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What set of steps should be used to create the code of conduct? What should be included in the code of conduct? What impact does a code of conduct have on an organization’s culture?

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Theresa and Mike fully support creating a code of conduct for the merged organization. They have asked you to recommend how they should approach the development of the code of conduct, especially given the need to merge the companies into one team with a shared mission, vision, and values. They are interested in knowing how the code of conduct will help establish the new organizational culture.

Review the scenario attached, and prepare a 500–700-word executive report that includes the following:

1. What set of steps should be used to create the code of conduct?

2. What should be included in the code of conduct?

3. What impact does a code of conduct have on an organization’s culture?

Form a hypothesis. Think about a patient care incident that has occurred in the adult medical-surgical clinical setting: a situation, event, encounter or experience, which has elicited a feeling, emotion, relief, surprise, understanding or confirmation and describe it within the essential context of the incident.

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New nurses are faced with making many decisions in meeting the needs of their patients. Nursing clinical judgment relates to the life experiences of the practicing nurse and is the end decision made when providing safe patient care (Tanner, 2006).  Recognizing patient cues, analyzing those cues, then developing a hypothesis, generating ideas, taking action and finally evaluating the outcome leads to clinical decision making in patient care (Dickison, Haerling, & Lasater, 2019). Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is consideration of clinical problems or questions while using clinical judgment and patient preferences. Integration of EBP happens when students search for evidence to support interventions as part of the rationales for patient care.

Assignment:

The student will write a critically appraised summary of the selected evidence-based nursing article using American Psychological Association (APA) format, professional writing skills and language, while relating the information to the clinical incident in a succinct and clear manner.

The critical reasoning and reflective thinking for the assignment involves three questions:

Form a hypothesis. Think about a patient care incident that has occurred in the adult medical-surgical clinical setting: a situation, event, encounter or experience, which has elicited a feeling, emotion, relief, surprise, understanding or confirmation and describe it within the essential context of the incident. This is something that you experience as a student while in the 195 or 205 Adult Med/Surg clinical patient care setting. Use your clinical instructor as a resource.

Refine the hypothesis. Why was this incident significant? Describe why this incident was significant enough to affect you or influenced your nursing care or practice.

 Describe specific lessons learned from this incident and what would the student do differently if the incident repeated itself. This section requires the student to search for a nursing article (peer reviewed) that addresses the lesson learned or supports an alternative intervention or approach to the incident.

Do you prefer public speaking in more traditional, in-person environments, or do you enjoy the technology-driven presentations of the 21st century? Why do you think it will be important for you to be able to do both successfully?

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Create a narrated slideshow (your voice recorded over slides) at the end of your SPCH 219 experience. This narrated slideshow will focus on assessing your public speaking and presentation skills at the end of the course as well as reflecting upon all that you have learned.
Content
Create an introduction, body, and conclusion based upon what you’ve learned about strong, effective presentation content. Your narrated slideshow should address the following:
1. Now that you’ve developed many kinds of speeches in the SPCH 219 course, what is your comfort level with presenting in the 21st century? Describe your level of public speaking anxiety.

2. Do you prefer public speaking in more traditional, in-person environments, or do you enjoy the technology-driven presentations of the 21st century? Why do you think it will be important for you to be able to do both successfully?

3. Describe the way you now approach preparing for a presentation. What have you learned about preparing for a speech based on the presentation ecosystem? 4. Discuss your thoughts on the three elements of the presentation ecosystem. Which piece or pieces are you most comfortable with? Which piece or pieces will need additional practice in the future? 5. What are the top 3 most important lessons you learned from your experience in SPCH 219?

Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums. Pick an album from this list.What qualities make this album unique? Subject matter and lyrics? Social commentary? New recording techniques? New musical styles? Is it influential? WHY is this album on the Top 500 list?

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Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums.

Pick an album from this list. Try to pick an album you don’t already own. Try to pick an album that is very different from what you usually listen to. Really sit down and listen!
1. Provide background about the artist or band. Where did the group originate? Who are the members?
2. When was the album recorded? Where? Discuss any unique circumstances about the creation of this album.
3. What qualities make this album unique? Subject matter and lyrics? Social commentary? New recording techniques? New musical styles? Is it influential? WHY is this album on the Top 500 list?
4. Discuss EACH song on this album. Title? Length? Subject matter? Musical Styles? Quality of Performance? If there are five songs on the album, you should have five paragraphs. If there are thirteen songs on the album, you should have thirteen paragraphs.
5. Discuss your REACTION to this album. Did you enjoy it? Did it “speak” to you? This is probably the most important part of the paper.
6. This assignment is part “RESEARCH PAPER.” Cite your sources. How many sources?

Briefly describe the causes or origins of the chosen literary period, including significant historical and cultural events that led to the period. Essentially, what brought about or sparked the period? How did historical or cultural events at the time influence writers?

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Section 1: Historical and cultural background of the period.
■ Briefly describe the causes or origins of the chosen literary period,including significant historical and cultural events that led to the period.Essentially, what brought about or sparked the period? How did historical or cultural events at the time influence writers? (SLO 1, SLO 3)
2) Section 2: Summary of period values and characteristics.
■ Briefly describe the chosen period overall, including its key ideas,* core values* (social, moral, political, spiritual, etc.), and aesthetic principles*(including but not limited to: the period’s common themes, subject matter,new writing techniques, and preferred forms or styles). Essentially, what is
this period “all about”? What are the defining characteristics of this period’s writing? How did these defining characteristics develop? Students should connect their description of the period’s characteristics to the historical background above. (SLO 1, 3, 4)
3) Section 3: Argue that two works of literature are valid examples of the period.
■ Select two works from the chosen literary period, ensuring that each work is written by a different author.+ Then provide a clear, well-developed argument demonstrating how both works are representative of the period by analyzing how the literatures’ specific forms or styles match the
values and principles of the chosen period.* This should be the longest section of the paper. (SLO 2) Where possible, the two chosen authors should come from different geographical regions.
■ Example: A student writing about Regionalism might argue that William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is representative of the Regionalist Movement because it uses dialect to convey an authentic Southern voice; depicting regional cultures as realistically as possible was a primary principle of Regionalism.
■ The student should provide and analyze specific examples (direct quotes or paraphrasing) from their chosen works of literature to support their argument.
The goal of the assignment is to demonstrate understanding of the ways literary periods shape literature and act as vehicles for expressing artistic, political, social, or religious values.

Define and use specific vocabulary relating to filmmaking and the motion picture industry. Analyze motion pictures using established criteria. Compare and contrast films according to their genres, styles, and narrative strategies.

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  • Define and use specific vocabulary relating to filmmaking and the motion picture industry.
  • Analyze motion pictures using established criteria.
  • Compare and contrast films according to their genres, styles, and narrative strategies.
  • Write about specific films in depth using your knowledge of film terms.
  • Compare and contrast films and their related themes and artistic devices through discussion and writing

The Task:

In order to demonstrate your ability to do these things,write an essay comparing how a specific theme  discussed this quarter is treated or developed in three of the films that we have watched. Choose films that you think offer interesting contrasts and comparison in how the theme is treated. In your comparison discuss specific details about the portrayals of main characters, the plot / events or the film’s narrative structure, and the elements of film style and cinematic techniques. Discuss how these elements contribute to the films’ overall treatments or developments of the theme.

Write a report about the Impact of Covid19 on two markets of your interest. For every market, discuss the following points:- how the changes in the demand determinants and supply determinants affected the demand and the supply i.e, how Covid 19 affected the market supply and demand

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Write a report about the Impact of Covid19 on two markets of your interest. ANY two markets you choose in ANY country you choose. Two actual markets NOT hypothetical. Examples for markets; Hand sanitizers, soap, essential food markets (like milk, eggs, meat and bread) cloth, tourism, air flights, public transportation, uber, stock market, fast food markets), etc…
step 2- For every market, discuss the following points:- – how the changes in the demand determinants and supply determinants affected the demand and the supply i.e, how Covid 19 affected the market supply and demand? – how the changes in the supply and demand affected the equilibrium price and quantity. – how the two markets affect each other. Are they complements or substitutes? How the changes that take place in one market affect the other? – the elasticity of demand in the two markets i.e, how sensitive the quantity demand is to the changes in prices. (Week 3 material) – Did the government intervene in any of your markets? How? What is the implication if any? Step 3- You don’t have to collect data for this assignment. You just need to understand how the Covid 19 affected the market supply, demand, price and equilibrium in the market in general without exact values that might be hard to collect. You can show the changes in the demand and supply graphically without values. You will need to conduct some research in order to understand how the market performed before, and after the Covid 19. Below some references where you can search for articles about the impact of Covid19 on the markets that might interest you.

Define any three of the following five terms (200 words each). Make sure you provide examples to support/illustrate your definition. – Identity -Imagined community – Orientalism – Columbian Exchange – Luxury Trap

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Colombian Exchange.
Food in the Roman World.

Harrari – Chapter 3 “A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve” and Chapter 5 “History’s Biggest Fraud”.
Cuisine and Empire-  “Maize Cuisines of Mesoamerica”.

How does Belasco define “cuisine”? Give one example of a national cuisine and describe it in-depth using this definition.

2. How can one define “culture”? Can you give examples of what constitutes culture, using this definition?

3. According the Yuval Harari, the agricultural revolution is “history’s biggest fraud”. Debate arguments for and against this statement. Give examples to support your answer.

4. Define any three of the following five terms (200 words each). Make sure you provide examples to support/illustrate your definition. – Identity -Imagined community – Orientalism – Columbian Exchange – Luxury Trap

5. In the Belasco article, an Oreo Cookie is “read” to analyze some of the cultural messages carried by a food product (page 23). Can you similarly analyze a food product of your choice for its cultural messaging?

6. How is food be an agent or expression of group power in societies? Give two concrete examples of the cultural power of food from either Ancient Roman, Aztec or Post-Columbus eras cuisine to support your reasoning.

This film assignment is designed to consider how Dead Poet’s Society communicates its themes.Identify the primary focus of the film. Underline the choice made. Support the choice with clear rationale.

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Dead Poets Assignment.

This film assignment is designed to consider how Dead Poet’s Society communicates its themes.

1) Begin the paper by identifying the film, the director and your subjective opinion regarding the film.

2) Identify the primary focus of the film. Underline the choice made. A list can be found in the intro lesson.

3) Support the choice with clear rationale.

4) Identify a secondary focus. Underline the choice made. A list can be found in the intro lesson.

5) Support the choice with clear rationale.

6) Determine the dramatic question and how that question reflects the primary focus presented in part 1.

In the first paragraph determine the primary focus of the film. Include a discussion that supports that choice. (parts 1 & 2 of the above rubric)

In the second paragraph determine a secondary focus. Include a discussion that supports that choice. (parts 3 & 4 of the above rubric)

In the last paragraph identify the dramatic question. This should be a central question that reflects the point of the film. Connect that to the choice made for the primary focus.

Create an overview of the HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule. Analyze and describe the network architecture that is needed within an organization, including a medium-sized hospital, in order to be compliant with HIPAA regulations.

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Imagine you are the Information Security Officer at a medium-sized hospital chain. The CEO and the other senior leadership of the company want to ensure that all of their hospitals are and remain HIPAA compliant. They are concerned about the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules and its impact on the organization. You begin looking at the information provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, located at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/index.html. Specifically, you are asked to provide an analysis of two (2) of the cases found here with emphasis on what was done to resolve the compliance issues.

Section 1. Written Paper
Non-compliance with HIPAA regulations can result in significant fines and negative publicity. To help ensure that your organization remains in compliance with HIPAA regulations you have been asked to write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1a. Create an overview of the HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule.
1b. Analyze the major types of incidents and breaches that occur based on the cases reported.
1c. Analyze the technical controls and the non-technical controls that are needed to mitigate the identified risks and vulnerabilities.
1d. Analyze and describe the network architecture that is needed within an organization, including a medium-sized hospital, in order to be compliant with HIPAA regulations.
1e. Analyze how a hospital is similar to and different from other organizations in regards to HIPAA compliance.
1f. List the IT audit steps that need to be included in the organization’s overall IT audit plan to ensure compliance with HIPAA rules and regulations.
1g. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.