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Determine the legislative intent of the bill you have reviewed. Identify the proponents/opponents of the bill. Identify the target populations addressed by the bill. Where in the process is the bill currently? Is it in hearings or committees?

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LEGISLATION GRID AND TESTIMONY/ADVOCACY STATEMENT

As a nurse, how often have you thought to yourself, If I had anything to do about it, things would work a little differently? Increasingly, nurses are beginning to realize that they do, in fact, have a role and a voice.

Many nurses encounter daily experiences that motivate them to take on an advocacy role in hopes of impacting policies, laws, or regulations that impact healthcare issues of interest. Of course, doing so means entering the less familiar world of policy and politics. While many nurses do not initially feel prepared to operate in this space effectively, the reward is the opportunity to shape and influence future health policy.

To Prepare:

  • Select a bill that has been proposed (not one that has been enacted) using the congressional websites provided in the Learning Resources.
  • The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Legislation Grid; 1-page Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement)
  • Be sure to add a title page, an introduction, purpose statement, and a conclusion. This is an APA paper.

Part 1: Legislation Grid

Based on the health-related bill (proposed, not enacted) you selected, complete the Legislation Grid Template. Be sure to address the following:

Determine the legislative intent of the bill you have reviewed.
Identify the proponents/opponents of the bill.
Identify the target populations addressed by the bill.
Where in the process is the bill currently? Is it in hearings or committees?

Part 2: Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement

Based on the health-related bill you selected, develop a 1-page Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement that addresses the following:

Advocate a position for the bill you selected and write testimony in support of your position.
Explain how the social determinants of income, age, education, or gender affect this legislation.
Describe how you would address the opponent to your position. Be specific and provide examples.
At least 2 outside resources and 2-3 course specific resources are used.

What are you defining as your mother tongue(s)? Why? How does this impact who you are and how you express yourself? What are some examples of how your language interacts with the world around you?

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Mother Tongues

Language: “the principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture; a system of communication used by a particular country or community” (Google).

Mother tongue: “the language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood” (Google).

Background for assignment: With these two definitions in mind, we all utilize various forms of language throughout our lifetime; though, have you ever considered how this helps shape your identity?

The Assignment: What is your mother tongue, and why or how does it help shape your identity? To write this essay, please make sure to address the following ideas:

• What are you defining as your mother tongue(s)? Why?

• How does this impact who you are and how you express yourself?

• What are some examples of how your language interacts with the world around you?

• What value does a mother tongue bring to society?

• Are there any obstacles preventing your mother tongue from freedom of expression?

• What are some ideas about language and/or mother tongues from others that you tend to agree with? Disagree with? Why?

Craft a letter to the South Carolina state representative or to a National representative to express your thoughts related to the community issue(s) relating to a specific health care concern.

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Letter to elected representative about health care concerns

Craft a letter to the South Carolina state representative or to a National representative to express your thoughts related to the community issue(s) relating to a specific health care concern.

There are many ways to craft a letter to an elected representative, but you are provided you with two websites (below) that share nice information related to writing letters to public officials. You will see the APA site includes email and letter templates. Please use the letter templates. Also, please do not copy the language contained in the templates verbatim. Rather, use the letter templates as your guide to correctly format and structure your specific letter content. As always, please be sure to use appropriate grammar and mechanics within your letter. use in-text citations is not required, but you do need to list any sources used within the body of the letter in APA format either in the footnote of the letter or on a separate References page.

Here are two websites: https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/d… https://www.apa.org/advocacy/guide/letter-email

 

Explain the critical factors that affect negotiating strategies and plans.

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Individual assignment business negotiations

Explain the critical factors that affect negotiating strategies and plans.

What areas of learning are you most looking forward to in this course? After reading from our textbooks, what content was most familiar, and what content seemed new to you?

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Communication in project management

Read and review all of the information topics, which include:

Course Learning Outcomes.

  • Chapters 1 and 2 of Business Communications for Success
  • Chapters 2 and 12 of the e-book Managerial Communication

Information about the Communication Audit Project (Project Information)

In the Course Overview, read the information that explains how to engage in the Content Discussions and post your Workshop Logs.

The Experiential, Collaborative, And Team Projects: Communication Audit In The MBA Communication Course(PDF document) resource from OCLS about conducting research.

In a Word document, compose a response of 1-2 pages (approx. 450-600 words) addressing the following questions:

  • What areas of learning are you most looking forward to in this course?
  • After reading from our textbooks, what content was most familiar, and what content seemed new to you?
  • What questions do you have about the Communication Audit Project?
  • How will you engage in the process for Content Discussions and Workshop Logs?
  • What has been your previous experience doing research?
  • What are some assumptions(new tab) and expectations you have about this course?

Select a new or emerging HIT product (software/application) and provide a critique of the product including how it’s integrated, the cost of deployment, the impact on patient or organizational outcomes, the impact on internal staff/employees, integration with current systems, etc

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New Technology Critique Paper

Select a new or emerging HIT product (software/application) and provide a critique of the product including how it’s integrated, the cost of deployment, the impact on patient or organizational outcomes, the impact on internal staff/employees, integration with current systems, etc

How might the bill impact your own nursing practice if passed? If not passed? How might you communicate your concerns about or support for this bill to peers and legislators based on nursing practice, standards, or patient outcomes?

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Healthcare Policy week 3

This assignment will be in the format of a PowerPoint presentation (Bullet points and ‘Best Practices for PowerPoint’ should be used).
You are developing this presentation as if you were going to communicate your analysis to your colleagues regarding a current federal bill you believe may be of interest to nurses.

Go to https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/subjects/health/6130Links to an external site. (This is a required site for this assignment.)
Choose a current health-related federal bill of interest from the required site. Read through the bill and develop a summary of the main points in your own words. Include the bill number and name. (You may also use H.R. or S.R. as these are bills in the resolution phase).
Here is a link to our U.S. legislative process (bill to law) for review if you need to review how a bill becomes a law: https://www.congress.gov/legislative-processLinks to an external site.

For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft Office 365 Training may be helpful.
Include the following information in your presentation
Title slide (Your name, NR451, session, Healthcare Policy assignment)
Bill name and number (indicate either H.B./H.R. or S.B./S.R.)
Bill summary (in your own words)

Address how this bill might relate to a professional nursing practice standard if passed? If not passed? (Choose one standard from the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice textbook)
How might the bill impact your own nursing practice if passed? If not passed?
How might you communicate your concerns about or support for this bill to peers and legislators based on nursing practice, standards, or patient outcomes?
How might this bill impact your community if passed?

Calculate the total amount of energy required to convert 35g of ice at -14 to steam at 125 C.

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Chemistry question

Calculate the total amount of energy required to convert 35g of ice at -14 to steam at 125 C.

What have you learned about HIT? Identify the top 3 takeaways from this course. How will your knowledge of HIT impact your future as a leader of change as a healthcare manager?

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Reflection Paper

What have you learned about HIT? Identify the top 3 takeaways from this course. How will your knowledge of HIT impact your future as a leader of change as a healthcare manager?

Create a projec2on to determine the gross margin, opera2ng expenses, and opera2ng income for the six-month period December through April based on projected sales during that 6-month period.

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Financial Projection

Overview
You are the Assistant Director of Finance in the Accoun2ng department at a subsidiary of the Crazy Eddies Electronic Corpora2on; Nu?y John’s Appliance World (owned by his brother John). You need to create a projec2on to determine the gross margin, opera2ng expenses, and opera2ng income for the six-month period December through April based on projected sales during that 6-month period. The Director of Accoun2ng has provided you with the template as shown in Figure-1.

  • In Part 1 you will create the worksheet.
  • In Part 2 you will create a 3-D Bar chart and move it to a new sheet from the data.

Instruc@ons Part 1: To create the worksheet in Figure-1, do the following:

1. Format the worksheet 2tle in cell A1 to 28-point. Merge and Center across the range: A1:H1. Add a light blue background

2. Format the worksheet sub2tle in cell A2 to 16-point. Merge and Center across the range: A1:H1. Add a light blue background

3. Place a thick black border around the range A1:A2

4. Format the range B3:H3 as follows
a. Center each month in its cell
b. Change the font size to 11
c. Rotate the contents of each cell in the range B3:H3 angle counter clockwise

5. Enter the following formulas (using absolute cell referencing where appropriate) in column B: (Note: Commission, Marke@ng, Research and Support, General and Administra@ve expenses are calculated as a % of each month’s sales using the values in the What-If-Assump@ons table.
a. B5: Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold for December using the formula: Sales x (1 – Margin). Copy the formula across the range C5:G5
b. B6: Calculate the Gross Margin for December. Copy the formula across the range C6:G6.
c. B9: Insert an IF func2on to calculate a Bonus in any month where sales exceed the sales target for bonus ($23,750,000). Copy the formula across the range C9:G9
d. B10: Calculate the December Commission expense. Copy the formula across the range C10:G10
e. B11: Calculate the December Marke@ng. Copy the formula across the range C11:G11
f. B12: Calculate the December Research expenses. Copy the formula across the range C12:G12
g. B13: Calculate the December Support, General, and Administra@ve. Copy the formula through the range C13:G13
h. B14: Calculate the Total Expenses for December. Calculate the formula across the range C14:G14
i. B16: Calculate the Opera@ng Income for December. Copy the formula across the range C16:G16
j. H4: Calculate the Total Sales for the 6-month period.
k. H5: Calculate the Total Cost of Goods Sold for the 6-month period.
l. H6: Calculate the Total Gross Margin for the 6-month period.
m. H9:H13: Calculate the Total for each Expense Category for the 6-month period.
n. H14: Calculate the The Total Expenses for the 6-month period.
o. H16: Calculate the Total Opera@ng Income for the 6-month period.
p. Ensure that all column widths are wide enough so that ###### is not displaying

6. B5:H16 format as currency style with no decimal places and with nega2ve numbers enclosed in parentheses.

7. Add bo?om borders to the ranges B5:H5 and B13:H13.

8. Name the Sheet1 tab: “6th Month Financial Projec2on”. Change its color to Blue.

9. Set the worksheet to print in landscape orienta2on, fit to one page.

10. Add a Header as follows
a. Leh Header Box: Page #
b. Middle Header Box: You Name. Apply bold
c. Right Header: Date and Time

11. Upload assignment into Brightspace