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Identify a patient’s need (health problem) and assess it holistically from the biological, psychological and social aspects. Critique the care for that need based on whether it meets all the biopsychosocial needs which arise from that need, whether it is supported by evidence or not and then, recommend a better care plan.

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The Science of Nursing Decision Making

 

Summative Assessment Guidelines for The Science of Nursing Decision Making

For this assessment you will need to select a patient/ service user from a recent placement. Identify one need experienced by the patient/service user and explore the impact this will have using the Biopsychosocial Model. You will need to include a critique of the care given related to this need using evidence to support your views. This needs to focus on the decisions made by the care team, including any reasoning for interventions and treatment. From the evidence used, you need to offer recommendations for how this care could be enhanced or improved to ensure patient centred care.

Learning Outcome 5.
Critique the care, intervention and treatment plan of a given patient across the lifespan with appropriate explanation.

Assignment Guidelines: Case study structure

Introduction (150 words).
Start with a brief introduction of your chosen patient using approximately 30 – 50 words. You will need to provide more information of the patient in the appendix. Present your introduction and ensure it answers these 3 questions:

a. What? The introduction needs to clearly explain what this case study is about. This section needs to explain in your own words what is required in the assignment brief given above.

b. How? The second part of the introduction need to outline how this case study is structured. You need to summarise the details given in the body.

c. Why? An introduction needs to articulate why critiquing and evaluation of care is of significance to care delivery.
Body (1200 words)

Briefly explain the Engel (1977) Biopsychosocial Model which you will use for your assessment.

Identify a patient’s need (health problem) and assess it holistically from the biological, psychological and social aspects. Critique the care for that need based on whether it meets all the biopsychosocial needs which arise from that need, whether it is supported by evidence or not and then, recommend a better care plan. (For example, how would the stoma affect the patient’s physical/psychological status/quality of life or how would patient with schizophrenia cope with one of their symptoms). You will need to support your critique and reasoning with evidence-based practice.

From your critique, identify the recommendations that would be appropriate to introduce to the patient’s care plan, based on the latest evidence-based research / practice.

Conclusion (150 words)
Summary: Put a short concluding statement of approximately 50 words then summarise the key learning points that have emerged from your critique.

References
Appropriate referencing is an important element of academic writing. Ensure that you have used the most up to date UWL referencing guide available from the library. Please be aware that the referencing guide is regularly updated.

Appendices
In a table, you will give more information on your patient/service user with the following information:
Presenting complaint /symptoms
Past medical history

Medication
Intervention/Treatment
The implemented care plan for the patient for the identified problem.
Do ensure that all information identifying the patient and the Trust/ Service provider are anonymised.

Critically examine the nature of contemporary capitalism.  What might the future hold? Using a case study of your choice, critically explore the power dynamics between business and government in the policy process

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Business, Government and Public Policy (BUSI3035 UNUK)

Method and Criteria of Assessment

Coursework should be 2,500 words in length and conform to Nottingham University Business School requirements (see below). They are individual efforts, not group projects. They are also exercises in independent research and must show evidence of such. Independent research means self-directed research beyond those readings suggested and/or supplied.

Coursework Questions

Answer one of the following:

Q1 Critically examine the nature of contemporary capitalism.  What might the future hold?

Q2 The State has a distinct role in organizing for business and growth. Discuss.

Q3 Using a case study of your choice, critically explore the power dynamics between business and government in the policy process

Q4 Critically assess the role of the ‘public’ in the policy process.

Q5 The growth of social media is a challenge to the media’s role as ‘The Fourth Estate’ and the policy process. Discuss.

Q6 ‘Big Tech ‘– is it time for a new wave of anti –trust legislation? Consider the concentration of power among Big Tech companies and the implications for Government and public policy.

Provide a critical review of a public health issue and response within a global context using an appropriate political, social, and epidemiological lens.

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Diabetes in Qatar as case study

Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:

Knowledge
1. Critically evaluate global health issues in terms of social, environmental and political determinants and the role of key national and international organisations and initiatives;

2. Judge relevance of evidence-based solutions for addressing population health needs and the differences in low, middle and high-income countries.

Thinking skills
3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of relevant global health issues through research from primary and secondary sources.

Subject-based practical skills
4. Provide a critical review of a public health issue and response within a global context using an appropriate political, social, and epidemiological lens.

Skills for life and work (general skills)
5. Integrate concepts from the epidemiological and social context for a given global health challenge to inform policy debates when working with variable levels of data, resources and political commitments.

 

 

Discuss the strengths, skills, and other positives that were revealed in the assessments that you took. Do these strengths surprise you or reinforce what you already thought? How do you use these strengths currently? Be sure to clearly explain which assessment gave you the information and cite the assessments in APA format.

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Defining Yourself As a Leader

For this paper:
Discuss the strengths, skills, and other positives that were revealed in the assessments that you took. Do these strengths surprise you or reinforce what you already thought? How do you use these strengths currently? Be sure to clearly explain which assessment gave you the information and cite the assessments in APA format.

Discuss your strengths further by summarizing the responses you received and relating how what you learned from the people you talked to and the assessments fits in with what you already knew about yourself, and with the work you currently do or hope to do in the future.

Develop a statement of who you are as a leader, based on your analysis. This statement should include your values, strengths, goals, and more. You should include in your statement who you want to be as a leader—what you aspire to become. This way, your statement becomes your own vision of who you want to be and an affirmation to help you grow.

Describe some of the areas that you learned are growth opportunities (where you did not perform so strongly). How did you feel about this? What areas do you feel are most important to strengthen? What steps might you take to do so?

Use your random number table to choose 5 sample positions (5 different pairs of numbers, e.g. 2,1 3,4 3,1). Record these on your recording sheet. Pace out the locations of your five sample positions within the plot. Use your pitfall trap cup to temporarily mark the position of these five sampling points.

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Group experiment at Sonning Farm.

AP2AE45 Sonning field experiment initial sampling

Work out which corner of the plot is the origin (use the SW corner).

Use your random number table to choose 5 sample positions (5 different pairs of numbers, e.g. 2,1 3,4 3,1). Record these on your recording sheet.

Pace out the locations of your five sample positions within the plot.

Use your pitfall trap cup to temporarily mark the position of these five sampling points.

Place your 75 cm x 75 cm quadrat over the centre of the first sample point and record the area (percentage of the quadrat area) in each of the broad vegetation categories (e.g. Grass, Forb, Bare Ground). Record as ‘% cover’.

Now record the area (percentage of the quadrat area) of the more common plant species. Do not count the plants. These % cover values should be consistent with the broad categories estimated in stage 1, so if you estimated 10% cover of forbs in step 1, your total for forb species should be less than 10%. You may need to ask Simon for help with identification.

Record as ‘% cover’ in the left hand side of each box on the table on the bottom half of the recording sheet.
For those species that have flower heads or seedheads, now count the number of plants that are flowering or have seedheads in your quadrat. Record that in the right hand side of each box on the table, as needed.

Put the pitfall trap cup back in the centre of the quadrat you have just recorded before moving on (to mark its location).

Now repeat the process for the other four quadrats.

Now use a soil auger to make a hole sufficiently deep and wide for your pitfall trap cup in the centre of each quadrat.

Don’t make the hole too wide.

Place your pitfall trap in the hole and make sure that the top of the cup is level with the soil surface. DO NOT PUSH IT INTO THE GROUND WITH YOUR FOOT!

Seal the gap between the rim of your cup and the surrounding soil with loose soil.

Provide a written reflection on key things learned through this class, including your personal opinion of if or how Christian beliefs/values should inform our views on immigration and equality.

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History

Purpose

The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate your reading and understanding of the concepts of our entire course.

Instructions

In a 200-250 word response, provide a written reflection on key things learned through this class, including your personal opinion of if or how Christian beliefs/values should inform our views on immigration and equality.

Submission Instructions:

Submit to Moodle as a Word document.

Include your name (first/last) in the file name.

Define what academic integrity means to you. How has it impacted you as a student? State and describe the character, their traits and significance, and how they personify you.

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Harvard summer school application

Questions 1

Essays should be between 250-350 words. There is a character limit of 3000. What course(s) at Harvard Summer School interest you and why? Consider the previous year’s course offerings if next summer’s courses are not yet available in the course catalog on our website. If you are applying to the Pre-College Program, look at this catalog. If you are applying to the Secondary School Program, look at this catalog.

Question 2

Essays should be between 250-350 words. There is a character limit of 3000. Define what academic integrity means to you. How has it impacted you as a student?

Question 3

Reflect on a book you have read or a film you have seen where you strongly related to a character. State and describe the character, their traits and significance, and how they personify you.

Question 4

Essays should be between 250-350 words. There is a character limit of 3000. You are tasked with creating a new high school course or student club. Tell us the name of the course or student club, the description, and why you chose to create it. Be creative.

Learn how to apply SPCM to a process, continue the flow chart from Week 1 and identify variances within a process.

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Summative Assessment: Statistical Process Control Methods

To learn how to apply SPCM to a process, continue the flow chart from Week 1 and identify variances within a process. You can find variances from the data identified in Week 1.

Use the Ops574 SPC Methods document to complete the assignment.

Write a 2 page MLA documented essay analyzing the two images that are attached. Describe the two images in detail to highlight what the viewers need to see and provide a foundation for that analysis. Provide several key points of comparison/contrast as the focus.

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Comparison and analysis of the African American struggle in America through two similar photos.

Write a 2 page MLA documented essay analyzing the two images that are attached. Describe the two images in detail to highlight what the viewers need to see and provide a foundation for that analysis. Provide several key points of comparison/contrast as the focus. The thesis statement should make a claim about the key differences [or similarities] in the way that the images establish the purposes to achieve their persuasive effects. Be sure to discuss any of the following compositional elements that apply: distance; angle and orientation; framing; light; focus or blurring; scale, space, and shape; use of repetition, variety, and balance; line; and color. • Follow MLA conventions for formatting the essay, including citing sources for the photographs and any information used to make to give background or historical context. A minimum of 2 sources are required. Remember to use correct in-text citations and correct citations on the Works Cited.

Introduction • Hooks readers’ interest. • Give background on the two images. • Sets up the similarities.

• Thesis statement—indicates how the images use compositional elements to create meaning and evoke emotions. General description of two images • Describes each image in turn using sensory detail. • Describe the photograph using sensory details (such as touch, sound, smell, sight, taste) so that your reader can “see” and understand the photograph. Analysis of the two images. • Analyze and contrast each image in turn, using the ideas from observations, question asking, and close examination.

Conclusion • Return to the big picture for a sense of closure; • Make final comments about the significance of analysis from two perspectives. Works Cited Cite source(s) used per current MLA guidelines.

Analyze the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that may affect your business. Considerations may include local laws such as a ban on the use of plastic bags, the ability to post billboards, or a possible increased regulation on direct mail.

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Strategic Marketing Plan

Part A: Environmental Analysis and SWOT Analysis
(Due in Competency 1 Assessment)
Company Description
Describe the company you are designing the plan for. Include:
Mission Statement
Vision Statement
Product line description
Company information, such as the size of the company
Environmental Analysis

Analyze the forces that affect the company and marketing efforts.

Competitive Forces

Analyze the company’s key competitors. You may choose to use a BCG Matrix or attribute checklist to compare your company against its competitors. Describe any strategic moves the competition has recently made. Estimate your market share. Identify key competitive advantages against your competitors.

Economic Forces
Analyze the economic environment in the areas affecting your business. Consider differences within your industry and the economic impact on suppliers.

Political Forces
Analyze relevant political forces. Examples may include an election year or a law to drastically reduce or eliminate plastic waste in your county.

Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Issues
Analyze the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that may affect your business. Considerations may include local laws such as a ban on the use of plastic bags, the ability to post billboards, or a possible increased regulation on direct mail.

Technological Forces
Analyze whether your company will be affected by emerging technologies or trends in hardware and software industries

Social Forces
Analyze social trends and how they may affect your business. Considerations may include if your business will be affected by demographic trends, a growing dependence on computers, or whether interest in your product might be affected by growing preferences in the way things are done or changing social values.

Current Target Markets
Define the company’s current target markets. Describe the demographic, geographic, psychographic, and product usage of these targets.

Review Current Marketing
Review the company’s current marketing tactics. Consider how people find out about the product, how they get information about the product or service, what might be involved in the buying process, and what money is available for marketing. If your company is a start-up, describe your competitors’ current marketing.

SWOT Analysis
Assess your company’s strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities, and then evaluate how to address these in your marketing plan.

Strengths
Assess your company’s competitive advantage. Consider core competencies, assets, location, practices, etc. that are distinct in the way the organization meets the needs of its customers.

Weaknesses
Assess what limits the company may have in its current marketing strategy. Consider if there is a company weakness that needs to be addressed through Public Relations or Marketing.

Opportunities
Assess the opportunities you see based on trends or environmental conditions.

Threats
Assess the threats or limitations that may interfere with the company’s ability to meet its objectives or interfere with marketing plans.

Strengths to Opportunities & Converting Weaknesses and Threats
Convert weaknesses and threats to strengths, then strengths to opportunities in the marketing plan. Consider the implications for addressing supplier relationships, implementing new technologies, or changing the product line or addressing new markets.

Marketing Objectives
Establish marketing objectives based on the results from the SWOT analysis. Marketing objectives must align with corporate objectives, modified by the company’s resources. Objectives should include a date for the completion of the objective and the way in which success will be measured. For example: The company will expand its marketing efforts to include a new market segment of 21- to 29-year-olds. This will entail the development of a customized product by June 2020 that will address the specific psychographic and technological needs of this age group. This strategy is expected to attain a 20% growth in overall sales by January 2020. Customer loyalty (willingness to recommend the product) will increase by 30%.

Part B: Marketing Data Analysis
(Due in Competency 2 Assessment)
Internal Data
Evaluate internal sources of information available to you inside the organization and what information you will receive from each source. Identify 3-6 sources of internal data. Insert or remove rows as needed.
Source What it Measures Data Potential Usage
Example: Sales data Monthly sales by specific product Average sales that month in US dollars for each of 10 products. Data can be segmented by business and consumer markets. Can be used for trend analysis, projections, and to measure effectiveness of promotions.

Secondary Data
Evaluate secondary data sources and the specific information you need from each source. Insert or remove rows as needed.
Source What it Measures Data Potential Usage
Example: retail store analytics Dollar value of sales by quarter by major product categories Total sales of major players Market Share Analysis
Seasonal patterns

Primary Data
Evaluate primary data needs to create and evaluate the marketing plan. Insert or remove rows as needed.

Source What it Measures Data
Potential Usage
Example: Focus group Product usage, motives, identify group level satisfaction, decision process, etc. Qualitative Identify different reactions of market segments to product. Identify marketing opportunities, product/service flaws and opportunities

Customer Relationship Management
Establish customer touchpoints and develop appropriate CRM events for customer acquisition, retention, and profitability. Insert or remove rows as needed.
CRM Touchpoint Purpose & CRM Objective Data Potential Data Usage
Example: Customer profile information on website Starts the account for visitors: name, geography, email address (Customer acquisition)

Presale: geographic location; customer id, source of reference
Email address
Post sales: address, product purchased, quantity, price. Track new and returning customer counts, total period purchases by customer ID, geographic sales data. Can be used for loyalty rewards, retention, and targeted marketing.

Part C: Market Strategy, Marketing Channels, Implementation, and Monitoring
(Due in Competency 3 Assessment)

New Target Markets
Determine any new markets for your strategy and describe how you will provide value to each target market.

Marketing Mix for New Target Markets
Determine adaptions for each new target market.
Products
Price
Distribution
Traditional Promotion
Online Promotion
Marketing Implementation
Create the implementation for your marketing plan. Describe how you will organize and implement the plan, such as whether it will be organized by market, geography, and who is responsible for marketing decisions.
Marketing Communication Channels
Evaluate the marketing communication channels you will use to reach selected audiences. Include Internet and traditional communication channels to convey key messages. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each channel you select. Insert or remove rows as needed.
Channel Target Market Advantages Disadvantages
Example: Direct mail Middle class residential Can include coupons Expense and low return rate for given product

Strategic Actions
Develop specific activities required to implement the marketing plan. Identify the person or role who will be responsible for each action, when it will be complete, and what standard or metric indicate that the activity is complete. Insert or remove rows as needed.
Action Date for Completion Person/Role Responsible Standard/Metric
Example: Design flyer for direct mail campaign 1/1/2021 J. Smith, graphic designer Approval by senior marketing team and legal

Monitoring
Develop the measurement to identify how you know you have been successful for each strategic action. Specify the measures to track performance against goals. Identify standard reports from your online and traditional marketing efforts. Insert or remove rows as needed.