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Achievement of the Course Outcomes in Nursing During the last eight weeks, I got a good chance to develop my skills and knowledge in the role of a nurse practitioner in the field of Advanced Pharmacology. As a nurse practitioner, every student has to deal with certain communication modalities and identify their values in Advanced Pharmacology. I was involved in different nursing practice interventions, diagnostic techniques, and pharmacologic therapies which are crucial for patients’ care. Many research articles and forums where people share their personal experiences and perceptions of pharmacological practice were used to investigate the pharmacological effects of different drugs under particular situations. For example, the combination of NSAIDs like Ibuprofen and acetaminophen is defined as effective to reduce the level of pain (Rasubala, Pernapati, Velasquez, Burk, & Ren, 2015). Clinical-patient communication is a crucial aspect even in Advanced Pharmacology because it helps to gather enough information and educate patients and their families on how to use drugs and follow the prescriptions given. (Pun, Matthiessen, Murray, & Slade, 2015). The case studies and the situations observed during the course promote an understanding of pharmacology and its importance in treating people with different symptoms and past histories. The chosen course has a certain impact on me as it helped to comprehend the essence of MSN Essential IX and clarify the peculiar features of nursing interventions that could influence healthcare outcomes for individuals and systems. The experience shows that nursing practice may have different forms and is characterized by numerous interventions with direct and indirect care components. It is not enough for a nurse to have theoretical knowledge and rely on theories and materials offered during an educational process. It is important to understand how to use the offered material and integrate knowledge into practice. Now, I know a lot about the indications of different medications and the essential mechanism of action when drugs have to be prescribed. Therefore, I can treat patients and provide them with safe and high-quality care and support (for example, a patient has to be observed during the next hour after taking each dose of new drugs). Nurses should also know that some NSAIDs cannot be offered to people with kidney problems to avoid further complications. Technology and information literacy competencies play an important role in pharmacological nursing practice. It is necessary to integrate appropriate technologies, consider the needs of patients and the abilities of the medical staff, investigate available resources, and assess educational needs in a short period to improve health care and promote safe and high-quality care. As a nurse practitioner, I was able to use different technology systems that could capture data in regards to th
Building identification The structure in the picture depicts an apartment building, which is type 3 because the materials used in construction are inflammable. One can easily identify this building since bricks constitute its exterior walls. This is one of the oldest buildings, which is evident in old towns. It is apparent that the building has wood joints since its interior exudes aspects that depict wood tendencies. For this reason, It is apparent that during fire outbreak, the core can burn easily; thus, causing the exterior part to collapse. NFA fire flow calculations The size of the building is 200sq ft length by 80 sq ft width. The formula for calculating the need fire flow is (CFBT-US LLC): The need fire flow for 25% involvement will be 1333.33 whilst the need fire flow for 50% involvement will be 2666.67. The need fire flow for 75% involvement will be 4000. Concurrently, the need fire flow for 100% will be 5333.33. Indeed, the formula will be helpful in controlling fire. The fire prevention system in the building The building has smoke sensors that enable the occupants to detect the smoke before it reaches their residence especially when they are asleep. I think the smoke detectors in the building are essential since they will alert the occupant when there is a fire outbreak. Indeed, the installation of the detectors should be compulsory in every building. It will be helpful if the smoke detectors are evident in strategic positions so that the occupants are awaken early enough, to give them time to evacuate the building (IBC 165). The building also has a fire alarm, which can alert the inhabitants. Just like the smoke detectors, the location of fire detectors should be in strategic places especially near sleeping areas to alert the dwellers in time. Fire alarms help the residents to detect fire thus enabling them to evacuate the building before it burns. The building also has a hydrant, which is an essential component of the fire prevention system (IBC 164). The two stairs in the building are also essential especially during fire outbreaks. When there is fire on one side of the building, the occupants can use the stairs on the other side before the whole building catches fire. Standpipes also help in preventing fire since they are different in class. This is apparent in class one, which is applicable by the fire experts. The clas
Illustration of the development of ERP in the organization Statement of scope & objectives Company Name: LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton Line of Business: It sells a variety of luxury products such as wines & spirits, fashion & leather goods, perfumes & cosmetics, watches & jewelry, etc. The initiation of Enterprise Resource Planning System Project The LVMH operated for several years and merged with several companies leading to the formation of the present LVMH Corporation. After the merger, the company had a growth and expansion strategy. Now, the LVMH has more than 2,500 stores worldwide. As its retail network is all over the world, the control of information is very important to the company. The Enterprise Resource Planning System may help the company to have a better control of the information so that the company may have more competitive advantages (Funding universe 2011). Problems The distribution and maintenance of inventory: As the fact that the company sells luxury products, the distribution and maintenance of inventory is very important to the company. Every year, the company has lots of cost for the damage and the loss of the inventory. A company should take actions to reduce this cost (Funding universe 2011). Meet customer’s desires in time: Things like fashion can change rapidly. The company needs to know what the trend is now and what the customers’ wants are. As the retails are all over the world, different fashion trend exists in different countries. The company should be able to adjust the change of customers’ desires in time (Funding universe 2011). The negative influences of economic downturn: Nowadays, the economy is getting worse. Less people are willing to buy luxury products. This may hit the company harshly. Customers and suppliers may be bankrupted suddenly without informing the company. The company should keep their information updated to know the change of its economic environment (Funding universe 2011). Monitoring of employees: The Company now has more than 80,000 employees, 77% of whom are based outside France, share Group’s values. The company is aiming to be creative and innovate and aim for product excellence. This requires that the employee of the company should be creative. The employee of product design must have a high sense of fashion trend. Managers must be sure that they are using a qualified person for the job. The company also aims to build a good image of the company. This also requires that employees must be inte
Introduction A supply chain is a network that demands from all parties that are involved to satisfy the customer’s request. As a rule, every single stakeholder, starting from suppliers and product developers up to warehouses, investors and customers, is taken into account when developing a supply chain network for a particular company. Traditionally, a supply chain is supposed to function as the tool for new products and services development and promotion, production process improvement, supervision and operation, customer service facilitation, marketing development, financial strategies creation and supply processes improvement. This paper focuses on Louis Vuitton and attempts to cover three critical business factors. This paper is also aimed at mapping out Louis Vuitton’s supply chain, at identifying and making recommendations for addressing the most significant problems in the management of Louis Vuitton supply chain, and calculating the losses that the company incurs due to unsold products and from sold-outs, and defining the net gains that the company can expect from adopting air freight for the shipping of all its products. Mapping the Supply Chain of the Company. Product Flows and Lead Time Mapping the supply chain is significant in a number of ways. It aids the company in clarifying to its employees their specific responsibilities. Supply chain mapping makes it clear that performance received from the completion of tasks does not depend on an individual. It also helps to create a baseline that the company can use as a means to measure the effects of any new enhancement effort (Lichocik & Sadowski 2013, p. 10). The company’s supply chain structure comprises of manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and marketing, sponsoring and communication. Manufacturing Louis Vuitton has split its business into four key product lines: leather goods, shoes, designer clothes and accessories. Leather goods include mainly bags and luggage, the majority of which were not made primarily using leather. Leather goods are at the core of the company business. The shoe designs produced by the company are vastly seasonal, and most of the shoe models had to be redesigned frequently, in some cases almost twice a year. The model clothes produced by the company come in two collections annually. One collection is specifically designed for the winter, and the other one is for the summer. The company is highly diversified and ventures into the production of accessories such as watches, jewelry, perfumes, eyeglasses and writing accessories. The accessories produced, though admittedly versatile, have a very short lifecycle. Out of its 17 factories, Louis Vuitton uses 7 of its factories to manufacture leather goods. Five of these factories are located in France. The other two are in the United States and Spain (Moatti, & Dussage 2007, p. 50). Logistics A single Louis Vuitton warehouse located in Cergy-Pontoise, France is the centralized logistics base for all the plants. All the goods manufactured in the company’s plants,
Abstract In a totalitarian government, the state exercises its power by developing a political structure that it can use to exert its power in such a way that it controls all aspects of the public and private life of its citizens (Armstrong, 2002). This type of government attempts to control the thoughts and actions of its citizens as well as the social-economic aspects of the state. In addition, this kind of a government is mainly maintained through control of the mass and social media, the outrageous use of fear upon the citizens, monopolizing the economy, and closely monitoring its citizens. Business in such regimes can have its pros and cons as shall be discussed below. Business ethics is a structure of certified ethics in the company that investigates and maintains all moral or ethical problems that may come up in the work atmosphere (Koehn, 2002). It is usually used by the company to ensure that all the areas in the company are regulated and monitored. The government on the other hand uses the laws and regulations of the state to ensure that it points businesses in directions that will benefit both the state and the business. These ethics are used to monitor areas that the government is not able to monitor within the company. This therefore means that the state where the company conducts its business must approve of the company’s actions. Without approval, the company simply cannot conduct any form of business. A company can only be able to sustain itself if it makes a reasonable amount of profit. Similarly, it is only ethical for a company to do business in a country if its profits are greater than its expenses. However, a company must also assess the profitability of working in a region where there are moral reservations against the government with which they’re supposed to co-operate with in order to conduct business (Boldrin&Levin, 2008). Totalitarian governments are known to be bureaucratic and corrupt due to the power structure that exists. Additionally, identifying what else a company values other than profits or revenue is also equally important. If a company values and adheres to its moral codes, it may be difficult to uphold these moral standards as some of the moral convictions might be lost along the way. This is due to the allowances that one must make in trying to avoid the power structure of a totalitarian government. However, there is an upside to doing business in totalitarian states. This is because in totalitarian states, competition between exporters and importers is restricted. Payment for imported goods is usually dependent on governmental decisions (Pinnington, Macklin &Campbell, 2007). The type of totalitarianism a country or region experiences largely influences a countries business growth rate and thus this determines whether foreign or local investment is profitable. For instance in countries such as China where right wing totalitarianism is experienced, the country is able to record a hefty growth rate and pursue pro-business policies by privatizing state owned properties. This has in turn attracted foreign direct investment (Singer, 2000). Conclusion Investing in a totalitarian stat
Introduction The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka is a story of a young traveling salesman Gregor Samosa who one day wakes up to find himself metamorphosed into vermin. The story narrates the agonies that Gregor faces and the upheavals that the family undergoes. The metamorphosed Gregor has changed his physical shape but his mind is still of himself. The paper discusses the cause and effect of important events in the story, such as the effects on Gregor, his sister, mother and father. (Kafka, 1916). Summary of the plot of Nabokov Nabokov (2007) has provided a good synopsis of the plot. One morning, Gregor, the main character in the story wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect with numerous legs. He finds himself on his back and he cannot move and set himself upright. The cause that Kafka refers to is the great upheaval and horrendous transformation that he has undergone. When Gregor is struggling in his room, trying to understand what has happened, he finds that his manager is banging on the front door asking why Gregor has not turned up for work The family members including his father, mother and sister are all frantic as to why Gregor is not responding and all this activity has added to the stress that Gregor is facing. Multiple causes are in force right in the first few paragraphs: the horrendous transformation that Gregor has undergone, the panic and anxiety that the family members feel when Gregor is not responding to urgent summons to open the door of his room and the pressure exerted by the manager who is getting angry. All these causes have had the effect of petrifying the transformed Gregor and he cannot speak, cannot get up and so cannot even open the door. Fitzgerald (18 April 2007) has pointed out that Kafka attempted to shock readers by presenting a wholly different story that bordered on the postmodern theories. According to the author, Kafka has attempted to pack as many voices and thoughts in the first few paragraphs so that the reader is twisted between understanding the cause and the effect of the malady that befell Gregor. When Gregor wakes up, he could feel all the familiar sights and sounds such as the room window, the rain drops that beat the window sill and he initially thought that it was a dream. He felt that if he slept for a little longer, he would wake up and this nightmare would go away. But the change was complete and his state was just like a beetle or a cockroach has trouble getting back on its legs after it has been overturned. “ What about sleeping a little longer and forgetting all this nonsense, he thought, but it could not be done, for he was accustomed to sleep on his right side and in his present condition he could not turn himself over” (Kafka, 1916) Gregor had been working very hard as a traveling salesman, trying to pay off the debts that his father owned to his creditors. He is also the sole earning member of his
Introduction Short supplies of energy are the most burning issues of the modern world. Despite the fact that under the current economic crisis the world prices for such energy resources as the natural gas and oil fall, the overall situation is rather critical – the world’s deposits of these fuels are being utilized and the less fuel resources remain, the higher their prices are. Texas is the American state that has felt this price changes more than any other state. Certain independent agencies, newspapers and analysts attribute the sharp increase of electricity rates in Texas to the deregulation policies. Accordingly, the effects of these policies upon the Texas electricity rates are the subjects of this paper. Main body To start with, deregulation policies were implemented in 2002 by the 1999 Senate Bill 7. The essence of these policies lied in the reduction of the state regulation of retail electricity markets in Texas to reduce the prices that monopolist companies could increase under the state regulation (Credo Energy, 2009). The author of the deregulation laws, the former Senator David Sibley states that currently his laws work, and the today’s prices for electricity are results of the world gas and oil prices (Root, 2009). However, it is evident from the data of the Cities Aggregation Power Project that the Texan consumers, whether they are ordinary citizens or business corporations, pay the rates that are higher than in any other state dependant on the natural electricity resources as much as Texas (Souder, 2009). Thus, according to the data by the Cities Aggregation Power Project, in 2007 Texans paid 10.3 cents per kilowatt-hour, while the citizens of Louisiana or Oklahoma paid 8.3 and 7.3 cents respectively (Root, 2009). Such increase of electr
Introduction Childhood development can be divided into a number of stages. Thus, the development from birth to 8 years old can be divided into 4 major stages (Newman and Newman 67). These stages are infancy, toddlerhood, early school age, and middle childhood (see fig. 1). During these stages, children go through cognition, physical, social/emotional, creative development. Importantly, there are certain standards and educators have to pay attention to them (“NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs” 11). Fig. 1. Developmental stages of children from their birth to 8 years. During infancy, children learn how to move their bodies and, by the age of 2, they can usually walk. Major and minor motor skills are developing. Infants can grab, throw and hold things. They can also catch some objects. By 2 years old, infants understand adults and react to their words. Infants also start talking using simple sentences and phrases. They also play with their toys and can copy actions in familiar settings (Shaffer & Kipp 206). Infants also play with their peers, share toys, and so on. They also start acquiring problem-solving skills, of course, with the help of their parents (Petersen 12). Main body During toddlerhood, children continue developing major and minor motor skills. They can run, hop, jump, hold and catch big and small things (balls, toys, pencils, and so on) and so on. They also continue developing their problem-solving skills but they still need the assistance of their parents (Petersen 12). They comprehend adults and their peers. When speaking, they use sentences as their vocabulary increases. They also develop their social skills as they communicate with their peers and play together (Shaffer & Kipp 213). Toddlers’ creative development can be traced through their drawings (or mainly coloring drawings). During early school age, children become more accurate and more integrated socially. As for physical development, children become more skillful. They can run, jump, hop, copy movements of adults with significant precision. They can also write, draw, use scissors, and so on. Importantly, depression and poor psychological and emotional state can slow down the development of motor skills (Piek et al. 143). As for cognitive development, children at this stage continue improving their vocabulary and they use sentences that are more complex. They can read and write simple words (numbers) and sentences. They can count. Their drawings become more accurate. Their creative development can be traced through their drawings that can include some stories rather than simple objects. Their games also become more deliberate. They also continue developing their social skills when they play with their peers or interact with adults. They can follow the rules of games with significant precision. Of course, they oft
The increasing internationalization and globalization armed with technology has made the world a global village. This means that people in different parts worldwide can intersect at a common place for reasons such as employment. Likewise, companies start looking around to expand their operations as the world increasingly becomes interconnected. Though this concept looks interesting, it has some drawbacks due to cultural diversity. Both small and established companies face challenges such as pricing, development strategy, structuring projects and motivating people (Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, Para 1 n.d). Hofstede came up with five distinct cultural dimensions which show cultural distance from one culture to another and their impact on managerial decision making. Human masculinity (MAS) is one of the issues that he puts across. This refers to how society values men and women. Initially, men and women had different roles. Therefore, if such believes apply in some areas, companies need to strategize on how to cope up with them. A good example is companies in Japan and Sweden. For a company to succeed in Japan, It needs to prefer male employees to women. On the other hand, a company getting into Sweden market will take into account employees with diversified working techniques regardless of gender. A company getting into such market has to analyze and evaluate their staff and adopt accordingly (Devinney, Pedersen & Tihanyi, p 45, 2010). Another factor is individualism (IDV). This is the strength of ties among individuals within a community. A large IDV enhances arguments and idea expression. Therefore, companies should not inquire a lot about personal information and accomplishments. Contrary, low IDV suppress emotions and feelings to enable harmony at work and slow to adopt changes as it respects tradition. An example is Guatemala and Panama where there is low IDV. The companies need to ensure that their benefits to the community is well-received and understood (Rohn, P 146, 2009). In addition, power/distance (PD) is another factor. It refers to the extent of inequality between people without power and those with power. A high PD indicates strong hierarchies, centralized companies, and wide gaps in authority, respect and compensation. On the other hand, low PD implies that power dispersion and sharing are re