1) Why do you want to join the Phi Alpha Social Work Honor Society?
2) Describe an example when you were an agent of change / made a major contribution. What did you change and how did you make it happen?
Why is taking on the role of a servant so difficult and so necessary for those who are committed to ministry? How does one nurture the attitude and lifestyle that places others above oneself? Provide concrete examples from your observations or experiences of a “kingdom leadership” pattern, as discussed in Howell, chapter 16.
Respond to the above post in 300 words using Turabian format. Quotations should comprise no more than 10% of the total word count. You must incorporate 2 scholarly citations in your Turabian format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years.
The Class Project is the most significant assignment in this course, Concepts and Applications of Information Technology. As such, it accounts for 40% of the course points. This assignment is comprised of two deliverables; a SWOT Analysis and a Presentation. The SWOT Analysis is due in Week 4 (worth 15% of course grade), and the Presentation is due in Week 8 (worth 25% of course grade).
This assignment gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to research, evaluate, and describe business strategy focused on information technology tools and services. This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes:
• Identify the basic components of the information system: hardware, software, data, processes, and people, and how these components are used to support strategic decision making.
• Apply information technology tools for research, data gathering and information analysis, problem–solving, decision–making, and communicating information that aligns with business needs and objectives.
3. Refer back to the picture you drew in your data section of the cells you see in the preparation of your gumline slide.
a. There are some eukaryotic cells. How do you know that these are eukaryotic cells and not prokaryotic? List at least two reasons.
b. Explain why eukaryotic cells are not considered gram-positive or gram-negative cells.
c. While they might not be gram positive or negative, do the eukaryotic cells stain like a gram-positive cell or a gram-negative cell? Does your result on your gram stain make sense based on what you know about the gram stain procedure and the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells?
4. Both acid fast and non-acid fast cells are stained by carbolfttchsin. How is it, then, that we can use it as a differential stain?
5. Explain how an acid-fast cell wall is different than a gram negative or gram-positive cell wall.
John D. Rockefeller said, “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” Entrepreneurs in the late 1800s took Rockefeller’s advice to heart and broke new ground, especially in steel, banking, and Rockefeller’s own oil industry.
Write a well-constructed 4-paragraph essay that describes the business techniques and innovations the industrialists of the late 1800s used to achieve success.
A. Discuss the impact of a clinical practice problem on the patient(s) and the organization it affects.
1. Identify the following PICO components of the clinical practice problem:
• patient/population/problem (P)
• intervention (I)
• comparison (C)
• outcome (O)
2. Develop an evidence-based practice (EBP) question based on the clinical practice problem discussed in part A and the PICO components identified in part A1.
Note: Refer to “Appendix B: Question Development Tool” for information on the creation of an EBP question.
B. Select a research-based article that answers your EBP question from part A2 to conduct an evidence appraisal.
1. Discuss the background or introduction (i.e., the purpose) of the research article.
2. Describe the research methodology.
3. Identify the level of evidence using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) model.
Note: The article you select should not be more than five years old.
Note: Refer to “Appendix E: Research Evidence Appraisal Tool” for information on how to level a research-based article.
4. Summarize how the researcher analyzed the data in the article.
5. Summarize the ethical consideration(s) of the research-based article. If none are present, explain why.
6. Identify the quality rating of the research-based article according to the JHNEBP model.
Note: Refer to “Appendix E: Research Evidence Appraisal Tool” for information on how to establish the quality rating.
7. Analyze the results or conclusions of the research-based article and explain how the article helps answer your EBP question.
C. Select a non-research article from a peer-reviewed journal that helps to answer your EBP question from part A2 to conduct an evidence appraisal.
1. Discuss the background or introduction (i.e., the purpose) of the non-research article.
2. Describe the type of evidence (e.g., case study, quality improvement project, clinical practice guideline).
3. Identify the level of evidence using the JHNEBP model.
Note: The article you select should not be more than five years old.
Note: Refer to “Appendix F: Non-Research Evidence Appraisal Tool” for information on how to level the non-research-based article.
4. Identify the quality rating of the non-research-based article according to the JHNEBP model.
5. Discuss how the author’s recommendation(s) in the article helps to answer your EBP question.
D. Recommend a practice change that addresses your EBP question using both the research and non-research articles you selected for Part B and Part C.
1. Explain how you would involve three key stakeholders in supporting the practice change recommendation.
2. Discuss one specific barrier you may encounter when implementing the practice change recommendation.
3. Identify one strategy that could be used to overcome the barrier discussed in part D2.
4. Identify one outcome (the O component in PICO) from your EBP question to measure the recommended practice change.
E. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
F. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Learning Objective
Use course content to evaluate key aspects of early civilization and drug use in the historical context and summarize those findings.
Assignment Description
Select one of the cities from the remote antiquity list below. Review the class notes related to the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages of human history. Picture yourself as living in the society you have selected. Identify your profession / role within that society, describe your geographic location, provide the approximate time you exist in, and outline the key features of your civilization – trade, culture, religion, food types and sources, psychoactive substances, and any other key features. You may use the internet, journal articles, or books to help complete the details.
After you have identified the basic background of your civilization; refer to the archaeological site record to determine what food / drug stuffs have been found and identified. You should investigate what people in your area would have grown, consumed, and traded. Identify the ways any drugs or substances would have been utilized, who would have used them, and when.
Steps
1. Select your civilization:
a. Sumer b. Babylon c. Phoenicia d. Byblos
e. Knossos f. Eridu g. Uruk
h. Nippur
2. Describe your civilization using the features listed in the assignment description above. This should be 1 page in length.
3. Describe the archaeological evidence related to the city you have selected. Look for food and drug information using the internet (provide citations). This should be 1 page in length
4. Describe how the substances would have been used, who would have used them, when, how, and why. This should be 1 page in length
The healthcare industry is one of the largest employers in the United States and employs more than 3% of the U.S. workforce. There are approximately 200 health occupations and professions in a workforce of more than 14 million healthcare workers. By 2030, the percentage of the population that is 65 years and older will increase from the current 6% to 10% of the total population, which will place pressure on the healthcare system (National Center for Health Statistics, 2008). At the same time, the United States is currently experiencing a national shortage of both physicians and nurses. Choose either physicians or nurses and address an element (based on current research) contributing to the shortage. What strategies can you suggest to rectify this employment issue?
QUESTIONS SET
The questions are;
Chapter 10 in Business Essentials,”Human Resource Management and Labor Relations”, discusses the legal issues surrounding equal employment opportunities, importance of workforce development, and new challenges in the changing workplace.
In August 2017, a Google engineer wrote a memo that got him fired. The memo was highly criticized, and The New York Times, in the article “Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech” indicated that the reason the memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” angered many is because it “relied on certain gender stereotypes, like the notion that women are less interested in high-stress jobs because they are more anxious, to rationalize the gender gap in the tech industry.”
Assignment Readings:
Begin by reading the memo written by the fired Google employee, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.”
Next, read the memo written by the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, “Our Words Matter,” in response.
Then, read the below articles sourced from various news outlets to contextualize the memos a bit more:
Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech
This Email From Google’s CEO to Employees Teaches Some Major Lessons in Leadership
Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd
You may also view these articles in the alternative format below if you prefer.
Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber .pdf
Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech 2 – The New York Times-1.pdf
Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd.pdf
This Email From Google’s CEO to Employees Teaches Some Major Lessons in Leadership _ Inc.com.pdf
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai-1.pdf
Assignment Details:
After you have completed the readings, respond to the following questions:
1. Based on your readings, what do you think the fired engineer’s intended message was? What did he do right, and what did he do wrong in conveying his message to his intended audience?
2. It has been argued that the fired engineer’s memo was not intended to belittle women or minorities, but rather intended to encourage Google employees to take account of their own biases as a means of reducing the so-called gender gap in tech employment. Putting your own opinions aside, refer back to his memo, and cite examples where this viewpoint perhaps might be justified. Then explain in detail, referencing your citations from his memo, ways he could have changed his memo to communicate the intention of “reducing the gender gap in tech employment.”
3. Many of the offensive statements made by the Google employee were based on opinion, rather than fact, such as “most women are biologically unsuited to working in tech because they were more focused on “feelings and aesthetics than ideas” and had &”a stronger interest in people rather than things.” In what ways could the employee have strengthened his memo to persuade his audience (whatever his intention might have been), using facts, rather than opinion?
4. Google has dealt with criticism that it has not done enough to hire and promote women and minorities.The fired employee simultaneously questioned Google’s recruitment practices for a diverse workforce and argued that the reason there are not a lot of women in tech positions is not because they are being discriminated against, but because they do not want high-stress jobs, are more anxious, and crave more work-life balance than men. Google has long promoted a culture of openness, with employees allowed to question senior executives and even mock its strategy in internal forums. In what ways do you believe this memo crossed the line in also advancing harmful gender stereotypes even while criticizing Google’s hiring practices?
5. In his response memo, Google’s CEO did say that portions of the memo had "violated the company’s code of conduct and crossed the line “by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” Your readings highlight some of the leadership lessons the CEO conveyed in the message of his memo. What do you believe were the most meaningful lessons he demonstrated as a leader? (You may want to cite not only your readings from this assignment, but also refer to Part 1 (Chapters 1-3) in ”How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age”).
6. Social media are digital media/channel combinations that empower stakeholders as participants in the communication process by allowing them to share content, revise content, respond to content, or contribute new content. Why do you believe that this complicates communication in the business context and in what ways is this memo an example of just how complicated things have become for companies?
7. Similarly, social media reduces the amount of control businesses have over the content and process of communication. Google has learned how to adapt their communication efforts to this new media landscape and to welcome customers’ participation. When memos like this go public, why is it so important for companies to respond appropriately for example on Twitter or Facebook?
8. Consider the memo as a product of Google’s internal communication structure in welcoming input from employees. As noted above, it is important for companies to respond to the public if internal communications become public. How do you feel that social media has affected the business communication structure of Google in revolutionizing its internal communication processes and promoting the flow of ideas?
9. How do you think the internal communications processes in combination with recognizing the role of digital communications in the modern business environments has broken down traditional barriers in the organizational hierarchy (you may want to refer back to Chapters 5-7 from Business Essentials to fully answer the question).
10. In what ways do you think the impact of digital networks has enabled networks of individuals and organizations to collaborate, share information, and request information? How has it become easier, and in what ways has it become more difficult?
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