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The discussion below will focus on the virtual patient Carolyn Cross. Her health assessment will be founded on the concept of social determinants that tend to be a significant method. She does not demonstrate any substantial problems in the framework of these determinants; nevertheless, it is important to provide a solid rationale regarding this issue to design a nursing plan for Carolyn. Thus, the health assessment below aims to apply the mentioned concept to the patient’s situation to develop this nursing plan coherently and precisely. Discuss four evidence-based interview techniques you used to assess Carolyn’s social determinants In order to get the necessary answers from Carolyn, the adapted core questions of the AHC HRSN Screening Tool were asked. This Tool provides a significant interviewing technique that aims to address all the social determinants. CMS (2018) considers the following aspects to ask about as vital – living situation, food, transportation, utilities, and safety. The latter two were replaced by questions about employment and education as they seem more appropriate for Carolyn’s health assessment because she has a happy family and significant neighborhood. However, the Tool considers them supplemental, and I replaced the questions on utilities and safety as it was clear that there will be no issues in this regard after the first two. The Tool’s significance might be justified as follows, “Just like with clinical assessment tools, providers can use the results from the HRSN Screening Tool to inform patients’ treatment plans and make referrals to community services” (CMS, 2018, p. 1). It also addresses all the five vital social determinants, as well as provides the opportunity to assess their extended list. The second technique that was applied is active listen
Introduction When disasters occur, a business should always be prepared to cope and recover from it. In this way, it will be easy for them to measure, determine, and reduce risks in the future. Staff members often get stressed when disasters occur as they are unable to work effectively causing poor productivity of the business. Most disasters are unpredictable and can happen abruptly. In case of such events, disaster planning strategies equip businesses with the necessary techniques and tools to help in recovery. Analysis Disasters such as interrupted power can lead to mass data loss and threaten a business center’s operations. When such disasters occur, it is always advisable to have emergency power systems. By making appropriate methods minimize the potential of component failure, it is possible to achieve power assessments and audits hence increasing power availability (Wheeler 2011). Therefore, with a reliable power system and emergency power equipment reliability in business will thus be improved. Emergency power can be provided by auxiliary power systems and uninterruptible power
Introduction Many people in the world experience pain, which affects their quality of life. These people require effective treatment interventions to mitigate pain and associated disabilities. Peer mentorship programs and self-management strategies should be utilized in addition to other therapeutic modalities. Self-management strategies are defined as the interaction of different health behaviors and their associated processes, which patients engage in when addressing chronic diseases and pain (Hommel, Greenley, Maddux, Gray, & Mackner, 2013). Contrarily, peer mentorship programs entail the use of peers to influence how patients treat themselves and handle pain in the most efficient way. Therefore, pain can be reduced through the adoption of self-management strategies and the implementation of the peer mentorship programs. Prevalence of Pain Sufferers Requiring Self-Management Strategies and Peer Mentorship Programs The number of people reporting chronic pain in the world is high, although it is not precisely known. According to Nicholas (2015), about 20% of the human population in the entire world report chronic pain; studies have shown that a majority of these people experience pain-associated mood disturbances and disabilities. On the other hand, Mann, LeFort, and VanDenKerkhof (2013) explain that chronic pain is worldwide with high prevalence rates, which are difficult to estimate. However, the rates range from 11-45% in community-dwelling individuals (Mann et al., 2013). Although this problem is much common in older adults, other people from different age groups are also affected, including children. For instance, children who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease experience this type of pain (Mackner, Ruff, & Vannatta, 2014). Therefore, high population pain sufferers include people from all age groups, with older adults being the most affected. Effectiveness of Self-Management Strategies and Peer Mentorship Programs The use of both peer mentorship programs and self-management strategies has shown effectiveness in most of the pain sufferers depending on the disease and the level of intervention. Self-management interventions are effective because they teach the necessary skills for the treatment of chronic diseases and their symptoms, including pain (Mann et al., 2013). They target self-efficacy, including practicing skills, addressing emotions, support and feedback, and peer role modeling (Mann et al., 2013). In their study, Oliveira et al. (2012) found that self-management strategies had little impact on pain and associated disabilities in people with lower back pains. However, the reduced effectiveness in managing chronic low bac
Cyber slacking refers to the personal use of the internet at the workplace (Roberts 1). The employees who surf the internet for personal reasons during working hours are called cyber slackers or cyberloofers. The employees who cyber slack at work look very busy on their keyboards and an onlooker will usually assume that they are very busy yet they are surfing the internet for fun. Some even surf pornographic sites while at work or just play online games. Others use the office internet to do personal shopping, look out for vacation locations, job hunt or simply send personal emails. Cyber slacking trend in the office today has become a major challenge in the workplace. The history of cyber slacking dates back to the beginning of internet use at the workplace. During that time, the speeds of internet were slow as people were using dial up connections and so people did not slack a lot. However, the trend has changed with technological advancement. Today people use broadband, which has increased the internet speeds, and hence people able to surf the faster, access more web content with more ease. The high connection speeds are a temptation that many workers have failed to resist. The trend of cyber slacking is likely to increase in the future as more people become computer savvy and the technology advances further and the filter software are unable to cope with new sites that are not covered by the filters (Roberts 1). Moreover, employees do not think that the habit is a problem. They do not consider cyber slacking as time wasting as they say they need to take breaks at work and surfing the internet is how they use that time. Others feel that cyber slacking is okay as long as they multitask and finish their work in good time. Others feel that cyber slacking enables them to learn about computers more hence they have no guilt about using the companies time this way. The habit of cyber slacking affects the working relationship of employees in the workplace in a number of ways. For instance, an employee who visits pornographic sites may offend another who finds viewing the site (Naughton 1). Moreover, an employee may send his or her colleagues emails with graphic images and offend them. Some even save the graphic images as their computer screen savers or background for their desktops offending other workers who may use their workstations. Therefore, the trend can create conflicts in the workplace and make the working environment non-conducive for all the employees. Productivity is affected by cyber slacking negatively. As employees spend their time misusing the internet, their productivity diminishes eventually costing the organizations they work for losses running into billions of dollars. Studies have shown that most cyber slaking takes place between nine a.m. and five p.m. it therefore means that employees are surfing during office hours. Sites such as eBay and pornographic sites report the highest traffic during daytime, which means that people are cyber slacking (Roberts 1). When employees use th
Return2Fender is a transport company with offices located in different cities. Being a transport company there is need for effective communication. The staffs operating in different offices need to communicate and share resources easily with one another. This necessitates the requirements of ensuring a network is designed to link all the offices without compromising performance for the sake of business enhancement and continuity. This will keep in line with the emerging information technology trend where efficient networking technologies are a must. This will help take care of the steady growth rate of network traffic, new networking services and technological advancement. The implementation model to be adopted by Return2Fender Company is the hierarchical model. This design is modular and hence very suitable for enterprise networks. This design implements three specific layers each performing a specific network service. These layers are named the access layer, distribution layer and finally the core layer. The access layer is implemented at branch offices known to run low-speed circuits. The branch offices aggregate at distribution office which further aggregate at the core office. This kind of design is modular enhancing scalability and efficient bandwidth utilization as compared to flat networks. Request for proposal requirements The following is a list of requirements for Return2Fender Company: Design of a LAN for Melbourne office with a capacity to hold 100 desktop computers as well as accommodate the increment of the desktop computers from 100 to 700. The network design should be configured to allow IP telephony via VOIP technology. After design, the network bandwidth should be able to transmit a capacity of 2-5Mbps. The two offices at Melbourne separated across the road need to be linked. The network should be able to support desktop video conferencing, office packages and webmail. It is expected the two-storey buildings acquired whose floor space measurements are 100m x 30m will accommodate a capacity of 30 users. The figure below gives a broad overview of the current scenario at Return2Fender Company and the anticipated expansion. Office Location  Number of employees  Desktop Per Employee & Connection type  Anticipated growth                                                                                                                                                                                  Sydney           300                  Multimedia desktop, 100Mbps                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Melbourne        100                  Multimedia desktop, 100Mbps             100 to 700 stations, two ten storey building acquisition across the road, desktop video conferencing, web email & office packages, VOIP phones. Traffic per user estimated to range between 2-5Mbps Adelaide         100                  Multimedia desktop, 100Mbps
AOL Time Warner represents two industries; this organization is an Internet service provider (ISP) and media company at the same time. It is possible to apply Porter’s model of Five Forces to this organization. First, the threat of new entrants is quite significant, especially if we take into account the growing number of small ISPs in the US and Europe. On the other hand, as a media company, AOL Time Warner operates in a very consolidated industry in which start-up costs are very high. So, from this point of view, the threat of new entrants is low. The second issue is the bargaining power of customers. Overall, it is very strong because the ISP market is full of various companies trying to create new offerings to the clients. These companies can compete in terms of price and variety of services. The third aspect is the threat of substitute products. The management of this organization should pay its attention free ISPs which offer customers access to such resources like chat rooms, newsgroups, and so forth. However, this threat is not significant. In turn, media products offered by AOL Time Warner can hardly be substituted because they are highly differentiated. It is also important to discuss the bargaining power of suppliers, namely music recording companies, film studios, magazines, newspapers, etc. One can argue that their power is quite limited because many of them are incorporated into the structure of AOL Time Warner. The final aspect of Porter’s Model is the intensity of competition. As it has been said before, there are two types of rivals, Internet service providers and media companies. These organizations attempt to gain advantage by means of price differentiation and innovation. Overall, competition in these two industries is very intense. Among the main strengths of AOL Time Warner one can single out a large base of subscribers and potential customers, international media presence of this organization, and most importantly, the diversity of multimedia products that they can market to the customers. For instance, they can offer music, television programs, films, press, and so forth. Ye
Introduction It is difficult to imagine a modern world without innovative technologies and their implementation in various spheres of human life. Education is one of the specific fields where innovative technologies play crucial role in teaching students. Considering the problems of multilingual communities around the world and the necessity to teach students other languages, different from native ones, specific learning strategies and programs have been created to help teachers integrate innovative technologies into learning process and help students be successful in learning. A teacher was responsible for implementing five specific goals stated by the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning which comprise the following issues, communication skills, knowledge of other cultures, connections with other disciplines, and insight into language and culture through comparisons and participate in multi-lingual communities both at home and around the world. The Digital Dialect flashcards and Voki programs were used to meet those goals and help students develop their literacy skills and practice new Spanish vocabulary. The main idea of this phase was to describe in detail the timeline for a program, state some particular stages and dwell upon the activities necessary for implementing instructions and behavioral objectives. The whole working process was divided into two particular stages, work in class and individual practice. Preparation Preparation stage is a guarantee of a successful lesson. To reach the desired objectives and make the learning process smooth, a teacher had to work hard on this stage. The first step was devoted to buying the Voki and Dialect D Flashcard software. The second step required agreement of the technology coordinator to install required software on school laptop. Once an agreement was received and the software was installed, a teacher turn to the third step of preparation stage, software testing. It was important to make sure that the software worked appropriately. The next step for preparation to the lesson was information gathering. A teacher paid much attention to the material which were planned to be introduced to students. Thus, once the material was gathered, the software and computers were tested, the lesson could begin. Instructional integration strategies
Introduction Topics that revolve around management science, economics and information systems focus on knowledge as the most valuable asset for the organization, in the knowledge based economy. Information systems are regarded as tools for converting knowledge into valuable industrial commodities. The adoption of the internet technologies towards the end of the twentieth century sent local networks into a global network, making up the infrastructure of information society. The Web is one of the main driving forces of the Internet. The internet is widely used by large and small businesses, by private citizens, in schools and by consumers. The internet is a harmonizing factor for the enhancement of open and simple standards that are necessary in setting the agenda for the development of commercial software. Public and private organisations recognise that they need to have an opinion about how the technology affects their business. The Internet as global infrastructure plays an increasingly vital role in both information systems practice and research. The ability of Internet as a common platform to build services upon also creates expectations. Stand alone information systems are expected to integrate with the global network. Internet technology supports horizontal solutions involving a variety of actors both those behind the service, and those using the service. Thus, these systems become large heterogeneous networks that need to be aligned with an installed-base of existing systems as well as practices. In this way, Internet serves as an important integrating technology. The effect of globalisation Globalisation can be described as the increased level of time-space distansiation, which affects the relation between local and distant social forms, and events become correspondingly stretched. Globalisation is seen as constituent of modernization, and it leads to increased interdependency, and decreased control. More knowledge and better technology result in increased control. Changes such as the introduction of new technologies, organisational structures and work procedures have side-
Introduction Quality management system (QMS) implementation is a complex and dynamic process for all organizations. This emanates from change resistance and the need to sacrifice short term goals for long term ones. Cultural changes must take place in order to enhance the success of this implementation process. In the wake of these requirements, organizations should familiarize themselves with processes and challenges of executing a QMS in order to boost outcomes of the initiative. Literature on quality management system implementation The process of implementation Prior to actual implementation, an organization ought to garner support from management. The QMS champion or initiator can achieve this by explaining the business advantages of a quality management system to them. He or she could mention aspects such as higher efficiency, better product quality, and greater accountability. To convince them further, the change agent can collect information about QMS in competing firms and demonstrate to management the inadequacies in their organization. However, QMS initiators should do this tactfully; otherwise, they risk isolating the very people they need to get on board. One ought to make a business plan on the system that illustrates potential financial and non financial benefits. A person will know whether management supports the strategy when they fully comprehend it, and when they create objectives or announce a quality policy. Managers who are behind a QMS process will also dedicate resources to the strategy and advocate for it amongst staff. Once implementation commences, they will expect progress reports on its outcomes (Tsiakals & West 2002). After garnering management support, an organization should select a quality manager. This person will coordinate implementation as the process will involve various divisions of company. Additionally, the person ought to manage timescales by persuade managers to establish realistic ones. Every part of a QMS should meet set standards; consequently, the quality manager should check that people are meeting these standards. Any issues that arise during the process of implementation should also be reported to management by this individual. The quality manager should work towards making all divisions independent from him in the long run. This means that as soon as they incorporate the QMS into their individual objectives, then he will be dispensable. Once a quality manager exists and understands his full responsibilities as well as the short-term nature of his work, then a firm can proceed to make an implementation plan. This should contain details about the scope of the QMS as well as the training and participants involved. Different aspects of the project should have different leaders that should be outlined in the plan. Resources and timescales must also be identified and outlined in it. While the latter phase is important, organizations should not spend too much time on it because it will stall the rest of the process. Following the creation of a tangible plan, organizations ought to analyze their current processes. Firms may start from the top of th
Introduction The monetary policy of an economy plays a huge role in presenting crucial information that influences its day-to-day business operations. These financial guidelines allow governments to regulate their liquidity, credit, interest, and inflation levels, among other economic components, with a view to ensuring sustainable financial growth. In this paper, the application of the monetary policy to the UAE and Egypt is found to depict similarities and differences. Economic growth is found to be steady in the UAE, as opposed to Egypt, thanks to the contribution of the tourism and hospitality sectors. Differences Inflation is one of the elements of monetary policies. This component indicates how loose or tight the respective monetary policy is to the prevailing business operations. According to a 2017 report by the Central Bank of Egypt, this country’s yearly inflation rate was on an upward trend since mid-2016. The corresponding negative effects were addressed via the annual NEER depreciation implemented during the second quarter of 2016. This situation led to an elevated price rise discrepancies between Egypt and its trading allies (see fig. 1). Fig. 1. Egypt’s Inflation Discrepancies with its Trading Allies (Central Bank of Egypt). On the contrary, although Egypt’s inflation has been fluctuating in the recent past, resulting in an increased cost of goods and services and, consequently, joblessness, it has continued to be consistent in the UAE for the last three years, ranging from 3.0% to 3.7% (Gukasyan et al. 1535). As a result, the predictable increase in inflation in the UAE has been accompanied by stable commodity prices and reduced unemployment rates. This difference results from the UAE’s move to execute measures that are meant to trigger the demand and supply patterns while at the same time, ensuring that commodity costs and inflation remain constant. Hence, while Egypt records significant detrimental effects associated with the observed inflation differential, Khan and Derhally reveal the extent to which the UAE’s Central Bank is reporting positive outcomes, which boost its competitiveness due to the corresponding rise in the demand for various goods