ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
We Guess, and You’re Wrong (WG & YW) Plan The four partners started the business so that the business can grow and make a profit. They had the idea that there would be a need for expansion in the future. It would involve finding an office, hiring staff, and increasing the shareholders. From the initial investment and partnership, the firm has increased its profitability, shareholding, and expansion aspects. The financial plan would identify the current financial condition of the business and what the entity wants to achieve in the future. The scope of the financial plan would be as follows: Income-expenses analysis, goal analysis, asset analysis, and cash flows. It would use some of the aspects it uses when analyzing other businesses that seek consultation services from WG &YW (Caplan 180). The Current Status of the Firm The firm has attracted more business than it had anticipated. There are additional customers to the firm, and there are others whose applications are awaiting approval. Some of the customers are a result of referrals from current customers. The Business Description Currently, the business has four partners. The firm utilizes computing know-how and data mining software to assist in foretelling the future of investor’s ventures (Richard 124). The headquarters of the firm are at Lucas Cruces, NM. The firm’s customers come from the South Western part of the USA. The four partners of the business use computers and internet access to do their work. The growth of the business has been as a result of hard work from all the partners. The partners have also been very honest with each other. Whenever there was any arising matter, they could arrange for a meeting and share ideas. They made sure that their meetings were brief and produced results. It is such commitment and zeal that has brought about successful results (Caplan 180). The business has started gaining accolades from developed and developing entrepreneurs. Some major achievement is the invitation by major companies to assist their consultants in developing worthwhile reports. The industry reports indicate that many start-up businesses have challenges. They are now looking for expert knowledge on how to move the business to the next level of achievement. People have ideas for business, but when they experience challenges, they are unable to solve them amicably. There are now plans to employ staff and add some partners. The new partnership should raise at least $1,000,000. There are two ways of doing this. One of the methods is to get an already established partner who would raise the amount and still bring into the partnership other opportunities (Greenwood 310). The second option would be to hire three New Mexico State University engineering graduates. It would lead to the development of an associate program that would help the new gra
Lawn Care Company was a considerable competitor in the market with high quality products. The company had highly qualified personnel working for it. This talented staff ensured that the company’s products were of high quality. The company dealt with the production of grass and fertilizers. With that quality, the company accrued a large demand for its products. However, there was confusion or problem with Lawn’s strategic planning. The incepted plan relied majorly on the quality of the products. The experts counterchecked all products to ascertain their quality before releasing them for sale. Practically, these types of products only appeal to customers in parks and golf courses that can afford their cost. There are some markets that do not consider the difference in quality, and are likely to show less interest in that product basing on quality alone. In actuality, the company only factored quality and neglected all other factors which would have proved substantial in improving its sales. The company showed incomplete value chain design. The customers were supplied with the best quality of products including fertilizers. However, the company was not compelled to provide fertilizer application for customers according required levels. This led to the customers having to employ local contractors to do the application. These contractors had incorrect application that later caused pollution. This problem extends to affect the customer benefit package as the customers did not get optimum performance from the purchase of Lawn’s products. Customers spe
Introduction The ethical issue in the financing of healthcare is the cost of medications and their effectiveness or ineffectiveness. Due to these high costs, providers are unable to cover all needs of the aging nation. More controversial issues will arise, transforming healthcare in the United States. How Policy Decisions Are Made Current policy decisions are based on a variety of factors, including the overall financial support that programs of government insurers (such as Medicare or Medicaid) or private insurers can provide, eligibility criteria (or a lack thereof) in different states, and the price and effectiveness of new drugs. New drugs and health technologies play a specially important role as both public and private insurers can rely on the information provided in scientific reports and by the manufacturers of drugs and technologies to evaluate their effectiveness and determine whether the coverage of these medications would be cost-effective. As the U.S. Supreme Court stated that the expansion of the Medicaid program to all individuals younger than 36 and at or below the 138% poverty level is unconstitutional, the states can independently decide whether they support the expansion or not (Milstead, 2016). An obligatory expansion could improve the process but, at the same time, it could also limit the opportunities for other individuals under Medicare or Medicaid or private programs. An example of the difficulties that both public and private insurers experience is the drug against cancer, Provenge, discussed by Stein (2010). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services conducted a national coverage analysis of the medication, which triggered anxieties and alarms among cancer experts and patients, lawmakers, and advocacy groups. The drug’s effectiveness, its high cost, and specifics of the therapy were considered as factors that downsized the cost-effectiveness of the medication in the eye of the Services’ administration. The high cost of the treatment ($270,00 per year) is believed to be unaffordable for society (Stein, 2010). As private and public insurers were unable to support it due to its expensiveness and low efficiency, many patients had to face the fact that their life-prolonging treatment was impossible to obtain. Cost and Care The ethical issue that arises here is the problem of the price that both patients and insurers have to consider. Patients who have terminal illnesses are ready to invest as much money as they can to prolong their life, but not all patients have this opportunity. While insurers
Introduction The National Labour Relations Act popularly known as the NLRA is the act which was enacted by Congress in the year 1935; the Act was basically aimed at protecting the rights of the employee as well as employer (James, 2009). This Act encourages collective bargaining and it restrains certain private-sector labor and management practices that can harm the general welfare of workers. It was enacted so that it could be able to serve the nationwide interest in labor relations. The act usually tackles such issues as common strikes, conflicting relationship
Introduction   * The project’s topic: catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).   * The presentation’s goal: collation of evidence for the project.   * Method:       + analysis of articles (8);       + their comparison/contrasting;       + finding connections between them and the project/practice. This presentation contributes to the description of a quality improvement project which focuses on the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). The presentation’s goal is to offer a summary of the evidence that has been collected over the past few weeks during discussions. A total of eight high-quality articles have been selected, and their analysis and comparison will allow making conclusions that will be of use to the project. Topic Area: Quality Improvement Implementation   * Benchmarking: a tool for measuring quality and related progress (Garrard, Boyle, Simon, Dunton, & Gajewski, 2016).   * Leadership: motivation/organization of an effort/project (Gunawan & Aungsuroch, 2017).   * Communication/cooperation: effective interactions for a project that incorporates multiple actors (Wittenberg, Goldsmith, & Neiman, 2015) The articles will all be united within the topic of quality improvement, but they are not very similar. In fact, they cover rather diverse areas, including benchmarking, leadership, and communication. However, it is apparent that these areas are connected to quality improvement. Thus, benchmarking is a tool for quality improvement, which is meant to measure the current quality of care and serve as a comparison for progress. Leadership and communication are also a form of instruments; in particular, they are required to organize a quality improvement project. This factor makes all these topics relevant to the current presentation since the CAUTI project is meant to improve the quality of care and patient safety by reducing CAUTIs. Question For senior patients ages 65 years and above of long-term care facilities (P), how does the use of disposable washcloth with 2% chlorhexidine gluconate (I) compared to standard catheter care (C) affect the rate and prevalence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (O) within a six-week period (T)? Discussion questions: quality improvement (QI), benchmarking, leadership, communication, meaningful use (MU). This slide contains the project’s PICOT question. In turn, the discussions covered a number of other important topics, including benchmarking and leadership, as well as communication. In addition to that, MU was also a topic that can be associated with QI. The articles that were employed to respond to the discussion questions were of use to the project and provided helpful insights into nursing quality and patient safety. Significance   * Why are the tools required?       + QI needed for patient safety/quality of care.       + QI is complex; multiple barriers (Green et al., 2015; Tappen et al., 2017).   * Why should they be studied?       + Evidence-based solutions.       + G
The word ‘school shooting’ implies acts carried out by either intruders or students within a school. These incidences are usually confused with other forms of school violence like Bath School tragedy where a homemade bomb exploded leaving behind several causalities. Is there a certain ‘type’ of students most likely to carry out these atrocious acts? Well, a profiling carried out in the United States of America showed that, there are no certain groups or individuals, who are more likely to commit these school-shooting incidences (Egan para. 9). However, the perpetrators seem to share one thing; they plan for the shootings. These individuals do not wake up and decide to carry a gun into a class and open fire to fellow students or teachers. No, they plan how to do it in advance. Theirs is a well-developed path towards violence. Apart from being ‘loners’, these individuals are ‘joiners’ and it appears that after failing to gain social acceptance, they come up with a way of letting their thinking and actions known by shooting fellow students or even teachers (Egan para. 6). Though not proved, these shooting incidences may be an attempt by the perpetrators to uplift their social image from a ‘loser’ to a ‘master’. What else can explain such incidences? Interestingly, young males have been exclusively associated with these shootings save for only two documented incidences carried out by female students. Barry Loukaitis in Frontier Middle School perpetrated one of the most outstanding school shooting instances on 2 February 1996. On the material day, Loukaitis, wielding two handguns and a hunting riffle with over 78 rounds of ammunition; shot dead his algebra teacher; Leona Caires and two fellow students; Arnold Fritz, Jr. and Manuel Vela; injured Natalie Hintz, and held the entire class hostage for ten minutes. After hearing the gunshots, Jon Lane, a gym coach, walked in and volunteered to be taken hostage instead of the students before grabbing the weapons and disarming Loukaitis (Egan, para. 5). It later emerged that these weapons belonged to his father. Interestingly, on that day, Loukaitis was apparelled like Gunslinger, a prominent character in cinema. What could lead someone to making such flagitious move? According to Egan, Barry said, ”This sure beats algebra doesn’t it” (para. 4). After thorough searching, it emerged that violent videos littered Loukaitis’ house. He learnt shooting from his father. Additionally, Barry Loukaitis reportedly confessed to a friend that it would be cool to embark on a shooting fling, to emulate some lead characters in Natural Born Killers. To be precise the character, Oliver Ston
Cultural competence implies the ability to distinguish the behavioral and attitudinal peculiarities of individuals from different cultural, racial, and ethnic groups. The most evident difference can be observed in verbal communication norms. For example, individuals in the Asian communities value the demonstration of respect in interpersonal communication and usually show higher appreciation for those in superior social positions (Cherry & Jacob, 2017). Therefore, when working with the representatives of this cultural group, a nurse may prefer to adhere to more formal communication styles, especially when interacting with older individuals or males since they are normally associated with greater authority and play major roles in their families’ decision-making (“How culture influences health beliefs,” n.d.). Cherry and Jacob (2017) also note that Native Americans usually speak in a low tone of voice, expecting others to be attentive. Thus, it would be disrespectful on the part of a nurse to ask an Indian American patient to speak up. Additionally, it is essential to pay attention to different groups’ non-verbal communication norms, such as eye contact. The majority of cultural communities regard direct eye contact as a sign of disrespect and rudeness. Moreover, Hispanics view the avoidance of eye contact as a sign of attentiveness and respect (Cherry & Jacob, 2017). Thus, to improve patients’ perception of communication quality, a nurse should alter their non-verbal communication styles according to diverse individuals’ behavioral expectations. Culturally defined health beliefs and traditional practices also play a significant role in individuals’ health-related decision-making. For example, in many cultures, different herbs are frequently used for self-care (Cherry & Jacob, 2017). Therefore, it would be appropriate to ask a patient whether he or she prefers traditional or contemporary medical practices and devise intervention strategies according to his or her preferences. However, to do so effectively, a nurse must, first of all, improve the knowledge of traditional approaches to self-care in distinct cultural groups and explore each of them in greater detail.
Plato investigates human consciousness in terms of the social cooperation. The way of the personal improvement and education can be confusing and painful. Plato’s parable The Allegory of the Cave describes a community people who do not acquainted with the external world. Their life goes around the worlds inside the Cave which are symbolized by the shadows on the wall of the Cave and puppets in fire – the offset light these shadows. People in the Cave do not interact with the worlds outside the Cave, reflected in water, the things themselves, including the stars and the moon in the night sky and the sun. Reflecting about the reasons of accepting or declining the information, Plato consists that a closed mind is inborn, although, there is still a chance to open it. Plato considers the ascent to truth confusing and painful, as the people in the Cave have to rebuild their mind and usual comprehension of the things. Plato discusses about the way of getting the information, thinking about the reason why people behave like they are prisoners of the Cave. If they are prisoners, they must be released. They will get the freedom to contemplate the whole world and to imagine freely. But the point is that they were not forced to stay in darkness. Now they see only offset shadows, games of fire on the wall in front of the Cave where the puppet-handlers are inseparable part of their life. The people in the Cave are unable to see something else, their heads are motionless and their legs and necks are fixed. This fire is the pure Knowledge, but people are able to see only its shadows. They chose this way which is more safe and easy. It is better to see only the shadows, not the flame that can burn. The outside world can be dangerous, as the sun in eclipse is dangerous to the eyes. There may be a number of terrible things which can destroy the usual way of life. The terror of the ascent is obvious: the world can be changed and it is impossible to predict the results of such transformation. If people in the Cave were free, they would start to imagine. Every social phenomenon they would explain from a position of superstitions. Educated in the spirit of ignorance, they would take a lot of things for granted. They would look at the world through the prism, the barrier that stands in their minds. Imagination plays a big part in our perception of the world. Plato considers this position in a negative way. People would like to stay in darkness, instead of suffer from “bright light”. Communicating with each other and interacting with the outside worlds, people in the Cave would name the objects, would open the new facilities and different elements. This is the way of the ascent; however, people in the Cave will be in a danger. Nevertheless, the ascent from the shadows to the sun involves not only terror. The beauty of the outside world is worth to be confused at the beginning. The real knowledge is the most valuable thing that can help people in the Cave to improve their life, to forget all fears and prejudices. This knowledge can be achieved only in a way of interaction with the things outside, including stars, moon and sun. Therefore, it is necessary t
Introduction to Healthcare Communication It is the enhancement of the health decisions involving health issues at the community and individual level, through the utilization of “communication strategies to inform and influence” them in matters relating to health. An opportunity exists to improve the health of the public through the linking of communication and health (National Cancer Institute (NCI), 1989, Piotrow, Kincaid, Rimon, et al, 1997; cited in Healthy People 2010). It can help through the preventing of disease spreading and. Concepts regarding healthcare communication, including the following (Heathy People 2010, 2010); Health professional-patient relations, individuals’ exposure to, search for, and use of health information, individuals’ adherence to clinical recommendations and regimens, the construction of public health messages and campaigns, the dissemination of individual and population health risk information, that is risk communication. Other aspects include telehealth application issues, educating the masses on how to have access to the healthcare facilities means for them and promoting a good healthcare culture (Jackson and Duffy, 1998; cited in Healthy People 2010). Effective healthcare communication can be perceived to contain a number of characters. These include;   * Accuracy, which deals with the validity of service contents to aid interpretation, judgment and other things.   * Availability, where the content is accessible to individuals easily and it is possible to deliver it. This will vary depending on the type of message, how complex or easy the message is, the purpose of the message, among other things. Availability of messages is ensured for example by placing the message in the kiosks, advertisements over the radio stations, among other channels.   * Balance where the benefits and the risks relating to the issues discussed, is focused upon by the message   * Consistency, where the content must remain to display and communicate the same message as other sources of the same type of information. Thus, to ensure this, all the sources of information must contain accurate messages.   * Cultural competence which includes “the design, implementation, and evaluation process that accounts for special issues for select population groups” (Healthy People 2010). Impacts of Healthcare Communication For patients, the practice can improve in their awareness of the risks of health and the related application solutions. In addition, the patients can be motivated the reduction the risks related to these problems and can gain access to information on how other people in similar situations can be helped. In addition, healthcare communication can implant a positive attitude among the patients. For the case of healthcare facilities, it can end up increasing demand for the services as well as decreasing the demand for undesirable healthcare issues. It is possible that the patients will have increased access to related information involving the selection f the healthcare