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What are some of the ways that you can organize your business to take advantage of capitalization?

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Did you know that there are several common reasons why many small businesses fail within the first two years of opening? Some of these reasons are a lack of capital, inadequate management experience, faulty business planning and a failure to accurately assess market demand. So before you start your own business, you need to take a look at a few things. What is liability and how much of it are you willing to risk? What’s cash flow? What are some of the ways that you can organize your business to take advantage of capitalization? Do you know how to minimize risk and taxes? Do you want to have a business partner?

For this discussion, please use the key terms from chapters 5,7 and 8 to comment on the statement above. Your grade will be based on your use of the key terms as well as how well your response demonstrates knowledge of the terms and the concepts in the chapters. You are required to post your own discussion points.

What are non-pharmacologic treatment strategies for the management of hypogonadism?

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Please answer each question individually with references.

Hypogonadism Case Study

Manuel Gonzalez is a 39 year old Hispanic male with a past medical history of hypogonadism. He is currently taking androgel 1% 50mg per day, applied topically to the upper, outer arm each morning.

Questions:

1. What are non-pharmacologic treatment strategies for the management of hypogonadism?
2. Discuss at least 2-3 pharmacologic options for the treatment of hypogonadism (be sure to include, at a minimum, drug name, dose, route, frequency (if applicable)? Is Manuel’s current treatment, with androgel, consistent with recommended pharmacologic agents per the clinical practice guidelines?

3. What is the mechanism of action of ONE of the pharmacologic agents discussed in #2? How does the mechanism of action correlate with the physiology/pathophysiology of hypogonadism?

4. What are the most common adverse effects of ONE of the medication discussed in #2?

5. What is the cost of ONE of the medication discussed in #2?

6. Discuss pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ONE medication discussed in #2 (be sure to include, at a minimum, onset, peak, duration, half-life, etc).

7. What education would you provide Manuel before starting the treatment identified in #2?

How did the poor response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster change emergency management in the United States?

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Review the following article and video:

Ragheb, M. (2016). Natural Disasters and Man-Made Accidents. Retrieved from: http://mragheb.com/NPRE%20457%20CSE%20462%20Safety%20Analysis%20of%20Nuclear%20Reactor%20Systems/Natural%20Disasters%20and%20Man%20made%20Accidents.pdf

Can you think of any positive or negative aspects of disaster-driven evolutionary changes in the United States’ emergency management system? What are they?
How did the poor response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster change emergency management in the United States?

What type of planning does Raleigh, North Carolina engage in today?

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Description

Investigate how emergency management has evolved in Raleigh, North Carolina in the last 50 years with respect to natural and man-made disasters. In a 3-4 page essay, address the following questions:

How has emergency management in Raleigh, North Carolina changed following the creation of FEMA? DHS?
What type of planning does Raleigh, North Carolina engage in today? Describe.
What are the community preparedness activities in Raleigh, North Carolina? Describe.
Are there any differences in planning and response between natural disasters and man-made disasters? Explain.
Be sure that all sources are referenced using APA style.

What were the care given by the health care professionals and the rationale and literature?

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Talk about patient confidentiality NMC 2018.

Every information about the case study such as the patient, family and carer are linked up throughout the essay to make sense. Has to be written in logic for the reader to understand; is the patient in the community, rehab, or acute trust? Have you link the symptoms to the pathophysiology of the disease and the symptoms how is been dealt with in the nursing care section. Have you explain what was done when patient has dysphagia, dysphasia, mobility, and continence. What were the care given by the health care professionals and the rationale and literature? How do they meet or communicate regarding the patient? What are the work of all these team in delivering care to promote patient care. Salt, physio, dietician, occupational health and doctors? Anything you do for the patient explains the rationale and research evidence or NICE Guideline evidence.

The medication given explain rationale and where it stated in the research evidence that the medicine is the appropriate one for the patient, if the patient has more than one co-morbidities have you make sure the medicine link to the co-morbidities you focusing on in this essay, is there any health behaviour patient might have and have you make every contact count by RCN or NMC. Talk about patient health improvement via health promotion; discuss patient, family and carer stress and why they are stress.

explain how health care professional are involve in patient care , how do you know is a good care for patient, do you know it come out as NHS 5 years forward plan and integrated care and promoting self care is a good thing for patient?.

Did the healthcare professionals work together as a team and achieve the goal? If not, explain why

 

 

How do you plan to ensure the ethical protection of your participants?

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Chapter 3: Research Design and Method

Chapter Overview

To open the chapter you can begin by referring back to the purpose of the study, taking care to align with the statement in Chapter 1 but avoiding word-for-word repetition. Outline the major sections of this chapter, giving enough detail so that the introduction is unique to your study (that is: go beyond simply listing the headings).

Research Questions and/or Hypotheses and their Rationales

For qualitative studies you can reintroduce your research questions in a narrative, tying them to your problem statement. For quantitative studies, reintroduce your research questions and hypotheses, along with the rationales for the hypotheses. For mixed methods studies, clearly identify which questions are qualitative in nature and which are quantitative in nature. Including subheadings (Level 2) for “Qualitative Research Questions” and “Quantitative Research Questions” might be the best way to organize. Regardless of your methodology, try to present the questions in alignment with the presentation in Chapter 1.

Listing interview questions is not typical (it is usually thought best to keep the research and interview questions separate) but you might decide with your chair to show the alignment between the two types of questions.

Research Design

Identify the research design and its connection to the research questions. Provide a rationale for the research tradition chosen. This needs to go beyond why you chose qualitative over quantitative or vice versa. Explain why you chose the specific qualitative or quantitative tradition or research paradigm you chose over others.

Population and Sample

Identify the population and the sampling method used. Explain the inclusion criteria and then take care to justify the size of the sample. If quantitative in nature, mention the calculating tool used to determine the sample size. If qualitative in nature, explain your rationale for the number of participants.

Procedures

Describe your proposed procedures in detail, beginning with recruiting procedures, including data collection tools or strategies used, how this data will be collected, and any follow-up planned with participants. If you plan to conduct a pilot study, describe this in detail and how it will inform your main study.

Validity

Describe all threats to the validity of the study. If qualitative, describe how you plan to ensure credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability. If quantitative, describe in detail threats to internal and external validity.

Instrumentation

If quantitative in nature, name your data collection instrument, where and how it has been used, and how the validity and reliability were established. If qualitative in nature, describe any researcher-created or established tools and the rationale for using them.  For qualitative researchers, include your role as the researcher and how you plan to control any biases.

Data Processing

Identify any software that will be used in the analysis of your data. Describe, in detail, the strategy or strategies proposed for organizing and analyzing data collected.

Assumptions

The assumptions are related to the mechanics of your study. What about your study is not discoverable so you had to assume to be true? If interviewing participants, you must assume that they are answering honestly, so this is a major assumption. You must also assume they are participating willingly. All researchers must also assume that their chosen methodology is the most appropriate for their investigation. What also are you unable to discover so must assume in order to conduct your study?  Some chairs allow for numbered lists—usually researchers list about three assumptions, although there is no set minimum or maximum.

Limitations

Limitations are elements of your study that are outside of your control. Is there a weakness in the design? Are there uncontrollable biases? For many, one limitation in the proposal is the possibility of not having access to participants or not being able to recruit enough participants to satisfy the minimum sample size. Unlike the scope and delimitations, where you get to explain all the things you had control over as the researcher (setting, participants, time frame) this is where you can describe the things you couldn’t control and what you plan to do to address these issues.

Ethical Assurances

How do you plan to ensure the ethical protection of your participants? Explain your recruitment strategy, consent form, any Institutional Review Board permissions that will be needed, whether participants will be confidential or anonymous, and how you plan to protect the data collected. Note that participants are considered confidential if you know their identities but do not share them (through the use of descriptors or pseudonyms). Participants are considered anonymous if even you are unaware of their identity. For these reasons, you will not have participants who are both confidential and anonymous.

Summary

Summarize the entire chapter, which will go just beyond restating the headings. Plan for a paragraph or two that briefly walks your reader through the highlights of each section. Your reader should be able to read your summary and know what your methodology is, instrument, data collection and analysis plan, and other aspects that will be unique to your study.

What type of natural hazard do you think is the most significant or troublesome to emergency managers? Why?

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You are the emergency manager in Miami, Florida. Your city manager has directed you to act as a subject matter expert and provide the city’s webmaster with material that thoroughly discusses which types of natural and man-made disasters you think are the most significant or troublesome for emergency managers. In addition, your city manager wants to ensure that the citizens have access to the most up-to-date information about disaster response. The city council would like to have a bond election next year and hopes that your information will garner support for the issue.
What type of natural hazard do you think is the most significant or troublesome to emergency managers? Why?
What type of man-made hazard do you think is the most significant or troublesome to emergency managers? Why?
What do you think are the most significant specific response challenges associated with the hazards that you selected? Explain.

What are the mitigation functions of the jurisdiction? Explain.

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Natural hazards are hazards that exist in the natural environment and pose a threat to human populations and communities. Examples include floods (the most frequently occurring), hurricanes, tsunamis, sea surges, earthquakes, tornadoes, freezes, blizzards, extreme cold, forest fires, drought, and range infestation (inordinate numbers of insects).

Technological hazards are hazards originating from technological or industrial conditions, including accidents, dangerous procedures, infrastructure failures, or specific human activities. They may cause loss of life, injury, illness, or other health impacts; property damage; loss of livelihoods and services; social and economic disruption; or environmental damage. Examples include such events as epidemics or pandemics, pollution, utilities failures, radiological accidents, nuclear waste disposal spills, toxic substances, hazardous materials accidents, explosions, and urban fires.
In an essay of 3-4 pages,
define natural hazards, and
define technological hazards.
Fully identify and describe 2-3 most significant natural hazards and the 2-3 most significant man-made hazards that can or do impact the capital of a state of your choice or another large city.
Explain the causes of the hazards.
Explain the frequency of the hazards’ occurrences.
Explain the amount of damage caused by each occurrence.
In addition, identify the following in terms of the selected jurisdiction’s current emergency management efforts:

What are the mitigation functions of the jurisdiction? Explain.
What are the preparation functions of the jurisdiction? Explain.
What are the response functions of the jurisdiction? Explain.
What are the recovery functions of the jurisdiction? Explain.
What are the most significant emergency management challenges in the jurisdiction about which you are writing? Why?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Are backup copies of the Department’s data held in a secure and remote media store? Is there evidence that the current backup strategy works in practice?

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Scenario

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans are required to counteract interruptions to business activities and to protect critical business processes from the effects of major failures or disasters. The Payroll Department (“Department”) of ISO Company, Inc. is classified as a critical business process because of the sensitive, private, and confidential information it hosts. It would be disastrous for the Department if information gets lost or if its business systems go off-line, even for a day. During planning meetings, IT auditors kept the following objectives in mind: Are the Department’s business systems adequately backed up? Are backup copies of the Department’s data held in a secure and remote media store? Is there evidence that the current backup strategy works in practice? Is there an appropriate disaster recovery plan established as part of the company’s business continuity plan? Is the disaster recovery plan based on a thorough risk assessment?

 

Overview

As part of the IT audit of ISO Company, Inc.’s Payroll Department, IT auditors uncovered a number of problems with the company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans and practices. While conducting the audit, IT auditors observed that the organization’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans, both established 10 years ago, have not been updated to reflect continuity and disaster recovery practices for the current environment. For example, although backup copies were made of the Department’s information, upon inspection, IT auditors discovered that those backups were not maintained at the off-site location where they were supposed to be stored. Moreover, when IT auditors asked for documentation supporting the tests performed of the Department’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans, they discovered that the Department had never tested the plans. The Department also had not conducted any risk assessment in support of the plans.

The Department’s information systems, Payroll System Application (PSA), is open to external attacks since it is interconnected through the network. A collapse of the PSA would bring dire consequences for the Department. In fact, in the event of a crash, switching over to a manual system would not be an option. Manual handling of the company’s payroll sensitive, private, and confidential information by staff personnel has resulted in previous loss of such information. Hence, the PSA must operate online at all times. The auditors agree that, based on the above observations, in the event of interruptions due to natural disasters, accidents, equipment failures, and deliberate actions, the Department may not be able to cope with the pressure.

 

Task
List the risks the ISO Company, Inc.’s Payroll Department is exposed to as a result of the observations. Also, document audit recommendations you would communicate to ISO Company, Inc.’s management related to the lack of continuity and disaster recovery procedures observed. Support your reasons and justifications with IT audit literature and/or any other valid external source. Include examples, if appropriate, to evidence your case point.

 

Deliverable

Submit a Word document with a cover page, responses to the task above, and a reference section at the end. The submitted file should be five (5) pages long (double line spacing), including cover page and references. Be ready to present your work to the class. Submit your paper to the Assignments dropbox titled for this activity by the date specified by your instructor.

 

Describe your experience with oral presentations. What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to these types of presentations?

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Week 7:
Reflect on how you have been given feedback in the past. What feedback strategies were effective?
Reflect on times when YOU provided feedback. What motivated you to give feedback? How was it received?

Week 8:
Free write for 5 minutes about a social issue you are passionate about. Go back and review what you wrote for organization, clarity, quality, and articulation of the intended meaning.
This entry will include 3 items:
1. Initial 5 minute free write
2. Critical review of what you wrote
3.A revised version of the paragraph

Week 9:
Discuss a situation in which you did not take initiative but should have. What might have happened if you had taken initiative in the situation?
Discuss a time you took initiative, describing what the situation was and what warranted you taking initiative.
Discuss a situation in which someone else took initiative; why did they take initiative and what did it look like? What was the impact of their initiative?

Week 10:
Describe your experience with oral presentations. What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to these types of presentations? For each weakness come up with a mitigation plan that you can implement as you prepare for your Project #2 presentation.

Week 11:
Share examples of non-inclusive behavior you have seen or experienced. Discuss what made these behaviors non-inclusive.