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See if you can find other information related to this situation specifically or to transit safety in general. What policies and procedures would you want to be implemented? Why? At what cost to ABQ Ride? Answering the questions and write a 3-page blog discussing your views and what you have found from other sources related to workplace safety and/or public safety. Substantiate your claims. Be sure to bring in at least two sources and provide citations. Citing sources of information in the text as well as in the reference list at the end of your assignment is required

iUsing Health Information Technology as a Source of Evidence-Based Practice Before the digital revolution, health information technology supplied very limited support for evidence-based practice. If nurses wanted to be informed about cutting-edge research, their best bet was to either subscribe to leading journals or make periodic trips to the library. With the establishment of research databases, however, nurses became empowered to learn about and facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research. Databases are just one example of how health information technology supports evidence-based practice. To prepare: Read the following scenario from the text (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018 p. 506):Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above could influence an organizations practice. Twelve-hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse safety, and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine, 2004) published a report that referred to studies as early as 1988 that discussed the negative effects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy. Workers with 12-hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8-hour shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu, and Aygun (2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were age of 24 or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical intensive care units, and working for more than 8 hours. Select an issue in your practice that is of concern to you. Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform further action. By Day 3 Post a description of your practice concern. Outline how you used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that address this concern. Cite and include insights from the resources. Analyze how health information technology supports evidence-based practice.
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Please no plagiarism, please write from scratch Prepare an essay based on a scenario. Imagine that you are working in an HRM department of a unionized facility. This is your second job in HRM and your first in a union environment. There was a newly filed grievance in your mailbox. It concerned yesterday’s discharge of an employee (George M.). As you get coffee from the empty break room you see a document titled “Using the Seven Tests” laying on the table. Someone left it there. You pick it up, stick it in your binder, and return to your office to look at the grievance form, the labor contract, and the “Using the Seven Tests” article. The labor contract indicates that employees may not be discharged unless there is just cause. It will fall to the company to demonstrate that there was just cause to discharge George M. The paper you found on the break room table was “Using the Seven Tests,” from http://www.ueunion.org/stwd_jstcause.html George M.s situation was documented as follows: George M. operated a machine in Building A. He usually was an average worker, but working the past 4 weeks on that machine in Building A he had made lots of mistakes on which products to accept and put in the box and which to reject. The Plant Superintendent came into work in the middle of the night because the supervisor called him. The supervisor checked George M.s boxes and 6 out of 8 had faulty parts inside. The Superintendent terminated George M.s employment and walked him out the door. In your paper you should discuss the seven tests and how they relate to this situation. Would you be concerned about the “Seven Tests” if you were working in a union-free environment? Why? Is discipline/termination for just cause limited to union-settings? Explain. Bringing in background materials, library research, and/or other research will help strengthen your response. Turn in this paper by the module due date. Paper length: 2- pages, not counting the cover and reference pages.

Question 2: Using your sociological imagination, explain how poverty is structured around ethnicity and age. Question 3: Select one particular story and analyze it first without using your sociological imagination, and then again with a sociological imagination. For the first 2 questions, this is how your answers should be structured: Introduction of a common theme identified in the stories Explain this theme using your sociological imagination How does this theme help us understand the issues faced by people in poverty? Provide in-depth analysis around this theme and how it is linked to poverty Be sure to provide sources to support your claims (refer to Power & Poverty)

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In terms of organizational behavior you will fully delineate and discuss all Background Factors, The Required System, The Leadership Style, The Emergent System and, eventually, The Consequences for that group. If there are definable deficiencies I would expect that corrections be offered. If notwhy has the group so successfull. Analyze the Knicks using the BSSCS WHAT IS THE BSSCS? The Basic Social System Conceptual Scheme The Joppa Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Small Group Behavior (He said humbly) One might ask the question, This is certainly a reasonable question. After all aren’t there specialists, who day in and day out, must deal with the issues of behavior, including individual, group and organizational? This is a legitimate challenge and the answer must be explored to give human behavior, a dignity as an academic requirement in any human resource management program. I believe, in fact that no other manager in the organization has a deeper responsibility to ensure that appropriate behavioral phenomena take place more so than the manager at the nearest point to the behavior. They are so to speak, the chef dealing with an extremely complicated recipe. The recipe is comprised of many steps and many ingredients and many hardware issues… only the human immediate manager oversees the entirety of the organizational “recipe” with enough focus to ensure it has a chance of being successful at their level. For this reason, it is critical that all managers be as professionally astute in behavioral considerations as they are in fulfilling the legal and technical requirements of management per se. In this introduction, I will present to you, and a simplified (not simplistic) form, a way of understanding small group behavior that will stand you in good stead in any management and, of course, wherever you might go in the organization. With that in mind, I present to you now, what I call, “The Basic Social System Conceptual Scheme.” One of the most difficult things to do is to create a mental image of the forces that ultimately result in the behaviors flowing from the group process. Perhaps of equal importance is the ability to understand this process well enough to be able to provoke the desired behaviors by your choice and, of course, to eliminate the undesirable behaviors. Let me try, in spite of its difficulty, to create a simple explanation that has some value without it being simplistic. Ill start by describing…or trying tothe baking of a cake. This will serve as a metaphor for what happens as a work group is created. What goes into the ultimate result of baking a cake? We might suggest that the recipe is all that matters and that would make it a good cake. But would it? Dont we also need good equipment; a good stove, blender, timer, bowls, spatulas, etc? So, if we have a good recipe and good equipment well then have a good cakenot so fast. Dont we also need a good baker? Someone who can read the recipe and use the equipment and then add their own special variation of art seems essential. Now, if we had a good recipe, good equipment and a good baker could we expect to have a good cake? Probably sobut how would we know if its a good cake? What are the characteristics of a good cake? If it tastes good thats all that matters. Hardly! What if the aroma was bad or the texture or the appearance or moisture were not good? In fact all of these elements would have to be good to have the cake be good. If one or more of these elements were not good you probably would clearly recognize that something must have been wrong with the recipe or the equipment or the baker. Some change would have to be made in one or more of these areas that caused the cake to turn out poorly. There it is…the group process contained within the process of baking a Bavarian Black Forest Cake (or your favorite variation). We have had three components come together to produce our result and we have then assessed the characteristics to see if it was good and we can understand what changes might have to be made in our components if any. Let me at this point turn a corner and begin to make this more obviously a tool for learning about group behavior. Suppose I said that group behavior is the result of three essential elements. It is the interaction of these three elements that produces group behavior. How would we know if the behavior is good? We would have to have a clear set of consequences that we would expect from the behaviors that were generated. If one or more of these consequences was not acceptable you would know that youd have to change something in your three critical elements. Think about that cake. Now for more detail but keep the cake baking analogy in mind. The group is affected by three sets of forces. These forces mix and affect each othersomewhat in the manner of the elements of the cake. These elements are called: 1) The Background Factors 2) The Required System 3) The Leadership Style The Background factors are characteristics of the group itself. This includes many factors; for example: 1) Personal systems of the members- This would include their attitudes and any other factor that might influence their sense of personal identity. These are not good nor bad, right nor wrong phenomenonthese are merely things that create behavioral propensity. Age, for example, might be one of these elements. Im 65 and come from the I am guilty for everything generation. Someone else might be from the 80s ME generation. There is the possibility (likelihood) of a difference in our behavioral response. We probably wouldnt bake a chocolate cake with lemon icing. Nothing wrong with either, they just dont go well together. 2) External Status- This is the status of members brought into the groupnot earned in the group. For example a 2nd level manager is added to a group comprised of first level supervisors or the son of the boss is added to the group or someone with greater seniority is part of the group, etc. In the very worse sense this had burdened women in male dominated organizations.they brought in what many men (and many women) saw as lower external status. 3) Organizational Culture- What are the organizations unwritten rules of behavior? Is the culture formal or informal, structured or unstructured, authority is paramount or authority doesnt matter, etc. In OB we suggest that unless you know the culture you do not know the organization. 4) The Reward System- It has been said that the only sure way of understanding behavior is to understand the reward system. Keep in mind that behavior that is repeated has been rewarded (you may have to figure out what the reward was) and behavior that is rewarded will be repeated. Well talk more about this in motivation. 5) Technology and Layout- Technology here is a very broad based use of the word. We refer to any non-biologic support or assistive element being used by the group. It might be a computerit might be a window. Layout is the location of the group as compared to other groups or as a physical reality within the companyyour group for example meets in a dark room under the stairs in the basement.not the highest status positioning. There are certainly other ingredients but these tend to be the major parts. These Background Factors interact with and are affected by The Required System. Every group has certain requirements imposed on them. They are: 1) Activities- What must they do? 2) Interactions- Who must they interact with? 3) Attitudes- What positions must they hold intellectually? Every group will fulfill these requirements exactly or do them more or less effectively than is required. These two major elementsthe Background Factors and the Required System then interact with and are stirred by the last of the three elementsThe Leadership Style. We will talk more about this element at a later point. It will suffice to say that there are a variety of leadership styles, none of which is universally correct. Each style of leadership can only be seen as situationally correct. There we have it; the three elements of our group cake. The Background Factors mix with the Required System which mixes with the Leadership Style to produce our actual group behavior. I will call the actual group behavior The Emergent System.what emerges from our three elements. The Emergent System is the actual group. It, like the Required System, is comprised of Activities, Interactions and Attitudes. These results may be superior or inferior to the Requirements. How do we tell if our group cake is good??? The group must be measured against its needed Consequences. There are three major consequences: 1) Productivity- Does the group fulfill the output that is required? Now isnt that enough? Not really, we also have to know about 2) Growth and Development- Are the members maturing for future organizational roles? (If necessary) 3) Group Satisfaction- The group members satisfaction points to the durability or reliability of the current situation. If our cake (group) is good.leave it alone. Management manages best that manages least. If it is deficient you now know where to go to fix itThe Background Factors, The Required System or the Leadership Style. We dont know exactly what has to be changed. That is where your skill as a manager and leader enters into this equation. Make the smallest change possible that might fix the problem and expand from there if necessary. Dont use a shotgun where a pea shooter would work. Does all of this enable you to answer all questions about the group process?

For each role you identify, give an example of a situation where playing that role would be appropriate, and the actions one might take to fulfill that role. Finally, in your opinion, do you think it is more important for HR professional to be a voice for employees or a spokesperson for managers? Explain your reasons. Note: Research material used to answer the question must be cited.

Opioid Paper “The United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic, as more than 2 million Americans have become dependent on or abused prescription pain pills and street drugs” (CNN,2018). This is a health crisis that APN’s are a part of. Research and write a 3-page paper (not counting the cover and reference page) on the use of Opioids in the US. B. Include any personal experience with this national crisis. C. How is the role of the Nurse Practitioner impacted by this issue? D. What alternatives does the literature suggest for providers in lieu of prescribing Opioids for pain management?

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Determine what kind of document he is asking you to write (hint: its a kind of analytical report), and write that document in full according to best practices outlined in the attached textbook.