Data Analysis Project
Review the ML2 Participant math and reading scores, and leadership skills survey data files (files will be posted on Blackboard course site). Analyze the data and prepare at least three charts, graphs or tables to illustrate findings from the data. Submit an MS Word or Excel file that includes the specific questions you posed during your analysis, your results, and corresponding charts, graphs or tables to illustrate your findings.
Class members should attempt to cross analyze findings between data sources. Prepare original charts, graphs or tables to represent your findings. Class members are NOT required to use any analysis software for this project. The goal of this assignment is exposure to demonstrate your ability to conduct basic data analysis and present results. *Refer to the ‘Toolkit for Program Evaluation’ for helpful articles on how to analyze and present survey data.*
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Evolving Practice of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models
As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals.

Write an informal presentation (500‐700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse‐managed health clinics.
Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to offer their impressions of the anticipated changes to health care delivery and the new role of nurses in hospital settings, communities, clinics, and medical homes.
In 800‐1,000 words summarize the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues and discuss whether their impressions are consistent with what you have researched about health reform.
A minimum of three scholarly references are required for this assignment.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in‐text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

For this assignment, I’m asking you to read two short essays on exile from the same collection, which can be found in Week 12 Readings. They both take exile to mean very different things, but I think both are useful for giving a variety of ways to think through what it means to “belong” from somewhere–or not to belong anywhere.
Your answer to the questions below should be at least 400 words.
1. What do you take to be the fundamental difference between the way these two texts characterize exile/belonging?
2. Comment: For each text, comment on the ways that the text builds on, challenges, or enriches your understanding of place/space. Make connections to ideas we’ve been discussing in the class and make connections between texts. Use specific examples from the texts assigned today to show that you read and that you are engaging with the text and thinking through the ideas in the text. Note: do not merely summarize each text. Your comment should show what you are thinking about. What are you thinking about now that you’ve read these texts–that you weren’t thinking about before you read these texts? You may reference other discussions we’ve had to make connections and build on previous conversations. Your main goal here is to a) show you read and b) show the ideas that are “clicking” for you, personally–especially as those ideas relate to space, place, identity, and travel.
3. Connect: Draw specific connections to something beyond the readings for today, including particular academic/non-academic experiences, texts, and contexts. You might make connections to another part of your life/experience in or out of the university, a connection to another part of our class, a connection to another class you are taking or have taken, a connection to an issue in the media, etc.
4. Question: What is one question or idea you hope we discuss in class?
LINK TO READINGS: https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/77311/files/13149742/download?verifier=zPASlGGFD654cpcLIUaD14Q200z9tq2BYr17H82m&wrap=1
https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/77311/files/13149751/download?verifier=yN9162KLVrcar1fwpQYA6qCmAWuKJmMLuAQMgBNp&wrap=1

Can you suggest what type of two peer reviews sources I should look for on CSU library to help you complete this assignment. I struggle on trying to decide which is a good source to use? If that’s makes any sense to you. Please let me know what you suggest?

PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT

This assignment will serve as the “Portfolio Assignment” for this course. A portfolio assignment is an applied assignment that showcases your ability to apply what you learned in this class. You are encouraged to create a free DU portfolioLinks to an external site. in which you can store evidence of what you learned (such as papers, projects, and key course assignments) as you move throughout your coursework at University College. You have the ability to share the portfolio with potential employers or colleagues. Keeping a portfolio will allow you to reflect on, provide context for, and continue to hone your work samples as you build knowledge and skills throughout your time at DU.

PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT

This assignment will bring together the learning from the previous assignments. Collect together all your work thus far and put it into a coherent unified high-level design for the system. You are welcome to use previous assignments verbatim where appropriate although you should be sure to incorporate the feedback on them.
As a reminder, here’s the original description of the system we’re creating:
Have you ever stopped to consider what happens when you’re shopping online? In between entering your credit card information and the money getting charged to your account is a very complex set of interactions. During this class, we will explore a simplified payment processing system that does exactly this. We’ll create a design for it and provide sample implementations for some of the components.
Let’s take a look at some of the details of a payment processing system.

FORMS OF PAYMENT

To keep this simple we’ll assume that we only accept credit cards for payment.

FRONTEND

The happy shopper needs some way to enter their payment details.

ONLINE STORE

The storefront needs an interface to the processing system where they can enter the shoppers’ details, get confirmation that they can charge the card, and collect the money afterwards.

CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS

Paying by credit card, whether online or in a physical shop, follows a two-step process.
When your card is first run, it performs an “authorization”. This authorization takes the credit card details and the amount requested and sends them to the credit card company. The company then looks up the card and verifies whether or not the payment will succeed. A status code (OK or some kind of error code) is returned, along with an authorization code if the status is OK.
Later on (e.g. once an hour, once a day) all of these authorizations are collected up into a single batch and sent as “payment requests” to the credit card company. A payment request contains the same information as the initial authorization along with the authorization code that was returned. The credit card company will respond with statuses for each payment request and all the money for those requests that succeeded is transferred into the store’s bank account.

PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM

The system needs to implement credit card processing as described above.

CREDIT CARD COMPANY

We shall assume we use a single credit card processor and that processor provides us with an interface for performing authorizations in real time and batch payment requests.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This assignment will bring together the learning from the previous assignments. Collect together all your work thus far and put it into a coherent unified high-level design for the system. You are welcome to use previous assignments verbatim where appropriate although you should be sure to incorporate the feedback on them. You should also incorporate code from the previous assignments as necessary to illustrate your designs. If you use small snippets, then they can go in the document, otherwise, you should organize the code in a coherent package structure and submit it with the document in a zip file.
 
 

FORMATTING AND STYLE REQUIREMENTS

SAMPLE OUTLINE

Below we include a sample outline that you may use for inspiration. It is not required that you follow this outline; this is provided merely as a guide. Should you use it you must remove all the text that describes the purpose of the relevant section.

INTRODUCTION

Describe the payment processing system from a high level in your own words.

REQUIREMENTS

Provide the basic requirements that your system will satisfy. Include a section on “non-requirements” as appropriate. The latter would be a good place to mention that you won’t support payment types other than credit cards.

HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN

Capture the major components of the system and how they interact with one another. A mixture of text and diagrams would be best here. Make sure you cover the full control flow, starting from the user and ending at the credit card processor.

COMMUNICATION

Document the communication protocol you will use across the entire system. It’s possible, even likely, that different parts will use different protocols (e.g. HTTP between the user’s web browser and the payment system; JSON internally to the system; proprietary database driver to communicate with the backend.

RESOURCE PLANNING

Include your resource plan for the system along with how it will scale as your user base grows.

DEPLOYMENT

Describe the environment within which the system will run, including and services it will depend on.

IMPLEMENTATION

Include any implementation details you consider necessary to complete this work.

APPENDIX

We covered many topics in this class. Consider whether any of these belong in your design:

  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Replication
  • Specific cloud providers

Rubric

Writing Rubric

Writing Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAnswers the Question
Demonstrates an understanding of the requirements and purpose of the assignment, and addresses the topics specified at the appropriate level of detail.
40.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConcepts and Content
Uses relevant content, including external sources if appropriate, to illustrate mastery of key ideas. The material submitted forms a complete document that addresses the assignment’s focus.
80.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGrammar, Mechanics, and Style
Engaging and consistent style and voice, nearly free of errors in grammar, spelling and mechanics, and adheres to University College format and style requirements, including Turabian Author-Date citation style.
20.0 pts
Total Points: 140.0

 

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Hi Maria! Thank you for sharing your response. Reflecting on the organization in which you are currently employed, what evidence based interventions or changes has the organization undergone? At the time of implementation, did you observe barriers that prevented nurses from participating in the change process? What barriers were present, and what was done to effectively remove these barriers?
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The definition of evidence-based practice is to ‘integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible” (Finkelman, 2019). The use of evidence-based practice is necessary in nursing care in order to provide patient-centered care that is effective and of good quality (Finkelman, 2019).
Warren et al. (2016) identify the main barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice by nurses as a lack of organizational readiness to implement evidence-based practice, lack of fiscal resources to support evidence-based practice education, and age and work experience with younger, less experienced nurses lacking the confidence to implement evidence-based practice into their nursing practice.
I personally have little experience with evidence-based practice and research and believe that one of the most prominent barriers to implementing evidence-based practice I have seen is lack of knowledge about evidence-based practice and research and lack of experience in the use of evidence-based practice in nursing care. Strategies that can be used to remove these barriers are measures such as taking a course on evidence-based practice, consulting advance practice nurses on the use of evidence-based practice, attending a conference where the use of research in nursing practice is presented, volunteering to serve on committees to set policies and protocols, or by staring a program where experienced nurses can mentor newer, less experienced nurses (Finkelman, 2019).
Article link:
https://ct1.medstarhealth.org/content/uploads/sites/116/2016/02/systemchallengesofEBP-2.pdf

This is based on the Picot Statement 

 For this assignment, the student will provide a synopsis of eight peer-reviewed articles from nursing journals using an evaluation table that determines the level and strength of evidence for each of the eight articles. The articles should be current within the last 5 years and closely relate to the PICOT statement developed earlier in this course. The articles may include quantitative research, descriptive analyses, longitudinal studies, or meta-analysis articles. A systematic review may be used to provide background information for the purpose or problem identified in the proposed capstone project. Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” resource to complete this assignment. 

Nursing leadership paper

Assignment: Application: Taking a Stand

Effective leaders have a high degree of self-awareness and know how to leverage their strengths in the workplace. Assessments are a valuable tool that professionals can use to learn more about themselves and consider how their temperament and preferences influence their interactions with others.

As you engage in this learning process, it is important to remember that everyone—regardless of temperament type or related preferences—experiences some challenges with regard to leadership. The key to success is being able to recognize and leverage your own strengths while honoring differences among your colleagues.

At some point in your leadership career, you will encounter an ethical or moral dilemma that requires you to take a stand and defend your position.

For this Assignment, you evaluate an issue and consider how you could act as a moral agent or advocate, facilitating the resolution of the issue for a positive outcome.

To prepare:

  • Consider the examples of leadership demonstrated in this week’s media presentation and the other Learning Resources.
  • To further your self-knowledge, you are required to complete the Kiersey Temperament as indicated in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider your leadership style, including your strengths for leading others and include your results from Kiersey Temperament Sorter to describe potential challenges related to your leadership style.
  • Mentally survey your work environment, or one with which you are familiar, and identify a timely issue/dilemma that requires you to perform the leadership role of moral agent or advocate to improve a situation (e.g., speaking or acting on behalf of a vulnerable patient, the need for appropriate staffing, a colleague being treated unfairly).
  • What ethical, moral, or legal skills, dispositions, and/or strategies would help you resolve this dilemma? Define the differences between ethical, moral, and legal leadership.
  • Finally, consider the values and principles that guide the nursing profession; the organization’s mission, vision, and values; the leadership and management competencies addressed in this course; and your own values and reasons for entering the profession. What motivation do you see for taking a stand on an important issue even when it is difficult to do so?

To complete:

By Day 7

Write a 4 to 5 page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:

  • Introduce the conceptual frameworks of the ethical constructs of ethics, moral, or legal standards and the purpose of the paper.
  • Consider  an ethical, moral, or legal dilemma that you have encountered in your work environment and describe it.
  • Analyze the moral, ethical, and legal implications utilized in this situation. Describe your role as a moral agent or advocate for this specific issue.
  • Consider your leadership styles identified by your self-assessment and determine if they act as a barrier or facilitation during this dilemma. 

Required Readings

Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2015). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

  • Chapter 4, “Ethical Issues”This chapter examines ethical frameworks for decision making and principles of ethical reasoning. You are also introduced to the ANA Code of Ethics and Professional Standards, MORAL decision-making model, and ethics committees.
  • Chapter 5, “Legal and Legislative Issues”Chapter 5 provides an overview of the many legal and legislative issues of which leaders and managers need to be aware. As you read this chapter, keep these issues in mind.
  • Chapter 6, “Patient, Subordinate, and Professional Advocacy”Nurses are the best advocates for patients and the profession. This chapter examines more closely the role of becoming an advocate, patient rights, subordinate advocacy, whistle-blowing, professional advocacy, advocacy in legislation and public policy, and media.

Cianci, A. M., Hannah, S. T., Roberts, R. P., & Tsakumis, G. T. (2014). The effects of authentic leadership on followers’ ethical decision-making in the face of temptation: An experimental study. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(3), 581–594. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.12.001

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Disch, J. (2014). Using Evidence-Based Advocacy to Improve the Nation’s Health. Nurse Leader, 12(4), 28–31. doi:10.1016/j.mnl.2014.05.003

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

1.You have been asked to present a workshop to middle school students on marijuana. The goal of the workshop is to educate the students on the potential dangers of this drug and reduce their likelihood of use/abuse until their frontal lobes are fully formed.

Develop a presentation highlighting what you believe the students need to know about marijuana. Be sure to include information about the adolescent brain, how marijuana effects the brain, physiological and psychological effects of marijuana, and tips/strategies for saying “no” when offered marijuana.

Remember: You are dealing with 6 -8th graders. Simplify the information so they can understand it.

2.Compare and contrast the 4 types of Hallucinogens. Feel free to complete this assignment in whichever format works best for you (chart, outline, paragraphs, etc.). Because formats will differ I will not dictate a sentence length for the assignment, but please make sure your answer is thorough. 

 

TEXTBOOK & READING MATERIALS

Maisto, S. A., Galizio, M., & Coonors, G. J. (2021). Drug use and misuse (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, Inc.

 

 

FIN 325 Course Project
Guthrie’s Golden Fried Chicken Fingers Franchise*
Instructions: You will draft a written report of approximately 800 to 1000 words plus tables. The report should explain your analysis, address the prompts, make a recommendation, and justify the recommendation. You may choose to address the case presented below or a real-world case of your own choosing that I approve in advance.
You may work individually or in groups of up to three people. You will decide on group members after the first exam. If you decide to work in a group, however, any disputes between group members must be resolved within the group and you will not have the option of working independently if you commit to working in a group. In general, all group members will earn the same grade on their assignment. However, group members will be asked to evaluate each other and I may use these evaluations to adjust the grades assigned to individual group members.
THE CASE: Guthrie’s restaurant was started in 1965 in Haleyville, Alabama, by Hal Guthrie. The restaurant began serving Chicken Fingers in 1978. In 1982, Hal and his oldest son Chris opened a Guthrie’s in Auburn, Alabama. Originally, Guthrie’s had a large menu including hamburgers, steak sandwiches, and chicken fingers. Soon after opening, however, the menu was limited to the overwhelmingly popular Chicken Finger box. The Box includes chicken fingers, French fires, cole slaw, Texas toast, and Guthrie’s Signature Sauce. During the 1980s, The Guthrie family opened Guthrie’s locations in several college towns throughout the Southeast, including Athens, Georgia, Tallahassee, Florida, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Hey also opened them in several towns. By the end of the 1980s, Guthrie’s was a household name throughout much of the Southeast.
Now, more than 50 years since first opening, Guthrie’s continues as a specialty restaurant with a limited menu focusing on Fried Chicken Fingers. It is still a family business, but its franchise business is steadily growing. As a result, people all over the U.S. can now enjoy Guthrie’s Golden Fried Chicken Fingers.
You and your business partners are considering applying for a franchise. If approved, you expect startup costs to be $350,000 in real estate costs, which are not depreciable, plus another $500,000 in equipment that is depreciable. You will be allowed to depreciate the $500,000 in equipment on a five-year MACRS schedule. The $350,000 in real estate costs is not depreciable and should be included in the book value of the fixed assets associated with the franchise when it is sold. Your plan is to start and operate the business for 7 years at which time you expect to sell the business for $1,600,000. You expect to initially have working capital needs of $30,000, but these needs will grow by $5,000 per year. You expect sales in the first year to be $200,000 and that sales will grow by 10% per year. You project annual fixed operating expenses of $50,000 in the first year. These fixed expenses will grow by $3,000 per year. Your annual variable operating expenses are expected to be 50% of sales.
You expect to pay taxes of 21%. Assume your required return is 11%. Should you apply for a Guthrie’s Franchise? Prepare a report responding to the following prompts:
1. Prepare pro forma income statements and operating cash flow projections. Explain your pro forma statements in your report.
2. Estimate the total cash flows for this opportunity. Explain your estimates in your report.
3. Estimate the opportunity’s NPV. Explain how you arrived at your NPV estimates in the report.
4. Consider what happens to cash flows and NPV if Sales are 20% more than expected. What if sales are 20% less than expected? Discuss this analysis in your report.
5. What is your recommendation? Should you and your partners pursue this opportunity? Explain your recommendation and provide your rationale.
 
*Some of this information is drawn from Guthrie’s web page (guthrieschicken.com), but all the financial figures are fictional.