and 18% of the students with BMI 30.0 or higher.

Consider yourself a community health nurse. 

1. Is obesity a major health issue in the United States? 

2. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NCHS, CDC; BRFSS, 2012), how is obesity defined?

3. What is your role as a community nurse? 

4. What risk factors should be explored for Maria’s family for cardiovascular disease? Mention social determinants of health in this case. Incorporate the concepts of health promotion and risk reduction. 

5. Would you apply any of the behavioral change models to address health promotion and risk reduction in this case (theoretical frameworks of behavioral change / models discussed on Chapter 5 of textbook). Describe your selection. 

6. Public health nurses use statistics to demonstrate the need for obesity program development and community interventions. According to the most recent CDC data: What data were identified about obesity in children and adults? 

7. Is there a necessity of planning a community nursing intervention? How will you do that? Will you work alone or in collaboration / teamwork? Will you look for funding? How? 

8. If you decide to do a community intervention. How would you evaluate the community-level intervention(s)? 

9. Will you use social marketing to change health behaviors or beliefs, social or cultural norms, or community standards to improve health or benefit society. Which resources will you use?

10. Mention research studies that support any of the above (1 through 9) (mention at least 3 research studies in the paper).

Include the following components (MANDATORY):

1. Introduction

2. Problem Statement

3. Population of Interest

4. Key concepts such as: obesity, social determinants of health, health promotion and risk reduction, role of community health nurses.

5. Theoretical frameworks of behavioral change / models

6. Planning community intervention / Funding

7. Evaluate the community-level intervention

8. Social marketing / resources 

9. Research studies (at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles in the paper) an other 3 articles related to the topic

10. Conclusion

11. References Page