...Grade Received, "A" The components of quality regarding healthcare are: cultural competency, language access, workforce diversity, and health information technology (Key Components of Healthcare Quality, n.d.). There are several ways in which one can create quality within the healthcare organization for a patient. Trying to improve healthcare quality is everyone’s job. Each sector of the healthcare system must partake in trying to improve quality for the patients. Three particular ways of improving quality for the patient include: focusing on the patient, treating the consumer like they are a guest, and managing the complete healthcare experience (Fottler, Ford, & Heaton, 2010). Simply having a mediocre facility is not good enough. Healthcare organizations must be certain that all medical professionals have the skills needed and are up to date with all of the changes in technology and other aspects of healthcare. The patients are the customers within a healthcare organization. In order to satisfy the patients, the healthcare organization must make sure that they have high quality of workers, and that their services excel the patients’ needs and wants. The healthcare organizations must be able to give the services that the patients need at the correct time and the correct way exhausting the right exams and procedures to gain a higher customer service level. Patient needs and wants are not the same from one state to the other, one age range to another, and one income...
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...Grade Received, "A" Within this assignment, I will try to answer why the health care industry doesn’t have a set of clearly-stated legal and ethical guidelines, what the implications are for health care, and how this affects the idea that “each individual is responsible for his/her own actions.”. When discussing the health care industry, one must keep in mind that there are a lot of shady areas regarding legal and ethical rules (Law and Ethics in Health Care, 2007). Medical providers give care to the individuals that need care, and each individual provider has his/her own thoughts about what is ethical or legal in regards to their individual practices. On the flip side, providers may only do what the patient requests them to do; this is based on the beliefs of the patient as to what is ethically sound and what is not. If medical providers are brought to a scenario where difficult choices have to be made, laws and guidelines have been set up to aide them in making the correct choices. After that is said, this can have an effect on how a person in the medical field does his/her job. Looking from an ethical point of view, it is the medical professional’s responsibility to ask him/herself if their actions are legal, balanced, as well as what effect their actions will have emotionally on their patients (Fremgen, 2012). Health care professionals and patients may not always agree on what is the proper treatment due to the difference in values. When looking from a legal point...
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...Unit 1 Discussion Board Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Class MGMT422-1101B-01 Advanced Entrepreneurship By Joseph VanTrease American Intercontinental University Online 21 March 2011 Dictionary.com defines the word innovation as something new or different introduced; a new method or device. The businessdictionary.com defines the same word as a process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay. The product that I chose is the luxurious Cadillac. It sold in more than 50 countries and territories, but mainly in North America. The Cadillac is marquee owned by General Motors. It is the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind Buick, and among the oldest brands in the world. Cadillac’s inception to the world came in 1902 by Henry Leland, a master mechanic and entrepreneur. He named the company after his ancestor, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac; who was born Antoine Laumet, Detroit’s founder. General Motors purchased Cadillac in 1909 and within six years it became the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles by demonstrating the complete interchangeability of its precision parts. It was also concluded that Cadillac was America’s premier luxury car. The crest on Cadillac is also an inspiration of Detroit’s founder around the time of his marriage in Quebec in 1687; however, there is no ancient family who holds the name “Cadillac”, nor is there a coat of arms in France...
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...American InterContinental University FINA-310-1301A-02: Professor Michael James February 12, 2013 The three forms of business organizations are sole proprietorship, partnership, and a corporation. A sole proprietorship is a business that is owned by only one person. This is the easiest and less complicated type of business due to the fact that not a lot of paperwork is required. The biggest advantage of this type of business is that the individual who owns the business makes all of the decisions, thus, skipping the middleman altogether. Also, the individual who own the business gets to keep all of the profit to him/herself (Brooks, 2010). With every business come disadvantages as well. The largest disadvantage of the sole proprietorship is the fact that the person who owns the business is responsible for all the bills that the business has, regardless if he/she has to sell his/her own properties to do so; there isn’t a boundary that separates business property from personal property. A second con of this type of business is that if the owner of the business were to die, the business basically dies too. In order for it to stay open, the owner would have had to sell the whole company to someone else. Last but not least, if the owner cannot gain some capital for the business, it can put a hardship on the growth of the business (Brooks, 2010). Next is the partnership. This type of business is owned by two or more people. These partners may be general partners...
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...American InterContinental University MGMT422-1301A-01: Professor William Becker February 12, 2013 Innovation is defined as, “something new or different introduced” or, “introduction of new things or methods” (Innovation, 2013). Innovation may be interpreted differently from one person to the next. With individuals that do business, innovation can be interpreted as converting thoughts into capital, making financial worth for consumers, favorable circumstances which can make jobs, or upgrading something that presently exists. One must keep in mind that if innovation did not exist, business as we know it could fall apart. There are several innovative things that have been popularized over the past few decades. To name a few, there are: digital cameras, the Internet, and the Nintendo Wii. I have decided to discuss Viagra because I think this was an accident as well as a miracle for certain individuals with E.D. The reason I say that this medication was found by accident is because it was originally intended for high blood pressure patients, but it was discovered to be very helpful to males that had E.D. It enabled men to take back control of their sex lives with the aid of a little blue pill (Parnham, 2004). If this is not considered innovation, then what is? When the primary clinical trials happened, Viagra didn’t have a lot of effect on patients with hypertension; however, it gave males an erection. When the second clinical trial took place, they chose to keep...
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...|ENMU Ruidoso Branch Community College | |Course Syllabus | This course syllabus is required reading. Please make a copy of the syllabus and keep it handy for reference. |Course information: Adolescent Psychology; PSY 202 | | | |Semester: Fall I August 21-Oct. 12, 2012 |Year: 2012 | |Course #: PSY 202 |Title: Adolescent Psychology | |CRN #: 18858 |Credits: 3 | Instructor information: Dinah Hamilton, M.Ed. Dinah.Hamilton@enmu.edu 575-257-2120 X 385 Rationale for student taking this course: This course will meet the requirements for a Psychology course with General Core Education requirements...
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...CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional Unit 1 Scavenger Hunt Assignment Full Name: Renee Barley Two-digit Section #: 02 Instructions: Download this document to your computer and save it (use “save as”), adding your name to the new file name before filling it out. All of the gray boxes above and below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 1 Assignment Dropbox. The name of this course is CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional. There are several sections for this same course with different students enrolled in each section. Each section is designated with a two-digit number. What is the specific section of the course you are enrolled in? Hint: Your complete course name includes CS113 and the two-digit section number that follows. This can be found in your course syllabus. Example: CS113-99. Two-digit section number: 02 Course Home Hint: Look in the upper, far left-hand corner of your main course page for this important area. Select the Course Home tab to view the complete list of hyperlinks located in this area and then list the first hyperlink located directly below the Course Home tab: Syallbus Academic Tools Hint: Look across the tabs at the top of each Unit Home page for this important page. Name the first three links on the left side of the Academic Tools page: Course...
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... 1. What is the name of your online textbook and where can it be found within the classroom? Answer: 2. How many Live Chats will your instructor be holding each week? Answer: 3. Are the Live Chats recorded for your review anytime during the week? Answer: 4. Is there a Small Group assignment in this course? Answer: 5. How many Discussion Board posts in total, will need to be made each week? (including your Main Post) Answer: 6. Should you submit your Discussion Board Main Post to the Discussion Thread area, or submit it to the “Submit Assignments” area? Answer: 7. Where do you submit your Individual Project each week? Answer: 8. Who are the authors of your online textbook? Answer: 9. Submitting another person's work as one's own is called what? Answer: 10. In addition to calling your instructor’s office phone #, or e-mailing your instructor, what is another way you can communicate with your instructor during the week? Answer: 11. What are your instructor’s Office Hours? Answer: 12. Where are all of your weekly assignment directions located? Answer: 13. How much is your Unit 2 Individual Project worth? Answer: 14. How many Discussion Board posts (either a Reply to Message post to a classmate, or your Reply to Forum main post answering that week’s Discussion Board questions) do you need to make BEFORE Wednesday midnight CST? Answer: 15. How many Discussion Board posts...
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...the UNIV 103 course information. 1. What is the name of your online textbook and where can it be found within the classroom? Answer: bookshelf 2. How many Live Chats will your instructor be holding each week? Answer: one 3. Are the Live Chats recorded for your review anytime during the week? Answer: 4. Is there a Small Group assignment in this course? Answer: 5. How many Discussion Board posts in total, will need to be made each week? (including your Main Post) Answer: three 6. Should you submit your Discussion Board Main Post to the Discussion Thread area, or submit it to the “Submit Assignments” area? Answer: discussion thread 7. Where do you submit your Individual Project each week? Answer: submissions 8. Who are the authors of your online textbook? Answer: Editorial Board 9. Submitting another person's work as one's own is called what? Answer: plagiarism 10. In addition to calling your instructor’s office phone #, or e-mailing your instructor, what is another way you can communicate with your instructor during the week? Answer: live chat 11. What are your instructor’s Office Hours? Answer: Sun. 4-5pm, sun 5-6 pm, tues 8-9 am, wed 8-9 am, thurs 8-9 am, fri 8-9 am 12. Where are all of your weekly assignment directions located? Answer: 13. How much is your Unit 2 Individual Project worth? Answer: 14. How many Discussion Board posts (either a Reply to Message post to...
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...CS113 Academic Strategies for the Business Professional Unit 1 Scavenger Hunt Assignment ------------------------------------------------- Full Name: Two-digit Section #: ------------------------------------------------- Instructions: Download this document to your computer and save it (use “save as”), adding your name to the new file name before filling it out. All of the gray boxes above and below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 1 dropbox. ------------------------------------------------- The name of this course is Academic Strategies for the Business Professional and is referred to as Course CS113. There are several sections for this same course with different students enrolled in each section. What is the specific section of the course you are enrolled in? Hint: Your complete course name includes CS113 and the two-digit section number that follows. This can be found in your course syllabus. Example: CS113-99. Two-digit section number: 08 ------------------------------------------------- Course Home Hint: Look in the upper, far left-hand corner of your main course page for this important area. Select the Course Home tab to view the complete list of tabs located in this area and then list the first tab located in the Course Home area: Syllabus ------------------------------------------------- Academic...
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...English as a Second Language (ESOL) 0444 or have met the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) standard in Reading. A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. United States History I includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery and sectionalism, and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History I include: American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, and creation of the federal government. Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number: 54.0102.51 25 History 1301 Core Objectives: 1. Critical Thinking Skills - to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information 2. Communication Skills - to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication 3. Social Responsibility - to include intercultural...
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...Application of foresight in corporations 12th Session of the UNIDO General Conference EUR and NIS Regional Round Table Vienna, 5 December 2007 Dr. Frank Ruff Daimler AG Society and Technology Research Group Berlin, Palo Alto, Kyoto Agenda A Why Corporate Foresight? B A closer look at Corporate Foresight C Implications for UNIDO D Q & A, Discussion UNIDO 5 December 2007 / Dr. Frank Ruff 2 Why Corporate Foresight? History of Future Studies/Foresight Foresight embedded in enterprises First Think Tanks in enterprises (e.g. Shell, Toyota, Daimler-Benz) Corporate Foresight: Innovation and Technology Analysis Establishment of new (e.g. Daimler-Benz, variants and diffusion Siemens, Philips) of concepts of future studies and analysis Consumer and marketing-oriented trend research Future Consulting (e.g. Z_Punkt) Emergence of systematic resp. scientific future studies Journalists/Entrepreneurs/Expert-Networks/Consulting Warning future studies „Doom-Saying“ (e.g. Club of Rome, Robert Jungk) Economic and political future studies (e.g. Faith Popcorn, (e.g. Alvin Toffler, Trendbüro, John Naisbitt, Dan Coates, PROGNOS) Matthias Horx) „Premodern future view“ Delphic oracle Spiritual and religious foresight Outsider (e.g. Nostredamus) State-run/scientific/supranational institutions Military futurologic research MIT) Technology assessment Economic, political, Science and Technology resource-oriented (e.g. RAND Corporation...
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...completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Discuss managerial economics and its relationship to microeconomics and other related fields of study such as finance, marketing, and statistics. 2. Decide economic goals for the firm and develop optimal decisions that will bring the firm closest to those goals. 3. Define supply, demand, and equilibrium price. 4. Apply the concepts of price elasticity, cross-elasticity, and income elasticity. 5. Specify the components of a regression model that can be used to estimate a demand equation. 6. Define production function, and explain the difference between a short-run and a long-run production function. 7. Distinguish between economic cost and accounting cost. 8. Describe the key characteristics of the four basic market types used in economic analysis. 9. Cite the main differences between monopolistic competition and oligopoly. 10. Analyze the practice of cartel pricing. 11. Illustrate game theory, and explain how it helps better understand mutually interdependent management decisions. 12. Define the cost of capital, and demonstrate how it is calculated. Credits Upon completion of this course, the students will earn three (3) hours of college credit. Course Structure 1. Unit Learning Objectives: Each unit contains Unit Learning Objectives that specify the measurable skills and knowledge students should gain upon completion of the unit. 2. Unit Lesson: Each unit contains a...
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...BUSN105 – Unit 1 Discussion Board. A Students Introduction To The Discussion Board BUSN105 – Unit 1 Discussion Board. A Students Introduction To The Discussion Board Jay Smith A STUDENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCUSSION BOARD 2 Abstract I would like to introduce myself, my name is Jay Smith, I live in Titusville, Florida where I manage the apartment building in which I reside. I am married now 3 years, have no children – just a fur face Manchester terrier named Louiee. My previous educational background consist of one semester at Daytona State College in 2001, as a Business Major. I have found that sometimes in live – one’s world can change in an instant and the course of the live that you had planned – suddenly changes. And looking back I believe this is what happened to me, as after one semester I chose to drop out and become involved in the local Daytona Area Music and Club scene. The results: A failed musician and a bloody nasty drinking habit. In 2004 I entered Savannah’s Hospital and completed the 28 day program. Since then I have 8 years without a drink. Woot! I love to share my experience, strength and hope with the newcomers, as I have stayed very active in the A.A. program, and most recently I have begun to teach the local Step Study Meetings for the “Celebrate Recovery” group here in town. “Celebrate Recovery” would be considered the Christian based A.A. program, with literature from author Rick Warren, (writer of “The...
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...| Course Materials | Kaplan University Grading Scale | Seminars | Course Outcomes | Netiquette | Tutoring | Discussion Boards | | | COURSE INFORMATION TOP Term: 1204B Dates: October 17th-December 24th Course Number/Section: CM 107-28 Course Title: CM 107- College Composition I Credit Hours: 5 Prerequisites: Any Academic Strategies course or any Eight Skills of the Effective Student Course. It is strongly recommended that you complete the Campus Tour, available on your Student Homepage. This essential tutorial discusses hardware and software requirements as well as presenting an overview of learning with the eCollege platform. INSTRUCTOR AND SEMINAR INFORMATION TOP Instructor Name and Credentials: Erica Wright Kaplan Email Address: ewright@kaplan.edu Office Hours (ET): By appointment Google Chat™ will be used to communicate with the instructors during office hours. Please review the Google Chat Quick Start Guide for an overview of the system. Course/Seminar Day and Time (ET): Wednesdays from 10pm-11pm ET You can participate in Seminar through either attending the live Seminar or completing Seminar Option 2. COURSE MATERIALS TOP Textbook Information Title: The Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing Author: Diane Martinez, Susan Carlson, and Kara VanDam (Eds.) ISBN: 13: 978-1-60714-894-4 Publisher: Kaplan Publishing Software Requirements The Composition Department...
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