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Project managers do a lot more than calculations and reporting; they must keep the team on track, ensure ethical decisions are made, deal with conflict, and, depending on the type of organization, they may perform employee evaluations, issue bonuses, hire and lay off personnel, and other tasks. In this paper, you will discuss some of the project management activities that don’t produce deliverables.

Write a twelve to fifteen (12-15) page paper in which you:

Describe the different organizational structures as it relates to project management (i.e., functional, project-based, matrix).
Discuss at least two (two) different roles that project managers can play in organizational leadership.
Describe at least three (3) human resource factors that affect project management.
Recommend five (5) conflict resolution techniques that project managers can utilize to keep team members productive.
Explain at least three (3) leadership approaches and when they are best utilized.
Describe five (5) ethical situations or dilemmas that project managers might face in their role within an organization.
Summarize tools and techniques commonly used in project procurement.
Assess the role of technology in project management.
Provide your expectations for the development of the project management field aided by modern technologies.
Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

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Using APA format, the information from this course, and your assigned readings write a six (6) to ten (10) page paper (excludes cover and reference page) addressing the application of the nursing process to a patient care scenario. Usethese directions and the scoring rubric as you develop the paper. Outlines and abstracts are NOT required with this paper. Do not include the scenario in the paper

A minimum of three (3) current professional references must be provided excluding a nursing diagnosis book. Current references include professional publications or valid and current websites dated within five (5) years. Additionally, a textbook that is no more than one (1) edition old may be used. Do not use abbreviations…write out everything.

The paper consists of three (3) parts:

The meaning and use of the nursing process in making good nursing judgments that effect patient care
The development of a plan of care using the nursing process for a specific patient situation
The preparation stage for a teaching plan to prevent a recurrence of a similar situation

The following sheet will assist you when composing the plan of care for the paper: Overview of the Nursing Process.

Part 1 (3-4 pages)

Review the required readings about the nursing process. In your own words, define each step of the process and provide an example for each step.

In the implementation step, what is meant by direct and indirect care as described by the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) project?

Discuss the three (3) types of nursing interventions (nurse-initiated, dependent, and interdependent) that applies to the patient care situation. Provide an example of each (refer to your textbook).

Explain how the nursing process provides the basis for the registered nurse to make a nursing judgment that results in safe patient care with good outcomes.

Discuss how the registered nurse evaluates the overall use of the nursing process. Identify three (3) variables that may influence the ability to achieve the desired outcomes for the patient.

How is the plan of care modified when the outcomes are not met?

How does the RN use the nursing process to make decisions about the priority of care?

Part 2 (3 pages)

Patient scenario

A 78-year-old man is living in an assisted living facility. He is able to walk very short distances and uses a wheelchair to transport himself to the communal dining room. He administers his own medications independently and bathes himself. Over the last year he prefers to remain in the wheelchair even when in his room. He has a history of CHF, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and lower extremity weakness. He is able to state his current medications include metoprolol (Lopressor) 50 mg once daily by mouth, furosemide (Lasix) 20 mg once daily by mouth, Quinapril (Acupril) 20 mg once daily by mouth, atorvastatin (Lipitor) 20 mg once daily by mouth. During a routine examination, his physician noted a pressure ulcer over the ischium on the right buttocks. The wound is oval about 10mm x 8 mm, with red and yellow areas in the middle and black areas on some surrounding tissue. It has a foul odor. The patient had been padding the area so “it doesn’t get my pants wet”. The physician arranged for him to be admitted to the hospital in order for intravenous antibiotic therapy and wound care to be initiated. After being admitted to the hospital his medications are: metoprolol (Lopressor )50 mg orally every 12 hours, furosemide (Lasix ) 40mg once daily by mouth, quinapril HCl (Accupril) 40 mg once daily by mouth, cefazolin (Ancef)1.5 Grams in 50 mL 0.9 % Normal Saline intravenously three times a day. The result of the wound culture identified Methicilin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. After a surgical debridement of the black tissue a SilvaSorb® (antimicrobial gel) dressing was ordered daily.

Develop a Plan of Nursing Care for this patient that includes all steps of the nursing process:

One (1) actual NANDA-I nursing diagnosis statement addressing the priority problem the patient is experiencing. You need to provide the entire nursing diagnosis statement. For example: Acute pain, related to tissue trauma, as evidenced by patient rating pain at 7 on the 0-10 verbal pain scale. Provide a rationale, with evidence, why this nursing diagnosis is the priority for this patient.
What is the assessment data that supports the use of this nursing diagnosis? These are the assessments you will collect to determine if the patient has this nursing diagnosis. For example: Will assess the patient’s pain using the 0-10 verbal pain scale.
One (1) expected outcome (realistic, measureable and contains a time frame). that addresses the diagnosis and meets the criteria for an expected patient outcome. Discuss whether the outcome is a cognitive, psychomotor, affective or physiologic outcome. Discuss why the time frame selected for the evaluative criteria was selected. Use evidence as the basis for the time frame and criteria. You need to be specific to this particular patient. For example: Patient will rate pain at 3 on the 0-10 verbal pain scale. Of course, you would also need to answer the rest of the items in this section.
Four (4) nursing interventions that includes at least one (1) nurse-initiated, one (1) dependent, one (1) interdependent intervention. Label your interventions as above. Provide a rationale for each intervention that is evidence-based. Lastly, your interventions must be able to move the patient toward the achievement of the outcome. Select interventions, you as the RN can perform, that could reduce the pain and provide the rationale as to why; be sure they are evidence-based. For example: Teach patient guided imagery to distract attention and reduce tension.

Part 3 (1-2 pages)

To assist the patient in preventing a recurrence of a similar incident once he returns to the assisted living environment, the RN needs to develop a teaching plan. Use the nursing process to consider the information the RN would need prior to development of the plan. Respond to the following and be able to support your answers. You will not be developing a teaching-learning plan but demonstrating using the teaching-learning process to prepare for an individualized plan.

How does the RN decide the format of the teaching plan, i.e., written, verbal, or other?
How does the RN know which information needs to be included?
When does the RN determine how and when to evaluate the teaching-learning process?

Compose your work using a word processor (or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. Use a 12 font size, double space your work and use APA format for citations, references, and overall format. Information on how to use the Excelsior College Library to help you research and write your paper is available through the Library Help for AD Nursing Courses page. Assistance with APA format, grammar, and avoiding plagiarism is available for free through theExcelsior College Online Writing Lab(OWL). Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you submit your assignment.

1. 1. Discuss each of the five items separately.

2. 2. Give each item a paragraph sub-title. For example, item #1 title will be as follows:

Provide a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager. All the five items should be titled the same way and discussed independently.

3. 3. Read each item very carefully and watch out for the key words in the statements. For example in item #2 it says “profile of the investor” which means your client’s investment strategy and risk tolerance.

4. 4. Make sure you provide adequate in text source documentation following APA guidelines.

5. 5. Items #3 and #5 carry the highest points, 20% each so make sure you work on those thoroughly. Please refer to the grading rubric for detail grade distributions. Below you find the outline of the items. Please read the assignment sheet for more information.

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

Provide a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.
Determine the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Provide support for your rationale.
Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the company from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles or material from the Strayer Library.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics.

I really need this part done! I assigned someone to do it, it was definitely all wrong !!!!

Managing Contract Issues in Business at Home and Abroad” Please respond to the following:
• Imagine you are a senior manager in a U.S. manufacturing firm who procures component parts and services from various states. Analyze three (3) clauses in a potential contract that might put your company at risk if not sufficiently scrutinized prior to signing a contract. Determine whether or not you can assume that the Uniform Commercial Code will apply to the contract. Provide a rationale for your response.

(Case # 5 Meg Whitman and eBay Germany)

three (3) single-spaced pages

What were the major problems with the post-acquisition integration in Germany?
Please recommend a course of actions that eBay can undertake to improve the performance of the integration of Alando.de.

How to write a case memo :

You should write the case memos as if you are a senior manager of the firm at the time the case was written. You should address the memo to the CEO and the Board of the Directors of the firm. You should assume that the recipients of the case memo are well aware of the firm, so please do not simply summarize the case. Rather you should offer professional recommendations (such as a specific course of action that the firm ought to take in order to address the assigned question). I am more interested in the quality of your analysis than in the accuracy of your conclusions. Please keep in mind, the assigned case should the only source of information that you will use. So please do not go online and start researching on the company, especially to find what the company actually did following the events discussed in the case. However, you should make every attempt to use the concepts, tools and frameworks you learned from the class to analyze the case and to develop the strategic recommendations.

There should be an introduction. State your recommendation in this introductory paragraph.

 Don’t write long paragraphs. Break paragraphs in sub-topics such as opportunities, risks, current

situation of the business and your arguments/recommendations.

 No bullet points. Please write full sentences.

 Present arguments with reasons, evidence and logic. Think about the assumptions that you are

making while making your arguments. Are these assumptions realistic? Under what conditions?

 Try to use numbers (sales, profit and market share) to provide evidence or to build your

arguments. Remember, sometimes it’s easier to convince with numbers!

 Consider pros and cons. Don’t be biased and consider only pros. Try to provide a balanced view.

 Make sure you have a nice persuasive conclusion that supports your recommendation.

 Finally, be professional – imagine yourself as a manager working for the company during the

time of the case.

Please respond to the following:

From the case study, discuss possible new options for finding quality employees other than those considered in the case study.
From the case study, discuss how Mark Sims could better motivate the employees he already has to become more productive and dedicated. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Please respond to the following:

Select a small business with which you are familiar and develop a plan of action for encouraging ethical behavior. Provide specific examples to support your response.
Analyze a business’s responsibilities to the environment, employees, customers, investors, and the community, and determine which is the most important. Explain your rationale.

Prepare a 700- to 1050-word paper in which you differentiate between the humanities and other modes of human inquiry and expression. Be sure to address the following items in your paper:

Define the term humanities.
Distinguish the humanities from other modes of human inquiry and expression.
List a current example of each type of the following humanities and explain why each example you provide reflects current developments in politics, socioeconomics, and/or technology:
Art
Music
Architecture
Philosophy
Literature

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Note: Use your Course Readings as a point of reference for this assignment. If you need additional sources, use the University Library. If you use the Internet to find sources, you should only access credible and reliable Internet sites such as those affiliated with a museum, magazine, newspaper, educational institution, or arts organization, for example. You should not use sites like Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com, or blogs, for example.

Note: In addition to providing a definition of the humanities and explaining how humanities differs from other modes of inquiry, you are being asked to provide current examples of each type of the humanities: art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and music.

This means, then, that you should not reference the pyramids as an example of architecture or Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as an example of art as these examples are not current. Current would be anything within the last few years.

You should also make certain that you provide specific examples, noting, for example, not just a genre of music but a particular musician’s work that supports your discussion. You should provide more than a general definition of philosophy but specific examples of philosophical ideas or thinkers whose work helps us to understand the world in which we live. In talking about architecture, provide the name of a particular building or architect’s work that supports your discussion.

Additionally, you are asked to explain how the examples you have provided reflect current developments in politics, socioeconomics, and/or technology. You should, then, discuss the example in the context in which it was created. How does a current artist’s work, for example, reflect what might be going on socioeconomically or in politics? How might a musician’s work, for example, reflect developments in technology? What does a musicians’ music tell us about current developments in politics or about the socioeconomic landscape in which we currently live? What do current examples of literature tell us about what is happening in society at large, or about what we are interested in reading? How are discussions in philosophy informed by politics, socioeconomics, and/or technology?

Calculate how liquid a firm is and whether it can pay its bills

How will accomplishing these objectives support your success in management? What risks or challenges might a manager encounter if they have not mastered these objectives? Explain.

Instrumentation Measurement & Lab
Temperature Alarm Project

Report and the multisim design for your project

Each student will submit an individual report. The report should, as a minimum, include the following:

Title Page (Name, Partner’s name)
Description of your project (including the specifications you selected)
Conceptual Design: Explain the block diagram and what each block does (its functionality) and how it works. Also, be sure to explain when one might use an operational-amplifier wheatstone bridge and its advantages.
Design methodology (show calculations and provide rationale for design choices; remember that your choices must take into consideration commonly available parts).
Final schematic in Multisim
Components/Parts list
Simulation results for your design
Testing process and results for characterization and validation of your teammate’s design – screenshots alone will not suffice. Description of process is required along with discussion of results.
Troubleshooting Manual for one potential problem
Project Challenges: Note any difficulties you faced during the completion of your design and how you overcame them
Team Interaction Reflection: Describe how you used Blackboard to facilitate interaction, how you worked with one another in the design phase, challenges you encountered, methods you employed to overcome any challenges.
Teammate Assessment: Use the Project Participation Rubric below and give your teammate a ranking of Needs Improvement, Competent, or Excellent for the first two items in the rubric: Interacts professionally and Plans and organizes team effort. Be sure to justify your ranking.
Conclusion
References
Data sheet for thermistor